Living with Other People

For most of us, this is the first time we've had to share a room with another person. It is HARD. I love my roommate so much but we are so different. We get along really well until its crunch time and we're both stressed and our little quirks get on each others nerves. Now, I will admit that I get annoyed fairly easily. My roommate is much more forgiving, which is good for me because she doesn't usually seem annoyed with me. I am not one of those mean roommates who gets angry about a shirt being on the floor, TRUST ME. Our room is a complete mess. We are both very messy, so it works out well. One thing I cannot stand, however, is food. I never let people eat in my room when I was living at home, its gross. But now, we have to eat in our rooms. My roommate leaves her food out always and if she does put it in a trash bag, she still leaves the large black trash bag filled with rotten food just sitting in the middle of our floor instead of taking it to the trash room which is ten feet from our door.

Now, all of that is fine and I can deal, i just take the trash bag out myself if she never does it. What am I supposed to do about the singing, though? My roommate has a beautiful, trained singing voice. The bad part is, she sings constantly and we have completely different taste in music. Sorry to all of you girls who looooove the Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montana and all of that, but its annoying. My roommate is so obsessed and belts their songs quite frequently. There have been times when we've joked around and I've said thats annoying shut up you know I hate those songs, but there has never been a serious talk about it. To tell her honestly that her singing annoyed me would only make her upset and is her singing really worth causing a fight? No.

She also has a lot more stuff than I do. She never throws anything away, I swear. And, she is the biggest impulse buyer I have ever met. She bought an XL men's zip up fleece jacket from a very nice store simply because it was marked down from $90 to $8.50...."It is an awesome deal!"....well yea, of course it is an awesome deal but, you're a 5'2 petit little girl and that is a men's extra large sweatshirt. Her stuff just accumulates everywhere and there is no place to put all of it. She even put some of her stuff in one of my dresser drawers that wasn't filled completely up with my stuff!

I want to remind you, I love my roommate. We are the best of friends but living with people is hard. It is all about compromise and communication. I see why it is so hard for people who get married or even move in together before they get married. Having such differences with another girl, I can only imagine what differences a man and a women have with their living habits.