Weekly Flylady Thread 5th January 2009

greenbee

Following Toots' editing and my recent activity...

Monday Mayhem..
[STRIKE]Clean the [STRIKE]sinks[/STRIKE], baths, toilets, showers etc – as they’re pretty clean, this should be manageable![/STRIKE]
Wash the floor
Extras

1. Empty and clean out the bin – will do Thurs am
2. Polish the mirrors
3. Declutter the desk.. make it shine! - ongoing

Tuesday - tinklings
[STRIKE]Clear and wipe kitchen worksurfaces – done daily this week, but still need doing again[/STRIKE]
Mop the floor – Thurs am?
Wipe the table and dining chairs
Empty the under the sink cupboard.. give it a wipe out and put back neatly the things you NEED.. get rid of or rehome the rest!
S&S over all the unit fronts and appliances! – good point… they’ve got cake mixture on them

Wishy-Washy Wednesday
Declutter the living room , – only coffee table to do (recipes to cut out and stick/copy into recipe book)
[STRIKE]Check smoke alarms.. change any batteries that need doing[/STRIKE]

Thursday - Master bedsty & landing
[STRIKE]Strip the bedsheets and wash them! – mine are OK. Need to do spare bed though.[/STRIKE]
15 minutes floordrobe clearance – er… yes…
Vacuum the floor you can see in the bedroom and on the landing! It needs washing...
Fill a binbag with stuff you no longer need and get rid! Better brave the study then
15 minutes filing (special for Jennybee who has lots!!) So do I
HH doing something that NEEDS doing..study, ironing, exercise.. GO! ?Packing?
Empty any bins and [STRIKE]take any laundry to the wash basket [/STRIKE]

wrap present for friend I'm seeing at the weekend
wrap present for goddaughter
write thank you letters
write letter to great aunt & uncle
write letter to godfather
post next batch of flylady vouchers (find first class stamps bought at weekend... they can't have gone far )

Work - write business case, write HR stuff, write outstanding feedback, costs for project implementation and find out where meeting is!!

Sheets/towels in WM, two more loads sorted & ready to go in! Should get sheets etc. into dryer before bed and another load into the machine! Off to wipe the kitchen cupboards...

froddington

List updated ready for tomorrow and edited as bedroom floor is clear, there's no rubbish in there and bins were done today. Off to bed now so night all, sleep well x

Monday Mayhem...Bathroom

Level Three
Scrub down the tiles..
Wash the floor

Tuesday - tinklings...Kitchen

Level One
Vacuum the floor!

Level Two
Wipe the table
Muck out the fridge

Extras

1. Wash the windows and sills

Wishy-Washy Wednesday

Level One
Declutter the living room , hallway and stairs

Level Two
Vacuum the cleared floors and up the stairs.. under furniture if you can move it safely!

Level Three
Wipe the paintwork
Dust the flat surfaces

Thursday - Master bedsty & landing

Level One
Strip the bedsheets and wash them!

Level Two
Vacuum the floor you can see in the bedroom and on the landing!
15 minutes filing

Level Three
Wash any soft furnishing that need it
HH doing something that NEEDS doing..study, ironing, exercise.. GO!

Extras

1. Wash dirty windows
2. dust away all the cobwebs and dust
3. Wipe all the upstairs doors! .. both sides!!

My one-a-day (or 7-a-weekend!!) list:

- [strike]post parcel[/strike] DONE
- [strike]decorations down and put away[/strike] DONE
- stamps and bag of stuff to charity shop
- [strike]pay water bill[/strike] DONE
- sort cross stitch threads
- contact Union
- car checks

greenbee

Have wiped the cupboard fronts, appliances and plinths in both kitchen & utility room... so my edited list now looks like:

Monday Mayhem..
Wash the floor

Extras

1. Empty and clean out the bin – will do Thurs am
2. Polish the mirrors
3. Declutter the desk.. make it shine! - ongoing

Tuesday - tinklings
Mop the floor – Thurs am?
Clear & wipe the table and dining chairs (table still has birthday presents & ribbons on it
Empty the under the sink cupboard.. give it a wipe out and put back neatly the things you NEED.. get rid of or rehome the rest!


Wishy-Washy Wednesday
Declutter the living room , – only coffee table to do (recipes to cut out and stick/copy into recipe book)

Thursday - Master bedsty & landing

15 minutes floordrobe clearance – er… yes…
Vacuum the floor you can see in the bedroom and on the landing! It needs washing...
Fill a binbag with stuff you no longer need and get rid! Better brave the study then
15 minutes filing (special for Jennybee who has lots!!) So do I
HH doing something that NEEDS doing..study, ironing, exercise.. GO! ?Packing?
Empty any bins

wrap present for friend I'm seeing at the weekend
wrap present for goddaughter
write thank you letters
write letter to great aunt & uncle
write letter to godfather
post next batch of flylady vouchers (find first class stamps bought at weekend... they can't have gone far )

Work - write business case, write HR stuff, write outstanding feedback, costs for project implementation and find out where meeting is!!

