Saturday Mishmash

I was led to this by Natalia Your Personality Is

Idealist (NF) You are a passionate, caring, and unique person. You are good at expressing yourself and sharing your ideals. You are the most compassionate of all types and connect with others easily. Your heart tends to rule you. You can't make decisions without considering feelings. You seek out other empathetic people to befriend. Truth and authenticity matters in your friendships. In love, you give everything you have to relationships. You fall in love easily. At work, you crave personal expression and meaning in your career. With others, you communicate well. You can spend all night talking with someone. As far as your looks go, you've likely taken the time to develop your own personal style. On weekends, you like to be with others. Charity work is also a favorite pastime of yours.

The Three Question Personality Test

KENYA

In early January I shared part of an email that I had received from a friend in Nairobi, a Kenyan pastor, regarding the conflict there. I have not heard from him in over a week and he’s not responded to my emails. Please keep him, his family, and the people of Kenya in your thoughts and prayers. Thanks.

TRAVELING? YOU MAY WANT TO CARRY YOUR OWN DRINKING GLASS

When I friend emailed me a link to this video, I thought it so improbable that I checked it out at Scopes.com. Unfortunately, I found that it isn’t a hoax. Yuck!

COLD CAT

I have written before about Alex ’s aversion to cold, which is possibly even greater than his aversion to water. The temperatures here have been mostly in the 20s and 30s (F) the past several days and Alex had not been outside since (I think) Monday. He has also been driving me bonkers by demanding that I open the door for him, where he would sit in the open threshold looking out for minutes at a time but refusing to go out into the cold. Then he would back away from the door, only to repeat his demand for an open door twenty or thirty minutes later.

The furball and I got up this morning at 5:00 a.m. and by 6:30 I had opened the door for him three times. When, twenty minutes later he again demanded that I open the door, I resoundingly said, No!!!! Of course, he waited a few minutes while I was writing this post, crept up beside me, and sank his claws into my thigh. When I jumped up to chase him, he ran to the front door, which I opened when I caught up with him. This time he went outside—and stayed out for all of three minutes.

Now the cat who is the love and bane of my life has retreated to his latest catnapping spot—a bottom shelf in my bookcase on top of my briefcase—and is, I think, asleep:

Regarding Alex and my nose-hose, nothing has changed. He still enjoys chasing, catching, and playing with it. And I still tell him, No! That nose-hose is mine!!!