Dad: “You’ve never consistently walked every day how do you know it wouldn’t help?” (my chronic fatigue and perceived laziness for only doing as much as I need to and no more)
Me: “I literally walked (up the steep ass hill leading to our neighborhood) every day with 30 lbs of textbooks on my back for 7 years.”
Dad: “And you had more energy and were 100lbs lighter back then! See it works!”
like literally 1. no, I definitely did not. there’s (many) reasons I didn’t do homework and was failing every class bc of it, and a lack of energy was a big one. 2. lmao I gained like 30 lbs since I got out of high school if he really thinks it was 100 he’s deluding himself. 3. i only did all of that because i literally had no other choice. what was I going to do as someone who has a massive fear of punishment (in large part because of him), not go to school? skip class and get treated even worse? this is the man that cut off my access to running water for like 12 hours as punishment once. i can’t believe i ever thought that shit was normal
Got a little bit of spinning done in between bouts of rain today. I realized earlier that the difference between rolag colors was a lot more obvious once spun... i had been planning on very loosely sorting by color when processing this fleece (honestly probably just pulling the white parts out) but it looks lile if i do that i'll end up with barberpolling. And i don't love how barberpoling looks in weaving... so i may have to do some more imtensive color sorting. The good thing is that i'd have lots of pretty colors to play around with while dressing the loom (stripes with warp are very pretty, especially in shades of brown imo). But the bad thing is that would be another several hours of work and just generally more things to keep straight in my head. So im undecided for the moment. Ill keep going with the rolags ive got now (and probably make a few more) just for a test skein, and then i'll see how obvious it is, i guess. Sometimes barberpoling doesnt even show up once plied and blocked, so it may be a non issue after all.
Also, my dandelion stem collection is growing steadily. The dried bundle is about 6 of the fresh bundles so far. They really shrink a lot when drying. Getting lots of purples this year, which is fun (usually just brown and green). Gonna make some nice little baskets when i feel like doing some basketry this summer. I keep meaning to make a little basket for my spinning oil, so that'll probably be the first thing !
weirdest summer solstice ever i tried to go on a 10km hike but there were no route markers along the trail which i didnt realise until i was too far in to go back but bc there were no route markers i got lost 😀 eventually i got back to my car but that was uhhhh scary