The Art of Folding Towels | Quiet Conversations for Deep Rest

Looking for a relaxing sleep podcast to help you unwind, quiet busy thoughts, or gently fall asleep? In this episode of The Insomnia Project, Marco and Amanda ease into a calm and cozy conversation about the surprisingly soothing world of towels, sheets, and everyday routines.
The episode begins with a gentle discussion about towels — how Marco folds them and why simple, repetitive tasks can feel so satisfying. From there, the conversation drifts into the familiar challenge of folding a fitted sheet. If you’ve ever struggled with that elusive skill, you’re not alone — and there’s something comforting in sharing the experience.
As the conversation meanders, Marco and Amanda chat about a few courses they’re taking through the city — though not the ones you might expect. It’s a light, curious moment that invites you to wonder what your guess might be.
In true Insomnia Project fashion, Amanda also shares her love of showing “how the sausage is made,” offering a relaxed, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the podcast.
This low-stakes, soothing conversation is designed to quiet racing thoughts and ease you into rest. Whether you’re lying awake at night, winding down after a long day, or listening at work to stay calm and focused, this gentle sleep podcast creates a peaceful space where nothing is urgent.
If you’re looking for a cozy sleep podcast, soft bedtime listening, or a calming audio companion, let this episode keep you company.
Listen when:

• You can’t fall asleep
• Your mind won’t slow down
• You’re folding laundry and want quiet company
• You need a peaceful sleepcast

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The Sausage Roll Technique | Gentle Conversations for Restful Sleep
Welcome to the Insomnia Project. I'm Amanda Barker and this is the podcast
Marco Timpano: Welcome to the Insomnia Project. Sit back, relax and listen. As always, we're going to have a calm conversation about the mundane to help you drift off to slee. Thank you for joining us. I'm your host, Marco Timpano.
Amanda Barker: I'm Amanda Barker. Hi. Hi.
Marco Timpano: Hi. How you doing?
Amanda Barker: To you. To everybody.
Marco Timpano: Sorry, I wasn't sure. It was like. It sounded like you were saying it to our kids.
Amanda Barker: Maybe too peppy. It may be too peppy. Is that what you're.
Marco Timpano: No, not at all. I don't think.
Amanda Barker: What did you just mouth to me? He just mouthed the word to me. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm showing you how the sausage is made, folks.
Marco Timpano: Babe, nobody wants to know how the sausage is made. That's why they buy sausage.
Amanda Barker: All the people want to know how the sausage is made because that's a very relaxing task for our listeners to hear about.
Marco Timpano: Okay, well, listen, the sausage is made in a little studio and Amanda brought me a coffee. We're actually recording in the morning. We usually record at night. And I'm so grateful to have this coffee. Thank you.
Amanda Barker: I know you are. He's not. So I'll tell you something while he takes a sip of his coffee. When we first started dating.
Marco Timpano: Oh, no. The sausage. This is really how the sausage was made.
Amanda Barker: Maybe that's what this episode is. when we first started dating, he. I didn't understand his life. I didn't understand a lot of My fellow actors lives. We all had a night job where we performed, which I loved and changed my life. We've talked about that a lot, at the time at the Second City. But, I had a day job as well in marketing. And none of these other actors, like, some had different gigs that they would do. But I wasn't sure how their lives worked. And I remember asking Marco, you know, what does your day look like? And he said, well, I like to get up by 10 o'. Clock. No, I like to get up by 11 o'. Clock.
Marco Timpano: I don't like this story because it makes me look really bad. You like to tell stories that m.
Amanda Barker: Make people look bad, make you look bad. It makes you look like somebody who's living a lovely life. I, don't think there's any shame in that. I like to get up by 11 o' clock in order to watch the View. And I, in my very closed mind at that age, my late 20s or, early 30s, I didn't understand that. I just didn't understand that there were people that would sleep, you know, or did not get up at 8am or 7am M. Or whatever. But what I've come to realize, about you is that you are a night person. At the end of the day, you are not a morning person. And then when we started to date, he said, don't talk to me before 10am Him.
