Miss Personality....test hater

Usually I won't do these things. Almost everyone has at this point heard about the GREAT job I gave up because having been offered the position, told and accepted the salary, I was told that the final step was to take a Myers-Briggs test...the LONG version. My answer was - I am the personality type that hates taking those things...and thus ended what naturally would have been an illustrious career in the high end tile business.

SIL - PhD2B, posted a shorter version on her blog and I decided to bite...and hey, it sounds like ME, what a surprise! :) And the Cynical Chef will remind me if this is the same answer I had a few years back when I succumbed to one of these tests.

You Are An INFP

The Idealist You are creative with a great imagination, living in your own inner world. Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships. It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close. But once you care for someone, you do everything you can to help them grow and develop. You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist.

What's Your Personality Type?

Food!! (another Meme)

Oh, and since everyone but me already knew this..."meme" rhymes with theme!

Feeding the Family:

Breakfast or Brunch? Brunch - more choices.
Lunch - Brown Bag, Vending Machine or the Deli by the office? I work from home so I am going to go with refrigerator on this one.
Dinner or Supper? Funny how no one says supper anymore.
Best last minute dinner? One of those already baked chickens at the deli section of the grocery, a bagged casear salad and a bottle of wine.
Take-Out - Chinese or Thai? Thai (just like Cynical Chef's UJ!)
Major stock-up store - Costco, Sam's Club, 7/11? I am a Costco girl myself.
Produce - Fresh, Frozen, Farmers' Market? Farmers' Market is my first choice.
Best "Oops, I forgot the [blank] when I was at the store" solution - 7/11, Famima, call spouse? Try to find a substitute.
Favorite Celebrity Chef: Paula Dean - her show makes my mouth water, always. I really like that Semi-Homemade lady too, she cracks me up with her kitchen coordinated to her outfits and I like that she always tries the alcoholic beverages that she makes.
At a potluck I can usually be counted on to bring? My famous broccoli salad or my equally famous peach and blueberry cobbler (but only in season)
At a potluck I hope someone else brings? An apple pie.
Favorite Winter Dish to make? Taco Soup
Favorite Summer Dish to make? Chicken Salad sandwiches to take to the beach for supper picnic.
Your favorite recipe of your mom's? Lamb Curry.
Your favorite recipe, period? Lizzy's Raspberry-Chipolte Chicken Candy...not really candy, its just that the skin cooks in the sauce to a sweet, crispy, buttery deliciousness that we gave the moniker of Chicken Candy.
Favorite food magazine? Gourmet.
Guilty pleasure food? I used to buy those small frosted cakes from the grocery when I was having a really stressful time and ask the baker to write Happy Birthday and make up a name on the cake so that no one would "know" that I was going to go home and eat the whole thing.
What's for dinner tonight? Dinner? It's not even 9 am...

PS I will take any recipes you want to share!!!

PS2 going to go pour another mug of coffee now.

All about books - another TAG!

Another great "meme" (W.T.Heck does that word mean?) from Uncle Alabaster's blog via Lulu I believe!

Hardback or trade paperback or mass-market paperback? Hardback at home, paperbacks on vacation.
Amazon or brick and mortar? Amazon is very convenient, I must say. I have no problem ordering $200 of books from Amazon, I am not similarly inclined in person in a real bookstore. That being said, I do like the idea of quaint, non-chain bookstores, the reality is though, they don’t have what I am looking for. Sadly.
Barnes & Noble or Borders? BARNES & NOBLE! There is something not quite right about Borders, lurking under the surface I feel like they are secretly a “Christian” book store. I have no basis for this, just a hair on the back of my neck feeling I get when I walk in the store.
Bookmark or dog-ear? Bookmark! Have you met my father?!
Alphabetize by author or alphabetize by title or random? Are you serious? Categorize – maybe…which is to say, no non-cookbooks in the kitchen and that is about the only rule.
Keep, throw away, or sell? Yes.
Keep dustjacket or toss it? Keep it! Why would you throw it out? (Lulu answered it well, why change it?)


Read with dustjacket or remove it? Leave it on…part of the tactile experience of reading the book is holding the book in such a way that you don’t bend or dent the dust cover…some people play video games, I read really long books and “win” if no pages are damaged during the reading…extra points for not cracking the binding.
Short story or novel? I find short stories very unappealing, they are over before they really get going. My definition of a short story is any book thinner than an inch.
Collection (short stories by same author) or anthology (short stories by different authors)? Ugh, I guess anthology. 


Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket? His Dark Materials! But HP and LS are good too.
Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks? ASLEEP…not tired, actually asleep.
"It was a dark and stormy night" or "Once upon a time"? It was a dark and stormy night, the windshield wipers on the patrol car squeaked rhythmically as Dectective Roberts reached for his coffee. No one told him before he joined the academy that stake-outs would be this tedious or that the coffee would taste like it had been strained through socks…
Buy or Borrow? Buy or…there is always the library…
New or used? New or used…Costco for hardbacks.
Buying choice: book reviews, recommendation or browse? Browse…maybe recommendation but not that many people I know share my taste in books.
Tidy ending or cliffhanger? Depends on my mood. I love detective fiction because everything is resolved and the bad guy gets caught, but I recognize that life is rarely like that, so I can appreciate messy endings as well.

(Keeping Lulu’s answer, it is perfect – as usual)
Morning reading, afternoon reading or nighttime reading? Yes. A new “time” has materialized for me – breastfeeding time – more reading done then than anyother time.
Stand alone or series? Both – I do like certain detective series otherwise I don’t mind stand alones.
Favorite book of which nobody else has heard? Any of the Penny Vincenzi books, she is the European Danielle Steele.
Favorite book(s) read last year: Beach Road by James Patterson.
Favorite books of all time? Geez…like favorite movies of all time. I am not much for re-reading anything so this is tough…I guess the His Dark Material series and Patricia Cornwall and Tom Clancy and whats his name who wrote all those really FAT books (not Phat, FAT, thick, long) like Hawaii and The Source.
Tag? Cynical Chef and someone who knows me but that I don’t know reads much (that is to say, surprise me!)

Uncle Alabaster made me do this....

Three screen names that you’ve had:
MargotMouse, ColoradoBlueEyes, MamaMoonPie

Three things you like about yourself:
My sense of humor, my big blue eyes and my ability to adapt to new situations.

Three things you don’t like about yourself:
My temper, my quick judgment and that my inner thighs now touch.

Three parts of your heritage:
I am Scottish, English and a quarter Jewish...or I could say...academics, artists and ancients.

Three things that scare you:
Clowns, birds and ignorant people.

Three of your everyday essentials:
Coffee. Dog Walks. Baby Snuggles.

Three things you are wearing right now:
White t-shirt, Levi’s, Converse, engagement ring and favorite gold hoop earrings.

Three of your favorite songs:
Desperado – Eagles, Angel from Montgomery – Bonnie Raitt, You Shook Me All Night Long – AC/DC

Three things you want in a relationship:
Shared values. Humor. Hot sex. (all in large quantities!) - I copied my brother’s answers but, hey…they were good ones.

Two truths and a lie:
I don’t know how to swim, I have never smoked pot and I don’t like cheescake.

Three things you can’t live without:
Good food, good friends, good adventures.

Three places you want to go on vacation:
Bahamas – Atlantis, Switzerland – with Pi and Our Hero, and…Sunriver, Oregon.

Three things you just can’t do:
Play a musical instument. Not try to help. Drink umbrella drinks.

Three kids names:
Piper, Pilar, Phersophone.

Three things you want to do before you die:
My brother took all the good ones again – so I say what he said but also, have a movie made that I have written, own a vacation house that everyone comes to stay at over the holidays and raise a happy family.

Three celeb crushes:
Sean Connery (even if he’s old), Anderson Cooper (even if he’s gay) and Kenny Chesney (even if he’s a country singer).

Three of your favorite musicians:
James Taylor, YoYo Ma, Sheryl Crow.

Three physical things about the opposite sex that appeal to you:
Kind eyes, cute butts and good hair.

Three of your favorite hobbies:
Computer time, cooking and vacations.

Three things you really want to do badly right now:
Be in the snow, be five pounds thinner, eat spring rolls from a specific Vietnamese restaurant in Cape Town, South Africa.

Three careers you’re considering/you’ve considered:
Writer, teacher, general contractor.

Three ways that you are stereotypically a boy:
I like spiders and snakes and skunks and frogs (stole this from my bro but its true). I love football and soccer and golf…ON TV. I like cars.

Three ways that you are stereotypically a girl:
I have pretty hair and it matters that people think so. I am a mom. I like kisses.

Three people that I would like to see post this meme:
My brother, my fiancé and my Mattie.