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Ennui

Ennui: the French word for boredom

About Me


The Keys to Your Heart
You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free.
In love, you feel the most alive when your partner is patient and never willing to give up on you.
You'd like to your lover to think you are optimistic and happy.
You would be forced to break up with someone who was insecure and in constant need of reassurance.
Your ideal relationship is open. Both of you can talk about everything... no secrets.
Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment.
You think of marriage as something precious. You'll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred.
In this moment, you think of love as something you don't need. You just feel like flirting around and playing right now. What Are The Keys To Your Heart?
You Have a Sanguine Temperament
You are an optimistic person who is easily content.
You enjoy casual, light tasks - never wanting to delve too deep into anything.
A bit fickle, it's easy for you to change plans or paths when presented with something better.
You enjoy all of the great things life has to offer - food, friends, and fun.
A great talker, you can keep the conversation going for hours.
You are optimistic and sure of your success. If you fail, you don't worry about it too much.
At your worst, you are vain. You are obsessed with your own attractiveness.
A horrible flirt, you tend to jump into love affairs and relationship drama easily.
You're very jealous - which just magnifies the craziness around you. What Temperment Are You?

My Interests

Will you survive the zombies? Armed and Dangerous
Congratulations! You scored 88%! You made it out, alive and well supplied. You probably even kept most of your party alive too. You know what to look for, what to take, and when to just run. You even feel a strange inkling to go back. If you did, you'd probably do just fine.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 89% on survivalpoints
Link: The Zombie Scenario Survivor Test written by ci8db4uok on Ok Cupid , home of the 32-Type Dating Test Maybe you could...
You scored 14% Cold and 43% Level-Headed! In a pinch, you could do it, but you'd need a damn good reason to. And you're not going to be too happy afterward.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 2% on Cold You scored higher than 6% on Level-Headed
Link: The Can You Kill a Man? Test written by notmarkflynn on OkCupid Free Online Dating , home of the 32-Type Dating TestThis freaks me out because it got me right...I AM the 3rd child!
You Are Likely a Third Born
At your darkest moments, you feel vulnerable.
At work and school, you do best when you're comparing things.
When you love someone, you tend to like to please them.

In friendship, you are loyal to one person.
Your ideal careers are: sales, police officer, newspaper reporter, inventor, poet, and animal trainer.
You will leave your mark on the world with inventions, poetry, and inspiration. The Birth Order Predictor

My Blog

Pennies from Heaven

While I was up visiting my family for the 4th of July weekend, during the previously mentioned mall-trip, my family illustrated its normal penchant for making the mundane a heck of a lot more fun, but...
Posted by Ennui on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:26:00 PST

Most humbling thing I’ve ever seen

I saw something this weekend that made my heart constrict and my eyes swim.  My whole family was in the mall, we'd gone to get a family portrait since my 95 (almost 96!) year old Grandma was out ...
Posted by Ennui on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:58:00 PST

Cleaning Out the Cupboards

When I got home tonight, I was in a "Productive Mood" so I was straightening things up and putting things away - typical stuff that gets neglected during the week. By the time I'd made it into the kit...
Posted by Ennui on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:28:00 PST

Socks

Where do clean socks go?In the sock drawer.Where do clean clothes get hung up?In the closet.Where do Bug-Killer and Pele go?Locked in the closet (Pele) or closed in the sock drawer (Bug-Killer).The pr...
Posted by Ennui on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:44:00 PST

*Another* Spider Story

Roommate living has made me soft.Back when I first got my house, my typical spider encounter consisted of me screaming, hopping around making weird, wounded-animal noises, frantically grabbing for a s...
Posted by Ennui on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:25:00 PST

Beer Unto God

In honor of annual "Spot the Catholic" day (read: Ash Wednesday), today's blog is about Mass. I like going to Mass.  There's something inherently soothing and peaceful about going...but that does...
Posted by Ennui on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:45:00 PST

Donner Party, Part 2

It's fate, it has to be.  On Groundhog's Day, an Amtrak train got stranded at Donner's Pass. Soooo tasteless of me, but I can't stop laughing. You remember that Bill Murray movie, "Groundhog's Da...
Posted by Ennui on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:07:00 PST

Oops...

The job I work now involves putting mariners on ships.  We do that through the different union halls.  When the hall gets the mariner identified, they send us the paperwork via fax.  An...
Posted by Ennui on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:25:00 PST

CPR Steps

My sister doesn't keep a blog (but she should), so I'm posting an email she sent me that made me laugh my head off.Hmmm. so I took a CPR class last week. Here are the steps that we learned: 1)Check to...
Posted by Ennui on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:24:00 PST

Couch Hog, or, My Ballsy Dog

The cats are allowed just about everywhere...mainly because short of hobbling the cats, they're just so small and mobile that they can jump up on anything, slide under furniture, or hide in the strang...
Posted by Ennui on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:14:00 PST