Marco Timpano: How does this make me look good at all?
Amanda Barker: I think it makes you look like somebody who knew his boundaries.
Marco Timpano: I also had a night job. I worked until late.
Amanda Barker: Oh, that's true.
Marco Timpano: Yeah. So.
Amanda Barker: But you are ultimately a person of. Of the night.
Marco Timpano: Yes.
Amanda Barker: You are a lady of the night.
Marco Timpano: That you're gonna say a person of means.
Amanda Barker: yeah, that too. I mean. And I learned a lot, actually. I actually don't think it makes you look bad at all.
Marco Timpano: Well, there you go.
Amanda Barker: Versus me, who just thought I needed to work every second of every day. And I'm still learning. We're both still learning.
Marco Timpano: It's true.
Amanda Barker: How are you doing this morning?
Marco Timpano: I had my coffee. I think I'm fighting something.
Irene recently used our show to fall asleep
But, I wanted to make mention of today's episode. A couple things. so one, we want to say a special hello to Irene, who recently used our show, to fall asleep.
Amanda Barker: She did.
Marco Timpano: So that was great.
Amanda Barker: She did. I mean, but beyond that, Irene, we love you and thank you so much. And I hope you're already asleep. I hope you never hear this because you're just so having the most beautiful sleep.
Irene, when you got married, you said you loved doing laundry
Marco Timpano: Irene, so Diane asked me to, or not asked me, said that Irene, one episode we could do would be talking about folding things like towels and, Ah, sheets.
Amanda Barker: You love to fold.
Marco Timpano: I don't love to fold.
Amanda Barker: Oh, I thought you loved to fold.
Marco Timpano: No, I fold because it has to be done.
Amanda Barker: Well, more behind the sausage.
Marco Timpano: More behind the sausage.
Amanda Barker: So when you got, married, you said you love doing laundry, and I went, that is wonderful.
Marco Timpano: I do like doing laundry. I just don't like. I do all the laundry.
Amanda Barker: How does that make you look bad? Well, it doesn't.
Marco Timpano: It doesn't.
Amanda Barker: But anyways, all the laundry.
There are two ways to fold a towel, folks. One is lengthwise and another is widthwise
Marco Timpano: Okay, so let me talk about how I fold a towel. I actually have a towel in my hand right now.
Amanda Barker: He really does.
Marco Timpano: So there's two ways that I fold a towel, folks. One, my most recent way, the one that I'm using more, is I fold it in half lengthwise. Is that what you call that?
Amanda Barker: I like how you say length lengthwise.
Marco Timpano: Lengthwise. And then I fold it in half, not lengthwise. What would you call that?
Amanda Barker: Well, width wise.
Marco Timpano: And then I fold it in half widthwise to make it a perfect square.
Amanda Barker: Lengthwise, width wise, width wise.
Marco Timpano: But there's another method to my madness, and that is the sausage roll. And let me just.
Amanda Barker: We really are learning how it gets made.
Marco Timpano: Yeah, there's a lot of sausage talk today. So fold it in half width wise, lengthwise. Now hang, on a second. I'm sorry. Width wise, width wise. It's because I'm seated. it's harder.
Amanda Barker: This is width, width.
Marco Timpano: And then those keeping. Roll it with. With, roll with, with roll. And lengthwise, you're rolling it into a sausage like you would see at a spa. You know how they have towels rolled at a spa and stacked?
Amanda Barker: yeah.
Marco Timpano: Or maybe, maybe if you go to a fancy gym.
Amanda Barker: The spas I go to, they fold them. So.
Marco Timpano: Okay, if you go to. You know when you see towels in a cubby hole somewhere fancy and they have them rolled up as sausages, going to go with.
Amanda Barker: Yes.
Marco Timpano: When would you see this kind of a roll? When have you seen stacked rolls like this? Where would be the environment where you've seen it?
Amanda Barker: at our house. And when I pack. Because I roll, pack.
Marco Timpano: No, but you don't roll towels when you pack.
Amanda Barker: Well, if I'm packing a towel, I would.
