I can’t chop anything properly except wood.
I can’t make a pastry pie crust, but I can make a graham cracker crust from scratch. Scratch = breaking up the graham crackers from the box.
Culinary Boy’s doing a lot better today. Another tooth broke last night when he closed his mouth too fast. We’re going to the dental urgent care tonight when they open up. His stitches have dried up although he still has the Homer Simpson upper lip going on (his description). The healing thoughts are working! 
I’m an imperfect perfectionist. I can never get anything done as well as I see it in me head so I often give up, procrastinate doing it or just give up. If I could just accept my imperfectness I would be much happier. I am aware of my imperfections, I just don’t want to accept them.
Also, I hate my sinuses. They are way too imperfect. I need them like I need holes in my head. The weather is so beautiful right now but can I enjoy it? No, I feel like someone filled my sinus cavities with cement. If I take drugs for it, they make me feel like someone filled my brain with helium and I can’t concen… ooh, what’s that over there?
I really really want a clean house but am not good at keeping it that way… so we pay someone who is good at it. Problem solved. 
I am a perfectionist and I can’t handle the possibility of making a fool of myself in front of others. So I find ways to get out of any game/sport with other people. I just had to get out of going bowling with coworkers and then say no to playing pool at a different mandatory work “fun” event.
Because I’m a perfectionist, I don’t often try new things that I might not be good at. So I don’t know what I’m not good at because I haven’t tried it! 
Things are running horribly slowly at work. It’s at the point where it affects my mood: I go home feeling really crappy because I haven’t been able to do any work all day. Day after day. I came in this morning feeling pretty good because I’d gotten a jump on some of the work at home before the server clogged up. And within an hour I was grumpy and bummed out again. They have got to do something about this, but IT doesn’t see it as a problem. :mad: 
I can’t visualize things, which is pretty weird for an engineer. I can design things for specific purposes and they’ll do what they’re supposed to do, but I can’t “see” the final product in my mind.
Same when we are out getting things for the house - I can’t look at a piece of furniture or a lamp or a paint color and place it in a room mentally. I see things that I like, but I can’t visualize a coherent combination. It makes decorating the house really interesting. I tend to rely on FCD’s judgement.
I’m also bad with names and faces, except when I know a person’s name ahead of time - then for some reason, I can make a connection. But if I just meet someone somewhere, chances are I won’t make a name/face connection - most likely I’ll forget the name. Very embarrassing.
In other news, I’m still coughing, but not as much. I’m beginning to think **FCD **has bronchitis - he’s sleeping with a vaporizer tonight. Daughter has a teacher meeting or something this evening, so she won’t be home till late. Such is the exciting news in FairyChatLand…
Tonight is men’s night at the church house. Steaks marinated and beer chillin’. Go Me! I’ll head over to OYKW’s place and pick him up. Makes more sense that way. I’d go now but I need to wait about half an hour until a pot roast gets done in the slow cooker. That’s tomorrow’s dindin.
Hey everyone! I’m not a new MMPer, I just have a new name. I decided that since I am starting life anew, so to speak, I needed a new name. Look at my location, you know me! I also have a new email address, it’s in my profile. I have lost my contacts list in the latest upgrade (I broke down and put in Windows 7) so if you want to hear from me via email, send me one so I can grab your address!
I find that it is extremely difficult to say what is on my mind if it’s something negative. I hem and haw and try to get my meaning across without hurting anybodys feelings. Inevitably this causes me a lot of misery, and I end up blurting out what has been on my mind, and then everyone, especially me, feels badly. :rolleyes: I also identify with imperfect perfectionism and the desire to not play the fool, so among other things I will never do, bowling pretty much tops the list!
Cooking is easy, baking is science. I can both cook and bake. I twitched a new carrot cake recipe that is super easy to make, I will share the recipe later, and for people who “can’t bake” I encourage you to try it. It turns into a light, moist cake full of flavor. I am a carrot cake junkie, and this is my new hands down favorite, and the Cake Baking Queen in the family deemed it delicious!
