journey for character flaws

I have a new friend over at Welcome to my Pity Party that discusses how great it is to have a cool boss, one that you can talk to about things.

I only discovered this after reading an MSN.com article on the Seven friends nobody needs: The leech, the busy bee and other pesky pals.

Evaluating yourself has become something I've seen on many other blogs recently, I'd tag it as a meme but I think that's what blogs are for and don't see it really as a trend but as a reoccuring theme (someone can argue with me about the definition of meme if they want, but that's for the comments section). So I've been thinking about my own actions, blame the damn prepare questionaire if you like.

What categories of sucky friends do I fit into? Or better yet, as defined by Bitch, Ph.D. (a frequent read of mine), what kind of bitch am I?

I know I haven't been the easiest person to get along with lately, after having an incident with my fiance's friends and being an overall not nice person lately to him. But, how much of my personality is getting lost and will continue to get lost if I'm not so much of a bitch?

How much of my bitchiness is me and how much of it comes from the situation I'm in currently? I don't have a real job, which bothers me and makes me feel I guess a bit insecure about how I handle money and how responsible I am, so that makes me antsy.

I don't really talk to people all day long because I a) don't have a job and b) don't have a car so I can't drive all over the place either.

Even if I did have a car I still probably wouldn't go anywhere because I don't have money, but I often wonder how this might affect my job situation (see: why not having a car sucks post for my slant on that).

I'm thinking that my fiance's friends, the couple, contain elements of this adviser type and some other things, parts of bitch #4 for example. This excerpt from the MSN article pretty well sums up my feelings on her:

5. The adviser. We all count on our friends for advice, but nobody needs a steady stream of unsolicited intervention. Whether this pal is trying to prove how smart she is or start her own counseling practice, she's got the answer for everything -- whether you ask her or not. Jodie, 32, a part-time nurse and mother of two, says she quit sharing things with one of her friends because, "She can't just listen; she always has to tell me what to do. She reminds me of the mother-in-law from hell!"

Yeah, I didn't ask for the advice either.

So, although not everyone knows me in real life, etc., I'm wondering how many of these avoidable characteristics I exhibit on my blog. Do I sound like a whiner? Any takers?

- V.