Posted by torchgrl on February 1, 2000, at 13:39:14
In reply to Re: Depressed Person's Lair--Torchgirl, posted by Noa on February 1, 2000, at 7:55:56
> Did you ever get your bathroom wall fixed? How was that?
not yet...in addition to wanting the place to be cleaner/tidier before inviting anyone in, I always feel like I'm annoying my landlord by calling about stuff. I know it's in their best interest to know about problems and fix them, but they're pretty hands-off, and it's hard to get them to follow through on stuff. So it requires me to a) remember to call, b)talk myself out of feeling bad about calling, c)feel comfortable with the state of my apt. I know, I set myself up for anxiety this way...
> Will your Dad being staying with you? Will he care how your place looks? Will he comment?Fortunately, no, he'll be in a hotel, but I just can't stand people seeing my place a mess. I'm supposed to be a grown-up now, not a messy teenager with clothes all over the floor, but I never seem to have made it out of that stage...I'm sure he won't lay into me for it being a mess, but I'll feel like I look that much worse for it.
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> Presidents' Day--that's about two weeks away, right? Well, I still have a lot of cleaning to do here, so maybe we can do some parallel cleaning, setting partialized goals together, etc.Good idea. I know that it's probably a matter of breaking everything down into smaller tasks-- i.e. today, just go through the stacks of magazines (I don't know if I could just throw them away without looking at them--it would haunt me forever that I'd missed something important!). It's just hard to actually do that sometimes... Right now, it looks like one big mess with nowhere to begin. Sometimes I think it would be great to have a maid come in every couple of weeks, but I'd still have to clean in order for *that* to happen!
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