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05-10-2010, 03:36 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Art
Colors
Computer software
Problem-solving
Thinking outside of the box (rarely appreciated at work)
Simplifying complicated issues (sometimes known as cutting to the chase...)
Cooking, especially baking
Making and repairing things - as long as they don't involve electric or plumbing...
I think I will be good at napping - about 10 weeks to ER so haven't had time to test the theory
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05-10-2010, 05:28 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by Westernskies
This thread is useless without pictures.
...and bacon.
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Sorry darlin'...no bacon as DH wanted breasts....
But here are some pics....
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05-10-2010, 05:43 PM
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gone traveling
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Originally Posted by bbbamI
Sorry darlin'...no bacon as DH wanted breasts....
But here are some pics....
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Yummm...
What time is the next feeding?
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05-10-2010, 06:42 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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It's gonna be a while...I'm full. 
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05-10-2010, 07:19 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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I'm really good at eating homemade biscuits and gravy.   
PS. do I get a dryer sheet for this?
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05-10-2010, 07:27 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Location: Northern California
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Bbbam1,
Don't you just love those old cast iron frying pans! I'll be right over!
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05-10-2010, 07:47 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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1) I am really, really good at "intense single tasking". In fact, whenever I concentrate at my computer screen, my scratchpad, or my electronic workbench, people who walk into the room and speak up behind me never fail to startle me.
2) Nother thing I recently discover I am good at is that I give people ideas to start new threads. 
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05-10-2010, 07:53 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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I do admire a man that knows what he is good at.....
Yeah...you'll need a dryer sheet or at least a napkin to dab your mouth. 
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Originally Posted by antmary
Bbbam1,
Don't you just love those old cast iron frying pans! I'll be right over!
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I really do. I have two (one of which is in that pic) that used to belong to my great grandmother and I wouldn't take a farm in Georgia for them. 
You are welcome to come over, but wait until tomorrow. Cooking and eating that food made me sleepy. 
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05-10-2010, 08:55 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by antmary
I like to take a morning walk, work in the garden, and then go make art. But, I am the quintessential napper.
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btw, I love your painting...you have a gentle, rhythmic touch.
That is something (well, one of the many things) I've never mastered.
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05-11-2010, 07:39 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bbbamI
Sorry darlin'...no bacon as DH wanted breasts....
But here are some pics....
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For some reason, all of a sudden I'm starving....
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05-11-2010, 07:48 AM
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I'm good at fixing stuff, but I'm equally adept at breaking things so that sorta evens out. Maybe that's how I got good at fixing things  ?
I can balance a checkbook, an ability that eludes many and accounts (pun intended) for many of the world's woes.
Others have said I could make a good living painting houses in part because I spend more time on surface preparation than the actual painting. But just because I'm good at it doesn't mean I like it.
Photography, when I take the time to think through the shot.
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05-11-2010, 07:50 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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bbbamI...do you make egg gravy? That's yummy, especially when made in bacon grease and ladled over home made biscuits.  I haven't had that in ages.
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05-11-2010, 07:52 AM
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May this be an exception to the rule that I'm good at killing threads.
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05-11-2010, 09:01 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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I've lost track of what I'm good at.........of course, DW always keeps track of what I'm not good at...........
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This Thread is USELESS without pics.........:)
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05-11-2010, 09:20 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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For some reason, all of a sudden I'm starving.... |
Come on over...I'll make room for ya!
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bbbamI...do you make egg gravy? That's yummy, especially when made in bacon grease and ladled over home made biscuits. I haven't had that in ages. |
Oh egg gravy...you know I haven't made that in 'blows and stretches'.... I'm gonna have to make it again. Then eat sticks and weeds the rest of the week....
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05-11-2010, 09:54 AM
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I'm really good at researching things to the nth degree.
I'm a pretty good cook - especially thai food.
I'm a really good listener.
I'm a decent dancer.
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05-11-2010, 01:00 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Non-work things I can do fairly well:
Play trombone
Sing
Golf
General painting
Darts
Pool
Fishing
massages
dance
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This Thread is USELESS without pics.........:)
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05-11-2010, 04:15 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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We sound an awful lot alike, except I don't know how to code software. Also, I figured out how to hook up the hole in the back of the dryer to the thingy in the wall when my husband couldn't, so that makes me good at plumbing 
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Originally Posted by thinker25
Art
Colors
Computer software
Problem-solving
Thinking outside of the box (rarely appreciated at work)
Simplifying complicated issues (sometimes known as cutting to the chase...)
Cooking, especially baking
Making and repairing things - as long as they don't involve electric or plumbing...
I think I will be good at napping - about 10 weeks to ER so haven't had time to test the theory
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Even a blind clock finds an acorn twice a day.
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05-11-2010, 04:17 PM
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gone traveling
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Amethyst
We sound an awful lot alike, except I don't know how to code software. Also, I figured out how to hook up the hole in the back of the dryer to the thingy in the wall when my husband couldn't, so that makes me good at plumbing
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Well, technically, it's part of the HVAC system, not the plumbing. But glad you figured it out...
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05-11-2010, 07:43 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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This thread has been fun to read!
My really can-do list:
Sudoku
Making little kids laugh
Organizing
Target shooting
Making cheesecake
Remembering what I read (this skill doesn't extend to numbers, unfortunately)Hiking (my grown children refuse to go with me anymore because I show no mercy on the trail)
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