I'm "Expressive"

My late post is due to a training course I took this morning at my company. The course was called "Working with Behavioral Styles". Supposedly, you can categorize your co-workers into 4 different categories:
- Amiable
- Expressive
- Analytic
- Driver

I found out that I'm "expressive". Here are some of the style attributes: animated, social, and outgoing. However, when I'm in a stressful situation - I tend to fight with personal attacks. Yikes!

I initially thought I was amiable (based on some quiz questions) until I read the attributes: patient, relationship focused, and rejects conflict.

What made me laugh really hard (and solidified my knowing I'm an expressive person) was the description of how I measure personal success. Through applause. No joke - this is what the handout says. I measure success through applause. Perfect.

So, I've continued my 101 in 1001 list and am now up to 35 items. I'm trying to list out things that I have either NEVER done or rarely done. So far its a list of never dones and here is what I've added:

16. Go to a movie alone
17. Eat in a restaurant alone
18. Read The Great Gatsby
19. Buy and learn to use a digital SLR camera
20. Learn to use a good digital photo editing program
21. Travel to the California wine country
22. Organize photographs (no more shoeboxes!)
23. Scan all of my parents' old photos into digital format and burn to cd
24. Scan all of my old photos into digital format and burn to cd
25. Go to Cedar Point Park
26. Purchase artwork created by a local artist
27. Travel to London
28. Hike up a mountain
29. See The Grand Canyon
30. Fly in a helicopter
31. Learn to sew on a sewing machine
32. Sew something (a dress, curtains, etc)
33. Learn more Korean (enough to speak sentences)
34. Go camping
35. Play a game of golf

If I want to get technical, I went camping when I was 16. A group of friends and I went white water rafting in West Virginia (so fun! I want to go back!) but it was at a campground with showers and toilets. It wasn't "real" camping.

The scanning of old photos came from my Uncle. He took the time to scan all of my Emo's (his wife) old photos into digital format and uploaded them onto the internet. While I don't plan on uploading everything onto the internet, I think it would be nice to have an additional copy of very old photos. My parents have very cool old pictures and I'm sure that not only would they be appreciative of my doing this - I'll know that I'll have these pictures to show my kids (if I have any) and I think that's awesome. The scanning of MY old photos is so that I can upload them periodically and show the world my HUGE glasses and big hair. I like to poke fun at myself. Oooh and then there are the pics during my New Kids on the Block phase. Priceless.

I'm also trying to limit the amount of items that are about traveling to different cities because I could easily turn this list into 101 places I want to see.

Tonight I'm meeting up with Geoff for dinner at my favorite Greek restaurant. We haven't really hung out in quite some time and he's one of my fav people so I'm super excited. I'm even MORE excited that he wanted an early dinner so that we could be in bed at a reasonable hour. We both get up super early for work. Don't judge us.

Lastly - I'd like to mention the wedding related topic that I kind of touched upon 2 posts ago but never finished. See - I am still sort of milking my wedding for all that its worth. Right now - I have some leftover invitations that I don't know what to do with. I only need ONE to scrapbook with! So - I decided to mail them out. Through the bajillion wedding sites out there, I learned that you can mail invites to "celebrities" and sometimes you'll receive a response. I tried this and almost peed my pants when I received a response:



That's right - ol' George Dubya sent me a congratulations card. Jealous?! This baby is going in the scrapbook! I also sent one to Disneyworld in hopes that Mickey & Minnie would send a response. I'm still waiting.

Who else can I send one too? I have 5 envelopes left... I thought about Queen Elizabeth but I read that only British citizens get responses. Then I thought about the Pope but I'm not Catholic. Who else? I'd like to send them to people that I'm likely to get a response from. This is fun! Suggest people.