freetime: the attack of the crafter

In the coming weeks, I am going to have way too much free time for my own good. Thanks, Marine Corps, for taking my husband away for 6 weeks to do what I know to be napping and basketball a crap load of hard work. Here's what I did in only 48 hours of him being gone. I can only imagine when he comes home, I will have decoupaged the oven probably.

my new herb garden.

my new centerpiece

my new outfit with clothes i already had

that's it for now, folks!

Reverse Psychology

In case you were wondering, I am finishing my Bachelor's in Psychology at Penn State University... all online. Right now I am taking 13 credits. I have really enjoyed my positive psychology class this semester. Here is a little taste of what it's like.

For my last writing assignment, I had to take the VIA signature strengths test, to learn what my signature strengths were. It consisted of 240 questions. My top 5 signature strengths were:

1. spirituality, sense of purpose, and faith
2. capacity to love and be loved
3. fairness, equity, and justice
4. appreciation of beauty and excellence
5. creativity, ingenuity, and originality

I had to write a paragraph about why I regard these as my top signature strengths.  These assignments are very interesting, as you can tell. They revoke personal responses, so I have no problem writing what I really think.

I regard my top signature strength as my spirituality. It lays the foundation for all my other strengths. My ability to love is only possible with my understanding of my God and Savior’s love for me. His love has communicated to me how my love should look to everyone else I encounter. My understanding of fairness and justice is only due to the fairness and justice that God has set up in the Bible. The Bible is where I learned every person is on this earth because God put them here, and they all should know about God’s love for them. My appreciation of beauty and excellence is only due to my understanding that God created the world, and man was created in His image. I know that my creativity is merely an attribute that God was kind enough to give me, and I feel the need to use it to bring Him glory. I say all that to say all of these strengths of mine are merely a product of the first, my spirituality. 

I am so thankful for this faith-strengthening assignment. It definitely challenges me to make sure I am living my life in a manner that reflects the things I have expressed in this paper.