Sentences with phrase «pile of laundry for»

But, between piles of laundry for 4 people, recovering from not the greatest -LSB-...]

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She knows only that a company is conducting market research, and she has taken a day off to let a team of nosy notetakers pile into her flat to look at her laundry detergent (a local Chinese brand), her shampoo (Pantene, owned by P&G) and her husband's razor (electric, disappointingly for the owners of Gillette).

When I'm picking up for the eleventy - billionth time, when every one needs to eat and it seems like we just ate, when we are wondering what to do with our one wild and precious life that sure isn't feeling very wild or precious right about now, when the laundry is piled unfolded and someone spills their full glass of milk on the floor I just washed and the bickering and noise enters its second hour and the house is too hot and there isn't much time for the things that I want to do on the day off, I feel like Sisyphus, futile, pushing a rock up a hill that will never summit.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

Most Relatable: Emerging Mummy with «In Which I Can Feel Like Sisyphus» «When I'm picking up for the eleventy - billionth time, when every one needs to eat and it seems like wejust ate, when we are wondering what to do with our one wild and precious life that sure isn't feeling very wild or precious right about now, when the laundry is piled unfolded and someone spills their full glass of milk on the floor I just washed and the bickering and noise enters its second hour and the house is too hot and there isn't much time for the things that I want to do on the day off, I feel like Sisyphus, futile, pushing a rock up a hill that will never summit.»

This has nothing whatsoever to do with this particular post, but I have to say this (long - winded though it is)... I currently have about 16 hours of documentaries recorded and waiting for me, 2 - 3 loads of laundry to wash, a pile of un-read books, baking of my own to do AND a beef & Guinness stew that needs making for my boyfriend's birthday dinner, and I just spent 3 hours straight reading your blog.

Do you know those moments: Stress at work, at home a huge pile of laundry is waiting for you, the kids have their «I make your life as hard as possible» phase and on top of all that you are supposed to cook, clean and smile?!

My current method is to throw all the clean, wrinkled clothes on top of our cabinets in our laundry room and to just watch the pile grow while I fish out an outfit for me and for the kids each day.

I think I managed to get things tidied up in time for my daughters 5th birthday, but usually, theres piles of laundry here and there, and unwashed tupperware containers from yesterdays lunches.

Feedings, diaper changes, the pile of dishes that are waiting for you in the sink, the never - ending pile of laundry and all of the other things that will fill up your plate after having a baby, it might be difficult to find the time to fit in a romp session.

In my attempt to streamline life, I began to leave piles of full zippered wet bags downstairs in the laundry room (why bring up dirty diaper laundry for the bathroom wet bag, when laundry is downstairs?).

My twins have only been EC'd for the last two months and 2 weeks ago, I started using disposables because I had 5 out of 8 family members sick and the laundry pile was winning!

It's quite eye opening for new parents who used to have quite the efficient household to accept that the day is over and you still have piles of dishes, laundry, other cleaning and work to do!

He acknowledged that my bras smelled rancid after sitting in the bottom of the pile for a week — but he did the laundry anyway.

The time and energy needed to turn a heap of dirty laundry into a pile of clean clothes might make people wish for clothes that just clean themselves.

Whether it's something at work you've been avoiding or that horrendous pile of dirty laundry, when it's finally done you'll feel a huge surge of energy that will pick you up for the rest of the day.

As you're reading this, you probably have a laundry list of things to do (perhaps including actual laundry) that keep piling up for a time when you're...

As you're reading this, you probably have a laundry list of things to do (perhaps including actual laundry) that keep piling up for a time when you're «less busy.»

I did a lot of sleeping, talking the laundry pile (which I have been putting off for weeks), running errands and attending a Soul Cycle and Bar Method class.

I thought I'd show you a picture of the fruit salad I made for dinner with friends rather than the piles of laundry.

What North Country does instead is pile on the piety with giant brick - laying slops, even pausing for a moment for the mother figure played by Spacek — perhaps the most decent - seeming actress of the last forty years — to make an antiquated stand for the plight of the housewife: «Maybe I should charge you for all the loads of laundry I do!»

We need volunteers to help care for the kittens, walk the dogs, do loads of laundry, pile wood, mow the lawn, help with adoption events, and more.

To the left, the second altar bears scattered hijabs commemorating the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria, and the third altar displays a pile of aprons & uniforms worn by girls at Europe and America's infamous labour institutions for «disturbed» and «sinful» young women, the Magdalene Laundries.

If you're Mass MoCA, you shroud Christoph Büchel's incomplete 2007 «Training Ground for Democracy» in yellow tarps and air your dirty laundry by displaying his list of requested materials for the piece, which included 8 voting booths, piles of old computers, 1,000 feet of barbed wire, 12 grenades, 8 body bags, 4 prosthetic legs, and the fuselage of a 737 airliner.

«The democratic model of upward mobility saturated his fantasies of the good life, where Hal could languish in bed for years at the Holiday Inn watching National Geographic on piles of damp laundry and money»..

In the Nudes in the Landscape show, as in Women at Work, all of the female figures are in fact based on drawings from a single nude model who posed for Ms. Dodd in the model's Maine garden, where all the props to be seen in the figure compositions - the clothesline with laundry, the wood pile, the house and garden - were already in place.

The last thing you want during your interview is for the interviewer to be distracted by a pile of dirty laundry, glamour portrait of you or your spouse on the wall (as lovely as it probably is) or anything else blatantly non-professional.

Instead, they're inundated with normal distractions — work stress, piles of laundry, figuring out how to make the car run for one more year, helping the kids with math homework.

For example, when I fold the laundry, I make a pile of wash cloths and Bella likes to deliver them, on her own to a designated basket in the bathroom.

But sadly, mine still looks exactly like it did the day we moved in, except for you can't really see it anymore because of all the laundry piling up.

Today I look around and see the wrapping stuff blocking my basement door, laundry piled on our bed waiting to be folded and put away (yeah right), vacuum in the middle of the living room floor because I hope it just decides to do it on it's own instead of waiting for me, not to mention the Little People explosion all over my house because my 4 year old son is suddenly into creating these elaborate scenes with them.

Bedrooms are made for relaxing — yet often they become a camping ground for clutter, with piles of handbags, shoes, discarded outfits and dirty laundry building up until they've taken over every available surface.

Adding a frosted glass door to a laundry room is always a smart idea; especially for those busy week days where piles of laundry is being done.

Even though I love rearranging furniture, chopping pillows and shopping for new treasures, it's the stuff that I rarely ever show you that makes me the happiest when I stop and really look around — you know, beyond the piles of laundry and toys on the floor.

This has really helped to make laundry more manageable, and piles of clean clothes no longer sit on my couch for a week, waiting to be taken care of.

On another trip searching for materials for the laundry room, we found: salvaged beadboard from farmhouse; a pile of corbels, and the wood plank we used for this shelf.

You wake up and the kids» school uniforms aren't washed, there's no bread to make sandwiches for their lunch, the sheets and towels from the trip have been tossed in the laundry along with an inexplicably enormous bag of dirty underwear, you've run out of toilet paper and are reduced to scrounging for Kleenex, the front hall is piled halfway to the ceiling with suitcases plus six recycling bags filled with detritus from the trip... and you have to walk the Sprogs to school because Husband has dropped the car in for a service.