keep up with the dishes

I haven’t done the dishes in over 3 weeks, but since I haven’t been eating nearly as much as I used to and neither has my dad since he’s been so stressed from his campaign the amount of dishes is really only equal to about 1 and a half weeks worth. My dad’s been bugging me to do them of course and I’ve just been so busy doing so many other things I kind of feel that I don’t need to do them. It is my dad’s birthday tomorrow though and he knows I don’t have any money to get him a real present but I think it would be really nice of me to do all the dishes for him tomorrow morning. I know he would appreciate that. So I’m going to wake up at least by 9 am tomorrow and do all the dishes! It’s something that will make both me and my dad happy. And I know once I clean them I will keep up with them, because I’ve been doing so well on all my other goals, and the hardest part is getting over that hurdle of getting the sink fully clean. Once I do that I know this goal will be easy! :D

I just hate washing dishes! I live with just my dad, and seriously, he is like a frat boy- he just throws his dishes in the sink without rinsing them first and then all the crud on them dries up and I’m stuck scrubbing it off later! We don’t have a dishwasher (we totally can afford one) and my dad says he won’t buy one until I get a job. So it’s my “job” to wash all the dishes even though I only produce about 1/4 of them. And I always rinse mine! I know it’s ridiculous for me to complain about this when my dad pays for everything, but still it is very annoying. I’m sure I wouldn’t have as much of a problem washing them if I just washed them everyday, but I never do so I’m stuck with 2 weeks full of gross moldy smelly dishes that take me 2 and a half hours to complete. It also doesn’t help that I’m anal about making sure they’re perfectly clean, so I wash each dish to perfection… ugh!

So I guess my goal is to make sure I clean the day’s dirty dishes everyday, so I’m not left with a huge pile. Well my dad says I need to wash all the dishes by 5pm tonight, and that’s only 8 hours away so I better get started!