Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion Off Topic Friday's chat 11/3/06

I have been without an iron for about 4 years now.

If something really needs to be pressed, that's what the dry cleaner is for.

Fortunately, except for the few things I have that are dry-clean-only anyway, very few things need to be pressed.

*gets shifty-eyed look* Dry cleaners? What dry cleaners?

I usually just shove it into the cold water wash with the rest of my clothes. (which is the only wash I do, and I shove EVERYTHING into one load per week)

Excellent way of doing laundry. And at 2 dollars a load, it's for sure the only way I do it!

On the topic of ironing, since everyone's hit it...I specifically shop for clothes that don't need to be ironed. I ironed once last year for a job interview. And the darn shirt wrinkled the minute I put it on anyway. That shirt no longer gets ironed.

Jen

Nowadays they make shirts that don\'t wrinkle . Sign me up, because I really have no plans to pick up an iron ever again, sacraments notwithstanding.

I didn't say that I dry-cleaned everything with a label that requested it.

I said those few items that actually REQUIRED dry cleaning. I have a few. All very dressy, and not worn very often.

Which is good, because they tend to hang out at the cleaners for weeks, until I get around to picking 'em up.

Hmmmm. I iron every week. The apartment house where I live has laundry facilities for everyone who lives there, and we own our apartments, by the way, we are not tenants. We don't pay extra for using the washing machines, dryers and other things. There are also two irons there which everyone can use, and I make use of one of them every week, as I said. I iron my pants and shirts and I mangle my sheets. However, dry cleaning is moderately expensive (or so I think anyway) so the only things I tend to have dry cleaned are my coats.

To return to the teeth and dentist business, I'm rather scared of going to the dentist myself. Fortunately my teeth are pretty good, though I have a lot of "shallow fillings" that were put there in the sixties - that's when the dentists here in Sweden put their dentist drills to any tooth which had the smallest imperfection. Anyway, I was scared of having an anaesthtic - I hate how my mouth becomes all paralysed somehow when I've had one! - so I had all those fillings from the sixties without an anaesthtic. That hurt.

Anyway, I hadn't seen a dentist for about ten years, when I started feeling twinges in my lower left jaw about a year ago. Those twinges came rarely and disappeared quickly, but they started getting more frequent, so last summer, during my long summer vacation, I decided it was finally time for me to go the dentist again. Well, I had one cavity, nothing major, and I had an anaesthetic and left the dentist's with my mouth feeling all dead and definitely looking oblique. Good thing I didn't have to go to work looking like that!

Ann

I did love the Smiley Xtra 4 extension! You could say for my posts that I love smileys and this extension turned it so easier!

Thank you rivka and Lara for the tips!

It has even a Superman smiley!!

Andreia

Ha ha ha! Glad to know I'm not the only person who shakes her clothes before wearing them... if I take it out of a drawer or a closet shelf, I always shake first.

Hee hee.

This thread has been hilarious fun to read. Wish I had been around this weekend to participate - I was out of town.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

-- MR

Yvonne, did you survive the weekend?

Hey Rivka! Yes, I did, and thank you for asking.

As the antibiotics have started to work, I've been able to cut down on the painkillers. Saturday, I woke up pain-free but started to get serious twinges by around 11am, then on Sunday I was able to go without painkillers until around 6pm, and today, it's 10pm and I've yet to take my first painkiller.

That said, weird things seem to be happening around my face. I can only imagine that the infection is sort of seeping around my face as it dies away - my eye sockets were tingling earlier, then my tongue, then the right-hand side of my face, and just a second ago, the side of my nose. It's *very* peculiar. Referred pain, perhaps? Except it's not painful - just tingly, like you might feel as an injection from the dentist begins to wear off.

Anyway, the main thing is that I'm not climbing the walls any longer and I may even dare to go to bed without taking any pills whatsoever.

Yvonne

I think that's actually a side-effect of the codeine.

It has a name, and if I remembered what it was, I could Google it.

Glad to hear you're steadily improving!

Fun reference to Superman on Gilmore Girls this evening!