Being Amber Rhea

This has been going around, so I figured I should take it, too. And the results are in!

27 As a 1930s wife, I am Poor Take the test!

This one is via Sara Speaking. By what percent does going through and fixing all the automatically-generated HTML so that it validates raise my neuroticism level?

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Your result for The Neurotic Test…

The Subtle Neurotic

You scored 64 anxiety, 72 awkwardness, and 31 neuroticism!

You have all the makings of neuroticism without any of the amusing trappings–you are The Subtle Neurotic! Plagued by doubt, fears, and worries, you are much more likely to have a quiet existential crisis off on your own than to bite your fingernails. You worry a lot over social situations, but take heart–chances are, you’re not nearly as awkward as you feel you are. The best advice I can give you? Confide your worries in someone–no matter how irrational they seem. You’re far too likely to keep everything bottled up.

Your high anxiety score implies that you are unable to relax, worry about the future often, and probably are plagued by irrational fears and self-doubt.

Your high awkwardness score implies that you are socially nervous, probably have difficulty with conversation, and perhaps feel uncomfortable in large groups of people, such as at parties.

Your low neuroticism score implies that you don’t exhibit subtle neurotic behaviors–your nails are probably an acceptable length, your pencils aren’t covered with bite marks, and your bookcase isn’t arranged alphabetically by genre. Congrats!

Take The Neurotic Test at HelloQuizzy

Tagged by Josephine (I like the spin [no pun intended, seriously!] she put on the meme); and also spotted at Debauchette’s.

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring summer. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they’re listening to.

Because I like to bend rules when I can, and because I can be ridiculously uptight and indecisive about music, I’m doing two versions of this: a general one, and a “songs I like to pole dance to lately” one, in keeping with Josephine’s mod.

General version

1. She’s Like the Wind - Patrick Swayze (yes!!)
2. Bitch - Meredith Brooks
3. Ride - Liz Phair (resurrected from summer 2003)
4. Human Nature - Madonna
5. Tonight and the Rest of My Life - Nina Gordon (I’ve been having some weird synchronicity going on with this song lately)
6. Suffer for Fashion - Of Monreal
7. Bunny Ain’t No Kind of Rider - Of Montreal (I found it impossible to pick just one Of Montreal song)

Pole dancing version

1. Come Undone - Duran Duran
2. Who Makes You Feel - Dido
3. Get Me Bodied - Beyonce
4. Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard (always!)
5. Party People - Nelly
6. Precious Things - Tori Amos (a favorite since 8th grade, I had forgotten about it for a while; then Ren put it on a CD for me of “feminist-approved stripper music” [heh] and I thought, “Damn, that’s a good idea!”)
7. Uninvited - Alanis Morrissette

I love this meme because I get to find new (to me) music and look it up on iTunes.

Oh yeah, the tagging part. Let’s see, I tag…

• Jenny
• Ren
• J. Brotherlove
• Thomas (his list will definitely be full of stuff I’ve never heard of!)
• Tiffany
• Tara
• Sara

…and anyone else who wants to do it, of course.

Via Miss Syl.

The concept:
1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page of results, and pick one image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab’s Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.

The questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food? right now?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. What is your favorite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favorite dessert?
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. What is one word that describes you?
12. What is your flickr name?

I also took the extra-geeky step of restricting my search to Creative Commons licensed images.

I don’t know why one of them didn’t come through in the mosaic, but I wasn’t going to go back through and find all the URLs again and try to recreate it. And in fact, it’s actually a nice coincidence that the one that didn’t come through was my answer for celebrity crush - I typed in “no one” and picked and artsy photo, but this works too.

Via Ren, I see there’s a new meme in town!

It’s Jack’s brainchild (although one could argue Kim’s been doing it for months).

I’m on a mission. People have to do this. There is no escape. LolBaby. For realsies. The meme is you find an embarrassing baby picture of you, and you caption it! On Icanhascheezburger.com.

So here’s mine:

Now you go!

Update: Okay so I forgot that in lolspeak, “Iz” often translates as “I’s” - as in, “I’s in your [blank], [blank]ing your [blank].” But in my photo, I meant it as “is.” “Is not cheeseburger.” Get it? ‘Cause I’m eating a washcloth? I thought it was obvious… but just in case, there you go. Never mind. I updated it.

