Weekly Flylady Thread 19th January 2009

ragz_2

I'm in!

Laptop's messing about so only just made it on here after rather a long break. Hope everyone is well and happy, not going to attempt to cach up!

Few announcements -
- (Proud Mummy Moment) DS1 had his first day at pre-school today!
- I finally bought and (OH) installed a smoke alarm! So can now join you in the weekly testing! *When I work out how!
- I finished putting up the shoe rack I bought 3 weeks ago! 70 screws and many blisters later, only to find that it does not fit in either of the places I had planned for it!
- MY BOILER BROKE THIS AFTERNOON SO I HAVE NO HEATING OR HOT WATER UNTIL I CAN GET THE LETTING AGENTS ON THE CASE TOMORROW, AND IT'S FRICK'N COLD!:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

House isn't too bad considering I've had no access to flylady for ages. Have got into the habit of always washing up and cleaning surfaces and cooker after every meal/end of every day so that at least thet room is tidy. I like coming dawnstairs to a clean kitchen in the morning.
Adjusted the list so far to fit in tomorrow...

Monday - Master bedroom & landing
Level One
Strip and wash sheets
Vacuum and turn mattress before replacing clean sheets
15 minutes floordrobe clearance
Wash windows
Vacuum floors

Tuesday - kitchen and dining mess

Clear and wipe work surfaces
Wipe and replace small appliances
Empty cutlery drawer.. wash cutlery tray and replace everything neatly.. get rid of all the odds and sods that shouldn't be in there.. ooohh nice one Pigpen, been looking at it since I started Flying again thinking it looks grubby!
Wipe the front of the units, kickboards and the large appliances
Sweep and mop the floor
Wipe dining table and replace cloth if needed

DeniseNZ

Quickly adding Tuesdays list while I'm at work:

Tuesday - kitchen and dining mess
Level One
Clear and wipe work surfaces
Wipe and replace small appliances
Level Two
Empty cutlery drawer.. wash cutlery tray and replace everything neatly.. get rid of all the odds and sods that shouldn't be in there..
Wipe the front of the units, kickboards and the large appliances
Sweep and mop the floor
Level Three
Wipe dining table and replace cloth if needed
Clean out the fridge
De-web and fluff the room
Extras

1. Wash the windows
2. Wipe down paintwork/sideboards/units in dining room
3. Clean filters and detergent dispensers
4. HHI

Plus the extras from yesterday . . . and sorting the ironing pile

froddington

Since my last post I have paid off my credit card :j and transferred money into my mortgage. I'm loving all the new yellow avatars but don't know who's who anymore (I'm having to read the names!!!) As mine has yellow (well, gold) in it, I'll keep it! And I've got yellow walls in my front room!

rach - a Mr. Men and Little Miss fan by any chance Thought I was the only (grown up) one

gsysezz - hugs for you and DS
toots - :T on the ebay challenge. All I managed to do was list 6 things on Play.com

LilySue - prayers for MiL

gnb - glad the cardio news was good

mof77 - hugs and prayers for you and yours - what a day!!

SummerMoon - hugs - I get days like that too and can't find any reason for it ....

soappie - hugs - that's bad news. Hope something gets sorted.

Welcome to any newbies and sorry if I've missed anyone - have a hug if needed.

Monday - Master bedroom & landing

Extras
Binbag dance
HHI

My one-a-day (or 7-a-weekend!!) list:
- [STRIKE]pay credit card (last payment - yay!!)[/STRIKE] DONE
- [STRIKE]pay money into mortgage[/STRIKE] DONE
- contact Union
- take compost and book to dad
- take stamps and bags to charity shop
- sort and box up football programmes
- car checks

johanne

Ok result of 15 min challenge:

• Put DD to bed with her night garden cd as shes wide awake :rolleyes:
• folded a ikea bag of dry washing (curtains and quilt covers)
• Sorted a load for the WM from the dirty washing pile mountain
• Restacked some boxes in spare room so can get to TD better
• Emptied TD into a plastic box
• Realised i need to tackle "ironing" this week aka shove things in drawers unless really really bad....:o :rotfl:
• Got back through the living room door just in time for the ref to blow the whistle for the second half ..:D Come on you Reds......!!!!!

soappie

Dustykitten wrote: »

Feeling a bit grim. I've had a sore jaw all day and I swallowed (no jokes please soappie) earlier and it clicked and sent a horrid shooting pain through my ear. It's hurting now so I've taken some ibup and I'm going to head off to bed

Night night Dusty - hope the ear's better v. soon. I'm off to bed as well imminently - as soon as the BM has finished. I feel the need to hibernate a bit. Have dug out the mags but need to get an envelope big enough!

