Embracing my fear

You might think I'm not working on the list anymore?

Well, I'm still waiting for a day with no rain so that I can make another attempt to give my awesome CD away.

On North Island roadtrip.













Upside down in Santa Monica.















Also, I did this:

25. Watch-word
Change your passwords on your email, your bank, your paypal account, everything, to words that make you smile. Banana, elocution, evisceration, duped, muggle, flippant, pumpkmen, snooty, sneed, salacious … the possibilities are endless!

But because of obvious reasons, I can't really blog about it. Love flippant though.

Also again, I've been starting this mission:

27. Love your Fear
If you’re afraid of something, tell yourself you actually love it. I’ve found if you tell yourself something often enough, eventually you’ll believe it. I used to be afraid of thunderstorms, until I started telling myself I loved them: the epic display of nature’s prowess, the anticipation of waiting for thunder, that feeling of being warm and safe inside. Now I love them.

This might not be too hard if you have a fear of something that could have positive benefits, or that's got potential to be embraceable.

My two biggest phobias are these: flying and vomit.

The flying one is sort of under control. I mean, I'm a travel junkie living in another country than my motherland. And I have plans to do a skydive.

And the other one. Vomit. Yuk. It's been years since I engaged with that activity myself. And I'm just not gonna watch disgusting YouTube-clips and then try to embrace them. There is nothing to embrace about vomit. Can we agree on that?

But. There is something I hate so much it's almost a fear. It destroyed my appetite so many times in Mexico and Central America. The most horrible herb on earth - coriander. The other day I actually joined ihatecilantro.com (in the US, they call coriander cilantro).

So.

At this weeks veggie market, I got myself a big bunch of coriander. It was 80 cents, but I could see hatred in Sam's eyes that I even payed to get that awful stuff. And I had some on a cracker with hommous when I got home (picture proof exists, but I'll show you later). It was horrible, of course. But! I will try it on at least four more things before the week is over. And maybe even by itself!

What would you like to embrace instead of being scared of?