Five for Friday… favorite colors

Restarting “Five for Friday” after a few weeks off…  This week, I give you my favorite colors, complete with hexidecimal rgb code!  (Of course, there is some tolerance for similar colors…)

Hrmph!

Well, I gave in and re-activated my Facebook account.  It turns out that my Ordinary Sister updates her life there in the same way that I do here.  She told Ordinary Mom^* that if she also had an account, then she’d know what was happening in the life of her granddaughter (my Anything-But-Ordinary Niece).

* To clear up any confusion, Ordinary Mom is my mom, not to be confused with Ordinary Mommy, who is the alter-ego for Ordinary Spouse.

And so I decided to re-activate my account, too.  I was going to hold out – I have this little obstinate streak that comes through once in a while.  But I gave  in.

Now I’ve got two friends – my mom and my sister.  Pretty pathetic.  My mom has more friends than I do.

But at least I’ve got a coupon for a free pastry at Starbucks next Tuesday!

Keeping it real

I don’t exactly recall if it was my Ordinary, but very observant, Spouse who noticed, or if I raised the topic with her last night, but we have both sensed that my blog has somewhat changed its tone recently.  I think that OS describes it as a shift from a more personal style toward one of reporting.  She was gracious enough to say that she didn’t necessarily think that one was right and one was wrong, although she did express her preference for the former, more personal blog entries.

However, now that I’m reflecting on this change, I think I agree with her – I don’t like it.  When I’m “reporting”, I sound like I’m describing facts.  And you can’t argue with facts, let alone dialogue with them.  On the other hand, when I’m telling my story with my opinions and my perspectives, then I’m also open to hearing your story with your opinions and perspectives.  I’m not telling you ahead of time what you need to think or believe if you want to talk to me.  That’s much nicer, and in that sense I think that reporting is “wrong” and storytelling is “right”.

And so, in an effort to maintain a blog that strives toward maintaining the “unity of the Spirit”, I will attempt to move in a more conversational direction.

What type are you? (cont)

Time to continue my little exploration of personality types, and mine in particular.  This time, I’m diving into the enneagram.

A few years ago, I tried to complete an enneagram assessment.  It didn’t work.  It was one of those things where there were two statements, and I was supposed to pick the one that was more descriptive of me.  Well, I like dichotomies in my statements and it seemed like all I got were statements where I agreed with both.  So I declared it to be a bunch of baloney and gave up.  And I only regret that because it was going to be one of those marriage building exercises where my wife and I would gain insight into each other’s personalities and motivations.  Oh, well.  She knows me pretty well, anyway.

Well, this time around, I persevered and completed five online assessments, and then averaged the results.  (I’m such a scientist.)  And if you’re thinking this is going to be interesting,  then you need to remember that when you read about the results of free online tests on a free blog, then you’re going to get what you pay for…

What type are you?

I’m the type that doesn’t think about “types” too much.  But it would seem that I have friends who glean insight from this sort of thing, so I thought that I should go find out just what they mean when they tell me that I’m a “five”.

For all I know, that might be an insult.

Facebook

On Saturday afternoon, I signed up for a Facebook account.

Thirty minutes later, I de-activated it.

I realized, as I was getting things set up, that I really couldn’t figure out why I should have an account.  Here were some of my random thoughts…

Ordinarly, I can spell

Ordinarily, I can spell.  I don’t make any promises regarding my grammar, but I should at least be able to use a spell checker.  How embarrassing, then, that I can’t even get the tag line on this blog correct.  I mean – I see it every time I log on.  It’s fixed now (I hope!), but for those of you, who are orthographically challenged (as I apparently am), it said “Ordinarly, this is all ordinary”.  Bless the person who pointed it out to me – he tried to break it to me gently by suggesting it was intentional.  I wish.

P.S. Just ran the spell checker on this post.  Had to fix ‘embarrassing’.  Ironic.

P.P.S. Perhaps it’s even more ironic that blog spell checker doesn’t know about the word ‘blog’.  Is there something I’m missing here?  I am new to this stuff, after all.  One of the suggested words was ‘blob’.  That might be appropriate for my little site here.

Welcome to my blob.

Just repeating myself

I already gave my little spiel about this blog in the ‘about’ section.  But some of my new readers (hi, mom!), will have missed that.  So, at the risk of being accused of liking the sound of my own voice too much, I present it again…