...and too utterly ridiculously to write about yet.
However, we still had a good Christmas. I was crafting little presents up until almost the last minute.
The washer got fixed enough to be functional. At one point I had a whole system set up with two sturdy plastic bins and a bucket. The second bin is for having a place to move wet laundry to while getting water out of the first bin and out of the laundry itself. The bucket is for bailing out the bins.
It worked okay as a temporary solution, but for a longer term I'd want sturdier laundry tubs. I don't need a binful of laundry graywater flowing across the floor. We do have a legless utility sink we trashpicked once; it would need to have the drain hole plugged securely against the suction of the laundry plunger (Rapid Washer). Currently it is a holding pen for dirty laundry.
I set up a drying rack in the bathtub, to let things drip-dry enough so they could go into the dryer.
We even went to the laundromat once. Almost deserted, probably because of the threat of a visit from ICE, which was good, because there were hardly any chairs--to keep homeless people from camping there. A sign on the wall said No Sleeping.
