Household Hints & Help

Besides the fact that I'm so twisted in knots over this that my nerves are shot to hell, and I need to walk away from it a few days to avoid premature, over reaction. It's not like there are kids to worry about. After my first visit to the neighbor friend's house, I have enough clean laundry for a week, and she insists that I do at least one more load there. Poor lady is getting housebound because she's in no shape to drive anymore; I don't have a car and love to drive. So one hand washes the other. I do appreciate that she's not the type who thinks favors should only flow in one direction.

Then if worse comes to worse, I bought a tall narrow Christmas wrapping paper container to fit between the washer and dryer; I can reroute the washer hose to that, then carry buckets to the bathroom to dump if necessary - although I hate doing that. Knowing how much worse things could be makes me really embarrassed about my level of distress. I'm so tied up in knots that there are times I just sit down and bawl. Which might have as much to do with cabin fever as anything else.

But you're right in that impatience got me into this but it won't extricate me. I need to pull back a bit.