Day 12: Your Favorite Personality Trait

 Okay, I admittedly skipped "5 things you like about you" because that is just not the purpose for which I'm doing this challenge, however I'll participate with one. This year, I'm grateful that there's an adventurous streak in me. It's wrapped up in a bundle with other traits like shyness, protective mother, and cautious lawyer, so that sometimes it gets overruled and often it surprises people. But it totally lights me up to get to see a new place, try a new activity, have a new experience -- and if there's some element of challenge to it, all the better. It is absolutely part of the fun of things if you're checking out a new lake and this includes driving down an extremely bumpy road and going out of cell service; if your vacation involves navigating public transportation in a different language; if your race involves a 2 am leg out in the middle of nowhere. That makes the thing MORE appealing, not less. I'm thankful that this streak helps me overcome some of the aforementioned things that I don't love as much about myself.