On one hand, I regard my militant feelings about tidiness and cleanliness as an indication that I do strive to make my life as good as possible. A clean house makes people inwardly more happy.

On the other hand, it is a flaw, because I "notice" mess more than most people. So when I live with people with a students' attitude to cleanliness, I'm off-key and out of sync.

So I try to incorporate cleaning into my RSI excersices/breaks. I have to take frequent breaks, and a half hour break every 2 hours, so I use this time to clean things up around the house (there's enough mess, believe me, that I could it forever!). So I try to justify that I'm housekeeping for my housemates by saying that instead I'm just making myself happy in my half hour breaks. It works most the time!

I'm always torn between either trying to accept that my ideals are too high and ignoring mess, and being slightly unhappy, or trying to coerce my housemates into adopting some standards, and me feeling horrible about moaning at them.

But anyway... I said all this to Orin a day or two ago whilst feeling bad after writing my last entry which appeared to blame it all on him!

Tags: messiness, tidiness
Listening To: Raison d^etre - In emptiness

This is my first whine on Live Journal!

I'm moving out of Mauhaus, where I live with Orin, Ia'Kat and Robin, in 3/4 monthes. Although the people are great, the issues of mess, tidiness and health/hygeine that I've been trying to be patient with don't look like they're going to sort themselves out.

I don't mind people leaving things laying around.... but I feel I'm living in a house that Orin and Ia'Kat use to dump their things. Especially Orin! It seems the primary function of the house is to house Orin's endless objects and mess... that I'm just a mug who lives here in order to subsidize the rent whilst taking up only a small space.

Also I don't expect people to clean up after themselves all the time, or to be as pedantic as I am about cleanliness. But Orin can count the amount of times that he's hoovered or washed the surfaces in the kitchen on his hands. This is in 14 monthes! I tried throughout our first house to coach him... .then my hope laid in assuming that when we moved into our second house things would be better. But it appears not to be so... if anything having a bigger house is worse.

I come back from holiday to find the bins overflowing, junk everywhere, the kitchen in a complete tip... I hate whining about it! I don't talk to them about it anymore because I get ashamed of whining all the time; rather than whine or descend into some mother-complex I should move out and see what it's like on my own!

Tags: housemates, messiness
Current Mood: aggravated
Listening To: Take That - A Million love songs