Talk about your Bingo card of arguments! Seriously, if I see “selling their bodies” one more time - and from a feminist, at that! - I am going to lose my damn mind.

Other Bingo-worthy words and phrases in this comment:

• empowering
• collection of holes and body parts Ed. note: ick! Bonus point for use of unnecessarily porny language.
• cash in on it
• post-feminist
• sex-as-a-commodity
• Sorry, but…
• early sexualization

As I said on the Feministe thread from whence this comment came:

And I guess I’m one of those old-fashioned feminists that doesn’t think a woman’s entire self-worth is wrapped up in what she does sexually. The phrase “selling her body” is *extremely* patriarchal and reduces sex workers to one aspect of their being: their sexual behavior. Sex workers are *not* selling their bodies - they are offering a service. Sorry but I thought that feminism didn’t subscribe to the belief that a woman engaging in sex with a man constitutes a transfer of ownership.

I do, however, need a “Stamp of Approval” or “OK!” stamp, because the last three sentences of that comment do not fail. I have no Photoshop skills to speak of, though (aside from putting one layer on top of another to make the above image, and the like) so that’ll have to wait until Rusty feels motivated to create more graphics for my amusement.

Here’s an IM conversation I had with the lovely SakuraSarashi mere minutes ago:

[11:18] sakurasarashi: just got an interesting comment on my blog
[11:20] AmberATL30309: interesting how?
[11:20] sakurasarashi: its SUPER long
[11:20] sakurasarashi: and its from an ex creepy guy
[11:20] sakurasarashi: on the entry i made after being harassed that night
[11:21] AmberATL30309: oh wonderful, one of THOSE
[11:21] AmberATL30309: one word… DELETE
[11:21] sakurasarashi: i approved it… he took a lot of time writing it
[11:21] AmberATL30309: fuck him
[11:21] sakurasarashi: and made some interesting points
[11:21] AmberATL30309: you don’t owe him shit
[11:21] sakurasarashi: and was very respectful
[11:22] AmberATL30309: well, it’s your call. but i used to be all concerned about the delicate fee-fees of assholes on blogs, and then i realized, why? they have no right to my space. they got somethign to say, they can say it on their own blog.
[11:22] sakurasarashi: oh yeah, i have deleted disrespectful comments
[11:22] sakurasarashi: but i dont mind this one… just thought it was interesting
[11:23] AmberATL30309: i’m reading it. he sounds like an asshole.
[11:23] AmberATL30309: classic “Nice Guy”
[11:23] sakurasarashi: haha
[11:23] AmberATL30309: he should read the Don’t Be That Guy post i linked to last night
[11:23] sakurasarashi: i am SO going to link that
[11:23] AmberATL30309: seriously, anyone who makes a statemetn like “Guys are assholes” and leaves it at that? FUCK THEM
[11:23] sakurasarashi: in reply to him
[11:24] sakurasarashi: he has some hella WMP too
[11:24] AmberATL30309: WMP?
[11:24] AmberATL30309: “It’s taken me years of hard work to reduce my creepiness.” - bwahahaha!! oh really, dear, do tell!
[11:24] sakurasarashi: white male privilege
[11:24] AmberATL30309: uh, yeah, he’s kind of drowning in it
[11:25] AmberATL30309: clue phone is ringing… guess what dude… you are STILL CREEPY
[11:25] sakurasarashi: haha
[11:25] AmberATL30309: i’m sorry (actually, i’m not) but guys like this make me sick
[11:25] AmberATL30309: all tiny violin and male privilege
[11:25] sakurasarashi: i can tell
[11:26] sakurasarashi: lol
[11:26] AmberATL30309: i’ve just seen it so many times that it’s SO not funny anymore
[11:26] sakurasarashi: yeah
[11:27] AmberATL30309: anyway, like i said, your call. if it were me, i’d either delete the comment, or repost the comment with the FAIL stamp on top of it
[11:27] sakurasarashi: i was ALREADY in the process of the fail stamp thing
[11:27] sakurasarashi: hahahaha
[11:27] AmberATL30309: lol!!!
[11:27] AmberATL30309: GMTA
[11:27] sakurasarashi: I KNOW!
[11:27] sakurasarashi: can i quote you on the “clue phone ringing thing?
[11:28] AmberATL30309: indeed
[11:28] AmberATL30309: and now to get super meta, can i blog this whole damn IM convo?
[11:28] sakurasarashi: yes
[11:28] AmberATL30309: awesome

Here is the comment in question. It is an EPIC FAIL, as you will see from the number of stamps it required. (It actually could’ve used a few more, but my stamp pad ran out of ink.)

