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My not so secret desire has always been to be super talented in something artistic -- whether it's drawing, singing, dancing, playing an instrument.. talent is hot!
Alas I'm pretty good at a lot of things, but don't have one big talent. (Mr Bee is super good at the piano).
Do you have a talent?
Let's see....
I'm fluent in sarcasim (wait, is that a good thing?)
I can make the noise of a straw going up and down through the plastic cup lids (it kind of sounds like Pee-Wee Herman's laugh
I can play the clarinet
...and I can draw cartoons.
But I feel, like you do Mrs. Bee, that I don't have one 'uber' talent to oooohhh and ahhhh my friends.
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I'm a crafter and my fiance and I run a small business for our stained glass and wood mirrors - but I have no performing talents. We have super talented friends so we're having a talent showcase at the Welcome Picnic the night before our wedding - http://www.fussellwhiteside.com/wedding/blog/2009/02/sing-sing-a-song/
I always wanted to be able to sing well enough to front a local cover band. And to be able to paint.
i love crafts, but i'm no martha. i've also always wanted to be a really sweet photographer. i've got a nikon dslr, but no time to use it. maybe someday!
Hmm my main talents are eating, avoiding laundry, loading the dishwasher to it's maximum occupancy, being out of the house when a delivery comes, and finding lost things.
Cooking, for sure. Thirteen years as a vegetarian and three as a vegan made it necessary.
I sing and dance like Elaine from Sienfeld. Always wished I could do both.
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The parentals had me in 8 years of clarinet lessons....I think it helped me learn focus/dedication/patience/creativity. I actually enjoyed it quite a bit, and even earned some scholarship money. Can't beat that.
I also have become an avid crafter lately, with all of these DIY wedding projects. But haven't we all. =)
I love writing and cooking, and in high school, sang in the choir and played piano and cello.
Mrs. Bee, I'd wager to say you do have a talent... as an entrepreneur, businesswoman, and community developer. Those are some mighty amazing skills.
My talent used to be snowboarding, but I haven't done it lately. I used to compete at it ;) It's kind of sad to be somewhat talentless right now... but I did knit a really pretty scarf over the holidays. Maybe that will be my future talent?
Thanks to some sort of hyperactive overachiever gene, I did a lot (up until I got a job): played violin for the Arapaho Philharmonic, sang at Carnegie Hall, played soccer on the Olympic Development Team, Varsity placekicker in high school, hockey goalie in college, and now...Professional Slacker. I always thought that I'd sing a song at my wedding but now I'd consider it tacky (morning wedding).
I'm not sure if you would call it a talent but I can read and write backwards. It's great for window displays. I use to write my notes in college backwards on accident on really long days. My roomie would have to read them in a mirror to copy. Drove her nuts!
MightySapphire-
I played the violin through grade school. As an adult, I hate the fact that I ever gave it up :(. Do you still play?
I took 18 years of dance, was a competitive baton twirler from age five to about 20, and was featured twirler in college...I also took 20 years of singing lessons and won several miss america preliminaries...singing!
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Not that many people know this because I don't do it anymore, but I am a classically trained singer. I went to a performing arts highschool which led to a music performance major in voice which led to performing at Disney...and then I got tired of it.
@BunnyBlue- Me too! I used to do it in high school all the time when I was really bored.
I don't have an impressive talent. I enjoy being kind of good at a lot of things, and I'm too lazy to devote the time it takes to be really good at anything in particular. :) Mountain biking, gardening, paper crafts, and snowboarding are my semi-talents.
My dog would say I am very talented at giving him a doggie massage... but he isn't very picky. :)
Doctorgirl, I used to do some snowboard competing too! Mostly at the mountian by my house but I did win a free season pass and free drinks for all my friends at the bar!
I also play a little guitar and love to sing!
My family and friends tell me I am a talented scrapbooker and hostesses. I love planning parties and creating special details. I also love making scrapbooks and holding on to important memories.
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I'm a pretty talented traditional-media artist (particularly with pencil, pen, marker, that sort of shtuff), and am working on the digital side of things with my new tablet. I'm also pretty handy with a camera (and worked out a deal with my ex-boyfriend I met in photography class where he'll shoot my wedding for next-to-nothing plus cake but I'll do all my own post-processing), aaaand I play Celtic fiddle pretty well too. Alas, I haven't picked up my fiddle in months and months, but I'm supposed to play later this month at my brother's wedding.. so I better get back in playing shape. Calluses, where are you?!
@cindylouwho: I do still play. My FI isn't very big on classical music, but he'll play the Double Violin Concerto over and over when I'm gone because I play it when I'm home. He even has the version where I played the concerto duet...with myself...thanks to my friend Aaron who's great with recording stuff.
@iviary: Oh yeah, love the calluses! But I've stopped playing until my wedding so that I can have nice long nails and my pics of the ring on my finger won't have any calluses on it! (I hope they go away in 6 months??)
Anyone every get a violin hickey?
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I'm pretty talented at drawing and design - I originally went to school to study art and become a multimedia designer. However, after two semesters and having a professor tell the class to spend three hours drawing a single tree, I decided to switch my major to Computer Science. 
I'm also a good cook, and I love to spend time developing my skills and talents in the kitchen. Which works out well, because nothing makes Mr. Techie happier than being the guinea pig of my culinary experimentations.
I think the closest thing I have to a talent is being somewhat smart. That's sad :P Does being good with computers count?
