Anyways, they're both out of town for the weekend, so I figured I'd just give the parts of the house I use [which doesn't include the living room anymore, since Roomie threw all her shit in there rather than in her bedroom when she moved here in MAY] a nice bath so I can enjoy living in a clean, nice-smelling place for at least one day before they come home, say "Wow, JS, you cleaned; you didn't have to do that!" and then destroy everything.
Other productive stuff I did:
-Gave the downstairs bathroom [ie the one I don't use] a general scrub-down: Lysol wiped everything, mopped, scrubbed toilet
-Vacuumed the stairs, upstairs and downstairs landings, my room
-Fed the kittens, changed their litter
-Sewed up a shirt that was cut up for a dance show, took up the straps of a dress
-Put some of my tacked-up photos in frames [they had a tag sale at work and everything that wasn't sold was just sitting around for free]
-Found a box of shitty 90's cd's in the back hallway. I put them all up on half.com, as well as some of my movies that I'll never watch again and a few books I dug up in my mess. [Already sold one!]
-Threw away all the expired stuff in the fridge. Threw away all the old takeout boxes in the fridge [Seriously, who orders Chinese food delivery the day before leaving for almost a week? My roommates, that's who]. Cleaned the shelves in the fridge.
-Tossed old makeup, cleaned my brushes
-Wrote a list for a Target run tomorrow
-Organized and taped content labels to the utensil drawers in the kitchen [we have 3 sets of measuring cups and 4 can openers. So unnecessary], organized the pots/pans cabinets
-Tidied up around the half of my room not seen in the above photos [I considered taking pictures but my bedsheets and comforter are simply not presentable due to the sheer amount of hot hot sweaty animal sex I have with the eM]
Stuff I still have to do, hopefully on Sunday:
-Target run
-Drop off clothes/shoes in a donation dumpster
-Laundry? [Probably not, since eM is coming up and a) I don't want to waste time doing laundry when he's here b) there's no point in washing the sheets to just mess them up again instantly c) I'll consider myself lucky if I can get him to go to Target with me, I don't want to push it]
I might try to restrain myself from wiping things up for a week or two and then take more pictures so you guys can see how fast things go to shit around here!

5 comments:
This post was amazing. I wish I had adequate documentation from when I lived with people that didn't clean up after themselves. Instead, I just constantly cleaned up after everyone and never had any proof of it. The stove photo was the best, because that is how I always felt when cleaning it...if people just wiped up their spills as they happened, it wouldn't be an issue.
Anyway. Miss you, glad you had a productive time while the roommies were gone. Also, I know your bf loves you and all, but I love you more.
wow - I don't know how you do it! I'd fucking KILL a bitch if she didn't pick up after herself! fucking nasty - have you ever tried talking to them about it? You know the old "if you pick up the small mess it'll never turn into a huge fucking shit pile?" Kind of like your stove comment... wipe up each time, never a pile of filth!
yuck - sorry you have to live with people like that.
"[I considered taking pictures but my bedsheets and comforter are simply not presentable due to the sheer amount of hot hot sweaty animal sex I have with the eM]"
Haha, that is a fantastic sentence!
I have four roommates, and it does get annoying cleaning up after others. Right now, I have pretty clean people living here. Shit, I might be the messiest, but in the summer, I'm the stay-at-home mom, doing all the dishes and taking care of things.
You ever talk to these people about being scum bags?
Gloria: I just don't understand how someone could look at something like that stove and think "Yeah, that's fine, just fine"
Ang: I think they're more of the mindset of "I don't have to clean that up, it's just one more tiny little spill on an already dirty stove/one more piece of mail on a cluttered table/one dirty dish in a full sink" versus seeing it the way reasonably non-filty persons would
jake: it was really a problem, haha!
dr ken: i prefer just quietly wiping up over getting into anything with them. they're both a little nuts, and their insanity increases exponentially when they're both worked up together
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