Why is it so difficult to put a pic in my profile?

There has got to be an easier way to add a picture to my profile than to first post it in my blog and then link to it... or at least that's what I think is the procedure.

Why can't I just upload picture to profile? hmphhh!

so I'm adding this luverly penguin (c) Kabefis (check out the gallery here) to the profile to fill in the empty spaces on my blog (following on resolution to try and maintain this thing for at least two weeks)
Heard somewhere that if you repeat an action regularly at the same time everyday for more than 10 days it becomes a habit...