Love it 💕 / Shove it❌ Challenge

I've been seeing this challenge rolling around on the @steemsugars discord chat (if you aren't on that bandwagon, I highly suggest you jump on it) but I wasn't really clear on what the heck it was supposed to be. I guessed from the name that it was some sort of liking and disliking thingy? But I assumed it was something of an inside joke or a contest. 

Today, though, I saw @alimamasstory 's love it/shove it post and loved it! It was so fun to read. I, for one, am a huge YouTube watcher, and one of my favourite vids to watch are the monthly favourites. This challenge had an air of that, so I decided (even though nobody has nominated me but I don't give a rat's ass) that I would do one of my very own.

So how does this go?

I have a strange fascination for smells in general. Like, you could leave me in Bath and Body Works for an entire day and I will not get hungry, need the toilet or get sleepy during that time (that first one tells you how insanely passionate I am about this crap). I like perfumes and splashes a lot. But the thing I'm lately obssessed with is scented candles. I spend $25 monthly to buy one of those delicious 3 wicked scented candles, and I dunno 'bout chu but for me $25 is an outrageous amount of money to spend on one thing.

This one is interesting, because I can not stand the taste of black coffee (its smell on the other hand ❤️). However, I adore any coffee with milk in it: lattes, cappuccinos, mochas, macchiatos, you name it. I have a preference for frappes, but that's only when I'm in hot weather, which is always. I drink coffee everyday, sometimes twice a day. If I drink it after 6pm I go to sleep at 4am. Mostly I love the feeling coffee gives me, the calm image surrounding it and the places where it is sold, they are heaven.

I love to read. Every time I went to visit my aunt and uncle in the U.S, my uncle made going to Barnes and Noble a thing. He'd drop me off at like 12pm and go get me at closing time, I'd still not rummaged through the whole store by then, obviously. I was allowed to pick only 4 books (torture) to take home. That was always my favourite part of the trip. On the last trip they got me my fisrt e-reader because my suitcase couldn't really fit more books. I mostly read romance and girly books because I'm a sucker for love, so any time my mum boasts about me saying I read so much, it bothers me a bit because I don't think reading 3 romance novels a week counts as being an intellectual scholar.

I have no idea why I have a fascination for trees, but I do, ever since I was little. I adore all trees and always feel as if they're very aware of us and silently watching. I would definitely be a tree hugger and climber if I wasn't so damn terrified of spiders (they are always on trees).

I now these two don't have anything to do with each other, but I had one last slot and couldn't decide so I chose both. I love, love, LOVE movies. I was that little girl who had all the Disney VHS cassettes and re-watched all of them about a cazillion times, so I guess that paved the way for my film loving adulthood. Again, I gravitate towards romance, but I also love music, magic and science fiction movies (and I pay close attention to soundtracks). 

Makeup was a later love in my life. I just gravitated towards it in college and now I can't let go. I like drawing and painting, so I've always felt like doing my makeup is painting a different thing on my face every day. You can be anything you want or play it simple. You can highlight your attributes and appreciate your flaws. It's awesome.

I know. I know. So many people are going to say "WHAT!?" But yeah, I just can't stand it. I can kind of tolerate fish though (only if it has a lot of condiments and is cooked in a way that it doesn't taste like the sea). 

I'm only writing about this and I'm clenching my jaw tight because I'm looking for examples. Chalkboard going wrong on a blackboard; scraping cutlery on a metal pan; sharpening the blade of a knife; people who bite their fork with their front teeth; metal chairs scraping on the floor with a high pitched sound; in general, any metal on metal screeching. 

I mean, there is a thing called personal space, people. I don't like it when a person behind me is breathing down my neck. I generally take a step back and step on their toes on purpose (I apologize of course) so they have to take a step back and be careful of the weird moving girl, give her some space.

I hate this with all my might. I used to have a car in Venezuela, but now I'm in Panama I use public transport so I walk everywhere. Maybe that would have happened in Venezuela too, I'm not sure, but in Panama it is SO BAD. I now always walk with my earbuds in, listening to music (sometimes I don't even have music on, it's just so they won't try). The thing is, here it's not only the sexual name calling and unwanted opinions, it's invasion of personal space. They literally get in my face to tell me stuff I don't want to hear. The other day, a guy was with his little daughter at the drugstore for crying out loud, and when I passed him he whispered "You're so hot, mami". I mean, what the actual f*ck dude, go to therapy.

I don't actually dislike the babies, I dislike their selfish parents. If you go into a movie that is not destined or made for children, do not take your 1, 2, 3 or 4 year old to watch it, because a) he/she most likely will not understand it and b) he/she will most likely talk or cry at some point and you will annoy the whole theatre. Children who are very quiet and well behaved are of course exempt.

Well, these were my love its and shove its. If you do one after reading this, PLEASE tag me so I can read it and recommend it 😊 Any suggestions, opinions, requests? Leave them in the comments!💬