All These Things That I've Done

...I've got soul but I'm not a soldier...sorry I got distracted singing my favorite Killers song while trying to think of a catchy title for my latest act of pure stupidity.  Shocking, I know.   But actually, on that note...I find that I often break into song (in my head) whenever I hear a phrase or sometimes even a word that is from a song. Hence, I quite literally feel like I am walking around to the soundtrack of my life.  Does anyone else do this, or just me?

So back to my stupidity.  When I moved to my new flat in February, I went to the shop down the street to stock up on a few household items.  They were out of the little individual gel packets of laundry detergent that I usually use that make life oh so simple, so I just grabbed a small jug of liquid, concentrate detergent.  I've been happily (I use the term "happily" very loosely as I detest any form of household work) doing my laundry ever since.  With the exception to the two times I recently sent out all of my laundry to be done by someone else because I had been travelling a lot and the mound of laundry had risen to shameful heights.  And no, I did NOT send out my unmentionables, because that would just be weird, but what I am about to tell you kinda makes me wish that I did. 

Last night, I was doing a load of said unmentionables (because clearly the rest of my laundry had just been picked up washed, ironed and folded that morning) and I must have been bored because I took a closer look at my detergent and not so quickly realized that it was fabric softener.  That is right people, I have been washing my clothes in ONLY fabric softener for the last 4 months.  Ew. I mean I guess they still smell fresh, but they're not really clean. It's times like these when I hate that the US and the UK don't have the same brand names.  I mean in the US, it's easy.  Snuggles = Fabric Softener.  Tide = Detergent.  Period.  I mean, what am I supposed to make of a brand called Comfort.  Fine, now that I know it is fabric softener, the name seems kind of intuative.  But they should really add the word FABRIC SOFTENER in really large bold letters on the front of the bottle, not just talk about how cosy it will make all of your clothes in really tiny letters.  Needless to say, I have a lot of laundry to redo.