My mom taught my brother and I how to knit when we were little. It's been about 7-8 years since I picked up a set of needles, and I never was very good at casting on, so I went to Youtube (as one does) to find an instructional video.
I found this one.
It's great, the lady sounds just a smidge cranky that she has to go so slow. BUT it's perfect. I related to this method of casting on because it's very similar to a straight knit stitch (which is really, to be honest, what I do best.)
I used to be able to do all kinds of fun crazy patterns but hooooo that's been 20-25 years since I did anything like that. I started a washcloth just to get back in the swing of things, and I thought I would do a knit two purl two pattern to get things going. OH WOW did I mess it up so bad, I should have taken a picture. My coworker who knows nothing about knitting took a look and said "Oh, that's real bad man." But I just kept plowing through and now I have this big wad of cotton yarn that is, if you squint at it, vaguely rectangular.