Laundry Laundry Laundry

One of the many joys of the lifestyle involved with being an officer's wife is the laundry.  Now anyone will tell you laundry is a simple process, right.  You wash, you dry, you iron if need be, hang on a hanger and put away, right?  Well in my house, not so much.  There is the special detergent to keep darks from fading, and the of course the 9,202 pockets on a pair of pants to empty, and lets not forget the shirt pockets.  Oh wait I did forget the shirt pockets.  Hubs because of being a Sgt no long has to wear the basic uniform THANK HEAVENS.  He is now in slacks and a pull over shirt.  This in theory is a good thing.  However his wonderful shirts have these two handy little pen holding pockets in the sleeves.  Yes as you can imagine these two little nifty pens resting happily in the sleeve pocket while the shirt hangs on the bedpost just waiting for Laundry day.  Laundry day rolls around and as you can imagine, the 9,202 pants pockets get emptied, shirt gets picked up off the bed post and put with rest of the work clothes, never thinking about the two little nifty pen pockets on the sleeve.

I get a phone call about 4 hours later, because said shirt was placed in to dry before leaving for work that morning.  Phone call goes something similar to this:
Me:  Hey Honey
Hubs:  Do you know what you forgot to do?
Me: Not sure why don't you enlighten me
Hubs: You know that gel pen I liked so good that I said no one else could use...it was in my shirt sleeve pocket
Me: mumbles ugly words
Hubs: its on everything, you know all my work clothes in that load of laundry
Me;mumbles ugly words
Hubs: Guess  my fave shirt is ruined
Me: I'm sorry--mumbles ugly words.

So you get the jist of th giant guilt trip hubs was laying on me.  Little did he realize I have an arsenol, not only of ugly words to mumble but of ways to not have to go shopping.  So after 4 days and one can of hair spray 95% of the stain is gone.  I still have one tricky spot on the back I am working on.

Cross your fingers folks and pray it comes out, and never forget those nifty little pockets on the sleeves.