Sensuality Test

I took an online sensuality test today and thought I would post my results.

I scored an 81.

What does your score mean?

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You are one sensual human being!

Yours is a hedonistic attitude, and you deeply enjoy the sensual pleasures that life has to offer. Your senses are also inextricably linked to your emotions and certain sensual stimuli can evoke strong feelings.

Therefore you tend to be emotionally passionate.

Because you get so much pleasure from your senses, you are eager to experiment in life.

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This is positive since you can make great discoveries and experience a lot of pleasure.

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It is important, however, to keep yourself in check since people whose delight is sensual pleasures are at a slightly increased risk for ADDICTIONS.

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All in all, you have the innate ability to use your senses to enjoy what this life has to offer!

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Take the Sensuality Test here.

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How sensual are YOU?

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Bear((( )))

Wordle

Monday, July 7th

daryl from out & about in new york city

challenged everyone to make a

Wordle and to post it on their blog.

Well let me tell you I have been having a great time

making wordles of my blog, of other's blogs, of families'

names, of etc. etc. etc.

Thanks a lot :-daryl, I hope you realize that you have

created a monster now and given me something else

to play with on my computer.

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If anybody else wants to play, it is easy.

If I could do it, anyone can.

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Bear((( )))

Inside Out

I am feeling torn apart and inside out after reading a blog that I have been following.

For a little while now I have been reading

Monday Changed Everything which is a blog of a courageous young woman whose husband died Monday, October 15, 2007.

It is her painful story of her life and what she has been enduring since that terrible night.

After reading her blog, I was overwhelmed at the amount of courage she has shown in these past days and months.

Her own words on Tuesday, April 1, 2008:

"It is sinking in deeper and deeper that he is really gone. He isn't coming back. I always knew this mentally but it is now really hitting emotionally. I am really doing this by myself. I am really living a life without him. Years and years seem to stretch before me now and all I can feel about them is that he won't be there to share them with me. I will always be alone. Always missing and loving someone who I can't see, feel, hear or touch."

But in these past few months I have read about her struggles and her feelings and I thought that she was really starting to adjust to her painful new life, a little bit at a time. Her putting her true feelings in her blog has seemed, to me anyway, that it was helping her to cope slowly and one day at a time.

And then today I visited her blog and read this:

"Locking it Up

So, the inevitable has happened. Someone from "real life" has started reading this blog and got mad about its contents, so I have to lock it up. That makes me sad because I have connected with so many widows with young families through this blog and have had a safe place to vent, rage, think, and reflect on things. We have shared each others lives with each other- the good and the bad. Shared our hopes and our not so nice thoughts. Through it all I have been honest.

But I just had a very sad conversation with the friend I have been writing about lately, and well, this blog was used against me. If I am going to continue to have a safe place that I can be honest and share my journey with other people going down the same horrible road, I should not censor myself.

If you want to continue reading please either leave your email in the comments or email me directly @----------

I will leave this post up until June 7 and then I will be locking it up.Edit to add: if you email me, be sure to take out the spaces in the email address.

I am overwhelmed already by all the positive emails and comments. Makes me feel a little better after the incredibly horrible day. Grandma came and picked up the kids so that I can cry it all out- the loss of this blog and the loss of the friendship. Thank you."

How very sad for this brave young lady who was only trying to work through her grief by blogging her true feelings and thoughts.

So my friends, my question to you is, would you feel that you would have to make *your* blog private if someone you knew disapproved or was not happy with what you were trying to say in your own words?

Which Came First

the chicken or the ------?

I have had a few people ask me which comes first,

the photo of the bears or the post.

To tell the truth-----it all depends!

Sometimes I have a post in mind and I have to search for the perfect teddy bear photo.

(Google is my friend!)

And then there are times that I find a picture of a bear that suggests something that I find amusing or that is relevant to what is happening in my daily life or the news of the day and/or that some one else has posted.

Since I began this blog, a few short months ago, I have been pleasantly surprised at how many people out here in the blogging world are interested in the topics that I am posting.

This medium of communicating with other like minded people has both amazed and astonished me. I have discovered so many different people around the world who either make me think and research subjects of importance to me or (and to me this is the best part) give to me, my smile or laugh of the day.

To all of you -----------Thank You all so much and keep on posting.

You all make my day!

And if anyone is out there who have photos of bears feel free to let me know.

I would be grateful to anyone who could help increase my supply of bear or teddy bear photos.

20 Grains At A Time

One of the wonderful things I have learned about the network here in this blog world is that it can grow and grow. And in growing, we can, in our own little way make a difference in the world.

Today I was reading Midlife Misfit and she told of visiting Wisdom Hypnosis and finding and enjoying a word quiz.

Well I love word quizzes so I headed over to visit and this is what I found.

FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com.
For each word you get right, they donate 20 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger.

FreeRice has two goals:

Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.


Check out the FAQ at http://www.freerice.com/faq.html


I added the Free Rice widget to my blog and I encourage everyone to add a widget to your blog.
http://www.freerice.com/banners.html

Thank you to both Midlife Misfit and Wisdom Hypnosis for bringing this worthwhile cause to my friends and I.

And now I have to go because I have quizzes to play and grains of rice to donate.

Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures

This web site is such fun to visit.
http://icanhascheezburger.com/
One of the reasons why I think I like it is the fact that it is family friendly.

I must be old fashioned but I am shocked and dismayed at some of the content on this world wide web.

And don't even get me started about the language and/or content on some of the most *popular* mommyblogger sites.

If I had to resort to using foul language and explicit sexual topics to have people visit this blog, well then I would just stop blogging.
It is just not worth it to me.