Guess what I can do.....

JAGG · 10-10-2012, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by JustJo

Holy cow how did I miss this thread?

I admire you all!

I can...

roll my tongue in a tube
bake a cake from scratch without a recipe
harness and drive a four horse team
read freakishly fast...like 600 wpm
french braid my own hair (when it was long enough to do so)
french braid someone else's hair too!

I bet you couldn't french braid my hair. lol

cinnamongrrl · 10-10-2012, 08:45 PM

I can make pumpkin cheesecake disappear! It's MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

easygoingfemme · 10-10-2012, 08:56 PM

Hrm.

I can ride my bike for long stretches at a time (The kind with pedals, not a motor).
I can teach people how to ride bikes, even adults who swear it's impossible.
I can cook kale about 175 different ways, including ways that make people who hate kale turn to lovers of it.
I can swallow fire.
I can handle a lot of household repair jobs- I just avoid electrical ones.
I can speed read.
I can speed write.
I can do basic math in my head.
I do well breaking down big projects into manageable steps.
I can teach my dog tricks. (but not the cats)
I can find optimism in most all situations.
I can defuse drama in many situations (not all)
I can handle big groups of kids, usually with patience.

cinnamongrrl · 10-10-2012, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by easygoingfemme

Hrm.

I can ride my bike for long stretches at a time (The kind with pedals, not a motor).
I can teach people how to ride bikes, even adults who swear it's impossible.
I can cook kale about 175 different ways, including ways that make people who hate kale turn to lovers of it.
I can swallow fire.
I can handle a lot of household repair jobs- I just avoid electrical ones.
I can speed read.
I can speed write.
I can do basic math in my head.
I do well breaking down big projects into manageable steps.
I can teach my dog tricks. (but not the cats)
I can find optimism in most all situations.
I can defuse drama in many situations (not all)
I can handle big groups of kids, usually with patience.

All the talk of kale and bike riding gives me guilt for the cheesecake....

Honestly, I enjoy both...but today was a day for pumpkin cheesecake....and macaroni and cheese...which I resisted!

easygoingfemme · 10-10-2012, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by cinnamongrrl563

All the talk of kale and bike riding gives me guilt for the cheesecake....

Honestly, I enjoy both...but today was a day for pumpkin cheesecake....and macaroni and cheese...which I resisted!

Oh no no, no guilt about the cheesecake! Food guilt is soooo not good for you. Some days are made for pumpkin cheesecake. Today was your day.

JustJo · 10-14-2012, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by JAGG

I bet you couldn't french braid my hair. lol

Sure I could....I would just have to pull really hard.

easygoingfemme · 10-14-2012, 07:39 PM

Can I derail to say what I hope I can do tomorrow?
The challenge:
Teaching a cooking class for 25 participants. Demonstration style- I do all the work, talking, educating, cooking, serving. ( I have two assistants to help stir and wash dishes as needed)
Goals: Meet class topic of teaching how to make 5 different dinner pies and having them done in time for everyone to watch how they are made and get to eat them too.
Challenges. Cooking 5 entrees for 25 people in 2.5 hours, including cooking time. Average bake time range from 25-45 minutes. Also includes making polenta from scratch (one crust), vegan bechamel sauce (to go on mushroom pie), and vegan gravy(to top shepherds pie). Each takes about 20 minutes.
Perks: I will have 6 burners, two full size ovens, two arms, two assistants, and a pretty good ability to multi-task.

Can I get a "you can do it!" with a promise from me to update tomorrow to see if I can claim that this is something I can actually do?

princessbelle · 10-14-2012, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by easygoingfemme

Can I derail to say what I hope I can do tomorrow?
The challenge:
Teaching a cooking class for 25 participants. Demonstration style- I do all the work, talking, educating, cooking, serving. ( I have two assistants to help stir and wash dishes as needed)
Goals: Meet class topic of teaching how to make 5 different dinner pies and having them done in time for everyone to watch how they are made and get to eat them too.
Challenges. Cooking 5 entrees for 25 people in 2.5 hours, including cooking time. Average bake time range from 25-45 minutes. Also includes making polenta from scratch (one crust), vegan bechamel sauce (to go on mushroom pie), and vegan gravy(to top shepherds pie). Each takes about 20 minutes.
Perks: I will have 6 burners, two full size ovens, two arms, two assistants, and a pretty good ability to multi-task.
Can I get a "you can do it!" with a promise from me to update tomorrow to see if I can claim that this is something I can actually do?

