{"id":1200,"date":"2008-08-29T15:28:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T19:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2008-08-29T15:28:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T19:28:53","slug":"laundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/29\/laundry\/","title":{"rendered":"Laundry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nikki is the sole Laundry Technician at our household.\u00c2\u00a0 For some strange reason, I am not allowed to operate the actual washing machine or the dryer.\u00c2\u00a0 Something about not doing it right, shrinking clothes, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 This arrangement has placed a considerable burden on Nikki though, since 5 humans can generate a truly stupendous amount of laundry in the course of a day.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, actually the laundry creation is rather skewed towards a certain demographic, I won’t elaborate, but let’s just say that frequent wardrobe changes in the course of a single day aren’t uncommon, sometimes even during commercial breaks on Hannah Montana.\u00c2\u00a0 There, that should leave just enough doubt to protect the names of those involved….<\/p>\n

Anyway, laundry generation aside, Nikki has been doing her part to reduce our considerable electricity bill by hanging the laundry outside to dry.\u00c2\u00a0 This makes a lot of sense for the environment too, something we do our best to pay attention to.<\/p>\n

The environment doesn’t always appreciate these efforts however, and often seems to take perverse delight in making this undertaking very very hard some days.\u00c2\u00a0 For instance, why would Mother Nature seemingly rain only at the very moment Nikki is thinking of going to get the now dry clothing from the backyard?\u00c2\u00a0 Or the unexpected gusts of wind on calm days that are just hard enough to blow the racks of clothes over?\u00c2\u00a0 Let’s not mention that all sorts of insect life is seemingly drawn to the smell of freshly washed clothing and practically stampedes over to take up residence in our skivvies as soon as Nikki goes back inside.<\/p>\n

There’s one other perk for Nikki that for her is the main reason to hang the clothes outside: the smell of the outdoors.\u00c2\u00a0 She loves the smell of clothes that have been hanging outside so much, I’m thinking it’s become an addiction.\u00c2\u00a0 She can’t fold a t-shirt without pressing it to her face and toking from it, sweaters and towels are snorted up before they get folded neatly.\u00c2\u00a0 She loves it, and is almost annoyed by my complete ambivalence to the smell of our clothes.\u00c2\u00a0 Each basket of freshly aired clothes is presented to me with the demand;<\/p>\n

“Smell that!\u00c2\u00a0 Just smell it!\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, man that smells good, doesn’t it?\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t you just love that smell?\u00c2\u00a0 Did you smell it?\u00c2\u00a0 Smells good eh?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s gotten to the point that I have started to feign interest, or she won’t let me go.<\/p>\n

“Oh it smells really great, hon.”<\/p>\n

“You don’t care do you?\u00c2\u00a0 DO you?”<\/p>\n

“NO! I mean, no honey, I love it just as much as you do, really….”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The only other downside to hanging the clothes outside is the more Nikki sniffs and snorts, the more ragweed she ingests deep into her sinuses.\u00c2\u00a0 This all comes to a head each morning, by which time her nose is clogged and she is sneezing her head off.\u00c2\u00a0 Usually a shower is enough to clear her head of the allergy attack, but just like any other junkie, she can’t stop sniffing and huffing the laundry.\u00c2\u00a0 I really can’t talk to her about her addiction, she gets rather aggressive, I can only hope she will stop using in the winter when the clothes will be frozen stiff as a board, and maybe this habit will end.\u00c2\u00a0 For a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nikki is the sole Laundry Technician at our household.\u00c2\u00a0 For some strange reason, I am not allowed to operate the actual washing machine or the dryer.\u00c2\u00a0 Something about not doing it right, shrinking clothes, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 This arrangement has placed a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/siGNU-laundry","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}