Author: Keiran

Just don't stick me with a label

It’s a given that I like doing memes. And this one is scarily accurate. So, if you want a good idea of my personality and how to deal with me, pay attention.

The Quick & Painless ENNEAGRAM Test
You chose BY – your Enneagram type is FOUR: The Romantic.

“I am unique”

Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.

How to Get Along with Me:
  • Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.
  • Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.
  • Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.
  • Though I don’t always want to be cheered up when I’m feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.
  • Don’t tell me I’m too sensitive or that I’m overreacting!
What I Like About Being a Four:
  • my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
  • my ability to establish warm connections with people
  • admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
  • my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
  • being unique and being seen as unique by others
  • having aesthetic sensibilities
  • being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me
What’s Hard About Being a Four:
  • experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
  • feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don’t deserve to be loved
  • feeling guilty when I disappoint people
  • feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
  • expecting too much from myself and life
  • fearing being abandoned
  • obsessing over resentments
  • longing for what I don’t have
Fours as Children Often:
  • have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original games
  • are very sensitive
  • feel that they don’t fit in
  • believe they are missing something that other people have
  • attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
  • become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
  • feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents’ divorce
Fours as Parents:
  • help their children become who they really are
  • support their children’s creativity and originality
  • are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings
  • are sometimes overly critical or overly protective
  • are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed

I am your music and I am your song

When I buy a new country cd, I have a tradition I follow. The first thing I do is read all the song titles. I want to know the name of every song before I listen – I’m weird that way. 😉 The second thing I do is crack that open and search the CD booklet for song writer information. I scan the writers for familiar names to get an idea of how the cd will sound. If I see certain writers, I know I’m more likely to like the song when I hear it; and other writers are a flag I won’t like it. Then with all the writers I don’t know, I know those songs can easily go either way. For example, If I see Jeffrey Steele listed in the credits, I know there’s a 50/50 chance of me liking the song. I always either absolutely hate or love his songs – there’s never an inbetween for me when it comes to him. If I see Neil Thrasher in the credits, I know there’s a very good chance I’ll like the song.

Case in point. I bought Lonestar’s brand new cd over the weekend. I popped it open and started looking over the credits. I spotted Neil Thrasher on 2 tunes, and was pretty pleased. Then I saw Jason Sellers’ name and was VERY happy. I knew I would love that song. Sure enough, after listening to all the songs on the cd, the one Jason wrote is by far my favorite, and I did like both of the ones that Neil wrote. With the exception of Richie & Dean, I didn’t recognize any of the other song writers names off hand, and some I liked, some I didn’t. No big surprise there.

And yes, if you haven’t guessed, there’s no real point to this post other than that I needed to ramble. I’ll be writing more – hopefully soon – about Canada. Things have been just crazy enough to keep me from writing any more than a few sentences at a time.

Here I go again on my own

Well, here I am, sitting in DFW airport waiting on my flight. We’ll start boarding in roughly another 30 minutes. Whee!!! I am VERY excited. The evil shuttle guy was late and didn’t know where he was going. That frustrated me.

I weighed myself again this morning — looks like I’m now down 16 pounds!!!! WOO HOO!!! My knee is already killing me, but what can I do there? I guess it just didn’t like the shot this time. 🙁

Not a lot to say, but I just had to make a quick post before I board. 🙂