Saturday Six (a day late)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment at Patrick's Place, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal at Patrick's Place so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. When you write on your blog, are you more often trying to entertain, inform or persuade? I don't think I try to persuade, and I don't consider myself much of an informer or entertainer. I just write about my life and thoughts. I think perhaps I blog just so somebody will know I exist.

2. Do you feel you’re successful most of the time? At letting people know I exist? Yes, and it amazes me the number of people who read this mess.

3. Do you consider yourself to be more bold online than in person, or the other way around? I am possibly more blunt in person, but I've managed to step into plenty of doo-doo online a time or two.

4. Who would be most embarrassed if they read your blog? I'm pretty sure I've embarrassed my husband and my daughter a time or two. Not deliberately.

5. Take the quiz: What Kind of Communicator Are You?

You Communicate Passionately

You speak from the heart. You can't separate your feelings from what you're saying, even in a professional context. You tend to speak dramatically, with lots of passion and emotion. It's easy for you to get swept up in what you're saying. You like to connect with people early on so that you can personalize what you are saying to them. When you converse, you try to find common ground and harmony. Even if you disagree with someone, you try to emphasize where you agree.

What Kind of Communicator Are You?

6. What do you think the biggest change has been in your online writing in the past year? I don't know that my writing has changed.

Runaway Sadie

Since we've moved further away from the road, Sadie isn't quite as bad about running off when I let her out. It's always a risk, though, and I keep an eye on her when she goes out to answer nature's call. I also look around for the neighbor dogs, because she loses her mind if she sees another dog, and she's off. With me screaming, "Noooooo" in vain.

Yesterday morning when I let her out, she went absolutely nuts running in circles at an unbelievable speed. I guess it was the snow that set her off. I watched her from the porch, reminding her why she was out there (Sadie, go potty. Go on, Sadie, potty. Potty, Sadie, and you can have a treat. Please go potty, Sadie).

About that time I heard the Jersey heifer bawling for her breakfast, but she seemed to be a distance away. I was afraid she had gotten someplace where she shouldn't be, so I stepped inside and put my coat and boots on to trudge through the snow and go check on her. As it turns out, she was fine, just inside the stall of the barn out of the weather. I came back inside, forgetting all about my dog.

It was probably a half-hour later I remembered that Sadie was outside. By then, of course, she was nowhere to be found, and calling her was in vain. The last time she disappeared like this, we found her a quarter-mile down the road, heading rapidly toward Kansas City... in the middle of the road!

When Cliff offered to go looking for her yesterday, I told him it wasn't much use; she could be anywhere.

After being gone for an hour or so, Sadie showed up again, proud of her latest escapade.

Darn dog. I'm too old to have a disobedient dog with that much energy.

Next time I'm getting a basset hound.