{"id":3018,"date":"2010-05-04T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2010-05-14T07:34:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T14:34:09","slug":"things-im-not-good-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/things-im-not-good-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I’m Not Good At"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Putting on fake eyelashes. I wound up with glue inside my eye, on my lids, on my hands. And a fake eyelash smeared across my eyelid. Could not reposition it properly, no matter what I tried. Had to scrub eye with about 1\/2 cup of eye makeup remover and then just go for three coats of mascara instead.<\/li>\n
  2. Applying fake fingernails. Every time I’ve tried buying fake fingernails for a costume, I can’t even get them to stick. But this time I went to an expert! The lady at the cosmetics counter. She assured me the fake nails I bought would stick, and did they ever. I had to get someone else to put them on. Then help me paint them. Then trim them. Then trim them again. Because I couldn’t pick up a darn thing. But at least they lasted the night, unlike the eyelashes, which didn’t make it to the party.<\/li>\n
  3. Removing fake fingernails. I had to swirl my fingers for ten minutes each in this little jar with a scrubby thing inside. Then, over the next day, I had to continue peeling off the remnants. The real nails underneath were not pleased.<\/li>\n
  4. I’ve realized I’m really not good at posing as a world-famous author. Instead, I seem to feel obligated to channel Count Dracula’s wife. In my defense, my character was named Gothika, famous for a\u00a0series titled Legion of the Doomed<\/em> or something,\u00a0My Liege\u00a0was dressed as a vampire bartender, and we were attending a Mardi Gras-themed murder mystery party.\u00a0He rubbed off on me.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Things I’m Good At:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Getting into (my version of the) character.<\/li>\n
    2. Making a fool of myself.<\/li>\n
    3. Yes, even with a crew of 17-22 year-olds. My dh and I were the oldest at the murder mystery party.<\/li>\n
    4. Giving away the villain. The lawyer did it. Just happened to be Eldest Son.<\/li>\n
    5. Having fun!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Putting on fake eyelashes. I wound up with glue inside my eye, on my lids, on my hands. And a fake eyelash smeared across my eyelid. Could not reposition it properly, no matter what I tried. Had to scrub eye with about 1\/2 cup of eye makeup remover and then just go for three coats… Continue reading Things I’m Not Good At<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-and-that","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3078,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions\/3078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}