"You need to get more sleep because it will rev your metabolism and help you lose weight!"
Others, not so much:
"69 is not funny. You should be embarrassed that you are amused by something so immature. You are classier than that. I did not raise a daughter to behave this way."
Typically, we can reach a compromise. A happy medium, if you will. But one issue on which my (step)mother and I will never find common ground is the orderliness of my bedroom.
"You are an adult now. If you can't even keep your room organized, how on earth do you plan to keep your life in order?"
Seriously? THIS causes the most tension between us? My organizational abilities??
Maybe I see my room as the one place in my life where I can let loose? My life is incredibly structured. Wake up at 6:45. Run. Come home. Take shower. Leave by 8:30. Pick up some form of caffeine. Scan. Eat lunch at 1. Leave work by 4. etc...
So my room is in a slight disarray. This is how I like it. It's not pristine. It has personality. I can find the Entertainment Weekly from 2 weeks ago with the Harry Potter kids on the cover- it's hidden beneath my wooden dresser.
I'm a relatively easy child. I don't miss curfew. I do the laundry, dishes, etc with out being asked. I make my bed every morning. My definition of partying is hanging out with my closest friends, drinking diet Mountain Dew and watching a movie or something.
So maybe this is my form of rebelling. Some rebel by drinking. Some shoplift. Others simply indulge in profanity (I am occasionally guilty of this vice). So in light of the girl I could have become if I'd "let loose" in a different manner, it seems as though my (step)mom should thank her lucky stars that my main flaw as a daughter is forgetting to throw my scrubs into the hamper.
But then again, who knows? Perhaps the day I lose control over the state of my room will be the day I quit trying to control every other aspect of my life.
I am an organized mess.
p.s. welcome to my blog.
I think all parents read that in a handbook somewhere. Maybe it's against the law to not nag your children about this. Maybe it's genetically encoded that as soon as you become a parent, all you worry about is order and cleanliness. Maybe it's the government's doing.
ReplyDeleteThen again, maybe they just want to bitch.
Nice to see you in the bloggerhood.