Cozy Saturday Enjoying the Monsoon and Discovering My Type

Monsoon here in Phoenix is the time of year that sees the most significant weather activity.  Much of the time we have to settle for those pain in the ass dust storms and don't get much rain, thunder and lightning.  Today is one of those days I just love.  Thunderstorms are rolling through and it makes for a wonderful time to simply curl up in a ball and just chill.  I admit I have chilling down to a science and, if there was such a thing, I'd have an advance degree in it.  I'm supposed to be forcing myself to be out and about as much as possible but today I'm letting that slide.  In an effort to still be somewhat productive I am working on my homework for group.  I have an exercise to complete in our Road Map book and an additional three handouts having to do with co-dependence and guilt.  I admit I haven't gotten very far yet but I have no doubt I'll have much to write about tomorrow once I get into the meat of the assignments.  Football is on in the background because, of course, I have to keep tabs on my beloved Washington Huskies as well as some other games.  They played Stanford and unfortunately they were not able to eek out a victory, but they did well!  The rumbling of thunder in the background and periodic loss of DirecTV signal during bouts of heavy rain just add to the whole experience of enjoying the rare but welcome weather going on all around me.  I'm all restocked with groceries so if the water rises to impassable levels I'm set for the duration.

With all of this going on in the background, I found an interesting link posted by one of my Facebook friends that leads to a free personality test.  I thought what the hell?  I was somewhat curious to see how accurate it was, at least from my own perspective.  My type worked out to be an INFP.  Once I was able to read a little bit more about this particular result I found it to be really quite fitting.  As far as strengths and weaknesses are outlined I feel like it was written specifically about me.  Among other things I am very idealistic and open minded and I do seek value and harmony.  On the flip side I most definitely take things personally and certainly tend to be overly idealistic.  Another section that fascinated me as to just how spot on it really is has to do with career paths.  Finding my niche has been an ongoing struggle and it took me until just last year to complete my undergraduate degree.  Now I'm beginning to understand why.  Funny that it states INFP's want to be authors and write that next best seller.  Ironically it specifically states many of us find solace in blogging and being able to use our gifts of language and written expression.  Given that I have just recently rediscovered this desire in myself and proceeded with starting this blog, these results are a little spooky!  If you'd like to read more about my and others' types or even take the test yourself to see how accurate it is for you, I've included the link below.  It really does only take a few minutes to complete, which is one of the reasons I was a bit skeptical at first.  Once I read through everything I couldn't agree more!

Personality Test

So, as you can see, here I sit enjoying a very lazy and stormy day curled up inside and in my PJ's.  My group facilitator will not be pleased with me but I think one day is alright, and yes, I do fully intend on fessing up on Monday morning!  I suppose I should get to that more relevant homework and start learning about guilt and co-dependency.  I certainly don't want to arrive to group unprepared because I've seen the look that comes with non-compliance.  It only lasts a brief moment but, believe me, it can be seared indelibly in my mind and I don't want to have to add that to the guilt I'm already going to be owning up to.  I feel a special need be accountable for completing the work because one of my dearest friends Julie is joining me for Monday's session.  How ironic is it that guilt will be the focus for the day, at least for me, since Julie has been working on me about unnecessary guilt for years now.  I just know she's going to revel in that "I told you so" moment of glory.  And why not?  She's been right all this time and I'm just now figuring it all out.  Hopefully she'll have pity and still take me to lunch after!  She hasn't given up on me yet, even though I've given her plenty of reasons along the way, so I'm sure it'll all be fine!