[Click for larger image version, if you're so inclined.]

I got all my knowledge of the Bible from fancy book-learnin’ (ie, actually reading it).

A collection of photos documenting internet meme-age slowly infiltrating meatspace:*

* I can’t read that term without thinking of porn.

As posted on my Tumblr (yes, I have one of those, although I don’t use it very often)…

That’s a comment on Tiffany Brown’s post about Violet Blue’s recent SFGate column, which I keep meaning to blog about myself.

Rusty made a fail stamp image with a transparent background that I can put on top of screenshots of stupid/ignorant/obnoxious/pathetic comments, or anything else, really. Fun!

When there’s something on my mind I’m itching to write about, but can’t at the moment, I distract myself with stupid internet quizzes. Hence:

There it is, folks, everything about me! (Complete with horrid HTML.) Except, about a third of it is wrong… Oh well, that’s still a pretty good ratio for a stupid internet quiz.

Via Amanda.

The rules:

• look up page 123 in the book that is nearest to you at this very minute
• look for the fifth sentence
• then post the three sentences that follow that fifth sentence on page 123.

I’m reasonably certain that I’ve done this meme before, but of course I’m too lazy to dig through the almost six years of archives to find it.

I’m currently reading Stephanie Coontz’s The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap, and the sentences tend to be long. Here goes:

Conservatives who endorse the Bush administration’s Gag Rule, which prohibits physicians in federally funded family planning clinics from even mentioning abortion as an option, tend to be outraged that courts and federal agencies have “hamstrung” teachers and principals in the public schools by prohibiting corporal punishment. Liberals alarmed by the denial of free speech in family planning clinics and the lack of civil liberties for pregnant women accused of alcohol or drug abuse have been far less concerned about the privacy rights of men accused of child abuse or rape.

In 1967, conservatives successfully advocated expansion of welfare workers’ power to remove children from their families when the mothers were unmarried, on grounds that lack of marriage constituted, in and of itself, a “poor environment” for children.

Yes, that was only three sentences.

I highly recommend The Way We Never Were; it’s very interesting, and knocks down pretty much every piece of rhetoric about “family values” or “tradition.”

Everyone else is doing it (e.g., Nikki and Thomas), so here are my results from the Presidential matching thingy:

87% Hillary Clinton
87% Barack Obama
86% John Edwards
84% Chris Dodd
82% Dennis Kucinich
82% Mike Gravel
78% Bill Richardson
75% Joe Biden
46% Rudy Giuliani
38% John McCain
32% Mike Huckabee
25% Mitt Romney
21% Tom Tancredo
16% Ron Paul
16% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these silly quiz/meme things that purports to hold the key to vast secrets of my being; so here you go:

I haven’t read Orlando. I’ll be honest; I hadn’t even heard of it before this. Adding it to my Amazon wish list now…

Side note: I hate the code Quizilla generates. I always have to practically rewrite it. Can we please leave the <font> tag to rest in the 20th century, where it belongs?

Following the example of Tony (who’s been doing this for years) and Rusty, I decided to look up and post some search strings for my site. Unfortunately, mine are boring and surprisingly topical compared to theirs. But here are a few:

• sex in progress
• olde tyme wife spanking videos
• “[semi trucks]” “powered by wordpress” “leave a comment” -”no comments”
• “best to be stuck in handcuffs with”
• +spring4th +”atlanta” +”party” +”halloween” -children +adult
• amazing “ass to mouth” blog
• amber zip bag
• area where i can get porno cd in greensboro
• atlanta sex roof
• craigslist oboe cabart
• do men get jealous when women watch porn
• example bad redaction
• fascination with ass to mouth
• how to hold down dust in your appartment
• itinerary of conference with classy words
• myspace all fun until poke eye with dick
• squirt distance

This amuses me for several reasons…

Why is the cartoon of a dude? :P Boo.

