Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence

You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly. You are also good at remembering information and convicing someone of your point of view. A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary. You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator.

What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?

80 Questions

80 Things You Might Not Know About Me

80 things you might not know about me.
Erase my answers, fill in your own, and repost.

1. What is your middle name? Leigh, there, now you know the L in "SLS"
2. How big is your bed? Full or double, whichever title you prefer
3. What are you listening to right now? The dialogue in tonight's episode of Numb3rs, but I'd prefer Vittorio...
4. What are the last 4 digits in your cellphone number? 0283
5. What was the last thing you ate? "KFC's Famous Bowl" without the cheese
6. Last person you hugged? Terri
7. How is the weather right now? Windy, cold and about to snow
8. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone? Mum
9. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex? Eyes and smile
10. Favorite type of food? "Comfort" food
11. Do you want children? Yup
12. Do you get high? Nope
13. Ever get so drunk you don't remember the night before? Never gotten drunk, period
14. Hair color? Dark brown, nearly black, but the ends are red from a poor dye job
15. Eye color? Brown
16. Do you wear eye contacts? Nearly every day
17. Favorite holiday? Christmas
18. Favorite Season? Fall
19. Have you ever cried over a girl/boy? Surprisingly, no
20. Last Movie you Watched? One Night with the King
29. What books are you reading? The Blue Castle and Deuteronomy
30. Piercings? Just the ears... I sometimes wear a fake cartilidge peircing
31. Favorite Movie? Ldyand the Tramp
32. Favorite college football Team? I care so little about football that I can't even name one
33. What were you doing before filling this out? Watching TV and browsing the internet, reading my bro's blog
34. Any pets? Two cats and a parakeet, poor little bird
35. AIM? Not in years
36. Dogs or cats? Cats, but I love dogs, too
38. Favorite Flower? Pansies, just like little smiling faces :0)
40. Have you ever loved someone? Yeah, what sort of question is that?
41. Who would you like to see right now? "The One"
43. Have you ever fired a gun? Not yet
44. Do you like to travel by plane? It's been so long, I don't know if I do or not
45. Right-handed or Left-handed? Right
46. If you could go to any place right now where would it be? Montreal
48. Are you missing someone? Yeah, my Dad
49. Do you have a tattoo? Nah
50. Do you still watch cartoons on Saturday mornings? I don't usually wake up until the cartoons are over, I like to sleep in on Saturday
51. Are you hiding something from someone? Girls always have secrets
52. Are you under 50? Quite under
53. WHAT IS THE WALLPAPER ON YOUR CELLPHONE? Robbie my parakeet
54. DID YOU GET ENOUGH SLEEP LAST NIGHT? Barely
55. FIRST THING YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THIS MORNING? "Zoe (cat) will you be quiet!"
56. WHAT DO YOU HAVE HANDY AT YOUR BEDSIDE? Bible, lamp, 3 books (for variety) journals, pens
57. GRILLED OR FRIED? Grilled
59. WHAT MAKES YOU UNIQUE? "Quirky" fashion and music taste. (Colors do not have to match, which is not to say that they never should, and hearing Josh Groban or Vittorio followed by Relient K or Stellar Kart and then Michael Buble or Tony Bennet and now a song from a movie score and end it all with some BBMak is a great play list)
60. ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK? No
61. FAVORITE HANGOUT? My room, anit-social little me
62. 3 THINGS YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT? Family, cats, God, music
63. FIRST THING YOU WILL BUY IF GIVEN 1 BILLION DOLLARS? Mini Cooper
64. FAVORITE SONG? That is like asking to pick a favorite hair on my head... I'll try... Barlow Girl's version of "No One Like You" (actually, no, but I just picked someting out of thin air.)
65. WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? Being completely ignored by everyone
66. ARE YOU A GIVER OR TAKER? Mix of the two
67. WHAT ARE YOUR NICKNAMES? I don't really have any
68. WHAT IS YOUR DAD'S MIDDLE NAME? William
69. WHATS YOUR MOTHERS MIDDLE NAME? Annette
70. STUCK ON A DESERTED ISLAND & COULD ONLY BRING ONE THING?
Bible
71. FAVORITE T.V. COMMERCIAL? The Petsmart one with the dachsund and his toy "Bobo"
72. WHO'S YOUR CELL PHONE PROVIDER? Cingular
73. FIRST THING YOU'LL SAVE IN A FIRE? Current journal
74. Favorite color? Blue
75. WHAT ARE THREE THINGS YOU ALWAYS BRING WITH YOU? Wallet, Cell phone, lip gloss
76. WHAT DID YOU WANNA BE WHEN YOU WERE A KID? Just about everything, but I recall Teacher coming up rather often
77. WHAT DO YOU USUALLY DO WHEN THE CLOCK TURNS? Go on with my life
78. THE COLOR OF YOUR BEDSHEET? Purple plaid
79. WHO DO U WANT TO MEET? Any one who wants to meet me, I guess
80. What is the last thing you think before going to bed? I'm so tired, is the bird covered? Where's the cat? Any candles burning? Ahh, finally bed.

