Independance

Well today I cut off the last bit of financial support my parents had been giving me. Mom finaly got around to sending me the information for my student loan so that I can start paying it instead of them.

All through college I had their credit card to use for groceries and gas and they paid my car insurance and I was on their health insurance. They no longer pay for my car insurance or gas and I'm too old to be on their health insurance (which means I have none) any longer. I still have their credit card but I only use it when I'm buying computer parts for them.

In other news, the Social Security Administration office is a small bit of hell. I went to get my earnings report from 2000 adjusted and it took forever to get to the window for them to take my W2 and tell me they would take care of it. It took 30 seconds to take care of it but over an hour to get to the window.

Got a haircut today. It was needed. Feels good.

Right now I'm cooking a stew in my rice cooker. I don't really NEED a rice cooker to cook my stew in, nor do I need to cook stew in the rice cooker I have. But since I have it I decided to try it. I didn't really have a recipe to follow so I cut up the holy trinity (onions, bell peppers, and cellery -- it's a Louisiana thing) and let it sweat in the cooker for a bit with some salt. Then I added some strips of beef, some carrots, some rice, water, spices (ummm, garlic, pepper, oregano, basil, fresh rosemary, and fresh thyme), and a bottle of beer. Letting it simmer now. We shall see how it turns out.
- posted by Nick @ 8/23/2005 05:48:00 PM | 0 comments