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Evolve discreetly into a 1950s domestic goddess

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    firepoppy is thinking positively

    housework  — 4 days ago

    I love baking it’s the housework that gets me. :(

    I think I should put this one off for a while...  — 1 month ago

    ... I wholeheartedly would like to be the cookin’, cleanin’ machine that is the best June Cleaver mom in the world! However, we are sharing a home with other people for now and it’s a challenge to take charge in this situation. When we get our own place again, THEN I will become the 1950’s domestic goddess that I know I can be. :)

    Kiki...just for laughs keeping small town America alive!

    it's all about the shoes  — 2 months ago

    just click your heels…there no place like home…

    sort77 is working it.

    I went to my parents house yesterday  — 2 months ago

    And when it came time to think about dinner I asked my mom if she had a couple ingredients… WHY? so I could cook us all dinner. Wow I really AM a domestic goddess!

    rewind 1 year ago… I was still living with the distinction of being the girl who could burn pasta. HA!

    the style is what I want  — 3 months ago

    I’ve got the cooking, the cleaning, the sultry gazing at my hubby who wears dapper hats, but I haven’t quite perfected that 50s look… Maybe I’ll figure it out this year.

    sort77 is working it.

    I think I've been well on my way to this for a while  — 3 months ago

    I just didn’t know it at the time. Learning how to cook last year opened my eyes to so many things. I always liked to bake but only did so once a year. I just baked some bread and made some dinner in my crock pot. If I were to actually say that out loud right now, I think, there would be fear of me bursting out laughing.

    That being said I’m really enjoying my new domesticity. That is what is so great about being alive; One can reinvent themselves over and over in a lifetime. Never staying the same and also never really changing. I don’t know what will be the bench mark that makes me check this off my too do list. I’m not sure I’m ready to do that yet. I still smile every time I see this on my list. So there it stays.

    sort77 is working it.

    My husband  — 3 months ago

    called me Betty Crocker the other night because I made muffins. I wasn’t sure to take it as a insult or a complement. ha. My muffins didn’t come out as good as I’d hoped. I substituted brown rice flour for wheat flour but I’m not sure if that is what threw the recipe off. I also had the option of using oil instead of butter and I think the butter would have helped. Either way I think my evolution is underway.

    sort77 is working it.

    I'm not sure whats happening to me.  — 5 months ago

    I think this, for me, is sort of wrapped up in my want to be more self sufficient. I mean in terms of my want of a veggie garden and the such. Its also wrapped up in my concern over the chemicals sprayed on food and wanting to learn to cook things with organic ingredients. I know its kind of weird and probably misplaced in a way but these things made me want learn how to cook for myself, I still want to learn to can things. Also my want to get out of debt made me want to be able to make thigns I want instead of buy. I realized that my grandmother would have been appauled at all the frivolous things I spend money and a little more self sufficency is really in order. I want to learn to sew (finally). I have also reached a point in my life where I’ve achieved many of my earlier long term goals and I’m reevaluating many things. I want to spend more time enjoying the life I’ve built and right now that means hosting dinner parties or a cocktail hours.

    So in these ways I want to be that stereotype. That perfect happy 50’s woman who does it all and takes names. I dont know all of what my specific goals will here yet but I’ll figure them out as I go along. :D

    finally...  — 7 months ago

    I have been thinking cloths today are soooo ugly. I read somewhere that someone said everyone looked like they are wearing leftovers. I couldn’t agree more. Occasionally I would think someone looks cute but not often. I would play games in NYC where I would look for someone who I thought was dressed cutely but one day, in a nice neighborhood, I searched for an hour and….nothing.From what I have seen of Douglas Hannants cloths, they are lovely. I actually like quite alot of it. It is so nice to start liking what is out there again.

    Ladylike  — 8 months ago

    I have really been thinking about this lately. I want to feel more ladylike. I have been a bull in a china cabinet for the last few years and it is getting on my last nerve. I didn’t used to be, in fact I would say I was described as quite ladylike but I haven’t been for long enough that I am going to have to work at getting this back.

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