The Laundress Of Westeros Reviews Another Book

[dr_pretentious]

All week, I wait for the new episode of A Game of Thrones, and celebrate it on Sunday by… folding laundry. The laundry is just so bleeping tedious, apparently I can’t force myself to do it unless somebody on my television is hacking with a sword at somebody else. May is gardening season with my mud-loving sons, so thank goodness for the commentary tracks on the Blu-Ray discs of Season One. There just aren’t enough new episodes to keep my family clothed. Were it not for bonus features, we’d all be naked as Daenerys Targaryen.

If I could read and fold laundry simultaneously, I’d be in fine shape. Lately I’m poking at the pile of reviewers’ copies that writers pressed on me at the Gaithersburg Book Festival, and so far the haul is good. It got me Kelly Ann Jacobson’s YA book, Dreamweaver Road, which I reviewed favorably here.

Comments

[onyxtwilight.livejournal.com]

You could always just stop folding laundry. >:-)

(Seriously, though. Most of the time, do the wrinkles matter? And when it matters, you iron something or steam it. Aggregate time spent doing laundry goes WAY down.)

[Of course, storage becomes less efficient. Always a tradeoff.]

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

I halfway agree. Among the many things that were once standard practice among homemakers, ironing jeans, underwear, and bed linens stands out as mind-blowingly futile. With a lot of things, wrinkles don't matter.

It's all about the storage. Our new place is way smaller than the old one. Actually that's all to the good, because having more space than we needed meant that we were drowning in useless objects we didn't feel an urgent need to cull until we moved.

Ironing and steaming are a lot trickier with two mischievous young children in the house than they were when I was childless. The boys needed to have firsthand experience of the dangers of broken glass and roughhousing on the stairs before they believed me about them. It would be the same with steam and hot irons.

[onyxtwilight.livejournal.com]

Well, there's always "mist it and put it in the dryer for five minutes." >:-)