Tag: Laundry

The Daily EO: April 12th, 2016

As the celebratory dinner at my husband’s firm wound down, the IT team lingered.  You might think those who remained as the party dwindled were enjoying each other’s company and you’d be right of course.  As there is nothing like alcohol and a completed project milestone to raise camaraderie amongst a group.   And as these fellows – who had gathered from the offices from across the country to finish the Vancouver project – moved into later night, words began to slur, the laughter a bit more raucous.  The movements a little less sure, the declarations of a job well done and a good team more emphatic.

And the sloshing of red wine.

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The Daily EO: July 9th, 2013

So, doing laundry tonight and I forgot to remove a couple of “hang to dry/lay flat to dry” stuff.  That is always so annoying.  Why do I buy these things?  Oh, right – man-made materials for moisture wicking, etc.  Damn.

July 9th, 2013 Extra-Ordinary:  So, if I shrink my workout gear, how to I lose weight fit into it again?

So weird. .. what happened to the first week of July?  Oh well.

The Daily EO: February 26th, 2013

I challenged my husband to make something from his Alton Brown cookbooks in the month of February.  So he invited his friend over for dinner on Wednesday night and selected Butternut Squash and Potato Dumplings as his recipe.  I do the grocery shopping and he does dinners, so he gave me the list of ingredients to pick up.  Tuesday night he was tackling it and this is an involved recipe.  Not only that, despite following it pretty closely, the recipe ending up needing 3 times as much flour as it calls for.  (ever try rolling muffin batter?)

Roasting, scooping, stirring, kneading, rolling, boiling, ice bathing, draining, drying, oil drenching.  Then the next night, frying.

I love white terry bar clothes for my kitchen clothes of choice.  They always absorb, never shrink in the wash, easily replaceable.  making dumplings is a messy event and for once we used up almost every cloth we had for the draining and drying.   By the time we were finished, we had a pile of wet clothes and a mess of a kitchen.  We tackled clean-up and I threw a load of laundry to clean up all my bar mops.

Our washing machine in our condo is some fancy european apartment sized ones.  Ones that have no patience for North American foolishness of adding something mid cycle.  So, once it is started, there is no going back.  Sure you can turn off the machine, then turn it to spin & drain, and eventually, it might let you inside.  I threw a little extra soap in to tackle all the oil and flour on the bar mops, but nothing unusual.

I noticed about 15 minutes in that the soap level was quite foamy, but figured that was due to my increased soap usage – afterall, I generally have the door closed to the laundry while I do it, so I really had no idea how foamy it gets during the cycle.

I was in the other room – and let’s face it, that’s not too far away when you live in a downtown Vancouver condo – when my husband called for me to grab towels for the washing machine.  It’s leaking!  Alas!

Wha?!

Okay – quick.  Towels.  Mop it up.  Hmmmm.  Not too much of a mess.  Just a small leak from the very front of the machine.  Weird.

But as stated – I can’t open the damn machine.  So we mop up the water, turn it to spin & drain and keep a towel under there to pick up the water.  And wait.

Long Night.  And we haven’t even eaten them yet.

February 26th, 2013 Extra-Ordinary:  Apparently, if you wash Butternut Squash Dumplings in a washing machine, they wedge in the door and break the seal.  Who knew?