I am not domestic.
I've never been interested in being a housewife. Don't get me wrong - I know it's a tough job. I don't know how stay-at-home moms do it, and I don't think it ever occurred to me to find out for myself. I don't want children, I want a fat paycheck and a career. I work 40 hours a week and I'm taking online classes for a computer science degree so I can earn said paycheck.
So I guess you could say I'm busy. I don't have time or motivation to do much of anything around the house. My cooking is usually limited to opening a box and adding water, or dialing a phone. My house is an unorganized, dirty disaster. It stays that way because I absolutely detest using my weekend to clean. Though I had been giving serious thought to hiring a maid to come in and give the place a thorough scrubbing a couple times a month.
Then I got laid off.
Bye, bye, discretionary income! Hello, free time!
Now I'm left with only schoolwork to do, which really doesn't fill my time. My husband still has income, thank goodness, so we're okay financially... though it does hurt. I had planned to leave my job this year and focus on school, but I hadn't planned to do it this early. So I'm left with a dilemma: Do I try to find another full-time job that won't pay what I was making? Do I take a part-time job and focus on school, though I don't currently have a working car to get me to and from said job? Or do I take advantage of unemployment for a little while and pursue other projects?
This dilemma got me thinking: Why not take advantage of my unemployment and experience something I would otherwise never have had the opportunity to do? Why not cook and clean and get this house into shape? Why not eat healthier and waste less money on fast food?
I suppose a good argument against this is the fact that I hate cleaning and cooking. Or do I hate cleaning and cooking because I always have too much to do and not enough time?
I guess we're going to find out.
Things I want to accomplish:
- Learn to cook healthy, do it every day.
- Clean the house. All of it. Thoroughly.
- Figure out places to put all the crap we own (aka de-clutter)
- Learn to clean up as I go.
- Figure out why everything comes out of my dishwasher looking like ass.
- Remember to eat regularly (I tend to forget when I get focused on a project).
- Kick caffeine habit.
- Blog daily (yeah right!)
Things I already know:
- Pink is good in steak, bad in chicken.
- Separate cutting boards for raw meat, cooked meat, veggies/fruit.
Things I learned cooking today:
- I have no idea how much olive oil to use when I cook. Or garlic. My husband thinks you can never have too much garlic, but I suspect that's just because we haven't experienced that limit yet.
- I have no idea what spices are for what. Not the faintest idea.
- Chicken cooks way faster than I expect.
- Knives that have their purpose printed on them are invaluable.
- Raw meat is beyond gross when you're touching it.
- I will somehow manage to use every pot and pan in the house to cook one meal.
- Don't open a bag of frozen peas on top of your stove because they WILL fall over and you'll have to clean them out of everywhere. FML.
