Comments on: Messica http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/ An American girl in Rome, Italy Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:03:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jamie http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-6048 Jamie Tue, 27 May 2008 14:54:10 +0000 http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-6048 I am exactly the same way! Lucky for me, my hubby's cleanliness has rubbed off on me and not the other way around! Good Luck! I am exactly the same way! Lucky for me, my hubby’s cleanliness has rubbed off on me and not the other way around! Good Luck!

]]> By: Kristi http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4783 Kristi Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:30:53 +0000 http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4783 JUST KEEP CLEANING! ITS NOT THAT HARD MESSICA!!!!!!!! JUST KEEP CLEANING! ITS NOT THAT HARD MESSICA!!!!!!!!

]]> By: kataroma http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4606 kataroma Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:32:13 +0000 http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4606 I love your cartoon - a clean house is indeed a sign of a wasted life. Seriously, on my weekends when it's sunny outside I don't want to be scrubbing the bathroom - I want to be planted on the couch with a tub of icecream watching Sex and the City! :) Anyway, the secret is to stop feeling guilty about your "mess". That's how you are and in a million years you're not going to get out one of those pink bottles of spirito and start cleaning the walls with it. If you're unapologetic about your supposed "mess" others might even realise how much time they waste cleaning and putting things away and will learn to enjoy life and stop being so uptight! I think it's especially sad when you have kids. Women (especially mothers) here are under so much pressure to disinfect everything every 5 minutes that they miss their kids' childhood. I plan to let my little bambina play in the dirt, fingerpaint, crawl on our not too clean floors, climb trees and get messy. I'd rather spend time with her than time with the CIF con candeggina. :) (BTW - my H is Dutch and we're both unapologetic messy packrats. We do clean but we just have a lot of stuff in our apartment!) I love your cartoon - a clean house is indeed a sign of a wasted life. Seriously, on my weekends when it’s sunny outside I don’t want to be scrubbing the bathroom - I want to be planted on the couch with a tub of icecream watching Sex and the City!

Anyway, the secret is to stop feeling guilty about your “mess”. That’s how you are and in a million years you’re not going to get out one of those pink bottles of spirito and start cleaning the walls with it. If you’re unapologetic about your supposed “mess” others might even realise how much time they waste cleaning and putting things away and will learn to enjoy life and stop being so uptight!

I think it’s especially sad when you have kids. Women (especially mothers) here are under so much pressure to disinfect everything every 5 minutes that they miss their kids’ childhood. I plan to let my little bambina play in the dirt, fingerpaint, crawl on our not too clean floors, climb trees and get messy. I’d rather spend time with her than time with the CIF con candeggina.

(BTW - my H is Dutch and we’re both unapologetic messy packrats. We do clean but we just have a lot of stuff in our apartment!)

]]> By: mentalmosaic http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4574 mentalmosaic Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:03:28 +0000 http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4574 Have you ever seen The Happy Slob's site? (happyslob.com) I like how upbeat and fun she is about wanting to things besides obsess over her house. She has strategies and even environmentally friendly recipes. And besides, checking out her site is a fun way to procrastinate, err, research! ~Tui Have you ever seen The Happy Slob’s site? (happyslob.com) I like how upbeat and fun she is about wanting to things besides obsess over her house. She has strategies and even environmentally friendly recipes. And besides, checking out her site is a fun way to procrastinate, err, research!

~Tui

]]> By: red http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4567 red Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:41:50 +0000 http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4567 See, we really are one and the same person. I am like you when the Major is away- http://theredscrapbook.blogspot.com/2007/12/on-character-flaws-2.html See, we really are one and the same person. I am like you when the Major is away- http://theredscrapbook.blogspot.com/2007/12/on-character-flaws-2.html

]]> By: leanne http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4565 leanne Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:45:59 +0000 http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4565 Just keep reminding yourself that you will be in Verona soon...and far away from the in-laws so no spies can drop in to check out the state of your house! Just keep reminding yourself that you will be in Verona soon…and far away from the in-laws so no spies can drop in to check out the state of your house!

]]> By: Sierra http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4532 Sierra Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:47:18 +0000 http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4532 I laughed out loud when I read this as I can relate to it and then some! I have never been able to get a handle on being clean and tidy. Even when I do, things look a tad unkept. Anyway, I try and mininize my belongs but still it looks like Pigpen resides in my home. Anyway, I embrace my disorderly nature and so far its been okay. Thanks for the entertaining read! I'd much rather watch Sex in the City than clean too! :-) I laughed out loud when I read this as I can relate to it and then some! I have never been able to get a handle on being clean and tidy. Even when I do, things look a tad unkept. Anyway, I try and mininize my belongs but still it looks like Pigpen resides in my home. Anyway, I embrace my disorderly nature and so far its been okay.
Thanks for the entertaining read! I’d much rather watch Sex in the City than clean too! :-)

]]> By: bluefish http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4531 bluefish Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:26:45 +0000 http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4531 I'm a messy person too. However, I alway put my clothes in the laundry bag and wait for the day to fold them and put them in my closet. Kenneth is not messy but he likes to clothes on the floor, which makes me angry because the floor's dirty! Why not just put the pile of clothe in a container I got at Ikea?! Anyway, I hope I'll be able to top his family's cleaness when I move there, otherwise our home will be like a garbage landfill. I’m a messy person too. However, I alway put my clothes in the laundry bag and wait for the day to fold them and put them in my closet. Kenneth is not messy but he likes to clothes on the floor, which makes me angry because the floor’s dirty! Why not just put the pile of clothe in a container I got at Ikea?! Anyway, I hope I’ll be able to top his family’s cleaness when I move there, otherwise our home will be like a garbage landfill.

]]> By: Delina http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4529 Delina Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:56:14 +0000 http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4529 LOL. When I lived in a shared house before living with OH, my room was often in a total mess. Kind of liked it. Now I am still a little messy, but I know I have to keep it under control :) If OH is away for work then no way will I clean up until I know he's due back. LOL. When I lived in a shared house before living with OH, my room was often in a total mess. Kind of liked it. Now I am still a little messy, but I know I have to keep it under control If OH is away for work then no way will I clean up until I know he’s due back.

]]> By: stacy http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4528 stacy Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:19:14 +0000 http://www.jessicainrome.com/2008/04/09/messica/#comment-4528 HAHA - I am so there with you! I have a tendency to make piles of stuff and it doesnt bother me one bit if they sit on the floor for awhile. I am fine with clean but jeez, living can be messy! HAHA - I am so there with you! I have a tendency to make piles of stuff and it doesnt bother me one bit if they sit on the floor for awhile. I am fine with clean but jeez, living can be messy!

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