Temper tantrum

Heard much interesting news yesterday. The agency raised their rates. Yaaaaaaaaaay...stab me. Nick took my moment of despair and outrage and turned it into a "learning opportunity" for me. Further proving he is the ying to my yang, or whatever. The realist and the optimist, we are quite the pair. I look out the window between Heber and Show Low and remark that it makes me feel sad that the land is still so damaged from the fires. He looks over and says, yah but look at all the baby trees growing! I didn't even notice them, probably because they look like bushes, and I am entranced with how cute and little they are. He says if we were both one way we wouldn't get anything done. I imagined we'd be walking around bouncing into one another and then giggling about it, never accomplishing anything. In my imagination we'd be optimists, obviously. ;)
Next. Taylor Johnson Temperament Analysis which I'm calling the Temper Tantrum Test. I'm not even sure what to say about it. I'm intrigued by psychology and analyzing pretty much everything. But these tests? Hmmm. We each have to take the test twice, once for ourselves and once answering about the other.

• Does Lauren feel uneasy when riding or driving in traffic? Depends on who is driving.
• Does Nick seek to keep peace at any price? ANY price? Including death? What kind of question is this??

I tried to be honest. Almost all of the answers are "sometimes" "maybe" "I dunno". But you cant answer too many like this. Out of 180 you can answer less than 10 with a "mid". So I didn't answer any like this, I swung completely left or right. If I can't answer the questions the way that I actually feel about them then why does it even matter if I do the test at all? It isn't accurate according to reality. Things aren't always black and white. More than 10 areas of life are gray. The Temper Tantrum Test is lame.