Okay, that was embarrassing.

[apocalypsos]

When your landlord shows up with the building inspector the day after your shift ends, meaning that he gets to see four days' worth of accumulated mess?

Yeah, okay, my face is bright red right now. *sigh*

EDIT: Admittedly, I'm being really fucking paranoid about the whole thing. I really needed to do four things -- vacuum (which I always need to do between the cat litter and chinchilla cage), wash and put away clothes, wash dishes, and clean the bathroom -- so mostly this is me all twitchy that my landlord (who's a family friend) is going to give my neat-freak mom a call and she'll get all "I told you so!" on my ass.

OTHER EDIT: Also, they were laughing when they left, but I got the impression it was more because I was really apologetic about the mess and they were all, "Oh, we've seen WAY worse," so it's highly possible they were laughing at me for acting like a goofball.

Comments

[supernaturalfun.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry - I friended you for the awesome fic...really. But I get such a kick out of your little rants about life too. You're too funny! And I love your Monster's Inc icons - so cute! I'm a little shy about leaving comments on all the stories I read, so thought I would tell you that *snickers* - I was just giggling remembering days where something similar happened to me.
:D

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. Thanks. :)

See, now I'm all paranoid because the landlord's a family friend and I'm terrified of getting a phone call from my mom that's all, "See? I told you Leonard would come to your apartment and it would be a disaster area!" *groans at the thought*

And the thing is that it's not THAT bad. It's bad by the standards of the woman who cleans her house so well you can't tell seven cats live there, but the bathroom needs to be scrubbed down, I need to do four days' worth of dirty dishes, I have one load of laundry to finish, and I desperately need to vacuum. But that's it, really. It's not that cluttered since I don't have that much stuff to clutter with and it's a pretty big apartment.

Plus, Leonard looked like he felt really guilty because he was going to call me yesterday to give a head's-up and didn't.

[supernaturalfun.livejournal.com]

The funny thing - I grew up with someone who was full of military precision in his cleaning (dad) and his standards were literally the pictures in the Sears catalog (I am not kidding, he would come over and frown and say it!)

So now I keep house as well as i can, and try to not feel too embarrassed when I know it's not up to other people's standards. Doesn't mean I don't stress over it though, lol. *shakes head*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my mom's pretty picky, but at least if she tells me my apartment's a pigsty I feel a little guilty since she's the one who cleans my parents' house. When my dad tells me my apartment is a mess I have to refrain from snapping back that I've seen his office and his side of the garage and he's got no room to complain at ALL. They both look like those houses on Oprah where the junk is a foot deep, except easier to navigate.

On the plus side, at least there wasn't any gay porn on my computer screen when they came in so I've got that going for me. :)

[supernaturalfun.livejournal.com]

OMG - your last line about made me spew my coffee across the screen! LOL

[foxxydancr.livejournal.com]

So my landlord does not have to give any notice before coming to my apartment, and he was showing it because I'm moving...but he never let me know when! There would be days where there was laundry ALL over my bedroom floor and a filthy kitchen, and I would have tried to fix it if I'd known when he'd be showing up, but no, I don't get that kind of courtesy...

So irritating. Also, so nice to know that my future landlord is contractually obligated to give me 24 hrs minimum notice...

[musyc]

Try having your landlady's son come in to fix the busted plumbing on your tub the day your roommate decided not to empty it out after her shower, but instead to leave it sit for ten hours while you both were at work.

*shudder*

[secretbutterfly.livejournal.com]

Dude, trust me: I work at the corporate office of an apartment management company and I KNOW that they have to have seen worse. Trust me on this.