Am I an aries or pisces?

My birthday places me in between an Aries and a Pisces. For most of my life I thought my zodiac sign was an Aries. Then, a few years ago, I entered my birthdate including year and time into a website and it indicated that on the night of my birth, the skies were in a Pisces configuration. My Pisces friend Gonzo thinks I'm more of a Ram.

Bad Habits by Zodiac Sign

• Aries Out in Front- Rams have a habit of pushing to the front of the line, both literally and figuratively. And while this quality has helped Aries get ahead, it can also compromise their relationships. Putting an animal, child or plant in their care can correct the problem. As soon as this sign's nurturing qualities are cultivated, their selfishness will diminish.
• Pickled Pisces- As a water sign, it's only natural that Pisceans find comfort in liquids. When those liquids have a high alcohol content, problems can ensue. Naturally, a twelve-step program can be of enormous benefit here. Meditation and yoga can help, too, as they allow Pisces to achieve a healthy sense of nirvana. That's all these Fish are really seeking.

Here's a zodiac quiz. Not as bad as the MCAT or STEP 1. //www.isabelperez.com/star-signs.htm

• Aries is energetic and impulsive. Fire sign-lively and aggressive.
• Pisces is romantic and moody. Water sign-passive and intuitive.

Aries THE RAM is the sign of the pioneer, and warrior leader

• As the first sign of the Zodiac Arians cannot help putting themselves first, though they are very affectionate and generous towards their loved ones.
• They have warm and enthusiastic natures and can be extremely demonstrative!
• Gregarious, sociable and extrovert, Arians are great people to have around as they are usually the life and soul of any party, thanks to their enthusiastic natures.
• Sometimes however the Arian face becomes creased with worry and disapproval when he or she is crossed in love.

The bright side
The Aries personality is fiery and warm, passionate and self-expressive with an urge to act NOW! This is NOT a patient sign, everything is done on impulse, and with great urgency.
Aries is a courageous leader, likely to take risks and will usually feel: "I know best". Aries rarely hangs around to check out the details. However give Aries a good cause for which to fight, a problem to solve, or something to pioneer, and this enterprising personality comes into its own.

Forceful, pioneering, adventurous, enterprising, courageous, direct, energetic, freedom loving, self assertive.

The dark side

• Strangely enough for this very active sign, one of its main failings is procrastination. Aries is extremely impatient and intolerant of delay.
• Aries is likely to put off what must be done, (like bills and tax returns!). Aries will resort to lies rather than be inconvenienced by the uninteresting, or be forced to do that which they do not want to do.
• Arians can be blunt, ignorantly offensive, or employ bullying tactics to selfishly get their own way.
  

Selfish, unsubtle, impulsive, rash, quick tempered, impatient, quarrelsome, aggressive.

Pisces THE FISH is the sign of the dreamer
The most idealistic, romantic and poetic sign, Pisceans are only too happy to lose themselves in their relationships. Being loved is vital to their well-being. They are very caring, and make compassionate and reflective partners.

The bright side

• Piscean sensitivity is so finely tuned that it reacts like blotting paper to the atmosphere. When nursing the sick, for instance, Pisceans are apt to reflect a patient's own symptoms themselves. Indeed, Pisceans often have problems defining the boundaries between fact and fiction in general.
• Pisces is empathetic and compassionate, and cannot bear to see another living being in pain. Indeed, Pisceans feel very deeply about other people as they do not have a strong sense of separation and individuality.
• Pisces is an intuitive sign which can receive great inspiration. Pisceans are thus the natural mediums and mystics of the zodiac who can communicate their inner vision through either the arts or the sciences, or caring professions. Pisces can also be a sign of selfless or self-sacrificing devotion, and is capable of truly unconditional love for others.

Artistic, kind, sympathetic, intuitive, visionary, sensitive, adaptable, receptive.

