how time has passed

I have been in Australia for 11 months (July - May) and I was reading/looking over some of my older posts. One of the things that was going to be the most difficult thing for me moving to the other side of the planet was going to be surviving on my own as an adult for the first time in my life. Well I can successfully say I made it. I was making dinner tonight and I was marveled at how good my meal looked; in fact all my meals look that way. I have become a pretty damn good chef! I don't eat red meat so I'm not too sure if I can cook that but anything else I can now. I also have mastered washing my clothes, bleaching my whites, hand washing, and using a laundry line to dry my clothes. WOW. Amazing I'm sure. What's more exciting is that I am so anal when it comes to cleaning -- I was always was that way in college but its even more intense and I actually don't mind doing it. This is not to say that when I move home for the first few weeks I won't GLADY let my mom do these things but it is good to know that I am now eligible to be married. Impressive.