Multitalented

As I was reminded tonight, I'm not "just" anything.
While I may forget most of my abilities, there comes wonderful moments when someone else thinks I *could* be good at something and asks me if I'll take a stab at it. Other times there's just something that needs to be done and I'm the only adult with 2 seconds to do something about it. Often I'm just too annoyed by watching people who should (either because of their job title or physical ability or lack-of-child-in-tow) be fixing a situation that they aren't and I step in to improve the situation. And every once in a while I mistakenly put love of friend together with volunteering.
Once I'm done, or done what I could, I usually feel better about it by the end of the day. So in the long run it's usually good. (Except when the ability used was lifting... until my right arm is actually healed lifting is still a VERY bad idea.)
So... hidden talents (including those I conspire with others to achieve)
- drawing
- observing
- planning
- telecommunication
- empathy (not everyone is capable of seeing the opposing side of an argument)
- determination (okay, so sometimes you can call it stubbornness, but either way things get done)
- teacher voice
- editing *
- cooking/baking *
- multitasking
- avoiding ironing
- remembering people when they need it
- singing in the car
- getting out of having to go to events (except this weekend unfortunately) that I don't want to go to
- making people chuckle... I thought I was amusing only to 12-14 year olds... but I'm beginning to realize it's not that narrow of a group
- seeking out the person for the task
- seeing likely complications
- hiding in plain sight
- working with what's at hand
- improvising
- standing my ground (okay, I can be stubborn, but I would never learn anything if I just gave in!)
- finding good people... fun good people
- procrastinating through being otherwise productive
- visualizing space
- backrubs
- reading to my child
- being two different people at once. (you don't know that I'm listening to my child who's out of sight in the other room while we're discussing business like rational attentive adults.)
- letting go of ownership/credit ... as long as we exclude my car, my dog & my child
- getting older. Age is a number. Nothing more or less.
- having fun. For all my complaining, I have tons more fun. I laugh a lot more than anyone realizes. Actually my son might realize it, seeing as he told me to stop laughing earlier today.

Okay... night