Sweet Victory

My awful roommates are moving out April 11. Mike calls this sweet, sweet victory. I call it peace. It is bitersweet because it's been a rough year and these guys use to be Mike's friends, its hard to say if that friendship will ever be mended, it also puts us without their rent money. We have had such a bad experience with renters that it's unlikely we'll get new roommates. And if we did let someone move in, there would be strict expectations laid down in the begining. At present there are few people who we'd let live with us. Parker, our perfect, clean roommate & friend, will stay with living with us, which is good. We are counting down the remaining awful roommate days, we even have a paper chain!
20 days and counting!

The irony in them moving out, is that they are moving in with one of Mike's other friends. This friend thinks that I am hard to live with because of the things the other boys tell him. Which is BULLSHIT. I admit that I am sort of a clean freak but it's a neccesity when there are so many people living together. So this friend they are moving in with has a wife, her name is also Brooke, I dont think will tolerate them! I just dont think they have any real clue how disrespectful these guys are. They live in a smaller house then ours and i know it will be cramped.
These boys have:
-ruined our washer by over loading it
-nearly ruined our newly remodeled bathroom with filth by NEVER cleaning it. (As a side note, i think that bathroom has been cleaned MAYBE twice, once by one of the guy's girlfriends, and once by his mother. Yes his mother came to our house and cleaned his bathroom, PATHETIC!)
-They constantly leave thier things out: mail, shoes, candy wrappers, laptops, etc.
-spill on the floor and counters and neglect to wipe it up
-cram things in the garbage and never take it out
-overload the fridge and freezer
-make messes in the fridge
-put stinky food in the fridge and don't cover it
-never rinse their dishes, put them in the dishwasher which clogs the whole drain, which makes the whole kitchen stink
-freak out about the air freshner i put in the kitchen to cover this stink
-eat all my candy out of my candy dish, never refill it and leave the wrappers all over the place
-leave the dvd player on all night
-leave dvd covers all over the floor
-ruin our dishes with knifes
-use all the propane in our bbq and dont replace it
-The thing Mike and I fight about most is them, that is one big thing i'll be glad to have done with!
-one of them had some random girl over who thought she needed to shower and he used one of my guest towels without asking and its gross, he didnt leave it somewhere so i could bleach the hell out of it so we are making him buy it. That girl had maybe been to our house 3 or 4 times (someone none of us really know) and he went to work one morning and just left her here sleeping, in our house, unsupervised.
I'm going to stop there, this wasn't meant to be a list of complaints, if anything it makes me look pretty clean-crazy but it felt good to vent it out, so thanks for listening. My point is that the friends they are moving in with have no idea how bad these guys really are, but soon they will, and they will know that it's not just me being "hard to live with" that has made it so unbearable.

We have embraced the less money idea though and went grocery shopping this weekend to save money by eating at home more often. It is fairly hard to plan a weeks worth of meals and do the shopping all in one day. Oh and its hard to cook too! I am learning though! My stepdad got me a crockpot for my birthday last year and i put it to use for the first time this weekend! Shredded chicken enchiladas. It was so easy too! They were pretty good. So if any of you have EASY recipies i'd love to try them out! That being said, Mike is one of the pickiest eaters i've ever met! He'll have nothing to do with vegies, and doesn't love rice. Rice. Its my comfort food. My family eats rice with nearly everything. Mike told me once that we should only have rice once a week. Well Jen suggested spanish rice with my enchiladas last night and i didnt think Mike would even touch it so i didnt bother, then when we were eating he says that next time it would be really good with rice. go figure!