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You are Deanna Troi

Deanna Troi 80% Beverly Crusher 75% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 75% Spock 59% Geordi LaForge 55% Data 51% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 50% Uhura 45% Will Riker 45% James T. Kirk (Captain) 40% Jean-Luc Picard 35% Worf 35% Mr. Scott 30% Mr. Sulu 30% Chekov 20%

You are a caring and loving individual. You understand people's emotions and you are able to comfort and counsel them.

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Confidence

I have been writing music for almost four years now.  Some of the songs are better than others, but none of them will ever be big hits.  What do I do when I decide that I am just mediocre at this?  Should I quit?  Should I keep doing it, until it isn't fun?  Should I push myself to try to get better?  How can I tell what it good?  Should I be the audience or should I judge the work by finding more people to be my audience? 

I am feeling a bit discouraged. 

Recovery from the 2013 Boulder, CO, Flood

The guy cleaning up the wet crawl space from the flood is done; the furnace has been replaced. Total cost: $8,600 - $950 from FEMA = $7,750. Car in for maintenance. This has been an expensive couple of weeks.

Amusing aside: years ago, after watching where people would sit in someone's living room, I decided that people were least likely to sit on sofas. So, I when we moved, I didn't move the sofa. We have, instead, 4 upholstered chairs in our living room, 3 of which are recliners and the other one has a footstool that goes with it. When the FEMA lady came to see how much disaster aid we would qualify for, she took a look at our living room, which is CLEARLY a living room, and said that she couldn't count it as such, because it didn't have a sofa. She called it an office, even though there is no desk, no computer, and only end tables. I don't know if it matters, but I found it amusing. I wonder if I had a sofa in a bedroom, she would call that a living room...

Biggest Mistake 2

I recently posted on my other blog about my mother's opinion of the biggest mistake she made in raising me - sending me to Germany as a foreign student.  To recap:  she thought it was her biggest mistake, because I switched from being a conservative, religious Republican to being a liberal, agnostic.  I thought the year in Germany was one of the best experiences of my life.  I still think so.

Here is what I think her biggest mistake was:  requiring us as kids to eat everything on our plates.  Yes, I knew she had suffered greatly during the Depression and food was extremely precious to her and to her family.  I also know that they learned to waste absolutely nothing.  But, our family has always had a tendency to be obese (yes, in spite of the Depression) and teaching me to clean my plate was a mistake.  It taught me that the amount of food that I should eat was whatever was on my plate.  If I took too much, I had to finish it, anyway.  If I didn't like a particular item, I had to eat it anyway.  I never learned to judge how much to eat, based on my hunger and/or degree of fullness.  I was a "good girl" -- I cleaned my plate.  Every day.  Every meal. 

That is probably not the only reason I struggle with obesity.  There is probably a large genetic component.  And there is probably some of my own culpability.  And finally, there is a possibility that there is also some sort of viral implication.  But I do get a reasonable amount of exercise, so that should help -- and it really doesn't much.  The exhortation to "clean the plate" probably DIDN'T help.