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December 2010 Moms
kj07
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Things that make you feel dumb
kj07
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I cannot for the life of me spell surprise without the spell-checker. I always want to have just one r. It's irritating because I can spell much fancier words without a problem.
What can't you do that makes you feel dumb?
BFP #1 4/14/10. Big B born 12/28/10.
BFP #2 5/27/12. EDD 2/1/13. m/c and D&C 6/21/12.
BFP #2 5/27/12. EDD 2/1/13. m/c and D&C 6/21/12.
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Re: Things that make you feel dumb
This is me with the word definitely. There are a handful of words that I have just given up on, too, and spell them somewhat correctly and just wait to fix them with auto correct.
My students always spell definitely as "defiantly" because spell check doesn't pick that up.
If anyone starts talking anything financial, I just zone out. I can't follow it, which surprises me because I am actually really good at following complex directions, recipes or novel plots. But when it comes to money, I can't do it.
THIS!
I am a budget analyst and manage multimillion dollar budgets and I can't for the life of me do simple math in my head. So, I joke if the numbers aren't in the millions I can't do it.
What also make me feel dumb is that I can't pronounce the word satisfaction - I always try to say satis-fi-cation.
<-------- dummy!
DD: 06-10-15 (32 weeker)
Math in my head is my weakness too. I'm actually good with math when it comes to working out formulas on paper or a spreadsheet, but it's really hard for me to do it in my head and even harder for me to follow someone else doing it in theirs. One of the executives I work with is always checking numbers by quickly doing math in his head and he expects me to follow him. I just sit there and nod because I have the hardest time following what he's saying.
THIS!
I am a budget analyst and manage multimillion dollar budgets and I can't for the life of me do simple math in my head. So, I joke if the numbers aren't in the millions I can't do it.
What also make me feel dumb is that I can't pronounce the word satisfaction - I always try to say satis-fi-cation.
<-------- dummy!
OMG, me too! I'm a financial manager and handle huge projects but I always, just tell people I don't do math on weekends or after 5, lol! Seriously, I always use either an adding machine or Excel.
And my very own unique dumb moment is...for the longest time, like months, I seriously though Sofamonkey's name was somehow short for "Son of a Monkey". Every time I'd see it, I just couldn't help but think, "huh, I just don't get it" until my light bulb went on one day....yeah, so there it is.
I'm a terrible speller. I have many dictionaries in my house and love that I have an electronic version on my phone!
Many things make me feel dumb. I hate when I have no idea what someone is talking about. I feel like the longer I work with children, the dumber I get each year too. When you are constantly speaking to six-year-olds and a toddler, you tend to forget what it's like to be an adult.
I can do math in my head (for the most part) so that's good.
Oh, Halo reminded me of another thing - IT and networking. I'm pretty sure I'm missing something when our IT talks because half the time it seems super simple. I'm pretty sure it's not and I'm just completely missing some giant complex piece of the puzzle.
BFP #2 5/27/12. EDD 2/1/13. m/c and D&C 6/21/12.
Politics make me feel dumb. I get so bored when people mention them that my brain literally just turns off.. I wish I knew more about it but I just find it so mind-numbing!
I also do not understand the game show "Let's make a deal". I really don't get it. I'm sure it's easy if I sat down and really got it explained to me but it just looks too annoyingly complex so I just don't pay attention to it. haha
I feel stupid when people give directions super fast with a lot of detail. Like if they say, "Take the first left at the second red barn, but if you see the Exxon, you've gone too far. Then, turn right at the third light and left at the first light. Follow the one-lane road next to the creek..."
I just nod at the person giving directions, but inside I'm doing this
. All I hear is "barn", "Exxon" and "creek", and end up even more lost than before.
I'm bad with directions too. I'm not dyslexic or anything but I mess up saying left when I mean right all the time.
I also have to move my tongue around my mouth in a clockwise fashion while saying in my head "never east soggy waffles" to figure out east from west.
BFP #2 5/27/12. EDD 2/1/13. m/c and D&C 6/21/12.
Yep. It's the only way I can remember my compass points. But I should add, it's "never eat (not east) soggy waffles." Darn typos.
BFP #2 5/27/12. EDD 2/1/13. m/c and D&C 6/21/12.
That's too funny b/c I'd never heard that before either but JUST heard that on the radio this AM!
I finally realized that the phrase is "for all intents and purposes" and not "for all intensive purposes." HA! And I was pretty old when I found out I'd been spelling "quandary" wrong (it's not quandry?). Politics and finance bore me to tears.
I also cannot say Little Lord Fauntleroy for the life of me. Yes, this is an odd thing to come up in conversation, but there is a man who has a bowl haircut just like LLF and it cracks me up every time I see him!
Are you sure it's not quandry? Dangit.
Well at least I learned something new today.
BFP #2 5/27/12. EDD 2/1/13. m/c and D&C 6/21/12.