You! Yeah, you! PLEASE TELL ME SOMETHING AWESOME ABOUT YOU!

[rmd]

In the interests of banishing false modesty and encouraging the collective tooting of our own horns, I would like it if folks told me something about themselves that makes them awesome.

IT'S OWN YOUR OWN AWESOMENESS DAY!

(Actually, every day can be own your own awesomeness day!)

If you're having trouble with dropping false modesty and want to whisper your awesomeness instead of shout it from the hilltop, I've turned off IP tracking and anonymous comments are allowed (but screened because spammers aren't awesome) so you can share your awesomeness secretly if needed.

I'll start: I am awesome at diagnosing and solving problems, particularly on the fly.

Comments

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

I'm awesome because I'm trying to learn how to purl so I can make the Gryffindor scarf Isaac has requested. Bonus awesome: Isaac for wanting a homemade Gryffindor scarf from his mom :-)

p.s.

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

And I just found out today that I got an "A" on that College Writing II class I've been whinging about.

Re: p.s.

[bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com]

You are indeed made of awesome. Go you! (And Isaac is pretty neat too.)

Re: p.s.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

That is stunningly awesome! Go, you!

[pale-chartreuse.livejournal.com]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=12727073&id=771955491

I have a beautiful son. I just love this Rat Pack candid pose.

[bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com]

I sing well, can make up my own harmonies, and am able to memorize vast amounts of music for my concerts.

I also am a pretty good cook.

[kirkcudbright.livejournal.com]

"On the one hand, it was great to know there was something I could do that others couldn't. On the other hand, it was a little disappointing to realize it was the ability to endlessly push a pedal over and over."
-- John Stamstad

Of course, I have about a milli-Stamstad's worth of awesome.

I also have a fairly awesome horse, whose trust (if not love) I've earned through repeated applications of Quantity Time and Not Being Mean.

[charleshaynes.livejournal.com]

</modest>I'm really smart and I'm great in bed.<modest>

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I'm the most awesome me that ever tried to be me. :)

Oh, just one thing? Fine...

[solarbird]

I'm an entire goddamn band. G'ean, chase the link, you can listen to the first single there.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

I am really good at keeping track of a lot of details.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

I don't give up.

Adaptable

[(Anonymous)]

I'm supremely adaptable, willing to learn, and find it easy to translate knowledge of concepts to arbitrary means of expressing those concepts. (E.g. programming methodologies, software design, computer languages, etc.)

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

I'm a damn good singer, I can make a perfectly edible dinner roll, and I'm a remarkably acceptable parent to a remarkably trying child.

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

I can make ANYTHING. ANYTHING.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

I am a goddess of surprisingly useful trivia. Also, I can figure out ANYTHING.

[tb]

particularly on the fly

And whose fly would that be?

I make bad jokes. In bed, in this economy, with a yak, and on livejournal!

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

I am a fucking genius.

[spinrabbit.livejournal.com]

I can make really pretty paste papers, which look even more awesome when I make them into books.

I want to figure out a way to do a group paste paper session/class. Problem is, for that I would need a biggish space, with tables, that we could splatter with paint.

[metagnat.livejournal.com]

For the record, I would love to take that class.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I am an inventive cook.

[goingdriftless.livejournal.com]

I'm a freaking awesome piano teacher (and confidante to many of my little students).

[donnad.livejournal.com]

I am creative.

[flabosib.livejournal.com]

I have the ability to keep the friends I make. Oh and I have a totally awesome daughter which implies (at least on some level) that I'm an awesome mom.

[csbermack.livejournal.com]

I make words go. Sometimes I make them go vrooooooom. Other times they spiral lazily in a faint breeze, shimmering for an instant and then fading quietly into the springtime evening.

My intuition can be spookily accurate.

I belong when I'm with my friends who are awesome, brilliant, generous, creative, complex, and successful in what they choose to do.

[taura-g.livejournal.com]

I am very good at finding the absurdly silly or darkly funny things about any situation no matter how dire.

[coraline]

i make some awesome stuff. music, jewelry, food, photos, relationships.

[(Anonymous)]

I acted with much more class than I was required to.

[metagnat.livejournal.com]

I am full of awesome skills. I can sew, knit, solder, edit, sing, play instruments, write, and bake (though not all at once). I am pretty fast at learning new skills.

I give good advice.

I can really dance.

I am very smart, and currently, taking classes for fun, I am getting a lot of A's, even on diverse and random topics. (A beginning Spanish class in which I got an A for the course was last semester. This semester's astronomy class hasn't posted grades yet, but I got an A on the midterm, and A on the paper and I'm reasonably certain I did well on the final.)

I embark on crazy projects and draw inspiration from everywhere.

My sense of right and wrong is strong and difficult for me to leave aside. I can't stop analyzing for that, even in trashy fiction. This has caused trouble for me, sometimes, but I think it's a good quality.

I am funny, in conversation.

Maybe this is all too much to say, but this was somehow just what I needed, today, so I rolled with it.

I am I

[drwex]

I am honest.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

Most of the time I interact with people and with moments in life as they are, instead of interacting with them as if they are the way I model them in my head to be. So I respond to a person or a day, and not to my hopes or fears of that person or that day. If this is too hard, I try to respond to the best-case scenario interpretation I can of what I'm experiencing, rather than my worst-case. I notice reductionist negative-interpretations arise in myself and observe them, but do not empower them.

I often interact with myself this way, although that is harder and I'm still learning.

[dfjdejulio.livejournal.com]

The people who need to know whether or not I'm awesome already do.

[lioritgioret.livejournal.com]

I am awesome because I am still trying to figure out how humans work. And also because I can weave diamond twill and overshot and doubleweave and will yet someday figure out how to weave Norwich estarrets.

[gilana]

I'm coming in late, but can't resist. I'm fabulous at finding the perfect font — the one that encapsulates whatever it is I'm designing for.

there is no late!

[rmd.livejournal.com]

every day can be OWN YOUR OWN AWESOMENESS DAY. :)

[keren-s.livejournal.com]

I am awesome at not letting a few soft tissue injuries stop me from having fun. Which is good because I seem to manage to acquire then every few years.

Also at trying new stuff. And a love of puns & punning.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

i'm eloquent sometimes :)

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

(btw where did you get this phrase from? i thought i and mimi and waket had come up with it awhile back: OWN YOUR AWESOMENESS :)