learning how to live alone
Mar. 14th, 2019 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hagaardso I've been living away from my parents for six months now, to study. and honestly, so far, I'm glad I'm doing alright.
I was kinda worried about my housekeeping skills, to be honest. My parents never asked me to do my chores consistently as a kid, either cuz they forgot or cuz they thought I was going to mess stuff up. as a result, I have to learn everything, and it's... honestly, it's really fun.
the floor stays relatively clean, even tho I probably don't mop it as often as I should. I have a consistent laundry schedule, and have managed to not run out of clean clothes (there were a few close calls tho!) I'm close enough to supermarkets and malls that resupplying is easy enough on feet or with public transportation.
I've found out that actually needing to do stuff will make me do them? I'm genuinely glad that I got out of home as early as I could to learn these skills. being able to keep a house running is actually not extremely hard once you get the hang of it, even tho I still let the laundry or the dishes pile up occasionally. also I need more sleep? why don't I pull my big dumb body to bed earlier sometimes? ljkdhjdqsh
the biggest challenge I had to face is actually cooking! my dad's a pretty good cook, and I thought my mom was rather good, but she's not? cuz she hates cooking and would rather eat pre-made stuff? to be fair I actually could have guessed that, she never cooks outside of defrosting stuff or vapor-cooking... or whatever it's named
the point is, I had to learn how to cook myself. the first few months were pasta and rice only, with the occasional salad thrown in the middle, but now I'm getting pretty good at doing more complex dishes? I can do a p good bologna sauce, crepes, veggies. most of what I do is just.. cooking stuff and cutting stuff and mixing it and waiting, but it turns out that's what most cooking is : you cut stuff, you put it with other stuff, you heat it with boiling water or sth, you add other stuff, and you serve? it's oddly fun and satisfying.
k i'm shutting up now, I gotta do laundry
I was kinda worried about my housekeeping skills, to be honest. My parents never asked me to do my chores consistently as a kid, either cuz they forgot or cuz they thought I was going to mess stuff up. as a result, I have to learn everything, and it's... honestly, it's really fun.
the floor stays relatively clean, even tho I probably don't mop it as often as I should. I have a consistent laundry schedule, and have managed to not run out of clean clothes (there were a few close calls tho!) I'm close enough to supermarkets and malls that resupplying is easy enough on feet or with public transportation.
I've found out that actually needing to do stuff will make me do them? I'm genuinely glad that I got out of home as early as I could to learn these skills. being able to keep a house running is actually not extremely hard once you get the hang of it, even tho I still let the laundry or the dishes pile up occasionally. also I need more sleep? why don't I pull my big dumb body to bed earlier sometimes? ljkdhjdqsh
the biggest challenge I had to face is actually cooking! my dad's a pretty good cook, and I thought my mom was rather good, but she's not? cuz she hates cooking and would rather eat pre-made stuff? to be fair I actually could have guessed that, she never cooks outside of defrosting stuff or vapor-cooking... or whatever it's named
the point is, I had to learn how to cook myself. the first few months were pasta and rice only, with the occasional salad thrown in the middle, but now I'm getting pretty good at doing more complex dishes? I can do a p good bologna sauce, crepes, veggies. most of what I do is just.. cooking stuff and cutting stuff and mixing it and waiting, but it turns out that's what most cooking is : you cut stuff, you put it with other stuff, you heat it with boiling water or sth, you add other stuff, and you serve? it's oddly fun and satisfying.
k i'm shutting up now, I gotta do laundry