If I make a mess making lunch for myself, she will not clean it up. Fair. If I make a mess making dinner for both of us, she will not clean it up. Not fair. If SHE makes a mess making dinner for both of us, she will not clean it up. Hella not fair. If she makes a mess making food for herself, she will clean it up only after I have cleaned everything else... and even then, only if she feels like it. This must be what my parents feel like when they clean the dinner dishes every night even though we all ate the meal - I'll have to remember this. And another thing - although she will put her dishes in the dishwasher and throw away her garbage, she WILL NOT wipe off the table and counters. She cleans the big stuff, but she'll never go for the complete picture (counters wiped down, sinks cleaned out, garbage bag changed, etc.). So even if we split the dishes equally (which we don't, as I mentioned before) I would still be doing more work. She is willing to benefit from having a clean place, but she doesn't care enough to actually contribute.
But even more than the kitchen stuff, it really bothers me that she has some sort of aversion to feeding the dogs. I think she's fed them once, maybe twice, since my parents have been gone (and when she did it, she emptied the small containers we keep in the kitchen but didn't refill them from the basement. Typical.). My dogs eat in the morning and at dinner time. If we are both available, I feed them (oh I just remembered, she did feed them last night because I put my foot down and refused to). But usually she will just sit there and let them wait. I can't stand seeing them sad, so I can't outwait her. But even when she is clearly the one who should be feeding them, for the most part she won't. I slept in one morning until around noon, and went downstairs to find out that she had been up all night and was still awake. The dogs had not had their breakfast... so they were 4 or 5 hours late, even though she had been awake the whole time. A couple of times I have come home around 9 or 10pm to find out that she didn't feed them even though she was sitting there the whole time (playing WoW, if you want to know). And even when she grudgingly feeds them, she absolutely 100% refuses to fill their water bowls. They each have their own, and we refill them every meal because both dogs like to take a drink right after they finish their food. They prefer having clean, cold water - who wouldn't - and their water is usually gone or dirty by the next meal time anyways. If we just refill it every time they eat then we don't have to worry about constantly checking it throughout the day, because they don't go through it too quickly. The first time I noticed that they were sharing a bowl and licking the bottom because the water was almost gone, I refilled their bowls and mentioned it to her (just in case she forgot, I guess). The second time she fed them, she neglected to fill the dishes again. I'm not sure whether she's stupid, or just lazy (although I guess it's probably the latter, considering she has the same genes as brilliant little me).
I mean... how could you starve those cute little faces??
Thank goodness my parents are coming home on Monday. They made her, they can deal with her.
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