What is YOUR temperament?

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Idealists, as a temperament, are passionately concerned with personal growth and development. Idealists strive to discover who they are and how they can become their best possible self -- always this quest for self-knowledge and self-improvement drives their imagination. And they want to help others make the journey. Idealists are naturally drawn to working with people, and whether in education or counseling, in social services or personnel work, in journalism or the ministry, they are gifted at helping others find their way in life, often inspiring them to grow as individuals and to fulfill their potentials.

Idealists are sure that friendly cooperation is the best way for people to achieve their goals. Conflict and confrontation upset them because they seem to put up angry barriers between people. Idealists dream of creating harmonious, even caring personal relations, and they have a unique talent for helping people get along with each other and work together for the good of all. Such interpersonal harmony might be a romantic ideal, but then Idealists are incurable romantics who prefer to focus on what might be, rather than what is. The real, practical world is only a starting place for Idealists; they believe that life is filled with possibilities waiting to be realized, rich with meanings calling out to be understood. This idea of a mystical or spiritual dimension to life, the "not visible" or the "not yet" that can only be known through intuition or by a leap of faith, is far more important to Idealists than the world of material things.

Highly ethical in their actions, Idealists hold themselves to a strict standard of personal integrity. They must be true to themselves and to others, and they can be quite hard on themselves when they are dishonest, or when they are false or insincere. More often, however, Idealists are the very soul of kindness. Particularly in their personal relationships, Idealists are without question filled with love and good will. They believe in giving of themselves to help others; they cherish a few warm, sensitive friendships; they strive for a special rapport with their children; and in marriage they wish to find a "soulmate," someone with whom they can bond emotionally and spiritually, sharing their deepest feelings and their complex inner worlds.

Idealists are rare, making up between 20 and 25 percent of the population. But their ability to inspire people with their enthusiasm and their idealism has given them influence far beyond their numbers.

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This is pretty much right on the money, regarding my temperament. Though it doesn't address my whacky side much.

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Dividing My House into Categories for Improvement

The Categories of My House/Property

Downstairs:

• Kitchen
• Living Room/Dining Room
• Extra Room (former lower level Computer room)
• Back Porch
• Front Porch

Upstairs

• My bedroom
• Bathroom
• Supply room
• Office/Studio
• Hallway

Basement

Grounds

• Front flower gardens
• Rear flower gardens
• Lawn
• Shed

If I am going to sell this house and move in a productive manner, I need to get my shit together all over the freaking house!

Thinking of the whole thing at once is overwhelming me.  I can't contain it all in my head.  So, I am going to subdivide it into categories.  Then I can do small tasks--a chunk at a time--and actually make some progress.

Kitchen

• New linoleum must be laid.  The old stuff is peeling off.  It looks like hell.
• The refrigerator needs to be scrubbed inside and out till it shines.  It is staying with the house--despite the fact that it is the very first thing I bought after I graduated from college and started my teaching career.  Nearly 25 years, and still working just fine--and all for $300.00.  Heh heh heh.
• The stove needs to be scrubbed and polished within an inch of its life as well--and the oven needs to be cleaned.  "Self-cleaning oven" is an oxymoron, as far as I can tell.
• I would like to get rid of the little red and white wooden table and its four chairs.  It's cute--but it has never been ME.  I do not want it in my new house.
• The cupboards need to be cleaned out and I need to DUMP all of the dishes that I just don't use.  Like all those little juice glasses that I bought, imagining having friends over for brunch...I've done it how many times in the last 25 years?  Five or six?  And that was when I lived in Ray's Land with Pam and Steve in the apartment above me...we'd always have waffles and eggs and bacon on wintertime snow days.  Heh heh heh.  Those were the good old days.  But I digress.
• If I got a huge shot of ambition, it would be good to sand down and repaint the wood work.  I doubt that I want to go through that much effort though, when it is not in my plans to remain here.
• All my dishes are mix-matched cast offs of my grandma or from auctions or garage sales.  I think I'd like to get rid of everything and get something that is ONLY mine.  There are some very pretty (and cheap) things at Walmart and Target that are quite cheerful.  I bought a couple of mugs at Walmart that are blue and have little blue flowers inside the cup.  Like a little surprise when you sip your tea.  I doubt that I would ever have more than two other couples over for a meal--but six is the imperfect number.  It would be nice if I had enough matching dishes to serve breakfast or lunch to my homeroom when I move to Rochester.  I have twelve at the current time in my homeroom.  Maybe I'll get 13 of everything.  (That would include me also.)  Thirteen has always been a lucky number for me.  Or, if I buy things in sets, they usually come in sets of four.  So, I could get four sets of four and have 16 settings.  Way more than I need....but there will no doubt be breakage.  I always manage to break the things I am really fond of.

