Monday, June 16, 2008

And Time Goes On


When I bought this box of dryer sheets 5 or 6 so months ago, I assumed to complete 246 batches of laundry, I was a long ways from seeing the end of the box. I imagined what my house would look like with 246 piles of clean folded laundry. I even thought when I finish this box, I will post a blog about it. .
As my fabled readers can tell, the time that I bought this box and the last blog I posted have fallen in the same timeframe. Luckily along with using the dry sheets, I also folded and put away all those batches of laundry so I am not buried in a sea of clothes and can find my computer. And thus I blog.
Are there ordinary things in your life that mark the passage of time? Things that account for something extraordinary? In my simplistic way of thinking, 246 batches of laundry is no small feat. Tell me about you markers of time.

3 comments:

Mac G said...

That is a really interesting idea. I bet there are lots of little everyday things that we do that if we kept track of them the numbers would be staggering.

Last year I went on a reading frenzy and kept track of all of the pages that I read. The pages totaled 11896. That is a lot of trees.

Natalie said...

I can't believe there is an update on your blog.....I had to pick myself up off the floor because I fainted....

MNCarlsson said...

What a pleasant surprise! It's good to hear from you again.
Even if you don't have the time, I'd love to see more pictures of your family. Crystal for a while did "Wordless Wednesdays" and it was fun to see the pictures she would post.
246 batches of laundry is a lot of loads, wow. Trying to think of what I use as a passage of time, my most obvious is my journal. Today is day 5,959 in my journal. That means over 16 years ago I started writing, and I haven't missed a day since. Sometimes it seems like the number should be higher than that, but other days I'm just in awe of how much time I've actually spent writing.