What do you love/hate about yourself?

[catnapper]

Kim, I too wear glasses - blind as a bat without them! Someone invented the most wonderous thing when they invented the ultra thin lenses! Have you checked them out? I too CANNOT wear contacts. I have an astigmatism that makes the world look funky when I see it through contacts. That and I can't read anything with them in! I have to hold the paper VERY far away. Its like, all of the sudden I am in need of reading glasses. Itoo have that wonderful affliction known as adult acne. I wouldn;t know about flat, thn, straight hair! Mine is thick and frizzy.

Jazzcat, goodness, I can say so many wonderful things about you! I think you are beautiful based on the picture in your avatar. I know you have a great and compassionate heart.

Heinz57_79, I have to say that I've enjoyed your sense of humor!

The rest of you... well I haven't had occasion to talk with you often, so I don't know you well enough, but I still think you are all beautful and insightful. You all have beautiful hearts that love and devote themselvs to animals. What better thing is there?

[RobiLee]

Originally posted by catnapper
The rest of you... well I haven't had occasion to talk with you often, so I don't know you well enough, but I still think you are all beautful and insightful. You all have beautiful hearts that love and devote themselvs to animals. What better thing is there?

I just love your attitude, catnapper!

Robin

[catnapper]

Originally posted by RobiLee
I just love your attitude, catnapper!

Robin

Please tell that to hubby when he says all I do is complain and pick on him and the kids! LOL

[RobiLee]

Originally posted by catnapper
Please tell that to hubby when he says all I do is complain and pick on him and the kids! LOL

Are you sure you aren't talking about my husband?! That is what he is always saying to me....LOL

[NoahsMommy]

Originally posted by jazzcat
Instantly l could come up with a long list of things I hate about myself but I'm struggling to find things I love or even like about me. Now I'm depressed.

Oh wait, I just thought of one. I just got all my hair cut off last week and I like my new short hair.

First...I bet you look so great with short hair!!

Second, I'm with Kim...you are so wonderful, Lori!! You're so kind, considerate, funny and loving. You always have something nice to say here, I can only imagine how kind you are in person.

[NoahsMommy]

HATE:

*My hair. Its thin, but will actually be nice once in a while with the aid of "product". The thing I hate most is that I'll do it someway other than straight and it'll be cute, then it'll NEVER do it again. I really like the cute surfer girl buns and my hair did it MAYBE twice and looked OK...I get my hopes up that I'll actually like my hair and then it looks horrid. I can't use the products to protect my color, because they wiegh it down, so my color fades. Its a waste of money!

*The area on your legs between your ankles and knees. I feel like a chicken with my legs so twiggy! It may sound good to some, but I feel like a frog or something.

*I'm getting better, but I'm too eager to please. I work for two crazy, scary people that will NEVER be satisfied in their lives if God Himself were to come and work there. I am constantly hurt by their mean comments about others and shortness with me.

LOVE:

*I do like my eyes. I think they reveal a lot about me and what I'm thinking.

*My love for people and animals.

*That I can virtually handle any type of person...my psychology mind/school and my job are making me really good at dealing with the difficult people in life, happily.

[catnapper]

Kellly, you've forgotten to add how upbeat and positive you are! I admire that so much about you! No matter what life tosses at you, you are still seeing the good things.

As for my hubby... Grrrr.... last night he was saying all I do is *itch at the kids about stupid stuff. Ok, so if not doing your chores, yet getting handed $100 is justified, I'll keep quiet! :Rolleyes: Then hubby said that my mom tells me I do it too much too. What? since when did my mom tell me that I *itch too much? Then he said, "No, mom uses the word 'whine' instead. They are one in the same" Ummmm... no, whining carries a whole lot nicer connotation. Well, not completely nice, but I would rather be a whiner than the other! Sigh.

Did I forget to add that I whine to my list of things I hate about myself? I should have added too that I'm far a too picky eater. I really annoy myself when all I want to do is sit down and enjoy a meal. But nooooo... I have to find something wrong! Too spicy, too cold, too --- UGH! Sooo.. now I'm adding to my list of Hates! Ut-oh... gotta run and add to my list of likes. How about my silliness? I love that I can be silly and have a childlike sense of awe at the little things?

[RobiLee]

catnapper, you are just killing me here. I'm just giggling away at you....no not at you...with you! I love your posts!

Robin

P.S....When you are eating out somewhere do you complain about the food too? My dad is like that! Drives us crazy! I would not want to sit at a table with you and him together

[Kfamr]

Originally posted by catnapper
Kellly, you've forgotten to add how upbeat and positive you are! I admire that so much about you! No matter what life tosses at you, you are still seeing the good things.

And how good she is about making people feel better.
I used to talk to her quite often on AIM about how I was feeling and she always made me feel good.

