Karen Goes to Laundromat...

or welcome to hell at 10am.

So in between trying to have the house show ready for eight days (I was lucky) and trying to wrangle snakes, my washer broke. I had been procrastinating with the laundry over Easter weekend because I knew I had all day Monday and Tuesday to do it as I was off work. So Monday night I'm starting and I go down to move the laundry and low and behold, bitch isn't working. Unfortunately this has happened before, so I knew what it was and the it wouldn't be cheap, but I called the dude and he said to call when I was ready to have it put in.

In the mean time, I have gathered now nearly two weeks of laundry and the washer still wasn't working so I packed it all up yesterday morning and off we went. When we got there, every regular washer was running. I couldn't believe it, there were only two people in there how could 25 washers be in use???

then I figured it out...the only washers not being used were the more expensive front loaders. I was pissed, but I had no choice. So the girls and I proceed the separate the mass of clothing directly into the machines (no I wasn't smart enough to sort it ahead of time). By the time it was all said and done, I had all seven of the front loaders going. I was feeling very smart. Then I realized these were double load machines. Hmmm...lets' count that up....between 12 and 14 loads of laundry! Seriously, I'm not allowing my children more than one outfit a week from now on!

The only blessing to this little trip was that when we got home, all that had to be done was putting it away, we folded it all there. So actually, it was an extremely productive trip, but I don't desire to do it again.

On a side note, I haven't seen a snake in ten whole days!