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Posted on Aug 8th, 2008
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When I started here I'd never participated in any kind of social network before and wasn't at all sure I wanted people to know who I was. And I'd never blogged before. I only used an icon that wasn't a pic of me, and didn't post any photos for a long time. I wasn't being sneaky so much as just shy. I picked the name "rapunzel" not for the fairy tale but for the character in Televisionary Oracle, Rapunzel Blavatsky. I didn't use the name I use everywhere because I didn't want everyone I know to know it was me. Tinkonthebrink is a name my son came up with a long time ago and I love it. So since Jon inspired me to make a change (which never occurred to me until he did it), I'm changing my nick to what I use everywhere else. I did the Google link thing a long time ago and stopped being skittish about writing out loud, but it's been quite a process for me. Anyway, maybe I'll change my name every day now that I know I can do it...
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hi tink!! it makes me think of twinkle as in, twinkle in your eye, pixie dust, first star on left and straight on til morning. I'm so glad you are here!!!
and now, night night. I'm logging out and heading home. maybe I'll make it through more than 2 pages of neverwhere this morning before sleep.
Yesterday when you said you were 6 ft tall, it reminded me of Rapunzel in the Televisionary Oracle! =)
Welcome to your new/old name!
I think we all were a bit reticent to share our faces for awhile…now we all know each other, it is a joy to read blogs and find more out…
So tink…your transformation is acknowledged!
Woohoo
Tinkonthebrink,Tinkonthebrink,Tinkonthebrink,it just sounds good say
Reminds me of a quote I read only yesterday from Aldous Huxley (classic INFP): “I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.” …Like celery…I love that! I get that though…Zaadz was my first blog, and first experience with a social network too. I'm glad you did decide to blog, because I so enjoy your unique perspective on things, you have a gift for writing, and it has been a pleasure getting to know you, nifty soul that you are. Tinkonthebrink it is. Infinite blessings!
I am very ENFJ, with the highest percentage as feeling and next intuitive, then extravert then judging (1%). Like celery, hmmm…so maybe I'm turning from celery to sunflower? Or maybe just hosta or bromeliad, something in the shade but not the dark?… I'm not really shy anywhere else but I was a little overwhelmed by the whole idea at first. A while back I had a stalker co-worker so that experience made me cautious and I was also skittish about the idea that prospective employers could google me and just read all my craziness…and then I just stopped caring about all that. Don't really know why, typical ENFJ I guess, it just felt right. I'm so glad you're here too, Loraine. Because I'm a fairly non-baseline person, this is one of the few places I've come across so many kindred spirits all together. It's wonderful.
A rose by any other name…I love saying tinkonthebrink! It sounds like tiny bells. So glad you finally felt free enough to show us your wings, dear one.
ENFJ- nifty! My husband is an INFJ, my best friend and we get along like two peas in a pod! He says he's an “introverted extravert” (: I'm your garden variety INFP, Quiche of celery- ha! One of the few places…indeed. Infinite blessings!
So happy to share more with you…I love tinkonthebrink.
My “maiden name” was Lindsay, but I didn't know that side of the family very well since my father died when I was a baby.. HA! I knew we were sisters!
I'm still kind of shy about blogging…I can write my ass off in my journal, but get tongue-tied when it comes to writing online. I'm just going to keep on doing it until I get over it (somewhat easier than pushups.)
I have never been able to retain my Briggs-Myers results….I pretty sure that means I'm a CRS (can't remember s*&t.)
helen - I can't remember my briggs-myers either, except to remember that they were dramatically different results when I took the test in my sophomore year of high school and then again when I was on my own and a mom and in my first year of college. dramatically different results. I wonder what they would be now - 15 years later.
Loving Tink on the brink!
and resonating with most all comments so far.. and wondering about changing too. I do love the spanish play on the name Lindsay though:
Lince is pronounced Leensay (like a spanish version of Lindsay) and means Lynx… as they're getting thinner and thinner on the ground over here I like being a cyber namesake and adding some kind of no-ospheric support in there too.
My first boyfriend was called Graham Lindsay .. must be less than 6 degrees between him and you two Helen and Jeannie!
CRS - ROTFLMAO…. that's me too Helen, perfectly!
I have to say, I'm a little intimidated by the new “leave your wise and insightful comment” instruction.
