May 17, 2008...10:53 am
A Funny Little Thing
Over the past few weeks of being back home, my sister and I have been noticing a few new oddities around the house. We have discussed this with our brother, and he also notices these.
For some reason, all of a sudden, when we kids show up back at home the house seems to be a lot messier all of the time. Now, you may say “well yeah, that makes sense”, but actually the messiness is not the result of us being messy. No sir it is not. The messiness, in actuality, is the result of my parents leaving more of their mess around, and then blaming it on us. Case in point:
I spent the entire day two weeks ago, cleaning the house. Especially the kitchen. I scrubbed the floor tiles, cleaned the counter, all of the appliances, and even the stove/oven. I had finished cleaning the kitchen around 12pm, and it stayed clean all day. Even though I had been baking all day, in and out of the kitchen, it still stayed clean. 6:00pm comes around, and my mom comes home. 6:30pm and my dad is home. 7:00pm, the kitchen is a disaster. There are crumbs all over the counters and the floor, coffee and juice stains on the floor tiles, shit all over the counter top. Lunch bags, coffee mugs, tupperware containers, just a whole bunch of stuff that doesn’t belong on the counter. The first thing my dad says:
why is the kitchen such a shit house?
….Wow. Seriously? Yes. He asked me that. And asked me why I can’t keep the house clean for more than a day.
That’s when I decided to stop cleaning the house.*
(*I totally wish I could say that. But the truth is, I can’t stand a messy kitchen. The kitchen is where I spend the most time, and if it’s not clean, it drives me nuts. And by clean I mean absolutely spotless. Not a crumb on the counter.)
So basically that’s it. No matter how much we clean up after ourselves, there somehow is a magical way that a mess shows up and is blamed on us. Even if we weren’t home all day. My brother has even said he noticed that when my sister and I were away at school, the house was often quite a bit messier than when we were home.
♥Taro
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