A Work Vacation

It's been a week since my last post. I went to "work" in Tampa for 4 days. It was very exhausting...sitting in meetings and presentations all day, having very adult conversations with very smart people, and making a presentation or two. Then I had to go back to the hotel room to get into a king size bed with a least 8 pillows and a delicious down comforter. Did I forget to mention the humongous TV? No cooking, no cleaning, no laundry. No noise, no dishes, no kids. It was rough, I must say.

I brought my laptop and started a project that I've desperately been trying to do. I am typing in all of my Pesach recipes from my notebook that is nearly in tatters after making Pesach for a lot of years. I am hoping to finish by Purim. Send me an e-mail if you would like me to share the file with you when I am done.

Back to laundry.

So we established that laundry gets done everyday. Tonight, I want to start with the 2 basic loads that get done daily - the leave-ins and the hang-ups.

First come the hang-ups. To refresh your memory, the hang-ups are the ordinary pants, shirts, and skirts that we wear everyday (I don't include my work clothes in this load - those go in the delicates.)

**Disclaimer: I am not a wash expert. I don't work for Maytag, or even Tide. If you know how to wash the clothes better, by all means. It's the system that I feel works well, not necessarily the temperature of the water, the machine setting, or the detergent. I must say, though, I swear by Tide with bleach alternative!**

The hang-ups go in the machine, I run them on the delicate cycle (warm wash, cold rinse). After the load is finished, I put them in the dryer for 20 minutes on the permanent press setting.

While that starts, I empty the leave-ins basket into the machine, carefully checking to make sure there are no escapees from the other baskets that were mistakenly put into the leave-in basket. I run that load on a hot wash. After that's running, I spend a few minutes on the sock graveyard (that's a whole megilla for a different night), and then start pulling things out of the dryer to hang up.

While I am hanging a few things, the dryer keeps running, then I pull out a few more things, until it's all hung up. At some point later in the night, the leave-ins go into the dryer on a cotton towels load, and are left in (hence - leave-ins) until the morning.

I will go into the morning laundry sorting tomorrow. Also, I will talk about the reason for hanging up all of the clothes. (More work initially, less work on the back end, and much neater results.)

It's getting late, and the leave-ins have to get put into dryer.