The dark side
The Pisces personality has a number of sub personalities who are likely to take over at the drop of a hat. They include the victim, the martyr and the saviour or rescuer; and once Pisces gets locked into these patterns, it can be very difficult to shift. This can be hard on other people involved, too, for Pisceans can inflict or receive, considerable suffering when they enter into a guilt ridden phase.
The other negative Piscean trait involves the illusion and confusion which surrounds their ability to tell the truth, known as lying by the more pragmatic signs. Pisceans tend to be too imaginative for their own good, and serve their own good even if they believe themselves that they are serving others.

Impractical, vague, careless, spiteful, manipulative, confused, weak-willed, indecisive, easily led astray, greedy, immoral.

http://www.annabelburton.com/pisces.html#continue

SO, AM I MORE PISCES OR ARIES? :) I think I know the answer ;)

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I DIDN'T GO OVER MY TEXT MESSAGES THIS MONTH!!!

yay!!!

it took a lot of discipline on my behalf :)

Time to learn about cities.

Houston Facts

* Houston is the fourth most populous city in the nation (trailing only New York, Los Angeles and Chicago), and is the largest in the southern U.S. and Texas.
* The Houston-Galveston-Brazoria Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (Houston CMSA) consists of eight counties: Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery and Waller.
* Founded in 1836, the City of Houston has a 2003 estimated population of 2.01 million.
* The metro area's population of 4.8 million is 10th largest among U.S. metropolitan statistical areas.
* The Houston CMSA covers 8,778 square miles, an area slightly smaller than Massachusetts but larger than New Jersey.
* Houston's latitude is 29 degrees 58 minutes north and its longitude is 95 degrees 21 minutes west
* Each year more than 38 million people zip in and out of Houston's two major airports.
* Houstonians eat out more than residents of any other city. While here you can choose to indulge in one of the more than 11,000 restaurants ranging from award-winning and upscale to memorable deli shops.
* Houston has a Theater District second only to New York City with its concentration of seats in one geographic area. Located downtown, the 17-block Theater District is home to eight performing arts organizations with more than 12,000 seats.
* Houston has a unique museum district offering a range of museums, galleries, art and cultural institutions, including the City's major museums.
* Houston has more than 500 cultural, visual and performing arts organizations, 90 of which are devoted to multicultural and minority arts.
* More than 90 languages are spoken throughout the Houston area.
* Houston has professional teams representing every major sport.
* Houston is home to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The largest rodeo in the world, it attracts more than 1.8 million visitors each year.
* Houston has a young population; 37 percent of Houstonians are 24 years old or younger and 34 percent are between the ages of 25 and 44.
* Houston boasts more than 40 colleges, university and institutions - offering higher education options to suit all interests.
* Houston is home to the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical center in the world, with a local economic impact of $10 billion. More than 52,000 people work within its facilities, which encompass 21 million square feet. Altogether 4.8 million patients visit them each year.
* For Houstonians, 2000 was a banner year economically. Employment growth was 3 percent, or 63,000 new jobs. Per capita income rose 5 percent.
* Home to 18 Fortune 500 companies and more than 5,000 energy related firms, Houston is considered by many as the Energy Capital of the world.
* The Port of Houston ranks as the nation's largest port in international tonnage and second in total tonnage.
* Houston has the most affordable housing of 10 most populated metropolitan areas; Houston housing costs are 39 percent below the average of 26 U.S. urban populations of more than 1.5 million.
* Houston has the second lowest cost of living among major American cities.

from www.houstontx.com

Phrases.

• Saddy Mac Sad Sad.
• Preferably...
• Yo, Yo, Pat.
• Phenomenom.
• How unusual Sonia is late.
• Baylor equals no.

I was reading an article in MSN Dating. The article discusses facts researchers have found about love.

Here's a fun one. How many people should someone date before finding their match? Apparently, the magic number is twelve.

Should you wed the first person you fall for? How many people should you wine and dine before you can feel confident enough to say you’ve met your one and only? Believe it or not, mathematics has the answer: A dozen. “Check out and reject 12 people, then pick the next best that comes along, and you’re likely to have a very good match on your hands,” says Clio Cresswell, a mathematician and author of Mathematics and Sex. That’s because when it comes to decision-making, formulas reveal that your chances of picking the right answer improve as you expose yourself to more options. But there does come a point when you are over-researching: If you date and reject 30 or more potential mates, “you've probably met someone that you could possibly have been more than happy with, and passed them over,’ notes Cresswell.

