Oops.

[puddingcat]

40 Hours To Car!

Today, I remembered to post a Mother's Day card, picked up a prescription before I ran out, had some boots resoled, and knitted the rib at the top of a sock. I Hate DPNs. Not quite as much as I did when I started, but the first two rounds? Sheer Hell and Frustration. If it were possible to stab DPNs with DPNs, I would have done.

I also got sidetracked by brit_knits and conned into buying some of this and a book of patterns. Now I'm wondering whether I should have got this or this instead. Or all three, seeing as it's cheaper than on the Texere website. Because, you know, I can still get into my spare room. Ooops.

snapesbabe caused me to take a Myers-Briggs test (two, actually). Oddly, I came out as an ISTJ on each; the description of ISTP is much closer to how I feel and see myself behaving. Oh, for the halcyon days pre-depression of being an INTJ posterchild and always knowing I was right...

Comments

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

So you're basically an I?T?...

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I've always been I?T?. The N got lost when my brain broke and I lost all confidence in myself and everything to do with who I was. Now I need external evidence before I'll trust myself - hence moving away from the intuition & towards the sensing.

I think the J/P depends on the situation, but the "under extreme stress" examples for P rang bells much more than the J ones did.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

* patpat *

* puts sellotape on your brain and looks hopeful *

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I don't think sellotape'll be strong enough. Perhaps a rivet gun?

Remember I had 3 years of being told I was wrong, and treating people like shit, and hopeless, on top of being depressed to start with.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Duck tape?

* hopeful face and tea *

[lark-ascending.livejournal.com]

A lot of the stuff in the 'extreme stress' assessments looks kind of generic to me. Mine says 'cutting corners and breaking rules' - but *everyone* does that when they're stressed. Get anyone stressed enough and they'll chuck the rules out the window in some way, be it getting off their face, starting a fight or whatever. Everyone gets gloomy about the future when they're down as well; that's hardly specific to one personality type. I think you can take those with a pinch of salt really.

Plus, depression just alters how "you" works some of the time. It doesn't change what "you" basically is. In my case the only thing that changed as I went through depression was that I got a lot closer to who I used to be as a kid, as I slowly threw out the layers and layers of crap on top of it that were other people's attempts to try to force me to be the person *they* thought I should be. The depression basically came out of those expectations putting my entire personality under constant stress. I don't know how it happened for you, but 'you' for anyone is a complicated thing that a lot of people seem to have ideas about. For my money, telling them all to piss off and trusting your own instincts is often the only way through the maze of conflicting views; you may not trust your observations sometimes and wisely so if you're prone to depression), *but* nobody else has the insider info that you do.

[ihavecake.livejournal.com]

Car! Vroooooooomm!!

Read my life story here. Even as I was reading it I was analysing it in the exact way it describes.

[lark-ascending.livejournal.com]

INFJ, every damn time. Near-psychic people-observer. However, combined with my natural cynicism and dislike of people, what this actually means is that I'm an infuriating know-it-all who can *always* tell you why you're being immature and selfish and making everyone else's lives difficult. And is usually right ;-)

As for the wool, I loved Spirit when I saw it too but I don't quite like the colourways - Essence is the nicest of the ones you picked out I think. I also went off it when I realised it was DK weight - I'm an impatient aran girl...