Wow! This could be a very long list, but I’ll keep to the bare basics.
- I wish I knew how to do all the things that I do know how to do only better! I get to a certain point of expertise and quit, move on to the next interest and do the same. When I go back to the first everyone else has improved so much, and I’m 20 years behind.
- For example, I’d sure like to write fiction better than I do.
- Better cook
- Better photographer
- Better quilter
- Better knitter
- More artistic
- Better gardener
- Better poet
- Better organizer
- Better planner
- More musical
- More thrifty
- I’d love to be more athletic and less of a klutz.
- I’d like to learn to crochet.
- I’d like to learn to draw and to paint.
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36 responses to “Bloganuary: My Missing Skills”
That’s a long list.
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Sadly! 🙂
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wait… Marsha, I think you’re good at most of those you just said you weren’t that good at! 💖
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LOL, I’d say mediocre compared to experts. That’s my measure, my friend. 🙂
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Well, i know for a fact you’ve mastered a few on that list! 💖💖💖🙏👏👏👏
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Look at you authoress of a book!
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Aren’t you the cutest! 💖
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my list would be quite long as well, but if I were to pick one, I would go with wishing I knew how to play a musical instrument…
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That would be a good one. Which instrument would you like to play?
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guitar or piano…
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Good choices. When are you starting lessons?
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maybe when I retire…
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Hobbies are so much fun and with 1000s to choose from, we have a long list to try to accomplish a handful! I agree with Janis’ comment about learning to play an instrument in elementary school. My mom didn’t encourage me, oh well. You do have a great list of things you feel you could be better at, but you are very accomplished already in many of those, Marsha!
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Thank you so much, my friend. You should hear me on the piano. I thought I could play well by osmosis. My mom was a pianist and all I had to do was imbibe her talent. It didn’t work that way. No matter how hard I practiced, it came out like I keyboard – one note forward, erase and two notes back. 🙂
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There are things I can do that I’d like to do better, like you – I’d like to speak better German for instance, and to speak more than a few words of Italian. But top of my list would be being able to sing, which I can’t do at all! I can hear it’s all wrong, so I can’t be tone deaf, but I just can’t make my voice go where I know it should be!
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Ah, Sarah, me too. I wish I could sing again. With all the things that happened to me this summer, my voice has a new range of about 2 notes and those are not pretty. I have no breath control. It is a sad state of affairs. I am actually able to sing a tad better than I could two months ago, but I was down to a 0-note range at that point. To think I could almost reach 3 octaves when vocalized with my mom when I was a teenager – so debilitating! I wish you the best in learning to sing. It brought me a lot of joy but I didn’t appreciate what I had until I lost it completely.
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I hope more comes back to you in the future – it must be a hopeful sign that a little has done so. But I think I’m a lost cause!
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You could change your name to TuneSarah. Maybe that would help! 🙂
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😂😂
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If I were to do such a list for myself, I’d have many of the same items on it. No matter how hard I’d try, though, I’d like to be a better singer. My wife will tell you that after 50 years+, there’s been no improvement.
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LOL! I told Toonsarah my sad story about singing. I can’t anymore.
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My list is very similar to yours Marsha! Still deciding what to write about!
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It’s called cut and paste and use quote marks! LOL Then comment to make it your own!
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It just about like that🤭
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LOL
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We always want to be better at things and I have a long list too. Yet I am happy with the things I can do. We can’t be experts at everything 🙂 I am excellent in relaxing!
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I love that, Ute. I am an expert at that as well, though not as good as Nutter Butter. 🙂
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I think you’re a very good writer and photographer.
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Thanks so much, Sadje. I’ve been working at both of those skills for longer than any of the other hobbies I have.
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You’re welcome!
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You sound like Chris. She loves bouncing from one thing to another. She just loves exploring new skills or hobbies. 😀 😀
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We are a lot alike, I think. 🙂 🙂
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I think I’d have a fairly long list too. I feel that I’m pretty good at some things but not great at many. I wish I had taken up the violin when I was offered the chance in 6th grade (apparently my ability to discern individual tones was especially good). I also wish I was better at learning languages.
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Amen to both of those. I was going to take violin in 5th grade. Dad said no way he was going to listen to my screeching and squeaking. I speak three languages poorly, English, Spanish and French.
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Bloganuary in January. Alex would love this quilt LOL!
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Manny inherited it – my teddy bear.
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