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No… or Yes?

Daily writing prompt
Are you a good judge of character?
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When I read today’s question I immediately had an answer. A gut response, if you will. The more I thought about it though, the more I realized that gut reaction was wrong. Or it might be wrong. 

Am I a good judge of character? No. No way. Or am I? I tried to think of an instance where I clearly misjudged someone. Either I thought a good person was a bad person, or a bad person was a good person, or any kind of error in judgement. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I can’t think of one. I can’t think of a single occasion when I completely misjudged someone. There are times when my perception might have been off a little. A good person with a negative trait, or vice versa. Overall though… I think I generally get things mostly right on the first try.

So is that a good thing or a bad thing? Neither, I guess. What this does point out is that I seem to lack self confidence in my judgements of people. I feel like this little exercise has just shown me that I should have a little more faith in myself. 

Fat chance of that.

Common Enough for a Hand Out

At my check in at the weight loss clinic I asked about my low blood sugar episodes.

Apparently the question is common enough that they had a handout already printed and ready to be handed out.

Huh. Apparently we can chalk it up to crackers. I’ve been eating crackers a lot and lo and behold, eating crackers leads to blood sugar dive bombs in people with little butchered stomach pouches like mine.

Crud. I like crackers and I have a cabinet full of them. Crud.

When is Your Happy, Happy?

Daily writing prompt
When are you most happy?
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As daily writing prompts go, this one is pretty lame. I could answer this in all the depth required with one sentence. I guess I’ll try to expand a little and give you a little list. Will that work for you all?

A list of things that make me the most happy. The first two are the important ones (can you guess what they’ll be?) and the rest are in no particular order…

  • Being with my wife, Jen
  • Being with my step daughter, Bellana, and/or being with my step son, Harry
  • Playing guitar
  • Taking photos
  • Visiting with my extended family
  • Traveling
  • Live music, both watching/listening and playing
  • A good book
  • A good movie
  • A really good TV show
  • Cats, when they are in a particularly friendly mood

I could add more. Probably hundreds more. These will do for today though. Enjoy.