No derails here!!!! Let 'er rip.

Good luck. Got a feeling you will do just awesome!!!

YOU CAN DO IT!!!!

easygoingfemme · 10-14-2012, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by princessbelle

No derails here!!!! Let 'er rip.

Good luck. Got a feeling you will do just awesome!!!

YOU CAN DO IT!!!!

Thank you!

Oh, and for bonus fun, at this cooking school- I'm on camera/projected on TV through the classroom. I kind of really hate that. They put tape on the counters to make me stay in camera view because I used to always sneak off and cook on the side.

Dance-with-me · 10-14-2012, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by easygoingfemme

Can I derail to say what I hope I can do tomorrow?
The challenge:
Teaching a cooking class for 25 participants. Demonstration style- I do all the work, talking, educating, cooking, serving. ( I have two assistants to help stir and wash dishes as needed)
Goals: Meet class topic of teaching how to make 5 different dinner pies and having them done in time for everyone to watch how they are made and get to eat them too.
Challenges. Cooking 5 entrees for 25 people in 2.5 hours, including cooking time. Average bake time range from 25-45 minutes. Also includes making polenta from scratch (one crust), vegan bechamel sauce (to go on mushroom pie), and vegan gravy(to top shepherds pie). Each takes about 20 minutes.
Perks: I will have 6 burners, two full size ovens, two arms, two assistants, and a pretty good ability to multi-task.

Can I get a "you can do it!" with a promise from me to update tomorrow to see if I can claim that this is something I can actually do?

You can do this! You will ROCK this!!

(and as for the cheesecake vs kale comments earlier, while I know that you 1000% support the need to indulge in cheesecake, I also have no doubt that you'd probably find a way to sneak some kale into it if you could!)

OK, getting back on track, I can:

Fold my hands in half so that my fingers are completely flat against my palms.
Make my tongue into a tube (can't everyone do that? or is that one of those genetic weird things?)
Follow a really good lead dancer to the point that it appears as if I really know what I'm doing even when I definitely do not!
Explain the DOS commands or Lotus 123 comman sequences needed to do a certain activity (ok, so I'm a geek dinosaur).
Read freakishly fast.
Explain the basics of subnetworking so that pretty much anyone who wants to get it can actually get it, and teach you binary and hexadecimal math in the process
Parallel park in very small spots (though I manage to frequently screw up parking in oversized spots!)

easygoingfemme · 10-14-2012, 07:58 PM

QUOTE DWM

(and as for the cheesecake vs kale comments earlier, while I know that you 1000% support the need to indulge in cheesecake, I also have no doubt that you'd probably find a way to sneak some kale into it if you could!)

DWM: Cheese cake would be new for me, but I've made dark chocolate cherry cashew truffles with a kale infusion/infiltration and damn but they were good.

I think that your hands and tongue are both genetics.
The computer stuff that I don't get is because of your brilliance.
The parking is your careful attention to detail.

Dance-with-me · 10-14-2012, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by easygoingfemme

Cheese cake would be new for me, but I've made dark chocolate cherry cashew truffles with a kale infusion/infiltration and damn but they were good.

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha!!! ::gigglesnort::
See, I *KNEW* you snuck it into everything!!!

ruthie14 · 10-15-2012, 07:12 PM

Let's see:

I can sing classical music
I can play the piano
I can put a toddler to sleep in record time
I can do a little sign language
I used to be a clown (still a clown, just without the make up! lol)
I can cook pretty well
I can bake well
I can teach things well
I am a good listener and advice giver ( some of my friends call me Dr. Ruth)
I am a good organizer
I am good with dogs
I am good at thrifty living
I can write when the spirit moves me
I collect poems from various sources
I can french braid hair, but not my own
I can arrange flowers fairly well
I am good at rearranging recipes to remove allergy ingredients
I used to play basketball in school
I have sung in Carnegie hall, Notra Dam, St Pat's in NY, In london at Royal Alberts Hall, various places in Rome, venice, florance, Insbruck Austria, and In philadelpia
I too can make my tongue into a tube and curl it.
I can read stories to children well
I can create art projects out of recycled materials (paper bags, paper towel tubes etc)
I am good a problem solving
I am a good dancer
I too can get a brazilian without screaming whining... etc.. I do flinch a bit...but generally I handle it well
I have a high tolerance for pain.

