Weekly Flylady Thread 14th July 2008

luby-lou

Mysterious Monday- Living Room, Hall and Stairs
Level 1
[STRIKE]Vacuum floors [/STRIKE]and sofas
Level 2
Dusting, even if around everything
[STRIKE]Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe [/STRIKE]
Clean TV, other electricals and cabinets
[STRIKE]Polish your porch!![/STRIKE]
Level 3
Wipe light switches, sockets (make sure they are not switched on!!) and banister
Wipe the bits on the stairs that need wiping.. skirting or just the exposed edges of the stairs.. mine look like fluff piles!
[STRIKE]Tidy shoes,[/STRIKE] coats and [STRIKE]bags [/STRIKE]..
Vacuum under furniture you can manage to move without hurting yourself
Extra Mission: Pick a task not your nose!–

1. Paperwork clearance.. spend 15 minutes minimum sorting through those piles of paper.. or box it up to sort through later!!
2. Clean windows & any other glass like mirrors, pictures etc
3. 29 thing fling
4. [STRIKE]wash some grotty marks off your carpet!! [/STRIKE]
5. HHI..

Can't say the lounge is anywhere near immaculate but nevermind. Tea in the oven and might do a quick 10 minute iron with DD2 in high chair while tea finishes off.

Having a 'totally uninspired with food' week. Everything I think I might make I'm missing an ingredient (usually a major one like potatoes!) So we are on fish fingers and chips for tea. Was going to do homemade potato wedges but used all potatoes for roast dinner with the in-laws yesterday so oven chips it is unfortunately.

Best go and strap DD2 down before DD1 loses it with her.

shell2001

Kaz - hugs for you and your DS. A very "unusual" situation for your OH too, must have been difficult to keep a "professional" face. Hope DS does not take the news too badly. How old is DS??

Kids wanted to pack so thought it would be a good idea to get a head start. Their case is filled with all they need accept undies so another thing crossed of the list. I even remembered to put DD2 armbands in etc. Must put sunhats in too.

I must dig out some of my "big bum" jeans that are too big for me now and attemp to do a pair of cut off shorts. I dont do shorts in public so will be fine for doodling round at mums - we have Dads rose garden to prune. This seems so strange 'cos its not a holiday but as its gonna be so hot over there need to think of practical stuff.

I am getting a blooming cold too. That will be good for tomorrows interview:rolleyes: . Am wondering what drugs to take to blast the thing away. Have taken a zinc capsule to up my immune system, will down a carton of OJ later for the vit c too.

Waiting for DH to ring to say on way home and then I will reheat the curry, grate the veggies, cook of the noodles and scoff. I dont think having a cold is gonna help my diet much:o :rotfl: .

jjef

Afternoon all,

rach - hope the bruising is starting to go down that sounded a sore fall,
mrs v - sorry did have a giggle re pigeon story, will keep fingers crossed re your offer,
pigpen - is the girl still at schooln or home with you during the day, any chance that her dad may become involved with helping her or is he as bad as the mum.
soappie -belated birthday wishes for yesterday I hope you had a good day
shell - ((((hugs))) I know when I lost my mum i spent the the first few weeks in a daze the time went by but I have no idea what i did.

My list is almost finished, I had a friend coming for lunch so quickly whizzed through it this morning. The bits left to do are -
Extra Mission: Pick a task not your nose!–

1. Paperwork clearance.. spend 15 minutes minimum sorting through those piles of paper.. or box it up to sort through later!!
2. Clean windows & any other glass like mirrors, pictures etc
3. 29 thing fling
4. wash some grotty marks off your carpet!!
5. HHI..

I will get to these this evening. My friend left her daughter for a sleepover tonight (my eldest and her d were good friends at DD1 old school) unfortunately I dislike the girl with a passion - she will not let DD2 play with them and gets DD1 to shut doors in DD2 face or run away from her or send her to get them things and then change her mind about wanting them), but what makes it worse is that through another friend I have heard that this girls has been making nasty comments about my dd so my feelings towards her at the moment are not great, roll on bedtime. I have already made up an excuse to take her back home first thing tomorrow.

