Went out and found a couple of decent sweaters for a reasonable price. Went home and proceeded to do NOTHING. for hours. I finally washed some of the dishes. Around 4:30 I decided based on my cats scratching that I couldn’t put it off and had to go up and get my son to clean his room so it could be steam cleaned. Believe me, I didn’t want to.

His room was a wreck, as usual. Not as bad as it has been in the past but it took us two hours to get all the damn lego pieces and toy/game pieces off the carpet. In the process I decided (silently) that I will no longer be purchasing him, well, pretty much anything. Almost all his games and toys were broken or missing pieces. I found several things of mine that I had given him (little things, like a new lip balm) just lying around. I took them back. He clearly doesn’t respect his things. He’s also showing hoarder tendencies and no WAY am I going to tolerate that.

So from now on if he wants something that’s unnecessary he will have to purchase it himself. I will buy him cheap craft/art supplies. I have also set a reminder on my phone to check his room every Saturday morning and I will withhold his electronics until the room is sufficiently habitable. I’ve always said I’ll do that but I seriously just plain forget. He lives upstairs so it’s kind of out of sight, out of mind.

I flea combed the cats, the female with short hair had more than the long-haired male. Still though, she only had 8, but they’re not going away, so RS is upstairs steam cleaning my son’s carpet. That ought to reduce the number of those the little jerks.

I was told it was my aunt’s 70th birthday and I was asked by my grandmother to come to their house for cake or something at 2pm tomorrow. I know it will be exceedingly difficult to get myself there, and if it wasn’t a big birthday I would skip it. As it stands I plan to go but only stay for an hour at most. I won’t even go into the family nonsense, there’s no point.