Pet Peeves

Do you ever have those days where every little thing bugs you? Especially your pet peeves? Today is one of those days. You try not letting those little things get to you, but enough of them happen where it just becomes one huge annoying problem. I spend I don't know how much time cleaning our apartment, and once it's clean I feel like I accomplished a huge task and I'm so proud of myself. But living with 2 guys, it doesn't stay clean for long. Ryan (my boyfriend) is usually pretty good about keeping things picked up, but a lot of the time I find my self doing most of the work & picking up after him. Like the bathroom, we have a dirty clothes hamper in the bathroom, but he insists on leaving his clothes on the floor instead of taking 2 steps to the hamper! And the kitchen (which I'm sure most people know is the hardest thing to keep clean in a house because so much time is spent there) I keep up on the dishes, keeping the counters cleaned off (and not just a sorry excuse for clean, I mean scrubbing them down, disinfecting, the works) and the list goes on... So our kitchen is spotless last night and Ryan decides to make poppy seed muffins, and of course me knowing that there is going to be a mess to clean tell him before he makes them to scrub the kitchen counters off, throw aware any trash & rinse off the dishes & put them in the dishwasher. Does he do any of it? No! So I come home from work and that's the first thing I do. And women that have boyfriends or husbands know what that it's frustrating picking up after them because they aren't your kids, they're your boyfriends or spouse! So shouldn't they be old enough and courteous enough to do it on their own? Ryan knows all of this, I tell him a good 100 times a week I feel like his mom, and it will sink in for a day or two, but by the end of the week, I'm back to the same arguing, the same fighting, and the same "picking up after a 2 year old" habits. Don't get me wrong, I love him with all my heart, but a girl has gotta rest! And then it seems with all the bickering at home, it somehow flows into your work life, and every customer & every complaint seem so ridiculous you just want to smack the person! Which I'm sure that this is a ridiculous complaint as well where someone out there would love to smack me compared to their frustrations :) but then you start thinking, what about other peoples problems? There are people homeless & struggling to keep their jobs & provide for their families, there are people that don't have those significant others to bicker & fight with, and at the end of the day, even though every little pet peeve may still be bugging you, you have to set those feelings aside and think about other people with problems worth worrying & fighting about. But don't forget, even if your problems don't compare to others, sometimes there are just those days where you have to be a little selfish & take some time for yourself to write & complain about the little things in life bothering you. We all have something to give, and we all have something to complain about.