Survey from Mrs. Pi

A - Available: no!
A - Age: 47
A - Annoyance: liars and users

B - Best Friend: NiiceDuude is my bestest overall. JB is my bestest friend I'm not sleeping with.
B - Bar: Troy brewpub, Davidson Bros., Kielty's.
B - Birthday: Dec. 11

C - Crush: NiiceDuude, of course, but I admit to a girlcrush on Rozita I.
C - Car: Honda Accord RB (rustbucket)
C - Cats: Abracadabra, Special Ed and Rozita II.

D - Dead Pets Name: Shaka, Mona, Pumpernickel.
D - Dads Name: Wayne
D - Dog: Shaka and Mona (R.I.P. both)

E- Easiest person to talk to: Depends on subject.
E- Eggs: Omelets by NiiceDuude.
E- Email: One address at home, one at work, one Yahoo account I never check

F - Favorite color: Dusty rose
F - Food: Anything with cheese
F - Foreign Slang: Lots of Yiddish/Hebrew (verklempt, meshuggah), some Spanish, a little French (je ne sais quoi, mon cher) and Italian (capische?)

G - Gummy Bears or Worms: Neither.
G - God: I believe in Him/Her/It but have no use for His/Her/Its fan clubs
G - Good Time: friends, music

H - Hair Color: brown
H - Height: 5' 3"
H - Happy: When I'm singing

I - Ice Cream: Stewart's Birthday Cake
I - Instrument: guitar and a little pennywhistle
I - Idol: my sister

J - Jewelery: earrings, necklaces when I think of it, watch
J - Job: telling people how to waste their time (i.e. writing about TV)
J - Joke: anything funny but partial to wordplay

K - Kids: none. I like OP's (other people's)
K - Karate: would like to learn
K - Kung fu: was a great TV show

L - Longest Car Ride: Virginia Beach
L - Longest relationship: current one (going on 14 years)
L - Last Kiss: yesterday

M - Milk Flavor: don't drink it
M - Mothers Name: Phyllis
M - Movie Last Watched: some cheesy Christmas TV movie
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N - Number of Siblings: 3 (including one deceased)
N - Northern or Southern: northern
N - Name: Bev

O - ONE WISH: One? You gotta be kidding.
O - One Phobia: spiders
O - Otter Pop: WTF?

P - Parents, are they married or divorced: Mom's a widow
P - Part of your appearence you like best: my eyes
P - Part of your Personality you like best: sense of humor.

Q - Quote: "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world" (Tolkien)
Q- Question for the next person: What makes you happiest?
Q - Quick or Slow?: Quick

R - Reason to smile: Singing.
R - Reality TV Show: American Idol
R - Right or Left: Handedness: Right. Politics: Left.

S - Song Last Heard: Tickle Cove Pond by Great Big Sea
S - Season: spring
S - Sex: Yes

T - Time you woke: 2:30 a.m. but hit the snooze button multiple times
T - Time Now: 10:30 pm
T - Time for bed: when I can no longer stay horizontal

U - Unknown Fact about me: My junior high crush was the Professor on Gilligan's Island
U - Unicorns?: maybe
U - you are: hard to get to know but worth it

V - Vegetable you hate: none
V - Vegetable you love: all
V - View on Politics: left of center

W- Worst Habits: Beer and cigarettes
W- Where are you going to travel next?: Massachusetts
W-Your weight: none of your business

X - X-Rays: chest, about 10 years ago
X - X-Rated Porn: rather do than watch, thanks
X - X-tra special someone: NiiceDuude

Y - Year you were born: 1958
Y - Year it is now: 2006
Y - Yellow: had an SUV that color

Z - Zoo Animal: tiger
Z - Zodiac: Sagittarius
Z - Zoolander: never saw it

The Man from March Ninth

I always go to Albany via Western Avenue. 787 and Central Avenue, at least east of Wolf Road, confuse me. Every place I need to get to downtown I can get to from Western Avenue.

This means I always pass McKown Road. And when I do, I blow a kiss. Not that I know anyone who lives there, but in my heart it will always be the home of the Man From March Ninth.

He is not real. He never was. He is a character portrayed by a player. But it took me many March Ninthes -- and all the days in between -- to understand that. I believed in the Man From March Ninth as fervently as I once believed that Santa Claus brought me toys, the Tooth Fairy left dimes under my pillow, and God would send me to hell for swearing or impure thoughts.

Also to be found at 57 McKown road is the Woman from March Eighth -- the trusting soul I was before I believed the lies of the Man From March Ninth. She is still alive, but these days comes out only occasionally -- when the music works its magic and she remembers how fortunate she is to be surrounded by people who don't play games, use one another and tell lies to get what they want. This is a beautiful thing, but also a double-edged sword, because being surrounded by such people left her unprepared for the Man From March Ninth.

I could go on, but most of you know the story and I don't feel like rehashing it. Besides, songwriter Tim Hardin summed it all up beautifully. You may not have heard of Tim Hardin but may know the song from the singing of Rod Stewart, the Carpenters, or a certain gray-haired, guitar-strumming, non-T-shirt wearing lawyer with the initials HJ.

If I listened long enough to you
I'd find a way to believe that it's all true
Knowing that you lied straight faced while I cried
Still I look to find a reason to believe

If I gave you time to change my mind
I'd find a way to leave the past behind
Knowing that you lied straight faced while I cried
Still I look to find a reason to believe

Someone like you makes it hard to live
Without somebody else
Someone like you makes it easy to give
Never thinking of myself

If I listened long enough to you
I'd find a way to believe that it's all true
Knowing that you lied straight faced while I cried
Still I look to find a reason to believe
Still I look to find a reason to believe
Still I look to find a reason to believe

Enneagram test

This one came from MMB and is spot-on. Go do yours!

the Romantic Test finished!

you chose BY - your Enneagram type is FOUR. "I am unique" Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive. How to Get Along with Me Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me. Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself. Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision. Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little. Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting! What I Like About Being a Four my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level my ability to establish warm connections with people admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor being unique and being seen as unique by others having aesthetic sensibilities being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me What's Hard About Being a Four experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved feeling guilty when I disappoint people feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me expecting too much from myself and life fearing being abandoned obsessing over resentments longing for what I don't have Fours as Children Often have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original game s are very sensitive feel that they don't fit in believe they are missing something that other people have attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc. become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents' divorce) Fours as Parents help their children become who they really are support their children's creativity and originality are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings are sometimes overly critical or overly protective are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele The Enneagram Made Easy Discover the 9 Types of People HarperSanFrancisco, 1994, 161 pages You liked the test? so please RATE it :-) You are not completely happy with the result?! You chose BY Would you rather have chosen: AY (EIGHT) CY (SIX) BX (NINE) BZ (FIVE)

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 31% on ABC You scored higher than 62% on XYZ

Link: The Quick and Painless ENNEAGRAM Test written by felk on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test