Dinner Party

So last week when my roommate announced she was having a dinner party, my boyfriend and I immediately told her that we had plans that night, so sorry. We haven't been able to stomach anything she cooks (and she tries to give me cooking advice on a regular basis). She told us that she invited her mother and our neighbors from next door. My roommate constantly complains about her very Polish and proper mother, and yet decided to make a Polish dinner that she found in a cookbook. Her mother is very harsh about things being "just so" and "correct," so this was going to be an interesting evening, and I knew I just didn't want to be there.

Rule #1: Never make an ethnic food from a cookbook with simple ingredients that your mother has made time and time again from scratch using her own special touches, you're never going to impress her.

By the time I left to go out for my own evening, her mother was already in the kitchen, judging her skills, commenting on her sauces and trying to clean up the kitchen so it would be up to her strict standards. The woman is in her 80's, yet my roommate kept raising her voice and yelling at her to stop picking and go set the table. I couldn't help but giggle when they were arguing - her mother is so cute and old and my roommate was just getting overly snippy. When I got back, my roommate told me that her mother disapproved of the food and that the neighbors got drunk and loud, and how stressful it was. I told her I didn't want to hear complaints, since it was her idea in the first place!

This week, she goes on a temp job for three weeks, so I don't know if I'll get any gems to post about. Until then, everyone!

It rains here.

I live in Western Washington, and it rains here. Often. Even in July. My roommate parks her car outside of the garage and almost always leaves her windows open at night (as in, all 4 of them). Not sure why, is there a reason your car should be aired out nightly? Anyway, around here it tends to rain overnight quite often even when it is dry during the day, and her car is often wet inside, yet she doesn't seem to change her habit of leaving her windows down, then she complains about it. This is one of the main reasons that I feel that her largest problems are caused by her own doing, and why I really refuse to listen to a lot of her complaining.

When we went camping last week, she mentioned that her cat pooped on our dog bed, and so she put it outside so it didn't smell before she went out of town, and then she heard that we had terrible rain and thunderstorms and she hoped it wasn't wet. Thankfully, it wasn't, she had put it up close enough to the house that it had avoided the rain and it must not have been windy, but you'd think that since she was born here and has lived here her entire life, she would know about this thing called rain and be a bit more careful.

Bigger things to worry about...

No recent posts, my roommate has been out of town for a week, and prior to that was taking a week-long class. Not that I get along better with her when she's doing something during the day, but she comes home and immediately goes to bed, then doesn't get up until after I've gone to bed, so I just don't see her. While my roommate was gone for a week, I took her nasty crockpot out of the fridge. It had two week old food in it but was only about a centimeter full so it took up all kinds of room. It also had a ladle in it. I washed both. So of course that's the first thing she bitches about when she gets home. She yells at my boyfriend for taking it out of the fridge (we had to, we made a large batch of chili and it didn't fit) because she was keeping her crockpot dish in there so it wouldn't attract bugs and she wasn't ready to wash it. I told her it was okay, because it was now washed, no bugs to worry about. I think she was feeling bad that someone else had to wash it for her, but if she was feeling so bad, maybe she would have done it before she left instead of leaving the entire lower shelf of the fridge occupied, or maybe she could have just been happy that someone else had taken care of it!

Exes are people too!

Today we have a newcomer to the board - my boyfriend's ex!

She calls him up this morning, and the poor man is trying to fry eggs, sausage, butter some toast and hold a phone. He tells her this, as he's having a hard time making breakfast while talking to her. She replies, "Oh, you can multitask, you're fine." Then she hears that I'm standing right next to him, and all of a sudden tells him she'll call him back later.

I think women are really conditioned from an early age to be in competition with each other for men, and I think that is ridiculous. I've learned that no matter who you are, how pretty you are, how smart you are or aren't, there is someone out there who likes you for you. No man ever says in his wedding vows that "I picked you because you were prettier than Jane and smarter than Marcy."

If I call an ex of mine, and I hear that he has a girl there, good for him. (Better her than me!) I'll say hello and find out how her day is going. She's a person too! If you don't, you end up sounding like my boyfriend's ex, kinda sad and shady.

"I almost called 9-1-1!"

This morning (Sunday) my boyfriend and I woke up early (8am) and we watched an episode of LOST, which we are watching from beginning to end - I've seen it but my boyfriend hasn't. We turned the volume way down from how we normally watch it, and I heard her snore about halfway through the episode, so I knew she was still sleeping. Her phone rang about 3/4ths of the way through the episode(it was her best friend), which I knew would definitely wake her up, and then I didn't worry about waking her up anymore.

She told me that she woke up to a man yelling "Don't open this door!" and almost called 9-1-1 because she thought it was us yelling at someone outside. I'm honestly so done, I just asked her why she didn't call. She told me it was because she wanted to check on things first (good thought!) and went on to tell me that the phone rang at 5am (nope, 8:45, 5 minutes before you yelled at us to turn it down a little more) and woke her up as well.

With all the noise she makes after we try to go to bed, I really just don't care anymore that we've irritated her...we'll see what happens later today, since I'll be home all day.

"Quick! Take off your clothes!"

My roommate dislikes my mother. At least this is what i think from the way she acts when my mother comes over to the house, giving reasons why she needs to leave, rushing around and then out the door, etc. This is an issue, because my mother is also our landlord.
My roommate tends to fall on the passive-aggressive side, and likes to plot against people who don't even know they're the enemy. At one point, she came up with the idea that maybe if someone was naked when my mother came over, my mother would learn to at least call ahead before she showed up. She then volunteered that my boyfriend be the naked one, which gave us all a laugh (at first). We didn't think she was serious. Now, whenever my mother shows up, my roommate yells for my boyfriend to "Quick! Take off your clothes! Hurry!" and really expects him to do so.

She only quit after I told her it wasn't very appropriate for someone to order someone to strip naked, and perhaps she should try "using her words" to ask my mother to notify her before coming over. Did I mention she's over 10 years my senior?

"The Cat is no longer embarrassed..."

Things that cannot be explained:
My roommate mentioned to me yesterday (when I said nothing to start this conversation) that her cat was completely mortified that it had pooped. I wasn't quite sure what she meant by that, but she soon followed it up with, "The cat is no longer embarrassed that she pooped and she is coming to greet you."