Here we have today's mess. In case you can't guess what this is, we'll tell you. This is a damp, quite large cover that goes on the down blanket we have on our bed. Inside the cover is at least one pillowcase. When the dryer buzzer went off, Erin went to take the laundry out only to discover this mess: the cover has engulfed other pieces of laundry and twisted in on itself so that not even 30 minutes of serious attempts will undo the damage. Of course, none of these linens belong to us - they belong to the landlord and out of all our sheet sets this is probably our favorite. We are currently considering putting the whole mess back in the dryer from whence it came hoping that heat will shrink the material, dry it out, and thus undo the tangle. There is no end to the frustrations here!
Erin also decided today that she spends about a quarter of her life looking for misplaced, lost, or simply nonexistent items. Today she spent 45 minutes in several stores looking for cake pans. She spent another 20 minutes in the grocery store trying to find vanilla extract to no avail. She then came home and spent 30 minutes searching for the wallet she carried in the US, which had a debit card in it that she needed to use to pay for airline tickets. After finding the wallet and afore-mentioned debit card she discovered that the airline site would not accept this card as a VISA debit card even though the card clearly states on the front that it is both a "VISA" and a "debit" card. Erin also spent 25 minutes today looking for a letter from the bank that included a 10-digit number that she must have in order to activate her credit card here. The letter is nowhere to be found. Several minutes ago Erin spent 10 minutes emptying the newly stocked spice cabinet (thanks to the arrival of our shipment) in search of ground red pepper, which she could have sworn she bought just a couple months before moving to Amsterdam. She used chili powder instead.
And that's why it is a full-time job for Erin to do everything here (except go to work and do accounting for 9 hours a day).
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