June 8, 2004
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Last week we "deep cleaned" the whole living space part of the house except the sewing/guest room in preparation for having about 40 people over for a Memorial Day cookout (or cook-in if the weather wasn't amenable to cooking out). I was mistaken: I did _not_ clean the laundry room and it was a MESS. I had the vent for the dryer hooked up so that when the weather was cold, the dryer vented into the house to add heat and humidity. Unfortunately, somewhere along the line the vent hose popped off the lint catcher and I didn’t see that it had happened. When I went to switch the vent back to summer mode, I found a big ole honkin pile of lint and a MESS.
Blech.
With all the painting and cleaning, “stuff” just kept getting piled into the laundry room for later attention. You know what I mean don't you? The laundry room is sort of like the kitchen junk drawer. Every odd and end finds its way into there at some time or another.
Meanwhile, I was ignoring the dryer lint dust rhinos that had taken over the back corner of the laundry room. Hey, they were happy there, why should I bother the herd?!
Hint: DON’T PROCRASTINATE. It will come back to bite you on the a**.
Since I was feeling so punk today I have only had energy to do the laundry.That's a low energy task generally, right? Michael was being a love and ferried the clean items up to our bedroom loveseat so I could sit and watch TV while I folded laundry since it is much easier to put things away since 99% of the laundry goes upstairs anyway. After eating supper, Michael took Brenna to her Stars class at church and I went back to the laundry. I walked in the laundry room and…
…squish..
…squish..
…squish…
OH MAAANN (ok, that is the PG version of what I really said
)…. Water. ALL over the floor. ALL OVER the place, stopping _just_ short of the carpet on the steps leading stepping down into the family room, or up into the kitchen. Brenna's rice sock was lying on teh floor and I believe that worked as a barrier to the water seeping onto the carpet. Thank the Lord for that! Thankfully I had JUST filled the laundry sorting bins up with what had ben the floor waiting to be washed . No soggy casualties save a few stray socks under the washer and a sweater that had fallen behind the sorter who knows when. Yea. I am having cramps from Hades. I have a mild migraine. I REALLY feel like doing this. Yes, I know it needs to be cleaned desperately but NOT today. ‘sigh’
Start emptying the room. Putting all the bleach bottles, tool boxes, etc up off the floor (man I really need to build that laundry cabinet, this small guy is the pits). Michael gets back from church and runs into the garage to grab the shop vac for me. I think to CHECK the shop vac before I turn it on *oh Lord thank you*, and it has about 3 gallons of pine needles in it from the last time it was used. THAT would have made a lovely mess blowing all over my dark green family room carpet! Take out the vac and dump the needles under a pine tree. Lug the 16 gallon beast back in the house and start sucking up the water. Move the washer. Clean under it. Move the dryer. Clean under that. Etc etc. I am proud to say the laundry room dry and defussed, but still needs a bit more straightening. I am just not in the mood tonight. I went upstairs and watched Law and Order SVU and Crossing Jordan and folded clothes.In doing so I forget to take the puppy out and she anoints my bedroom floor. Grrrr.
Oh, by the way, it was the pillows that I was washing that caused the overflow. Best I can figure one of the sofa pillows being washed must have blocked the water as it ran into the tub. As it blocked the water to flowed over the edge of the tub and out the back.
I am covered with dryer lint. Michael keeps picking it out of my hair. I think I need to go shower.
I guess I should be glad that I hadn’t cleaned the room yet or I would have been ticked to clean the room twice.
Ouch.
I have a sore spot on my a** from getting bit…
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