Marco Timpano: When have you packed a towel? When was the last time you packed a towel?
Amanda Barker: We pack towels when we go to beach places.
Marco Timpano: Not really.
Amanda Barker: Okay.
Marco Timpano: Okay. So anyways, back to the. The sausage roll towel. So then it's It's. It's kind of looks like a little package. Like a little. You know what it looks like. You know those pillows, that you put behind your neck?
Amanda Barker: Yes.
Marco Timpano: The little round ones?
Amanda Barker: Yes.
Marco Timpano: Some people have them on their beds.
Amanda Barker: Lumbar pillow.
Marco Timpano: Lumbar pillow. It looks like a lumbar pillow, but it's a towel.
Amanda Barker: Okay. Lumbar towel.
Marco Timpano: Lumber towel. So if you have. If you have a sore neck, you could use this essentially as a lumbar pillow.
Amanda Barker: I think people do.
Marco Timpano: So that's how I do it now. And I stack them in our linen closet like I would if. If I had a fancy spa.
Amanda Barker: Okay.
Marco Timpano: And I like it because you can just grab the towel. It's not going to pull other towels with it. Whereas the first fold that I talked about, the square fold, sometimes they get stacked. And if you have a lot of towels and you stack them high and you pull one, it will. It'll bring its friends down with it. That's never fun.
Amanda Barker: No, not fun. Never fun. When you go in and you go to grab one thing and everything comes with you.
Amanda Pease says she doesn't iron sheets because time is limited
Marco Timpano: So then let's talk about how I fold sheets, please. So when it comes to sheets, I wish I had the time or the desire to iron sheets, because I love a good iron sheet, but I don't iron sheets. I shouldn't say that.
Amanda Barker: It's like you're saying iron Chic.
Marco Timpano: No, iron the wrestler sheets. Iron Chic had a great, wrestling career. Yes. And a great X or Twitter account for the longest time. So. Okay, so if I could iron sheets, I would iron sheets.
Amanda Barker: Why can't you? Who's stopping you? Because it ain't me.
Marco Timpano: It takes a long time.
Amanda Barker: Time, time. Father time is stopping you.
Marco Timpano: And I could be podcasting instead of iron, ironing the sheet. And I'm often podcasting when I'm not. Instead of ironing sheets.
Amanda Barker: I would say I blame you, fans, but it's fine. no one needs iron sheets in this house.
Marco Timpano: It's so wonderful. I will iron sheets when we have guests. So the guest sheets are ironed.
Amanda Barker: Thank you.
Marco Timpano: But it's a long, laborious task. So basically, I try to fold my sheets when they come out of the dryer while they're still warm.
Amanda Barker: That's nice.
Marco Timpano: So I'll take the warm sheets. And so there's a fitted sheet and the regular sheet. I don't know what the regular sheet is called.
Amanda Barker: One magic set where they're connected.
Marco Timpano: We talked about that on the podcast.
Amanda Barker: I wish they made them still.
Marco Timpano: I wish they made more. I just. I can't. If you ever find. If our listeners know where one can purchase sheets, where the fitted sheet and the top sheet, I think it's called the top sheet, top sheet are connected at the bottom where your feet would be. So that when you fold the fitted sheet into the mattress or tuck, I guess you could say, when you tuck the fitted sheet into the mattress, the top sheet is connected at the bottom. So you never have to tuck the top sheet in. It stays connected to the fitted sheet, which is already tucked. And then you just pull that top sheet up to the top of your bed where your pillows are.
Amanda Barker: And I even love it. And I'm a one foot out gal. Like, I often will have one foot
Marco Timpano: out of the bed and one foot in the mouth. We magically bought a set of those years ago on the shopping channel because they were getting rid of them, because I guess people didn't understand how they worked or people just thought it was bizarre. And we bought it because they were very inexpensive and we needed sheets. And sometimes when you need sheets, especially when you're starting out, let's say, and you don't have money because sheets can be expensive, Amanda. Good sheets can be expensive.
