3. Things I Need (and Should Want) to Learn

Once upon a time after a very rough patch in our relationship, I composed a list of things I wanted my dad to teach me. It was mainly a way for us to spend time with each other on his turf and on his terms. My dad likes to spend time with me (and brings the guilt when we don't) but usually only if it's while doing stuff he enjoys. He will humor me once and a while, but mostly he only feels like we are 'bonding' if it's doing something he finds fun. (Ironically, my mother and I have a deep, shared love for baseball and --due to his temper and bandwagon fandom tendencies --we do not let him attend or watch games with us as he sucks out all the fun.) Also, even though he knows it makes my insides curl up, whatever we're doing you can bet we'll have to listen to Fox Radio on the way there. Then --because I am my father's daughter --you can also bet that this will now put me in a mood from which I cannot recover and has hence tainted our day together. 
Fun family times.

Being fully an adult and with no man in my life *insert my mother's tears here*, I felt there were plenty of things that I needed to know how to do for myself. I hate feeling like I don't even really know how to hang curtains properly. Don't get me wrong, I consider myself to be mechanically inclined and I'm not one of those helpless girls who have to have a man do everything non-feminine for them --fuck that. Sometimes Pinterest doesn't know everything and you need hands on advice from an actual dude. I'm old-fashioned that way. I have since lost that original list and got him to show me exactly zero things, but this is a halfway attempt at re-creating that list. 

Things I Need (and Should Want) to Learn 

• How to change a tire
• How to jump start a car (without burning/shocking/killing myself)
• (Re)Learn (some)Spanish 
• Take up guitar lessons (again)
• Cook something (fairly complex) from scratch
• Sew something simple and from scratch
• Knit 
• Learn to take (real) pictures
• How to type in proper form (and at least 40wmp)
• And things to be added later

There is no limit to the things I do not know so this list should really be longer... We'll see how long my patience lasts in trying to tackle new things. This is not a dude-centric list like before but it seems I still need help in areas of male expertise then the rest of this is gonna be sisters doin' it for themselves, ya know?

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