I'm a Big Girl now

Now that I have a new job and internship, I've decided to spend some time focusing on making my self more healthy and well-adjusted. After all, I'm technically an adult, so I really should start learning all of those things that adults are supposed to know.

 Adults know to:

1. Do household chores - Laundry, dishes, basic plumbing, electricity and clean different surfaces
2. Cook - 10 practical and healthy dinner recipes
3. Sort out money  - They understand loans, can keep a house budget, pay bills
4. Transport themselves - Know how to get around and fix/have alternate transportation if fails
5. Socialize - How to dress/socialize/communicate for different occasions. Also, how to memorize people's names.
• Be interesting - Have two hobbies in different areas of interest
6. Extra Credit: Understand and create investment/401K.

Looking at the list, I'm surprised at what I can do - and what I can't.  I can clean pretty much every damn thing - if I have a problem, it's that I don't want to.  I can do money, for the most part (after all, I do live on my own).  I take public transportation, and usually know multiple routes to get where I am going.  I usually know what is appropriate to wear to an occasion (although I may not follow it.  Or care.  Maybe I need to work on this?)  Investments I don't really understand, but I don't really have money to spare on future finances, so that's fine for a few years.

My main hangup is cooking - I don't and won't cook.  It's become a problem since I moved out of any place where someone else will cook for me.  Although peanut butter is amazing, it isn't okay to eat it by the spoonful as all three meals of the day.

Believe me, I've tried.

There's a few complications - as a self-sustained college student, I don't have much money to spend on food.  And, as a vegetarian, there is a significant portion of things that I can't eat, or have to modify to fit my diet.  So, I really do need to learn how to make more actual things from scratch.  I've gone online for help and recipes - I bought my first batch of canned pinto beans for an eventual burrito night.  It should be interesting.