The Friday Five for 8 March 2024/Just wondering

[spikesgirl58]

anais_pf posted in thefridayfive

1. What's a skill you'd like to learn?

2. What's a hobby you'd like to try?

3. What's the best compliment you've ever received?

4. What's one way in which you are awesome?

5. What's a gift you would like to receive (in case anyone asks)

Comments

[sweetmeow]

1. What's a skill you'd like to learn? -- It's kind of late in my life, but I've always wanted to learn computer coding. If I had been born at a different time, I might have gone into IT. I'm not sure I have it in me to learn now

[spikesgirl58]

#3 As a writer, I can tell you that it's not just who remembers the bad rather than the good. I remember every bad review I've ever gotten.

Friendship is a nice gift and always best when it's returned. :D

[trichgal76]

1-My top skill I would like to learn is how to cook better and healthier.

2-Tai-Chi or take a Belly dance or Flamenco dance lesson.

3-I get high praise for finding and giving the best greeting cards for pratically any occasion!

4-I find interesting books to read.

5-Can't think of one, I prefer to give myself a gift.

[spikesgirl58]

I'd like to learn to cook better, too, but my waistline disagrees. :D

#5 Just like me. :DD

[rhodielady_47b]

If I could, I'd love to learn carpentry. I'd love to make myself some new furniture!

[spikesgirl58]

Such a great skill. I miss working with wood so much, but the hands aren't up to it anymore.

[rhodielady_47b]

I've longed to learn carpentry since I was in my teens. Even then I had a long list of furniture I'd have loved to have had and the list hasn't gotten any shorter.

It has been my sad lot in life never to have had the opportunity to learn carpentry and my even sadder lot in life never to have had a man in my life who had any carpentry skills or the desire to acquire them.

I envy you your wood working skills!

:^{

[spikesgirl58]

I was fortunate that my father taught me and then I learned on the job when I was in the scene shop. I restored a lot of furniture, both for the theatre and for friends while there. TBG doesn't have much in the way of carpentry skills, but I love him anyhow. :DD

Thanks!

[theirgrammy]

1. What's a skill you'd like to learn?
How to draw a straight line

2. What's a hobby you'd like to try?
Needle Point

3. What's the best compliment you've ever received?
You really have a wonderful singing voice.

4. What's one way in which you are awesome?
I’m not sure if I am awesome. Although Jack thinks I am

5. What's a gift you would like to receive (in case anyone asks)
For Spencer and Jack to stay at their age they are now a bit longer. Or a 1966 Mustang Ragtop 🙃

[spikesgirl58]

#1. I used to tell my students who told me this that is was perfect as there are few straight lines in nature. Bet I could teach you to paint. :D

#4 Never doubt the Jack! :DD

#5 Did I ever tell you that my f-i-l owned a 66 Mustang and offered it to me. I wanted it so badly, but by the time he got to that point, I couldn't drive it (back and leg issues). Heavy sigh.

[sidhe_uaine42]

1) Swimming (nobody knows when it could save their life and/or a loved one!)

2) Knitting (I only know the "drop stitch",) crocheting (same thing) and/or sewing (would help repair all of the things The Trio have torn with the claws, saving that much more money for other things!)

3) "You explain things so much clearer than the instructor!"/"You explain this better than our colleagues!"/"Do you have a couple of minutes to help my office mate with her paper? You're the first person who came to mind who's a native English speaker..." (The last one was from a gentleman who didn't learn how to speak English until he was already an adult, and that was because he grew up in the former Soviet Union and he pretty much taught himself, and his office mate was a Hmong-speaker writing a paper to keep her credentials up to date)

4) It depends on who you ask

5) A large home mixer/small industrial mixer (preferably KitchenAid) along with sturdy bakeware (I mostly have el cheapo bakeware that has rusted through or was cut up so badly that it had to be

[spikesgirl58]

Floating is important, too. so many people panic in the water.