Amanda Barker: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: And now with these tall beds, like these tall mattress beds or whatever you would call them, you know, the mattresses that are bigger, you need sheets that are deeper or fitted sheets that are deeper mattresses. And they often don't stay. And it's a frustrating thing, at least for me, because I'm a roll around kind of guy.
Amanda Barker: And I am too, by the way. I'm. My m. Sister used to call me kicky feet when we were little. So I. I guess I kick a lot.
Marco Timpano: So, you know, you wake up and kick. You know, you don't.
Amanda Barker: Okay.
Marco Timpano: You know, and, you wake up at the mic the middle of the night, and your sheets are off the bed. And that is something I just can't tolerate.
Amanda Barker: Or rope. What I call the rope.
Marco Timpano: Yeah, the rope is the top sheet, not the fitted sheet. I'm talking about the fitted sheet being off the bed.
Amanda Barker: Okay.
Marco Timpano: So I had garters for my sheets.
Amanda Barker: Sexy.
Marco Timpano: That your mother bought me. And. And they didn't work. I've tried them a million times. They don't work. They don't resist against the force of me in the bed.
Amanda Barker: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: Tossing and turning.
Amanda Barker: They might work an extra night, but then after that, nothing can be matched with the power of our tosses and our turns.
Marco Timpano: So that didn't work. I've tried the deep sheets. The deep. The fitted sheets don't work.
Amanda Barker: Deep pockets.
Marco Timpano: I tried one other method. I can't think it didn't work. So when we purchased our next mattress, we bought a regular sized mattress, which is not easy to do.
Amanda Barker: No, it was hard. And it was actually the most expensive mattress. My goodness, though, I love it.
Marco Timpano: That's also because you're a little bit the Princess and the Pea.
Amanda Barker: Why?
Marco Timpano: You tried a lot of mattresses and you always went back to that mattress.
Amanda Barker: Yeah, I'm.
Marco Timpano: But I'm not complaining because it's a great mattress.
Amanda Barker: It's a great mattress.
The top sheet is pretty easy to fold, and it's a question
Marco Timpano: Okay, so back to how I fold sheets, please. I take the top sheet. The top sheet is pretty easy to fold, and it's a question of how long are your arms?
Amanda Barker: How long are your arms?
Marco Timpano: well, I'm not an albatross, but they're pretty long. They're longer than yours. So take the sheet lengthwise so the longest it can open, and you fold it in half. Then you fold it in half. Then you fold it in half. And then it becomes a long, thin sheet. Long. You take the length, you fold it in half. You fold it in half. I think I fold it in half one more time. And then it's a nice square. And that's the top sheet. Easy enough.
Amanda Barker: I don't think it is. So I'm glad that you do it.
Marco Timpano: The fitted sheet. What I do, and I think I saw Martha Stewart do this, but to be honest with you, I learned this from watching my mother over the years when I was a kid.
Amanda Barker: It tests the mettle of a person.
Marco Timpano: You put your hand and you make your hand like, a. Like an oar. I don't know how to describe this shape. So your fingers together and your thumb tucked behind your fingers like this.
Amanda Barker: Okay.
Marco Timpano: So you take this hand that I just described that looks kind of like an oar, and you pop it into the.
Amanda Barker: He's putting his thumb in front of his palm, his open palm. That's what he means by oar.
Marco Timpano: Hand behind my palm. Like into my.
Amanda Barker: In front of your palm. Into your palm. Towards your pinky? Yes.
Marco Timpano: Yes. Okay, great. That's a great way to describe it. So then I take this and I tuck it into the inner part of the fitted sheet that would go around the corner of your bed so that my or hand is basically tucked to the point of the fitted sheet from the inside.
Amanda Barker: I don't.
Marco Timpano: Okay, so you know how the fitted sheet goes over the mattress.
Amanda Barker: I get what a fitted sheet is.
Marco Timpano: So that, that part that goes over the mattress, it kind of has a point to it.
Amanda Barker: Okay.
Marco Timpano: If you look as if you were to put it over your head like a, like a hoodie and wear it and run around the house and let it blow around you like a cape,
Amanda Barker: it's a great idea.
