I feel your pain with regards the breaking of the washing machine. My washing machine broken when I moved, and it was full of water. Wet clothes are indeed ridiculously heavy and impossible to dry.
And yay for Sherlock fic! I was thrilled to find inspiration to write from this fandom, as I had been suffering such awful writer's block. I'm nearly done my first really big Sherlock fic, and then I'm contemplating writing a Victorian Holmes/Watson fic.
I'm still trying to read through all the Doyle stories...I think it will probably end up really being a Granada series story, since I adore Jeremy Brett more than is truly normal.
Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke are the most perfect Holmes and Watson ever (and before BBC'ers get on my case - Holmes and Watson, not Sherlock and John!) I had the good fortune to see them live on stage in The Secret of Sherlock Holmes and they were absolutely unbelievable. I saw the show twice, and given that I was a broke grad student trying to come up with train fare plus the price of a ticket twice for the same show, tells you how much I adored them.
Ugh, definitely a not-good weekend, other than all of the Sherlock. Sherlock is good!
Wet clothes are ridiculously heavy- when I was home over break someone apparently overloaded the washer (probably my brother) so the dryer could not spin properly without rocking like it was going to start walking across the basement. So I pulled out the VERY HEAVY wet clothes, and only left about 1/3 of the clothes in to spin- it took FOREVER to get all of those clothes dryer-ready. EW.
I am loving all of the Sherlock fic, and can't wait to read more!!
Do you have a laundromat in the close proximity? That might be a quick-repair job; plus, you can dye or bleach your white-blues back in someone else's sinks.
Second this. The last time we lived in an apartment, I ended up doing all the laundry at the laundromat anyway, because I could be done in 90 minutes, instead of having to spend all day running up and down stairs and trying to defend my clean clothes from being dumped on the dirty floor by someone else when there was ONE MINUTE left on the dryer and they were impatient.
Some of them are really nice, with wifi and television and comfy places to sit and everything. A lot of them have services where you just drop off your clothes and they launder and fold them, too, but mostly it's do-it-yourself. The part I always appreciated was the tables where you could FOLD your clothes without breaking your back! I loved my laundromat - it was just a tiny hole-in-the-wall, but the guy who ran it was wonderful and sweet and would help carry my mountains of laundry to and from my car, and the day I accidentally dropped my liquid soap and it splashed into my face, he was right there to lead me straight to the sink to wash it out.
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And yay for Sherlock fic! I was thrilled to find inspiration to write from this fandom, as I had been suffering such awful writer's block. I'm nearly done my first really big Sherlock fic, and then I'm contemplating writing a Victorian Holmes/Watson fic.
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I admit I'd slowed down on writing, really didn't have any ideas I was passionate about, and then suddenly I had a zillion ideas for this show.
A Victorian Holmes/Watson! That is an awesome idea!
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Wet clothes are ridiculously heavy- when I was home over break someone apparently overloaded the washer (probably my brother) so the dryer could not spin properly without rocking like it was going to start walking across the basement. So I pulled out the VERY HEAVY wet clothes, and only left about 1/3 of the clothes in to spin- it took FOREVER to get all of those clothes dryer-ready. EW.
I am loving all of the Sherlock fic, and can't wait to read more!!
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Ugh, I can imagine how much worse it was with it being overloaded! Blargh!
Glad you're enjoying the Sherlock fic!
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I need to know Mycroft Holmes. He would fix this problem for me POSTHASTE.
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