laundry day is a very dangerous day
Nearly every article of clothing I own (along with all of my bed, bath, and kitchen linens) is clean. This was a rare and glorious event in 2008 and the preceding years but I have hopes that 2009 will be different. I have taken a few steps to ensure this. For one, I cut my wardrobe almost in half- I threw away some particularly grungy articles and filled two garbage bags with nice things to donate. I also, with Max’s gentle urging, removed all the little boy tshirts from my closet. The horror! I couldn’t part with some of them so I made a collection of small pillows and one cheetah cat toy. Oh, and, I put away about two suitcases of summer dresses that previously lived on the floor during the winter months, shoved there by sweaters and turtleneck dresses clamoring for space. My apartment looks homier now and the remaining clothes fit comfortably in my drawers.
Like I said, it is rare that all of my clothes are clean. When I got out of the shower today I had no idea what to put on. Max and I are both off today and we didn’t do anything particularly exciting- we ran a bunch of errands and made dinner at home. Certainly nothing special enough to warrant “wasting” one of my fabulous, fresh out of the dryer clothes! Tomorrow morning I will have a similar problem. I work all day so I need to be wearing something nice but it isn’t a particularly important day at work! I don’t want to wear my best outfit!
I hope that tomorrow morning I fare better than I did this afternoon. I poked around the piles of folded clothes cautiously for awhile, careful to avoid disturbing their perfect creases, but finally sighed and climbed back into my pre-shower garb.
