Bento, Dinner, House Wifery, and Other Domestic Life
Ahh, today I looked up some recipes for bento. I sliced up some beef into thin slices, and then cooked them up with the special sauce I marinated them in until they were all delicious. I also made some maple syrup and chili pepper yellow bell pepper for a side dish. Dinner will be more of the beef, but in bigger pieces. It was strange slicing the mostly-but-not-quite defrosted beef from a big steak into little frying slices, but it really makes a difference in how I feel about cooking it. I think, "This will be quick and easy; I'll have enough time to make everything and serve it within a nice 30 minute mark!"
It makes me feel sort of House Wifey though. I've said before that this isn't necessarily a BAD thing, it's just that, when it comes down to certain things, I wonder, "Aren't I too young to be a House Wife? Aren't I just living?" And then...when you think about it, it'll probably feel the same when I actually am a wife and managing a house. I don't know if I'll be able to think of myself as doing something that's a set job, like housewifery, instead of just thinking about living my life with respect to the many aspects that my life encompasses.
One of the things, for instance, that I have committed to is providing a lunch and dinner meal for Brian and myself on a daily basis. I pack a bento for each of us now so that we both have a nutrious, delicious, and less-expensive meal. Same thing with cooking dinner; it's way less costly to just buy fun grocerious and cook them than it is to go out to eat even just once a week. Even if you spend $120/month on groceries, that's only $60 per person, and if you ate out even at Toxic Hell and got just three or four things each for a total of $10, you'll be spending $280/month to eat JUST ONE MEAL. So, for our lifestyle of just having one income source, it's best to not spend all our money on food. Plus, then I get fat. T.T
Also, it's strange, but it's a lot easier to keep things clean and tidy when you have another person in the house. When you life alone, and you're the only one who really judges the state of your abode, it's pretty easy to let things slide. When someone else has to live in the same space, you're much more conscious of "someone watching you" and you act accordingly. For instance, doing laundry, vaccuuming the floor, tidying up the bedroom, cleaning the toilet and the sink and the shower, etc, are all things that I do often enough that it becomes a sort of routine. I still feel that I have more of the chores that perhaps is entirely fair and even, but I am also not so selfish that I can honestly give myself a fair share, when I don't share the burden of money for the household. So, if I do a few more chores, and manage a few more things for now, so be it. I feel that I have the balls and fortitude to enforce a shift in behavior towards chores in the event that I become employed and seek to better split the management and maintenance of the household. Kinda makes you want children actually...just to foister off some of the chores on them. Too bad it takes YEARS for them to be effective...*sigh* And then you only have a few good labor years before they move away and stop doing your chores....
Anyway. I hope that after this week I can go back to volunteering some more. I've yet to shake off the strange weakness/tiredness that's been over my head like a cloud since last Thursday, but I think I'll be back to normal soon.
It makes me feel sort of House Wifey though. I've said before that this isn't necessarily a BAD thing, it's just that, when it comes down to certain things, I wonder, "Aren't I too young to be a House Wife? Aren't I just living?" And then...when you think about it, it'll probably feel the same when I actually am a wife and managing a house. I don't know if I'll be able to think of myself as doing something that's a set job, like housewifery, instead of just thinking about living my life with respect to the many aspects that my life encompasses.
One of the things, for instance, that I have committed to is providing a lunch and dinner meal for Brian and myself on a daily basis. I pack a bento for each of us now so that we both have a nutrious, delicious, and less-expensive meal. Same thing with cooking dinner; it's way less costly to just buy fun grocerious and cook them than it is to go out to eat even just once a week. Even if you spend $120/month on groceries, that's only $60 per person, and if you ate out even at Toxic Hell and got just three or four things each for a total of $10, you'll be spending $280/month to eat JUST ONE MEAL. So, for our lifestyle of just having one income source, it's best to not spend all our money on food. Plus, then I get fat. T.T
Also, it's strange, but it's a lot easier to keep things clean and tidy when you have another person in the house. When you life alone, and you're the only one who really judges the state of your abode, it's pretty easy to let things slide. When someone else has to live in the same space, you're much more conscious of "someone watching you" and you act accordingly. For instance, doing laundry, vaccuuming the floor, tidying up the bedroom, cleaning the toilet and the sink and the shower, etc, are all things that I do often enough that it becomes a sort of routine. I still feel that I have more of the chores that perhaps is entirely fair and even, but I am also not so selfish that I can honestly give myself a fair share, when I don't share the burden of money for the household. So, if I do a few more chores, and manage a few more things for now, so be it. I feel that I have the balls and fortitude to enforce a shift in behavior towards chores in the event that I become employed and seek to better split the management and maintenance of the household. Kinda makes you want children actually...just to foister off some of the chores on them. Too bad it takes YEARS for them to be effective...*sigh* And then you only have a few good labor years before they move away and stop doing your chores....
Anyway. I hope that after this week I can go back to volunteering some more. I've yet to shake off the strange weakness/tiredness that's been over my head like a cloud since last Thursday, but I think I'll be back to normal soon.