Gratitude, Day 2: Smile

I don't really like my smile. Occasionally I seem to smile in some kind of different way that I really like, but in almost all photos I me I have the "bad" smile (which I basically think looks like a pained grimace).



The pained grimace smile! :P

There is one thing that I do really like about my smile though: it's exactly the same as my grandmothers.



My grandmother's smile!

My mum's mum is my only grandparent who is still around and she is wonderful! She lives pretty close to me at college and has been a constant source of support. She's 80 years old, and is still incredibly active and mentally sharp. (Occasionally she can drive me nuts! But on the whole she's pretty perfect.) Anyway, I'm grateful (even if I don't like my smile) that it reminds me of someone I love.

I'm also grateful that my skin seems to be improving. I posted about this earlier, but the worst part was the area on the left and right sides of my chin (I think it's genetic. My mum said that was always the worst part of her skin). Anyway, the really important thing (to me) is that it doesn't appear to be scarring that much. Fingers crossed that the rest of it will clear up soon! (The scarring aspect of things is, I think, looking good. However, the medicine is designed to bring everything to the surface and make my skin essentially break out/look terrible, so that part doesn't look to good. I'm not even sure if that makes sense? Anyway, I just tried to take a picture of it and it looks yuck and was putting me off my breakfast, so I'll post a picture once the breakout's died down a bit and you can see the "extent" of the scarring better!).

Gratitude, Day 1: Food

My gratitude picture challenge for today is a picture of my favourite food. (Thanks again to Haley for the idea!)

When I was little, my two favourite foods were macaroni cheese and flapjacks (and I only ever had them together at one meal!). Now I'm not entirely sure what my favourite food is, but if I had to go with a "class" of foods it would definitely have to be fruits and berries (and carrots. I just really love carrots for some reason!).

Pictures:

Apples still on our apple tree at home

Mango. I miss these kinds of tropic fruits at school (this is an old picture from this summer, the marks around the side of the plate are from blackberries or some other kind of berry!)

Cherries! Yummy!

Raspberries! (Again, an old picture. These are from my birthday celebration at home over the summer!)

Recently, I've also gotten really into frozen fruit. The shop near me appears to have temporarily run out of the one I like (grr!) (strawberries, pineapple, mango, peaches), so I can't take a picture. Hopefully they'll get more soon though!

Gratitude part: I am incredibly grateful about two things related to food. Firstly, I am grateful that I have never gone hungry because we haven't had enough money to buy food. I am also incredibly grateful that my parents value good food and that I grew up eating lots of fruit, vegetables, lean meats and good carbs.