the shower debacle

ok, consider yourselves lucky to have not been at my house last night to witness the madness. seriously, my family sometimes...aie aie aie.
so, we're sitting nicely, eating dinner like civilized people, and my mom decides it's a good time to talk about how people are violating her shower rules. yes, we have shower rules. like, you have to wipe down the walls after you've had shower so they don't get all shower grouty and mildew-y. and, you have to clear out this drain thing so the plug doesn't get all clogged up, and, you have to have the window open so that the steam goes outside, and, you have to leave the shower curtain pushed over to one side so that the air can escape. fine, this is all reasonable and normal (but don't tell her i said that).
then, the conversation took a turn for the scary. my mom started complaining about how people are taking WAY too long to shower, and how she ends up having cold to lukewarm showers because of all the people who shower before her. it's happened to me, and, it' s not pleasant. i mean, does anyone actually enjoy cold showers? i'm thinking not. so then michael and luke start arguing about how long they each take to wash their hair...michael maintains that luke should take much shorter showers than he does because luke has no hair, while michael's is...well, bigger. i won't fill you in on all the rest of the details, but, the conversation was seriously disturbing.
then luke accused my mom of eating children (don't ask, that kid comes up with weeeeird things sometimes), which was apparently brought on because he's upset that people aren't doing his laundry for him. ha!! spoiled!!! and we all have different hooks for our respective towels, which is another sore point because, apparently, so he claims, random towels that aren't michael's end up being thrown into his room. it's like his room is that alternate universe that all the random socks that get lost in the dryer go to, except, it's people's wet towels. hmm.
oh! and, another controversial point: luke puts his PYJAMAS in the DRYER before he goes to bed! HELLO!!! energy waster much?!?! i mean, wasting or using too much of or not recycling anything is like the 8th deadly sin in our house.
and, throughout all the arguing and debating and finding out WAY too much about people's shower rituals than you needed to know, my poor dad is trying to tell us about something of significance he heard on CBC. Sheesh.
anyway, on to less traumatizing topics...hmm, maybe i should've left the weird conversation for last. anyway!! inspired by shelley's top 10 list on her blog, i'm making a 'top 10 things that i'm better at than my brothers' (keep in mind, this is just the tip of the iceberg).
1. cooking
2. keeping my room and other stuff organized
3. personal hygiene
4. picking good music to listen to
5. being fun to hang out with
6. telling jokes (they may tell you otherwise, but, don't listen!!!! i'm hiiiigh-larious!!!)
7. spelling
8. making intelligent remarks in conversation
9. not fighting (this is mostly because, well, i'm a weakling and they can pick on me reeeally easily so i don't even bother trying to defend myself anymore, i just avoid fighting will them or i yell really loud until someone saves me)
10. blogging (ahahaahahaaaa!)
So, there ya have it. Now, I'm off to class to learn about child psychology. maybe i can use it to analyze my brothers (muahahaha). Of course, on Mondays, I have abnormal psychology, maybe I could use that on the rest of the family. heh heh.