Roger's View of the World, Love and Seafood Gumbo!
Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
There are several grass roots groups encouraging American’s to wear RED on Fridays as a sign of support for our troups overseas!
There are a few commercial ventures that will supply a red shirt as well should you want one!
Even in Canada the red shirts are catching on!
Veterans Groups are also wearing red.
Well, wearing red comes easy when you are a Trojan…. but we have Bruins and Black Knights here too wearing red!
Wear Red Fridays!
Roger Freberg
The simple answer is a conditional YES!
Being married to a Psychologist has made for many interesting experiences… every action I have ever taken has been completely analyzed… but as — I believe Freud said– sometimes a ‘cigar’ is just a cigar…. and a wife showing interest is a compliment after all.
ENTJ’s (masterminds) and INTJ’s (fieldmarshalls) are said to work well on the battlefield… assuming they are both on opposing armies… however, this isn’t intuitively supposed to be the best match-up for a couple. Personally, I needed an intelligent engineering-type woman ( who loves football)…. and Laura’s personality fit me perfectly. Laura and I have always enjoyed seeing how the other ‘thinks’… which I guess explains why we get along. I still seem to amuse her.
On the positive side, here is some things about Entj’s and Intj’s:
ENTJ (Roger)
INTJ (Laura)
If you check out the above linked articles , you can learn more about how these two personality types might conflict… none of this has been a surprise to either of us. As for me, I learned long ago to ‘let the wookie win.’
Here are some of the areas in which ENTJ and INTJ personalities may grate on others:
INTJ (Laura’s type) (1% of the population)
ENTJ (Roger’s type) (2% of the population)
First, I won’t admit that all of these negative traits are completely accurate about ‘snookums’ and me … but I will just say that they are common characteristics of people who hold the INTJ and ENTJ personality types. I would admit that I have been guilty of some of the negative characteristics…
Besides, it is not always our differences or similarities that — in and of themselves — determine whether we succeed together as a couple or not… it is recognizing our similarities and building on them… and identifying the trouble spots and accommodating, compromising, acquiesing and limiting unnecessary conflict.
If you have a tendency to be a dominant type… just step back until it is really really necessary to say or do something. Sometimes it is better to let another person do it 70% correctly than jump in to close the gap to 100%. Laura has taught me sooo much.
This goes a long way in saying…. that since Laura thinks in the long term on certain emotional issues and some issues are very important to her… it was key to let her choose the house…. and… then we could move in with her…. that has been the secret to my happiness.
In truth, Entj’s and Intj’s are natural buddies… they are referred to as “Pals” in the literature… by this they mean that ” they work and play well together… with few natural conflicts”… looking at many of the other pairings… I am blessed… but then I always knew that.
Roger Freberg
Laura and I tend to send out cards every year that speak to some of the things we all areup to… as they say, ” a picture is worth a thousand words.” Although I am always amused at those who send these great tomes of family successes… you know what I mean… ( in truth, I am happier when folks are doing well )
” Jason was really miffed this year getting cheated out of the Heisman… but his well earned Nobel prize was waiting for him when he returned and Amanda was a little wild this year sharing her underpants with Britney who forgot hers.. but she is settling down after her Oscar… and my Husband Xerxies invented something called ‘fusion’… oh and that silly little award I got from Oprah as ‘woman of the century’… who would have believed it? so all in all it hasn’t been a bad year….. and how are you?”
However, I am willing to endure all of these in order to avoid the ones saying that Missy is finally getting her life together with the father or ‘fiancee’ of child number 4 now that she is out of rehab. Fiancee’? who are you kidding?
Soooo… our card was a ‘sporting theme’ representing all of the Universities in which one or all of us have attended… USC, UCLA, SMU, U of Florida, United States Military academy at West Point, University of Missouri at Rolla…. and Cal Poly.
Enjoy the holidays, enjoy your life
Roger Freberg
Seeing is believing!
I will admit that the last few days were a little tough on this big guy… however, add to it the veggie trays and the sugarless jello which happens to be ‘free food’… and it is definitely something I can manage!
The Jenny Craig gals are very cute here in San luis Obispo… they’re funny and I do like to make them laugh. I ask them if I will ever slip into a size 4 again…. they smile. My guess is that it’s going to take about another week plus for me to drop below the 300 mark… and that will be fun!
As i have blogged… both Karen and Laura have been on Jenny for 6 weeks tomorrow. Karen has lost 35 lbs and Laura has lost 20… so as a family we have dropped 70 lbs. However, if we each reach our goals… the total will be way into tripple digits!
The ladies are reaching their ‘half way points’ which means they’ll be dropping their calorie intake a bit… which is one reason I set my goal soooo low! Next week when Laura changes over to the lower diet… I will be eating twice as much as she is allowed… somehow that doesn’t seem fair… but I am glad that it is not the other way around!
15 pounds in 11 days… I can live with that.
Nestle’ Bought Jenny Craig? WOW!
Roger Freberg
Seems like I just wrote a blog about journalists and how they have trouble with the little things… like the ‘truth’… and ‘ethics.’
Well, I open my newspaper up (always a few days late as compared to the net) and what do I see? Oh, here’s an article about Katie Couric and how she has suffered at the hands of the ‘bloggers!’ She is sad that her daughter has to read such horrible stuff about her on the internet… boo hoo!
Well, Katie…. how many folks have you skewered — er, interviewed — on your way to the top? I know… I know… the only people you hurt…. “were all bad!” By the way, how do you people figure out who the ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’ are anyway? Do you think we’re the ‘bad guys’ in Iraq? By ‘we’… I mean ‘Americans’.
Here’s a site that has a sampling of Katie’s ‘liberal bias’ year by year in video. It is amazing watching what you said and how you said it. Here’s a quote that shows how out of touch you are and makes me wonder if you have ever met a soldier… or one who was a woman?:
Couric: “…Tell me why you all decided to honor the American soldier?
Wondering why there’s no woman on the cover, too?”
Time’s Jim Kelly, pointing to cover: “This is a woman.”
Couric: “Oh, there you go, oh sorry….I couldn’t tell because of her helmet.”
Back to Katie. In fairness, I do have sympathy for her daughter having to read ‘stuff’ about her mom on the internet… and so much of it spot on… and accurate… so where’s the beef? It’s not like the old days of Walter and Dan, when media folks could trash anyone and the ‘targets’ couldn’t fight back… or in this case blog back. Times are different.
Frankly, Katie, although I feel your pain… I just can’t muster any sympathy for you. And although you had quite a bunch of competition this year for the top award with John Kerry and Ted Turner continually stepping in it… you are our clear winner of the 2006 coveted ‘Weenie Award’!
Another year is gone! Who will win in 2007?
Others have their say:
to feel bad or not feel bad for Katie?
Is Katie just the beginning of the end?
Katie at War… her story
Harvard loves Kate’s Legs… go figure
Kate wants to be bitten
Roger Freberg