food stories X)

Every day after school my sister and I would go to my grandma’s house to wait for my parents to get out of work so they could pick us up. Even though my grandma lived down the street from Mc Donald’s, my sister and I hardly got that. Luckily my grandma would always make the best homemade meals for us, so my sister and I loved to go there. Sometimes, when my uncle, my mom’s brother who lived with my grandma, was in a good mood he would decide to walk me and my sister to Mc Donald’s so that he could take us off my grandma’s hands for a little bit. My sister and I would get really happy so we would race each other there. My usual, and favorite, meal to get was always a kid’s meal with a cheeseburger inside. Every time I got this the first thing I wanted to do was open the toy, but my uncle made me wait until I was finished eating all of my food first. After we finally ate we were allowed to play in the playground for a good while.


At home, my parents, like their parents, would usually make homemade meals. Since they got the recipes from their parents, the food was always really good. Once in a while when my parents were too lazy to cook or when they got home too late to cook, they would just take us to buy something at any fast food place, which was nearby of course. As my sister and I got older, and things started changing in the house, my parents found it easier to just call us when they were on the way home and ask us what we wanted to eat so that they could buy it for us when we got home. This is when fast food pretty much became a habit for everyone in my house. After a while of eating a burger every day for dinner, my sister and I got tired of it. So we volunteered for a while to take turns making home cooked meals because we missed them. Since we didn’t know how to make that many things, dinner was usually spaghetti, meat, rice, or lasagna. Then when we, or our parents, got tired of these dinners, the fast food habits returned for a while.

Fast food has always been a quick grab whenever someone gets too lazy to cook and I’ve learned that first hand now more than ever. Now fast food is more than something you eat once in a while to me. I never really took the time to learn how to make a lot of things, so when I run out of ideas I tend to turn to a burger, or pizza. It never really matters what it is as long as it’s something that I can grab quickly and will fill me up for a good while. And now that I am older and am supposed to be more independent, I find that it’s the easiest thing to do, even though it may not be the best thing for me.

the start + now + in the future (:

Well to start off, I was born in Ventura, California and have lived in Oxnard, California in the same house my whole life. When I was younger, I used to play school with my sister and I would be the teacher. I would set up a desk for her and I would write down some math problems on a marker board. As we got older I went from playing school, to just helping and tutoring my sister with her math homework. At the end of the school year, during summer vacation, my aunt would babysit me. Since my aunt bakes cakes, she would let me help her bake and decorate the cakes. Then I would go home and try to make my own cakes on my own. These are the years that I decided I might want to open up my own bakery when I grow up. Throughout high school I still enjoyed baking and I continued to learn more in my math classes. Along with that, I also took a few photography classes where I really enjoyed taking pictures and making art with the camera. My teacher always told me that I have a natural talent with the camera and that I better consider photography as a career in the future.

So now I am still not sure which career I want to go after for sure but I am currently a freshman in Oxnard College, so I figure I have two years to decide. The one thing I do know for sure is that math will be one of my majors because I am already taking calculus so I don’t want those skills to go to waste. For now I am taking my general classes, with an emphasis on math, and then I plan on transferring. When I’m away from school I still pull out my camera and take pictures of things that interest me because I am still considering photography as a career for the future. On some weekends I also bake cakes for family members, mostly my boyfriend’s family, but I enjoy doing it. Although I don’t have a job yet, I do sometimes babysit my little cousins as sort of a weekend job whenever my aunt goes out.

After two years at Oxnard College, I plan on transferring to a four year school where I will be able to further my math knowledge and possibly become a math teacher, or professor. After I finish getting my degree in math, I still want to go to school for photography and maybe for baking as well. I’m not sure what school I will go to but most likely it’s going to be the Art Institute, that way I can get a degree in both photography and baking at the same time. I know it sounds like I’m trying for a lot, but I’ll see where I end up in the future. After I finish getting all my degrees in these three subjects I hope to maybe be a teacher for math, or open up a bakery and be the photographer for my cakes, or just be a party photographer on the side. I still have my hopes up that I will be able to manage all three jobs somehow because I don’t have a favorite yet. For now I look forward to just taking my time and seeing where I end up in the future.