I luuuuv Sharil's thread about naming what are you not good at, so now let's look at the other side of the coin. Name four things that you are very good at doing.

Here's mine:

Making baklava
Party planning
Conversation
Doing hair

Come on folks, it's your turn to shine, lol!!

Conversation
Baking
Not sure I'm good, but I love to write
Memory---names, dates, places, lyrics to songs
Taking pictures

Layout/word processing/editing
Cooking
Project management
Interior decorating

I'm good at:

making soup
amusing children
research and paleography
needlepoint
writing and teaching

and remembering Buffy the Vampire Slayer trivia and dialogue. If I could remember important names and dates in medieval history with the same kind of steel-trap recall that I have for Buffy episodes, I'd be bound for glory. Alack.

Making mountains out of molehills , cross stitch , cooking , baking , re finishing furniture , husband bothering.

I have magic hands
I am very musical with an excellent ear
I can train cats

please teach me!

I dress really well. that because i'm really good at shopping, i know where all the cool places to go to in NYC, i can find anything i need or want from the top designers. i speak several languages.

I dabble in poetry. Don't know that I'm good, but it makes me feel good.

I have healing hands
I have real animal magnetism- for animals...
Listening and making you laugh
Gratitude for tiny things
Memory for songs, lyrics, poetry
Can create wicked ditties on demand
Baking , cooking
Getting in my own way

Parallel parking
Beer-pong
Being a wife, mommy, daughter, sister and friend
Long ago I got a perfect score on my verbal SAT's

-Noelle

I'm impressed.


I can snap my fingers against my cheek in such a way that it sounds exactly like a drop of water falling into the sink. This is completely useless, but I'm good at it.

I can fix most computer problems.
I'm good at research and recalling obscure facts.
I can make realistic flowers out of sugar/gumpaste, wire, and powdered food color.
I speak a few languages and understand some that I don't speak.
I learn quickly.
I can let go very easily.

Taking care of babies & animals (especially cats)
Holding a grudge
House decor (NOT holiday decorating though)
faking a "headache" ; )

LOL, Stink! Thanks, you really gave me a grin just now.

I can make you like me! (If you meet me in person) I'm a people person. I can read you..........
I have a good sense of humor.
I can cook
Let me entertain you.........

I can identify 'voices' w/o seeing the face. I can always identify a celebrity voice during 'narrations' or commercials. Weird, I know, but it's fun.
I'm good at cleaning house and de-cluttering.
I'm a good public speaker.
I can make a great Arroz con Pollo (Cuban Chicken and Rice.)
I am fully bilingual/Spanish (read, write, speak).

I cook well, and bake and grill with good results
I speak very well, and have won a few contests in the last year
I can disassemble and reassemble most mechanical objects with success, with no instructions. Including small engines.
I am a good carpenter and have built a hope chest from raw wood and a napkin sketch.
Math, science, and taxes come second nature to me
I have contagious smiles :)

I'm an excellent mimic...singing and speaking
Massages
I'm a good driver
I can draw people out and get them to share things they normally wouldn't

I'm funny. I can most people laugh if I try.

Good memory. That really bothers my husband that I have a good memory especially when we argue. He'll say to me that I remember every sordid details, no matter how minute or grand it would be and to what the person said, VERBATIM.

Electronic gadgets - I bought a smart phone (palm treo) and I set everything up. No technician assistance. It took me 2 days.

It bothers me just to hear this.

Mrs. T seems to have this as well (either that or a ton of chutzpah). There are only two defenses to this. One is a poor memory and willingness to disavow anything previously said or unsaid, and the other is to tell the truth.

I'm an accomplished singer and could have had a professional career if I didn't also want a husband.

I'm good at directing choirs of all ages and ability levels, although I seem to work best with the gifted.

I can get along with absolutely anybody. Butcher, baker, candlestick maker, truck driver, Stephen Hawking and everyone in between. Working in a grocery store for several years taught me this skill.

I am the first in any room to get a joke. I always seem to laugh a nanosecond before the rest of the room. Plus, I find strange things funny.

-Spreadsheets (boring, but true)
-Organizing my collections in a way where I know where everything is (makeup, shoes, perfume, bath and body products, jewelry, scarves)
-Giving people the benefit of a doubt
-Being patient with difficult people (I don't know if I want this skill, as people tend to tax it when they know it's there, but I have it nonetheless)
-Empowering people ("let me help you... help yourself, do it yourself, learn it..etc.")
-Solving problems
-Boring, long and tedious paperwork
-Reading people, or their moods, if I've met them in person
-Getting cats to like me
-Making funny faces and voices to entertain my husband and children of all ages
-Not getting sick at very gross things/smells/situations

Oh, yes. Me too. And pigs also.

Um ... how do you know this?

Thankfully, my husband has a sense of humor about my memory.

Well, there was this pig. In the front yard of a house near here. A pet pig, apparently. The owners were in the front yard as well, and a couple of dogs. Can't remember what they were doing. I said hello to the pig. The pig took one look at me, and made a beeline in my direction. I scratched her, and ... well, it was total adoration. The owners said they'd never seen her behave that way before. She didn't want me to go.

I am, apparently, the Pig Whisperer.

Hee heeeeeee!

I have these traits, too. Also:

-I write helpful marginal comments.
-I'm good at asking the first question that makes it easier for other people to talk in class.
-Even though I hate conflict, I'm a pretty good mediator when running and hiding isn't an option.
-I don't understand cats well but am good with dogs and llamas.
-I rarely get bored; I'm good at finding some snippet of interest in most situations, even if it's just a list of things I want to investigate further later or a line I want to use in a poem.

Yes , all true , it rings true in your posts and your sense of humour , I love a gal who can get a good chortle in the strangest things.

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More...

Shopping/buying (very efficient at getting the best deals/highest quality, whether it's my money or someone else's, or the company's)
I'm very funny and can make just about anyone laugh with my wry sense of humor
Good bottom-line thinker
Good party guest

Oh, vy sank you, dahlink.

Twitch, you pig whisperer, you, (that's so funny!), DH does that drop of water thing, too, drives me crazy only 'cause I can't figure out how to do it!

I'm good at:

-Keeping my cool
-Finding something to like in most people
-Listening
-Being a sort of catalyst. I don't always have the idea, but I'm good at brainstorming or provoking the idea, if that makes any sense.
-Baking
-Analytical and strategic thinking
-Multi-tasking (which can be a blessing and a curse!)
-Soothing difficult situations

Deev, we were separated at birth... [by a LOT of years !]
Twitch- we should talk.
I'm the Sheep Whisperer.
[Wind up at country fairs with a titful of sheepsnot, because i massage them and sing them lullabies...I'm a sick puppy]