Home Alone – The Final Onslaught

Phew! It was a hectic weekend. A sick baby is not much fun. Two sick babies are definitely no picnic.

Actually, it wasn’t too bad at all. For sick babies they were remarkably sweet and good. I am really lucky, I have relatively easy babies. It was actually great fun and it meant that Marko and I spent a lot of good quality time together, just him, me and the babes.

Kate did do a full body poop – the one where the poo goes absolutely everywhere, from the toes to behind the ears. And that’s just on me.

However, the prize moment of the weekend happened right at the end of the weekend. Sunday night, the babes finally in bed, I just have one final basket of laundry to fold. Marko pours me a glass of wine and I settle down on the couch to fold the last of the washing. As I lift the glass to my mouth to take my first delicious sip, in my excitement I accidentally catch the rim of the glass on the edge of the laundry basket and I spill the entire contents of the glass all over the freshly washed, beautifully sun dried laundry. Fuckit! One of those moments where you just have to laugh.

Sigh. What a waste of a glass of wine. See, drinking and folding is dangerous. Don’t Drink and Fold!

Comments

[Foster]

lmao! Of course, it totally helps that the clothes were painstakingly hung, one by one, including socks (argh!), out to dry, and you messed it up at night. In the dark. With no more sun outside.

[Dani]

Sorry you had a "shitty" weekend. Are they better now? Just in time for Rose to come back, I'm sure. Heh.

No drinking and folding here. I find drinking coffee and posting to blogs dangerous enough.

[L.]

Hey, it`s really okay to wear clothes that smell like wine -- better than poop!

[suzzcq70]

Never thought of drinking and folding . . . its that drinking and dialing that gets me into trouble! Safer to stick to laundry . . .

[liz]

Oof! That's gotta hurt.

[MollieBee]

Oh what a bummer, sun dried laundry is the best.

[bec]

Firstly bugger on the laundry and double bugger on the wine.

Sun-dried laundry - there is nothing like it, that smell and the feel. Here in Australia this is the norm to dry one's clothes but I think you should do a poll on who dries their clothes in the drier, all my yankee friends were HORRIFIED that I would put my washing on the line. Bugs they said Bugs! Ok I'm sure lots of the yankees do put washing on the old hills hoist but I bet there aren't many :-)

And yes it shows you how sad my life is when you can be this excited by the smell on clothes dried in the sun.

[Carrie Jo]

I've just started hanging clothes to dry because our dryer is dead and I hate going to the laundromat. But truthfully, I prefer tumble-dried clothes because they're softer. Hand-dried clothes tend to be to stiff if their isn't enough wind.

[kate #2]

Thanks for the tip! I was laughing reading your post because I could tell where that was going! There's nothing like a wine stain to try to get out of clothing...except maybe poop!

[L.]

All my Japanese friends in Tokyo dried their laundry outside, and insisted that fresh air and sunshine was best. Plus, gas and electricity are expensive, and dryers are usually teeny-tiny and very impractical. Nice in theory, but ......some of these friends lived near busy streets, or freeways, or even train stations, and the air was filthy -- after a plastic flower watering can of mine literally rotted away in a few months on our balcony, I justified the expense of my electric dryer. Fresh air and sunshine are wonderful, but I`ll take machine-dried landry over exhaust, any day. (Okay, I admit, I`m also a bug-fearing yank.... once a huge Asian cockroach hid inside one of my shirts, and started buzzing as I folded it... Oh, the horror...I shudder to remember....)

[rosemary grace]

I would love to dry my laundry out in the almost-desert sunshine where I live, we even have a nice communal lawn, but there are strict rules about NEVER hanging stuff out to dry. It's a common policy because apparantly it cheapens the appearance of the apartment complex. Consequently, my whites are not so white: no sun-bleaching for my comforter and I refuse to use bleach. But then I'm not a representative yank, I grew up in Blighty.

Red wine is the reason my husband and I have a dark red sofa and earth-toned rug on the living room. We know that it will be spilled, so at least it won't show.

[Adi V.]

Ahh, the smell of sun dried laundry. Love that smell. Just with the birds would stop with the crapping on my sheets thing that they seem to think is such a gas. Damn seagulls. And in a quiet mountain town no less. *Sigh*

Hey, you missed a choice on today's poll so I couldn't vote on it. I do not yet have a tat. Not because I'm a wuss but because the design I drafted is to precise and detailed for most tattoo artists to do. So I am waiting till someone talented enough to do it comes along in my area. Or for some of the Greats to be resurrected, whichever comes first.

So my vote would have been for:
Haven't gotten one yet but will.

~Adi V.

[projgen]

*moment of silence for the lost wine*

I LOVE sun-dried sheets! I didn't start using a line until my dryer started frying my clothes, but that was mainly because I thought the pollution would dirty up my freshly-cleaned laundry.

It probably does, but the feel and yummy sun smell make it worth it.

[labialady]

oh crap, you're supposed to fold laundry?

[Suzie-Q.]

I really like tatoos, but, would be scared that it would hurt too much.
Anyway, being Jewish if i get one I will not be allowed to be buried in a Jewish Cemetary!!!! Can you believe that?! So... none for me thanks... I'd like to party with all my friends when I kick off.
:)

[Louise M]

Ahhh..... The fresh smell of sheets, hung on the line to dry. Standing joke in my old office. I started at 0645 and would hang laundry before I left for work (washed the night before,) so that it would be dry when I came home. Nothing like a line full of diapers (yep, did the cloth thing with my darlings) drying on the line. Yes, there is a bit of "crunchieness" to line dried, but worth it for the scent. Line dried towels are the best for drying after you have a shower, they absorb the water so quickly.

You'll have to have a wake for the lost wine, gone before its time. That means another glass of wine, whoo hooo!!!

[Margot]

Dear Tertia

I just wanted to let you know that young Jamie has finally come into the world, two weeks overdue, and is doing fine.

I won't go into the horrible details, but the labour was bad: 40 hours long. I did the first 30 hours the drug-free way I had planned, but ultimately had to have an epidural as he wasn't well positioned, and got stuck, and I was getting exhausted. But we did manage to narrowly avoid an emergency caesar when he came out with forceps. And only one stitch!

But he is such a lovely boy. Worth anything I had to go through to get him and more. A substantial 8.1 pounds, with heaps of brown hair, and deep blue eyes, and very alert. Even his mild case of jaundice just makes him look like a little golden, glowing prince. I am feeling very tired, but I just have to look at him to feel my heart fill up with happiness. And my partner is being totally amazing to both of us.

Still enjoying your blog!

Margot xox

[Shauna]

But it was white wine, yes? So no pre-treating of clothes necessary? Just trying to find the silver lining in an otherwise sobering moment. Sorry, had to do it.

[Bee]

Whaahaaaha. You used MY line: Don't drink and fold.. WHAAHAHHAHAA. Ja, childish I know. So what. Hehe. Running away.