My blogging friend Sizzle has encouraged me to indulge in a little self-love today.  (Not that kind!  Geeeeeez.)

To play nice, I have to:

1) declare this is the day I love myself;

2. 2)say one nice thing about myself; and
   

3. 3) ask you to say one nice thing about me.
   

Here goes --

One:

I . . . like myself okay, I guess. 

Seriously, why is it so hard to acknowledge self-love?  Once when I brushed off a sincere compliment, a wise person taught me not to do that anymore.  To fail to accept a compliment graciously is to be rude to the person giving it.  So, I’ve mostly conquered that now.  I’ve trained myself to say “thank you” out of respect for the person offering me a kindness, but I still can’t muster self-love.  Maybe in my next life.  (I’m coming back as a dove.  Everybody knows magpies are notoriously neurotic.)

Two:

Okay, I do have one thing I pride myself on.  (Please don’t tell me if you laugh when you hear it because you now have proof I’m delusional!) I refuse to take myself seriously.  In fact, some of my favorite music lyrics are from the Fun Lovin’ Criminals:

I never let the cops get wind of me

And I never ever ever ever say die

I never take myself too seriously

cuz everybody know fat birds don’t fly.

I think I’ve got a leg to stand on here.  I mean, I am the person who chronicled Mr. Mom’s gift of butt paste in our Christmas newsletter.  That was probably in poor taste and only marginally funny, but it most certainly was not fat. (Come on, admit it.  You get sick of hearing about cousin Cindy’s promotion and Bobby the Eagle Scout as much as I do, right?)

Three:

Can’t do it.  I’m getting queasy just thinking of it.  So, I’ve turned off the “comments” section on this post.  Sorry, Sizzle.  Does partial self-love count?

P.S. Ain’t that a kickin’ bird ornament featured above?  It’s part of my new Mayberry Magpie logo designed by my uber-talented pal Leslie, who also designed my banner.  Hey, it doesn’t make me too uncomfortable to admit I have superb taste in friends and graphic design!