Who knew I was so OCD?
I don’t think I have blogged about our house guests yet, mostly because I don’t like to bitch and moan over things that are pretty petty in the long run. It’s been about five weeks now that my Wife’s Aunt and Cousin and three dogs have been staying with us. The road to their house has been under water that long. Their house is pretty safe. The overland flooding just gets wider and wider, but never really gets deep enough to reach their house, they just can’t get to it because the road is washed out. The water is finally starting to go down now, and as soon as they get the road fixed, they should be able to head back home. It’s been a little inconvenient for us, mostly because of the dogs, but what do you do? You have to help out for family when something like this happens.
Having the guests really brings out the OCD in me. Everything has it’s place, and when it’s not it it’s proper place it drives me crazy. After five weeks I am starting to get use to the mess. I hate stuff laying all over the place, but I am also not going to clean up after adults. For the most part it’s not that bad, I am just a little OCD about clutter.
They do a few other things that drive me crazy. They don’t shut lights off when the leave the room. Every light in the house is left on all the time. They also leave the TV on all the time. I like the house to be peaceful and quiet, but they leave the TV on all day, and all night. This first thing I do in the mornings is shut the TV off because it doesn’t need to be on when everybody is sleeping. Then there is the toilet seat always being left up. Well, they leave the seat down, but the lid up. When you are done with the fridge you shut the door, so when you are don’t with the toilet, you should shut the lid. The toilet paper being put on wrong bugs me too, but not as bad as these other things.
The worst is the weekends that I have had to work. During the week everybody goes to bed at a decent time, but weekends everybody stays up late, keeping me up. I bet I got two hours of sleep Saturday night. The last time I looked at the clock it was 2:00 AM and I hadn’t slept yet, and I had to get up at 4:30. I can’t fall asleep when there is a bunch of noise around. Once I am asleep, the noise doesn’t wake me though, so that’s good, it’s just been hard to get to sleep on weekends.
Thankfully this will probably be their last week here, and buy the weekend I should be able to get our house back is order. I didn’t realize how OCD I am about things, and how much they bug me.