Weekly Flylady Thread 5th January 2009

cha97michelle

JillD wrote: »

Hi Michelle
so good to hear your voice (as it were!). Have added you to the weight loss thing, sounds like you must be looking good already, I would be overjoyed to get to a BMI of 25 which you must be at already if you are only 1'8 off BMI 22- well done you! I have Wii Fit too but never use it, dont seem to have time. When do you use yours ?? I do like the hula hoop one though LOL

:jMy BMI was just over 25, so not bad to say i've had 2 kids in the past 3 years, but my poor tummy is really suffering after DS2 - no muscle control at all, so it is that mainly i want to work on as i look like a starving baby with a big belly and toned skinny arms and legs. :eek: I try to use the wii fit when the kids are in bed and there is nowt on the telly. We only got it for xmas, so i have been investigating it, but i really liked the hula hoop one, even if DH laughed his head off at me.

I reaaaaaaaally hope you dont' end up with an asbo boy, mine is driving me nuts. Aside from the devastation in the house, she has mad fits at the dinner table when she doesnt get exactly what she wants. Tonight she went ballistic in the highchair, like she's having some kind of fit thrashing round like she is epileptic because I offered her yoghurt. I managed to shove as bit in, and she was like "oooooh thats quite nice actually" and ate it. But the hissy fit to get ther, not pleasant.
Thankfully he is already sat at the table in a handysitt, although he pushes his feet against the table and almost pushes the chair over, eats his plastic bib we just got him, and flings food everywhere. DS1 is an equal pain as he wants to sit on my knee and for me to feed him, and i know he is only being little and attention seeking, but at 2 and 2 months he can get on and feed himself. Only paddies here are when the food is not quick enough, or if it is baby mush - he's eating exactly the same as the rest of us at 8 months.

Anyway time will tell for you!!!

Suppose i should do a fly list for today while the baby is napping.

Well, the day started at 1:15am, when DS1 came into us as his nappy had leaked and him and his bed were wet, he then wouldn't get back into it when we had changed him and remade it, so we had him in with us, going 'get dressed now', and us putting him off. DS2 woke at 5:40, so he had a bottle then ended up in with us too, blowing rasberries in my face and hitting me. Eventually DH got up for work and to drop DS1 at nursery for me, and he woke me up at 8:20 to tell me my car has a flat battery so i won't be able to go and pick DS up from nursery. :rolleyes:

So plan is, DH will come home early from work, jumpstart my car, all of us run through in that to pick up DS1 from nursery, then pop through to my mums as we haven't seen/spoken to them since boxing day, where we can
a) pick up rest of xmas pressies
b) get some charge into my battery
c) get dad to write me a cheque for xmas pressies i got them (over £100 :j)
d) wear out the boys so we don't have the before bed kerfuffle we have been having as we try to get DS1 in bed.
I love it when a plan has several aims to achieve.

Anyway, so far today, I've

• washed load of my clothes
• washed DS1's wet bedding and got that remade with clean, and is now in TD drying
• changed my bedding, remade with 2nd set and will get that on once DS2 awakes
• packed a bag of jamas for boys at my parents tonight
• took some clean clothes upstairs and sorted
• fed me and ds2 breakie and lunch
• got all the breakie and lunch dishes washed up
• watched Jonathon Creek on the iplayer.
• hung up a load of bibs that i washed yesterday
• played with grumpy baby who i think is teething again, and mainly only happy when i'm holding him, hence now having a rest
• got changed when he projectiled down my back, although the clever boy completely missed his own clothes. :rolleyes:

I was thinking of going to the supermarket, but don't fanct the walk as there is still some snow so i will either pop in and make DH wait in the car later, or i will go tomorrow and also pay the cheque into the bank.

Best go and try to do something else i suppose while the boy sleeps.

Michelle, x

pigpen

rosie-marie wrote: »

Sorry but what does S&S stand for? I'm sure its something obvious.

Swish and swipe... there is a list of most of the abbreviations on post #1

serena

Great - OH just slammed the door on his way out - I can go have lunch!!

Gryfon

Thanks serena I did go through it all last year some time so everything in there fits, and that that doesn't but I should get back into one day and it will still look alright is in a pile waiting to be stored.

Ok think I might try and tackle it whilst I'm in the mood!