Off to make tea now plain pasta and slices of ham as the visitor doesnt eat anything else :mad: :mad:

back later
Sorry were others

pigpen

jjef wrote: »

pigpen - is the girl still at schooln or home with you during the day, any chance that her dad may become involved with helping her or is he as bad as the mum.

She has just finished school this summer.. it was dad who threw her out initially!!

Valli

prettypennies wrote: »

I'm in again
Finally finished for the night. Pack-ups done, washing in, wine opened:D .

Thought I'd share a piccie of my Jammin attempt

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Your jam looks good - is it the recipe I posted?
labels are VERY impressive - I just type mine! Mind you I've done blackcurrant this weekend. Can't post that recipe - dairy book of home cookery - but it's also easy!
Keep it up!:T

gunsandbanjos

Afternoon, just back from food shopping and munching dinner right now.

Hope your DS and you are ok Kaz, what a weird situation for your OH.

Livingroom and kitchen were looking great this morning, LO has trashed the LR and i've trashed the kitchen! Is just surface crap though, quick whizz through after dinner should sort it:rolleyes:

Craftyscholar

TAG wrote: »

Awww Crafty and you were so looking forward to getting them.

Gives you something to look forward to tomorrow. Don't go to mad with the cutty things in the garden!!

Well some of the shrubs are looking a lot 'tidier' :rotfl:
Is a grown woman allowed to have an "I want it now" tantrum?

gunsandbanjos

Craftyscholar wrote: »

Is a grown woman allowed to have an "I want it now" tantrum?

Absolutely!

My brother just phoned me to see if i wanted tickets to the tattoo:j One of his friends has a spare pair and only wants face value, i went last year but was really ill and had to leave after about 5 minutes. Was skint when they went on sale this year so couldnt buy any:o

soappie

Evening all

Shell – you have mail – and good luck with the interview tomorrow
Mrs V – congrats on the offer – you should be putting some bird seed out in the garden as a thank you to that lucky pigeon!
Justamum – thank you for your tale about the taxman – I’d forgotten I need to pay my second instalment of the year by the end of this month – I’ll do that in a moment
Pigpen – beans on toast is one of the most nutritionally balanced meals you can have. And with a egg, they’ve got the icing on the cake (or is it the protein on the toast?)
Kaz – what a peculiar situation! It must have been awfully awkward for everyone.
Pigpen – such a difficult situation with the young girl. I applaud your generosity.

I am really, really tired this evening and am definitely having an early night. I need to leave a little bit earlier tomorrow so I can drop my car off at the vauxhall garage near work to have it's MOT, 50,000 mile service and some little bits fixed like the rear windscreen wiper which has packed up and a tracking check on the wheels. I had new tyres about 3 months ago. The wheels were balanced etc. but there's still a bit of a wobble if I go over 65mph so I think they need fine tuning.

It was a slow day at work - and I was struggling with systems that weren't working. They were still not working when I left. Maybe tomorrow will be my lucky day.

Ex has emailed back....seems he's living on his own .... I have yet to ask him what happened to the b*tch he left me for......I'm saving that one :rotfl:Seems he often visits this area of the country pursuing a hobby of his. I can see if things go as smoothly as they are email wise at the mo we may well end up meeting. Hmmm - would that be good or bad?

Anyway, better get my bum off this seat, pay the taxman, muck out the car so it's respectable for the garage tomorrow and then find some dinner before falling oh, so very very very gratefully into my bed.

MrsV

shell2001 wrote: »

Mrs V - Well done on the offer. With the market the way it is you've done a great job to get an offer immediately. Just hope its at the level you were hoping for x

Thanks Shell, still thinking it over.

Just shown our 6th viewers around and another one due at 7pm, followed by another at 12 tomorrow.........

Going to try and catch up on the thread properly after they have gone