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theatokosI am not surprised that I scored quite masculine given the few questions on assertiveness. Highly gendered questions. Now, if they had asked questions about cooking, chores, entertaining, etc I would have scored feminine for sure.
Anyway. I hope everyone out there had a great holiday. I threw a Yule party. I have been told it was a success but I wasn't very present for it. My head was fuzzy and I was so tired. However, I accomplished a major feat: I made a successful Christmas pudding and sauce. It was my first time (I think) making this traditional UK/Australian dessert. I was so excited that it turned out that I wanted to immediately call my mother in Australia and be all child-like, "Look Mumma! Look what I made!" I restrained myself.
Christmas itself was a calm, peaceful event. The lack of obligation or pressure from family made the holiday truly relaxing and gave me plenty of time to think about what the holiday actually means to me.
Now we are rolling into the new year. I have been thinking about new year's resolutions. Normally I eschew them. I never go out on new year's eve (drunken crowds, expensive drinks, and drunk drivers, no thank you). But this year.... this year deserves a drunken going out. It's also been an autumn of winnowing and re-evaulation. My new year's resolutions are to get more excersize (I am getting a bike!) and to get my finances in order. The last one will be the real challenge. I pay a lot in student loans; without them I'd be doing quite nicely! I want to start saving. I want to be able to travel more. It is absurd to me that I don't travel - ever. I go to Australia every so many years on my parents' dime. I haven't been Home in a year and a half, and who knows when I will? I owe several people visits. It's time. I just gotta figure out how to make it happen. Someday, oh say about the summer of 2007, I'll need/want to leave Oakland. Where will I go? Seattle? Vancouver? Juneau? Wales? And how will I (we) get there?
Anyway. I hope everyone out there had a great holiday. I threw a Yule party. I have been told it was a success but I wasn't very present for it. My head was fuzzy and I was so tired. However, I accomplished a major feat: I made a successful Christmas pudding and sauce. It was my first time (I think) making this traditional UK/Australian dessert. I was so excited that it turned out that I wanted to immediately call my mother in Australia and be all child-like, "Look Mumma! Look what I made!" I restrained myself.
Christmas itself was a calm, peaceful event. The lack of obligation or pressure from family made the holiday truly relaxing and gave me plenty of time to think about what the holiday actually means to me.
Now we are rolling into the new year. I have been thinking about new year's resolutions. Normally I eschew them. I never go out on new year's eve (drunken crowds, expensive drinks, and drunk drivers, no thank you). But this year.... this year deserves a drunken going out. It's also been an autumn of winnowing and re-evaulation. My new year's resolutions are to get more excersize (I am getting a bike!) and to get my finances in order. The last one will be the real challenge. I pay a lot in student loans; without them I'd be doing quite nicely! I want to start saving. I want to be able to travel more. It is absurd to me that I don't travel - ever. I go to Australia every so many years on my parents' dime. I haven't been Home in a year and a half, and who knows when I will? I owe several people visits. It's time. I just gotta figure out how to make it happen. Someday, oh say about the summer of 2007, I'll need/want to leave Oakland. Where will I go? Seattle? Vancouver? Juneau? Wales? And how will I (we) get there?
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Date: 2005-12-27 01:01 pm (UTC)I scored pretty high on the masculine end of that gender test thing too...because I'm more assertive than shy and more analytical than emotional, etc. From the results I've seen on my friends list, it seems that the modern woman is in fact "androgynous" or "masculine" according to traditional gender definitions.
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Date: 2005-12-27 01:51 pm (UTC)I'm so glad that you could be at the party. Yeah, I was all muddle-headed due to impending Time of the Month. I always get very spacey and super drained for about two days prior.