Here’s the extended results description from the site itself:

You’re not in this for the money, for you blogging is all about the passion! Sure you might make a little pocket change now and again, but you know that it’s the content, the audience and the people that are what makes blogging great!

You’ve been blogging since Nick Denton was in diapers. When it comes to blogging experience, you are the authority on blogging. Heck you probably even have a blog where you give advice about blogging!

You love web 2.0 stuff like Digg and Delicious and you’re involved in more blogging groups, networks and activities than anyone else you know. With all your connections, you make Neil Patel look positively anti-social!

FWIW, I think Digg pretty much sucks. I obviously heart del.icio.us, though. And whoTF is Neil Patel?

In happy news, my new pole (and stage and other assorted parts) arrived last night and it’s almost completely assembled! We’ll be making a trip to Home Depot after work for sandbags, which were supposed to come with all the other stuff, but which Platinum Stages naturally forgot to enclose. This new setup is a hell of a lot more sturdy than that sketchy “semi-removable” whozit. Only downside is the pole isn’t very tall, so climbing will be very unimpressive, and going upside down might not happen. We shall see! In any event, I’m excited to finally have it! And this means I can actually get some practice in before Sunday’s student showcase (!!!!!).

I was tagged by Rootie. Lately I have been ignoring various memes that I’ve been tagged for, because I don’t like trying to come up with answers for “8 things no one knows about me” or whatever else. If I haven’t told you after 5+ years of blogging, I’m probably not going to tell you now.

But this meme is one I can do.

1. Add a direct link to your post below the name of the person who tagged you. Include the city/state and country you’re in.
2. List out your top 5 favorite places to eat at your location.
3. Then add your name to the bottom of the list, with location.

• Nicole (Sydney, Australia)
• velverse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
• LB (San Giovanni in Marignano, Italy)
• Selba (Jakarta, Indonesia)
• Olivia (London, England)
• ML (Utah, USA)
• Lotus (Toronto, Canada)
• tanabata (Saitama, Japan)
• Andi (Dallas [ish], Texas, United States)
• Todd (Louisville, Kentucky, United States)
• miss kendra (los angeles, california, u.s.a)
• Jiggs Casey (Berkeley, CA, USA! USA! USA!)
• Tits McGee (New England, USA)
• Joe (NE Tennessee, USA)
• 10K Monkeys (Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA)
• Big Stupid Tommy (Athens, Tennessee, USA)
• Newscoma (Weakley County, Tennessee, USA)
• Russ McBee (Knoxville, Tennessee, USA)
• Atomictumor Mrs Eaves (Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA)
• Oh Really? LissaKay (Oak Ridge, TN, USA)
• Mark Steel blogitude.com (Knoxville, TN, USA)
• Fracas (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada)
• Jersey Chick (Atlanta, GA, USA)
• Rootietoot (Statesboro, Ga USA)
• Amber Rhea (Atlanta, GA, USA)

My five favorite places to eat:

1. Figo
2. Radial
3. Doc Green’s
4. Brickstore Pub
5. Crescent Moon

We haven’t been to the last two very often lately, since moving from Decatur; but I still count them among my favorites.

I am a creature of habit; once I find something I like at a restaurant, that’s what I order every time I eat there. And that’s how I like it. I could eat at these five places every week (assuming I had the expendable income, of course) and be happy.

I tag whoever wants to answer it.

I’m not surprised:

92%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Mingle² - Online Dating

But, really, I took this quiz simply because of the graphic (I saw it on someone else’s site) and I knew Jenny - who is still blogless - would get a kick out of it.

Basically this post is one big inside joke that only a handful of people will understand.

Lots of other people are doing it, so I will too. Via Newt In a Tea Cup (whose blog design I love, btw).