Then, it talks about how when people first feel that strong romantic bond our hormones change. Males testerone actually goes down and a chicks goes up. Also, when we watch a romantic movie with our date, progesterone levels increase in both parties causing us to cuddle more. Ah, cuddles. :)

# of Partners

It's a painful realization, as she'd just read in the New York Post, that the
average person has 10.5 partners in their lifetime. Fearing she has more than
reached her quota...

That was part of a book description to 20 Times a Lady : A Novel (Paperback) by Karyn Bosnak. I found it interesting to learn that the avg person has 10.5 partners.

Look What Was Found Back Home.

Smuggling of illegal aliens has been a hot topics lately with all the immigration law debate. I am not caught up on immigration laws but am well familiar with the human trafficking that goes on down south. This is scary. These people have paid the traffickers and are trusting them with their lives. And this is what the smugglers do to them. Even if they had been traficked in this vehicle, they would have arrived at their destination seriously hypothermic. Who would leave them in a refridgerated trailer? It's just cruel.

LAREDO, Texas (AP) -- Sheriff's deputies found 56 illegal immigrants locked inside a refrigerated trailer with no driver in sight and no way for the shivering human cargo to escape. Two suspected immigrant smugglers from Mexico were later arrested.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/11/immigrants.icytruck.ap/index.html

Recently, some Houston men were arrested on trafficking women to work as bar maids. The women, some underaged, were brought into Houston and promised good jobs at local restaurants but instead were forced into involuntary servitude working as bar maids and providing "favors" for preferred customers.

It's horrible.

7th Heaven Wedding.

"You bring out the best in me,"

states the engravement behind every Cambden male's wedding ring. It's the last episode of 7th Heaven ever and it looks like the wedding is going to be called off. They don't bring out the best in each other.

I watched too much tv today.

Slater.

Today I turned on the TV and Mario Lopez was explaining the significance of an aortic dissection. I thought,

'Look! It's Slater! Slater's explaining an aortic dissection!'

Beer before liquor?

Today my friends and I were discussing the anatomy of a hangover. The nausea, vomitting and dizziness were due to toxicity. But I couldn't quite figure out what causes the sweating (clammy skin) and anxiety of a hangover. I was attributing it to the body having toxins, or having autonomic dysfunction, but neither made much sense. So, I looked it up. Turns out...

Being that alcohol is a CNS depressant, it turns off the brain's glutamine. This is what causes the disinhibition. We hurt ourselves and don't even feel it. When this wears off we get a glutamine rebound, which is why we over perceive all sensory stimuli. AND!

"Beer before liquor, never sicker. Alcohol before beer, you're in the clear." is true. because "Beer is chock full of carbonation, which speeds up the body’s absorption of the alcohol, so drinking liquor after beer means the body has even less time to process it." Plus, you're mixing the amounts of "congeners" which are the impurities in drinks that make us sick.

There's nothing like educating yourself :)

Cruise Pics from Victor's Blog.

Here are some photos highlighting our times on the cruise, courtesy of professional photographer Victor Chang webblog victor.dabu.com. He takes beautiful photos and devises plans to dispose of me in his spare time.

Sperm Count.

I read an article today on www.slate.com. The article is connecting a drop in teenage pregnancies with a drop in sperm count. One study showed a drop of 1% per year in sperm count, another shows a drop of 1.5% in US and a drop of 3% in Europe and Australia. Rural areas are experiencing a higher drop rate and undeveloped nation are not experiencing a drop.

I thought it was interesting. It feels like we are eating ourselves to death, fillling our bodies with impurities, driving our cars and warming the enviornment. Are our children going to be okay?We dispose of tons and tons of garbage yearly. Where does this stuff go? We're polluting out land.

Airplane.

Today Houston had an airplane situation. I came home from a day of reading at a coffee shop with my friends. I called my mother in Zapata, TX. She asked my how the plane situation was doing. I had no idea what she was talking about.

