10 Day YOU Challenge - 1 Picture of Yourself

Well.

I promise that I haven't neglected this challenge.  Let's just say it's been a busy couple of days.  I will write all about it in the next day.  But for now, my picture will provide as a teaser.

The one picture I took of myself on October 10th at the
 Occupy Boston site at the Rose Kennedy Greenway.

If you haven't been keeping track of the news, it's time to Google "Occupy Wall St." and "Occupy Boston."

Get to it, and I'll tell you all about my first-person experience of that days events.

10 Day YOU Challenge - 2 Songs

2 songs:

I have to admit - this is perhaps one of the more difficult parts of this challenge.  2 songs??  How about 20?

I feel like different songs feel important at different parts of my life, day, mood, etc. 

But I really had to whittle it down.  Here are my 2.

1. Silent All These Years by Tori Amos

2. Something by The Beatles

10 Day YOU Challenge - 3 Films

3 films:

1. Cinema Paradiso

2. The Little Mermaid

3. Airplane!

10 Day YOU Challenge - 4 Books

 

4 books:

1. Dangerous Angels - The Weetzie Bat books by Francesca Lia Block

2. The Sandman Series by Neil Gaiman

3. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

4. Mermaids - Sirens of the Sea by Kerry Colburn
(my first mermaid-dedicated book)

10 Day YOU Challenge - 5 Foods

5 foods:

1.  Sinigang

2.  Butternut Squash Ravioli from Giacomo's in Boston

3.  Sushi

4.  Cakes (I mean..any kind of cake...including the flan and cup variety...but obviously Ube and Tres Leches are the tops)

5.  Brunch (I know this isn't an actual food item...but anything and everything brunch fits in this category)

10 Day YOU Challenge - 6 Places

6 places:

I've decided to go the route of 6 places that are on the top of my list to visit.

1.  Brazil

2.  Iceland

3.  Tahiti, Bora Bora, and Fiji (and other Oceania Islands)

4.  Egypt

5.  The Great Barrier Reef

6. Mexico

10 Day YOU Challenge - 7 Wants

7 wants:

1. Teleportation Device or Machine or Powers

I'm still holding out hope

2.  My Own Home (complete with a pool/lagoon)

The waterfall obviously didn't fit in the picture...

3.  The Entire Disney and Pixar Movie Collection

this is in no way a complete list

4. My Ideal Weight (which I'm working towards)

slow and steady to slimmer

5.  My Own Nonprofit (saving the world one step at a time)

6. Greenish Bluish Mermaid Hair Tips (but with more green and not on that much hair)

From http://flippinyourfins.tumblr.com

7.  A Mermaid Tail (obviously)

From the 1st Annual Mermaid Convention

10 Day YOU Challenge - 8 Fears

8 fears (in order of intensity):

I will definitely not be posting images of things I fear...

1.  Spiders - Their 8 eyeballs are horrifying.
2.  Not being able to have children of my own - These birthing hips have to be good for something!
3.  Falling to my death - Really, it's just not being able to live a full lifetime, but falling is the scariest since once you're airborne, you can't do anything about it.
4.  Clowns - Stephen King's IT (where it turns out to be a ginormous alien spider!! Sorry for the spoiler...I guess...) and Killer Klowns From Outer Space (I can't look at those twisty straws the same ever again...) have pretty much ensured that clowns are scary mofo's.
5.  Losing my loved ones suddenly - Being that I can get motherly towards people I love, I'm always trying to look out for their safety.
6.  Not having a purpose - Being unemployed this past year was one of the worst experiences of my life; I would never want to go through that ever again.
7.  Being kidnapped without anyone noticing or being attacked when I walk home at night - Especially in the dark, I prefer walking in the middle of a group.
8.  Losing one of my senses - I know that many people live without certain senses. This isn't meant to be insensitive, but the idea of losing one of my senses suddenly without warning definitely freaks me out. 

I try to be rational about most of these things.  But there are a few things on this list that I refuse to be rational about.

10 Day YOU Challenge - 9 Loves

9 loves:

1.  My Kitties

Yoni

Mencken

 2. My Family

3.  My Friends on Both Coasts

map of friends listed on Facebook

4.  My Zune and Music Collection

I've been listening to a lot of Tori lately due to her new album

5.  Dancing

Taken by Nina at Katia's Retreat

6. Food!

mmm..mickey mouse ice cream bar...

 7.  The Ocean and Beach

From Nahant Beach

 8. The Color Green in Every Shade

9.  What else but Mermaids!

my mermaid scarf