Monday, April 30, 2007

Laundry ethics

I'm hoping this isn't going to shoot all my laundry karma, but sometimes I leave my laundry in the washer or dryer. I'm careful to be there once it stops, but still, as my friend Ric pointed out, there are so many people who have nothing and stopping by the Laundromat (Would someone please come up with a good generic term for that place? Thanks.) would be a good way to get something. So it's always a little surprise to find my clothes there and unmolested.

I'd like to think that people just think that stealing someone's laundry is too low, but the night after my neighbor got evicted someone stole his TV. If people are OK with stealing from a man who just lost his home, then they are OK with stealing someone's clothes from the dryer.

Maybe it's that even though my clothes would cost me a lot to replace, they're not really valuable in a liquid-asset sense. (Let's go to the pawn shop and buy some jeans!) And usually someone else is in there doing laundry, which might be a deterrant.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Not OK

There's this tuna sandwich in the work fridge that has to have been there since at least Friday because it's clearly from the cafeteria, which has not been open since Friday.

I am all for leftovers and eating expired food that still smells fine. But with the bread, sandwiches have a short shelf life. And a tuna sandwich ...

Kitchen tip: You could probably save it if you took the tuna off the bread. This would work less well for peanut butter and jelly, but why would you ever have leftover peanut butter and jelly? You wouldn't.

"Wow, I am stuffed, can't finish this tuna sandwich. I'll just put it away for a soggy snack."

Monday, April 23, 2007

The swap tease

I promise I haven't been slacking off on the Crafty Daisies swap, just slacking off on posting about it. I've been inspired to try some beading, which turned out to be faster and easier than I thought.

For your first hint, I've gotten supplies and surprises from these stores:
Atomic Books
Atomic Pop
Lovely Yarns
Hometown Girl
Beadazzled
Plaza

Monday, April 09, 2007

Overheard

Exclaimed proudly on the light rail:

"22 and no kids!"

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Playing in the dirt

The gardening season opened yesterday, with my first day of weeding. A friend and I spent about 7 hours in her Hampden garden plot (where I have little rectangle this year), most of it just pulling and pulling and pulling weeds.

It didn't seem so hard at the time -- and hanging out in the dirt is fun -- but last night I hurt from my calves to my shoulders. My weeding muscles in my right wrist still aren't happy. But I got to plant some cold-weather plants: lettuce, carrots and radishes.

I wish I'd taken before and after photos, because we accomplished so much.