Thursday, August 30, 2007

Dr. Phil's Test

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1. When do you feel your best?

a) in the morning

b) during the afternoon and early evening

c) late at night

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2. You usually walk...

a) fairly fast, with long steps

b) fairly fast, with little steps

c) less fast head up, looking the world in the face

d) less fast, head down very slowly

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3. When talking to people you...

a) stand with your arms folded

b) have your hands clasped

c) have one or both your hands on your hips

d) touch or push the person to whom you are talking

e) play with your ear, touch your chin, or smooth your hair

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4. When relaxing, you sit with...

a) your knees bent with your legs neatly side by side

b) your legs crossed

c) your legs stretched out or straight

d) one leg curled under you

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5. When something really amuses you, you react with...

a) big appreciated laugh

b) a laugh, but not a loud one

c) a quiet chuckle

d) a sheepish smile

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6 When you go to a party or social gathering you...

a) make a loud entrance so everyone notices you

b) make a quiet entrance, looking around for someone you know

c) make the quietest entrance, trying to stay unnoticed

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7. You're working very hard, concentrating hard, and you're
interrupted do you...

a) welcome the break

b) feel extremely irritated

c) vary between these two extremes

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8. Which of the following colors do you like most?

a) Red or orange

b) black

c) yellow or light blue

d) green

e) dark blue or purple

f) white

g) brown or gray

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9. When you are in bed at night, in those last few moments before going to sleep are you...

a) stretched out on your back

b) stretched out face down on your stomach

c) on your side, slightly curled

d) with your head on one arm

e) with your head under the covers
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10. You often dream that you are...

a) falling

b) fighting or struggling

c) searching for something or somebody

d) flying or floating

e) you usually have dreamless sleep

f) your dreams are always pleasant

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SCORING POINTS:

1. (a) 2 points. (b) 4 points (c) 6 points

2. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 7 (d) 2 (e) 1

3. (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 7 (e) 6

4. (a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 2 (d) 1

5. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 2

6. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 2

7. (a) 6 (b) 2 (c) 4

8. (a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 5 (d) 4 (e) 3 (f) 2 (g) 1

9. (a) 7 (b) 6 (c) 4 (d) 2 (e) 1

10. (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 6 (f) 1
Now add up the total number of points.

OVER 60 POINTS : Others see you as someone they should "handle with care." You're seen as vain, self-centered, and who is extremely nt. Others may admire you, wishing they could be more like you, but don't always trust you, hesitating to become too deeply involved with you.

51 TO 60 POINTS: Others see you as an exciting, highly volatile,
rather impulsive personality; a natural leader, who's quick to make decisions, though not always the right ones. They see you as bold and adventuresome, someone who will try anything once; someone who takes chances and enjoys an adventure. They enjoy being in your company because of the excitement you radiate.

41 TO 50 POINTS: Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical, and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to their head. They also see you as kind, considerate, and understanding; someone who'll always cheer them up ! and help them out.

31 TO 40 POINTS: Others see you as sensible, cautious, careful and practical. They see you as clever, gifted, or talented, but modest. Not a person who makes friends too quickly or easily, but someone who's extremely loyal to friends you do make and who expect the same loyalty in return. Those who really get to know you realize it takes a lot to shake your trust in your friends, but equally that it takes you a long time to get over it if that trust is ever broken.

21 TO 30 POINTS: Your friends see you as painstaking and fussy. They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder. It would really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur of the moment, expecting you to examine everything carefully from every angle and then, usually decide against it. They think this reaction is caused partly by your careful nature.

UNDER 21 POINTS: People think you are shy, nervous, and indecisive, someone who needs looking after, who always want someone else to make the decisions &who doesn't want to get involved with anyone or anything! They see you as a worrier who always sees problems that don't exist. Some people think you're boring. Only those who know you well know that you aren't.

Monday, August 06, 2007

The Wedding

As told a month later.

It might take several posts to get this all down, so bear with me. On June 29th Dane and I got up at about 2:30 to get ready for our trip. I got dressed all pretty in my cute red top, cream colored capris and fabulous red shoes. We were picked up by a Lincoln Town Car by 4:00 am and taken to the airport. No drama getting down to Mexico and we arrived on time around 2 pm. Our transportation had ice cold Pacificos waiting for us as we took the drive downtown to get our blood tests and sync up any last minute details with Coca, our wedding coordinator.

We arrived at our BEAUTIFUL resort, Dreams, by about 4 pm. My parents and Nick and Jacob were there and RB/TJ were checking in. There was a little drama with the check in as Dreams didn't have all the reservations correctly listed (they even had our name as Gordon, not Ewers or Huish). After much crying and sobbing and RB even stepping in to save the day we were able to clear up the mess for the evening but Dreams still needed to work on the checkout days for 2 of our guests. So we went to dinner, took a walk on the beach w/ my dad, then met up with the others and hung out at the bar and had a smashing good time. We stayed out till after 2 playing games (Taboo) in the lobby bar and enjoying the Mexican evening.

Saturday we spent the entire day at the pool drinking wonderful drinks and having fun in the sun. Since Dreams didn't have the reservation name for HG and MR correct, I never received confirmation that they had arrived. About 2 hours after their expected arrival time I started getting really worried but luckily found them. One of our guests had had a little too much to drink and so we were laughing and having fun with them - it was great to see them let down their hair. We ended up eating dinner and having another great night drinking and splashing in the pool.

Sunday we all traipsed into town for our "in-lieu-of-rehersal-dinner-pirate-booze-cruise" on a real pirate boat. From what I understand from our guests, this was the single most fun event. We got to tool around the Cabo shore on the pirate boat (some of us even dressed as pirates), go snorkeling in FREEZING cold waters (who knew July was the time where everything was the coldest?!), eat fantastic food, enjoy fun games, and even swing off the side of the boat into the water from a rope! Great times. After the cruise we all went our separate ways to take care of whatever we needed to. By the time the evening came around, half the guests were too tired to make it to the bachelor/ette party. This actually worked out well as it gave me a chance to spend some quality 1:1 time with Amy and Bryan - who is AWESOME! We had a BLAST at Cabo Wabo - I can't even remember everything that happened - there was a cock roach, doing the "butt", lots of shots and beer, a fantastically gay guy doing a Broadway show dance in the cage, tons of fun. After the bar we went to the local strip club and confirmed that Mexican strippers are not happy. They never smile whilst doing their thing. Around 3 am it was time to go, so we collected Jacob from a stripper and poured Puppy (drunk Nick) into a cab and went home. Good times.

That's a good point to stop for now. :-)