In the beginning, there was hope.

I am an older... much older... than average college student trying to finish up my degree, finally. In my quest, it has become apparent that working while doing this is not for me. Fortunately, I have a very supportive, if not obnoxious, significant other who supports this idea. This is how I was catapulted into my new, and very unfamiliar, role of stay-at-home-girlfriend and homemaker. To make this whole somewhat embarrassing change of lifestyle more interesting, I decided to record my progress. I am a disaster. I know other people say this a lot, but I bring a whole new feel of "disaster" to the table. I take on too much, and have grand ideas, and usually end up on the couch binging on streaming TV shows while stuffing fried potatoes in my face hole. So, this is my way of having accountability. Now, if anyone else is attempting to do this for the first time as well, you can join me in my humiliation, and celebrate small victories with me. Or at least feel better about your own progress as you laugh at my lack of fineness in adulthood.

And now we get into the plan: I am hoping to get my cooking and housekeeping up to snuff.

Current projects:

• Make delicious food with mostly fresh ingredients.
• Paint my living-room
• Install hardwood laminate floors
• Rearrange living-room to fit S.O.'s "office" in it since this will apparently lead to "more quality time of being together while not interacting directly." (His words, not mine.)

So far the food part is fine. I have found a farmers market that I LOVE and some like minded friends who attend as well, and who also like to have a celebratory beer after our purchases. The hope is to start canning, a hobby I picked up and immediately became to busy for a few years ago, so I can enjoy some of the delicious fresh ingredients into the winter, which makes fresh produce a bit difficult to come by. The current issue is that I found a stand that does the "fill this plastic bag for $10" thing, and it leads to me bringing home an insane amount of vegetables to be used on two people per week. It has forced my creative side to come out. For example:

And that doesn't include the bits I already put in the fridge and produce basket. (The garlic was purchased at a separate booth...) This isn't really a problem, except that my fridge is full of beer.... I am working on clearing it out, but in the mean time I need to get a bit unorthodox in my fridge organizing. 

Now we get tot the plan of redoing the living-room. This all seemed simple, a month ago when I went out and purchased the flooring. Now I am in a state of panic as I can't even get myself to remove items from the walls to paint them. I took some before pictures... it is scary. You will judge me, as you should. I will take pictures of the horrendous hallway carpeting that lead to this entire fiasco as well, but wont share any of the pictures until I can also show the new and improved revisions... eventually. Then I can bask in my own glory for a bit.

Please wish me luck. I am in desperate need. Well, you can wish me motivation as well.