Over the last few months, the themes for the Self-Portrait Challenge, for the most part,  haven’t inspired me to participate. This month’s theme is “Absurdities” and again I was left with little enthusiasm for the topic. But then I went to the basement carrying a load of dirty laundry, turned on the light and saw that there was already a freakin’ mountain of laundry waiting for me. The first thing I thought was “oh this is absurd,” well, not exactly, it was peppered with expletives but nevertheless, I realized I had found something I could take a picture of.

What’s worse was that I knew there were two more baskets of dirty laundry upstairs waiting to join in the fun. How two and a half people can generate this much laundry is also absurd. Where is it coming from for Pete’s sake? How does it accumulate so fast? It seems I wash and wash and wash, but nothing goes away - ever.

This photo is more boring/average than I usually like to use for a self-portrait and it doesn’t do the pile justice either. My tripod is broken so I could only shoot resting the camera on a box from this point of view. If I’d been able to get a better angle it could have looked so much more imposing. Eh, excuses excuses, whatever.