• Name: Please. You know it by now.
• Age: 27
• Height: 5′6″
• Weight: 130 lbs.
• Do you consider yourself attractive? For the most part, yeah. But it’s hard to say that without the “ZOMG STOP UR BEING SELFISH!!!!” bells going off in my head.
• Do others consider you attractive? *shrug* Some do. Some probably don’t. I’m not a mind reader.
• What is your biggest insecurity and why? I have quite a few insecurities (there’s a surprise!) which sometimes I don’t feel insecure about for weeks, and then they’ll just creep up on me one day and I’ll feel like shit for no good reason. These include: my teeth (not white enough, not straight enough), and I can point to exactly what that goes back to, but that’s another story for another time; I have a fairly odd mole on my leg; every once in a blue moon, I think my eyebrows look weird. I’m sure no one else cares. And I feel like a jerk for even enumerating these insecurities, for some reason. That’s MY SHIT!
• Have you/Would you consider using plastic surgery? Why or why not? I don’t like these “would you” type questions. At the moment, no, I wouldn’t; but who knows what could happen in the future that would make me change my mind. So there’s a definitive “I don’t know” for you!
• What is your relationship with make-up? I hardly ever wear it, and as such I don’t have much of it around the house. At the moment I own a lipstick, which I use maybe 3-4 times a week, and a thing of eyeshadow which I’ve used like twice since I bought it.
• How much money do you/think is reasonable to spend on your appearance? I guess however much I want to and can reasonably afford.
• What is your experience of dieting? I haven’t been on any specific diets. I try to eat healthy and most of the time I succeed, but that’s pretty much the extent of it.
• Have you/ anyone you know tried any specific diet programs i.e. Lighter Life? How did that affect your health? your moods? your relationships? Rusty and Niki both did South Beach and it was a great experience for them. Rusty says he feels so much better (healthier) now.
• Do you have any experiences of eating disorders i.e. either yourself or someone you know? A few friends and acquaintances have struggled with eating disorders of one type or another.
• How did other people react to this; what was the fallout? Umm, I don’t really have an answer to this question. I mean, with my friends, I was concerned about them; but with most of them the eating disorder was in their past, before I knew them.
• Have you had negative experiences relating to your appearance and people’s reactions to it? Have I? Well, how much time have you got? … Seriously, throughout middle school and some of high school, I was “the ugly girl.” Worse, I was the smart “ugly girl,” so I got a double-dose of abuse. It didn’t matter that, as I got into my later teens, I wasn’t an awkward-looking 7th grader anymore; I’d been branded, and that was my identity, and there was nothing I could do about it. Not surprisingly, since I didn’t have much in the way of positive support at home, and my friends were just as fucked-up as I was, I internalized it and believed it. It took me years to finally believe that I’m not ugly. Thanks, therapy, you are awesome. I admit that sometimes, that old shit still sneaks up on me. The younger you are when shit happens, the more deeply it gets embedded in your brain, and… that shit is in there deep.
• What about positive reactions to your body? The compliment I get the most is people saying I have beautiful eyes. Various people over the years have told me I’m sexy and such. Rusty tells me every day, usually multiple times a day. That makes me happy. (Note: at this point I should point out, if you’re some guy I don’t know very well or don’t know at all, and you’re reading this, and you feel like now would be a good time to chime in with some comment about how sexy I am… don’t. It’s not flattering. It’s creepy.) More than a few people have told me I have “stealth boobs” which are a pleasant surprise. I’m a 34-D but I guess, somehow, it doesn’t show? People have said stuff like, “You don’t wear tight shirts!” Except that I do, sometimes. So I don’t know what’s up. But stealth is okay with me. Oh and Dacia said, “Dude, you’ve got some serious tits.” To which I replied, “Yeah, they’re serious, but they also like to kick back and just have fun, too.”
• How has your body image and attitude changed over the years? It’s gotten better and better. I’ve had a few backslides - biggest one after my divorce - but it’s pretty much remained positive, despite all the shit I dealt with as a teenager. Senior year of high school and freshman year of college were particularly positive, liberating times that helped shape my self-image into something more confident and secure.
• What do you love about your body? I do have beautiful eyes; I love ‘em. I also love my ass and my stealth boobs. And for the most part, I love my hair, just the way it is, even if it isn’t anybody’s idea of fashionable or hot or whatever else.
• What is your opinion on the media portrayal of women’s bodies? “Ludicrous” might be putting it mildly.
• What would you change about the way you/ your friends/ your family/ general people see their bodies? If I could wave a magic wand? I’d get rid of all that bullshit that I’ve dealt with to a large extent, but which I’m still carrying around in some form, whether I like it or not. Same for everybody else with all their various types of baggage.
• What makes you feel beautiful? I like being naked. Also, sitting in the sunlight makes me feel beautiful (’cause of the warmth, maybe?), and so does pole dancing.
• and just for fun… Do you shave legs/pits/upper lip moustache? Legs: yes, about every two weeks or so; pits: had laser hair removal but still have to do some trimming every once in a while; upper lip moustache: don’t have one.