That was long...

Hilary Duff...

So, I just saw the video for Hilary Duff's "Beat of my Heart".

It's my own dang fault, I should have changed the channel, I knew it as soon as I saw her on the screen...

I'm sorry to any fans she has, but anyone who reads this should realize I can be rather self-deprecating and I know when I've got "bad taste", but this song is utter garbage! It's monotonous, it's repetitive, her voice is awful! In all, the song just sucks!

Ok, back to your lives.

(Now, you should know, though I don't often admit it, I have liked certain Hilary Duff songs before. Actually, the only one I can think of right now is that stupid one with the line "When the light is off it isn't on". Wow, that's deep... still, it's a pleasant song with another stupid music video.)

Till next I write!
(Ooh, it's Anna Nalick now)

Cosi'

This is a video (a very cheesy video, in my own opinion) from a guy called Vittorio. I love this guy (you know, the Elliot Yamin and Benji Schwimmer kind of love...) and his over-the-top opera/pop songs. Cosi (Yes, I know it's called Bedshaped, but Cosi is a much cuter name) even has cheesy electric guitar worked in. You've just gotta love that. And now I find out the video is some sort of weird parody (tribute?) to To Catch a Theif! Awesome!
I first saw Vittorio on Dancing with the Stars (yes, I watch that show, and don't care what you think of it) when he sang a creepy, creepy song, wearing a black, hooded robe, with a choir decked out in matching robes, while flames were projected on the background and a bunch of professional dancers did some odd choreography. Not the greatest circumstances for me to see a new artist, I grant you. Yet, somehow, I was able to go beyond all the weirdness and hear that this man has an amazing voice.
How surprised was I to discover that Itunes has been recommending that I buy his CD for weeks now, in the "Just for You" feature. I dislike buying music I haven't really heard before... So I hesitated.
Then, yesterday I walked into Barnes and Noble, and his CD is playing throughout the store. I was now, indeed, hooked. So hooked that I paid for a CD at B&N! I could have found it cheaper elsewhere, I know, but I just had to throw caution to the wind. The man, after all, sings like an angel.
In the 24 hours that I've owned this CD, I've played it to Death. Death I tell you! But I can't get enough of it. I think the best songs are Querida (really, just mix in a little Spanish with a song and I think I'm hooked. Example: Josh Groban's Mi Morena), Maria (I've never seen West Side Story, but I almost want to now that I've heard this song) Il Mio Miracolo (which is just as lovely in English as You Are My Miracle, but I prefer him solo to duet, for some reason) and Magia De Amor. The whole CD is great, actually. So is the song If You're Not the One, which isn't on the CD, but is available on Itunes.

Ok, it's nearly 1 am and I shouldn't be rambling on about this guy... but I just wanted anyone who stumbled across my blog to know how much he rocks! (Ok, so I guess guys who sing opera don't technically rock.)

Till Next I Write!

Worship

Worship has been on my mind lately.
See, I have "Problem" with most songs that are labled "Praise and Worship". I feel like most songs that are given that lablel lately are really prayer, petition and whiny songs. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against prayer songs, I sing them... but I don't call it worshipping God. Repeatedly asking God to fill you, love you, open your eyes is not worship. It's asking God to do something (something that probably he's already done, you just need to get your own rear in gear and believe it... I digress.)
My take on worship is that you tell God exactly how amazing, wonderful, awesome, glorious, loving, powerful, good, and whole He is. Words can't truly descirbe it, so we employ music to try and add to the meaning. And we still fall short. When you focus on God and all that He is, problems, worries, questions fall away in the glory that surrounds Him and surrounds you as you recognize it.
I'm not perfect, sometimes I get swept up in a song that has music that I find completely mesmerizing, only to later look at the words closely and find that it wasn't really much praise in it. The focus gets on me, what I've done for Him. That's not worship. Not how I see it.
As I've said, I don't have anything against petition songs, plenty of that Psalms are petitions, but they mostly (all maybe?) end up with telling God how good he is. It just seems to me that this shouldn't be the main focus of our time singing or praying to God. More time should be spent thanking and praising Him for what He is and what He has done. Even if it didn't please God (which it most certainly does) you would be encouraged by realizing that you have this amazing ally and help and life from the creator of the universe, and not only is He that amazing, He loves you more than you love Him! Isn't that amazing?

Now, I need to get back to sorting my Ipod to have my worship music all in one playlist, instead of mixed in with the "other stuff".

Till next I write!