I am being punished. In a life, either this or past, I did something wrong. Now Karma is after me.
I've just had the cleaning disasters from hell. In fact, my husband had to lovingly tell me to knock off my pity party and just accept things and that he loves me.
So, Husband is going to a training for the Army next month. He said he needed his uniforms washed. I'll come back to that.
I put in the laundry and started getting Ruby for bed. I took off her diaper. Immediately, she pooped. Lovely soft green lumps full of corn kernals. So I freaked and tossed her in the shower.
I have had poop disasters before. Before, I used vinegar and baking soda and it worked beautifully. Now, I usually use the white vinegar. Today I only had apple cider vinegar. I prayed it wouldn't stain.
It did.
Now back to the laundry.
Husband had a pen in his pocket. Then pen exploded. Only a couple of undergarments are what I would call "ruined", but the pen also got all over the dryer drum. And that dryer is my grandmother's.
I'm slowly, slowly working at getting an ink stain out of the ACU top (that wasn't too bad) using warm water, hand sanitizer, and dish soap. Slowly but surely, it's working.
As for the dryer, well...
This is where happiness comes in!
I Googled it. A moderately tough solution is to soak some old white towels in a bleach solution (2 parts bleach to 1 part water) wring them to just dampness, and stick them in the dryer on a normal cycle. It mentioned one may have to repeat this several times, but, by golly, it works incredibly. And that's not even the aggressive approach.
I'm feeling a bit better about the laundry, though I'm still not sure what to do about the apple cider vinegar stain on the carpet.
