Weekly Flylady Thread 29th September 2008

Dustykitten

Excellent - just sold 3 of my items to a neighbour

Valli

SarahShattered wrote: »

Voted Lil_me! Excellent cause! When I broke my ankle last year I discovered exactly what it was like to be unable to move around the shops the way I wanted... and how frustrating it is not to be able to reach something from a wheelchair. :mad: It should be on the curriculum for all kids to have the experience..... spend a few days in a wheelchair. See how ignored/pushed into/vulnerable you feel! (I was terrified someone was going to bang my head) Horrible, unforgettable experience. Good luck to your friend. Can we vote every day or is it a one vote deal?

A bloke who works in our library has a right clever wheelchair with an elevating chair - mind you it wouldn't do for me I don't like heights! It's a good job I'm short(ish)

Valli

greenbee wrote: »

I take it you tried

thought it was worth a go!

Incidentally notice SupergirlSS is thinking of getting a slow cooker and I thought I might ask Santa for one...

Any tips - good ones - ones to avoid information would be greatly appreciated. There are three of us here - presume they come in different sizes? What can they be used for - casseroles/puddings.

Since I haven't got a timer on my over - it broke - this would be a way of coming in to a ready made tea. (Dinner for you further south)

Thanks girls!

BTW the Standby Saver is working brilliantly - tv goes off and the lot does...

SarahShattered

I second that Valli any tips would be great!

greenbee

You can cook ANYTHING in a slow cooker (Dusty won't need one, she can just use the bottom oven of her Aga and hope that she doesn't forget it is in there and find it weeks later).

Mine was a godsend at Uni, as I loathed the canteen food, and our shared kitchens just has rings and a sink, so it meant I could cook proper food in my room.

I gave mine up as I had a large one and it wasn't really worth it with just one of me (also, before I had my kitchen redone, I didn't have the space). However, I am thinking about getting another one when my utility room has been done!

There's a whole thread about it, and there are also lots of good cookbooks available as well.

embb

Hi guys :wave:

Back in from work YAY I'm off till Monday now. Thanks lil_me but it hasn't arrived yet I'll keep a look out. Dusty yeah it did make me chuckle :rotfl: oh and well done on the 3 sales :T re: the monitor Serena,natty and I just haven't got the energy to go and buy one Valli there's a super-duper 6.5ltr Slow Cooker on sale in Aldi on Sunday for £19.99 it'll be massive.....gonna bag one myself woot! and :rotfl: @ the jokes. Mudders I'm itching to see Poppy hope the photo works asap.

It's freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezing! :eek: hope it's not this cold on Sunday cause there's no way I'm going to watch the great north run if it is, it'll be a tele job.

Time to think about doing something........a sleep

lil_me

Wohoooo she's 11th now, great stuff, I'm plastering it on just about every site I can find! Rebecca uses one of the services my boys do and have met her on several occasions, she's lovely. As for multiple votes, it can't apart from if you use 2 web browsers/computers. I use firefox and internet explorer so she has a vote from me and a vote from one of my boys cheating but hey she deserves it.

Got told to clean my disgraceful car out instead of packing 3 bags of 'stuff' and loads of rubbish. I must get the kids to remove stuff every day as it was just awful. Then of course all the mud and dog fluff, yuk! So going to pack some now then get the rest done when I get back from collecting DS2

SarahShattered

Trying again! In the post I deleted I think I said :

DK I was wondering if secretly you knew me, but weren't saying so, but I don't know anyone lucky enough to have an AGA!!!

Thanks for that Polka I'll check out argos.

My friend sent this out to me, I thought it was hilarous!

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THE NEXT SURVIVOR SERIES
Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks.
Each kid will play two sports and either take music or dance classes. They will also attend cubs,
brownies, sea cadets or similar.
There is no fast food.
Each man must:
take care of his 3 children, keep his assigned house clean, correct all homework, and complete science projects, also, cook, do laundry, and pay a list of 'pretend' bills with not enough money.
In addition, each man will have to budget in money for groceries each week.
Each man
must remember the birthdays of all their friends and relatives, and send cards out on time-no emailing.
Each man must also take each child to a doctor's appointment, a dentist appointment
and a haircut appointment.
He must make one unscheduled and inconvenient visit per child to A & E. He must also make gingerbread men or choc chip cakes for a social function.
Each man will be responsible for decorating his own assigned house, planting flowers outside
and keeping it presentable at all times.
The men will only have access to television when the kids are asleep and all chores are done.
The men must shave their legs, wear makeup daily, adorn themselves with jewellery, wear uncomfortable yet stylish shoes, keep fingernails polished and eyebrows groomed.
During one of the six weeks, the men will have to endure severe abdominal pain, persistent lower back aches, and have extreme, unexplained mood swings, but never once complain or slow down from other duties.
They must attend weekly school meetings, concerts & plays, church, and find time at least once a week, to spend the afternoon in the park or a similar setting.
They will need to read a book to the kids each night and in the morning, feed them, dress them,
brush their teeth and comb their hair by 7:00 am.
A test will be given at the end of the six weeks, and each father will be required to know all of the following information:
each child's birthday, height, weight, shoe size, clothes size, teachers name, best friends name and doctor's name.
Also the child's weight at birth, time of birth, and length of labour, each child's favourite colour, middle name, favourite snack, favourite song, favourite drink, favourite toy, biggest fear and what they want to be when they grow up.
The kids vote them off the island based on performance.
The last man wins only if... he still has enough energy to be intimate with his spouse at a moment's notice.
If the last man does win, he can play the game over and over and over again for the next 18-25 years eventually earning the right To be called Mother!

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My cheeky brother (whose DS1 is 1 with an 'at home mummy' ) responded to this with.... "would I be allowed to go climbing in the afternoon" :rolleyes: I'd love to put him my house, and make him cope with my lot! :rotfl: climbing...cheeky f*cker :rotfl:

Valli

OMG how true is that! Sarah that's brilliant!

Of course he could go climbing - up the walls - like we do

My ex OH used to moan about Brownies and Scouts etc and he rarely took them..


I can still remember the nurse's reaction to my dad and my sister, in casualty (with a split head - not serious but she fell out of my dolly's pram against a wall) because he took her to casualty messy and dirty from playing out...

It needed stitchiing.

The casualty nurse was appalled at the state of the poor waif...

Told dad he should have cleaned her up before bringing her...

The casualty nurse was OUR MUM!

SarahShattered

Valli wrote: »

The casualty nurse was OUR MUM!

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: That would be my mother's reaction too!!! :rotfl: :rotfl: Unless of course she's waiting to go out, at which point she'd be saying "aren't you ready yet??? She's alright like that... come on...." and then once out, she'd roll her eyes and say " what a shame she doesn't look nicer" :rolleyes:

D'you know what.... don't get me started on my mother...she's a shocker. My friends have stopped playing 'who's got the worst mother' games with me, I always win!!!! :rotfl: