Captain’s Log, Stardate: [-28] 02645.00 – In a disconcerting turn of events, all access to the laundry room in my apartment building has been cut off.

It all started with the Laundry Thief.  I’ve had a run-in with this character once, last fall when approximately 2 outfits disappeared completely from my laundry one afternoon.  I’m not sure who she is, but apparently someone else in our building does.  Last week, someone in the building posted a note on the wall that read something like this:

“To the chick who stole my Victoria’s Secret PINK sweatpants – the joke’s on you.  They’re fake.  I bet you thought they were REALLY from Victoria’s Secret, didn’t you.  Also, I have news for you.  I caught  scabies on the bus somehow, and now so have you.  Please return my sweatpants to the laundry room, no questions asked.”

I laughed, because it seemed like funny note-rage, and thought to myself, “Tell her to give back that pair of skinnies she stole, and my 2 beater tanks – especially the blue tank from SPUN.”

A couple days later I went in to do a load of laundry – noting the angry signs had been taken down.  Much to my dismay, all the laundry machines had been unplugged and a note was taped onto them saying,

“Laundry services will be closed until the person who wrote the threatening notes calls the management office.  Tenants are not to post notices in the building without the management’s express permission.”

It seems to me like punishing the entire building for someone’s outrage over having their things stolen is pretty petty, but it’s not my management company (and we do live in a building with a bunch of younger – often college-age – kids).

Someone must have gone into the laundry room and plugged the machines back in, because a day after the management’s note was posted, they locked the laundry room door.

So, for almost a week now, we’ve had zero laundry facility-ability in our apartment building.  EEK! I’m lucky I have a healthy supply of underthings, but my daily wardrobe stock is starting to wane.  I’m obstinate – I don’t want to go sit in a laundromat when there’s a perfectly good laundry facility only three doors away from my apartment.  The laundromat is loud and a little on the dingy side … the laundromat has flourescent lighting!  How can a girl get anything done?  Unfortunately, it’s been a little over 2 weeks since I’ve been able to wash anything, so I’m looking at this as a forced “Wardrobe Challenge”…

the "No Black: Wardrobe Challenge" set, made by Michelle at Wicked Whimsy

I’m looking for creative solutions in my own closet – new pairings, creative dressing.  It’ll be interesting, to say the least.  Adapting this mindset has been why there really haven’t been new outfit photos on the site for the last week or so… but never fear!  My creative brain is working hard at dreaming up some good ones.

(PS – Hahahahahahaha!  I found the Stardate on Google Calendar and it’s probably the best discovery I’ve had all day.)

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