Another self-pity party

mainstreet wrote:Sorry to rehash the same sorrow all over again but I feel so miserable in this place overall.  All I do is:
1. Sleep in until whatever time I feel like waking up
2. Feed the dogs and chickens, change their water
3. Walk the dogs to the neighbor's house, let them play with their dogs for 10-15 minutes and walk them back.
4. Make lunch and dinner, and clean the house, vacuum, mop floors, dust, clean kitchen, clean bathrooms, do the laundry, do some gardening
5. Sit on the porch and read, listen to music, lift weights, gossip with the local cop (the one bright spot in my day, if he stops by at all)
6. Drive to the nearest city for groceries, to get cars serviced, to the vet, to shop at the mall (and I don't even need  the nice outfits I buy because most of the time, all I wear is jeans and a tank top in the middle of nowhere).
7. Browse the local Topix forum and FB
8. Wait for DH to come home

I didn't get two degrees to do nothing all day.  I could probably do this homemaker thing all day in a city where I could go socialize with friends over lunch.  But there's no one here of my demographic.  Someone young, educated, without four or more kids, not Christian evangelical, and with similar interests.  It could be white, black, Indian, Asian, but someone young, educated, not running a convenience store or raising chickens for a living.  Just browsed FB and everyone who lives here praises God at least once a day ("God is so good," "Praise The Lord," "I love you, Baby Jesus," "El Elyon-God Most High"). I am spiritual but this is ridiculous!  It's almost like they have a competition going on to see who loves God more.

I know, another self-pity party, but what else is there to do here.

mainstreet wrote:I have zero interest in the cop.  He's just a welcome distraction from the sheer boredom of my pointless existence.

mainstreet wrote:I used to work when he was in training.  I bought my own house, now worth $200K, and paid it off before getting married.  I wasn't going to use that to pay off his loans.  Now that he's paid off his student loans, I'm okay with him taking a 50% pay cut but he's not ready to take a pay cut, so I can start working.

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:
I hear that a certain JIGNES - a 30 something modern guy in the most cosmopolitian mega city - is looking for a "female friend."

Bittu wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:
I hear that a certain JIGNES - a 30 something modern guy in the most cosmopolitian mega city - is looking for a "female friend."

Jignes ij looking phor phemale phrand.

mainstreet wrote:I would love to join you for lunch!  At a Whole Foods' hot lunch bar.  Or for idli-dosa.  Or sushi and miso soup.  Or Thai curry.  Or even an egg salad sandwich at Starbucks.  I have none of these options where I am right now.  I've learned to become a phenomenal cook thanks to the lack of food choices around me.  I even own a sushi mat now.

mainstreet wrote:I would love to join you for lunch!  At a Whole Foods' hot lunch bar.  Or for idli-dosa.  Or sushi and miso soup.  Or Thai curry.  Or even an egg salad sandwich at Starbucks.  I have none of these options where I am right now.  I've learned to become a phenomenal cook thanks to the lack of food choices around me.  I even own a sushi mat now.

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

mainstreet wrote:I would love to join you for lunch!  At a Whole Foods' hot lunch bar.  Or for idli-dosa.  Or sushi and miso soup.  Or Thai curry.  Or even an egg salad sandwich at Starbucks.  I have none of these options where I am right now.  I've learned to become a phenomenal cook thanks to the lack of food choices around me.  I even own a sushi mat now.

You know by all your description - looks like you are stuck in Southern Georgia.

Am I right or am I right?

mainstreet wrote:Yeah, thanks for the encouragement about the book idea, but how many people want to read a book about Billy Bob and Mary Beth?  There's just so many pages I can fill up with descriptions of dilapidated, run-down country houses with backyard chickens, beautiful tall pine trees everywhere, one place to get coffee and breakfast in town, no vegetarian or ethnic options anywhere, 99.9% of the population is uneducated, obese, smokes, doesn't put a collar on their dog.  Rampant crime, food stamp fraud, and welfare abuse by baby factories. It's sad, and I would sound condescending.  I'm not about to insult the people of this town by writing a book about them.

pravalika nanda wrote:

mainstreet wrote:Yeah, thanks for the encouragement about the book idea, but how many people want to read a book about Billy Bob and Mary Beth?  There's just so many pages I can fill up with descriptions of dilapidated, run-down country houses with backyard chickens, beautiful tall pine trees everywhere, one place to get coffee and breakfast in town, no vegetarian or ethnic options anywhere, 99.9% of the population is uneducated, obese, smokes, doesn't put a collar on their dog.  Rampant crime, food stamp fraud, and welfare abuse by baby factories. It's sad, and I would sound condescending.  I'm not about to insult the people of this town by writing a book about them.

a book is a bad idea. there are so many more useful things to do. maybe you can be like the girl in eat drink man woman, i love those scenes where she's cooking. and you can have a food-cooking blog, interspersed with tales of welfare-fraud people and other people who're sucking up our tax money. this combination would would really be interesting to me. and other people will follow suit just cuz it's you.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:you have a unique vantage point -- an indian american woman looking at life in the deep south. why don't you try your hand at writing fiction based in your current surroundings?