it speaks to my soul
i read an article that is the 7 habits a single person needs to break. I found it humorous because I know that's how life can be. Here's the short list, you can check the article yourself for the equally amusing descriptions.

1. 45-minute showers
2. Spoiling your pet
3. "casual sunday"
4. All TV, all the time
5. Pretzels in bed
6. Aimless whistling
7. Lack of silverware (my personal favorite)

and a few I'd like to add...

8. Talking outloud to the pet in a cartoon voice.
9. Never cleaning what really needs to be cleaned.
10. TV on way too loud.
11. Blank/Bare walls
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a quick story: one time Lucas came to visit when I was living alone in my first apartment. I had lived there several months by then. We had eaten some food that actually required the use of plates and silverware. For the next four weeks, I thought that I was missing half my plates and glasses and silverware, because Lucas (a good clean friend) had put our dishes in the dishwasher. That's right, "half" meant two of each. Imagine my surprise when I finally opened the dishwasher for the first time to discover my "missing" dishes. You don't have much use for a dishwasher when you can wash everything in your cabinets in 7.2 minutes flat.