Litter, Love, and Laundry

Okay, so today's been a relatively uneventful day. that's not a bad thing at all, but it does give me time to think. this can sometimes be a bad thing. however, today isn't so much a rant as it is a venting of what's going through my head.

Lastnight, my roomie and i had to talk about some stuff. he's been gone in the National Gaurd training for 3 weeks and came back to a "dirty" house. i personally think we've been doing a good job to keep things clean, i mean he IS a bit of a clean-freak but we discussed this lastnight. we talked about a number of things, and unlike back in october, we didn't end up in a near-fight about it all. both of us were quite level-headed about it and understanding. i had a few points to make as well, though most of it was about his fiance who comes over and "helps" around the house. i put that in quotes because she really only cleans when she thinks it'll bother my roomie, never just because she made it a mess. she'll leave dirty dishes all over the house and just do a mad-cleaning just before my roomie gets back so he won't see it and get upset. so she'll text me and be like "hey, set aside saturday to help me clean the whole house because he'll be coming back into town in the next few days". meanwhile, i'm already super frustrated for comming along and cleaning up behind her! so no, i really don't want to give of my busy day and "help clean" a house that i don't really think is dirty anyway and that she's mostly caused any messes in.

Even my own girlfriend is very carefully to keep things clean that she uses, and any "mess" is confined into my own room (instead of in a common area of the house). so she's been keeping herself blameless in all this.

But as i said, lastnight we hashed a lot of this out. i still think there's a bit more to discuss with my roomie's girl, but we'll see how things go from here. one of my biggest complaints was how she'd use my nice dishes to feed the dog with. blegh! but now she knows that bothers me so she has no reason to do it again.

In a completely seperate issue, my buddy Paw is struggling with his schoolwork again. it seems that his computer is doing some pretty bad things and keeping him from using it to do his schoolwork! he's recently replaced the power supply, which was suspected of causing the problem, but now it looks like it might be (might also be) the motherboard. his computer keeps going into standby "every 2 seconds", as he says it. i have no idea what would make a computer suddenly start doing that, unless the install of windows got corrupted at some point and it may be reading something wrong about its own motherboard, or perhaps the motherboard isn't disributing power correctly, so windows hibernates to protect itself. i wish i had a good answer for him, and i wish i had a good motherboard and setup that i could send him. i think i might have somthing, but i'll need to talk to him to find out if it'd be much use to him or if it's underpowered for what he needs.

Today after work, i'll swing-by and pick up my girl and head out to the lake where a friend is holding some nice stuff for her. a faculty friend of mine here on campus is donating to her (free of charge), a small table, 4 chairs, a large mirror, a set of nice dishes/china, and several cookware items! it's a rather exciting thing that she's doing that for us. so today i'm going out there to her house by the lake to pick all that up in my truck.

I think that's about it for right now, but i'll keep ya posted later if there's anything new to report... oh yeah, Valentine's day's coming up... guess i'd better "thow something together" for that. ^..~ (as if i haven't already. lol)