biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

sometimes being a Responsible Adult™ doesn’t mean cooking a balanced meal. sometimes it means adding a spoonful of nut butter to your microwave meal so at least you get some protein. 

sometimes it means buying a gallon of the one brand of vegetable juice u like, so you get some green stuff into your diet.  

sometimes it means running the dishwasher twice when u can’t rinse stuff by hand, of using paper plates so the dishes don’t pile up.

sometimes being a Responsible Adult™ means getting your body & mind the stuff it needs in an unconventional way. sometimes it means realizing there is no such thing as the “right” way. there is only what you can manage, and what works for your situation.

- be me, sharing house with several roomies

- hate doing dishes.

- have a dishwasher but still hate the task of loading it

- multiple reasons

- including: dishes need rinsing first, and when rinsing them I always get my clothes soaking wet

- also, in addition to communal household dishes I also have some dishes that are mine personally and I don’t wanna wash them with other people’s dishes because then whoever puts them away might break them or put them someplace I can’t find them

- also I eat a lot of my meals in my room upstairs and bringing down armfuls of dirty dishes to wash is also a yucky task

- so I start keeping a tall thin shelf in my shower upstairs, and washing dishes by hand while I shower

- no wet clothes because no clothes

- no personal dishes at the mercy of roommates because I’m in control all the way from washing to drying

- no bringing dishes downstairs as long as I stick to using my personal dishes and store them in my room

- in the process I learn that dish soap (the liquid kind that’s gentle enough to use for washing oil spills off ducks like in the commercials) is one of the very few types of soap that you can buy ACTUALLY unscented and un-dyed and totally un-irritating to my skin and it’s a zillion times cheaper than any of the other options especially since it’s super concentrated and you can water it down

- accept that I am now a person who gets washed in the exact same way my dishes get washed and WHO CARES IF IT’S WEIRD. IT WORKS FOR ME