So I had a lovely weekend!

My boyfriend is tall, a little overweight (not much), and funny. There is a lot to be said about him that I like and some that I don't.

He is good with my daughter and she loves him. Kids in general like him because he is fun, silly, and lets them get away with a lot. He plays video game, likes cartoons, and loves cats. He will do housework without being asked to and will general look after anything he thinks should be looked after. If I ask him to do something he will always do it. And for these things I love him...

He does irritate me sometimes though...He usually only complains about the things that I know he does not like. Which means he will say something about things he does not like no matter what. Even when I do not want him too.

And he is a neat freak and has some habits that I would rather he didn't. He alphabetizes his items regularly and will do it to my stuff if I let him. This it to be expected because he is a computer science major and good at structured coding which had to come from somewhere. He will clean the cupboards and re-arrange the shelves after I put something away...IRRITATING...or he will point out something that does not make sense to him even when I think he should just be quiet. These things are just some of the things about him I find really annoying.

And I do love him.

This week we had Verizon coming in to put fiber optic cable in our apartment. The drops (the place the cable comes out) that is. The apartment manager told everyone that they needed to clear the area around where the work was going to be done before they came in to do it. The manager also gave us a floor plan of the apartment and marked on it the location of the drops.

My closet in our bedroom...great.

I was busy most of the week so my boyfriend did it for me.

He emptied half of the closet into the living room in order to clear it out for them. The closet is very large. It is a three door, full size closet and it is full. He took everything of the top shelf. He pulled half the clothes off the hanging bar and he took everything out that was on the floor.

This included a TV, about eighteen pairs of shoes, and some bedding I had in it.

So leaving alone that the drops ended up somewhere else...in a totally different part of the apartment...

It was Friday and my boyfriend tells me, "Now would be a good time to organize your clothes..."

He said it nicely. Calmly. And then he followed it up with some very reasonable things to make it make more sense such as "Then you will have more room" and "I can put your stuff away when I do laundry." All that to him probably sounded very reasonable.

Me? All I heard was that he wanted to change the way I did things. See, I can find everything I have quickly. I don't take up that much space and I know where every thing is. It is comfortable and other then the odd thing, it works for me.

Odd thing? you ask. Like the cat, Eugene sleeping on my clothes when I am not home. Pisses me off that I have to clean cat hair off my shirts...arg!

For four days the clothes sat in the living room. I was gone most of the time working but I could tell that it irritated him. He brought it up every day. He even went so far as to talk about going out and getting some shelving units to help with putting the things in the closet. He wanted it to be neater and cleaner for him. I am sure he thought it would be good for me as well. And that he would not put the stuff away until we had some way to better use the space.

And Sunday we go out and spend an hours looking at space saving shelving and bins to store stuff in the closet. He loved it. Me, not so much. He spend a lot of time talking about what we could do with my daughter's closet and mine. He started planning what he could do with his stuff...

Anyway, we get one unit of draws for my closet. I get to spend my whole afternoon putting my closet back together. I was tired and I figured that because he pulled apart my closet he should put it back together. Seemed fair to me.

Of course, he didn't see it that way.

So finally I am done. My closet was put away and the apartment is clean.

And guess what. The unit we got is to big. I had to re-organize my shoes just to get them back in my closet. I found that more of my clothes had cat hair and wrinkles then I thought. And I discovered that my boyfriend had put a sub-woofer in my closet at some point.

The good news is that he figured out that it did not work without me having to say it to many times which was nice. He also offered to pay for the replacement unit for the draw unit that I bought. That was nice of him...and he will pay...I am thinking some nice wood shelving that matches my desk. Nice and expensive...