Home for the holidays

[onefixedstar]

I'm back in the loving embrace of my family for a few days: midnight poker games and hours of quality science fiction viewing and excessive quantities of junk food. And a bathroom that apparently hasn't been cleaned in about six months (my youngest brother justified the black bathtub by pointing out that it was still spotty, rather than the solid black it's been in the past). I went in this morning holding my breath and feeling like I should have been wearing a hazmat suit. I plotted out a marvellous rant about it during the hour I spent cleaning it before I dared have my shower, but I've forgotten it now, so I'll let it go.

Cleaning issues aside, I'm thankful that I actually like my family.

Comments

[semiotic-trader.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I wonder if ­a_just_society and I should be considering staying elsewhere :)

Seriously, though, I wonder how much enforced cleaning exercises when we were younger has backfired now. Neither a_just_society nor I likes cleaning, so we put it off for as long as is feasible (though we're not quite as bad as it sounds like you had to put up with!)

[onefixedstar.livejournal.com]

Well, the bathroom's clean now. :D And of course, Mom cleaned the rest of the house.

In all honesty, and as much as I hate to rely on stereotypes, I know very few guys who clean their living space on a regular basis. Certainly none in our family, and apparently not too many in other families if I go by conversations I've had with various women I know. It's also possible that I'm just obsessive about these things, though I don't really see cleaning every week or two as excessive.

[steninja.livejournal.com]

HEY!! I cleaned too! I cleaned the bathroom on the main floor, and I had planned to clean the one upstairs, but I had a concert to go to....

[onefixedstar.livejournal.com]

Funny how everyone assures me that they were planning on cleaning the bathroom, but...

I was told you cleaned the main floor bathroom. Thanks!

[steninja.livejournal.com]

See? I helped!

I have to admit that I was hoping one of the boys would first... lol