I'm just getting to that point where I can look at what I've got in the house and put a meal together (and I'm learning to stock a lot of generally useful things, like frozen veggies, beans, curry powder and stuff like that) without necessarily having a recipe. malnpudl taught me some basics of how to make stuff like stir-fries and I got a lot better at improvising under her tutelage. :)

I'd agree about the medical insurance stuff too, but I'm not sure how to learn that without being currently in the midst of it. :D I'm also currently uninsured, since I can't afford the deductions from my paycheck that would be necessary to enroll. :(

I don't think I've ever had to reattach a towel bar, though luckily fixing little dinky stuff around the house is one of the things I am pretty good at. I think our current house actually doesn't even have towel bars in it, but there's lots of other little stuff that needs fixing; yesterday I went around putting up those little blank plates over all the spots where there were holes in the wall because somebody'd been accessing the wiring. ;D