Clean House

BF is away on business this week so "woe is me" aside, I am kind of looking forward to some good ole me me me time. I'm typically the neat one in the relationship, so when BF is home, I sometimes feel like a live-in maid because I spend quite a bit of time figuratively trailing behind him cleaning up.

I call the BF "Crumbs" sometimes because he leaves a path through the house of everywhere he's been or touched - wadded up tissues on the counters, half-drunk water glasses everywhere, remnants of mail all over the living room, worn clothes on the floor, shoes all over, sunglasses in the pantry, car keys next to the sink, vitamin bottles scattered throughout the kitchen, dirty dishes on the coffee table, crumbs on the couch, blindly stuffing more trash in bin when it is clearly full.

Now I'm no Miss Perfect Everything, but I am a bit of a Type A with some OCD thrown in - so when BF doesn't do something the way it should be done in my head, I can't help but to fix it.

 

But when BF is gone and there's no one for me to set an example for ... well, I may lax a bit. Like forget to make the bed or fold the clothes or pick up the dirty towels kind of lax. Like sit on the couch all evening watching Real Housewives reruns while the dishes pile up. Eating chips and painting my nails. In my jammies. At 7:05 at night. Like a total crumbly hypocrite.

And then the day that BF is scheduled to come back ... mad dash to clean, tidy, wash, hide all traces of my secret slovenly ways. Be found gracefully reading on the armchair with my coastered cup of tea sitting on the immaculate coffee table, pillows perfectly fluffed, dog brushed, floors gleaming.

OK, fairly certain BF knows that I am a clost slob, but he's too nice to say anything. But I appreciate that he plays along. Probably because of fear, haha!

When you're home alone for a few days, what do you like to do (or not do) that you can't when other inhabitants are around?

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