We haven't even hit on the childhood crafty and arts skills.
I can glue macaroni on a picture frame like a motherfucker.
A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Jan 05, 2006 8:48:05 am PST #7844 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Connie Neil - Jan 05, 2006 8:48:56 am PST #7845 of 10002
brillig
I would love to learn ballroom dancing and belly dancing. I can get down with my funky self when I'm alone with the door closed and the curtains drawn.
edit: though the cats probably are snickering to themselves when I do.
Kat - Jan 05, 2006 8:49:13 am PST #7846 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I offered to cover someone's powerbook with masking tape and adding shoe polish for a faux corkboard look. She declined.
sarameg - Jan 05, 2006 8:49:22 am PST #7847 of 10002
I can glue macaroni on a picture frame like a motherfucker.
No fair making me laugh!
§ ita § - Jan 05, 2006 8:49:44 am PST #7848 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
did you do handsprings?
No, sadly. I was crap. I had no physical coordination skills until I was done with puberty. Which took a while.
A gymnast friend offered to teach me five years ago, thought it should be no problem. Hmm.
Kat - Jan 05, 2006 8:49:47 am PST #7849 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Totally cracked me up too, sarameg. Robin is the bestest.
Daisy Jane - Jan 05, 2006 8:49:50 am PST #7850 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I think I'm actually less coordinated now that I have hips and boobs. I'm not as much of a tomboy anymore because a) shooting a ball around D's is hard b) getting knocked in the chest hurts much more and c) everything doesn't work like it did when I was lankier rather than curvier.
Connie Neil - Jan 05, 2006 8:50:04 am PST #7851 of 10002
brillig
Don't forget the gold spraypaint on the macaroni frames!
Kathy A - Jan 05, 2006 8:50:25 am PST #7852 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Can you play any instrument? Hold a tune when singing?
Piano/organ, clarinet/bass clarinet, and alto saxaphone, and I did manage to get cast in the chorus of my junior year of high-school play (Pajama Game) after auditioning every year before then and not making the cut. Voice is very low alto.
Beverly - Jan 05, 2006 8:51:00 am PST #7853 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I took dance lessons in roller skating, with an eye toward competition, and had just been partnered when I fell spectacularly and wrecked my (already dislocated multiple times) right knee. Ice skates are less heavy and while there are other perils, on ice skates one is much more maneuverable than one is on roller skates (the four-wheel ones), so the injury would probably not have been as catastrophic on ice.
I took eight years of piano lessons with a very bad teacher, and can read music well enough to pick out four-part harmony on the piano, but I was never a gifted pianist. I sang in church, sang a couple of gigs with a band (torch-type songs), sang musical comedy in school plays, in the high school 500+ voice chorus, and in various semi-pro folk duets and trios. DH can't carry a tune "in a bucket" and has never really liked my voice. And I realized the other day that while I used to sing all the time, in the car, around the house, I don't any more. My breath control is shot, and my range is gone. And I'm a little sad about that.