Ten Day Meme: Day 9

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Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot sometimes.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever).
Day Seven: Four turn offs.
Day Eight: Three turn ons.
Day Nine: Two images that describe your life right now, and why.
Day Ten: One confession

1. There is a beautiful poster made by Despair.com, with a penguin bravely spreading its little wings against a blue blue background, and the caption "Until you spread your wings, you'll never know how far you can walk."
   
   
   
   I actually find this very hopeful, in a semi-cynical way. It tells me that even if you fail to accomplish Thing A, which is what you really wanted to do, you may yet discover that in fact you're pretty good at Thing B. Which you maybe didn't want to do as much as you wanted to do Thing A, but hey, it's better than finding out you can't do either A or B.
   
   What's ironic about this is, this very post is an example of it. I didn't want to describe the penguin; I wanted to have it onscreen. I'd made an icon out of it for my livejournal many years ago, but lj icons don't translate into Facebook, so I decided to upload the icon to photobucket and link from there.
   
   I don't know why, but I couldn't upload. It just refused to go, no matter what I renamed it, no matter how I reformatted it, no matter what I did.
   
   All righty, then, thought I, let's just link to the poster itself, on Despair.com.
   
   Well it seems Despair.com finally realized that people go there and just download their brilliant posters (probably to make icons out of them) and don't buy their stuff, so now you can't see the actual posters. You get a tiny little version that you can't enlarge, to give you an idea of what the thing looks like, and you get the text underneath. You want to see it actual size? Buy it.
   
   Fiddled around with despair.com, trying to get around this.
   
   Finally gave up.
   
   Decided to celebrate how, in discovering how useless I am at showing a single damn poster, I learned to appreciate my descriptive abilities. And my ability to create a pseudo-penguin using two ovals and a few squiggles on Microsoft Paint.
   
   Yeah, that's it. ::ahem::
   
   
2. 
   
   The boys and I will be in the next black belt testing done by our school. This a big deal. We'll probably end up going to special Black Belt classes, will put in lots of hours assistanting, will have to write essays, pass rigorous physical tests, and be required to memorize everything we've spent the last five years learning in order to spit it out on command.
   
   Also, I just had to re-make our icon. The boys are almost as big as I am now, and at least one of them will surpass my height in the next few months. Our last icon, that I made when we got our red belts, doesn't show the current state of things. See?