I wish I knew how to do more things, but when it comes time to acutally learning how to do them I feel lazy about it. I have a desire to learn, yet no desire to learn! What's up with that? It makes no sense.
I think I would like to learn to sew. I'm wondering if this would save money or not really, in terms of clothes for Audrey throughout her young life. The idea seems fun, making Audrey's clothes! How cool would that be. I know very little. I made a bag in 7th grade and that's it. I have no knowledge on sewing machines, fabrics, etc. Where to even start? And I hate the thought of wasting money on buying the wrong this or that in the process of learning.
Also, I need to learn to cook more things. It doesn't seem like this should be so hard, but for some reason, it is. I can make hambergers and kabobs on my George Foreman and then chicken, meatloaf, and lasagne in the oven. Pretty sure that's it. Chris isn't a big pasta person, so that eliminates an easy one: spaghetti, bummer! Haha. But it's not his fault, there are things I dont' like either, so I must find new things to make. One challenge with this is that I need to cook heathily, not a huge problem, but something to make sure of. Which means I don't just want to go buy a random cook book that isn't low-fat. When I search for cook books or look online I feel so discouraged. I instantly see ingredients I've never heard of and I lose all motivation and just give up. Maybe I just need to go buy the random, unfamiliar ingredient and give it a try.
It's not that I want to make strange-ingredient kind of meals, I just want to know how to cook things.
Someday, I'm gonna be the mom or grandma who's house everyone gathers at, I need to be able to make ham, pototoes, turkey, whatever, in the proper timing and order to serve everyone! I think I take it for granted how perfect all our family events are. Gran has everything all in order and we eat hot, perfect meals. I bet a lot of time and effort went into all of that preparation over the years. She has to think through what she will serve, all the ingredients she needs, where to buy them, when to buy them, how much to buy, when to put what in the oven. When I see her sitting on her stool Christmas after Christmas pulling apart the turkey, I don't even realize all that went into the process to get her there. Jeesh, I ordered pizza and bought a cake for Audrey's 1st birthday party and a lot of thought went into that seemingly lame meal.
I'm sure Gran doesn't think this is a big deal, she's probably got it down to an art form (right Gran?), but for me, I don't even know how to cook a turkey. Maybe it's not as hard as I think.
Anyways, now I think I'm a little bit inspired to google recipees. I MUST learn to cook more! (and maybe learn to sew?)
PS: It doesn't help that Chris and I are perfectly thrilled to eat out at Beetles every night of the week :) (not that we do, ok maybe once....or twice....dah!)
