Hello Everyone:
Has anyone ever told you not to be roommates with a friend? I've been given that advise many times and have even given that advise to a few people, but back in April or March I suggested moving in with my best friend from college. I thought that this was a good idea because I could handle her whining and constant complaining. Also, she is a neat person, and while I'm not that neat, I could handle her neatness and her bad OCD. Well, after a few weeks of living with her, I realized that I couldn't handle all of that. In fact, most of it bugged the heck out of me every single day. But, then I noticed more that would end up causing big issues between us and our living arrangements. One of those problems was that my roommate likes to take up space. And by taking up space I mean she seems to have to have all of the space. My roommate lived near the town we were getting a place at and therefore was the one to pick out the apartment. Because of this, it seems that it's her apartment and I'm just staying with her. She has literary taken over the whole living room to where all I have in there is a book shelf and a poster. She organized the kitchen herself and that is when I discovered that she lacks the ability to organize. I've tried rearranging parts of it multiple times to make it work better just to come back to it to the way it was before. I had asked if I could place my bathroom stuff that my older sister had given to me for my birthday in the restroom, but my roommate told me that no her stuff had to go in there because "it's covered in duckies! we can have a duckie themed bathroom!". I also had plans for the closets we have in the living room and the big one in the hallways. I wanted to place our cleaning supplies in the small closet in the riving room so that it was right where we needed it and then I wanted to use the big closet in the hallways for jackets and shoes. Well, my roommate ended up stuffing the small closet in the living room full of boxes with her "left-over" belongs still in them and then placed her bicycle in the big closet because she didn't want to hang it up in the laundry room or lock it to the back porch. My roommate also has a pet cat. This is okay with me because I like cats. What is not okay with me is where the litter box is located. My roommate placed it in the laundry room. I like the fact that having it there keeps the odor from being every where else in the apartment. What I don't like about it being there is that cat litter gets all over the floor where clean clothes accidentally get dropped when being switched from the washer to the dryer and where feet step in it trying to get to something on the shelf because her roommate decided to put the useful stuff farthest away from the door and the useless stuff close to the door. Believe it or not but those are the minor problems bugging me right now. The really big problem bugging me right now is that my roommate wrote two bad checks at the beginning of the month. The first bad check went to the electricity bill and the second one went to her half of the rent. I'm horrible at managing money. I even talked about it previously in this blog. My roommate, one the other hand, has managed to be even worse than myself. And I spent over $5,000 in less than three months! Once I moved into the apartment I knew that I would have to change my money spending habits and start actually paying attention to how I spent it and how much I have on me. I've never had bills before and after I began to get them I started paying attention to my money. I've been barely pulling off paying bills and have needed a little help from my dad each time, but I have at least had the money to pay off the bigger portion of the bill. My roommate, however, started getting worse with her money when she move into the apartments. She stopped paying attention to how much she had in the bank and started to spend her money recklessly. To prove my point, my roommate bought a lizard two weeks ago. This was during the time of the month when bills are due. She even went and bought it while not knowing how much she had in the bank. How much did she spend on it? $200. She even bought it knowing that she didn't have the money to pay for it. The major problem now is that she was laid off of her temporary job. She went in knowing that the job was temporary and when she was laid off, she was surprised and kept expecting them to call her back quickly. The job won't end up calling her until the next big holiday comes around. That holiday is Thanksgiving! In fact, another person who works there told me today that she heard that they will not be rehiring until November. Also, though my roommate is aware that she won't be called in any time soon, she still refuses to search for another job and gets upset when her family tells her that she needs to. Also, one of her aunts has her own shop and will pay my roommate to help her work there. My roommate, however, refuses to work there except during the weekend because if her job does call her, they won't do it till 4pm...when she has to be at work by 4:30pm! And my roommate refuses to call them and to tell them that they need to let her know in the morning so that she can know if she works or not and be able to help her aunt when she doesn't or before she has to get ready to go to work.
That's all I really wanted to say. I'm just really stressed out because I don't want to end up being kicked out of my home and have to move back in with my parents leaving my job and the town that is close to my boyfriend. It's just really bugging me that my roommate would be so stupid and do such stupid things.
With All My Love <3
S.L.u.G.
PS: Oh, and my roommate got a notice today from the electric company about that bad check and was told that she needed to pay it off with an extra $30 late-fee or that the electricity will be shut off.
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