This morning making breakfast I realized I really need -- or, well, want -- to learn how to make the perfect omelet. I can never get it right; the eggs always end up all scrambled.

I'd also like to learn how to change the oil in my car. Think of all the money I could save on regular oil changes.

What new skill would you like to learn or perfect?

I'd like to learn how to bake. As much as I love to eat bread, rolls, doughnuts, pizza, calzones, and a hundred other things, it would save me some dough (ha!) if I learned how to bake. So maybe I'll do that.

Also, like Sarah I wish I knew something about cars.

Ok...no laughing. I would love to learn how to operate a lawn mower. When I was living at home my dad always operated it or we had a service. Then when I moved out I was in apartments so I never learned then either. Now we have owned our home for SIX years and still I have never mowed grass!! My husband does the mowing but sometimes he lets it get a tad too long between mows...I would just love to surprise him one day and have it cut when he came home!!

Karen (ok you can laugh at me now )

OH, and I wish I could learn an effective sleeper hold. You know, the kind used by riot police and wrestlers? That, I think, would come in VERY VERY handy.

And if not that, then the Vulcan Nerve Pinch that Dr. Spock could use to put people to sleep. that would be good, too

Organization. And keeping it that way. Sometimes I wish either my husband or myself had that obsessive compulsive thing about organization.

I am obsessive compulsive about my house and things being organized. (My husband and kids claim I am about everything in general). They even tested me by moving a nick nack on a table and seeing how long after I had been in the room it took for me to adjust it. (3 minutes)

Its good and bad. Sometimes I get up three or four times before going to sleep at night to check the kids and the doors. I ALWAYS think I left something plugged in or forgot something when I leave the house. The good side is that things are organized and I can always find what I am looking for

Karen

Gardening. I have a black thumb. I could kill a cactus by forgetting to water it. One day I want to have a well landscaped lush yard, with a nice vegetable garden

I would love to one of those cooks who can look in the kitchen and make an amazing meal out almost nothing. And know how to cook well with fresh ingredients. I know how to do a bit, but not much.
I grew up cooking with the basic 4 groups-boxed, canned, bottled and frozen. I can something out of those groups and turn it into something good though

I also wish I could learn to more of a people person, I try, but don't always have it down. Maybe one day.

I would like to get better tech skills. I am GREAT at operating anything...just do not know how to fix stuff. For example, my hard drive crashed and I have had a new external hard drive sitting in the Best Buy bag and do not have the confidence to try to hook it up, so I can transfer my pics to it-before the next crash!

i would love to learn how to play the piano

If I had the time (and energy) I would love to learn more different languages. And more instruments - specifically the guitar.

On a more practical side, I'll repeat what some others have said....computer/tech stuff, and automotive.

Being fluent in Spanish would be the skill I would like to possess. Our 16-yr-old exchange student from Gavarda, Spain leaves Monday (there will be lots of tears) and I would have loved to speak w/ her in her native language. Luckily, my husband speaks quite a bit of Spanish (although not fluent) so that helped us when she first arrived. Now her English is better than some of the American-born kids I used to teach at the high school level! We're hopeful she will find enough private aid so she can attend UF next year; she'd be an asset to this country and he's already a typical teen....addicted to both Hollister and Abercrombie.

I'm with you 3Monkeys, I keep saying I'm going to start a small garden, but I never do. Maybe this fall.

And I thought of another one: I'd like to learn how to take really good pictures. There are some really great photographers here on this site; I'm so jealous!

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