A Place Of My Own

This summer has seen the purchase of many small odds and ends that are necessary for niche household chores. I'll give you some examples:

• a scrubbing brush shaped like an iron to scrub grime off of the bathtub
  
• a brass scrubbing brush to remove carbonized food from the stove
  
• a shallow, wide baking pan (like for cookies) for grilling BBQ skewers in the oven
  
• flour, hoisin, red curry, and other cooking ingredients I am not accustomed to using in my 13+ years of cooking for myself
  
• popcorn popper

As the list increases, I can't help but notice two things:
1) my options, my "ease of living" as it were, are steadily increasing
2) my dependency on my parents for doing purchases for me (e.g. purchasing cooking ingredients) or loaning me help (e.g. tools or manual labor) is markedly decreasing

Boring update, perhaps. :p More later.