Ironing Day

Yesterday Doug was gone all day at Scout Training.  I decided it would be an Ironing Day for me.  Yippee!  A day of ironing!  So to make my day more bearable I also delared it to be a Movie Day.  Doug and I went to Blockbuster and rented 8 movies.  I planned on watching movies all day long while also ironing. 

We watched Transporter 3 together Friday night - that was Doug's choice.  It was OK.  But the real fun started Saturday morning.  I ate breakfast and brought the iron and ironing board and all the ironing out to the family room.  Then I carefully selected the order I was going to watch the movies.  As soon as that was done - I turned on the iron and hit the play button.  I will outline how my Ironing Day proceeded.

My ironing - several piles of it.  HERE WE GO!

 

 

First movie - 7:00 am: Dolphin Tale - as you can see it was a 3 kleenex movie.  I liked it.  And I got some laundry folded and 5 1/2 long-sleeved shirts ironed.

 

Second movie - 9:00 am:  Taken.  Enjoyed that one. I kept ironing and got  7 1/2 long-sleeved shirts done.  I also loaded the folded laundry into the basket and collected one more pile of laundry to fold.  This movie took a lot more of my attention so I could follow the story line and details.  For that reason my output was definitely lower than expected. While putting some ironing away I discovered more shirts to iron.  AARRGGHH!!

newly discovered shirts to be ironed

 

Third movie - 11:00 am:  Mirror Mirror.  Cute movie - I liked it.  I folded the next pile of laundry and while ironing I finished 7 long-sleeved shirts.  Only 1 more long-sleeved shirt is left to iron. Yay!   I also ate lunch.  This movie totally glitched on me several times.  So it took longer to watch it than a straight showing. 

 

Fourth movie - 1:00 pm:  Disturbia.  Another action flick that needed some concentration.  However, I was able to iron 1 long-sleeved shirt  and 13 short-sleeved shirts.  I may also have given my legs a rest during part of the movie. 

 

Fifth movie - 3:00 pm:  People Like Us.  I liked this movie too.  I finished my ironing - Doug's last 4 short-sleeved shirts and my 3 shirts and 2 pairs of my pants.  Then I turned off the iron and sat down for the rest of my movie fest. 

In the meantime - Isaac got home from work early.  He sort of lost interest and headed to his room to sleep.  Doug also got home from his Scout Training and he quickly got ready for his 4pm Stake Conference Priesthood Leadership Meeting.  I was under pressure to finish the movies by 6:30 or so in order to attend the 7 pm Adult Session of Stake Conference. 

Sixth movie - 5:30 - The Hunger Games.  I called Isaac out because he wanted to see this movie.  I started the movie.  No ironing left!  At a few points during the movie I paused it so I could get ready to go to my meeting.  But at 1:28:29 in the movie I had to leave.  Bummer.  But as soon as we got home from the meeting I started it up right at that part and finished watching the movie.  Doug stayed busy at this computer because he didn't want to spoil the movie.  He will have to watch it another time.  I liked the movie. 

By 10:15 Doug was off to return the movies to the store with only one movie unwatched - 2001.  We had all seen that one before but for whatever reason Doug also rented that with our other 7 movies. 

I'll have to say watching all those movies made my work much more enjoyable.  But now I am worried - with good cause, I mean a total of 41 shirts and 2 pants AND nearly 10 hours of ironing  gives me good reason, that I am probably developing a massive "ironing arm" like Grandma Russell used to tell us about and demonstrate to us.  And that doesn't mean strong and lean.  It meant hanging and swinging.  You get the picture. 

The End