Avoid factory chicken while the government is shut down

Score one for Team Still Eating Frozen Pasture-raised Stewing Hens From Two Years Ago. Glad I stocked up when I had the chance.

I know it's easier said than done, but if you can give up worrying about what your parents think about your housekeeping it is SO relaxing. I'm still working on it, myself, but when I succeed it's pretty sweet.

My apartment could be nigh perfect and my mother would still run her finger over my fan to pick the dust off and show me her dirty finger

Oh, mine too, but when I'm injured I am more eager for her to do it than me.

If she was going to make me feel bad, I'd keep the door shut and reap the consequences, but my family knows how cranky I am, and YFMV.

I'll certainly use my ankle as an excuse for letting my standards slip, but I still have a fuckton to clean. Y'all underestimate my levels of slovishness.

I would demand parents stay at hotel and meet me places. hells to the no.

ION - mac is still failing 3 classes and got caught in a lie today. He possibly also skipped tutoring and lied about that, awaiting email from teacher. WHY ISN'T IT FRIDAY SO I CAN DRINK APPROPRIATELY!

I think my mother is still traumatized by my siblings and I being super messy in teenager-dom, and she is not an especially neat person herself (she and my dad both tend to collect STUFF...not to a hoarding extent, but more than they need, certainly), so she's never actually commented on my housekeeping. Though admittedly she's only been to my houses a few times, and I usually did a bunch of cleaning beforehand! But no more so than I would for any event/guest. (Though some guests I would probably be like 'I love you, you know me, I chose an extra hour of sleep over impressing you with how neat the house was")

I have an OKCupid date in a bit, and I really don't want to go. Partly because I am sick, but partly because I just don't give a shit anymore. But I feel like an ass canceling, and more than I don't want to go, I don't want to try to reschedule!!

Mac! C'mon, kid.

ETA: I hope the date is fun once you are out, meara.

Y'all underestimate my levels of slovishness.

Coming on five years of chronic migraines? If you haven't had the authorities called on you, I probably don't. My family never leaves without washing every single piece of laundry I have dirty, just on principle. I on the other hand probably have stuff dirty since the last time one of them visited.

Maaaaacccc.

meara, sick is kind of a good excuse if the date doesn't go well, but if it does, you'll probably rally. I mean, assuming you're just a little sick. If not, cancel away!

Mac, I would like to have a word.

Well, I like to be able to fix things with a magic wand, so never mind the word part. Shape up, boyo! Mama loves you, and mama doesn't want to cry.

My mother is practically a hoarder, although she's being good lately about throwing shit out, and her house is never neat when I visit (I'm usually the one straightening stuff out --it's always other peoples messes that are a joy to clean up). But, to be honest, my messes are the messes of a depressed person, and I try my best to hide that baggage from my mum, who's already disappointed enough in me that I'm not a NASA scientist or someone making 75 grand a year. It's like one more slap in her face that all her kids are failures. I know she wants the best for me, but on my end it just reads as disappointment in me. But I'm just another fuckup fucktard who lives with the lights off so that I can keep the bill down and not see the dishes piling up.

And cleaning for when she visits is the only time that I do. So.

And we've never been a hotel-visiting family. We've always been the "we'll sleep on the floor if we have to" family because we ain't made out of money.