Off to deal with floordrobe and run a bath... seeing as I need to stay up to empty/reload the WM!

Flylady_Flower

pigpen wrote: »

Juliebookworm.. there is no such thing as luck.. good or bad.. there is good fortune and misfortune.. nothing you do or do not do changes anything.. my 6 year old putting an umbrella up in the house did not cause my cooker to burst into flame.. that was DS2.. breaking a mirror did not make my hubby's cousin die.. that was illness... everything has a cause and an effect.. though if you leave the decs out... I'll make you dust them!!

Back form college.. off to pub.... blooming DNA.. piece of the pee....

Little cousin is hopefully coming home at the weekend now he is feeding well...

~~~~~~~~Healing vibes for s-girl's friends LO... ~~~~~~~~~~

nicki/GnB... so when the ortho's were on about DD4 having a 'back brace' for her curly spine due to differing leg lengths causing the body to twist that is what they were on about??? I think I'd be a bit sad.. it looks like a burden for a teeny body.

Off to pub see you later!

Have fun at the pub pigpen, and know that you are multitasking if you decide to drink bitter - you are cleaning your teeth at the same time! :rotfl:

I agree with the luck thing - we make our own luck in this world - if things happen it's because of something else going wrong - I went bankrupt because I didn't sort my finances properly, not because I walked under a ladder!

greenbee

My floordrobe (well, clean clothes on the bedroom chair) took about 2 minutes, so while I'm on a roll, rather than running my bath straight away I'm going to make a start on my letters!

sexymouse

Ended up watching a film with Wesley Snipes in (Murder at 1600) - haven't seen it before and it was really good. I'm not normally into action or political films, so was surprised I liked it. OH fell asleep so went off to bed, which is where I'm off to now.

Night all, will try to catch up on some more flying tomorrow, and if necessary, I can have a major flying session at the weekend.

sexymouse xx

Flylady_Flower

My bathroom all shiny now and smelling of bleach (although that might be because I burnt all the smelling capacity out of my nose with the stuff earlier and so now that's all I can smell :doh:) so I have lit my smelly candles in there in an attempt to make it smell nice...

Anyway, my list now looks like this:

[strike]Monday Mayhem... Bathroom & Study[/strike] Whoo Hoo, all done!
[strike]Level One[/strike]
[strike]Clean the sinks, baths, toilets, showers etc
Declutter the manky bathroom floor[/strike]
[strike]Level Two[/strike]
[strike]Wash the window and clear the sill[/strike]– study done, bathroom still to do (now done)
[strike]Fling out all the empties from the bathroom[/strike] Cleared the cupboard right out, including old, half used bottles of peroxide, added colour tubes, etc... the list goes on...
[strike]Wipe the mouldy bits away[/strike] As you know, completly bleached away...:o
[strike]Level Three[/strike]
[strike]Wash/vacuum the floor –[/strike] done study, bathroom still to do (now done)
[strike]Wash the shower curtain/screen, curtains/blinds etc[/strike]
[strike]Extras[/strike]
[strike]Polish the mirrors[/strike]
Tuesday – tinklings - Kitchen
Level One
[strike]Clear and wipe kitchen worksurfaces[/strike] Done, but will need doing again tomorrow
[strike]Sweep the floor![/strike] Done, but will also need doing again tomorrow when I wash it...
Level Two
Mop the floor
Wipe the table and dining chairs
Level Three
Empty the under the sink cupboard... give it a wipe out and put back neatly the things you NEED... Get rid of or re-home the rest!
[strike]Throw out any chipped mugs... the porous pottery harbours bacteria... YUK!![/strike]
S&S over all the unit fronts and appliances!
Extras
Wash the windows and sills
Clean out the microwave
Fill a binbag with rubbish and get rid!
Catch up on important phone calls... if you do it now you have time to chase the follow up calls later in the week!
Wishy-Washy Wednesday – Living Room/Hallway
Level One
Declutter the hallway and stairs
Level Two
Vacuum up the stairs…
Sort through coats and shoes and bag
Level Three
Extras
Wash the windows in these rooms
Clean out your handbag!.. and/or college/work bag
Thursday - Master Bedsty & landing
Level One
Strip the bed sheets and wash them!
15 minutes floordrobe clearance
Level Two
Vacuum the floor you can see in the bedroom and on the landing!
Fill a binbag with stuff you no longer need and get rid!
15 minutes filing (special for Jennybee who has lots!!)
Level Three
Wash any soft furnishing that need it
HH doing something that NEEDS doing...study, ironing, exercise... GO!
Empty any bins and take any laundry to the wash basket
Extras
Wash dirty windows
Dust away all the cobwebs and dust
Wipe all the upstairs doors... both sides!!
Straighten the linen cupboard
My M.A.C.A.W challenge this week is..............to keep on top of my washing/ironing..... There Valli, I'm going to do it!
My Dailies
DW x 1
WM x 1 (drying, ready to be ironed tomorrow as part of my MACAW...:eek: )
TD x 0
HHI x 0
My Stuff
Write a letter to insurance company to explain details fully
