My immediate response was that I wanna go hiking and rock climbing again! Fun fact about me is that used to loooooooove camping when I was a kid. I thought it was so cool. Carrying all your stuff with you and having to make fires and prepare your food and set up tents...

I have very fond terrified memories of waking up in my tent once and looking up and seeing literally hundreds of spiders nestled in top of my tent (between it and a tarp, giving them shelter)

Took me a while to get out of my tent that day, hahahahahaha

*ON top. There were no spiders IN my tent, thank god.

she’s probably right about horseback riding but I’ll be damned if I don’t find out for SURE

horseback riding is the only thing at which I was ever truly gifted.

If you wanna see “natural talent” go back to when I was nine and watch me compete in shows. I was very good. (She said, very modestly.)

Haha. I say this mostly because a few years ago I found a bag with all my show awards in it. All second and first place... except a few 5th and 6th place ribbons (6th being dead last) ... in adult competitions with people three times my age. (and size.)

I miss it very dearly.

in the adult shows I always got stuck on Halloween :T that horse and I did not get along.

yes his name was Halloween. yes that was the only reason I even tolerated him.

Skipper was my best boy! That horse was MY horse, my god. He knew me and he liked me best over aaaaaaanyone else. I was the only person who could ride him without needing a crop. I loved that stubborn old man so fuckin much.

.... yes I’m secretly a horse girl, didnt you know??

We’re getting off track here lol.

I don’t actually care about karate in particular (referring to the screenshot), I just want to pick up a martial art. I have wanted to for years but have been utterly unable to since I was in college.

Archery! That’s something I brought up. I’d like to take actual lessons. Just for my own satisfaction. That’s also one of the few things at which I have a natural talent. That. Once again. I can’t exercise.

s-screams, so many spiders

I wanna play guitar again! I gave it up specifically because it was physically very painful for me to play, with the way you have to hold a guitar when sitting.

ghosthotel: holy shit dude. it’s a fond memory NOW but I can still remember looking up and seeing all those horrible silhouettes and INSTANTLY praying for death

I would have just cried, honestly

I had to start smacking the ceiling of the tent (from inside it OBVIOUSLY) and send all the spiders scattering.

Honest to god when I was younger I was mortally terrified of spiders so I wa probably BAWLING lol I just don’t remember

Girl Scout camping story: the girl next to me in a cabin started crying really softly in her sleep one night and I asked her what was wrong, getting up to get my flashlight, and she was like "No, no don't turn on the light--" as I did just that, only to find a wolf spider the size of her face... on her face.

All I remember is all those eight legged shadows ....

AAAAAAAAAAAAA

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHY

yeah it was like. The Worst Thing.

OHHHH GOD IVE GOT THE HEEBIE JEEBIES. IVE GOT THE TERROR TINGLES! THATS THE WORST STORY I EVER HEARD AAAA

I'M SO SORRY ENJGKDRFNRE

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA GOD

Like I’m not scared of spiders anymore, but that DOESNT MEAN I WANT ONE TO TOUCH ME EVEERRRRRR

picturing that poor girl’s suffering........................ whispers a prayer for her

I've ruined your positive plurk about things you'll do soon with spiders

god I'm still so fuckin' terrified of spiders

if they're bigger than a dime i am probably in tears

Honestly I know what you meant but my brain read that as “positive things you’ll do with spiders” and I was like 🤔

honestly no I don’t blame you at all. fears are fears man. To this day I’m TERRIFIED of heights, can’t stand them.

and to be fair, spiders have too many legs.

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NO THAT MADE IT WORSE LOL

and yeah i'm with you on heights

can't do heights, can't do spiders

why do they need all those legs? How about you give some to animals that don’t have any?? You gonna hoard all those legs to yourself??? In this paper I will explain how spiders are selfish leg hoarders,

it's not even the legs for me like... centipedes and millipedes are less horrifying to me, it's how they move

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Selfish Leg Hoarders

you know what I hate

I am laughing hysterically at my own joke

I’m the fucking worst

But no honestly I get it. I used to play with millipedes when I was a young kid! So many tiny little legs and they were all chill dudes and it felt funny when they ran across your hands.

spiders you could not have paid me a million dollars to poke with a stick for half a second.

centipedes though, nahhhhh those fuckers are EVIL

truth

centipedes are the geese of bugs. they look like a similar and far more docile species but they are actually MEGA DOUCHES.

speaking of, fuck geese.

MAN I miss camping. I have very fond memories of learning how to secure your cooler with all your food high up in a tree so bears couldn’t get at it.

And camp fires and scary stories ... exploring beautiful forests... hiking might be the thing I am looking forward to the most

I’m excited for such mundane things too. I mentioned this in my other plurk but I’m gonna be so happy when I can grocery shop like a normal person! Or even just walk around a mall or whatever. Just ... walking, period.

I’m gonna be able to walk places. I’ll be able to go a couple blocks (and likely more!) without having to stop. I can go to Disneyland and not need a wheelchair the minutes in. (... you know, in a few years in a post-Covid world, one can only hope.)

I’ll be able to clean my own apartment, oh my god! Use a vacuum!! Dust and clean the kitchen and the bathroom and all the cats stuff and maybe at most be sweaty from effort! I won’t have to take half an hour to do one task and only do a single task a day if even that much.

I won’t have to be scared of getting cold anymore! ... outside of just not wanting to be cold I mean. (Currently when I’m cold and I shiver hard it is very painful)

man when you're healed from surgery let's all go camping if we've actually gotten the fuck rid of covid

ghosthotel: OH MY GOD I WOULD LOVE THAT SO MUCH LETS FUCKING DO IT DUDE

YES