Now I have proof the washing machine is female.

My wonderful husband was kind enough to get me a new set of appliances for Mother's Day. Look, I'm over the whole "no gift that plugs in" thing for holidays. I don't care. If it will make my life simpler in some way, I say bring on the appliances. However, they didn't arrive until after Father's Day, so I turned the tables back on him and announced, "Happy Father's Day", you're getting a new washer and dryer too. Funny we were thinking the same thing!! ;)

It was a hassle, and I'll be honest, they aren't exactly what I wanted. I wanted them in orange. But we couldn't find them anywhere within a 3 state radius, in orange. While I may favor that color, I'm not crazy enough to spend vacation time and money driving to or having a delivery fee for orange laundry room accessories. I do draw the line on myself, sometimes.

But they work OUTSTANDINGLY well, despite their champagne-ish color. I (sort of) enjoy laundry. Basically because I get a kick out of seeing the drum spin a monster load of towels and jeans with little effort, like it's about to take off from the launchpad at NASA. Warp speed, I tell you, warp speed. It's the darndest thing. My mind is small, I only need laundry to amuse it.

And because of all that serious spinnage, it looks as though Alabama Power will have to cut back to finger foods instead of a sit down dinner at the Christmas Gala this year. Sorry guys. I'm no sucker anymore. That washer slings almost every droplet of water right out of the clothes. Thus the dryer, kicks back and has a peachy keen job. A few minutes tossed about and WHAM!!!... cycle is complete! No more drying and drying and drying denim and cotton for what seems like forever. I am beside myself with the time and power savings!!

Which also brings me to this point. The title of the post. How, you ask, do I know the washer is the girl in the relationship? Here, look, I'll show you:

This is a photo of the dryer, being told EXACTLY what to do by the washer. Ha. Those clever people at GE state it as "Receiving Cycle Information From Washer" .....but basically HE's just be told what to do by HER.


And as if that isn't weird enough that I spill the beans about the gender, I take pictures to prove it. I am so weird. Seriously, the washer tells the dryer how damp the clothes are and then it calculates how many minutes it will take to dry that load. CRAZY.

Plus, look at what else these fancy things have.....back to the basics for me. Yep. It even has one of those AWESOME "dewrinkle" settings, you know the one I spoke about a few months back, that I just adore instead of the dreaded iron? Anyway, I just whip that dial right around and light that bad boy up.
So, there you have it. I love them both, equally. They have made the laundry fairy very happy. She has but two complaints:

1) they didn't come in orange
2) she really wanted a "fold and put away" button installed