Becoming Domesticated

I am finally ready to settle down and settle in to my life. I am out of college, in a solid and secure relationship and now I'm ready for the next phase.

For me this mostly means not living like a college student. I finally feel graduated and ready be a "grown up". Granted I have been for awhile, but I'm ready to live like one. Mostly I just feel ready to settle down. I want to have a clean house, clean car, cook, bake, do crafts, entertain, etc. I want to join a book club. I want to learn to knit. I want to make jewelry. I want to have a house where anyone can drop in anytime. I want to create a home that is comfortable and aesthetically appealing for anyone that comes to visit. I want to be able to pull a meal together for guests within a moments notice. I want to start recycling again. I want to bake bread from scratch (or at least biscuits). My personal term for all of this is that I want to become "domesticated". I'm done with struggling and/or "flying by the seat of my pants". I'm not feeling restless or the need to push into new places, meet tons of new people, have a million new experiences a day anymore. Now I'm feeling relaxed, settled and ready to pursue this next phase of my life. Of course a lot of this is stuff I've been working on before now, just not doing well, so now I am going to focus on this a little more.

This in no way means I don't want to travel, find a new job, pursue my masters, etc., it just means I want to have it all. And believe it or not, I know many women who do "have it all" so I refuse to think it is completely out of my reach :)