you know, there is something about doing laundry that, well... sucks.
i hate doing laundry. i wish it were possible to have a constant flow of new clothes so that i would never have to do it. something about sorting through dirty clothes and putting them in piles by color... it seems like it would appeal to the orderly side of me who loves to be anal and clean everything from time to time, but it doesn't. i actually hate doing laundry.
i think this may have something to do with the laundry situation growing up. we had, at the least, 6 people in our house at all times. many times some older sisters could be found there crashing until they'd found a new place to move into. either way, that many people translates into veritable truckloads of laundry. it was obnoxious. i was constantly being told to sort, change out loads, or fold laundry. even worse, because of the sheer volume of it all and the fact that we didn't own a laundromat, we had to hang things on the line outside to dry. so now you have to cart this 50 lb. basket of wet clothes out to the clothesline and hang it all up. it was such a pain in the ass.
of course it would sometimes start to rain then, so you had the mad dash back outside to retrieve the clothes off the line. and then it was always fun when the dog would get bored and decide to pull things off the line and run around the yard til someone noticed. then the chase ensued. by the time you actually rescued whatever piece of clothing it was, it had been chewed up and dragged through so much stuff that it was unrecognizable. talk about a lost cause.
so anyway, it was pretty much par for the course having piles of laundry laying on the couches when i grew up. and dealing with everything i just mentioned on an almost daily basis. now i put laundry off for at least 2 weeks on average. luckily huey and i have had big master bedroom walkin closets for the past few years and have resisted all temptations to get rid of any old clothes. we have quite a collection of pajama pants, free-give-away tshirts and other comfy clothes to wear around the house for as long as possible. in this manner we can get away with not doing laundry for a long time.
today though, is laundry day. i have the day off work so i'm determined to knock all of this out for once. i don't think we've actually made it through all loads of laundry in months. i'm pretty sure there is a load of reds in a bag somewhere that hasn't ever gotten washed because i always save reds for last. sucks for them. i just wear so much red at work that i usually just do a small load of just my work shirts and then hold off on the rest. anyways, i spent over an hour going around the apartment collecting socks, shirts and other random pieces of clothing from all over the place and sorting them into piles. by the way, another absolutely disgusting part of laundry is having to turn all the socks back right side out. i don't want to stick my hand in huey's nasty old sock to turn it back around. he should fix it when takes them off.
anyways, so i'm all sorted now, got the first load through the wash and into the dryer. this is usually the point where i get a little bit of free time while i wait through the two hour dry time. i'm willing to bet that, while there is time to get through all the loads today, i will not do it for one very important reason. i'll forget to switch out loads. happens every... single... time. it takes me 5 hours to do two loads because i just forget to go back in there. i need my own laundromat with like, 10 machines so i could do them all at once. this waiting hours and hours crap just doesn't cut it for me. i'm too forgetful.
so, only other plans for the day off are to watch some dawson's creek and make a necklace. i got a really great design the other day so i'm going to try my hand at it. people say i never do anything artsy anymore, and maybe they are right. i don't sit down and draw anymore. or paint. or any of those very obvious, traditional ways of being "artistic". but i've always been the kind of person just interested in creating and designing things... not just drawing. now granted, to give those same people credit, i haven't been found sewing, knitting, building or otherwise engaging in many creative activities lately. but i have been busy. now that i have time, there are a million things i want to do or make. so i'm going to go get started..... and dammit, not forget about the laundry!
