7.08.2012

15 Day Challenge: [Day 8]


Life of Love
[Day 8]: Describe "the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" of yourself.

Oooy, the challenge is asking a lot of me, because you see, I don't typically sit around and list good or bad about myself. However, if I'm inclined to do one I can locate faults quite easily. Beat myself up a bit? Yeah, probably. But alas, here is [Day 8]:

The Good
  • In most situations, I tend to show a lot of patience. And personally, I wouldn't say this about myself (due to one of my ugly traits I'll be listing), but I have heard that as a compliment for a very long time. And I have seen it in myself, but like I said, I downplay myself a lot.
  • I am empathetic/compassionate. I am able to listen and enter into a situation with someone whether happy, sad, mad, etc.
  • I am extremely discerning. It's uncanny at times. Definitely a God-given gift. Not that I'm not human and don't make mistakes in my discernment, my infant daughter would tell you that if she could talk ;), but I typically can see into a situation and see quite clearly what's going on behind the curtains.
The Bad
  • My mouth can get carried away with some awful language at times. And the bad part of "the bad" is sometimes it makes me feel less stressed after saying it.
  • I have a terrible pet peeve with bad drivers where I talk to them like they can hear me and chew them out. 
  • Sometimes when I talk I rabbit trail terribly and have a tendency to get distracted in the middle of conversation. It's so bad my husband thought I didn't like him or was bored when he first met me. 
The Ugly
  • I have a temper like no other. And if you set it off, you better watch out because this woman would desire a punching bag in those moments. Being 1/4 French and 1/4 Italian does not help either. No! I don't actually get physical with my anger. My mouth starts getting a bit too active :)
  • I was informed the other day, by my wonderful iron-sharpening-iron hubby, I have a tendency to quickly jump to judgements when watching a situation. I don't mean to. Honestly, I don't mean anything by them, as in I'm not holding on to it and thinking were I ever to actually meet that person this would cloud my impression of them, but without thinking I make them. For instance, the other night on our date, Ben and I were sitting in our car when this situation arose for a parking spot. This one chick was acting quite ridiculous in that she was speeding through the parking lot and started cutting off a vehicle which had been waiting for the spot much longer than she'd ever entered the picture. I made a statement about how she's a crazy  ***** and went on with why that was my assessment. Hubby lovingly pointed out what I did. Ooops! 
  • I allow people to walk all over me. Like, even walk all over my motherly intuition or making decisions for my daughter WALK. ALL. OVER! It's horrible. To the point that I get angry about it (HA! Told ya so in my first "ugly" bullet). 
So there you have it. Wow, I'm feeling a bit uncovered by this. Not that I have anything to hide. I just typically take time to "warm up" and start sharing anything about myself. Good exercise in getting out of my comfort zone.

8 comments:

  1. Nope, not even anybody I know. That's super weird right?

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  2. Oh my gosh, okay, so I talk to other drivers on the road too, which is hilarious! Everybody always makes fun of me. For someone with kind of a potty mouth (okay, not super bad, but still, it's there), I usually say something like, "Excuse me, sir, why didn't you use your blinker?!" and "Hey, buddy, right turn only in this lane!"

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  3. Also, so weird but my picture on this isn't me...it's my friend HJ. Odd...

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  4. I related my mouth to being Italian too, hahah. But I'm a little more than half Italian :)

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  5. Why is my picture some woman? Oh my gosh, lol.

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  6. HAHA. Disqus is posting my picture for you...NO CLUE WHY!
    As for the more than half Italian, you probably can use that a bit more than I can :)

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  7. HAHA! I need to start retaming mine, especially now that I have my daughter to think of. I have always wanted to change it, and started, but never finished following through so that I fall back into my old habit *sigh*

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  8. It's me...Disqus made changes I wasn't aware of....it should be fixed on any comments after this now :)
    That's hilarious! And yes, I'm typically the same way, unless they REALLY tick me off. Ooops :)

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