Butrfly's Wonderings

May all your ghosts and goblins bring you a hauntedly good time this weekend.

Ouch, what a zinger! This handwriting analysis thing hit home and hit hard. Amazing. Give it a try for yourself. Here's the results I got for analyzing my own handwriting. It verbalizes exactly what I've been feeling lately and not been able to put into words.

Here is your analysis.

Lynn has a healthy imagination and displays a fair amount of trust. She lets new people into her circle of friends. She uses her imagination to understand new ideas, things, and people.

Lynn is very self-sufficient. She is trying not to need anyone. She is capable of making it on her own. She probably wants and enjoys people, but she doesn't "need" them. She can be a loner.

Lynn's true self-image is unreasonably low. Someone once told Lynn that she wasn't a great and beautiful person, and she believed them. Lynn also has a fear that she might fail if she takes large risks. Therefore she resists setting her goals too high, risking failure. She doesn't have the internal confidence that frees her to take risks and chance failure. Lynn is capable of accomplishing much more than she is presently achieving. All this relates to her self-esteem. Lynn's self-concept is artificially low. Lynn will stay in a bad situation much too long... why? Because she is afraid that if she makes a change, it might get worse. It is hard for Lynn to plan too far into the future. She kind of takes things on a day to day basis. She may tell you her dreams but she is living in today, with a fear of making a change. No matter how loud she speaks, look at her actions. This is perhaps the biggest single barrier to happiness people not believing in and loving themselves. Lynn is an example of someone living with a low self-image, because their innate self-confidence was broken.

In reference to Lynn's mental abilities, she has a very investigating and creating mind. She investigates projects rapidly because she is curious about many things. She gets involved in many projects that seem good at the beginning, but she soon must slow down and look at all the angles. She probably gets too many things going at once. When Lynn slows down, then she becomes more creative than before. Since it takes time to be creative, she must slow down to do it. She then decides what projects she has time to finish. Thus she finishes at a slower pace than when she started the project. She has the best of two kinds of minds. One is the quick investigating mind. The other is the creative mind. Her mind thinks quick and rapidly in the investigative mode. She can learn quicker, investigate more, and think faster. Lynn can then switch into her low gear. When she is in the slower mode, she can be creative, remember longer and stack facts in a logical manner. She is more logical this way and can climb mental mountains with a much better grip.

Diplomacy is one of Lynn's best attributes. She has the ability to say what others want to hear. She can have tact with others. She has the ability to state things in such a way as to not offend someone else. Lynn can disagree without being disagreeable.

Lynn is secretive. She has secrets which she does not wish to share with others. She intentionally conceals things about herself. She has a private side that she intends to keep that way, especially concerning certain events in her past.

Lynn is moderately outgoing. Her emotions are stirred by sympathy and heart rendering stories. In fact, she can be kind, friendly, affectionate and considerate of others. She has the ability to put herself into the other person's shoes. Lynn will be somewhat moody, with highs and lows. Sometimes she will be happy, the next day she might be sad. She has the unique ability to get along equally well with what psychology calls introverts and extroverts. This is because she is in between. Psychology calls Lynn an ambivert. She understands the needs of both types. Although they get along, she will not tolerate anyone that is too "far out." She doesn't sway too far one way or the other. When convincing her to buy a product or an idea, a heart rendering story could mean a great deal to her. She puts herself in the same situation as the person in the story, yet she will not buy anything that seems overly impractical or illogical. Lynn is an expressive person. She outwardly shows her emotions. She may even show traces of tears when hearing a sad story. Lynn is a "middle-of-the-roader," politically as well as logically. She weighs both sides of an issue, sits on the fence, and then will decide when she finally has to. She basically doesn't relate to any far out ideas and usually won't go to the extreme on any issue.

People that write their letters in an average height and average size are moderate in their ability to interact socially. According to the data input, Lynn doesn't write too large or too small, indicating a balanced ability to be social and interact with others.

I just have to sadly shake my head in frustration while deciding whether to laugh or cry when reading this story with blaring headlines about being robbed...

Enquirer News Update - Updated 6:11 p.m.

Local Bush/Cheney headquarters robbed


DOWNTOWN - Cincinnati's headquarters for the Bush/Cheney re-election campaign was broken into overnight.

Money and a sign were taken from the office, on Seventh Street near Court Street. The thieves got in by breaking out a window.

The office was also ransacked, officials said. It also houses other Republican organizations.

No one had been arrested.

...after reading this one:

Halliburton may keep disputed money

Report: Army may let company retain billions of dollars from Iraq work, despite auditors' questions.
October 22, 2004: 7:51 AM EDT


NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Army is laying the groundwork to let Halliburton Co. keep several billion dollars paid for work in Iraq that Pentagon auditors say is questionable or unsupported by proper documentation, according to a report published Friday.

According to the report, Kellogg Brown & Root has so far billed about $12 billion in Iraq, and about $3 billion of that remains disputed by government officials.

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes...Again



Take a look at the photo gallery at the Sacramento Bee for more of their photos. Fires are again on both sides and the winds blew all the smoke into the Valley and then died down leaving all the smoke behind.

It was a very eerie day today. The environment had an orange filter over it for the entire surreal day. This morning the sun was blood red. Health officials are advising people to stay indoors and not expose themselves to prolonged activity when outdoors. I haven't been effected much by all the smoke. I closed up all the windows and vents in time to keep it out of my lungs. Rain and wind are expected this weekend so it should clear out the smoke from the Valley and help put out the fires.

Rumors of my demise were slightly exaggerated. I was in labor for 5 days and finally gave birth to a bouncing kidney stone, followed by another 5 days of recovery.

Not an experience I wish to repeat again anytime soon, having an already intimate familiarity with gall stones. The gall stones of nearly 10 years ago were far more painful but it didn't last nearly as long. Within hours I was sedated in an emergency room and having my gall bladder removed the next day. These kidney stones took their sweet time and I did it at home with aspirin and a couple of vicodin.

The good news is that I've removed nearly all sodium from my diet and have noticed a marked improvement in my blood pressure and water retention.

So now the quest for employment continues...