Now I know that this is Easter Weekend and that yesterday, in particular, was Good Friday. It started out as Bad Friday for me. I currently live with two guys – one has lived here for a year and eight months, the other has been here for about 7 months. The one who has been here longer is kind of a jock that constantly works out, eats healthy, ALWAYS eats at home (normally making things in the crockpot), has an antioxidant blog and is a little conceited about his looks. The other one has a cute girlfriend, works long hours, is quiet, barely cooks and is hardly ever here. Normally, I post a cleaning schedule so that we 3 roommates divvy up all the cleaning responsibilities. Since I’ve been going through a little emotional trauma of my own, shall we say, I haven’t cared that much since the most recent guy moved in. In fact, I haven’t posted a cleaning schedule at all. However, the basic apartment rules, which both roommates agreed to when they moved in, are still in effect. Those include the fact that there should never be dirty dishes in the sink – EVER! I also don’t like things all over the kitchen table. Since we don’t have a living room, there’s no other common area to socialize other than the kitchen and that kitchen table actually IS used for meals by some roommates and their friends. Lastly, I hate for things to be all over the bathroom sink, unless it’s something to be used by everyone, such as the hand soap. For the past 7 months, the apartment has slowly sunk into a disgusting mess. On occasion, I scrub out the bathtub, wipe down the sink and toilet and clean (mop and vacuum) the floors. The guy who has lived here the longest routinely empties the trash and (for some reason) enjoys cleaning out the refrigerator. With that being said, he is also the one that constantly leaves the dirty dishes in the kitchen sink and his personal things all over the bathroom sink. A few months ago, he also started letting the women that he sleeps with use MY bathroom towels! I put a stop to that quickly, and said to him that I KNOW he can afford his own towels. After that, he bought more towels and doesn’t touch mine at all any more. As I already mentioned, not much in the way of cleaning has gone on in the apartment recently. So yesterday morning I sent a text to both roommates saying that we would restart the cleaning schedule, and that I would also repost the apartment rules to remind them what they’d agreed to when they first moved in. I also asked the guy who has been here the longest to please quit hanging his sweaty clothes in the bathroom on the nail that holds up a Spanish religious icon. He responded by asking if we weren’t going to hire a maid. Then he asked if his leaving his sweaty clothes on the nail with the Spanish religious icon was unsafe! If the two guys want to hire a maid to do their part of the cleaning, that’s fine with me. As for me, I don’t want to spend the extra money for the next two weeks because I just recently paid for an overpriced cab ride in Paris, bought a ticket to Albuquerque, bought a ticket to Asia, paid for a hotel in Asia, committed to buying some green eco products from some company and still have to order new contacts. As for his response in regards to the Spanish icon, I felt like beating him about the head! My answer to him said “No, it’s not unsafe, but it offends me.” To which he again responded “Sorry. Good to know ’cause I’m not a religious person.” That made me want to beat him about the head even more! Am I overreacting?! I don’t care if someone is religious, atheist or agnostic. When someone you live with has any type of religious or cultural or family icon/symbol/possession, you need to respect it and their attachment to it! I’d feel the same way if he hung something on one of my Buddha plaques! He often mentions that his dad passed away a little over two years ago. Let’s say he had an urn with his dad’s ashes in it. I decide to throw my coat over it. If he asked me not to, how would HE feel if I asked “Why? Is it unsafe?!”
(I’m already plotting my revenge. It could happen as quickly as tonight or tomorrow, or it could take another few months. Either way, I guarantee you that it will happen!)
Now this has nothing to do with my roommates or cleaning, but… Lent is almost over. I can go back to drinking sodas, eating potato chips, eating cupcakes and shopping for shoes. My annual day after Easter tradition consists of buying Easter candy at Walgreens at 50%, then taking all of the robins eggs (malted milk balls) and jelly beans in the office, where my boss and I eat them until we feel sick! Can’t wait!