That about sums up what needs to be done in the kitchen.

Living Room/Dining Room

I put these two together because, basically, they are one LONG room joined by an archway with built in leaded glass cupboards.  I bought this house because of the beautiful woodwork. 

• A couple of the curtains have hem issues.  The hems need to be repaired.
• The woodwork should probably be scrubbed and polished to make it shine.
•  I want to sell the dining room set, the hutch, and the sideboard.  They are all "antiques"--I got the dining room set and the hutch at auctions--they went cheap and they are nice to look at--but, I don't want a formal dining room in my next house.  Once again, I DO NOT and WILL NOT EVER USE IT.   Therefore, possessing it is stupid.  The sideboard was my sister's and I always liked it.  When she and her husband decided to sell it, mom and dad bought it for me as a "wedding present" since I was well into my 40's, and the likelihood of me ever finding someone to marry was about even with my being abducted by aliens or transformed into a duck.  I know they paid $600 for it.  If I could get $300 out of it, I'd sell it.  Happily.  It is beautiful.  Extremely beautiful.  BUT--it is old.  The drawers stick.  The bottom drawer's bottom has fallen, allowing all the dishes that were in there to crash to the floor.  Miraculously none were broken.  (I got rid of all of them last summer.  I got $35.00 for the rosebud set at my sister-in-law's garage sale, and I gave the hibiscus set to one of my former students who was setting up her own house.  I liked the pink ones--but I'd owned them for going on 15 years, and had never used them once.  The other set, a huge set with many pieces, I got at an auction for $10.  I got it for my brother and his wife before they got married--they were young and poor and had NOTHING.  I thought they'd love to have a nice big set of real china.  Heh.  My sister-in-law wants ONLY new stuff....so, I had an extra set of china.  Nicole was very glad to have it, so it worked out okay.
• I want to get rid of most of the fancy glassware in the hutch also.  I never use it.  Most of it was given to me by my grandmother for birthdays and stuff.  Her tastes and mine were extremely different.  I'm just not much for crystal-type stuff. 
• The plants that I killed of dehydration this winter need to be dumped outside as well.  Yes.  I am a murderer.  Alas.  My head was just not on the minor details of house keeping this winter.  Thank goodness the cat has a voice and would speak up when the food or water ran low.  Or her dessicated corpse might be setting in the dining room or living room as well. 
• The living room hasn't got much in it--but I do want to get rid of the one octagonal end table that mom's friend sold me for $10 back in the early 80's.  The bottom has collasped in it (under the weight of all my picture albums--which have also begun to fall apart, despite the fact that I bought expensive hallmark scrapbooks for them back when I was in college and so poverty stricken that I couldn't by FOOD half the time.)
• I will keep both of the mismatched upholstered chairs--they will be in my basement in my new home, where I intend to have my studio/computer room.  I REALLY want to buy new living room furniture.  I'd like a love seat and two recliners.  Ample seating for myself and any guests.  I never entertain more than two other people at a time anyhow.  I could have had a really impressive set for what I spent on my laptop, but....I DO have my priorities. 
• The old dresser that I have the tv on and the tv with its dvd and vcr machines hooked to it will all go into my new basement as well.  I have one bin of fabric (from my nephew's quilt) still in the living room.  That needs to come upstairs to the supplie room.  The two small bookshelves also need to come upstairs to the studio or maybe the hallway.  They can't be in the living room.
• The plant stand will not be coming with me when I move.
• I think that about does it for the Living Room/Dining Room.