Top Tens - Autumn List 2012

Ten Things I Love

1. The smell of freshly washed bedsheets, pillowcases and covers ♥☺

2. Flowers! All kinds of flowers!! Love how they smell! Love the way they look! Love wearing them on my hair or ears! ♥☺

3. Eating out and trying out different cuisines

4. The feeling of gratefulness when problems were resolved or ended ♥

5. Iced chocolate drink with ice cream

6. Growing up spiritually

7. Confirmation I made appropriate life decisions

8. Acts of service

9. Chivalry

10. Old fashioned courtship

Ten Things I Miss

1. The beach - warm sea water while swimming and warm sand

2. My siblings' kids/babies!! :-((

3. Reading a good book

4. Having my own place. But still, I love where I live ♥♥!!

5. Protective hugs

6. My hands being kept warm

7. Hotter weather. It’s getting colder!

8. Acts of service

9. Chivalry

10. Old fashioned courtship

Ten Things I Don’t Like

1. It's time. Have to deal with a financial issue from my past (problem#3, the last one, ugh)

2. Chasing debts, wondering when and if I will get the full payment. I dislike it when the issue is about money!

3. People who don’t actively pursue solutions to problems, especially when the other party is me. I know this power game – child’s play – trying to prevent me from moving forward. "Breathe and roll with the punches" (quoted from a colleague).

4. Pettiness. Petty talks. People, stop gossiping negatively about others!

5. Mixed messages, especially regarding the dating "games". Action speaks louder than words/fears/intents. "Love is the easy part. It's making it work that is hard" (More than a decade old quote from an old friend, Gerard, whom I lost contact with pre-2000. I still remember this chat ☺).

6. Me in this complaining mood, ugh. Stop.

7. (Been reading my old diaries. I was strong and independent, but too trusting, nice and gullible. Hopefully still, but also wiser and more balanced ☺). Too many diaries. Intend to burn/shred them after reading, one already gone ☺.

8. Took close to 100 "friends" off the list in my social networking profile. Our chance to get to know each other better, albeit online, had long passed. Then, I prefer to restrict their access to more personal parts of my life whenever possible. :-)

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Ten Goals for 2012 (Pretty much the same since Summer 2012's Top Ten List!)

1. Not shopping for clothing/footwear/etc until the end of this year. I have more than enough and my higher needs will not be met buying more! Not that I shop – spent less than $40 total since New Year 2012 ♥☺. About $30 spent on a competition team shirt I wore this week/end.

2. Start and finish online course to teach English as a Second Language.

3. Get rid of problem number 3.

4. See the solar eclipse, 13-14 November 2012, around Port Douglas.

5. Improve financially. Time to "nest egg"....

6. Really work on learning the 3 languages I said I will be fluent in after 5 years.

7. Have even lesser material things. Too many paperwork and reading materials in my room.

8. Be healthier. When active, I seem to not crave eating junk foods or drinking or smoking (i love shisha).

9. Find product/s to prevent bites and cuts from getting worse and lingering on my skin, that I won’ be sensitive to, ugh.

10. Learn to ride a scooter. Get my licence. Relearn to drive, or actually, to park.