Living with guys is annoying

So I am currently residing with two males - one has been my roommate for 2 years, he is gay and though I may not like aspects of his personality he is a tolerable roommate; the other is a temporary roommate - my previous roommate's ex-boyfriend! She is allowing him to stay here during this transitional period because he's about to move to SoFla and only needs a place to live for a few weeks. I don't think I would've agreed if he hadn't offered to pay both me and my other roommate $100 each. He's well-mannered and has good hygiene but I always feel like I'm babysitting him. He's a grown man but doesn't know how to do anything for himself. My former roommate dated him for 2 years and even after the break-up she continued to mother him and do things to help him out because he's either stupid or lazy....or perhaps a little of both.

At first it was amusing to watch these two guys do stupid stuff but now I'm just annoyed! Bryan, my roommate of 2 years, doesn't usually spend a lot of time at home but recently he has been more present around the house. He also decided to try cooking his own meals hoping that it would be healthier than eating out. However he is totally clueless on how to cook anything. The other day he made some 5 minute rice, then instead of cooking chicken he bought a bunch of packages of the precooked/prediced chicken to add to salads that you find with the sandwich meats. So he adds that chicken to the rice and I guess in lieu of a sauce he just poured ketchup on it and mixed it all together. It looked awful. He also makes a lot of beeny-weenie.

Bryan isn't the only one that doesn't know how to cook. Kamar, the temporary roommate, is equally as clueless. At least he cooks more appetizing meals but he does it all wrong. He eats a lot of chicken and yet has still not figured out how to cook it properly. He loves to grill it so the other day he grilled up a whole package of chicken cutlets. He told me that if I would like any, he had a bunch leftover in the fridge. However this chicken was almost impossible to cut through and it was really dry because he clearly overcooked it. It was crunchy on the outside and dry on the inside. I noticed he had cut into each cutlet during cooking to check the inside to make sure they were cooked through all the way. I thought maybe he cut them open too soon and that's why they ended up dry, because all of the juices leaked out of the cut. So I ask him when he cut the chicken open and he answers "after about 30 minutes." WTF? Boneless, skinless chicken cutlets should NEVER take 30 minutes to cook on a grill! No wonder they were burnt to a crisp. Not only does he overcook it but I can guarantee that he probably had the grill on too high of a heat setting as well because his thoughts on temperatures is also completely wrong. Today I caught him browning some ground beef to make burritos and the meat was sizzling like crazy and the steam was coming up in clouds from the pan. I asked him what heat setting he had the stove on and the burner was turned on as hot as it possibly could be. He says "it cooks faster this way." No, no, no - it dries the meat out and I don't think it was any quicker than they way I do it. I've never cooked anything on the highest possible heat.

Watching them cook is funny, but the clean-up isn't too funny. Between the two of them they produce a lot of dirty dishes but neither seem to know the proper way to load a dishwasher. This isn't funny because then I end up having to rearrange all of the dishes and I'm not even the one who made them! I miss Megan because her and I were on the same page. We loaded the dishes the same, we put them away in the same place every time, and we kept everything pretty clean and organized. Not to mention I always had someone to talk to and someone to hang out with. I don't really have a close relationship with either of these guys so I don't talk to them much or hang out with them at all. We don't have anything in common - a 21 yr old female, hetero, single college senior; a25 yr old ex-marine, single, hetero male; and a 24 yr old graduate, gay man who is in a relationship. It is an awkward mix of people and I will be glad when Kamar moves to SoFla and I'll be in Chicago soon enough, and when I get back from Chicago my friend Alex will have moved in to replace Megan! Yay for a girl roommate! haha.