January 7, 2009
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A Quick PSA... and a photo challenge... (on a non-protected post... oh my!)
First, the PSA (Public Service Announcement): For those of you who are home owners (well, renters too if you have a washer and dryer)... did you know that you need to have the vent to your dryer cleaned at least every other year? We didn't. We have lived in our condo for almost 8 years, and we never had it cleaned out. Our dryer was needing more and more time, almost 5 hours, to dry a single load. And the dryer is only 4 years old! I figured out that the vent must be blocked when the vent hose was disconnected. My dryer suddenly worked, but I had lint flying everywhere.
Sears cleaned it out for $126. My dryer has never worked so good! It takes just one cycle to dry my clothes. I have done 2 loads since I got home from work! Yeah!
Ok... on to the photo challenge. I thought this would be fun.
I mentioned in my last blog that the last movie I had seen in the movie theater was "27 Dresses." When I saw the movie, I just about fell out of my chair laughing so hard. I had a bridesmaid dress that was shown in the movie! In my adult life, I have been in 4 weddings. 2 of those wedding dresses were rather awful! One I did wear again... FOR HALLOWEEN!!!! The other two bridesmaid dresses are in my closet still... if I ever go to a formal Christmas party I may wear one of them again (depending on my weight).
So... Show me your hideous bridesmaid dresses! I am sure that between us all, we will have more than 27 dresses.
Myself, my dad, and my poor friend. We had all threatened to get big red dots, as we called this 7-Up can green.
In her defense, this was 1991. But still... we all HATED our dresses (sorry J).
So... this became my halloween dress. This was as redneck of a wedding as you could get. Only thing missing was a horse and guns. They did try to have a horse... but couldn't get permits for the park.
Gotta love themed weddings! This was around 1998.
Comments (8)
hmm about the dyer...
I'll go looking for a picture with my dress...I was Nicole's bridesmaid...
Laters
K
*dies laughing*
OH MY GOD!!! I think I might love Nicole now...she never made me look that um...interesting! LOL
*shuts up before she puts her foot in her mouth...*
Laters
K
Great post - and you're welcome!!! (Can't wait to see more photos from your buddies!)
Too funny! I am too old to still have pictures of those dresses, altho I remember most of them as being attractive. I think I was only in 2 weddings - your mom & dad's and my oldest friend, Nikki's. Can't wait to see pics of your friends' - so far, the Annie Oakley theme is the best I've ever seen - what did the MOB wear?
BTW, in the picture of you taken sitting down, you look a lot like your Aunt Leslie (helps if you close one eye and squint!)
OH MY GOD ! I 'm sorry , but you got me on the redneck theme. What made me laugh more was that I actually have a cousin who did one up on that . Her wedding dress was an indian bridal dress made of dowskin by my guy cousin. It was very beautiful and her groom was dressed as a cowboy. So therefore cowboys and indian theme. ( she doesn't have an ounce of native american in her) oh and she did have the horse.. I bat .500 on the bridesmaid's dress issue. 2 I kept as well , the other 2 well.. ;ets just say someone at Goodwill got a good laugh
Yup. Clean the lint trap yearly - tis a fire hazard. Especially if you don't have a flexible metal thingie. I want to say hose, but that doesn't sound right. We use our lint for firestarters for the wood stove.
Sorry, no bridesmaid dresses here - never been a bridesmaid. Ever.
@LannaM - It wasn't the lint trap... I clean that after each load. It is the area that is connected to the tube... the vent that is inside the wall. We were told to have it cleaned every two years.
@BlueRoseMom - LOL! I did mean the pipe/vent thing - my brain's just not fully functioning from only 6 hours of interrupted sleep. Hubby had to reconfigure ours when we moved into the house - they had a fixed and not flexible pipe thing going to the vent outside that was stuffed to the gills because they didn't have a clue (they rigged kitchen sink plumbing with a wire hanger if that gives you an idea). Ah, the joys of marrying a handyman...
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