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Lucretia
{Lucretia2000} {at} {hotmail.com}
Likes puddy tats, the smell of fresh rain showers and reading true crime.
Hates liars and phoney people who put on airs!
Character most like-Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.
Collects small ornate boxes and puddy tats made from a variety of materials.
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Saturday January 17, 04
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05:47 PM - each household appliance
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is like a new science in my town
My therapy homework this week was to write about a time I remember being innocent.
I'd never encountered a dishwasher until I was 14. Growing up in NS I nor none of my friend's families had one. Mother and I had moved in with a couple in a 3 bedroom condo. Mother had me doing all the chores so our rent would be lower. So of course the first time I used the dishwasher I used liquid detergent. I remember being happy I had finished all my chores and went up to my bedroom to watch tv. Not too soon after my mother was bellowing from downstairs. I came running down and so did Katy to see what was the problem. Katy was a nurse so she thought my mother hurt herself. The kitchen was full of bubbles streaming from the dishwasher. The kitchen was small and they were halfway up the bottom cupboards and streamed into the hallway on the carpet and into the diningroom on the carpet. Katy was laughing but mother was steaming. It took forever to clean up the mess. Mother didn't help nor would she let Katy as it was my mess and I needed to learn my lesson. I ended up staying up till about 2am while the dishwasher went through about 3 cycles to get rid of all the soap. I never touched that damn dishwasher again, I did everything by hand.
Katy had 2 siamese cats and at one point of cleaning up the mess I noticed they were both on top of the top cupboards watching me. I've always loved cats but those cats freaked me out!
When we moved into this house it came with a dishwasher, I have yet to use it.
Sidenote: managed to meet the deadline for my application for The Works. Even if it's not accepted as an installation I have the feeling of accomplishment. It's something I've always wanted to do and I've had this idea since 1988.
On "It's All Relative" this week the story was about an Art Installation which was such a simple idea gone too far. I know I'm nuts but it was like a sign to finish what I started. Thurs. and Fri. were frantic trying to get all the pieces together. I even took yesterday off as I still had to get slides done for the application. $30.00 to apply isn't a waste of money as I've spent much more on other things that didn't give me half the satisfaction as completing this did for me.
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