I have decided to accept this 5 Things Challenge!
Thank you to Theandreas for issuing it, and to KB and LL for unintentionally making me aware of it.
This actually took a lot less time than I thought it would but sometimes I get to blogging and I can't stop...
5 things I like about myself:
1. My musical talent/ability: I play several instruments, compose, sing, used to play in a rock band, and occasionally still perform. I can often play songs after hearing them only a couple times, and I can transcribe and play pieces that somehow suddenly appear in my head. I'm pretty much awesome at all of it! (author's note - see dislike #4.)
2. My writing talent/ability: I've written many short stories, (started then never completed) 5 would-be novels, a play, was hired to polish someone else's screenplay, repeatedly blogged all over myself and others, and passed uncounted notes in class. I've even been known to pen some very, very bad poetry, but anybody can do that so my stuff is pretty forgettable. (author's note - see dislike #4 again.)
3. My friendliness: People like me. Animals like me. Fruits and vegetables like me. Luckily, I enjoy the company of most of these nutty characters. Minerals are notoriously stand-offish so I don't really know what they think of me, but I suspect we'd get along well.
4. My voice: I have a deep, relaxing voice and have made money using it.
5. My sense of humor: Seriously, I'm fucking hilarious!
AND NOW -
5 things I dislike about myself:
1. I hate that I don't get the point of visual art: Why would a person buy and hang a painting or photograph of a tree or a mountain or a sunset, or anything that they could just go outside and look at? I genuinely don't understand that - and as an artist I find that to be particularly bothersome.
2. I get way too territorial, overprotective, and even jealous: That's enough about that. Class dismissed.
4. My ego: It can't quite decide what it wants to be when it grows up. It's either too small, or too big, or too everything in-between. As you can see I kinda have a lot of ego to contend with. (author's note - see likes #1 and #2.)
5. I can never seem to finish procrastinating because I just keep putting it off until later.
5. Ok that last one was dumb so how about this: I'm very hard on my self whenever I don't do the "right thing" - as defined by own already too high standards for myself - especially if I don't do it immediately. A light turns off in my head and I start to feel like I've fucked up somehow.
4. My troubled relationship with numbers: Some days I can math like a motherfucker! Somedays I want to kick whoever invented numbers right square in the roots. Odd numbers are so cool that they should have their own comic books and movie franchises (complete with fully posable action figures) and I especially love prime numbers. But I don't even like even numbers because they seem puny and stupid by comparison.
And apparently today I'm really bad at counting.
(author's note - By strange coincidence, I actually gave this same challenge/task to someone special a few days ago!)
