I feel that if you can do this, you know, if I can actually do my own laundry, there isn’t anything I can’t do
There was a dusting of snow on the ground when I woke up. It quickly melted. A real snow storm is predicted for Saturday going into Sunday. The cape will get ice and rain while Boston could get as many as 12 inches of snow. They are welcome to it. The local news at noon started with the storm then the Patriots then Pelosi’s terminated jaunt, an interesting order of importance.
Henry drank the last few gulps of my coffee yesterday morning. I had left the cup on the table in the den when I went to the kitchen. The cup was empty when I got back to the den. This morning Henry was on the couch side me. He watched my cup go from the table to my mouth every time I took a sip. He even stayed beside me until I finished. He didn’t get coffee. He did get a treat.
When I was a kid, the worst thing was snow like this morning’s. It raised hopes of no school and a day for sledding then the snow stopped. The only person happy was my mother.
When I was growing up, I never cooked with my mother nor did I do laundry. I had to do both when I got to college. The first time the washing machine buzzed and wouldn’t work I had no idea what was wrong. The clothes were soaked. I took them out of the machine and hand wrung them then put the clothes on the inside line. When it happened a second time, I asked for help. The solution was easy: redistribute the load. My friend thought my incompetence was funny. I had an apartment in my junior year of college. I could cook hot dogs and hamburgers, and I could open any can. Dinty Moore beef stew was a favorite. My roommate added dumplings. I was amazed she could just whip up dumplings. She could also make gravy. I was astounded. We ate well when it was her turn to cook dinner.
I really enjoy cooking. Laundry I still don’t like, and I put off doing it as long as possible. Translation: until I run out of underwear. Yesterday I did two loads of laundry.
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January 18, 2019 at 3:10 pm
I really should go outside and look at the night sky now when it finally is cloud free but I’m too tired. I still have that cold, well I guess it is the flu, so I fell asleep as soon as I sat down in the sofa. I only woke up to move my legs and arms because they started to hurt from being in the same position for too long 🙂 🙂 It’s awfully cold outside too but we’ll have clear skies the coming nights as well so I can go outside to watch the night sky tomorrow instead 🙂
Laundry is something I think I’ll never like to do, that and doing the dishes 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
January 18, 2019 at 8:01 pm
Christer,
My sister has the flu including a head cold and vomiting. She has been sick a few days. That’s the last thing I want. I don’t know anyone around here who is sick so maybe I’ll dodge it. Tonight is really cold here.
I don’t mind the dishes. It is a time to think.
Have a great day!
January 18, 2019 at 8:11 pm
Hi Kat,
45 is acting just like a two year old. If you don’t give me my wall I’m going to take away your military transportation to visit our troops in Afghanistan….Wah wah, wah. 🙂 Unfortunately, the President has the ability to declare a national emergency with nearly unlimited power. We are still under the national emergency declared by Jimmy Carter during the Hostage crisis in Tehran and the one Bush declared during 9/11. Trump doesn’t understand compromise and considers it losing. His late best friend and attorney, Roy Marcus Cohn, advised him for many years that when someone punches you, then you punch them back harder. 😦 Cohn represented him in his numerous bankruptcies and defending him in his numerous law suits.
Maybe you should give Henry black coffee to calm him down. It used to work for kids with ADHD before Rittlin. 🙂
I am so bad at doing laundry when I was single, I took all my stuff to the laundry that offered bundle service. 🙂
Today the sky was partly cloudy with a high of 65 degrees. However, an polar vortex breakout is coming by morning driving our low temperature to 25 degrees with 30 MPH winds from the northwest. The high temperature tomorrow might reach 45.
January 18, 2019 at 9:11 pm
Hi Bob,
Trump was called a man-baby by one of the MSNC hosts. I laughed, but it is the perfect description. Nancy Pelosi was stopped from her trip which Trump called a publicity junket but the First Lady could fly alone in Air Force one or two to Florida.
I looked it up and coffee isn’t good for dogs. The article said in quantity, but I don’t know if the quantity is over time or right then and there. He did drink a half a cup yesterday, and he was fine. I wonder if he’d like his coffee with toast.
I think it is hauling the laundry up from the cellar then up another flight to my bedroom which is probably why I don’t like to do it. When I worked, I washed my laundry every Sunday.
It was warmer than I expected, the low 40’s. The cold is coming starting tomorrow.
January 18, 2019 at 9:29 pm
Hi Kat,
Maybe you should give Henry a cup of black coffee to help calm him. It used to be the treatment for kids with ADHD before Ritalin was available. 🙂
Today the sun was out with a high of 65 degrees. However, the polar vortex outbreak is coming. Tomorrow morning the low will be in the mid 20s and a high in the low 40s with 35 MPH winds from the northwest. 😦
When I was single I took all my laundry to a laundry that offered bundle service.