Take up new curtains in Kitchen
Finish last bit of payment plan
Sort out Pet Insurance
Do a 'stock take' of what food we have in and write a shopping list from that
Meal Plan with above
Sort out paperwork that needs to be dealt with
File all my paperwork away (private and business)
Go to Mums and upload office on her new computer and transfer all her old stuff to new computer too.
Start loading all DVD's/Videos ready onto EBay for when they have a 1p day again and pack them away in a box once done so they're not sitting in piles at the bottom of my bed...
Business Stuff
Enter all invoices for my business

nicki_2

pigpen wrote: »

nicki/GnB... so when the ortho's were on about DD4 having a 'back brace' for her curly spine due to differing leg lengths causing the body to twist that is what they were on about??? I think I'd be a bit sad.. it looks like a burden for a teeny body.

Its possible, but there are different types, there are just corset style ones as well. The consultant decides what's what - mine was for an S-curved spine due to scoliosis. Its not that bad really and I think they've made improvements to them. Mine was massive, it went from the middle of my hips(so it rested on the chair when I sat down) to about an inch shy of my underarm, it was shaped so it didn't press on my pubicbone, was cut out at the front so I could sit down, and cut under my bust as well. I got it when I was in year 7 and wore it until I was in year 9/10 then I refused to wear it as I was so uncomfortable and being a typical teen

The downsides were

• if it was a really hot day (and in school one wall of all the classrooms were windows with the sun streaming through nearly all day so it got HOT) it got uncomfortable and made me feel like I was going to pass out
• sometimes it rubbed like mad (especially when I was hot) so I had to have surgical spirit applied to my skin in areas where it rubbed slightly to toughen up the skin
• sometimes if it hadn't been put on properly or it had worked loose when I sat down I could feel it lift up - like wearing a hard tube
• I was supposed to wear it for 23 out of 24 hours - That was one bit I really hated, so I didn't stick to it
• It was a little uncomfortable wearing it, especially at bed time, and top bunks unless rails are on it are a definite no-no, it hurts a lot to fall from a top bunk while wearing one! Even more so when you're asleep when you do it and its the impact with the floor that wakes you up! :eek: The carpet burns hurt as well :rotfl:

On the positive side

• I didn't do PE at all throughout secondary school (but I did have to take on the ref or scorekeeper role instead :rolleyes:) but I think they've changed this now
• I got to "play on it" and get out of class claiming I was "too hot and needed to cool down & have a drink" whenever I got bored or didn't want to do the work - not often mind, just occasionally.;) Oh, and I always needed a friend to come with me just incase I did faint :rotfl:
• I had a wonderful profile figure :rotfl:
• When people physically picked on me, they tended to go for the hitting of the torso...it only happened a few times before they realised it hurt to hit me Although "lets see how hard we can hit Nicki in the stomach before hurting ourselves" did become quite an amusing pastime for some of my male friends :rolleyes::rotfl: I found it quite amusing too, but it toughened me up
• It was extremely amusing when a lad who used to go to my school, but left before I got my brace, ran across the park and tried to jump on my back for a piggyback :rotfl::rotfl: My brace was not only very hard plastic, it also had 3 (or was it 4?) large plastic straps (like you get on rucksacks to adjust the straps) going right down the back and he hit at least 1 of them He had a strange walk on the way home that night :rotfl::rotfl: I however had stitches from laughing so hard :rotfl:

But that is just my experience. When I found out I was going to have to wear one, I read a book by Judy Blume called "Deenie" (Wikipedia entry here ) and it helped to know that other people (even if it was just in a book) were going through similar feeling of hating the brace and the fact that they stood out.

If your DD4 does get one, no matter how uncomfortable or singled out she may feel I would highly recommend her wearing it as much as she is told to, or as much as she can stand, it gets easier over time . I didn't and I still suffer with back problems which may or may not have been solved by the back brace.

Somnium

Well not only did I run the hoover round I took 10 minutes to sort the dogs area out. Threw out some of his ropier looking toys and cleaned out the box their stored in (yes my dog has his own toy box!), its still heaving but alot tidier than before. Just having a skinny mint hot choc before heading up the wooden hill, night all xx

Flylady_Flower

Still wide awake for some strange reason, so am going to start on the paperwork (that should bore me to sleep!)

Was going to do the kitchen, but will do that once everyone gone tomorrow...

See you all in a bit... Anyone want a cuppa?:coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee: