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Add me to the hair failures! All I can do is blow it dry and straighten it. Anything else eludes me. I'm so jealous of girls with beautifully styled hair!
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Wrap presents and sew buttons! As a mother, I feel that I need to have these "skills"!
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I'm not good at cleaning...not as good as our cleaning lady is! I wish I could clean like her! Ha!
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Knowing my right from my left.... I actually have to think about it so I don't mix them up. Mr Hedgie frequently assumes that when u said one direction, I actually meant the other.... and most often he is right.
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I suck at decorating. I can't ever figure out what coordinates with what.
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LAundry. I always forget it in the wash. Always!
And getting mirrors/glass clean and not streaky. It literally takes me three or four attempts to do our bathroom mirror. -
Smoothies- mine always taste like mud. So gross.
I can do regular pancakes, but the 3 ingredient ones that were in the blog here, taste fine, but they sure aren't pretty looking.
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I'm nodding my head along with so many of these.
@beachbee: me too! My husband thinks it is ridiculous, but I like the yolk a little bit runny and it's hard to get right! I started to research this and have tried many different methods (low and slow, olive oil, and so on). I'm still on a quest for the perfect fried egg.
@cascademom: I watched this many times and can now fold a fitted sheet!
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The first and most embarrassing one: Baked potatoes. I over cook them and they end up with a crusty outside and somehow a gooey (or nonexistent?!) inside OR they are underdone and inedible. I love baked potatoes too so it makes me sad.
I also can't do my hair when it's medium length. Which is now. I blow dry/straighten it every day. My hair doesn't hold curl from a curling iron, it has to be hot rollers or it falls within 20 minutes and it's too short at my collar bone to look nice. Maybe that's why I like my short hair so much, it's easy to know how to style and look nice!
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EVERY time I make coffee the machine gets clogged and coffee and coffee grounds end up all over the counter.. I've given up, It's Husband security for DH.
oh and I can't snap my fingers.
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@Mrs Hedgehog: oh gosh me too. DH now asks if I mean drivers side or passengers side.
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Decorating, blowdrying my hair and eyeliner!
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Add me to the fitted sheets list. I've been rolling mine for years. I don't even care anymore (which makes my fail a win, no?)
Crispy baked sweet potato fries. Mine are always mushy. Always
I just figured out fried rice. I kept using botan rice and it would gum up. Can't believe it took so long to figure out not to use that rice
I also mess up boiled eggs so now I steam them. Definitely more foolproof. 7 eggs at 15 minutes.
Baked potatoes need a good coating of olive oil and a heavy sprinkling of kosher salt, then wrap in foil.
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I cannot do math in my head. I always reach for a calculator no matter how simple the math. And I can put on mascara, but that is about it!
@Foodnerd81: Do you have a cast iron pan? The Mark Bittman (the food editor at the NYT) has the most fool proof, amazing roast chicken method ever. The secret is in pre-heating the cast iron pan...the pan retains the heat and the thighs/dark meat cooks at the same time as the breast. Everything gets done evenly and the result is magical.
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@.twist.: lol, soooo true...
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@Foodnerd81: THIS! I can cook everything else relatively well and the damn roasted chicken gets me every.time. I hate it!
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Add me to the fitted sheet failures!
I always get the words "itch" and "scratch" mixed up...like I will say "I need to itch my nose". Even when I think about it before I say it, I still get it wrong! There are some wires crossed in there or something
Also, I always ALWAYS pick the wrong line at the grocery store. It's a gift. It'll *look* like the shortest line, but then end up having the person who needs a price check or something.
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@blackbird: OMG, my baked sweet potato fries are always mush too! Wth.
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@heartonastring: Oh yes a good rolling pin is important. I have a marble one that was around $15 that I love! I have a wooden one too but I never reach for that one.
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@blackbird: how long do you cook them and at what temp?? My MIL told me that too but I still somehow messed them up. I haven't tried in over a year because I'm scarred from all of my failed attempts LOL
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@blackbird: YES.
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I do 400 for an hour.
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Roasting potatoes!!! Ugh.
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@IRunForFun: No, I don't. Of course the night I replied to this post, the rice I made came out well.
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@HLK208: this was me too! BUT then I discovered
a recipe for the most delicious roasted potatoes...they are soooo good...like a cross between a baked potato and French fries. You have to boil the potatoes first and then bake them super hot. The pioneer woman can be hit or miss but this recipe is a big big hit...so good you will love them i promise!http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2008/06/crash-hot-potatoes/
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@sandy: those DO look good!
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@redsmarties: Do you have a squeegee? My husband bought one for our windows and uses it all over the house.
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@Espion: Ohh, I just printed this out. I have a cast iron pan. I can't wait to try this. I haven't braved roast chicken before. I make an amazing oven fried chicken from my mom's recipe.
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@cascademom: We rub the whole thing in a stick of butter! We had a tastybake oven before our gas range and it still came out wonderful!
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@Espion: Ohh, that's good to know. My oven fried chicken breasts gets a "fry" in cooking oil and a stick of butter.
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i can't organize and keep the house looking nice and tidy. i can totally clean as im a bit of a dirt-a-phobe... but the organization part is where im seriously lacking. i need some good tips!
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