Ruthie

girl_dee · 10-15-2012, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by easygoingfemme

Can I derail to say what I hope I can do tomorrow?
The challenge:
Teaching a cooking class for 25 participants. Demonstration style- I do all the work, talking, educating, cooking, serving. ( I have two assistants to help stir and wash dishes as needed)
Goals: Meet class topic of teaching how to make 5 different dinner pies and having them done in time for everyone to watch how they are made and get to eat them too.
Challenges. Cooking 5 entrees for 25 people in 2.5 hours, including cooking time. Average bake time range from 25-45 minutes. Also includes making polenta from scratch (one crust), vegan bechamel sauce (to go on mushroom pie), and vegan gravy(to top shepherds pie). Each takes about 20 minutes.
Perks: I will have 6 burners, two full size ovens, two arms, two assistants, and a pretty good ability to multi-task.

Can I get a "you can do it!" with a promise from me to update tomorrow to see if I can claim that this is something I can actually do?

easygoingfemme · 10-15-2012, 07:35 PM

I did it! Thank you for the cheers.
It was bloody packed. And the school manager forgot to bring me the baking pans I requested and I had to do a lot of improvising, including making one pie in a paella pan. And there were 5 more people because someone screwed up registrations and there weren't enough seats for everyone at first.
BUT my end of things went well and everyone left full and happy and I am so glad it's OVER!

<- Me in the kitchen tonight.

Duchess · 10-15-2012, 08:14 PM

I can put my feet behind my head

Gemme · 10-15-2012, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Duchess

I can put my feet behind my head

Well, Hell! I can do that.

It's getting untangled that's the hard part.

JAGG · 10-14-2012, 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JustJo

Sure I could....I would just have to pull really hard.

LMAO. HAHAHA That might help some of these wrinkles I have. lol

Gemme · 10-14-2012, 09:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by easygoingfemme

Can I derail to say what I hope I can do tomorrow?
The challenge:
Teaching a cooking class for 25 participants. Demonstration style- I do all the work, talking, educating, cooking, serving. ( I have two assistants to help stir and wash dishes as needed)
Goals: Meet class topic of teaching how to make 5 different dinner pies and having them done in time for everyone to watch how they are made and get to eat them too.
Challenges. Cooking 5 entrees for 25 people in 2.5 hours, including cooking time. Average bake time range from 25-45 minutes. Also includes making polenta from scratch (one crust), vegan bechamel sauce (to go on mushroom pie), and vegan gravy(to top shepherds pie). Each takes about 20 minutes.
Perks: I will have 6 burners, two full size ovens, two arms, two assistants, and a pretty good ability to multi-task.

Can I get a "you can do it!" with a promise from me to update tomorrow to see if I can claim that this is something I can actually do?

You can do it!!!

And, yes, the tongue things are genetic. For example, I can do the tube thing but I do not have the genetics to roll my tongue or to make waves with it. Some people can turn their tongues completely sideways too.

Something I can do is:

*remember odd trivia at odd moments and never remember what I WANT to remember WHEN I want to remember it

*get a Brazilian without crying, whining, whimpering, yelling, screaming, panting like a dog, flinching, or anything else that my waxer used to tell me folks do when they get it done. I breathe. Deeply.

*break brand new hard candy (not softened or sucked down) with my teeth

*play Pictionary pretty okay

*speak with a Minnesota accent pretty decent....I used to do a great Dr. Ruth, but my voice changed in high school and now I can't do it nearly as well

*look like a cross between Bjork and Judy Lewis (Clark Gable's daughter). Not many folks can say that!

easygoingfemme · 10-15-2012, 11:33 AM

Up to 30 for dinner now tonight.
I feel pretty organized and ready but a little overwhelmed!

