Once you get used to cooking for a bunch of people, it's hard to cook for less. Like, I could never cook for just two, EVER. Right now there's six of us in the house, with extras on the weekends. Even when it was just me and the ex, we always had his friends dropping by for dinner and whatnot, so you get used to it. plus side of that, if you feed that many people you damned well better have help cleaning up.
I think I'd really like Angel, but I only saw the first season & random episodes after that. But I bet you'll like it.
Mom and I were talking about the people affected by the hurricane (or any disaster like that) the other night. Where we live at, we don't have much of a problem other than the occasional flood and the even more rare snowstorm, but we struggle to make it paycheck to paycheck. We don't have extra money saved up for anything, we're lucky to have gas to make it back and forth to work all week, and we stretch food to the limit to make sure the kids and Harley get fed. I know there are thousands of families that do the same thing, and I can't imagine what it's like for them. I mean, even if they still have a home to go to, there is still the possibility of having to do repairs, the possibility of having a freezer full of food gone (which doesn't seem like much unless that's all you have, y'know?), the lack of work hours. Missing one day of work is enough to make my paycheck look damn near impossible. I can't imagine being out of work for days or weeks or whatever. And the "human interest" stories on the media don't reflect any of that. (I'm a horrible person; I haven't actually watched the news in like two weeks. *fails*)
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Date: 2008-09-22 12:40 am (UTC)I think I'd really like Angel, but I only saw the first season & random episodes after that. But I bet you'll like it.
Mom and I were talking about the people affected by the hurricane (or any disaster like that) the other night. Where we live at, we don't have much of a problem other than the occasional flood and the even more rare snowstorm, but we struggle to make it paycheck to paycheck. We don't have extra money saved up for anything, we're lucky to have gas to make it back and forth to work all week, and we stretch food to the limit to make sure the kids and Harley get fed. I know there are thousands of families that do the same thing, and I can't imagine what it's like for them. I mean, even if they still have a home to go to, there is still the possibility of having to do repairs, the possibility of having a freezer full of food gone (which doesn't seem like much unless that's all you have, y'know?), the lack of work hours. Missing one day of work is enough to make my paycheck look damn near impossible. I can't imagine being out of work for days or weeks or whatever. And the "human interest" stories on the media don't reflect any of that. (I'm a horrible person; I haven't actually watched the news in like two weeks. *fails*)