What’s Your Soup Personality?

You’ve heard it a million times: you are what you eat. But what exactly does that mean? According to a study by Brian Wansink of the University of Illinois, it means that the kind of soup you prefer can determine quite a few things about your personality.

When 602 women and 401 men were surveyed by telephone, here’s what Wansink and his researchers found:


The four most popular soups are chicken noodle, tomato, minestrone, and vegetable.

Chicken noodle soup lovers score high on the church-going scale, are fond of pets, are more likely to be stubborn, and less likely to be outdoorsy.

Minestrone slurpers are more likely to be physically fit, nutritionally conscious, family spirited, and on a restricted diet. They are also less likely to own a pet.

Vegetable soup aficionados are homebodies at heart, less likely to be world travelers, less likely to be spontaneous, and more likely to read family and home magazines.

Tomato soup sippers can stomach more adventure, are more likely to be social, and tend to enjoy books and pets.

Two-thirds of those surveyed agreed that soup made them feel better about themselves, and more than half said chicken noodle soup made them feel better when sick.

Casanova

Mother's be warned - whenever Casanova Isaac is around keep your daughter's locked up or they may get kissed.  His favorite target is Jane Duru.

Orphan Gamer

It is plain to see Isaac is not into fashion.  His Grandma bought him some Sesame Street socks and he wanted one of each on over his pj's.  He is enjoying paying Play Station with his dad.  His controller is hooked up but he doesn't care.

Winter Freeze

We have quite a spell of below freezing dry weather.  For January we are at less than ten per cent of our normal precipitation.  For the last two to three weks the temp has remained about freezing or below.  Times like this it sucks to work outside.  It is quite pretty though when the fog puts a frosty coating on everything.

Christmas with Aunt Marge

My Aunt Marge came to visit this Christmas.  She is Civilian Military and is currently stationed in Spain.  When shen comes to visit she brings gifts for the family from what ever part of the world she is stationed in.  She has brought me some amazing and beautiful Santa's to add to my collection.  This year one of the things she brought was a matador hat and when we put it on Isaac he walked around Grandma nad Tigger's (Great Grandpa Long has called Isaac

 "Tigger "from day one.  Isaac now calls his great grandpa "Tigger")house with his 'hat' on.  Thank you for your thoughtfulness Marge.

We Love You

Marge and Santa

Christmas 2009 comes to an end

The time has come to hang up the Santa suit for another year.  It was a lot of fun.  Santa wishes he could get a dollar for every time he was asked for a Nintendo DS or DSI.  That was the rage this year.

Vickie and I spent the morning with Cathi and Shawn watching Issac open his gifts.  It was a lot of fun.  He got some Mega Blocks and had more fun dumping them out and walking through them than building with them.  Kids make Christmas a whole lot ore fun.

Cathi told me I need some help with the pictures I take with my new Canon camera.  I tolg her my camera is smarter than I am and I am still tryng to figure both it and Lightroom picture editing out.  This is one of the pictures I took Christmas day.  I aged it and darkened it a little bit.  I am having fun trying new things with my new camera.

I hope all of you have a great New Year.

A visit with Santa

Santa was visited by Cathi, Shawn, Isaac and Vickie last night at the castle in Christmas Village.  As you can see Isaac did not want to see Santa, even though he and Cathi had talked about it all day.  When he was at the back of the castle he was okay with Santa, at least as much as he could see me.  When he got up close it was a different story.  He did not cry or scream, he just closed his eyes and buried his head in Cathi's shoulder.  No matter how she turned he made sure he could not see Santa.  He knows his Grandpas voice and would look at Santa knowing the voice but not the face. 


It will probably be the last time I can do Santa for him.  Once he saw Santa's candy cane stash he forgot how close he was to Santa. I then made the mistake of rubbing the top of his head and when he turned around and saw Santa, he did not care about the candy.  He closed his eyes and reached for his mom or grandma to rescue him.  It was a lot of fun to have them in the castle as the last group of the night.  We did get a good family picture before it was all over.  As you can see he is not looking at Santa.  Santa wants to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas and also wants to remind you all that Christmas is all about the birth of the Savior and please make sure your children, grandchildren and anyone else you come in contact with remembers:

Jesus is the reason for the season