my way

One bad/good thing about house guests is that things are forced to change.  It's bad because its annoying and I like the things the way they are.  It's good, because I think its too easy to get set in your ways - then you become inflexible and not open to change.  Or you get so used to your way that you don't make allowances for other people's way.  (Even if your way is obviously better).  And pretty soon, you may find that you have no tolerance for anything different.

For example - my mother-in-law keeps rearranging my couch pillows.  I don't want her to rearrange my couch pillows.  Their mine.  And I liked them the way they were.  And she keeps moving the vases and decorative plates.  I liked them where they were, but she sets them up in a geometric formation of a square - with one piece on each square and I hate it.

I set their bedroom up perfect, and my father-in-law keeps pushing the bed over.  Now there is no space in the middle to walk.  He pushed it over because he's fat and he can't see his feet and he kept running into the corner of the bed.  But instead of walking up the middle, he walks up the side of the bed so now the room is all off-balance and no longer perfect.  On top of that, they fold the comforter in half.  It's supposed to hang over the edges, but for some reason, they fold the edges and it looks so dumb.  Why do they fold the edges?  It's supposed to hang over the sides and be fluffy.  Now it looks like someone short-sheeted the bed.

For some reason I want them to live as I have designed it - which I'm sure isn't a healthy attitude, and I realize its somewhat ridiculous.  But, there it is.

I'm just going to blame my compulsions to put everything back the way it was on hormones.