Ten things I like. About myself.<\/p>\n
Ten things. I like. About myself.<\/p>\n
This is a tough bit of homework, assigned by Coach Ashley to a bunch of us female CrossFit bloggers who, she noticed, tend to engage in a lot of conversations with ourselves in which we disparage our looks, bodies, and physical abilities. The requirement: ten things you like about or can do with your body. Not character traits. They don’t count.<\/p>\n
What I noticed as I brainstormed was that wanted to qualify all of my ideas. Like, I smile with my whole face, but<\/em> my teeth slant inward in a wholly unattractive way. Or, if they weren’t quite so square, my feet would be really cute.<\/p>\n I figured that disclaimers went against the spirit of the thing so I really concentrated to try to come up with things. Here we go:<\/p>\n 1. I have nice eyes. They’re a cool color which morphs from blue to green to grey and back depending on what I’m wearing. When I’m not wearing mascara, which is all but about two nights a month, people think I am. When I am wearing mascara, people accuse me of wearing false eyelashes.<\/p>\n 2. I’ve got rhythm. I’ve always loved to dance, and even today, I don’t listen to music while doing anything else because, if it’s on, I want to be dancing, and if I can’t be dancing, I get cranky.<\/p>\n 3. (Related to #2) I’m coordinated. If you give me something to do with my body, and I have the strength, I’ll do it—often on the first try but definitely within a shorter time frame than the next guy.<\/p>\n 4. My shoulders are all freckly. I know that’s just sun exposure, but I think it’s cute.<\/p>\n 5. I have a strong back. Always have had. I gave a piggyback ride to my best friend’s 210-pound stepdad. When I was twelve.<\/p>\n 6.<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n That’s all I got! And even as I wrote the list, which took two days, I felt compelled to document the myriad qualities and attributes that annoy or disgust me about myself. In fact, wait a minute.<\/p>\n Yep. Took me about 90 seconds to list an even dozen.<\/p>\n I think I’m gonna get a bad grade on my homework.<\/p>\n P.S. Here’s Nelly’s<\/a> , Ashley’s<\/a>, Colleen’s<\/a>, Lindsay’s<\/a>, \u00a0Bea’s<\/a> and the bad-assest cancer-beating Melinda’s<\/a> posts.<\/p>\n P.P.S. I was encouraged to include my ass in this list, but the assignment was things I like about myself. Not things others like about me. Or parts of me that are visible from space kinda like the Great Wall of China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ten things I like. About myself. Ten things. I like. About myself. This is a tough bit of homework, assigned by Coach Ashley to a bunch of us female CrossFit bloggers who, she noticed, tend to engage in a lot of conversations with ourselves in which we disparage our looks, bodies, and physical abilities. The … Continue reading Ten Things I Like About Myself<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call-me-crazy","category-first-world-problems","category-liftin-heavy-objects-over-ma-head"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2770,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}