Marco Timpano: If you were to do that, the part that would go over your head like a hoodie. You know how a hoodie has kind of the, the topmost point?
Amanda Barker: Sure, yeah.
Marco Timpano: That's where my hand is. Okay.
Amanda Barker: All right.
Marco Timpano: So then I do that exact same movement to the other side. So now I'm, I'm like conducting a sheet with two hands.
Amanda Barker: It's a, it's a puppet. It's a puppet show.
Marco Timpano: Yeah, it's a puppet show. So now I've got that, those two things in my hand. So then I have to scoop the other side so that on one hand I now have one corner and I have the other corner on top of that.
Amanda Barker: Martha Stewart taught you this?
Marco Timpano: No, my mother taught me this. I saw Martha Stewart do a version of it, but it wasn't as good as my mom's version. Yes.
Amanda Barker: Okay.
Marco Timpano: Yes. So I did that. And then I, I do that. And then once that happens, I kind of untuck my hands and I fold the now creviced fitted sheet that's in itself down so that I have a direct fold from both corners.
Marco Timpano: And I fold down the other side.
Amanda Barker: Okay.
Marco Timpano: Hard to imagine, but picture an envelope. And now I folded the two, I folded the part that sort of. Once you've tucked in your letter and you fold that part down.
Amanda Barker: Oh, yes.
Marco Timpano: Okay. So now it looks like a big rectangle.
Amanda Barker: Alright. Yes. And which is what you want? Because the problem is it's an uneven shape.
Marco Timpano: Right. And so now it looks like a rectangle. I'll fold it lengthwise. And then much like the top sheet, I'll fold it in half. I'll fold it in half and I'll fold it in half. And I'll put the top sheet on top of the fitted sheet. And then I will fold the pillowcases in half. Amanda.
Amanda Barker: Okay. It's a good method. I like this. So it's all about trying to get it to a shape that's foldable.
Marco Timpano: Yeah. And square like I guess, is how I would, further, further describe it. So I've got two squares, a fitted sheet and a top sheet.
You need to replace your sheets after a certain time
And then the towels on top. Sometimes if we're traveling with sheets or if we have to bring the sheets somewhere, I will fold them more and then tuck them into the pillowcases, if that's possible, so that they stay in the pillowcases and are easy to transport.
Amanda Barker: I see, I see.
Amanda Barker: Very interesting.
Marco Timpano: And that's my fitted sheet folds.
Amanda Barker: Amazing.
Marco Timpano: But fitted sheets are not easy to deal with. They're not easy to iron, they're not easy to fold.
Amanda Barker: My mother's version, I believe, was sort of just fold them and then shove them in the linen closet. I think that's as far as we would get. I don't know. I think she had a method to it. She's not a messy person at all. But I don't think fitted sheets. My mother also was very much, whatever is the most efficient. My mom was all about efficiency.
Marco Timpano: Sure.
Amanda Barker: Efficiency over beauty even. So if it was not an efficient way of doing something, if it took too much time, she wasn't signing up for it, generally speaking.
Marco Timpano: I see, I see. Yeah. Some people roll them in a ball and put them in their little closet. It just takes up a lot of room when you're doing that. Right. Interesting.
Amanda Barker: Yeah. And how many sets of sheets does one have?
Marco Timpano: You know, it's a good question. How many sheets should one have? How many sets of sheets does one have? You know, these are all questions. And then, you know, after a certain time your sheets are no longer sheetable. So you need to, you know, replace your sheets.
Amanda Barker: It's true. And in. If you do need to replace your sheets, if you are doing spring cleaning and going, you know what, these sheets serve me well through a few winters, but I don't think I want to do another spring or summer with them. Or they're different types of sheets. Maybe they're heavier and you're feeling done with them. I will say this the best way to dispose of them. Well, there's lots of ways, but the best way I know, especially in this city, is to donate them to an animal shelter. Here, in Toronto, we have, the Humane Society.
Marco Timpano: Sure.
