1. I'm a survivor. I lived through some pretty tough stuff as a kid without anyone knowing about it.
2. I can prepare a simple, yet tasty dinner for guests with only 30 minutes notice. It won't be Martha Stewart, but it will be nutritious, yummy, and frequently attractive.
3. I can make lists like you wouldn't believe. Grocery lists, menu lists, cleaning lists, organizing lists, book lists, craft lists. It's the implementing I get stuck on.
4. I can sing. I did theater in high school and college, and even a little opera. My father-in-law was horrified when he found out my own plans for using this talent would be singing lullabies to my kids.
5. I love learning. You know how some people spend hours on Pinterest? For me it's Wikipedia.
6. I have an awesome vocabulary evidenced by the recent use of detritus in casual conversation.
7. I can replace an empty toilet paper roll while using the restroom (this skill alludes my entire family).
8. I taught myself to crochet maybe 4 years ago, and can't stop doing it now.
9. I make prayer beads even though I was raised in a conservative Protestant home, and I use them as well. So far I have not spontaneously combusted.
10. I am a fount of random, generally useless knowledge. Hitler drove a red Mercedes to one of his first political rallies. See?
11. Even though I love to read, I avoided actually reading most of the classics by reading the summaries in my dad's copy of Masterplots (this gels with #5).
12. I have 30 + varieties of tea in my cabinet right now.
13. I sleep with a stuffed bunny named Yolie every night. (This may or may not be a reflection of how awesome my husband is, since he puts up with it!)
14. I am able to remember that dirty dishes go to the left of the sink, while clean dishes go on the right.
15. Rumor has it that I am brave, intuitive, sincere, generous, perceptive, wise, self aware, funny, compassionate, and warm (but I'm not sure I buy into all of those).
What are super-awesome skills?
linking up with Writer's Workshop
those are some super awesome skills. kelley—the road goes ever ever on
ReplyDeleteGreat list. 30 kinds of tea? how do you ever choose.
ReplyDelete3. I like to make lists, too; unfortunately, I'm better at losing them
ReplyDelete7. You and me both, sistah!
14. I smell a husband here....
#7...I think that is a skill all moms share, because men and children are simply incapable of doing it!
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