Domestic Challenges

I would say on the domestically challenged scale, let's call it 1-10, 1 being the least and 10 being the most, I wouldn't say I'm really low in the scale, but I could probably only give myself a 5 at this point. Growing up in a couple of decades where the "cool" thing to do was to buy the most chemically-concentrated products for cleaning and popping a meal in a plastic tray in the microwave was the norm, there are definitely some things I missed out on. Now, in 2010, it seems all the things people used to do...sew, cook, re-purpose, even make your own one of a kind apron - is in vogue again. That's really cool because it's obviously better to cook your own food (even grow it if you can), make your own curtains or even a skirt if you get adventurous; and finding a piece of furniture on the side of the road, sanding it, painting it and displaying it prominently in your kitchen is cool, even if you probably had the money to go to Ikea and get yourself a new one. So we've come a long way. Trouble is, I'm just catching up with all this. Luckily, I was taught basic cooking as a teenager. This has definitely helped me tremendously and is a really, really good skill to have when you have a hungry husband pacing around the kitchen. Instead of going to the store and buying the ready cooked rotisserie chicken for the 26th time, I've found a basic supply of recipes to, hopefully, avoid this catastrophe once and for all (not that I don't like rotisserie chickens, it's just after you eat them so many times, they start to get gross. Also, I've befriended some chickens at a local lake and now, whenever I see them, I find it hard to bring myself to eating their relatives).
Having said all that, I will post some useful things I have learned or am learning, as well as probably some really random ideas. I guess the sky is the limit with these things (2010 and my first blog, awesome!)