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cinnamongrrl Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: cleverly disguised as a responsible adult* Preferred Pronoun?: wild woman Relationship Status: No, thank you. Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Home in NC..gonna dig in like a tick this time… Posts: 7,665 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 15,253 Thanked 27,603 Times in 6,959 Posts Rep Power: 21474860	I can make pumpkin cheesecake disappear! It's MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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easygoingfemme Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Lil' Miss Sassy Pants Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: My place by the river Posts: 3,700 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,032 Thanked 14,981 Times in 3,323 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Hrm. I can ride my bike for long stretches at a time (The kind with pedals, not a motor). I can teach people how to ride bikes, even adults who swear it's impossible. I can cook kale about 175 different ways, including ways that make people who hate kale turn to lovers of it. I can swallow fire. I can handle a lot of household repair jobs- I just avoid electrical ones. I can speed read. I can speed write. I can do basic math in my head. I do well breaking down big projects into manageable steps. I can teach my dog tricks. (but not the cats) I can find optimism in most all situations. I can defuse drama in many situations (not all) I can handle big groups of kids, usually with patience.

10-14-2012, 07:39 PM	#7
easygoingfemme Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Lil' Miss Sassy Pants Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: My place by the river Posts: 3,700 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,032 Thanked 14,981 Times in 3,323 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Can I derail to say what I hope I can do tomorrow? The challenge: Teaching a cooking class for 25 participants. Demonstration style- I do all the work, talking, educating, cooking, serving. ( I have two assistants to help stir and wash dishes as needed) Goals: Meet class topic of teaching how to make 5 different dinner pies and having them done in time for everyone to watch how they are made and get to eat them too. Challenges. Cooking 5 entrees for 25 people in 2.5 hours, including cooking time. Average bake time range from 25-45 minutes. Also includes making polenta from scratch (one crust), vegan bechamel sauce (to go on mushroom pie), and vegan gravy(to top shepherds pie). Each takes about 20 minutes. Perks: I will have 6 burners, two full size ovens, two arms, two assistants, and a pretty good ability to multi-task. Can I get a "you can do it!" with a promise from me to update tomorrow to see if I can claim that this is something I can actually do?

10-14-2012, 07:58 PM	#11
easygoingfemme Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Lil' Miss Sassy Pants Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: My place by the river Posts: 3,700 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,032 Thanked 14,981 Times in 3,323 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	QUOTE DWM (and as for the cheesecake vs kale comments earlier, while I know that you 1000% support the need to indulge in cheesecake, I also have no doubt that you'd probably find a way to sneak some kale into it if you could!) DWM: Cheese cake would be new for me, but I've made dark chocolate cherry cashew truffles with a kale infusion/infiltration and damn but they were good. I think that your hands and tongue are both genetics. The computer stuff that I don't get is because of your brilliance. The parking is your careful attention to detail.

10-15-2012, 07:12 PM	#13
ruthie14 Member How Do You Identify?: femme Preferred Pronoun?: she Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 844 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,904 Thanked 1,243 Times in 461 Posts Rep Power: 5946336	Let's see: I can sing classical music I can play the piano I can put a toddler to sleep in record time I can do a little sign language I used to be a clown (still a clown, just without the make up! lol) I can cook pretty well I can bake well I can teach things well I am a good listener and advice giver ( some of my friends call me Dr. Ruth) I am a good organizer I am good with dogs I am good at thrifty living I can write when the spirit moves me I collect poems from various sources I can french braid hair, but not my own I can arrange flowers fairly well I am good at rearranging recipes to remove allergy ingredients I used to play basketball in school I have sung in Carnegie hall, Notra Dam, St Pat's in NY, In london at Royal Alberts Hall, various places in Rome, venice, florance, Insbruck Austria, and In philadelpia I too can make my tongue into a tube and curl it. I can read stories to children well I can create art projects out of recycled materials (paper bags, paper towel tubes etc) I am good a problem solving I am a good dancer I too can get a brazilian without screaming whining... etc.. I do flinch a bit...but generally I handle it well I have a high tolerance for pain. Ruthie

10-15-2012, 07:35 PM	#15
easygoingfemme Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Lil' Miss Sassy Pants Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: My place by the river Posts: 3,700 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,032 Thanked 14,981 Times in 3,323 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I did it! Thank you for the cheers. It was bloody packed. And the school manager forgot to bring me the baking pans I requested and I had to do a lot of improvising, including making one pie in a paella pan. And there were 5 more people because someone screwed up registrations and there weren't enough seats for everyone at first. BUT my end of things went well and everyone left full and happy and I am so glad it's OVER! <- Me in the kitchen tonight.

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easygoingfemme Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Lil' Miss Sassy Pants Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: My place by the river Posts: 3,700 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,032 Thanked 14,981 Times in 3,323 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Up to 30 for dinner now tonight. I feel pretty organized and ready but a little overwhelmed!