Amanda Barker: And they will always take your towels. Towels and old sheets because the dogs ultimately, and cats need them. And, and they need fabric that is soft but not precious, you know, for, you know, when the dogs come out for their walks and so on. So just something to keep in mind. If you are doing a bit of unloading and you're not sure what to do with them and you're like, well, they're good sheets or they have this stain or this tear. I'm not sure what to do with them. That's the best way that I Know to give them, a second life.
Marco Timpano: Sheets in my family were always used as, drop cloths for painting.
Amanda Barker: Oh, that's a good idea too. Yeah. That's another great, fabulous way to do it. If you have a painting project on
Marco Timpano: the horizon, painting a, ah, wall painting, a door or something that you. That might splash paint onto your tiles or carpet, you don't want that.
Amanda Barker: But if you don't have a painting project on the horizon, you just want to unload them. Some of us have small places, then option, option B, I think, or you know, some people. my mom made me a dress that I love and I still have. I don't think it fits me, but I still have it. A cute little dress from a tablecloth once.
Marco Timpano: Oh, really?
Amanda Barker: Yeah. I don't think I've ever shown you that.
Marco Timpano: No.
Amanda Barker: My little tablecloth dress, I wore it a lot when I was like 1920. I just loved it. It was like a brown and blue plaid, very simple, little shift dress, but shift dress and. Yeah, like a dress that doesn't really have any shape.
Marco Timpano: Oh, okay.
Amanda Barker: I was always a big fan of those.
Marco Timpano: I see. Okay.
Amanda Barker: They weren't, you know, constricting me anywhere. I could just kind of throw it on and put on a pair of shoes and out the door. and, that's what she did with an old tablecloth. So there you go.
Marco Timpano: Wow.
Amanda Barker: Yeah. Yeah.
Marco Timpano: What about. Could you do it with a set of sheets or a towel?
Amanda Barker: Well, that's what I was thinking. I don't know about a towel dress.
Marco Timpano: Well, you could do a towel, onesie with shorts and then use that at the beach.
Amanda Barker: That feels like a lot of work for an old towel. It's one of those towels with bleach stains on it. I don't know that you want to onesie it up.
Marco Timpano: I call that style.
Amanda Barker: Okay, well, you can make me a towel onesie. I'm not sure I'll wear it.
Marco Timpano: Imagine. well, you could make a towel into an absorbent sweater for the beach.
Amanda Barker: Again, this is a lot of sewing for an absorbent sweater.
What if I make you an absorbent sweater for the beach
Who needs an absorbent sweater when you
Marco Timpano: get out of the water?
Amanda Barker: Terry cloth robe, I suppose, right? Yeah. But then you're hot in your absorbent sweater. I don't know.
Marco Timpano: What if I make you a shawl out of an old towel for the beach?
Amanda Barker: Sounds beautiful. It would just be called a towel on my shoulders.
M. M. is starting swimming lessons in a few weeks
Do you know I had another dream about swimming last night? All my dreams. I managed to find pools or bodies of water in my dreams. And I'm like, well, here I go. And then I get in them and go swimming.
Marco Timpano: That's. That's nice.
Amanda Barker: Yeah, it's like in my DNA to do that, I think. And I, Last night I was in Thunder Bay at a really big pool by the water.
Marco Timpano: In your dream?
Amanda Barker: Yeah. But I did actually do a, play at Thunder Bay, and I did swim at that pool, so it didn't look like the one in my dream, though. In my dream was huge and sunny.
Marco Timpano: Oh, wow. I'm going to be taking swimming lessons. So that's happening soon.
Amanda Barker: You're starting in a few weeks.
Marco Timpano: That's right. Amanda's a very strong swimmer. Always has been, always will be. And I'm not. So, you know, it's. It's a challenge when you get friends or family to teach you to swim. You don't want to disappoint them. You want to, but you're also. You easily get frustrated with them, and they'll tell you to do things you don't want to do.
