Left Brain or Right Brain?

Took a test online today on whether I am a left brain or right brain sort of person. These are the results:

Your Brain Usage Profile:
Auditory : 37% Visual : 62% Left : 57% Right : 42%

You are somewhat left-hemisphere dominant and show a preference for visual learning, although not extreme in either characteristic. You probably tend to do most things in moderation, but not always.

Your left-hemisphere dominance implies that your learning style is organized and structured, detail oriented and logical. Your visual preference, though, has you seeking stimulation and multiple data. Such an outlook can overwhelm structure and logic and create an almost continuous state of uncertainty and agitation. You may well suffer a feeling of continually trying to "catch up" with yourself.

Your tendency to be organized and logical and attend to details is reasonably well-established which should afford you success regardless of your chosen field of endeavor. You can "size up" situations and take in information rapidly. However, you must then subject that data to being classified and organized which causes you to "lose touch" with the immediacy of the problem.

Your logical and methodical nature hamper you in this regard though in the long run it may work to your advantage since you "learn from experience" and can go through the process more rapidly on subsequent occasions.

You remain predominantly functional in your orientation and practical. Abstraction and theory are secondary to application. In keeping with this, you focus on details until they manifest themselves in a unique pattern and only then work with the "larger whole."
With regards to your career choices, you have a mentality that would be good as a scientist, coach, athlete, design consultant, or an engineering technician. You can "see where you want to go" and even be able to "tell yourself," but find that you are "fighting yourself" at the darndest times.

My Front Flower Gardens

Sometimes I wish we would sell our TV!

Sometimes I wish we would sell our TV! But then I ask myself "Are you crazy?" The TV always seems to be on at our house and I'm getting tired of hearing it in the background, not to mention that the boys are watching way too many cartoons through out the day! This house is never quiet anymore...I think that is one reason I'm looking forward to school beginning next week with an eager gaze! I will have 2 hrs of quiet in the house daily, a time to dwell on and order all the thoughts in my head instead of feeling so scattered all the time.

Of course the TV keeps them occupied and not in my face asking "Mom, can I...?" or "Mom, will you...?" or "MOMMMMMMM!", which seems to always happen when the TV is off. Sometimes I wish we followed the old adage..."Children should be seen and not heard!" in this house and I might not feel so worn out all the time. Now don't get me wrong, they're great kids, they love me and each other and enjoy playing, but my house is tiny! and even normal sounds start echoing in my head.

Oh well...at least we're happy and they love me whether I'm scattered brained or not!

I feel productive.

I feel productive. My yard is mowed and weed-eated. My flower gardens are weeded and a few trees have been pruned. I've cleaned out the dining room, my bedroom, and my son's room. The bedrooms have been re-arranged, and I've vacuumed under and behind all of the furniture. The house is dusted, vacuumed, swept, moped, and cleaned. I've registered both of my boys at their respective schools, and went clothes shopping and shopping for school supplies. I've signed my oldest up for football, and my youngest up for gymnastics and I've attended my meetings for boy scouts, cub scouts, and MOMS group. All in the last 3 weeks, but of course I didn't do it all alone (I can never seem to clean my house without a lot of prodding).

I hired the yard out to my younger brother and gave him some spending money, my Mom (who doesn't know how to sit still, and is very active at my house now that she is retired and has finished working her house over) got me in the gardens for weeding. She also helped with the dusting, and re-arranging along with another girl friend (I plan on going helping clean her house in the future), and my husband hauled me off to the store to do the dreaded shopping (actually I love shopping, but not spending money...if I can't spend money, I won't shop :-(.

Now if I can just keep up with the up-keep, I'll be happy!

Shopping and a Movie

Spent the weekend shopping and at the Dollar Theatre with my boys. Our city has a no tax weekend in preparation for school and since I always buy a new outfit for my Oldest I thought I would hit the stores this weekend (although this really was mostly my husbands idea...I HATE shopping!). I also have 2 boys going to school this year and so 2 new outfits to buy, I can't believe both boys will be in school this year.

We went to Kohl's Friday night. Found all their clothes for at least 40% off. Bought my youngest 2 pairs of pants, my oldest a nice shirt, and my husband new shoes. We also had a 15% off coupon, so that kept costs reasonable. Jumped over to Target after Kohls and picked up 3 pair of jeans for my Oldest, 2 nice polo type shirts for my youngest (one with pirates skull and crossbones on them, which is a favorite of his right now...although maybe not appropriate for Pre-K), shoes for my youngest, and underwear for my husband.

My Oldest son spent the morning at his new Middle school Saturday and meet his Advisory teacher and many of his new classmates. Afterwards we didn't want to go home, so we went to the mall to peruse Old Navy. Their clearance shelves were empty and the line half-way around the store. That was the end to our clothes shopping. We hit GameStop and bought my Youngest the Lego StarWars Game to play on his Brothers DS and then decided to hit the dollar movies.

We went and saw Night at the Museum, Battle of the Smithsonian at the dollar theatre. I don't know why they call it the dollar theatre when the movies are $2 each now. It was a decent movie with a lot of adult humor. My boys laughed a lot and really enjoyed it, although we spent more money on the popcorn and drinks then on the movie.

It was a good and busy weekend.

Middle School...Here He Comes!

It's official, my Oldest is now enrolled in Middle School. We went in today and signed up for school lunches, bought a yearbook, joined the PTA, bought a school shirt, and got his class schedule. He gets to take 6th grade science, language arts, social studies, and 6th grade math extension along with intro to computers and band. The intro to computers is only a 9 week class and will be switched each nine weeks with speech/drama, then Leadership, then Spanish class. I'm happy with this schedule.

I also signed up my Youngest in Pre-K this week. He went into the school and told them he was there to begin school. He also went into the middle school today and introduced himself to everyone! I DO NOT have shy boys! (Which believe me is a relief since I've gone through life on the shy side).

I also signed up my Oldest for tackle football yesterday so that should be starting at any time. Games will be Sunday afternoons and possibly Thursday evenings. Looks like my roll in Cub Scouts this year will be limited to only the Pack Mtgs. I have to go to them since I'm the Advancement Chair, but that's okay...I need to back off on Scouts for a while and concentrate on other things at the moment.

All in all a productive week!

Took the boys by the hand today!

Took the boys by the hand today and we cleaned out and re-arranged their pig-pen (I mean room...which they share and collects everything!). We moved furniture and cleaned behind things...straightened out the bookshelves and vacuumed everywhere, just to find that we are still not done after three hours, after which I came crawling out of their room exhausted and with a sore back!

I still need to dive into their toy box and under their bed and start chucking toys out the door. I'm going to wait though until school starts and the boys won't know what they're losing. Do you all have that problem?...You start cleaning and they see a toy they haven't played with in months or years, but when you get ready to chuck it, it's their favorite toy ever?

The question I keep asking myself is "Why did you wait until August to clean their room and soon my own, when I've had all summer to do it?" Well I worked on the house today, tomorrow it's meetings...MOMS business meeting in the morning and Pack Leader's Mtg. tomorrow night. In between I need to start chucking things out from under my bed...(I have a friend coming over on Thursday to re-arrange my room!), but I'm not looking forward to more back breaking work!