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Your Dominant Intelligence is Logical-Mathematical Intelligence

You are great at finding patterns and relationships between things. Always curious about how things work, you love to set up experiments. You need for the world to make sense - and are good at making sense of it. You have a head for numbers and math ... and you can solve almost any logic puzzle. You would make a great scientist, engineer, computer programmer, researcher, accountant, or mathematician.

What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?

They should make high schoolers take this test. I would say it is pretty dang accurate. Who would have known that my dominant intelligence was math and science? I think that is what my parents were grooming me for when I was born. Did they put me in sports? No, they freakin' bought me a rock tumbler, a microscope, a telescope, a planetarium, a volcano kit, a laboratory kit, oh and the list goes on and on. Did they enroll me in sports? No...They sent me off to art lessons and music lessons, oh yeah, and 4-H. How about a sports camp? Nope..space camp every year baby! Yes parents..please make me into the biggest nerd ever!!!! (See nerd score to the side of this post) Problem now is I love sports. I love running, biking, soccer, or whatever. I just am not the greatest because I haven't been doing it my whole life. Oh well, I will make it through that mini-marathon in May. Also GO PACERS!!!!!

I know all of you have dearly missed it..soooo...

Word of the Day:

ineffable

My life is now complete

I believe in a previous post I talked about meeting Ron Artest..at the end of the post I mentioned that if I only could meet Scot Pollard, my life would be complete! Well guess what???? I went out to night to watch none other than the amazing Great Scott the band...and I was sitting at a table, I look up, and I see a guy walk through the door. I was sitting there going Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh..is that Scot Pollard, is that Scot Pollard? Oh it was!!! So I went and talked to him, and told hiim that I had his jersey and I wear it to all the games. I told him he was my favorite Pacers player. He was getting drinks for all the people he was with, and he got me one. So now, I have gotten a drink from Ron Artest, and from Scot Pollard. It doesn't stop there. So with him is David Harrison. He is a rookie center this year. I talked to David Harrison, and his roommate, Will. They were awesome!!!! I was trading back and forth quotes with David from Napoleon Dynamite, and he has seen Van Wilder. We even danced together. He did goofy dances with me. That was great. He and will were soo cool!! I got a drink from him too. So recap...I have gotten a drink from Ron Artest, from SCOT POLLARD!! and David Harisson..and David invited my cousin and I over to his house. We didnt go, but I got his roommate's number, and he got mine, and he said he would call me next time they go out..go me!!! Oh yeah, Jermaine O'neal was there too. That was the second time I have met him. I talked to him for a couple seconds and told him I had met him before. He said "nice to meet you again." I am sure he never ever remembers meeting me before, but that is cool. All in all, it was the best night ever. I am such a Pacer's fan..and especially a Scot Pollard fan. Oh yeah! David Harrison obviously has season tickets in the lower level that his roomie gets to use. He basically can get as many tickets as he wants. He said I can go to a game with him sometime!!!! AHHHHHH!!!! YES!!! Go Pacers! I am the happiest girl ever!!!!

GRRR Pacers...GRRR

I think that the Pacers have lost the last 5 or 6 home games I have been to. This started right around Christmas with the Pistons/Pacers game. I had tickets to a the Phoenix game in January, but I was out of town so I had to give them away. They one that one! Ok..the reason why I am so upset is because of last nights game. We played Toronto, which is definately not the best team in the NBA. I thought it was going to be a blowout game. There was one point that the Pacers were ahead 18 points and I was thinking "maybe we should start our second-rate players more often, maybe we will do better." This is because Scot Pollard started instead of Jeff Foster. You can imagine my excitement because I love Scot Pollard. Also, Anthony Johnson started for Jamaal Tinsley because Tinsley was hurt. Too bad..right..nevermind. Tinsley is definately my least favorite Pacer. Ok, back to the game. So by the time 4th quarter comes around, our lead has diminished, but we are still ahead. We stay ahead until about 4 minutes to go, and then they pull ahead by two. Fast forward...less than 22 seconds to go, we have the ball, and we are down by one. Somebody fouls Krosher..the crowd goes wild because in our minds, Krosher has a free chance to win this. He makes both shots, so we are up by one with 1.9 seconds to go. Toronto calls a time-out so they can start with the ball on their side. Two freakin' seconds! Well, Stephen Jackson fouls somebody, with .4 seconds to go. Jalen Rose...former pacers player..has a chance for two shots. He makes both, we lose by 1 point. I was so distraught. They lost on Monday to the 76ers by one point also. Hopefully we will shape up, or else we won't make the playoffs...come on!

Flippin' FICA

I guess that a big debate going on right now is whether or not we should privatize social security. I have to admit that I haven't studied up big time on the benefits of doing it or on the benefits of not doing it, but I am going to give you my thoughts anyway. After all, what are blogs for? They aren't a source of credible information, right? Since the days of when I first started working (go Chuck E. Cheese!), I have noticed a nice little portion of my check going to the FICA people. We have heard over and over again that money is running out. There are just too many baby boomers and not enough people to support that. This is why the government developed 401K. It was needed to help offset the lack of money that people are going to get when they retire. Now, 401K rocks, especially if you work for a company that really helps out with that. The people retiring now have not had the advantage of being able to contribute to 401K their whole working career, so young people, start investing. OK, now back to my point. It makes me really T.O'd (I love you Napoleon) to know that I am feeding money into a black hole that I am never going to see, and if I do see it, it will most likely be when I am 95 because that will be the age of retirement by the time I get up there. So why privatize? I would love to see all the money I feed to FICA being used for ME when I retire. Right now we young people are getting the crappy end of the stick. We have to contribute along with everybody else and are going to get crap. So why not let us use the money we contribute to support ourselves when we retire? OOOO...amazing plan. I have been shouting this for years so it excites me to see some effort to move towards that. I can see some worries. If you don't make much, then the amount that you will have in your social security will not be great. I would venture say that the amount that you would get from your small little income would be more than what you will get without it being privatized. Ok, honestly I don’t really know about the other worries, like I said, I really haven’t studied up much on it. Maybe I am just a clueless girl spouting off with out knowing the facts, but I don't care, it's my blog! We will see what happens, but I think myself, along with a lot of other people out there would love to see our FICA money go towards something good.

Word of the Day:
superannuation