Berry Banana Gum

Do you ever feel as if no matter how fast you work, or how much you get done there is just so much more to do. As if you are standing on the surface of the glacier and chipping away and as long as you are above water you feel like you’ve done a lot but under the sea is a mountain so large that you don’t know how you’ll ever shrink it. Maybe global warming is the answer. It literally melts glaciers maybe it can metaphorically melt them too. Wishful thinking. In my day I not only care for my beautiful daughter I do a whole list of mundane chores. I keep afloat as they all get done one by one but there are these moments where there some sort of set back that makes you feel as if you are drowning. This morning is was the pack of berry-banana gum that landed itself in the laundry. All I wanted to do was switch the stuff from the washer (which was washed about 18 hrs earlier) to the dryer before funny things started to grow on our clothes and rancid smells took over. As I start to pull the clothes out of the dryer (which were dried about 24 hours ago) out comes a mess of rolled up paper, sticky ewwy geewy conglomerations of gum and strange pieces of something I couldn’t identify (gum wrapper, maybe?) It was everywhere. This wasn’t one piece that fell in but a jumbo size pack that was full (I am assuming with only 1 piece removed). The inside of the dryer was coated in this sticky mess. Have any of you tried to clean the inside of a dryer before? It is not easy. The gum which had been dried onto the inside left scuff marks all around the dryer. A full 360° around. Now, I have a crying baby, clothes that desperately need to be dried and a dryer full of stick goo. I debated weather or not to just leave it and dry my clothes in there anyway but used better judgment and started to clean. I didn’t want to have to do it later when it had been dried on through 2 cycles of heat. I read the other day that used dryer sheets are great on scuff marks, such as crayons on tables or shoe marks on a floor. I used it to clean the dryer, the irony. It worked relatively well. I did however accompany it with some elbow grease and muscle. Its still not perfect but “good enough” for the time being. The scales tipped in Aliya favor at the point when my arms were sore and the marks were more of a light gray than the dark black and red that they once were. To the culprit…check those pockets or you’ll be cleaning the dryer next time!

P.S. this doesnt include what was in the lint trap.