In High Gear

Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 43%
Visual : 56%
Left : 42%
Right : 57%

Spring, you possess an interesting balance of hemispheric and sensory characteristics, with a slight right-brain dominance and a slight preference for visual processing.

Since neither of these is completely centered, you lack the indecision and second-guessing associated with other patterns. You have a distinct preference for creativity and intuition with seemingly sufficient verbal skills to be able to translate in any meaningful way to yourself and others.

You tend to see things in “wholes” without surrendering the ability to attend to details. You can give them sufficient notice to be able to utilize and incorporate them as part of an overall pattern.

In the same way, while you are active and process information simultaneously, you demonstrate a capacity for sequencing as well as reflection which allows for some “inner dialogue.”

All in all, you are likely to be quite content with yourself and your style although at times it will not necessarily be appreciated by others. You have sufficient confidence to not second-guess yourself, but rather to use your critical faculties in a way that enhances, rather than limits, your creativity.

You can learn in either mode although far more efficiently within the visual mode. It is likely that in listening to conversations or lecture materials you simultaneously translate into pictures which enhance and elaborate on the meaning.

It is most likely that you will gravitate towards those endeavors which are predominantly visual but include some logic or structuring. You may either work particularly hard at cultivating your auditory skills or risk “missing out” on being able to efficiently process what you learn. Your own intuitive skills will at times interfere with your capacity to listen to others, which is something else you may need to take into account.

Wow. The Left Right Brain Test was both fun to take and dead-on with the results. Usually one or the other get sacrificed. Neet!

Thanks amorsalado!

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So, I haven’t written much (anything?) about my SCAdian development lately. As posted earlier, I did acquire armor. I’ve adapted one of the shields for lefty combat, and in doing so, realized ever so much more so how much upper body strength I need to develop. It’s also been pretty plain to me that my all-around strength and constitution need some work. It’s freaking hot. And I just can’t be dying all over the place from hauling my carcass around.

Last week I started a new practical fitness regimen. It’s the same one the Army used on me to get me fit. I haul shit around and I do stuff. I dug out one of my duffel bags and lined it with my foam bedroll, so’s my stuff doesn’t bruise my back up too bad. I put my helm in it, along with my usual backpack. I put my practice sword in there, too, the one that’s cracked. It looks kind of stupid right now because I ran out of regular duct tape, and all I had left was the super silvery stuff I used for boffers, but the look doesn’t matter.

The result is that I have weight to haul around and a couple useful heavy things to heft about here and there for strength building. There are lots of times in the day when I’m using my mind and my voice and not so much my hands, so I can do various curls and lifts and isometrics and such then.

So, now I have all this weight to shlep when I ride the bike to the bus stop in Lake Worth and walk from the train station to work in Boca, and vicey versa. I have things to heft in slack time. Plus I do front-leaning-rest exercises in their beauteous variety when I’m waiting places. And I have one of those springy things you use to improve your grip, thanks to my Fatally Depressed Coworker.

The first week has been good. I’ve been getting a pretty good burn in the major muscle groups, and I never realized the added cardio benefit of a significant amount of weight added to a bike in a top heavy fashion. I hadn’t been out of breath on a bike in months, until this week. Friday I erred in hurrying on foot to catch a bus and felt the warning signs of bone stress in my left shin and foot bones, so I am watching out for that. I didn’t haul weight yesterday or today, and it feels a lot better.

Still want to work in some crunches somehow or other. That’s a little bit trickier as location is more important for these. Meanwhile, I’ll keep going with the current weight for another week, and depending on how that’s going, add the another piece or two to the bag. The idea is to keep adding gradually until I’m hauling all my stuff.

In other news, I still haven’t made anything out of the boat load of linen I bought at Gulf Wars. I keep changing my mind. What I really need, though, are several decent, cool underdresses, so that’s probably going to be the focus. I have a bunch of maintenance and refinement to do on my existing garb as well.

An illumination project is also fluttering around in my mind. I have some work I did last year but didn’t develop into anything useful. I’d like to find it and trace it onto a new scroll. So far it hasn’t turned up anywhere. Hope I didn’t destroy it, but even if I did, the elements are familiar enough that I could do it again.

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I have a sponsor! Yesterday I asked someone from my home Al-Anon group if she would be my sponsor. She said she didn’t know because of where she’s at in her own process, but that she would need to speak with her sponsor also and consider things, which I totally understand. Today she phoned me back with a yes!

I am so glad that she took time to consider, because my biggest fear in asking has been the fear of becoming someone’s burden. The second biggest fear has been rejection. So a) I was afraid they’d say no, and b) I was afraid they’d say yes easily and then find later that it’s a bigger pain in the ass than anticipated.

So, I finished my 4th step Thursday night. I celebrated Friday with a sumptuous lunch. It was a big process. I started with a third-person character sketch of myself as I understood myself at that point. Then I did a classic Big Book 4th step, with tables for resentments, fears, sexual matters, and harms done to others. I finished with a summary of bullet points of things I found out about myself during the charting.

Now, because I waited so long to find a sponsor, I may have to go back and cover some ground again. I’ll bring my written things about the first three steps from Paths to Recovery and Codependents’ Guide to the Twelve Steps, but likely I’ll need to do work on these from other books as well. We will have to see after we’ve sat down and talked and got a feel for where we’re at.

Now, of course, I am fretting because the first thing she wants to do is get my story. I have a complex life and I come from a complex background, so I’m kind of dreading this a little. When I did the 4th step charting, I drew a diagram of my family of origin and my current family, foreseeing what it’s going to be like for my 5th step person. Even so, there’s a lot of other stuff. Gah.

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“Spiritual growth is less like therapy and more like bootcamp.”

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Next month I am going to be participating with a LinkedIn friend’s team in Light the Night. I want yo money, bitchez! Seriously, this is a fantastic cause. It’s worth a few bucks.

This concludes the saved-up-crap barrage of the week. I apologize for the inundation. Wish I were a better blogger. Alas.

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