What? There are things I can't do? I will try to keep these in the realm of possibilities--no "I wish I could turn invisible" kind of things.
1. Ice a cake that makes it look like, well, a cake. I'm really good at glazes; I love bundt cake shapes. Three layer rounds? I just can't make it work.
2. Play the guitar. I have tried and failed.
3. Sing. I can sing. But not really.
4. Shoot a rifle. I think this is something I could be good at if I tried. Just haven't.
5. Save someone from drowning. I actually might be working on this soon, in the next few years--the girl scouts are pretty strict about who gets to go where and do what and I might as well get my lifeguard certificate (this one is pretty close to happening--I'm a strong swimmer and I've taken lifesaving. Just never finished it).
6. Touch type the numbers at the top of the keyboard. I always mess up unless I'm looking. Especially when I want the punctuation above and the shift key is down. I'm always putting a ^ when I want a &.
7. Distinguish between good mushrooms and bad mushrooms in the wild. I will probably never work to make this happen, I'm just too timid about poison.
8. Tatting. I'd love to be able to do tatting like my great-grandmother could, fast and tight. Once again, I've tried and never got the hang of it. Too slow and clumsy. I'll stick to knitting, sigh.
9. Grow anything in the cucumber family on purpose. Like I said in my last post, they just don't work in my yard. Or with me. Cucumbers, watermelon, squash (although my family would hate it if I grew squash), melons, pumpkins, zucchini, etc. Volunteer pumpkins is as close as I've ever come to success, and that was by mistake and after 10 years of trying and failing to grow other family members. How I wish for homegrown cucumbers. Sigh.
10. Ok, one in the realm of superheroes: I wish I could shoot fire from my fingertips. That would be useful.
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Just imagine if you could shoot a rifle AND shoot fire from your fingertips. You'd be a double threat!
The frosting: just a couple of tips. 1) make double the amount of frosting you need. 2) frost the cake twice: once, as a "pre-layer" and refrigerate. Then, second as a "finishing layer". The pre-layer can be thin, but it helps to keep crumbs from the finishing layer. 3) buy one of those cake-leveling wire cutter things that's found in the cake decorating aisle at Wal-mart. Makes for even cake tops.
Piece Work (an Interweave publication) has a tatting tutorial in either the current or the last issue. I don't need to do it...
I would like to weigh less. You know, magically. Without effort or less eating or more exercising on my part.
I was going to offer the same tips as Texan Mama. I would like to be better at decorating cakes. Speaking of which, in your spare time (ha ha), check out the cakewrecks blog. It's hilarious. I just bought the book for Barb. Great stuff.
I need to note at my blog that I can't touch type the numbers either.
I hate icing cakes. They look terrible when I try.
I want to learn to shoot too.
More later.
Getting a lifeguard cert shouldn't be too hard. Starfish Aquatics has an online course that you can finish in less than a weekend and then take a one day training session.
Then you can say, Number 5? Check.
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