Laundry Day!

You know, I don't mind doing laundry.  I really don't.  I don't like putting clothes away, but the actual act of putting clothes in the washer, adding soap and all that part, I like doing it.  I like estimating if it's a "large load" or an "extra large load."  I like measuring out the soap, which is different every time I do laundry, I think.  I like pulling the wet clothes out and throwing them in the drier, and doing it with way more throwing/whipping action than is really necessary.  I like pulling the warm clothes out of the drier after it's done.  It's like pulling freshly baked cookies out of the oven.  The smell so good, and you're happy that your favorite thing is in you hands.  Clean, good smelling clothes or cookies, if you put cookies if we're still talking about cookies, here.  Either way you're pretty happy, I bet.  Wait, is it spelled dryer or drier?  Spell check says they're both good to go...hmmm.  I think it's dryer.  Let's go with that.

Then comes the part that sucks.  Putting the clean clothes away.  I'd rather not, thanks.  But if I don't, all the clothes will get wrinkly.  Then you can't wear them unless you iron them (which ain't happening) or use that dewrinkler spray stuff (that smells bad and makes your clothes all damp.)  No, you have to put them away in a timely manner.  But I don't want to.  I'm done doing laundry now.  

Sometimes I let the clothes sit in the basket and just forget about them and then the dewrinkler spray is the only situation I have.  Not always, but just sometimes it happens.  

I'm just glad I don't have to take the clothes out of the house and to the laundromat anymore.  I did that for far to long, and now that I've lived with a washer and dryer in my house for a few years, I'll never live somewhere that doesn't have that.  Lydia don't know how good she got it at our place, I tell ya.  

I think of this because I have to do laundry later, and that's okay with me.  I don't mind.  But at the end of it all, I'll have to put it all away, and that just sucks.  

Have a good laundry day!

(not) Fun with Wikipedia Random Article

Okay, I'm bored and I need something to entertain myself, so let's have some fun with the Wikipedia random article generator.

On the side of Wikipedia, there's a link that says "Random Article."  What I'm going to do is hit it, and whatever pops up, I'll write about it, using information I've found on the page.  I'm only going to hit it one time, so that's going to be the article.  No cheating for me.  Okay, here goes...

OOOkaay..so I got "Mast (Sufism)"  and this is going to be not only difficult to write about, but also difficult to understand.  Also, difficult to make for an entertaining read.  Now, I will read the article, and then tell you all what it's about without looking back at the article.  GO!

So basically, it's being "intoxicated with God," to the point where the person has lost touch with reality.  They've experienced such a profound inner-somethingorother that they pretty much go crazy, but you know, because it's crazy for God, it's "okay."  This has something to do with Sufi's, which I'm not familiar with.  I guess it happens a lot, in areas like Iran and what is now Pakistan.  This is the whitest thing ever written.  Also, Mast is pronounced "must."  Ha, well this Mast thing seems like a pretty profound experience that I'm just sort of waxing on on a Blogger blog...Feels sorta weird.  Anyway...So...Wow, so that was fun.

...No it wasn't.  I'm sorry for that.  Have a good rest of your Saturday, though.  We'll do this again another time.  And try and generate your own random article.  Hey, you might learn something.  I did!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mast_(Sufism)

Pajamas

You know what I want to get?  I want to get some of those pajamas that are actually pajamas.  Like, the pants and matching button-down shirt, perhaps with stripes on them.  Oh, and one of those sleep caps that I've never seen in real life, only in pictures and cartoons and the Don't Wake Daddy board game.  Whatever happened to pajamas?  Since when do we all just sleep in whatever we're wearing?  Whatever happened to dressing up to go to sleep? Whatever happened to nightgowns for ladies?  Does anyone wear nightgowns anymore?  No one in my house does.

I guess I started thinking about pajamas this morning because I wish I was wearing them right now instead of this work uniform.  Pajamas are great!  I used to wear pajamas as a kid.  I wore them for a number of years, until, well, I don't remember when I started sleeping in basketball shorts every night, but that's what I do now.  That's not pajamas.  I have t-shirts that are either to old and ratty to wear out of the house, or a tight-fitting t-shirt or two that I wear to sleep.  I'm convinced that I sleep better in a tight-fitting shirt, and this is a conclusion I've only come to in the past couple of months. I can roll over and not be all caught up in this baggy shirt all night long. People sleep in all kinds of stuff, in all kinds of combinations.  Bethany sleeps with no pants and a t-shirt.  Lydia seems to sleep in sweatpants and a tanktop, mostly. I couldn't sleep in sweatpants.  That seems like it'd be too warm.  But she does, so that's fine, I guess.

It got me thinking, what do people sleep in the most?  I'd like to think the "no pants, t-shirt" thing is probably a popular choice, but I have this theory that I don't want to be sleeping in anything I wouldn't want to have to run into the street wearing.  So it's basketball shorts for me.  But I think I really want to try out an actual pair of pajamas.  Like, the kind that when you get up in the morning and stretch, your ankles get exposed.  And I want one of those caps.  Like, look at Bananas in Pajamas.  If Bananas in Pajamas were like me, they'd be wearing basketball shorts and a black t-shirt, and they wouldn't be called Bananas in Pajamas, they'd be called Bananas Who Are Ballers.  "Bananas that are the "shirts" in a "shirts v.s. skins" game." You can't market that.  That would never sell.  

What do you sleep in?  Naked?  I've tried that a couple times, just to try it, and it usually sucks.  There's a control issue there, where I like my skin to be contained inside something, know what I mean?  I've tried just sleeping in boxers, but again, same issue.  I don't like all that freedom of some of my parts that I don't need to be free.  I don't know, what I sleep in is comfortable enough, but perhaps I'm missing an amazing experience of actual adult pajamas.  If real pajamas are good enough for my daughter, then damn it, I want some myself.