[cali]

I hate my eyes, they like vision wise, I am only 16 and almost legally blind. my dads sight it better then mine. and I hate my skin I am REALLY pale, and its not possable for me to tan, I am also really prone to skin problems because of it(I am on several differnt medications for several different skin problems)

now what I love about myself? my hair, it makes me or breaks me, litterally a bad hair day makes me all around look hoorid, howver a good hair day is a whole different story lol also my eyebrows, they are naturally not bushy I never have to pluck them. my shape lol mywieght only gos to my stomic not my hips so I can be carring plenty of extra weight(I am not but I have before) and still look thin.

[catnapper]

Originally posted by RobiLee
catnapper, you are just killing me here. I'm just giggling away at you....no not at you...with you! I love your posts!

Robin

P.S....When you are eating out somewhere do you complain about the food too? My dad is like that! Drives us crazy! I would not want to sit at a table with you and him together

giggle away! I like to make people laugh!

As for eating out. You don't want to know. EVERYTHING has to be ordered special. I got a Chicken Cheese Steak for lunch yesterday (for those of you who have no idea what that is - its basically a Philly style cheese steak only substitute the steak with chicken.) Hubby got a regular philly steak and I ordered the chicken. As always, I had to order it special (for the record, its ordered like this: chicken cheese steak. plain. only chicken and cheese. no peppers, onions, or sauce. on a hard roll...toast the roll.) For some reason, the shops around here INSIST on putting marinara sauce on the steaks - I'm from philly and they never make 'em that way there. I order it that way - saying the ame thing three ways just because I've ordered it plain and it still comes to me with onions and sauce. How is that plain? ok, can you see how uptight I am about this darn chicken cheese steak already?!?

ANYWAY, the place I order from one sandwich shop because they make it just the way I like them. As always this one was perfect. No complaints, except that I had half the meat hubby had. I paid more because of the cost of chicken at the moment and I get half the meat! So not fair. So I whined about that for a moment. See... I can't just eat and be happy I got fed. I have to find something to complain about! I can't stop! Its a compulsion! Somebody help me!

[dukedogsmom]

I just got home from work and you're making me hungry!! I've been avoiding this thread because I don't even know where to start.......

[cali]

hahaha you sound like me catnapper I order everything special, I order a teenburger I say ONLY bacon, lettus, cheese, and tomato. when I go with my friends and we both order a teen, the cashier often says(points to mine)"this is the one with hardly anything on it" lol if I order I cheeseburger I order it plain, as in bottom half of bun, pattie, cheese,top half of bun. lol well you get the picture.

[carole]

If it is any consolation Catnapper and Kim, that is what I was talking about , skin problems, I too have that yucky adult acne, always occuring on the chin and nose, everywhere else is fine, and boy do I get some beauties, I call them the pimples from HELL, never had it as a teenager, but sure making up for it now. I see other women my age, crystal clear complexions and it makes me mad, there is always a tube of clearsil in my bathroom these days.

I am also just like you too in the food department, at Macdonalds I always have to wait for my food as I order it without sauces, I guess people think I am being calorie conscious, but no I just hate the stuff.

On the negative side also I am impatient and a perfectionist as well, things I would like to change about myself,and I can be too judgemental, I have learn't not to be so much on PT, but now I just have to put it into practice offline as well.

[MariaM]

Ok well...first thing I hate...my skin. I am 100% positive I will have skin cancer. I burn SO EASILY. Honestly. I could be in the sun for 2 minutes and get a bad burn. I get burned in 30 seconds! I have never tanned. My skin is sooo sensitive. Sunscreen only makes my skin worse.

I hate: my face. It is ALWAYS red. Sometimes, I don't mean to blush, but I do. My face always goes red in phys ed class. Even people who are working harder than me at whatever we are doing, my face is always red, and is for the rest of the day. Even if I'm outside, and I have a visor on, my face gets red. Even if I'm in the shade. I can't stand the heat, and yet, I can't handle the cold.

I don't like: My body basically. I hate my hair. I don't like my eyes. I don't like my voice.

I don't like that I get mad easily and lose my temper. I don't like that one minute I can be happy, and the next, I'm in tears. I don't like that I am always having mood swings, and I seem to be so emotional sometimes. I cry over things nobody does.

What I do like: I love that I am able to go up to a complete stranger my age and say HI! I'm not shy when it comes to that. I get jokes all the time, and get a lot of things. I usually find myself explaining a joke to somebody. Or even a saying. I catch on quickly. I love that I am totally unique and usually couldn't give a crap what other people think of me.
It's weird, even though I don't like my self alot, I really love myself. I love my mind, I am very disciplined when I want to be. If I ever had a kid, I would want her to be JUST like me. And I guess thats a good thing.