jlee was in town last weekend. she came thursday afternoon and she had to fend for herself on friday cause i had work. when i got home that night, everything that used to be on the kitchen counter was gone. i have to admit that i panicked for a bit. jlee dropped a hint that she might do a little cleaning, but i thought it would be more  along the lines of, like, wiping down counter tops or something.

anyway, initial reaction was “gee, what did i use to have on the ktichen counter?” it took me several minutes to catalog what was important to me that was no longer there, and after some hunting a pecking i finally managed to find my bean grinder which made me happy. otherwise, kevin’s silverware was tucked away into drawers and some plastic bowls were stashed away into a corner. i made a note to myself to have jlee walk me through the new layout.

fast forward. jlee gets home a couple hours later and the best line from our ensuing conversation went something like:

jlee: well, i figured you were so used to having no say in things that i just went ahead and did it.

i had to laugh at that one, but a small part of me was crying on the inside.

a couple days later, i was talking to kevin about the new and improved kitchen and that went something along the lines of:

me: do you like the new kitchen? jlee went through and cleaned it up.
kevin: yeah. i was like “cool, everything is gone!”
me: really? i was like “uhhh . . . where did everything go?!?”

ah. microcosms are so illustrative sometimes.

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