Hawthorn

Tuesday - tinklings
Level One
Clear and wipe kitchen worksurfaces
[STRIKE]Sweep the floor![/STRIKE]
Level Two
Mop the floor
[STRIKE]Wipe the table and dining chairs[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Muck out the fridge[/STRIKE]
Level Three
[STRIKE]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![/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Throw out any chipped mugs.. the porous pottery harbours bacteria.. YUK!![/STRIKE]
S&S over all the unit fronts and appliances!
Extras

1. Wash the windows and sills
2. [STRIKE]Clean out the microwave[/STRIKE]
3. [STRIKE]Fill a binbag with rubbish and get rid![/STRIKE]
4. [STRIKE]Catch up on important phone calls... if you do it now you have time to chase the follow up calls later in the week![/STRIKE]

Also damp dusted in the living room so that's nice and clean now, and smelling of lavender oil.
Still no airers. Pah.
I feel shocking. Soooo tired. sniffly. Achey. Feverish. Nauseous. Fuzzy headed, and I am so thirsty! I also got the shakes from coffee to keep me awake lol.

I can't keep up with this thread today

I can't face the windows because that means stretching and ouch, that hurts today.

Left to do -
Pots
Clean kitchen once again.
Mop the floor in the kitchen (muddy dogprints)
Tea
Baking for pack ups. Again. I might do a pasta salad, popcorn and fruit instead for tomorrow.

I just want to snuggle under a duvet.
Had paracetamol, so hopefully they'll kick in shortly.

hellsbells45

Well, I went back to bed and woke up at 1pm!!
Time for breakfast/lunch and then get the steam cleaner out and tackle the smelly bathroom!!!

lil_me

greenbee I'm another who tends to usually go off what fits, but have to keep check on it because my consultant will moan if I loose it too quick. Can I please steal your parents? They sound like lovely helpful people.
lg hope you feel better soon
Michelle, my cars being a pest aswell, I also need a new battery and some thermostats, hope yours is just the battery
Christmasshopper don't buy one until the last ones used or hide them, what a banana! Tell him to get a grip!
indigostar hope the toothache eases off, we like orajel for tooth pain, numbs it
Mudbath ((hugs))
Gryfon recycle/sell some clothes or pack some away and rotate wardrobe to give yourself a change.
ragz I always make more mess when I am cleaning up
ZLS1984, yes it's being stockpiled, it was pictures of piles up here which were in the paper. However I'd rather it was stock piled for now than filled landfill sites until the price improves. I think they have forgot recycling is done to reduce landfill not make money! Using tin cans can be hazardous as the insides sharp, you'd need to cover the inner ring.

Aww DS2 tidied his room, that's why all the clean clothes are back in the dirty laundry basket! S*d!
Just spent 25 minutes on the phone to British Gas, when I switched someone didn't press the final button for it to go through, so was still awaiting. So I now have had to go through it all, again, now it won't be switched until 15th February, grr! At least I phoned them as they haddn't been in touch.

I just noticed this advertised on TV http://www.dietchef.tv/ what do you think? £6.79 per day for one person!!! I'd never heard of it before, seems really odd.

Justamum

Gryfon wrote: »

Ok I have a clothes question. I am really struggling with clothes in our bedroom. At the moment I have 2 short 4' rails and 1 long 1.5' rail for clothes, 2 deep drawers under one of the 4' rails and in between a chest of 3 deep drawers. Now does that sound enough for clothes for 2 of us? I'm finding that I'll put stuff in the drawers and they never see the light of day again, or someone will grab something and forget to put the stuff back into the drawers. I'm sure I don't have that many clothes but I just can't seem to organise my wardrobes!

Any ideas? I'm really struggling! One thought I did have was to put summer stuff in boxes under the bed for now. I really want to vacuum my bedroom floor :rolleyes: BTW this does have something to do with my kitchen as once it's done it'll free up a load of space in the kitchen as I can move the boxes filled with clothes!

Well put it this way - if we had that much storage space we'd lose our clothes in it! :rotfl:

toottifrootti

Happy Birthday Greenbee!!!!xxx


Hope you a lovely day and saved some cake for yourself!

love and hugs
toots xx

Cazzie_2

pigpen wrote: »

Ooh Cazzie. I have sausage casserole chucked in my SC too.. can you smell yours yet?? mine is miles away at the back of the house so my nose hasn't found it yet!

Yay! Gotta love Sausage casserole... I can smell mine whenever I walk into the kitchen.. bliss! I must admit I sometimes purposefully walk in and out of the kitchen just so I can smell it!

In other news... my under the sink cupboard!!!! :eek: I found SEVEN... I kid you not, SEVEN bottles of suncream.. all half full. A nearly new bottle of Stardrops that I didn't know I had and two half full anti-bacterial sprays!!! :rotfl: