The Merger...

So now it's official, the merger begins.

Did I tell you that we already put the deposit down on the church and reception hall? Also that we took a questionaire/survey about how we feel about each other, our levels of comfort and many other things.

We took the Prepare Questionaire, because we are supposed to start "preparing" our lives together. What the church doesn't know is that I'm living in his apartment (*gasp*) and already doing the preparing.

So I'm organizing our stuff together and it's heck. I really don't know how people do this, or what the "first" steps are supposed to be. He has habits that, of course, I don't like. For example, drinking out of the Gatorade jar... I hate it when he does that. Why do guys do that? Do they think that no one else drinks out of the carton. He's technically right when he says, "it's not like you don't kiss me" - but at the same time! For goodness sakes.

I guess girls are more likely to think about situations where someone other than me would be drinking out of the carton, like guests maybe??? We do entertain people, when the apartment doesn't look like a tornado went through it. It's mostly my fault right now though, I have a pile of boxes of stuff that I brought over here because it was easier to move that than to move part of it into storage and part of it over here. It was faster, much faster.

But he doesn't help any by leaving clothes everywhere, not washing dishes until there are no dishes left, and throwing CDs everywhere.

This is not helpful at all! But I can't lay down ground rules and not sound like a dictator:

"No throwing clothes anywhere but here (points to hamper)."

"You have to wash your dish after you use it, immediately afterwards."

"You must keep your CDs in here (motions to CD cases that I bought him)."

Doesn't that sound like a dictator to you?