I am short on paitience as well, and now that I have decided on the house and am under contract to purchase it, I WANNA MOVE NOW!!! Although I am looking at the island with short timer eyes, and it is magnificent in its beauty. Still, I want to get out of here before vthe snow flies.
Coffee time, I will be back.
No, really, I will!
I forgot to add earlier - my church voted yesterday to become a Reconciling Ministry. I am really happy that we were able to agree within a year of starting the process. With almost no objections and, as far as I know, only one family leaving the church.
Crap - that means you get a new nickname. And it’ll take me forever to get used to it. You should have consulted us first, you know…
I’m still not used to Sticks and Scones new name…
Too many changes around here.
Welcome back, erm… Moorey! That’s not quite right… We’ll have to work on it.
I’m a perfectly awful housekeeper. I did not inherit that gene from Mom.
That really the only thing that I’m perfectly lousy at. Everything else I can do sort of well at least some of the time. However there are several things I don’t do because I’m perfectly lazy. A relatively new friend describes me as an easy going sweetie. I guess I have her fooled.
Damn, I thought I had fresh meat for flirting, too… 
How you doin’, The Mumper formerly known as Wiki?
ETA: I have 0 artistic ability, to the point that I cannot do the graphic portion of a Windoze app, but I can do all of the programming blindfolded and with half my brain tied behind my back. Can’t sing, either.
lol…I’ll still answer to kai and wiki! My new name is in reference to my Scots ancestry, especially in recognition that while we might get knocked down, we don’t stay down.
It has been a rough year.
But I am back, lessons learned and new beginnings, life is good. Still have some riptides to navigate, but I am facing them with renewed resolve.
It feels so good to be able to say stuff like that, my kids just roll their eyes at me.
Bobbio (and the rest of you boys) I still need lots of flirting, it helps keep an old woman feeling young. Well, youngish!
Well…it is Monday. Crazy busy day today with lots of interviews and random work to do.
I have no creative side. At all. I also have no patience. At all.
Back to work…laters!
In that case, I suggest the nickname Scottie
#1: Well, that will cut down on my confusion, considering my first name is Kai.
#2: Now I have Chumbawumba’s Tubthumping stuck in my head. Darn you. I even have the sewing needles. Darn you!
Love the new name! How about Mokai?
I say kai’s new nickname shall be Scottie! Rosie and I have so decreed!
What? Well we gotta decide on sump’n.
Oh and, Scottie, FWIW from a gay man, how you doin’?
Men’s night was wunnerful! Two coolers of (brace yourself doggio) Yuengling were donated, so a good time was had by all.
Da bear has a pleasent buzz a’goin’.
Lessee, things I’m not good at:
[ul]
[li]Machine sewing (I can sew pretty well by hand, but sewing a straight seam with a machine? Really difficult.)[/li][li]Housekeeping[/li][li]Keeping my mouth shut at certain key times[/li][li]Sleeping (just call me the insomnia queen)[/li][/ul]
I find that being creative and doing creative things are really two different things. I’m not very good at doing original creative things, but I’ve gotten very good at taking other people’s ideas as my inspiration and doing my own variation on a theme.
Nice OP, by the way, Sticky.
I think we might be related. I’ve gotten better at dealing with this over time, but this is a big part of my basic personality.
Yay!
Nava:
I like both Scottie and Mokai and shall use them interchangeably! 
Tired. Although I actually slept pretty well last night; just stayed up too late.
Will try to get to sleep soon…
Hugs.
GT
I worked, went to the Bistro for the meatloaf special9dran good). There was a dude there with a Pittsburgh jersey in my bar.:mad: I need to buy ice skates.
swampy, glad you folk on Jawja have good taste. we’ll be serving a lot of that at Convention next year.
Congrats on the name, Scottie, and how ya doin.?( I like hot older girls)
Forgot to post a link to a Rita Mae Brown essay about the birthday dinner she asked for when she turned 7. Especially for those of you who love animals. (swampy - you may not want to read it as it may add to the “reasons to get a dog” column.)