Good morning. I am scrambling this morning but Coffee Cup is here and we are moving right along. I slept well…. I feel good… the weather outside is gorgeous…. I may go bike riding this afternoon.
A couple of days ago I went to the local laundromat – probably for the first time in 20+ years. I had all the sheets, blankets, comforters, and pillow cases to wash for the 18 people we had in the IHN program last week. I wasnt about to do 18 sets of bedding in my home…. I would still be doing laundry now! 😀
In my head, I had this picture of how the laundromat scenario would go. I would have all the laundry put into many (many) washers. Then I had brought my laptop so I would proceed to grab a cup of coffee and sit in a quiet space and do a little blogging throughout my afternoon. I was actually a little excited about this outing.
This is not the way it went down at all. Nope. Instead I pull up with my laundry and find a crowded area where you wheel in your laundry on a basket with wheels… and start grabbing washers wherever you can. This is when I discovered I had not thought ahead to bring soap…. so instead I purchased all those little boxes of laundry soaps… one at a time out of a machine.
After I figured out how to make the coin operated machines work I ran back to get the rest of my stuff I had yet to pick up, the pillows, the blankets we did not use, food we did not finish, etc… I ran into a woman there that would be serving this week and her and I proceeded to chat for about an hour. She had many questions, I was willing to help.
I learned in Laundromat language being late to move your wash is not cool.
I get back to the laundromat and find all the bedding has been removed from the washers. People need the machines. I have been hogging them with my tardiness. They are right.
Then I put the laundry into the dryers and I am surprised that they are only a quarter. I use 5 large dryers. Put a quarter in each, and run home to pick up my hubby and take him up town where he is going to drive a piece of our excavating equipment home. I then hurry back to the laundromat to avoid another mishap…. I find all the machines have stopped, but my laundry is still wet.
An elderly gentleman calls over to me “Your never going to dry the sheets that way – you have the dryers too full. I tell him I am new, hoping that excuses my lack of laundromat knowledge. He tells me to use more dryers, which I do then spread out to 12 dryers. Then he tells me that a quarter in a dryer equals 6 minutes. I need to put in several quarters… he advises me to put 3 quarters in each machine. I take his advice and do so.
I am then going to relax with my laptop but see there really is no place to sit in this laundromat. The tables are for folding laundry and there are no chairs. I prop a hip on one of the tables and try to answer a few emails but the distance between me and lap top is not working for me. Its awkward and hard to see what I am doing. As for the coffee… no…. get that idea out of your head. I did however have a nice diet Pepsi and all in all the laundry project did not take me nearly as long as I thought it was going to thanks to one man.
Today I work. I will have a review up later and possibly more audio talk. It is audio book week and if you did not see yesterdays post on audio books, please check it here.
Here are a few books that have come my way…
