Comments on: I’m Tired

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:15:43 +0000

You know what? I’m with you on that.

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:14:44 +0000

You win.

By: padfoot1

padfoot1 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:08:21 +0000

You are living in interesting times. But that does include good things too, not just curses. I gotta believe that you will get a truck load of good things happening shortly. It will balance out, I have to believe that.

By: Safeena

Safeena — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:34:08 +0000

You know how much I love to play “I can top THAT!”, so, it will come as no surprise to say that yesterday I watched as the toilet lid flew open and water fountained out from the bowl. It was fucktacular. Filled the bathroom floor and ran into the hardwood hall. Many many hours later and two plumbers later (one a ripoff arse, the other, salvation for under $200) every towel in the house is soaked in asswater. The only upside is that now I know the proper way of taking a piss outside in the rain.

Have a much better Thursday.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:22:01 +0000

That party is a great idea. I hope it worked.

Army men? That’s sort of odd. Very “Toy Story.”

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:20:54 +0000

I’d pay real money to see you go “woo.”

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:20:17 +0000

Those are excellent ideas. I’ll keep those in mind. It turned out today that I did better than I thought, because a normal dry cycle dried the stuff I put in. I did two dryer loads just to help things along, but they dried.

By: caryn

caryn — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:49:11 +0000

Okay, first I have to say the jar of peanut butter mixed with chocolate chips sounds really good! Second, I feel your pain with the washer, ours went the day we came home from vacation, put the clothes in , did other stuff went to switch them to the dryer & found a tub full of water, just like you. And you know how weak my hands are….remember when the doctor wanted to cast both hands so I wouldn’t use them?…..Third, I keep finding army men in my backyard, every couple of weeks another one pops up.
Yeah, it has been a really fucked up month for everyone I know. Which is why we had a Redo New Years Eve party last saturday night. We all just had to start over!!!!

By: brightbluerose

brightbluerose — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:36:31 +0000

Dear god, I wish I could do something to make whatever is causing all this bad stuff to happen to you to stop. Am praying that whatever it is backs the HELL OFF of you and your family. Maybe petition Parvati to um, help restore order from the chaos? Going all “woo” here and picturing Shiva dancing on your rooftop. (Am probably cursed myself now, gah.)

hang in there

By: Maggie

Maggie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:26:37 +0000

I had to do a lot of laundry by hand when we were living in a place that didn’t have ready access to a dryer. While a lot of it was kids clothing (and thus a lot easier to wring out), a lot of it wasn’t. Some of it was even bedclothes. And I didn’t always have my giant husband to wring stuff out for me. I had to improvise. Here’s a way that doesn’t rely so much on brute strength, and instead on physics and gravity.

Drag everything that’s soaked to the tub. Lock the kids somewhere safe so they don’t play slip’n'slide in your hallway, and just dump all the big stuff in the tub.

Hands and knees time, sweetie.

Shove everything up into one corner. Pull out your first item. Fold it lengthwise. Fold it lengthwise again. And once more if it’s a particularly wide garment. Bedclothes might require another couple of folds.

Now roll it top to bottom. You should see a shitload of water cascading out of the cloth and running down into the drain of the tub.

When you get it rolled up from top to bottom, spread your hands and lean on the sucker like you’re trying to squeeze lunch money out of it.

It’s not perfect, and it’ll still leave your clothes fairly wet. But the sheer amount of water you can remove this way is amazing, and if you need to, you can use other methods (like wringing the shit out of it) from there, since at least half of the water should be gone.

Another option, one I didn’t ever use due to space issues, is to get two broomsticks, wedge one so it can’t move, tie your clothes piece by piece to both, then use the movable one to spin and wring the clothes. This practically has to be done outside, because of the mess + space requirements.