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I can't keep up with my laundry or my ambition

banana bread means i love you

I just about always have a basket of laundry in some stage of the laundry process sitting my my room. This gets me because it's not like we do laundry by hand. A machine does all the work. We just have to put it away. But in order to put it away, we have to take time from other things in order to fold the laundry and pair the socks. This is mostly where I get slowed down.

I want to do a lot of things and none of them is folding laundry. If my room were pretty, I would probably make a bigger effort to keep it pristine (ok, tidy), but it still has the wallpaper and roller shades of the former inhabitants. On humid days it even smells like them. Yuck. Guess whose task it is to fix that? Mine, but I'm not really doing anything about it at the moment.

I want to do lots of things, but there isn't time for them all. Perhaps you know how that is? Currently I have a lot of big things that are in various stages of progress (a quilt, a sweater, a guest room, a kitchen, a bathroom), and I would really just like to have something that is completely done. I actually started two things yesterday, a little bag and kool-aid dyeing, thinking that they would be succinct little projects, but then I was missing a zipper for the bag and I forgot about the soaking for the yarn, so they ended up in the unfinished pile.

The kool-aid yarn will happen today. Beebs and I are really looking forward to it. The rest will all happen eventually, won't it? Baby steps?

Do you know why I love banana bread? It makes me feel homey and thrifty and it's done in one hour. The heart, of course, is for I love you.

Comments
futuregirl's Gravatar I hear you! There really isn't ever enough time.

I'm loving that pan shape. The best piece of banana bread would come from the bottom point of the heart ... I love edge pieces! :)
# Posted By futuregirl | 2/17/08 1:21 PM
mo's Gravatar i bought lots of kool aid last summer for dyeing and it just never happened so I am anxious to see yours. Whenever my hubby folds the clothes, he does it in front of the tv so in order to get them upstairs he puts the folded clothes back into the big laundry tub. It makes me crazy because then it sits upstairs for three or four days until I just really need something and then I pretty much have to dig everything out, refolding half of it and resorting it for each person. Would it not be so much easier to just take the nicely folded and sorted piles upstairs fresh from folding? laundry- yuck!
# Posted By mo | 2/18/08 3:12 PM
meg's Gravatar I keep buying more laundry baskets thinking that will somehow help the never ending flow of it.
# Posted By meg | 2/19/08 8:52 AM
amy's Gravatar oh geez. i have the same laundry misfortune. i just hate to fold it!
# Posted By amy | 2/19/08 11:09 AM
Chara Michele's Gravatar I totally know how you feel... I hate folding the laundry & will just leave it until it is wrinkly & doesn't need just folding but ironing as well... :)
# Posted By Chara Michele | 2/22/08 8:48 AM
Henny Penny's Gravatar This is the first time I've come across your blog and I'm blown away by your artistic eye. I love the fabrics you chose for the felted bag and the quilt.
Even your photographs of yarn are beautiful. I'm totally adding you to my feedreader! I live one town west of you on 150.
# Posted By Henny Penny | 3/16/08 1:28 PM
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