Taking Advantage

So today, I had made a bunch of brownies for a potluck at work. This was far and away the best potluck I've ever experienced. Anyway, the reason why I mention that is because the food was so splendidly good, that everyone ate so much of it that they didn't have any room left for any desserts. So I had a lot of brownies leftover. a full 9X9 try, and about 3/4 of a 13X9 tray. Mikey stopped by my room last night and asked if he could have any brownies. I told him he could help himself to the lasrger tray, and if he wanted, he could take them to work, and leave me the small tray. So Mikey took the large tray and said, "Thank you."

I went out to the kitchen later, after my nap, and Mikey, again, had left a mess. After the fiasco from yesterday, with the messy kitchen, I assumed that wa a one time thing. But I went out to the kitchen today, and he made another mess with just the brownie supplies. He took the aluminum foil off of the tray, and just placed it on the counter. Used two paper towels for something, and left those laying on the counter as well. The empty ziplock bag container was on the counter, as he used the last ziplock bag out of the pack to carry the brownies. Finally, the had placed the brownie tray in the sink and filled it up with water.

(In addition, like usual, the cabinets and drawers were left opened.)

It took me all of 5 minutes to clean up and wash the tray. Sure, not a huge deal, as it wasn't THAT much of an inconvenience to me. But being that it didn't take me that long, it wouldn't have taken him that long either.

At this point, he's just being flat out lazy. He's taking advantage of the fact that he knows I'll do it. How hard is it to throw a couple of napkins away and simply scrub a dish when you're done with it? Is this roommate setup really at the point where when he says, "I'll take care of my mess," it's really just code for "I'll consolidate it and let you clean it later"?

Tornado

So I have been very jet-lagged this whole week so far, and haven't been able to do much in the way of housework. Well, certainly more than Mikey has ever done, but not much according to my own standards. This is why there is no post from Monday the 29th, my first day back. I slept all day until 6pm, and then tried to go to bed 6 hours later at midnight to reset my schedule.

Anyway, I did clean the house from the giant mess Mikey had made while I was gone. I haven't however, had the opportunity to clean my bathroom, my room, or vacuum.

So I did a bit more tidying up today when I came home from work. Mikey had a giant stack of his mail on the dining table. I gave him from Sunday (the day I got back) until today to do something with it. That's a 3 day grace period, and he still failed to do something with it. So I moved it to his room. Well, I just noticed that in the hour and a half he just spent here he moved half the stack back to the dining table. Why? I don't know. It's all mail that's addressed to him. When I get my mail, I take it to my room, read it right away, throw it away, or store it in my desk immediately. Why he has dozens of letters that he keeps moving everywhere, I have no idea. But I'm going to go buy some sort of decoration for the dining room table, and hopefully, that will prevent him from putting his mail there anymore.

Well, like I said, he was here for an hour and a half just now. And like I said before that, I came home from work and did a bit of further cleaning. And by a bit, I mean I spent nearly an hour in the kitchen emptying the dishwasher and cleaning everything spic and span. I went to my room and started watching some YouTube videos. In about 10 minutes, Mikey came home from...doing whatever he was doing.

I heard him in the kitchen for about 20 minutes or so, then I heard the XBOX 360 turn on in the living room. He played XBOX for about an hour, then he played drums for 20 minutes. He stopped by my room, told me he was going to work, and told me to water the backyard.

I emerged form my room and went to the kitchen. And I saw an absolutely horrendous mess in the kitchen. Nearly as bad as the initial mess I came home to upon my return form Tokyo. And I had JUST finished cleaning and shining the whole kitchen. Took me an hour, or close to it, to do it. And it took Mikey a matter of 20 minutes to destroy the whole thing again. It looks as if someone came in here and cooked all three of their daily meals and didn't clean any of it:

Opened peanut butter and jelly jars in the sink. An opened milk container on the counter. All the pots and pans, dirty, on the stove, a grocery bag on the counter. dirty utensils and about half a dozen napkins strewn about. A chair from the dining room all the way in the living room in front of the TV.

Using a plate and not putting it in the dishwasher is one thing. That's not a big deal at all. But you're telling me that he made THIS much of a mess, had time to play an hour of XBOX and 20 minutes of playing the drums, but he couldn't clean up any of this?

I can't fucking believe this...