{"id":8708,"date":"2016-04-19T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=8708"},"modified":"2016-05-07T12:26:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T19:26:51","slug":"listifylife-weird-talents-or-skills-i-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/listifylife-weird-talents-or-skills-i-have\/","title":{"rendered":"#ListifyLife &#8211; Weird Talents or Skills I Have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ListifyWeirdTalents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8709\" src=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ListifyWeirdTalents.jpg\" alt=\"ListifyWeirdTalents\" width=\"320\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ListifyWeirdTalents.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ListifyWeirdTalents-150x132.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ListifyWeirdTalents-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to the #ListifyLife Spring Challenge! <em>Weird Talents or Skills I Have&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Conversing with Animals and Puppets, Especially Allie McBeagle<\/em>. Now, I have enjoyed talking &#8220;for&#8221; animals and inanimate objects since I was around 18 and my then-boyfriend\/now-husband bought me a Grover hand puppet. Honestly, creative folks shouldn&#8217;t be allowed anywhere near muppets, puppets, and the like. I always talked &#8220;a bit&#8221; for previous cats and dogs, but Allie McBeagle pretty much jumped into my brain and started conversing regularly with me from the time she was a few months old. She&#8217;s slowing down in that department now that she&#8217;s 14 and a half. She no longer reports on her earlier\u00a0entrepreneurial endeavors (like beagle T-shirts, the Beaglah University she started in England, or &#8220;Alpha Training&#8221;), but we do okay. Believe me when I say, with a beagle around, I am never alone.<\/li>\n<li><em>Predicting Weather with My Knee.<\/em>\u00a0Eighteen seems to have been a defining year for me. In 1978 I was in a high school production of <em>Oklahoma<\/em>, and I had to dance during some dream sequence scene. There was a wagon wheel backstage, and someone (accidentally, I hear) pushed me into it right before I needed to go on-stage. I really REALLY hurt my knee, but didn&#8217;t tell\u00a0the doctor about it for, oh, thirty years. It took several months for the knee to heal to the point where I only have to pop it several times a day. I really don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s wrong with it, but it&#8217;s fairly reliable at predicting rain. It&#8217;s really picking up on barometric pressure changes in the air, not actual rain. But if I tell you, &#8220;It&#8217;s gonna rain,&#8221; I usually mean within hours.<\/li>\n<li><em>Objects Fly Off Shelves\/Out of My Hands for No Reason.<\/em> I can&#8217;t quite figure this one out. All I know is that if I&#8217;m opening the bathroom medicine cabinet, 80% of the time something will fly out at me. Or I&#8217;ll drop whatever I&#8217;m holding that I just took out. This goes for kitchen cabinets, too. I gather it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m a klutz or not paying enough attention, or I lack hand-eye coordination, but I&#8217;m also the type who gets in an elevator which then refuses to go anywhere, or if I step on an escalator I&#8217;m likely to get my jacket caught in some mechanism or other. This sort of thing happens to me all of the time. I&#8217;ve just come to accept it, but my husband shakes his head.<\/li>\n<li><em>I Can Put My Foot Behind My&#8230;Never Mind<\/em>. My chiropractor says not to do it anymore, so I haven&#8217;t practiced in awhile. It&#8217;s just one foot. The other doesn&#8217;t work as well. But putting my foot&#8230;wherever I can put it just leads to spinal problems, so we&#8217;re done with that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you have any weird talents or skills?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to the #ListifyLife Spring Challenge! Weird Talents or Skills I Have&#8230; Conversing with Animals and Puppets, Especially Allie McBeagle. Now, I have enjoyed talking &#8220;for&#8221; animals and inanimate objects since I was around 18 and my then-boyfriend\/now-husband bought me a Grover hand puppet. Honestly, creative folks shouldn&#8217;t be allowed anywhere near muppets, puppets,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/listifylife-weird-talents-or-skills-i-have\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#ListifyLife &#8211; Weird Talents or Skills I Have<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,58,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun","category-listifylife","category-stuff-about-me","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708","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=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8710,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions\/8710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}