moms are efficient

so...basically, i feel like i've become (become?) an anal, nit-picky person. all i do is pick up after people in our apartment. i totally understand that both of my roommates work all the time, and that i'm really the only one at home. usually, they are in a rush to get out the door, so things are flung around. i'm the one at home all the time, so these things bother me much more, as i see the mess all the time. the other day, i went to bed about a half hour or an hour before ashley, so i told her i would wake her up in the morning. so i got up at 7:15 (even though class was at 10), woke her up, made her eggs, threw out the dead flowers, took out the trash, took out the recycling, and paid the rent. i also stacked all of divya's mail nicely on the coffee table since she doesn't have a desk. i unloaded the dishwasher, and reloaded it. then divya came home on tuesday, ruffled through her mail (now strewn all over the coffee table), and opened her suitcase in the middle of the living room. i've definitely almost tripped over her shoes a few times. i've also finally taken the cup out of the bathroom and picked up the dirty makeup cleaning pads next to the toilet. gross. you never know what kind of germs and crap are living near a toilet. now, there's a shaving cream cap that's just sitting on the bathroom mat. i wonder when/if someone will pick that up. i'm trying to wait it out...

even though i'm rather annoyed by these things because most of the mess isn't mine, i don't really care. i think that i'm improving my own organization/neatness/cleanliness, and i'm being efficient when i act "motherly." if you look at my room, it's much neater than it was last year when i didn't have these issues with suhitha. hehe. we weren't the neatest, but at least we put our dishes in the sink. i dunno...i wonder Why i've become this semi-neat freak...