SO FRESH & SO CLEAN, CLEAN

Behold on yonder bed: clean freakin' sheets! I finally got to do laundry! Huzzah!

I know, I know. WHAT A DORK! But I seriously needed to do laundry. And now I can with our new super-speedy-space-age-rocket-ship washer and dryer.

No, really. I think it could actually launch something into space. When it goes into the final spin it makes this cool "Whooob, whoob, whoob, whoob" noise like when you're on Space Mountain and you're about to leave the blue tunnel. Instead of launching you on a 90 sec. adrhenline rush and dropping you off into a crappy gift shop, all you get at the end of this ride is about 3 hours of ironing to be done. It's a good show while it lasts, though. Or, maybe I'm just a bigger dork than was previously thought.

We put down the benjamins for a front-loader. If we have to buy a washer and dryer, we're gonna buy a washer and dryer. They were finally delievered yesterday.

Lowe's also deserves one of my thank yous:

Dear Lowes: Thank You for writing down the work order incorrectly, and sending an installer who didn't actually know how to install a washer and dryer, much less stack them as I requested when I bought the damn things. Since this happens to be the first time in like 15 years of patronage that I've ever had a problem, your forgiven. This time.

The guy had to call someone else out to show him (and help him) do it. Except that they didn't do it, because they were out of the 6' cords that you need to stack the dryer. Which I didn't find out about until about half-way (1hr.) into the installation process. They have to come back when they get more cords in stock to stack the beauties. Who knows when that will be?

So now the machines are just sitting inside the closet (barely) with one door off of the closet because he couldn't push the dryer back all the way. He also kinked the cold water line, so when I ran the first load it took like an hour and a half to rinse. I'm crafty and shit and figured out that he pushed it back too far so now we're down to a slim, trim 35 min cycle. The only bad thing is that the end of cycle buzzer sounds like a dog whistle, but I can deal.

It works like a dream and I may actually be able to wear clean clothes tomorrow. Wonder of wonders!