The Swing of Things

I am very happy to be home and settling into routine again.  I’m in a little bit of a transitional season…or something.  Maybe it’s the opposite of that. It’s more like a sitting still and waiting season.  I think I’m just supposed to sit and let the Lord love on me for a little while.  I’m hitting a brick wall in the spirit, to be honest.  I need breakthrough in almost every area.  Especially that of receiving love from the Father’s heart.  There’s all this really fun stuff I’d love to write about and I sit down and nothing comes out.  I think I go through times of internal and external processing. This being a time of internal…though maybe this blog marks a change in seasons…who knows. 

(Laura with Shatto Strawberry Milk) 

My dearest housemate Laura moves out on April 3rd. She’s getting married and moving to Colorado. Very exciting yet very very sad. Not only because our rent is going up either… She’s so so fun and we’re going to miss her so so much! On Saturday we are going to the Shatto Milk Farm for her going away er…party? If you don’t know about Shatto Milk you shall visit me and I will open your eyes to milk! I’m sure there will be pictures posted soon. 

The happy news is Laura will be replaced by a new baby Offutt!  We will find out the gender the day Laura moves out!  How fitting!  

hmm…I got my monroe pierced. That’s new. 

Things I’m loving right now:
Horton Hears a Who
Sufjan Stevens (always)
The Gym
Jack Frost (From Slavery to Sonship)
Juice Plus
Sign Language

The Weeks’!!!

the Weeks’ have a wordpress!!

Check them out!!! 

(I’m home tomorrow…expect blog soon) 

Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging

I love taking personality tests. My friend Ashlee and I enjoy nothing more than to psychoanalyze everything and everybody, including ourselves… I heard about the Jung Typology Test through a friend and took it…sans Ashlee…which is very sad. I did, however, take it with Roni and Amanda. I recommend taking it with close friends, and try not to be offended when they tell you how you really are…and not how you want to be.

The Portait of the Counselor (INFJ)

The Counselor Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in reaching their goals, and enterprising and attentive in their interpersonal roles. Counselors focus on human potentials, think in terms of ethical values, and come easily to decisions. The small number of this type (little more than 2 percent) is regrettable, since Counselors have an unusually strong desire to contribute to the welfare of others and genuinely enjoy helping their companions. Although Counsleors tend to be private, sensitive people, and are not generally visible leaders, they nevertheless work quite intensely with those close to them, quietly exerting their influence behind the scenes with their families, friends, and colleagues. This type has great depth of personality; they are themselves complicated, and can understand and deal with complex issues and people.

Counselors can be hard to get to know. They have an unusually rich inner life, but they are reserved and tend not to share their reactions except with those they trust. With their loved ones, certainly, Counselors are not reluctant to express their feelings, their face lighting up with the positive emotions, but darkening like a thunderhead with the negative. Indeed, because of their strong ability to take into themselves the feelings of others, Counselors can be hurt rather easily by those around them, which, perhaps, is one reason why they tend to be private people, mutely withdrawing from human contact. At the same time, friends who have known a Counselor for years may find sides emerging which come as a surprise. Not that they are inconsistent; Counselors value their integrity a great deal, but they have intricately woven, mysterious personalities which sometimes puzzle even them.

Counselors have strong empathic abilities and can become aware of another’s emotions or intentions — good or evil — even before that person is conscious of them. This “mind-reading” (prophecy anyone? I think so…)can take the form of feeling the hidden distress or illnesses of others to an extent which is difficult for other types to comprehend. Even Counselors can seldom tell how they came to penetrate others’ feelings so keenly. Furthermore, the Counselor is most likely of all the types to demonstrate an ability to understand psychic phenomena and to have visions of human events, past, present, or future. What is known as ESP may well be exceptional intuitive ability-in both its forms, projection and introjection. Such supernormal intuition is found frequently in the Counselor, and can extend to people, things, and often events, taking the form of visions, episodes of foreknowledge, premonitions, auditory and visual images of things to come, as well as uncanny communications with certain individuals at a distance.

Mohandas Gandhi, Sidney Poitier, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jane Goodall, Emily Bronte, Sir Alec Guiness, Carl Jung, Mary Baker Eddy, Queen Noor are examples of the Counselor Idealist (INFJ).

http://typelogic.com/infj.html has a more extensive look at INFJ’s…

leaving again…

What can I say? I’m a world traveler.

I’ll be in Florida from the 1st until the 8th.

Hello world!

I’m finally here!

now I’m almost as hip as the Offutts!

I’ve got a lot to say…stay tuned.