An Icon Meme

I'm feeling a little healthier, I think I might go take a walk today since moving will be good for me. The plot is steadily moving along and I'm quite happy about it and I have a new place to play Tiwa, strangefellows which I think is going to be a lot of fun.

So here have a meme from newredshoes

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.

2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.

3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.

4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee



Flute Player This was part of a series of icons that Becca made for me when I started to actually have icon space. I actually don't use it a lot but I like the slightly classical feel to it.



Stormy Ship Becca also made this one and this suits me for days when I feel like I'm being tossed and turned about by the world.



Fred and Ginger Dancing I have always loved Astaire and Rogers and I found this at one point when I was just looking for icons and grabbed it. I love how utterly joyful they are and full of life, I tend to use this icon for good things with friends.



Amalric with a Camera doihearawaltz made this icon as part of a whole group of icons of Mathieu Amalric and I just love the way he's peering through the world with the camera. I don't use it very often but its one of my favorites.



Adore You in Frightening, Dangerous Ways This icon was a complete accident, I was doing a thread with Rick and it suddenly appeared instead of one of his icons so I grabbed it. I have no idea where it came from or who made it but I love the sentiment and its one of my few quote icons and it actually gets quite a lot of use.

Good Advice from a Horoscope

This is from today's Washington Post and its got me thinking so I'm going to type it out and try and write out some of the complicated thoughts going through my head at the moment.

Gemini: You have moved into a new phase of life and yet you still feel the same way as you did way back when. It's not what you do in life that needs to change; its how you think about it. Put a positive spin on your history.

Applying to Michigan feels right to me as does becoming a librarian, I can look over all the jobs I've worked and so many of the ones that stood out are connected to libraries. From Swarthmore to the Seaport Museum, I love taking information and making it accessible and available and helping people find what they want. So all of this wonderful hopeful feeling is balanced by a not good body image.

This is very much my history and way back when because I keep thinking that I've got over the way my New Zealand boyfriend made me honestly feel not beautiful because I'd put on some weight and yet it comes back. I know that moments of transition are hard points to deal with my weight since I'm in so much flux and that I can, but the hardest part is somehow that sense of myself has been shifted.

I like this idea of put a positive spin on my history and I know that I can do that, I'm just not sure of how yet. Its important to me that when I get started on my MLS program that I'm not carrying a lot of baggage along with me, new starts are good and powerful things. So I think I'm going to keep writing and thinking about this as I take care of myself so that I can look back and forward and feel positive.