A Picture!
Jun. 3rd, 2013 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeshyrDear Dreamwidth,
(It's hard to post-via-email and not write "Dear ___" at the top, so why bother? You are all dear to me!).
Umm can I do cut-tags in email posts? The stuff under here is about body image, though I won't mention specific numbers or anything it has a bit of self-hate.
As you'll recall from some recent posts, body image has been a struggle lately. One of the things that bugs me is that the photo I am using as my default icon in most places is a photo that was taken about 5 years ago - it doesn't really resemble me at all now. Every time I see the photo I wish I still looked like the photo looked and it makes me vaguely sad. But, like I said in the other post, I don't really like current photos either ... I was musing on this dilemma when I spotted a drawing on Facebook done by a friend and a brainwave overtook me!
Thankfully my friend Vanessa was generous and offered to do a picture of me in exchange for a crochet'd baby hat - barter rocks! Here's the picture she drew:
I really love it! It's got style and it actually looks like me and it's cartoon-ey and it makes me happy.
So yes, I'm changing my default picture to this one for now! Hope you like it :)
Cheers,
Ricky
(It's hard to post-via-email and not write "Dear ___" at the top, so why bother? You are all dear to me!).
Umm can I do cut-tags in email posts? The stuff under here is about body image, though I won't mention specific numbers or anything it has a bit of self-hate.
As you'll recall from some recent posts, body image has been a struggle lately. One of the things that bugs me is that the photo I am using as my default icon in most places is a photo that was taken about 5 years ago - it doesn't really resemble me at all now. Every time I see the photo I wish I still looked like the photo looked and it makes me vaguely sad. But, like I said in the other post, I don't really like current photos either ... I was musing on this dilemma when I spotted a drawing on Facebook done by a friend and a brainwave overtook me!
Thankfully my friend Vanessa was generous and offered to do a picture of me in exchange for a crochet'd baby hat - barter rocks! Here's the picture she drew:
I really love it! It's got style and it actually looks like me and it's cartoon-ey and it makes me happy.
So yes, I'm changing my default picture to this one for now! Hope you like it :)
Cheers,
Ricky
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