Laundry! We hates^H^H^H^H^H loves it forever, Preciousss!

[azurelunatic]

Figured it was time for another round of the laundry, given that it's Wednesday again. (I try to wash laundry on Wednesday and Saturday. Usually only happens on Sunday.)

I'm going to try to be a Good Grownup.

I mean, how hard is it to tote a bag of laundry bigger than Little Fayoumis to the laundry room, shove it in machines, stick in quarters, press buttons, repeat for drying, and haul it back?

Not very hard You'd be surprised.

Keep in mind that I'm evidently "as strong as a man" (but I lack endurance severely, especially after this foot thing)... it's just getting up the motivation to do it.

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[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

It took me all day to do laundry yesterday. ::grr::

Okay, so I had to take a break to dive into the pool and rescue the lawn chairs. But still.

[azurelunatic]

In motion!

[wibbble]

Oh, I so wish I still had a laundry like that.

While having a machine in your flat might sound easier, it's a pain in the arse if there's no dryer to go with it...

[azurelunatic]

Oh, ick.

In fact, I think for that, only snowgrouse's usericon will do...

...but alas, it has vanished.

Picture a very innocent-looking willow ptarmagain (also called snowgrouse) sitting in an alder, tail to camera, looking over its shoulder. Caption: "Arse".

[wibbble]

Yeah.

So we either hang clothes up on the manky and dodgy pulley thingy, or put up a washing line in the manky and ivy-and-wasp-and-bug-infested back yard.

And I'm going to run out of clean tshirts soon! (I've yet to do washing since I moved in here...)

[azurelunatic]

Yow.

I take it that "manky" is a bit of slang?

[wibbble]

I think it's more dialect than slang.

It's a Scots word. Means 'pretty fucking disgusting/dirty'.

I frequently forget that some words aren't in common usage outside of this country. :o)

[azurelunatic]

I will probably now sit around singing, "Manky monkey... manky monkey!" to myself from time to time.

Good words should spread.

And I need to clean the manky crack between the counter and refrigerator.

[wibbble]

And it /is/ a good word, isn't it? :o)

We should start a campaign to get manky into common usage throughout the English-speaking world!

[azurelunatic]

I'm already familiar with "dodgy". That would be "something that is not counted upon to work correctly or at all", correct?

[wibbble]

Yup.

That's in common use throughout the UK, and beyond.

[azurelunatic]

Not so much over here -- it's clear, at least to me, that when someone uses "dodgy", they're using a loan-word from elsewhere.

It's... odd, to listen to language...

[stronae.livejournal.com]

Nods... I remember during the college days, when I would let the laundry pile up until I had no choice but to take it all down to the machines. Seven loads washing, seven loads drying, seven hauls back up the stairs. ::Twitch::

[azurelunatic]

And the clothes that would be worn approaching and on Laundry Day!

[wibbble]

Emergency boxers, emergency trousers, no socks, just my trainers, and the GEEK sweatshirt with no tshirt.

Which is where I'm going to be ina few days if I don't do laundry. ;o)

[azurelunatic]

Yep.

With me, I break out the Pink Shirt.

[azurelunatic]

Said shirt has since been sent along to parts more yardsaley -- is sitting in box to go in living room right now.