Introduction

2006-07-31T07:48:00.000-07:00

Hello,

My name is Brandy. I am a 25 year old college student living in Southern Florida who also works full time. I live in a lovely little apartment with a male roommate I've known since the sixth grade. Our apartment is lovely because the outside of the buildings are so decrepit that no one passing by would guess that the insides are quite nice.

As I've said, I have a male roommate, also 25. His tasks around the home include drinking, taking down the garbage, drinking, and the occasional dishwashing. I was sick once when rent was due and left that duty in his hands. He bounced the check (he rectified the situation when threatened with violence). He has no sense of how to handle bills, the inability to fix pretty much anything, and thinks its amusing to leave empty beer bottles in a flying V formation on the living room table.

I am not trying to bash said roommate. I pretty much knew what I was getting when I signed on. But when I realized he wasn't going to do most of the things around the house, I knew I would have to. And I was embarrassingly unprepared for living on my own. I could handle the basics like cooking and cleaning and laundry. But what about fixing a garbage disposal? Or installing a door knob? Or starting a garden?

If you have a partner at home who is handy at home repair then that's fantastic. But that person might not always be there. What if a pipe breaks while they are gone? Believe it or not you don't always need to call a plumber.

My basic goal for this site is to instruct people how to take care of themselves whether they are men or women. Obviously, the site is more slanted towards women but hopefully the men will forgive my use of the pronoun "woman" the way we've been forgiving the generic use of the pronoun "man" for years.

I hope you enjoy the site.

Backwards in High Heels

Introduction