A lot of you may wonder, why exactly I choose not to clean up after them. The reason is this: I have tried it before, and it seems like whenever I do clean the house, it ends up a disgusting mess again not but 2-3 days later. So, I gave up. I decided that if they are going to make a mess, they are going to deal with it or clean it up themselves. This really does suck for me having to live in this disgusting house but I cant be cleaning up after grown adults every other day.
They told me they were supposed to get the keys to their new place yesterday (Wed. 11-7). I have not heard anything from them but I have my fingers crossed that everything went well and I am hoping by the time I return from Kissimmee on Sunday they will be mostly if not completely moved out.
Now for a nice list of the things I look forward to once they are gone.
1. My house not smelling like a combination of old grease, litter-box, and cigarette smoke. When I walk into my bedroom its like a breath of fresh air and when I emerge from it I feel like I am choking from all the foul smells. I can't remember the last time I spent more than 10 minutes not in my bedroom (aside from when I was cooking).
2. Having a kitchen I actually ENJOY cooking in. As of now, I feel really gross every time I enter my kitchen, the dishes are piled up, the stove is covered in gunk, the floor is almost black, and the counters.... well forget about putting anything you plan to consume on them! Not to mention the roaches, and fruit flies!
3. Having the refrigerator and pantry all to myself. OK, I will admit this one does sound kind of selfish but, it is very difficult to share a fridge or pantry with two other people and not run out of room causing you to have to limit what you buy. This is a problem for me because I can not drive so I can not go to the store every other day like normal people do. So stocking up is necessary.
4. Opening my fridge or pantry to find something that I bought is no longer there because my roommates decided that they were going to eat it for me. This is VERY frustrating! I feel like they are honestly stealing from me when they do this. I never take their food so why do they feel it is OK to take mine? This is especially frustrating now a days as it is getting close to January (my due date) and I am having to save up every penny I can spare for the 6 weeks up unpaid leave I will be taking after the birth of my son. One time they decided to eat a tube of my Pringles... and to my surprise they actually went to the store and bought me another tube and put it on my shelf where the one they stole was once at. This kind of made me feel better (a little) but then to my dismay, a few days latter I found that they decided to gobble up the tube they bought for me themselves. SIGH. And, I cant forget about their other nasty habit, they also like to go to the store and buy the cheapo brands of the same thing I have bought, and use my version of the more expensive brand, leaving me the cheap brand they went and bought. Now that is just mean IMO!
5. Being able to walk on the kitchen floor without my socks turning black. Oh how I CAN NOT WAIT to scrub those kitchen floors!
6. Not having my stuff moved around without my permission. This one doesn't really bother mean nearly as much as the others but it can be quite irritating to come home and find that stuff is not where I left it. One time they decided to put my pots and pans ON MY BED! Like really?! people come on, do you expect me to cook in my bedroom?
7. Not having an insanely high electric bill. They do pay for half the electric but it is annoying that they tend to want to keep the air on 74-75 degrees. When I lived alone I kept it on 78-80 and my bill was $50 to $90 now its in the 130s. YIKES.
8. Getting rid of those pesky little flea bag kittens! Don't get me wrong, they are cute. But they are extremely destructive. Between the fleas and the litter-box, that's enough for me to want them out. But they also like to walk under my feet when I'm cooking or walking in general (not good when you're 8 months pregnant). My roommates only tend to change their litter 1-2 times a month as well, which makes for a super stinky house. And you can forget about eating anywhere other than your bedroom where the door can be shut, because they will jump all over you and try to eat your food! And when you don't have food, say you're just sitting in the living room, they will jump all over you for the help of jumping all over you, which hurts.... A LOT! because they have not yet learned how to retract their claws.
9. Having two bathrooms again. I have to keep reminding myself that I cant use the other bathroom (nor would I want to use that nasty bathroom). I will admit you can only use one bathroom at a time, but having two comes in handy, especially when you are hanging out in the living room and don't want to go all the way to the bed room and use the master bathroom.
10. Not being able to nest properly and work on my baby's nursery. Since they are occupying the room that will be my sons nursery, I have been having to wait to set it up. I am so thrilled and exited to finally get to hang all of his cute little clothes in his closet! :] all though he currently has no furniture to put in there and all his gear is in Kissimmee.
11. Waiting for my roommates to leave to emerge from my room to cook or get a drink. I do not particularly enjoy being around them so I try to avoid them at all costs this sometimes means drinking sink water from my bathroom. :O (I know that's pathetic but sometimes I am just not in the mood to see or deal with anyone).
12. And last but not least, being able to sit in my living room and use my Xbox, Wii, or TV. At first I could still kind of do this, if I got over the kittens jumping all over me and the fact that it smelled so awful out there. Now, it is imposable because they decided to fill my living room full will furniture they plan to fill their new house with. This furniture is not neatly placed but rather just a ton of pieced shoved into a MUCH to small space creating a Tetris effect. Everything is blocked off, there is a bed over my couch and a bookcase in front of my entertainment center, so there goes any and all hope of not being locked in my room whenever I am actually home (which is basically never thank God).
And the things that I WILL miss......
Hmmmm......
1. The extra $500 a month
2. Not being scared at every sound in the night
3........ There is no 3.
Here are a few pictures of the mess I have been living with for several months.
This is the stove! Yes indeed it was white once upon a time! I am over the moon about being able to clean my stove and knowing that it wont return to looking like this 2 days later.
This is the kitchen floor. Yes those are dead roaches.
And I can't forget about this beauty. This is a wonderful stain on my carpet that showed up one day out of nowhere. I still have no idea how I am going to get it out.
I know this post seems like it has a lot of whining, which it pretty much does, but lets face it. Life isn't all sunshine and butterflies this blog is about the ups and downs of my life I feel that if I only post about the good stuff that I would be lying and making my life out to seem perfect when in fact it is really not that way at all. I am incredibly thankful that they are leaving and I will be sure to let everyone know how that goes. I also have more pictures of the messiness to post later on for before and after shots :}
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