#doing the dishes

[labelleizzy]

Today I had an empty dishwasher 🍴🍽️🔪!

Today is the day of Empty Laundry Hampers!

Today, I have joy in the completion of

Endless Tasks

Satisfaction in a job well done (even as the tasks pile up again already.)

Rebloggen if you deserve a moment of satisfaction in the endless grind. Rebloggen for empty sinks, clean kitchen, folded laundry, and the executive function to do All The Things when you must.

Inhale, exhale, repeat. Take the satisfaction where you can get it.

[atlxolotl]

If you can, HOW?

[netscapenavigator-official]

Wait I have a question.

[stone-cold-groove]

My steaks don’t taste of last night’s fish...

[oediex]

For fifteen years I've been cutting my garlic traditionally. Just my hands, a cutting board, and a knife that is appropriately blunt so I don't raze the skin of my fingers. I have a habit of self-inflicted and avoidable but totally unintentional cooking wounds.

About a month ago I finally gave in and bought a garlic press. Quite an impressive name for such a small device. My friend persuaded me that my worst fear about them was unjustified: it's pretty easy to clean out if you just do it immediately.

This didn't account for my failure to do the dishes recently and the garlic press was one of its victims. And all my nightmares came true.

Not only was garlic vehemently stuck in all the little holes. The small bucket-shaped part that can be separated for easy cleaning was glued mercilessly to the rest of the device. I pulled and pulled. Then I tried my nails. Eventually I pulled out some small scissors that I like to use in the kitchen.

I knew the danger that was involved. Like my knives, these scissors were not very sharp, but there is no accounting for my clumsiness.

I tried to squeeze one of the blades between the little bucket and the garlic press. Hoping to prise them apart. Instead, the scissor blade came loose and I jabbed its tip into my thumb. I succeeded on the second try.

Yet another self-inflicted and avoidable but totally unintentional cooking wound to be added to the list.

[retropopcult]

1959

[hana-loves-bumblebees]

Just to clarify, I don’t mean when you’re rushing to get somewhere and don’t clean up because of that, just in general.

[fatmagic]

[itsdoingthedishes]

a submission

[cosmiado]

every time i finish doing tje dishes i want confetti to come downf rom the ceilign i deserve to be celebrated

[snorkmi]

me while my roommates cooked dinner today

[0dotexe]

I'm all for associating "doing the dishes" with "the horrors" because who knows what has grown on their surfaces? What mysteries does the food that has snuck down the drain hold? Could there be any worse feeling than a punctured glove while in the middle of cleaning up dishes that have piled upon your kitchen sink? A wet floor in which your socks unfortunately touch? Truly it is a mortifying experience.

[ebenelephant]

bad news about the boulder everyone

good morning kings let’s push this boulder

[stone-cold-groove]

I hereby give and convey to you all privileges of the Order of Crossed Cutlery.

[oediex]

I'm waiting for the rice to finish. There is just a little bit of water left in the pan that needs to evaporate. Mere minutes until I can satiate my appetite. I check the internet, just for a moment, I swear! But distraction takes me and before I know it, I hear noises that sound suspiciously like something is frying. Shit! The rice! It burned. Most of it is fine, but the bottom layer is stuck to the pan.

I should have known. It is a pan susceptible to burning that I had been keeping a close eye on while cooking everything else. One moment of averting my attention - of reading important messages on Tumblr and laughing at memes on discord - and all that care was for naught.

I've got some scrubbing to do.