So there you have it. No shame. I’m over shame.

I have a sneaking suspicion that I’ve done this thing before. But maybe that’s just because I’ve done nearly every self-psychology thing that I’ve been able to get my hands on, over the years. Anyway, via Thinking Girl, I found this Johari Window thing, and decided it sounded possibly interesting.

My Johari Window - pick 5 or 6 adjectives that you think describe me.

Possibly interesting, possibly a complete waste of time. (For one thing, it doesn’t make any allowances for how well the user knows the person they’re describing.) But I’m willing to try it out, either way! Have at it, if you’re so inclined.

Via Madame X

Add together the costs of each thing that you’ve done. How bad were you?

Smoked pot - $10

Did acid - $5

Ever had sex at church - $25

Woke up in the morning and did not know the person who was next to you - $40

Had sex with someone on MySpace - $25

Had sex for money - $100

Vandalized something - $20

Had sex on your parents’ bed - $10

Beat up someone - $20

Been jumped - $10

Crossed dressed - $10

Given money to stripper - $25

Been in love with a stripper - $20

Kissed some one who’s name you didn’t know - $0.10

Hit on some one of the same sex while at work - $15

Ever drive drunk - $20

Ever got drunk at work, or went to work while still drunk - $50

Used toys while having sex - $30

Got drunk, passed out and don’t remember the night before - $20

Went skinny dipping - $5

Had sex in a pool - $20

Kissed someone of the same sex - $10

Had sex with someone of the same sex - $20

Cheated on your significant other - $10

Masturbated - $10

Cheated on your significant other with their relative or close friend - $20

Done oral - $5

Got oral - $5

Done / got oral in a car while it was moving - $25

Stole something - $10

Had sex with someone in jail - $25

Made a nasty home video - $15

Had a threesome - $50

Had sex in the wild - $20

Been in the same room while someone was having sex - $25

Stole something worth over more than a hundred dollars - $20

Had sex with someone 10 years older - $20

Had sex with someone under 21 and you are over 27 - $25

Been in love with two people or more at the same time - $50

Said you love someone but didn’t mean it - $25

Went streaking - $5

Went streaking in broad daylight - $15

Been arrested - $5

Spent time in jail - $15

Peed in the pool - $0.50

Played spin the bottle - $5

Done something you regret - $20

Had sex with your best friend - $20

Had sex with someone you work with at work - $25

Had anal sex - $80

Lied to your mate - $5

Lied to your mate about the sex being good - $25

My grand total: $410.50

Now everyone knows I’ve peed in the pool.

One gripe: the MySpace question is silly and needs clarification. I’ve had sex with several people who are on MySpace. But I didn’t meet them on MySpace. I gave myself the $25 due to ambiguity.

Anyway. I will accept payment in ass, grass, or cash. (Actually just ass or cash, please. It’s the drug use/drunken antics questions that always make my score fairly low on these “purity test” type things.)

Awesome idea from zuzu at Feministe:

We’re conditioned, particularly as women, to be self-deprecating, to not take up space, to not revel in our bodies and ourselves. We can get 150 comments in a thread about when we realized that we were aware our bodies weren’t up to snuff; let’s see how many we can generate praising ourselves.

Your mission: list at least five things you love about your body and yourself. Five is the floor; you can always do more. And no self-deprecation! No offsetting a compliment with a dig.

Seriously, we all spend way too much time being self-deprecating because god forbid we appear (gasp!) “selfish.” Fuck that!

I posted my answers in a comment there, but I’m reposting here.

1. I’m intelligent and compassionate
2. …and I pull no punches and don’t suffer bullshitters kindly
3. I have beautiful eyes
4. I have one hell of a nice rack
5. And a nice ass
6. I have some serious upper-arm strength now due to pole dancing and will punch you in the face if you cross me
7. And I’ve got quite a grip now too, moreso than I imagine, apparently. Just ask Rusty. Heh.
8. I love to listen and learn from others
9. I stand up for what I believe - and I allow the “what” to change based on #8
10. Oh and let’s not forget my sexy legs!

I tag everybody.