Self Love: Day 1

Today is my first day of my one week vacation. And I decided to start a Self-Care/Self-Love Journey during these days off and over the holidays.

I went on Pinterest and found multiple “Self Care” challenges and lists and I combined them all and made my own plan. Because I have time this next week, I have written down roughly eight different activities I could do on one day. I started out with just writing down activities for the first week and will hopefully continue on after the week is over.

One of the activities is to write something about yourself every day with different writing prompts. I decided I would write it out on here because:

1. I haven’t been on here in awhile. I miss it.
2. Typing is a lot easier for my mind than writing by hand.

So here I am listening to some Big Band and Swing music (my fave) and all my Christmas lights are turned on with a burning candle in the background. I am set.

Day 1: Write about yourself- include physical characteristics.

The term “write about yourself” is very broad. But I guess I will begin by detailing myself with what I would probably write in a dating profile.

My name is Sara Rose Flubacher and I am 22 years old. I am 5’10” and have medium long brown hair with dirty blonde tips. I have green eyes that I got from my Mama and big size 43 EU/ 11 US feet that I got from my Dad.

I have a little bit more to love than I did when I was 18, but that’s okay. I have quite a bit of muscle in my arms and thighs. So I guess you could say I look a bit broad and husky for a woman (friends might argue with me on this, you’re sweet). I also have fairly wide hips, so that will come in handy once I have a baby.

I have long fingers- no, I don’t play piano… wish I could… (I can play chords, but that’s it). My hands are equally as big. When I was younger and would shake people’s hands, I would think to myself “Why does everyone’s hand feel so small in mine! Everyone has tiny hands!” I thought I had normal size hands, until one day I came to the realisation I just have really large hands. It’s hard to find gloves that fit.

People used to tell me I looked Native American because I have high cheek bones.. not sure if that is still true or not. Although my upper lip is significantly thinner than my bottom lip, my pout is pretty cute, especially when I put on lipstick and kiss a mirror or something flat– looks like a cliche lip/kiss mark you see in movies or on cards.

I have really sweet blonde hairs all over my body. I think they are endearing and my husband loves them, too. If anyone other than myself is reading this, I will let you in on a secret… I have stopped shaving my armpits and legs. I haven’t shaved them since maybe August or September? No, I’m not trying to be a gross hippy. I just always get razor burns and bumps from shaving, so I decided to stop. My husbands jokes and calls me a fluffy polar bear, but I think he has gotten over the initial shock 😉 I trim my armpit hairs if they get to long, but I haven’t shaved them.

My ears are pierced, and also gauged. I have size 0 plugs which I have had for almost 5 years now. I first started gauging my ears when I was 14/15 and I have decided that on January 1, 2017, I will take them out for good and allow my ear lobes to shrink back to normal. I would love to be able to wear normal earrings once again!

My chest is pretty averaged sized, however a guy working at Topshop in Amsterdam who was my stylist told me I have big boobs. I guess boob size is in the eye of the beholder?

I was blessed with decent skin. Growing up I never had serious acne. Pimples or blackheads here and there, but nothing serious. My skin is prone to be oily, but almost never dry. I don’t use lotion or daily moisturizer because my skin doesn’t really need it (or maybe it does, and I am just an idiot).

My nails are pretty and long, however I always get bad hangnails. The skin around it is the worst and always has been. Yes, I trim it and push back the skin in the shower. Anyone got tips?

I don’t have a lot of freckles or moles. In fact, I only have one mole on my whole body. It’s on my right side. As a kid, I used to think it was a scab, so I would try to scratch it away. Didn’t get me very far. I do have a couple of birth marks. Some pale little circles on my legs. When I was younger 1-6 years old, I had a red birth mark on my face next to my nose. My mom used to call it an “Angel’s Kiss”. It eventually went away.

BTW, I am an innie (belly button). Just in case you were wondering.

That’s really all I can think about for now concerning my physical characteristics. I believe throughout this challenge I will be writing more about myself as a person and things I  like or about my personality. So I will leave today where it is.

It was actually fun to write about myself. I was able to reflect over myself and write down the things I love about myself, and maybe even look at my flaws but write them in a positive light. This challenge might work wonders.

I encourage all to try this. It’s fun 🙂

See you tomorrow,

Sara xoxo