I used to be awesome. I danced competitively, was on travelling competitive gymnastics teams, won statewide art contests, held school track records. I acted in tons of plays, played the violin. I never could sing though and that always made me sad.
Now? I keep screwing up my simple DIY craft projects for the wedding. You think I would have thought that fabric glue might actually show up a bit? Nope. Did I think to not poke the extremely sharp circle blade cutter with my finger? Nope. How times have changed.
@MegK: Being good with computers is definitely a talent. ..Not that I'm biased, being that it's my current livelihood!
my talent is finding things online. it's not a cool one but i'm really good at it!
Mrs. Leopard -- one of my best friends and bridesmaids has that same talent. I can seriously ask her to find me anything and not only will she find it but she will somehow find it on clearance!!! She is also very talented at "stalking" online ... whenever one of our friends meets a boy they always send his name her way and she googles the heck out of him!!
My talent is planning -- I am beyond organized and am never without planning in my head. Everyone says I should be an event coordinator (or weddings) and the only thing that is stopping me is losing my nights and weekends, I dont think I could give those up!
I'm a pretty talented photographer, and photoshopper, so I've been told. I've been asked to shoot weddings, but I'm a little afraid because I'd hate the responsibility of perfectly capturing someone's big day.
I wish i could draw or do calligraphy (or even write nicely in cursive).
i wish i had a talent!!! i guess i'm pretty great at finding excellent deals! i'll research an item to death before i buy! :)
ali - that's a great talent!
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No huge talent here! I feel like if I put my mind to something I can get pretty decent at it, but there is definitely nothing out there that I can say that I really "excel" at. I think the talent I wish for is something creative for sure... right now if you were a genie and granted me one talent, I'd want it to be to be able to do calligraphy as awesome as Laura Hooper's! I definitely wish my talent was in the arts... to be able to do old school artist work like calligraphy, or painting.
I don't really believe in talent for the most part. I mean, it definitely exists... but most people I've met developed their abilities through good ol' fashioned hard work.
I think you need a base level of talent to even try to be good at certain things - like singing, playing the piano, or sports - but beyond that, it's mostly hard work!
I've been wracking my brain trying to igure out what kind of talent I have, but the only thing I can think it would be like MrsLeopard's talent...I can find a lot of things online.
yeah, i agree with mr. bee for the most part...talent generally is developed. actually, this comment reminds me of a book, Talent is Overrated, that i heard about that alks about mozart, tiger woods, and others that a lot of people consider as having world-class talent. they developed these talents because they started at a very young age, so when they became famous or were considered an expert when they became adults, they already had about 20 or so years of experience.
i guess my talents are acting, cooking, and searching for things. i'm not necessarily excellent in those areas yet, but i'm working on improving on those crafts :)
I'm an expert in the art of procrastination.
But aside from that, my talent is baking with booze: margarita cupcakes, chardonnay pear cupcakes, Kahlua brownies, Bailey's cheesecake, etc. FI looooves to be my guinea pig when I'm in the kitchen!
I wish I could draw. I love to design stuff, but it's hard to design things sometimes if you can't draw. Go figure. My son can draw really well. I'm lucky to draw a stick figure..lol!
I can also pop an iv in somebody in less than 10 seconds flat. But that's a painful talent that honestly kinda sux.
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@Mightysapphire: I had a violin hickey! Played through HS and got scholarships for it... but then gave it up since 30 hr/wk rehearsal/practice schedule wasn't very compatible with my premed aspirations. My friends from elementary school are all incredible musicians; a couple of them even won the Klein and Naumburg competitions recently. It makes me really nostalgic when I go hear them play.
My real talent: the best (indirect) compliment I ever got was, "she sews like an attending" from a hugely renowned surgeon I was rotating with as a 3rd year med student. He called over the fellows and the anesthesiologist to watch me close. And then he basically let me scrub in whenever I wanted with him.
Sadly, I left surgery, too-- maybe my REAL real talent is leaving things?
I am not very talented at anything. I try to draw things every now and then.. and every now and then my FI will upload them to http://www.kangaroodelight.com (if you wanted to see)..
...but my FI is very talented! He is very good at sleeping. He can sleep anywhere and anyway. It's quite the running joke in my family! "Look at him! Look at how easy it is for him to sleep!"
@MightySapphire and renaissancetrophywife: Oh my goodness I remember those violin hickeys haha. I played for a long long time, but gave it up during college because I couldn't handle all the rehearsals, competitions, practice etc. I do miss it though. I worked a wedding 2 weekends ago and they had a violinist play during the ceremony and it brought back so many memories!
Not sure if I'm "talented" in photography (that's for others to determine), but it's definitely my passion. It's probably more hard work than talent. I've been a shutterbug for years and was initially too scared to pursue it as a career even though many friends/family said I could do it. I regret not listening to my heart earlier, but better late than never right?
I am becoming a pretty talented swing dancer. My husband and I won first place in a small national competition last month! Sometimes I look at the medals and just marvel...when I was a kid I took ballet and jazz lessons and I was just awful. Two left feet. I was convinced I couldn't dance, but I gave it another shot when I started dating someone in college who danced. It stuck (he didn't). Good thing too, or else I would not have met my dancing husband!
My friends would say my talents lie in food and the performing arts. I love to cook and I am a dancer (trained in ballet and jazz). Self expression is important.
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