The phone rings: it’s the love of your life, the president of your PTA, your Mother. It’s someone with a free pass to make a small imposition and announce themselves or guests on short notice.
If you’re like me, all the laundry is clean and very neatly laid out over the love seat in the living room. All 42 loads. The camping gear is in the kitchen in some stage of being cleaned for the next trip. The stack of catalogs and mail in the entryway has been knocked over and haphazardly restacked yet again.
Today’s QOTD: What do you absolutely need to have done before anyone crosses your threshold?
I could scoop up all the laundry and put in my bedroom, toss the camping gear into the garage, and stuff the mail into a grocery bag marked with sharpie, “Don’t throw this out until you sort it, Dumbass”, and shove it in the front hall closet. All things considered though, I can live with it if someone came into my home and saw those things. I would be mortified however, if anyone smelled or saw evidence of a cat without the cat being in the room. I clean the litter box and sweep the public areas for signs of Kitteh’s anxious stomach, light a meyer lemon candle or two, and happily apologize for the mess.
(image: Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half)
