Weekly Flylady Thread 30th June 2008

gunsandbanjos

I'm bored, really need to tear myself away from the computer... Will go do my dishes i think:o

pigpen

I need to cook food....

tiamai_d

The list.

Clean out rabbit.
[STRIKE]Sort out PC desk (still not done it) [/STRIKE] still to do UNDER it
[STRIKE]Clean both glass doors[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Kids room![/STRIKE] - ongoing battle
[STRIKE]Scrub down sofas and moisturise properly[/STRIKE]
Clean out cupboard under the stairs
Sort out the land of behind the telly
Sort out the bookshelf
Tidy the back garden - ongoing
Attack the front grass with a strimmer
Clean out the car (I'm thinking getting it valeted)
Check oil, water, tyres and what not
Bath the dog (who is going to kennels) flea shampoo Just in case
Flea and worm the dog just in case
Post wedding gift to Holland
Phone re car insurance, sort out details
Find house ins, buildings and contents cheaper than the rip off bunch we are with now
Hoover stairs
Return vax to mum and dad
[STRIKE]Switch baby gate and clean under it[/STRIKE] moved the old one, cleaned it.

Bathroom was sparkling, then DS2 decided to make a crisp juice mess. Better get dinner started... curry I think. Or stir fry... Got 1 TD load to fold and put away, another to go on.

Must find my glasses too... my eyes are getting strained now!

gunsandbanjos

Ok, dishes are done, S&S'd the kitchen, WM emptied, TD on, freezer 'surprise' out for tomorrows dinner. Its either chilli or bolognaise, only time will tell:rotfl: Need a quick whizz round living room then will bath monkey and put her in bed. Then its definately time for a glass of something:D

Mudbath

Hiya
I know what you mean about MILs feeding children full of carp! My two don't have any other underlying issues (hope that's a politically correct way to put it!!) and yet my two are absolutely mad when they've spent anytime with them. Coke and sweets galore!!! Thank goodness they live so far away!

Dusty - I've got a friend who's been very supportive with what I do but she can't cope with it at the same time. She's had really bad experiences and anything to do with cancer completely freaks her. I think everything I ever thought about cancer has pretty much been dispelled during the course I've been doing. Going to the hospice has made it all a much more positive experience. I just don't think I had a clue before. I know i'll find it hard when people i've got to know do die but that's something i'll have to deal with when it happens. Oh, arn't I cheerful tonight!!:rotfl:

Children on the trampoline. DH home in ten minutes for a trip to the allotment. I guess i'd better go and spend that time doing a bit of flying before pigpen throws something at me!!

Ches

quote Hopefully in another 6 years he will be able to do those things.. but if he isn't he can stay just as he is cos I loves him! end quote

thats a truly lovely remark

mumofjusttwo

Mudbath you really will bring some much to the people that you treat.

Have to say before my sister went into the hospice I didn't realise that you d actually come out. i always thought that if you went into a hospice then you would die there.

Dh not going to be home until 8pm tonight :rolleye: He sounds so miserable bnut i think sometimes he doesn't want to burden me with work worries. Doesn't realise that I will worry anyhow.

Have to say can't wait to have my nice soak in the bath. Hopefully DD will not cry tonight.

Have to say read some of that website about the 4 children Mudbath and makes me realise how lucky i am to have my cuddle two children. Had lots of extra cuddles since then.

cookie334

lil_me - That's a great way of putting it and you're absolutely right, it is their problem and I shouldn't let it get to me so much. Thank you!

GnB - I wouldn't take it the wrong way and I know what you mean, I do need to put my foot down. I absolutely hate confrontation so it's very hard and yes, it's my in-laws too. If it was my family I'd tell them straight, but I don't feel right with oh's and he certainly wont do it! I don't give DS anything like that either, it takes me to give him diluting juice and if I do give him a treat it's a small amount of chocolate. What is it with grandparents eh?

Pigpen - You sound amazing!!! Everything you do and your attitude towards everything and you still have time to help us try and get a little more organisation in our lives with this thread, plus lend us your ear and offer us endless advice. I wish I could be like you. I worry far too much about what people think and about hurting other people's feelings. I wish I has the gutts to just up and leave when in-laws start. And thank you, it really helps to know there are people there to talk to.

Germish - Well this is why I asked hv to come around, but I chickened out and just told her the really bad bits.

jjef - That's pretty bad your in-laws lied to you about it. This is the reason my kids rarely leave my sight.

Thank you all for listening and offering all your advice and sharing your stories.

nicki_2

I'm supposed to be studying Instead I've just hung a new mirror in the livingroom (no more running upstairs to check how I look before going out :rotfl: ) and now I'm going to being the washing in. I guess I should really eat before I pick DD up 8.15:rolleyes: :wave:

soappie

Evening all

To those of you who commented on the weather, we had a lovely sunny and quite hot day here today (south coast is home, Salisbury area is work). But there was a nice breeze which made the office cool. I did get a little bit too hot when we had a fire drill and had to assemble in a sheltered area in full sun. But, it's cloudy now and rain is forecast though it's still v. warm.

To those of you with children troubles - my sympathies and big hugs. I had a lot of trouble with my DS during his middle to late teens (for various reasons which I won't go into now). He's 28 now. He essentially became a night owl, anorexic and a total alien. He existed on chewing gum and coca cola. I think he did the anorexia thing because he probably felt that eating or not eating was the only thing he could control in his life. It was an awful time. But, he eventually came out of it and I now have back the son I love (even though he can still exasperate me at times!). All you can all do at the end of the day is love 'em and be there for them when they need you as well as when they think they don't.

Well, I haven't done much flying this evening instead I've done my Emergency Ward 10 bit with a young sparrow in the garden.

This is a salutary warning to all people who have bird feeders in their gardens. I hadn't cleaned mine out for a while . I didn't realise that there was seed glued together with either bird spittle or rain at the bottom of one. I was pottering about and saw a lot of birds at one feeder and realised there was little seed left so I went outside to fill them up. A little baby sparrow tweeted loud and long at me from the garden fence. I spoke to it and it flew away. I turned back to the bird feeders and there was a young sparrow with its head stuck inside the feeder hole :eek:

Because of the seed stuck to the bottom of the feeder, its head was firmly wedged between that and the bar thing that sort of edges the feeder holes. It was still alive.

It was a horrible sight. I took the feeder down and supported the bird and called DS. We sat and contemplated the best way of getting the poor thing out. We tried removing the bar - that wasn't going to happen. I even contemplated taking it to the nearby fire station but realised they would think I'm mad. After about 30 minutes, I used a dinner knife to slowly chip away the glued together seeds and I must have got the right one because the little sparrow suddenly set up flapping, managed to extract its head and fly off - it went at least two gardens away so I'm hopeful it'll recover with no permanent injury.

But it was horrible. Seeing it stuck like that and feeling totally like a murderer (because i hadn't cleaned the feeder out properly) and wondering if I was going to have to watch it die like that. But it didn't, we got it out and hopefully, it's fine.

My personal flying list now includes cleaning out the bird feeders regularly.

But I've now got to go and do dinner. Which, ironically, is chicken....