Assignment 19: Maggie Anderson

The most memorable piece of advice I have ever gotten was to get the bad things, like chores or homework, out of the way first. My mother taught me this when I was a small elementary schooler, just starting to have homework and chores, and it has stuck. this does not mean I always follow this advice, however. I often intend to, but then I'm lazy. I cite every time I have stayed up doing Cornell notes or key terms the night, or early morning, before they're due until I could no longer read the textbook. The one way I have consistently followed this advice is with respect to dinner. Though I no longer have a child's distaste for vegetables, I rarely like them as much as the main meal and I still despise a few. This has led to them being the first things I eat at any meal, before I've even touched the main component. This manifests itself the most with salads. I don't hate salads, but it seems like my family has them with at least five dinners a week. I usually go into the kitchen after the salads have been made but while the rest of the dinner is cooking and eat my salad with my hands then. This drives my father crazy. But hey, I'm just following my mother's advice.