Spelling Test - FOBTY

I'm usually pretty good at spelling - in fact I don't use spell-check and I'm usually finding spelling errors in my colleagues' and boss' work (in fact my boss Charles usually asks me to check his presentations for errors, in particular spelling, because he knows how meticulous I am). And if I'm not100% sure, I look it up in the dictionary (always handy). So I was a little surprised by these findings:

Your Common Spelling Mistake Score: 90% Correct

Your spelling is excellent. You don't fall for common spelling pitfalls, and you spell almost everything correctly.

Do You Make Common Spelling Mistakes?

Why am I surprised? Because that score would indicate I got 2 wrong. I went back and checked all the words in the dictionary against how I answered and I only got 1 wrong (which I would have looked up in the dictionary to be sure if I had actually used it). The rest I answered correctly - so I should have had 95% (I am also good at math). Now grammar (particularly run-on sentences) is a whole other story, lol.

Who was I in High School?

Well, according to the quiz:

You Were the Brainy Kid

In high school, you were acing AP classes or hanging out in the computer lab. You may have been a bit of a geek back then, but now you're a total success!

Who Were You In High School?

Truly, for me, the quiz is deceiving. First of all, I was not considered one of the "brainy kids" in my class - I was around 18th, but in a class of 28. And it was a prep school, so everybody was "brainy". As for popularity, I certainly wasn't popular, but my social stigma was mostly due to having both my parents working at the school, my father being the assistant headmaster. So I kind of was secluded, in my own little world. I think the quiz was geared more to public school students or those with larger class sizes, where there were social cliques (there weren't really any in my school - the most you could "clique" people into were those who were more involved with arts as extra-curricular, and those who did sports, mostly because they met at the same time so you had to choose one or another in a given season, and even sometimes those lines were blurred for some).

New Englander, through and through

For the From Our Blog to Yours, we have a quiz regarding accents. I know I have a New England accent, but not Bostonian nor New York City. Relatively neutral for a New England accent, you know? So here's the quiz results to prove it...

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast   Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.
Philadelphia
The Inland North
The Midland
Boston
The South
The West
North Central
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Make Me Happy

Well, I'm kind of down and out today. Yesterday I was diagnosed with an upper respiratory infection and given antibiotics and cough syrup. Cough syrup works great, but I end up feeling worse because overnight a sinus infection kicked in. Can't a girl get a break? It's bad enough that it's painful to swallow, I can't talk above a low whisper and my shoulder is aching from all the coughing I've been doing. Need there be more? I will get better - I have to.
So what makes me happy even when I'm down & out? Thinking back to happy childhood memories generally makes me happy. Like this:


or this:


The other happy thing? Well, I've been doing a "Biggest Loser" contest for the last couple of weeks. Started slow since last week Jon and I were on vacation, but this week in spite of the illness, I have been going like gangbusters - I think I've lost 5 pounds alone this week. I'm certainly not going to complain about that....