Turns out Houston had a close call. An airplane from Minneapolis had its left landing gear stripped of the rubber on its tires. It was circling Houston for 2 1/2 hours to lessen the amount of gas. My first thoughts were wondering if anyone I knew was on the plane, wondering if the plane was going to catch fire, wondering how big the plane was... This is scary. It could happen to anyone. It's like getting a blow out on the freeway. You never know when it might happen.

The plane landed safely. It was a moment of relief.

Divorce.

-My parents are divorced?!
-Of course they are, sweetheart. Everyone's parents are divorced.

from the movie Mr. Destiny (1990)

Tagline: Would you give up everything you have...
for everything you've ever wanted?

Legendary Chupacabra Returns.

In case you didn't know of the legendary blood sucking creature. Here's some news:

Mexican Myth or Texas Terror?
by Holly Fenner

Is a local Texas television station desperate for ratings or is there something behind the legend of the Chupacabra?

A recent home video of an unidentified animal has Texas residents again pointing fingers at the famed Mexican folklore creature. WOAI Channel 4 in San Antonio broadcast the sighting in June. Watch the WOAI news story. This isn't the first or even second time this suspected "blood-sucking thing from beyond" has claimed fame in the Lonestar State.

WOAI Channel 4 first broadcast the discovery of the Texas Chupacabra in July 2004. A rancher in Elmendorf shot and killed the creature after it attacked his chickens. The animal was hairless, except for a strip going down its back, with blue-grey skin, a long, rat-like tail, a serious overbite with large canine teeth, and appeared to be suffering from mange, a chronic skin disease of mammals cause by parasitic mites and characterized by skin lesions and loss of hair.

Several months later in October, another animal resembling the "Elmendorf Beast" was shot and killed and several sightings were reported in Lufkin stirring another wave of WOAI Channel 4 chupacabra broadcasts. Check out a photo of this alleged Texas Chupacabra.

Honestly, are people buying this?

Before its latest northern migration, alleged attacks of the Chupacabra, or "the Goat Sucker," first appeared in the 1960s in Mexico and Puerto Rico. An impressive series of attacks plagued the Mexican livestock in the 1990s and the Chupacabra was termed "the single most notable cryptozoological phenomenon of the past decade" by America's leading cryptozoologist Loren Coleman.

The beast preyed on livestock, usually goats and chickens, and killed the animals vampire-style, draining the blood completely through the animal's neck and leaving the meat intact. Consequently, there is some controversy surrounding the idea that the Chupacabra attacks humans. A homeowner caught a glimpse of the creature after the Chupacabra allegedly broke into the house through a window, tore apart a child's Teddy bear, and left a pile of slime and a piece of rotten meat on the windowsill. One woman claimed she was attacked by a beast with horns and wings. From the bite marks on her neck she believed the beast was a Chupacabra. Another physical attack was reported in Guanica, Puerto Rico. Osvaldo Claudio Rosado claimed he was grabbed from behind by a gorilla. He was later treated for cuts and scratches on his torso. What makes this attack so mysterious is that Puerto Rico doesn't have gorillas.

Though eyewitness accounts vary, the Mexican Chupacabra towers at a ferocious 3 to 5 feet, with bulging, red eyes, a snake-like tongue, gray skin, long, spinal quills, and a sulfur-like stench. The Chupacabra also boasts multiple talents such as the ability to fly or bound like a kangaroo. Check out a rendering of the fabled Mexican Chupacabra here.

Clearly, the descriptions for the cross-cultural bloodsucker don't add up, but who's to say that evolution doesn't work at top speed. Still, the Texas Chupacabra phenomenon has sparked an intense debate among scientists, zoologists, and residents. Though DNA tests were run on the "Elmendorf Beast", the rancher won't release the results because he was not satisfied and wants a second opinion. He's absolutely right, a folklore creature bound for infamy is much more intriguing than any sensible answer, and the six o'clock news would not get nearly as much attention.

So whether it's a dog having a bad hair day, a mangy coyote, a Muntjac deer, or the legendary Chupacabra, watch your goat's back and stay tuned to your local Texas news source.

borrowed from netscape news