Here's a link to a quick online Briggs-Meyers test - it came out almost exactly the same for me as a much longer test I took a while back, so I think it works pretty well and the interpretations are nice.
When did “Comment” become “Leave your wise and insightful comment”? The pressure!
Anyway, just wanted to say, Happy Re-christening Day! Of course, I thought Rapunzel was because of your infamously divine hair and I loved it. But mischevious-fairy-pushing-the-boundaries-of-consciousness sure does suit you too!
We love all our aspects Tink! Thanks for sharing them.
Thanks for the link.. I appear to be INFJ with distinctively expressed feeling, moderate intuition and judgement and slightly expressed introversion….
I really wanted to sit on the fence for around 30% of the questions though.. both/and would have been my preferred answer.
Right now I'm trying to cut back on excessive socialising for instance, so maybe that makes me a recovering extrovert now displaing introvert tendencies … is that what happens when you store sunflower seeds?!
(now was that wise and insightful enough? - argh!)
I tried the link too…and I'm an ENFJ, but only slightly ENJ and moderately F. I'm not sure if that means I'm balanced or confused :)
I first took the Myers-Briggs (I don't know why I keep insisting saying it backwards) about 20 years ago at my job, then again about six years ago and the only thing I do remember is that the two of them were very different. hmmmm, I guess this means I'm confused.
Lynx, I love that if you'd married Graham your name would have been Lindsay Lindsay. I'm pretty sure we must be related too :)
tink linker - you've gotten me to take another test. your link led me find out this…
Your Type is
ENFJ
You are:
slightly expressed extravertdistinctively expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed feeling personality
slightly expressed judging personality
I guess I'm not surprised. I guess one probably shouldn't be surprised by the results of such tests if they are at all self aware.
I wonder if Jordan would be game to take the test and if I would be surprised by his results.
Oh Dawn, we're twins! And ENFJ's are a tiny tiny percentage of people, it's fairly rare. My Judging though is only 1%, meaning I was almost evenly split between judging/perceiving, distinctive extravert and feeling, moderate intuitive, although the numbers make it seem like intuitive should be more pronounced. The “real” test is much longer, but every time I've taken it over the years it's come out the same. The first time I took one was back in San Diego though, so I was already a grown up…I think if I had taken the test as a child or an adolescent it would have come out very differently.
I tried taking the test on Krissy's behalf, on what my perceptions of her are, and then she took it herself. The results were close even down to the percentages (2 of them were exact!) except for one area - my answers for her came out with Feeling at 62%, her real answers with Thinking instead, at 12% - but 12% is another of those numbers that's getting close to straddling the line between two qualities. So I perceive her as being more emotional in her decision making than she sees herself.
It would be interesting to take it as Jordan's proxy and then compare to his own results, wouldn't it?
oh. that would be interesting. and when I read your profile the first time I felt such a sense of recognition—— and since then your blog has been such a source of nourishment.
I'm going to ask jordan to do the test. and I'll ask him to take it as if he was answering for me too. that might be fun. I don't know when though. maybe monday after our youthzone meeting.
he's driving me to denver on tuesday for my eye doc appoinment and I asked him to go to a concert with me wednesday night. and yoga together tomorrow. I'm seeing more of that kid this week and next than I did when he was living with us. it's good. I'm able to breathe again for the past two days too.
In Island, Aldous Huxley postulates this utopian society where among other things, all the kids have several households they can participate in, so if they get frustrated and out of sorts with parents or whoever they can just go live somewhere else for awhile and everyone is okay with that. I think that's a swell idea - or as Loraine would say, nifty.
jordan is moving with his dad to a town several hours drive from where I live. I cried and cried, like a I'd had my first broken heart, all the day after he told me. It might be a very good thing for Jordan and I'm happy for him and I didn't let him see me cry as if my heart was breaking. I was so surprised by the emotion that came out of me. adam said I had “empty next sydrome”. i said I was way to young for that and jordan is way to young for me to have that too – but there might be a touch of truth in it. today jordan called and asked if I just want to hang out with him tomorrow. he sounded a little down. maybe he'll miss me a little too.
jeannie – thanks for being someone who understands about mom and son stuff and sharing your perspective. I really appreciate you. -dawn