360. Relatively Conducive to Happiness

Good news: your lifestyle is relatively conducive to happiness! Congratulations, and feel free to read any resources that pertain to any areas of your life where your happiness can be increased.

These are the results of a "happiness test" I took, after I followed a link that came up in gmail. And try as I might, I cannot relocate it to link you to it, damn it. Sorry. 

As with much of psychology (and I say this as a successful "graduate" of good psychotherapy, which sadly is an oxymoron most of the time) this test is useless, and it just kills me, because the highest choice is "sort of."  The lowest choice is .... yes, "sort of," and the test is just so damn easy to manipulate.  I wanted to manipulate it to, "I'm ecstatic," but since the choices are all so gray, and not a bright light or a dark-and-gloomy-of-night in the bunch, it was clear that the result was going to be "quite good." Mediocrity at its finest. 

My answers to most of the questions, thankfully, would have been "very happy."  Too bad that wasn't a choice. Each question had two answers, one slightly above the midline and one slightly below, and often neither answer hit the mark. Stupid waste of time.  I'm rather sort of relatively unhappyish with that test, but can genuinely say that I'm more than relatively happy with my life. And what a hoot -- these people wanted you to buy something and/or subscribe to their newsletter. 

Imagine getting those boring, gray newsletters in the inbox every day?  How depressing.  Even more depressing (well, maybe not) than those crap inspirational emails that people like to forward (please do NOT do it, and if you are doing it, please STOP forthwith!).  Give me sarcasm, smartassery and UNinspiration, or give me death!

After I bought those Christmas cards the other day and discovered the Anne Taintor site, I had so much fun perusing it yesterday.  My new favorite saying is, "There was nothing passive about her aggression."

Or is it, "Honey, you couldn't handle half of me."  

Or how about, "Of course, it would have to look like an accident."

Or maybe...."She could see no good reason to act her age."

I'm really having such trouble choosing a favorite, but maybe it's, "Nothing says 'hello sailor' quite like ruby red lipstick."

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This should probably be a New Year's post, but why wait for a special occasion to have a kickass attitude? 

Hope you all had lovely holidays!  Can you believe there is less than a week left to Blog 365?!  We have kicked some blog-posting ass, for sure. 

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Comments

[Mel]

I got David a packet of Anne Taintor pocket emery boards as a stocking stuffer. It says, "Guess where I'm tattooed." I already know where all his are, though. :-)

[elizabeth a airhart]

i used to be snow white but then i drifted

shes two bricks short of a load

its a lie that they serve pie in the sky

if he starts singing i am always chaseing rainbows
this is not your big spender take your purse and leave

[Betsy]

My particular favorite is the "now is probably not the best time to tell the kids they are Jewish"...with the inside "have yourself a merry whatever" PRICELESS...absolutely priceless...

If I haven't said it before...thanks for Blog 365...I always go to your blog first thing in the morning for the joy of knowing there will be a new post there!

[Nora]

Smartassery, indeed.

Hope you are having a relatively happy day!

[Adelaide]

In order to maintain your happy life, it is probably necessary for you to continue to post every day. I know that if you did so, you would contribute to my happiness.

[gayle]

You're MY first stop in the morning, also! Can't drink that first cup of coffee without Norma on my monitor.

I love Despair and thinkgeek. My favorite t-shirt at thinkgeek is "I never finish anyth" - so appropriate for me...

[margene]

Norma is always kick ass.

[Carole]

It's good to be happy with life.

[Marilyn]

I will 4th what Betsy, Adelaide and Gayle already said. I start my day off with seeing what you have to say. I'm crossing my fingers and toes that it slips your mind that you can quit posting everyday after the new year and keep right on doing it!

[Renee]

Norma - you rock!
Please tell us you're going to continue with 365 in 2009? I don't want to be Norma deprived.

[sandy]

Made me laugh.
:D
We HAVE kicked some blogging ass, haven't we??
Mostly you, but I have kicked a little, wouldn't you agree??
xo

[Joan]

Oh no. Only a week of Norma-every-day left? But... but I'm hooked! I NEED my fix!

[Diane T]

Ditto on the 365-blogging for 2009. I need my daily dose of Norma AND Sandy.

Um, the link to anne taintor appears to be is missing a .com Or are you just checking to see if our brain cells survived the holiday?

[Beebs]

Thank you for the 2008 / 365 blogging! I love it. Would a lot of bribery be needed for a 2009 / 365?

[Cookie]

Honey, you always kick ass. Are you going to do another 365? Might be fun for you. I know it would be fun for us.

xo

[Cookie]

Now that he had bough the cow, the milk was going to be extraordinarily expensive.

Bwahahahahahahahaha!

I think I love that Anne Taintor person.

[Becca]

My favorite AT is the one on my blog, "Honey, you couldn't PAY me to be 20." So true, so true.

[Leslie]

And are you going to be responsible for Norma-withdrawal all across the country? Does your liability insurance pay off for the ranting and monitoring whacking if Norma-365 ends?? I thought not! You have to blog 731 days in a row to get the free insurance protection for that. Whaddya' say, Norma?

[Lisa Beamer]

Oh god, I LOVE Anne Taintor! I have a collection of her magnets on my fridge, including passive/aggression one you mention...it's one of my favorites LOL. My other favorite is "She liked imaginary men best." I told my husband not to take to too personally. ;)