Catching Up

Going to bed last night with my mind thinking about what I needed to focus on the next morning, I managed to wake up early, energetic and ready to tackle my least favorite duty – laundry, before the heat hit the area.

Yesterday's Temperature

The laundry room is a mere 52 steps from the staircase leading to my unit, and my laundry footprint is generally no more than two or three very light loads – bedding, towels, undergarments, yet and still I dread laundry day and put it off until it HAS to be taken care of.

Today was that HAS TO day.

So heading downstairs at 7:00, thinking I’d have the Laundry Room to myself because 1) It’s Sunday. Everyone would be headed off to church and 2) The Laundry Room hours are 7:00 am to 9:00 pm, I found a rule breaker (the pregnant girl) had beat me to it.

For those of you who don't know the story, yes this is a senior complex – 55 years of age and older; and yes, one of our residents is pregnant.

How does that happen amongst the elderly you ask?

Well, she is considerably younger than 55, but lives here because her partner is an older gentleman. As to whether the couple will be allowed to remain residents after the baby is born … I’m waiting to find out just how management is going to handle THAT.

At any rate, I wasn’t first to the Laundry Room but didn’t have to wait because Preggers was completely done – wash and dry, which tells me she must have broken the rule really early.

Oh well, it’s Sunday. Management is not on the property to catch her and issue a violation – that is unless one of the two units closest to the Laundry Room complains about the noise.

Returning to my unit after starting the wash, I spied Tent Guy.

So yes, he’s still camping out in the vacant lot across the street.

I also ran into the neighbor upstairs, across from me, other side of the quad. She was carrying a basket of laundry, heading to the Laundry Room, so I saved her a trip.

“I’ve got two of the machines. There’s only the one left, plus the big one.”

“Oh no. Well, I’ll try for one of the other two” -- We have three Laundry Rooms on the property.

Lucky for me, I always check the dryer lint screens before transferring wash to dry because, when I returned to the Laundry Room to do so, I found Preggers had not cleared them out after she finished.

Quite the little rule breaker is she.

On tap for the remainder of the day is finishing up those catch-up scrapbook projects. Mother’s Day photos are done, Zombie 5K photos are done, the Complex Pool Party photos are done. That leaves the photos from Monday’s field trip to the casino. Once those are done, I’ll be back to that never ending needlepoint project.