Weekly Flylady Thread 29th December 2008

toottifrootti

serena wrote: »

Thank you toots! It is exciting - the present carpet is 20 years old, and getting threadbare and torn. The replacement will hopefully be a cleaner cream rather than a brownish cream, but will not really look very different. I'm also making new curtains. Pictures in due course! What have you been up to today?

Apart from a HHC with froddy at 4pm I have just been pottering doing little jobs - none of which were actually on my list! I have just this minute printed off a calendar so now I can get things put on it and go through last year's - must do diaries as well.


kazm hugs honey and hope you feel brighter tomorrow - how are things with OH ?? -some friends(my friend lady toxic for instance) have a way of letting you down when it would only take a few mins to make contact - sad that people are like that -I realise now that some of them (well her) only contact me when they need something doing - never mind honey you have us - :rotfl: :rotfl: maybe not much of a consolation prize but we will 'text' back to you!!!
Good luck with the gluten-free diet - there are more products now than there used to be but they can be pricey.

toots xx


ETA still no sign of Valli - maybe she has found a man!

kazmeister

lil_me wrote: »

I tend to be contacted when I am needed rather than for an evening out (can't remember when the last one was but has been several years) a coffee or a chat.

This is soooo true. My 20 years plus friend and I went through so many things together, weddings within months of each other, children within days and divorces within weeks. I had phone calls from her young daughter at things like 2am to go and see her as she was !!!!ed and fallen in the garden banging her head then being sick and stuff, or boyfriend dumped her could I go over and was always there. Now with new boyfriend (of 18 months :rolleyes: ), well I havent even met him :rotfl: and suggestions of an evening together OH's and kids have all been met with blanks.

I think we should arrange some caravan weekends for flyladys and have some real fun :rotfl:

Wonder if there's any sites near pigpen, we could descend on her for a night out on the town

froddington

dusty - hugs and prayers for you and yours

lil_me - hugs and prayers for you all too

flower - hugs for you and :mad: for DH

AlwaysHappy - wow! You did loads - well done!

kaz - hugs for you too

serena - great post and good news about the furniture and carpet

I have been decluttering lychees - yummy but a bit messy! Stamps are sorted ready to go to the charity shop and shredding has been started. Might go and finish that now...........

kazmeister

greenbee wrote: »

I thought briefly about doing a roast, and then realised that the oven is currently clean, and I plan on it staying that way... so it'll be a casserole

Why not use a roasting bag

msgnomey

have taken down the tree and put the decorations in the hall, can't face the garage in the dark, have hoovered downstairs and now just about to hoover the stairs and then the bedrooms, they badly need it, cream carpets, who's idea was that????

kazmeister

msgnomey wrote: »

cream carpets, who's idea was that????

a bit like our cream sofas

lil_me

greenbee casserole is just as nice, I like steak casserole with dumplings and maybe some mash for an utterly warming treat and very freezable so you could make the extra then freeze if necessary. Thanks, will pop a post on there if I get no further with another techie-ish forum I use. Oh and go to bed you silly girl, if you need it go, or you'll do daft stuff until silly o'clock like me! You can set your alarm. I agree with roasting bags, I like those, keeps the meat lovely and moist too. I also use oven liners which are great

kaz, same applies here, however it's been longer than 18 months and I now know I don't actually need them if that makes sense? 'Real' friends I find complicated, demanding and shallow usually so I tend to stick with online ones at the mo. I have people I meet and converse with regularly, mainly through voluntary work but none I can really class as friends I don't think. Matthew's Mam for example is there when it suits them, which is understandable she has her own little family now, so I just tend to go with the flow for that. As for sites, we've started considering where to go but we go week days not weekends due to DPs shifts and the summer I have to wait until dates are out for when he's away on weekends to see where and when we can go away which is a right pain in the bottom!

toottifrootti

Flylady_Flower wrote: »

Anyway, reason behind the rant, while I was walking home, with a 6 pint of milk cutting into each hand wondering why on earth I had cut my own nose of to spite my face, getting wet coz it was drizzling, cold coz I didn't think I would need my gloves and scarf, and out of breath coz my breathing is playing up, I realised how busy the world is too... :rotfl: people were bibbing each other up, loads of cars on the road and the noise was awful... I know exactly how you feel Mudbath...

awh hugs flower and yes you were a silly moo - you could get the cold now and your breathing is bothering you -welll make HIM pay for it! No nookie for a month at least!!!! And make sure he waits on you hand a nd foot!:rotfl: :rotfl:
toots xx

JillD_2

Hi all
Some of you (most notably from the flylady thread) will remember me from a year or two back.
We had our 3rd baby, a h3llish pregnancy and then the baby born when the other 2 were only just 4 and 2. Meanwhile I've also been working 3 days a week, my husband has his own business, works crazy hours and is away a lot, and we have no family support at all. It has been totally crazy and I have not been able to focus on money saving at all. We've dipped into our savings a bit , and fairly unneccesarily (annoyingly), but we survived :T :T

Anyway, I before Christmas I decided to give up work :j :j :j


We decided its just all too crazy and something had to give. Hubby is going to try and pay himself a bit more (he is salaried and the rest goes into the business) and we are extending the term of our mortgage.

But it does mean we will have to watch the pennies a bit more, but then I should have more time to meal plan, and cook and generally be on here

So anyway I wanted to say I am back, I have missed you all, and I am looking forward to lots of OS tips again!

toottifrootti

greenbee wrote: »

I'm so tired... am I allowed to go to bed now I know I wanted to start getting to bed earlier, but possibly not this early. I'm frequently not back from work at this time! I suppose if it means I'll wake up early, then it's fine, but if I don't, there is no way I'll get everything done on time.

My parents are arriving in time for lunch on Sunday, so I'm now trying to find out whether my brother & his fiancee will be coming too so I know how many people I have to feed. I thought briefly about doing a roast, and then realised that the oven is currently clean, and I plan on it staying that way... so it'll be a casserole

Of course you should go to bed and you will be fresh as a daisy tomorrow - but I still reckon there is stuff on that list that does not NEED to be done before sunday! Dont waste time trying to find out who is coming just cook as if they are and then you will have 2 extra helpings for the freezer. there sorted!!!
Now go to bed!!!
toots xx