The Challenge – Day 2

Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot to you. (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn offs.
Day Eight: Three turn ons.
Day Nine: Two words that describe your life right now.
Day Ten: One confession

Day Two: Nine things about yourself.

1. I am a housewife. And aside from occasional bouts of boredom, I like being a housewife. I have a hard time coping with stress, especially now that I’m off my medications, and the flexibility of housework allows me to live my life at an even keel.

2. I have a partially eidetic memory, primarily for spatial relations. I suspect that this is probably part of why I prefer books to e-readers. I can orient myself in three dimensions to where I am in the story. If I remember liking a particular quotation, I can say that it’s in the first tenth of the book, on the right hand page, a few lines from the bottom. Interestingly enough, I seem to have inherited my semi-photographic memory from my grandmother. I wonder if it could be part of the same genetic combination that gave me bipolar disorder too.

3. Out of all the hair colors I’ve had, I enjoy being a brunette the most. People react very differently to you when you’re a brunette. I think they see a brunette like me, pale and with gray eyes (in other words, not exotic looking), as somewhat more accessible. As a blonde, people tended to think I was stuck up instead of just quiet. Really, I just don’t speak unless I have something to say.

4. I am a terrible flirt. I would say it was awful, but Alan is the same way, so it doesn’t much bother either of us when the other is flirtatious. Honestly, I barely even notice it.

5. I have a thing for intelligent older men, particularly with blue eyes. Anthony Hopkins and Tony Rosso leap immediately to mind there.

6. I am overweight. And I hate it. So it’s not exactly a revelation. Who enjoys being overweight, after all? On the other hand, I have a great appreciation for all that my body can do. It loves to dance. It loves to be touched lightly, almost imperceptibly. It loves food. It loves to move. LOL… So I think that I could get back to the weight and appearance I want without too much torture. The problem is that….

7. … I am lazy. It’s absolutely my worst fault. I put things off or avoid doing them. Mostly because I just can’t be bothered. Laziness is a remarkably hard habit to break, but I am definitely trying.

8. I love water, particularly sea water. I think I must have been a mermaid or a selkie in a former life. Living in the middle of this high, mountain desert is drying me out.

9. My pets are my babies right now. And I treat them like it too! I can’t wait to see them when a real baby comes into this house. That’ll still be a while yet, though.

~Liz