Amanda Barker: I just need to clarify. I'm not a strong simmer, in a sense that I do a perfect butterfly stroke or anything like that. Strong simmer that, too. strong swimmer. yeah, I just am. M. Have a level of confidence in water because I grew up in it. So I just need to. To sort of say that because I don't want anyone to think I'm, like an Olympic level swimmer. I'm most certainly not. I just grew up in pools and beach, and I just spent a lot of time in water as a kid. And so I have a level of confidence, and maybe even at one point, overconfidence.
Marco Timpano: But I've learned hubris, if you will.
Amanda Barker: Well, hopefully not. But, anyhow, so when we go, like, if I want to go snorkeling somewhere, if it's a little bit deeper, I know you get. I get scared for you because you're a little nervous. So I do think. I don't maybe always do all the water stuff I want to do because you're a little worried about it.
Marco Timpano: So I'm a chain around your neck.
Amanda Barker: Would you go scuba diving?
Marco Timpano: Maybe.
Amanda Barker: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: Ah, maybe.
Amanda Barker: Well, maybe that's something we can work our way towards.
Marco Timpano: We have to get. You. You should go scuba diving with Niddy. Nitty's a huge scuba dive, right?
Amanda Barker: No, she's like an amazing scuba diva. That would be super fun to go with Nitty. maybe we should. Maybe we should plan a trip with Nitty.
Marco Timpano: Oh, yeah. She'd Love to get your scuba. What's it called?
Amanda Barker: My Patty.
Marco Timpano: Your Patty.
Amanda Barker: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: And I'll just learn a simple stroke. Anyways, I'm excited and nervous about my swim class.
Amanda Barker: And when he's gonna do swim class, I'm gonna do hip hop dancing. Our city offers these very cheap classes, and we didn't really know about them. We thought they were just for kids. And then our dear friend was taking skiing.
Marco Timpano: Dale. Shout out to Dale.
Amanda Barker: Yeah, from the city. I don't know if she wants everyone to know her skiing business. Anyway, which is amazing that there's skiing classes right in the city of Toronto, but she skis at a park and she's learned a bunch. And she went on a proper hill,
Marco Timpano: like, ski resort with family during the break.
Amanda Barker: Yeah, they had a school break last week and she did great. And she was really helpful to the kids that didn't know what they're doing. So she's feeling really confident with those lessons. So she did her skiing and she said. I told her I wanted to do pottery. I've always wanted to do pottery. It's one of those things as a kid I was obsessed with, and I always have just wanted to sit at the wheel and play.
Marco Timpano: and I was buying you pottery classes, but we've got a schedule when you can pot.
Amanda Barker: Yeah. So she said, you know, the city offers pottery classes. And I was like, they do, but here's the thing.
Marco Timpano: Oh, no, here we go.
Amanda Barker: The city offers pottery. these classes to seniors.
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First the 65 and overcrowd. Well, they scoop up all the classes. So then you have to go on waiting list by the time it's your turn, because they get first pick and then they give them a day or two. So all the pottery classes were full by the time I wanted to do it. But you know what? The seniors didn't fill up. Hip hop.
Marco Timpano: I see, I see.
Amanda Barker: So I was like, you know what? I would love to do a dance class. I've been meaning to get back into dancing. That's another thing I did as a kid. it was my family's birthright, since my mom had a school where she taught dance and other performing arts, but it originated as a dance school. And I just thought, you know what? Hip hop is not something I learned because it was not as prevalent. And my mom in God love her, hip hop was not a big part of her dance training in the 60s of Massachusetts. So, anyhow, so I just want to get moving. I don't care how or in what capacity I would have taken any dance, but that's what was available. So there you go.
Marco Timpano: Amanda's going to be a hip hop dancer, and I'm going to be a swimmer. So, we'll see how. City of Toronto, thank you for City of Toronto. Thank you, listeners, for, you know, sending messages to us, rating and reviewing our podcast and just, supporting if you got this far. There's plenty of episodes out there. We have a YouTube channel now as well. You, you can subscribe to us on insomniaproject.super cast.com if you don't want, ads to listen to before our episode starts. But however you listen, wherever you listen, we just want to say thank you so much, and we hope you were able to listen and sleep.