What I love about me....

Life seems a little tough at the moment, and I realise I have started to beat myself up a little more than usual. Mostly I am telling myself that I am not enough.  Tonight I remembered a post from Definatalie about what she loved about her.  My instinct was to do that on another blog, where I write a more 'diary style' but more secretively.  However, for some reason that didn't feel right.

I need to be proud about this list.... which I am going to keep updating as

I am enough.  What I love about myself:

1. I'm adventurous and especially love travelling to places I've never been, even those in my own city, and trying food I've never tasted before.
2. I am usually pretty accepting, I really judge people on their sex, colour, race, religion.
3. My boobs, which are doing ok  for a 40+ women.
4. That I can appear very brave. 
5. I've turned into a pretty good camper.
6. I am curious. It can drive people mad, especially my love, but I never stop asking why.
7. I've got a strong design sense.  I can't draw or paint, but I know what colours look good together, what objects make a lovely still life in my home and what looks good on a page.
8. I'm a good friend.  I can handle the hard times, as well as the good.  I can listen when they need me to and I share myself with them.
9. I'm generous, not always in the traditional financial way but often with my time and my words.
10. My green eyes, which don't seem to be that common a colour.
11. My small hands, they look nice and they fit easily into my partner's hands. They remind me of my mum's hands, even though hers are larger and stronger.
12. I have great hair.  It is think and healthy, and every new hairdresser tells me how lucky I am.
13. That I have a strong sense of who I am - that I am an individual.  I give myself permission to be different, to not be like everyone else.  My family and friends sometimes lovingly (and yes it is genuinely lovingly) tease me for being odd.  I celebrate my oddness.
14. I have a really loud laugh.  It's infectious and it makes people smile.
15. That I laugh at myself.  Often. 
16. Somehow I have turned laziness into an asset.  An old boss pointed this out, and I know she really did mean it with love.  She told me that my desire to work as little as possible had transformed my role and the processes I had to do. I thought through and identified the easiest way to do so many things,  which would be passed on to people who replaced me.
17. Inspite of myself, I keep learning.
18. I've finally cured myself of my fascination with bad men.  I love and am loved by a very good man.
19. That I have an open mind.  Mostly. I am willing to explore ideas, facts and then make up my mind.
20. I take lots and lots of photos.
21. I'm smart, maybe not as much as I think but there is certainly a fair few brain cells in there.
22. My smile, it's teethy and wide.
23. I'm usually willing to smile first.  My mum always insisted on smiling at people, and now I love that I do that regularly with strangers.  At the moment I am saying hi most mornings to a women who walks by me as I go to work.
24. I can say sorry and mean it, and often be the first one to say it.

See what inspired me at: http://www.definatalie.com/2009/08/17/what-i-love-about-myself/