Tomorrow night R gets home, and we can start the dance of learning to live together again. It won't be too bad this time, re-learning after 6 months is like getting married again, only with more expectations of behaviours. Its a great opportunity to look at what I am doing with new eyes.
I found this new eye thing was in operation when I came home to my house. Because I hadn't been living here for a while, I could really see that it looks kind of bare without carpet or rugs in most of the rooms. However I also noticed that in my mother's house which is only two years old, and is cleaned fanatically each week, the carpet still smells of dust mites. I'm totally Cvinced that carpet is dust mite heaven, and I'm allergic to dust mites. So I don't want any. I also know that it is really easy to keep our floors clean as the dirt suctions straight up, no fighting carpet. Mind you, dirt is also easy to see!
Judging by the way my eyes are itching, I'm also allergic to cats.
So when R gets back I will have a wee chance to see how we operate with each other before the familiarity thing will obscure my vision. Should be interesting. I suspect that I need to be nicer.
Posted by Toni at September 16, 2004 12:59 PM