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Oct. 13th, 2007 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urocyonI just had a demonstration of why trouser clips (or tucking cuffs into socks) are a good idea. The big front sprocket managed to snag the inside seam of my jeans leg on my way home from Sainsbury's--good thing it happened on a quiet residential street. It ripped along the seam for seven or eight inches before I could shake it loose and get stopped safely. That's a pair of jeans I wear fairly frequently, without problem up to now. Obviously the snagging potential is always there.
Today I've mostly been messing with the fish tanks and the pond. Linkage to a page with pics so far is on the way. I'm messing with that while my supper heats. Ingvar is off gaming today, so I grabbed a package of gluten free frozen lasagne while I was out, with a GF frozen pizza to fill it out because the lasagne isn't very big and both appealed to me. I was shopping hungry, dangerous as that frequently is. Hardly fine dining, but it sounded fairly good for a chilly evening.
I was glad it turned out to be a decent drying day outside. Yesterday I bought a bunch of clothes--I despise shopping for them, but we were running low on things like socks and trousers without holes in them. (Even lower after the sprocket incident, so buying more jeans turned out to be an unexpectedly good plan.) I know I've become more sensitive to the sizing and surplus dye, and the other lovely chemicals in new clothes, but this was still the stinkiest bunch of clothes I've ever brought into the house. The hall still smells funky where the bags were sitting. The dark load I washed last night contained three pairs of new jeans, some new knit boxers, a couple of new shirts, and a bunch of new socks. I used extra detergent and a third rinse (I usually rinse twice), and still had to bung them back into the washing machine as soon as I got a whiff trying to hang them up. I let the load soak overnight with about a cup of baking soda in the water--before a second washing and set of rinses--and the things still reek. It's not nearly as bad as before the second wash, but I was still very glad to get them hung up in the fresh air rather than on the radiators in here! If the toxic waste smell doesn't dissipate from one pair of jeans in particular, at least some of it is going to need yet another wash.
Today I've mostly been messing with the fish tanks and the pond. Linkage to a page with pics so far is on the way. I'm messing with that while my supper heats. Ingvar is off gaming today, so I grabbed a package of gluten free frozen lasagne while I was out, with a GF frozen pizza to fill it out because the lasagne isn't very big and both appealed to me. I was shopping hungry, dangerous as that frequently is. Hardly fine dining, but it sounded fairly good for a chilly evening.
I was glad it turned out to be a decent drying day outside. Yesterday I bought a bunch of clothes--I despise shopping for them, but we were running low on things like socks and trousers without holes in them. (Even lower after the sprocket incident, so buying more jeans turned out to be an unexpectedly good plan.) I know I've become more sensitive to the sizing and surplus dye, and the other lovely chemicals in new clothes, but this was still the stinkiest bunch of clothes I've ever brought into the house. The hall still smells funky where the bags were sitting. The dark load I washed last night contained three pairs of new jeans, some new knit boxers, a couple of new shirts, and a bunch of new socks. I used extra detergent and a third rinse (I usually rinse twice), and still had to bung them back into the washing machine as soon as I got a whiff trying to hang them up. I let the load soak overnight with about a cup of baking soda in the water--before a second washing and set of rinses--and the things still reek. It's not nearly as bad as before the second wash, but I was still very glad to get them hung up in the fresh air rather than on the radiators in here! If the toxic waste smell doesn't dissipate from one pair of jeans in particular, at least some of it is going to need yet another wash.
