Totally cracked me up too, sarameg. Robin is the bestest.

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.

Don't forget the gold spraypaint on the macaroni frames!

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.

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.

Can you play any instrument? Hold a tune when singing?

I played the violin for a couple of years, but didnt' stick with it. I can carry a tune well, but my actual singing voice isn't particularly pretty. I could sing in a choir, but I'd never solo. I want to learn the piano. I can mimic tunes, and read music well enough plunk out a song in single notes, but I want to learn how to play for real. Maybe I should make lessons my 2006 thing.

ita, when you're back up to your full strength we should learn how to handspring. Less learning for me, than reviewing and getting down to my fighting weight.

we should learn how to handspring

My 2006 list of skills to acquire just got one longer. Kewl.

Although I took voice lessons, I was merely okay. Then I had a bad voice loss, and now I'm a vocal klutz. It's quite appalling.

I cannot dance. This has not stopped me from many humiliating attempts at learning. I still occasionally, wistfully, pathetically long to learn how.

My limbs, they mock me.

And yet we can jump...yeah, I got nothing. I don't see why bone density would stop someone from having swimming lessons or developing basic competency. It totally has to be socialised at that point.

And does the density really translate to that much difference in the water?

In my kid-teaching experience, high density (be it bone or muscle or whatever) makes it harder to LEARN to swim. Initially you get kids in the water and want them to feel comfortable there (urban/suburban split comes in big time, if its the first or second time a kid has been in a pool...). Then you have them blow bubbles. Then you have them hold onto the edge and kick. Then kick and blow bubbles... all these things are easier (and less scary) if you are naturally bouyant.

Once you can kick and breathe the bouyancy matters much less.