I'm a happy girl
- Martina McBride

I just want to say thank you so very, very much for all the birthday wishes, emails, phone calls, texts, hugs, cards, gifts, etc. I'm a very blessed girl to have such an amazing family and group of friends. Friends who would risk injury to get me a gift. Ha ha! Sincerest thanks to all of you. You made 29 fantastic and I love ya for it.

love,
Amy

Walk - personality
Talk - personality
Smile - personality
Charm - personality
-- Lloyd Price

So, I don't usually put much stock into those internet personality tests. They usually give broad generalizations based on a few easy questions. I was reading Pop Candy today and Whitney linked to a really cool, in depth personality test and it was pretty much spot on. I'm a Benevolent Visionary.

They tell me a Benevolent Visionary is the following, and I think it does sound like me:
Your imagination, self-assuredness, and knowledge of the world combine to make you a VISIONARY.

You enjoy having a routine, and prefer comfort and familiarity to risk and adventure.

You are somewhat rigid in your beliefs, which comes from both confidence and an aversion to change.

You are good at creating works of art in forms with which you're familiar.

You're not afraid to let your emotions guide you, and you're generally considerate of others' feelings as well.

You prefer to have time to plan for things, feeling better with a schedule than with keeping plans up in the air until the last minute.

You are a great person to interact with—understanding, giving, and trusting—in a word, BENEVOLENT.

Your caring nature goes beyond a basic concern: you take the time to understand the nuances of people's situations before passing any sort of judgment.

You're concerned with others at both an individual and societal level—you sympathize with the plights of troubled groups, and you can care about people you've never met.

Other people's feelings are important to you, and you're good at mediating disputes.



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So, what are you?? Let me know.

Hey! I tried to comment on my own site and was spammed blocked! LOL! Anyway, I wanted to answer Chris and figured some of you might be interested in my reply. (Oh and if anyone has a clue what bad word I put below to kick up the Spam filter, let me know).

No, they said the floaters were just a result of being nearsighted. I have always had a few small ones. Unfortunately, even though Lasik changed my life and I don't have to wear glasses or contacts (well, they did write me a script for a small prescription if I want glasses for night) it doesn't fix the fact that my eyes are shaped oblong. So basically when you're nearsighted, there's more pressure in your eye due to its shape and more chance of that vitreous layer pulling away and causing floaters. I do need my Lasik touched up, though, maybe one of these days when I save up some money, ha!

And to anyone that is curious - I do recommend Lasik - IF you have a surgeon that has done it for many years - do not go to some local yokel eye doc in the box and expect good results.

your week, your month or even your year

-The Rembrandts

My birthday is next Monday. I only bring it up to say, wow, my last two weeks as a 28 year old were no fun. (Ok, I’m just assuming about the rest of this week, we shall see.) Anyway, I spent the first half of last week with a stomach virus complete with all the typical ailments that go along with that and I’ll spare you the details. Meanwhile, I also developed a new floater in my eye. This wouldn’t be such a big deal if the thing wasn’t HUGE and as annoying as a flock of seagulls looking for lunch on the beach. I even managed to maintain a fever most of the days of the week.

So I had to go to the eye doctor to make sure my retina hadn’t detached. And I think you two guys reading this that think I’m a hypochondriac have learned that I’m not, right?? Anyway, the vitreous layer of my eye pulled away from the retina, causing some cells to break away and become my brand new floater. And bonus! There isn’t a thing in the world they can do about it. Awesome. Once this happens to one eye, there’s a risk of it happening to the other, so I have to go back for a check in six weeks to be sure both retinas are still intact. Meanwhile, they dilated my eyes and I could barely drive the four blocks back to work. My pupils were the size of dimes – literally. If you ever wondered what I’d look like with raven eyes, that was your chance. Anyway, I had to get Grace to come get me and take me home and I had to catch a ride to work the next day with a nice coworker. Loving my life.

Somewhere around Thursday I started getting a sore throat. I assumed it was from being sick earlier in the week. Meanwhile Holli, who I had dinner with two days before the virus, had strep throat. Oh and yeah, she had the stomach bug, too, so it could only mean that strep was forthcoming, right? The last time I had step I was thirteen and I literally thought I was dying, I had a fever over 104 and had to get in ice water baths and sleep with ice packs on me. So here’s hoping I never catch it again in my lifetime.

I did manage to avoid strep this time (knocking on every wood or wood like surface within 10 feet of me) but I developed a cough. You know the kind – the uncontrollable hacking cough. The kind that makes your eyes water and your nose run and causes your body to convulse so violently that you fear your frontal lobe will promptly exit via your forehead or your nose. The kind of cough that will not allow you to sleep. But the kind of cough, that a trip to the doctor would only yield the requisite “upper respiratory infection” diagnosis, which basically means, “ha ha, you tool, you just wasted that copay money because there ain’t a damn thing I can do for you. But I will write you a prescription for Guafisen – which, yes, you are correct, that is found in most over the counter cold remedies.”

What’s a girl to do? Besides complain to y’all, that is.

Happy Birthday America and my pal Chris! Hope you have a great birthday!

- Amy