I love those magazine quizzes.  Just a few words to analyze my brain…  Anyhow, since this week has been so freakishly UN-Karmatic (and I’ve perhaps not dealt with each small thing with as much grace as was possible), I’ve designed a quiz.  Take it. 

1.  If your washing machine broke down (mid-week with 2 children swimming 3x per week), you would:

• a)  Shrug and then drink some bubbly.  Who in their right mind wants to do laundry anyhow?
• b)  Make a list of possible crisis-management friends to call who will allow you to use their machine until the verrry slow washing-machine-fix-it-person has time to get to your house.
• c)  scream loudly & kick it repeatedly.

2.  If your house was filling up with smoke (originating from the microwave - due to a noodle mishap), your first action would be:

• a)  To call the fire department.  You know that most of them are super hot.
• b)  To quickly open the door, rid your house of the noxious smoke, and then say a prayer that you caught it before there was a noodle inferno.
• c)  To scream every explicative that you’ve ever heard (and some that you suddenly make up), rip it out of the wall, and huck it into the back yard onto the lawn.

3.  If you were a movie, you’d be:

• a)  Disney.  There are a few archetypal bumps but everything turns out more than lovely.
• b)  One with Jason Bourne.  Serious disasters but it’s all a-okay in the end.
• c)  SAW 4.  Horror through and through.

4.  Ant hill.  They’re swarming.  You:

• a)  Smile.  Then call the children for a fabulous learning experience on teamwork.
• b)  Shiver.  Back away slowly and then grab the garden hose.
• c)  Gag.  Run for your magnifying glass and the nearest bottle of poison. 

5.  Your best friend calls with a major crisis while you’re feeding the kids.  You:

• a)  Hang up, call your emergency sitter, get in your car, grab 2 lattes, some Bailey’s, a box of kleenex, and bring her your extra copy of Louise Hay’s “You Can Heal Your Life”.
• b)  Talk her through it the best you can as you’re putting the tacos together.  You’ll send gerbers tomorrow.
• c)  Tell her it’s all good - and she’s damned lucky she doesn’t have gout like the lady down the street.

These quizzes, of course, are fun because of the “scores” and subsequent wise suggestions at the bottom.  Well… tally them up.  I’m not keeping scores.  And who the hell am I to analyze? BUT:

if you picked mostly “a” you’re a mix of Martha Stewart & Bree Van de Kamp.  Even in crisis, you’re almost too smooth.

if you picked mostly “b” you’re a mix of Ugly Betty & Merideth Grey.  You try to do the right thing… but sometimes it’s, well… ugly.

if you picked mostly “c” just try out for the cast of “The Office”.

Hey - There’s ANOTHER cool quiz (Kelly & I wrote) for teens that deals with the ideas of “chi” and “flow”… Want to really boost your Karma???  Go here:  http://www.karmaqueens.typepad.com/

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