Day 21: Sunny & Warm

It was at least 60 degrees today, which called for short sleeves and bare feet. It also was a good day to clean the bathroom and enjoy a standing shower, then let the sun dry my hair. (I went a little nuts. LoL)

Clean has taken on on a whole new meaning on the road. Before I left, it was not unheard of for me to shower twice in one day. Today’s was my fourth shower since I left (counting the one at the camp). It’s much less of a production to stand on the bath mat and take a sponge bath and wash my hair in the skoolie’s big sink. There were also days all I felt the need to use were body wipes. Let’s talk about clean clothes, too. I am no longer a single-wear-and-wash woman. No longer do I launder the comforter when there is one spot of cleaned-up-but-still-stained cat yuck no where near my upper body. I think my record so far was wearing one outfit two days in a row, and both nights, too. I also got a lot of wear out of one particular black top during a four or five day period. It just seemed to go with everything. I would hang it outside the closet to let it air out overnight and would layer my light fleece jacket over it – the jacket where, when the cuffs got dirty, I rolled them up a bit. I struggle with sheets. Literally. Getting them off and on the mattress is a struggle. I would like to wash them more, but I found I could extend their life by using another sheet folded in half on top of the made bed and under the blankets. I can’t bring myself to pull on dirty socks, even if it to just walk back over the same floors. I used to put dishtowels and cloth napkins in the laundry after two days, but now I’ll go longer, and use (Mother Earth, forgive me) a paper towel to wipe up some things. My one pot and one pan are probably not as clean as they were at the condo, but by the glow of blue fairy lights, I don’t much notice. The floor does get dust mopped often, sometimes more than once a day, and because it really is a small space, no matter how cluttered it looks, I can have it all straightened out in 10 minutes, maybe less.