The Laundry Basket

Our laundry basket is full. Partly because we didn't do laundry all week, partly because we have bedsheets to wash. Lots and lots of bedsheets. And we don't wanna.

First, there's winter bedsheets which have been lying around the apartment for a month and a half. They're new and colorful and promise to ruin anything old we dare wash with it. Also, they're huge and are tricky to dry with one drying rack.

Then there's the winter bottom sheet we just removed. It's new and a contrasting color to the aforementioned bedsheets, and even bigger. Groan.

There's the second half of bedsheets Boyfriend loved, which are stinking up our bedroom. I want to wash them, but we're not really getting around to it, though Boyfriend might be changing sheets as we speak. We could wash those, if we ever get around to it, but they're still pretty big and make our drying rack look like we have a tent in the living room. Not a fun tent, either, because it's too small for anyone over five to have adventures in.

And then there's my pillow covers. I'm a pillow whore of the highest category. If I have less than four pillows in a bed, I get this feeling of emptiness in my chest. I can only use two, three at the most at a time, but Boyfriend needs to sleep on some if we're in a big bed and I need a buffer from the wall if I'm alone in a small one. The problem is that bedsheet manufacturers rarely cater to my whims, and so I bought pillow covers at IKEA. These now have a month's worth of drool stains on them and really need washing. They're small and can be dried easily, but they're also new and bright green and don't fit any of the other new stuff.

Oh, and I think we need to wash the new, pale summer sheets we got to 'tide us over with', too. On half of it spent three weeks on our bedroom floor and I slept in the other. It's polyester microfibre. It's smooth and has an interesting texture, but in high summer, nothing beats good old-fashioned cotton for sweat absorption and coolness. We now have some cotton, but, yeah, washing.

And on top of all that bedwear, we still have a load of pales, coloreds and half a load of darks that need cleaning too.

We're leaving on holiday on the 5th. Something tells me we're going to spend a lot of time laundering before we leave.