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Aug. 6th, 2020 01:40 pmI left the back stairwell door open while doing laundry (mattress pad, ugh, and sheets) because the upstairs dog is elsewhere, and Lily took advantage to go explore in the basement. At least I assume that's where she was, because she came bolting back into the kitchen absolutely festooned with cobwebs from the shoulders forward, and had to tell me about it. I got the cobwebs out of her whiskers and out of her ear, and she calmed down a bit. Enough to declare nap time in the drawer-organizer box, anyway.
While I had the mattress denuded completely, I rotated it. For some reason it's easier to rotate the 17" mattress than it is to rotate the 8" futon pad. Probably because the mattress only rotates in one plane, and the futon pad gets unbent, rotated, and usually flipped besides. But anyway, there's another thing I can write on the list so I can cross it off.
I guess I got over being uncomfortable about doing non-work-related things during work hours. Although I probably wouldn't be doing all this laundry right now if I hadn't woken up this morning and put my hand in cat barf on the bed. However, this being Thursday and Thursdays being fairly slow work-wise this summer anyway, I'm not missing very much by doing laundry at the same time. It's better than sitting in my office at HSDM being bored. I know I won't be back at HSDM before January, and last week somebody whispered unofficially that admin staff won't be back this academic year, which means not before next July. But we'll see.
I would really love the mattress pad to be dry by dinnertime, but it has to go in the dryer on low, and I'm not all that hopeful. If I can get it as far as "dry in places" I can put it back on the bed to spread it out, and turn the fan on. But it would be really nice if three hours in the dryer actually dried it. This after I had to pre-soak it in the bathtub. Since I get mattress pads for $35 from TJ Maxx anyway, I would be tempted to throw it out and start over, but TJ Maxx falls under "unnecessary retail" in my brain these days and I don't want to go over there. And there are better things I could spend $35 on.
While I had the mattress denuded completely, I rotated it. For some reason it's easier to rotate the 17" mattress than it is to rotate the 8" futon pad. Probably because the mattress only rotates in one plane, and the futon pad gets unbent, rotated, and usually flipped besides. But anyway, there's another thing I can write on the list so I can cross it off.
I guess I got over being uncomfortable about doing non-work-related things during work hours. Although I probably wouldn't be doing all this laundry right now if I hadn't woken up this morning and put my hand in cat barf on the bed. However, this being Thursday and Thursdays being fairly slow work-wise this summer anyway, I'm not missing very much by doing laundry at the same time. It's better than sitting in my office at HSDM being bored. I know I won't be back at HSDM before January, and last week somebody whispered unofficially that admin staff won't be back this academic year, which means not before next July. But we'll see.
I would really love the mattress pad to be dry by dinnertime, but it has to go in the dryer on low, and I'm not all that hopeful. If I can get it as far as "dry in places" I can put it back on the bed to spread it out, and turn the fan on. But it would be really nice if three hours in the dryer actually dried it. This after I had to pre-soak it in the bathtub. Since I get mattress pads for $35 from TJ Maxx anyway, I would be tempted to throw it out and start over, but TJ Maxx falls under "unnecessary retail" in my brain these days and I don't want to go over there. And there are better things I could spend $35 on.
