Personality Test

I found this on a friend’s blog and thought it looked like it could be fun.  After reading their interpretations of the results, I realized it is spot-on.  Here’s my personality defined – what does it say about you?

“ISTPs have an adventuresome spirit. They are attracted to motorcycles, airplanes, sky diving, surfing, etc. They thrive on action, and are usually fearless. ISTPs are fiercely independent, needing to have the space to make their own decisions about their next step. They do not believe in or follow rules and regulations, as this would prohibit their ability to ‘do their own thing’.”"At work, ISTPs contribute their realistic and logical way of meeting situational requirements. They can see the easiest and most expedient route to completing a task, and they do not waste their effort on unnecessary things. They often act as trouble shooters, rising to meet the needs of the occasion. Since many ISTPs have a natural bent in technical areas, they may often function as ‘walking encyclopedias’ of technical information. “

Edit: I was thinking about this last night, and I realized that this personality description isn’t how I used to be.  I used to be much more outgoing and this whole “efficient at all costs” is a new attitude for me.  I decided to retake the test with the answers I would have given in my early 20’s and the difference is surprising. 

“For the ESFP, the entire world is a stage. They love to be the center of attention and perform for people. They’re constantly putting on a show for others to entertain them and make them happy. They enjoy stimulating other people’s senses, and are extremely good at it. They would love nothing more than for life to be a continual party, in which they play the role of the fun-loving host.” “ESFP like action and excitement, and are able to link together people and resources. Because they accept and deal with people as they are, they are able to understand what is necessary in order to motivate them to get jobs done. They prefer a work setting that is lively, action oriented, and harmonious.” Now that I retook the test, I can’t pull up the graphic with my first test results, so you’ll have to read the summary to see the difference…

What I’m Reading/Listening To

My old blog had a little side widget for this, but I don’t think I can do that on this site, so I’ll just put it in my blog

What I’m listening to:

John Mayer “As/Is” – 2 CD set with all live recordings from various venues over the last few years.  SOOO much better than the studio cd’s because he does impromptu jams on most of the songs, and for a few of them he wrote extra verses that he sings in the live version.  I’ve been listening to this one almost every day for the last week.

Jimmy Robeson “You Are There” – I found this guy completely by accident, but he’s a Christian singer/songwriter with a nice acoustic sound.  I haven’t decided which songs are my favorite yet, but I like most of them.

 Chris Rice “Peace Like a River: The Hymns Project” - The title pretty much captures it - it’s a CD of hymns in really nice arrangements, and not made into unrecognizable mixes like some CCM artists (cough…Hillsong…cough).

What I’m Reading:

“Attitudes of a Transformed Heart” Martha Peace - a lot of the material we’re covering in the teen girls Bible study is from this book.  I can tell this is going to be a well used book before too long.

 “Sabrina” Lori Wick - My favorite Christian fiction author – hands down.  Plus she lives just outside of Madison, which I think is pretty cool.  This is her second book in the Big Sky Dreams series which takes place in 1880 in Montana.

“John’s Story” Tim LaHaye – This is a fiction novel, based in truth, I guess.  I’ve read a few chapters, and I really enjoyed it, but then I stalled out.  Now, I think I need to pick it up again, so I can return it to the lady at church that loaned it to me!

Happy Grey’s Day

By the way, happy final Grey’s day for a while  

Feliz Navidad, Prospero ano y Felicidad

Wow – the holiday season blew past quickly this year!  As soon as I got home from Rhinelander at Thanksgiving it was full steam ahead until last weekend.  Between the Ladies’ Tea, Christmas program, youth group party, work parties, Bible study party, Tuesday classes, choir practices, birthdays, family emergencies, family visits, attempting to buy and wrap Christmas gifts, and trying to squeeze in a few hours to take the skis out and enjoy the snow, it was completely exhausting.So, to bring everyone up to date, here are a couple highlights and lowlights from the last several weeks:

Highlights:

• Our Bible study group is a ministry of a church in Milwaukee that also has a large Biblical counseling ministry. They are the regional training center for the IABC, which is a certifying board for Biblical counselors, similar to NANC, but smaller. Our group decided to take a break from our normal group for a while so we could take one 6 week counseling class on marriage. I loved, loved, loved it and learned so much – not just about marriage. I’ll have to post some little nuggets from the class sometime. We just started the next track on parenting, although it’s not so much about parenting as it is about understanding the parent’s Biblical role and how to deal with different types of kids (ADD, etc.)
• Even though December is busy, there is so much cool stuff going on at church, I have to lump it all together. It gets chaotic, but the Ladies’ Christmas Tea is so much fun, the cantata was challenging, but such a blessing, and the Christmas program really made all of us realize how blessed we are to live in the U.S. where even though the commercialism gets out of control, we are free to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. One more cool church-thing that happened this month – I taught my first Sunday school class (ever) to a whole bunch of teenage girls (that week we had about 35 extra kids that were visiting with the Maranatha Academy Ministry Team). I loved studying for the lesson, prepping it, teaching it, and talking with some of the girls afterwards about it. I thought it was awesome when I saw the same lightbulbs going on above their heads that turned on above my head when I learned this stuff. This Saturday we’re starting a monthly prayer breakfast/Bible study for the girls, so if you think about it, please please pray for unity and growth in these girls.
• I went to REI on my birthday and bought myself a cross-country ski package! I’ve had so much fun playing around on them, but I think I may need to exchange the boots. The arch support in the boot is square – so I think it might have been designed around a robot foot, not mine. By the way, square arch supports cause extremely painful foot cramping that lasts about 5 minutes each time. And taking your boot off to massage your foot while you’re standing in snow is not the best idea.
• One more – my cousin and her husband came up from Florida to visit for a few days. We didn’t have much time to spend together, but we’ve both changed a lot in the last few years. The last time we got together, she and her husband were on the verge of divorce, and I had just started dating John. Things change, thank God! Now, I find myself hoping that she and her husband develop a craving for snow and high taxes!

Ok, so here are the lowlights:

• Shortly before Christmas, my Grandpa slipped on his back patio, shattering the right side of his pelvis and breaking his right arm. We think he must have fallen squarely on his right knee, because his femur shot straight through the socket of his pelvis. So, he was in the hospital for a while for surgery and now he’s at a nursing home for rehab for the foreseeable future. That’s not the funnest place to visit your grandpa.
• Foot cramping on said cross country skis when you really just want to get to the hills in the park.
• My mom got first and second degree burns on her hands one Sunday morning before church. I guess she was moving a nesco in the kitchen and didn’t realize there was water in it, so they had to take her to the ER down the road from church. I’m not usually turned off by medical stuff – I had a cadaver in one of my classes in college and I love watching videos of surgeries, but burns are some pretty disgusting stuff.

So now that you’re depressed about my lowlights, I’ll leave you with a funny story.  On Christmas weekend, my brother and I went with a friend to see the new National Treasure movie (very good, by the way).  Before the previews, they show a quick commercial that tells you to turn off your cellphone, grab a box of popcorn and enjoy the show.  Usually, during that commercial, everybody quiets down.  Even though this cinema was completely packed, at the end of that commercial there wasn’t a peep.  The next commercial was for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.  Everything is silent, then Angelina Jolie’s head takes up the entire screen as she dramatically states, “You’re child has cancer.”  Without missing a beat, my brother yelled, “WHAT?!?!?!?”  I don’t remember a single preview they showed after that – every time I would almost compose myself our friend would start laughing again, and it was all over.  It was probably about 10 minutes into the movie before our snorting was finally over.  I guess you never really grow up.