Friday when it rains

What does one do on a Friday when it rains and one is lucky enough to be able to be at home?

Get packing! That's what I needed to do so that i can make my way back to the US Virgin Islands for work next week.

It doesn't take much effort really to do the washing- it's time consuming but at least i don't have to lug the washing down to the rivers edge and bash it with rocks to get it clean- not that that would work on the banks of the Hudson- it'd only serve to make it all that much filthier.  Doing the washing merely involves gathering it together, taking it via the elevator to the laundry, placing it and the washing liquid in the machine and letting the machine do it's thing. Then 38 minutes later taking it out of the machine and placing it in the dryer and forty five minutes later taking it back to the apartment via the elevator. Folding and putting it all away takes about another 20 or so minutes. Not rocket science nor hard rock thumping labour, so why does it seem a chore? Once it is done it's great but there are many stressors along the way...

• carrying the bag of washing can be a bit like weight training
• will there be enough machines free?- during certain times of day it's tricky
• remembering to get back to the laundry before your loads of washing are turfed out of either the machine or the dryer- that's what timers on microwaves are for i have discovered
• hanging around for it all to be done
• finding space to put it all away- how is it that when you take something out of the cupboard the space it occupied has been taken over by something else
• looking for that lost sock in the laundromat of oblivion! one thing seems to go missing or some interesting little thing appears amidst ones washing- I don't think I own little metal clip thingies but two appeared as i took the washing out of the machine?!

But now it is done and the bags are packed to the extent they can be. I now have Saturday free to relax and enjoy before the early journey to St Croix.

And I had time to get some of my scrapbooking homework done!

Symmetrical- and from the African Safari trip

Sublime to the ridiculous....

asymmetrical- I hope- from last week's walk through High Bridge Park