To everyone else - stay safe, keep warm, and keep well.

Night night all

Soappie xx

Flylady_Flower

Mudbath wrote: »

Looking at that horrid subject of finances.....it's looking like we won't be getting a caravan this year. I think we have to get rid of the credit card first. If we wait until next year then we can save for the caravan....you know when you know it makes sense but you don't want to listen!!! That's me!!!! I don't want to camp his year due to my op but I know DH will still take the children away with friends so at least they won't do without a holiday. Being sensible is poo! xx

What about a caravan holiday where you rent one? at least you can 'try before you buy' kinda then????

As for the page going really wide, if it was your signature (haven't read that far, but notice you've removed your colourful payments), all you need do was put a space in there - its like when people have long names - the page starts further to the right, it just needs a space to make it go onto the next page (or next line in case of signatures), then you can keep your pretty coloured payments, which you should do so you can see what you have accomplished - :T well done by the way :T - is there a link to the thread you got the idea from or did you just think of it yourself?

heather38

hi rach sorry it took so long to post my half hour!
i have cleaned the dishes, cleaned out a cupboard, wiped my small appliances, emptied the bin, wiped down 2 doors, wiped the plinth at the top of the wall cupboards, wiped the lid of the bin, filled a bag of stuff to go upstairs and put the cover on the pram after i had washed it.
i was on a roll so i braved the cold and went to b&q carpark to take the recycling.
am sat having a brew and feeding the baby then i'll finish the ironing.

Flylady_Flower

serena wrote: »

flower - I meant to ask you last week if you'd be free to meet for coffee in Lakeside when I came up, but left it too late - I'll ask another time. dusty - are you anywhere near then?

No, Dustys up in Hertfordshire, but I am going up there next week, hence the JL meet...;)

Shame, you should have let me know and if I could, I would have met you there...

Rach - you're on the list...:j

Mmmm, maybe that is where we could have the SE meet...

Valli

Evening all
Came home from work
ate tea
went back to work IN THE DARK into a dark building set off alarm (again) as I forgot code (again) we have 2 doors with (slightly) different codes...crept through eerie dark victorian school into my dark classroom which of course is right at the other dark end of the dark building to get the stuff I needed in the dark...***heart pounding***

Wore new 'shoots' to school today and they were much admired by colleagues and children alike:D me shallow?:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
and didn't take them off until half an hour ago and feet fine:D

Julu wrote: »

Triker - Do hope you feel better soon - have you phoned dentist for some different/stronger antibiotics?

Soappie - Sorry to hear about your job - my DH got his final date today- 24 April

Johanne - Promotion vibes for your OH

Big hugs for all those suffering with the January blues

pinching Julu's cos she has summed it up but oh heck MoF77 what a day you have had too...
Juliejim you are a star:A and have a PM...

Flying wise - well I have washed up - but I need some special Flylady goggles as I keep spotting cobwebs for which I am not responsible, have no intention of moving/dewebbing but am appalled by ...think I am coming over all Anthea!

Am looking forward to Wednesday as I have the afternoon put aside to do some Flying at work - I have to sort through our software, licences etc...it will be a big job (ie longer than an afternoon) BUT I will make a start ***rubs hands as feels a spreadsheet coming on*** then it's DS's parents evening:o still his PE teacher is very [strike]cute[/strike] articulate and up to speed with developments...

Triker Empire - hope you get your money back.

Mudbath

Flower....http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1384751

Lets see if that works...it's on the debt free board and is called payment a day (2). It's very friendly. I've sat down and worked out if we carry on saving the amount of money i'm throwing at the cards we could buy a caravan in May and only miss April for caravaning. My DH is amazed i'm not flinging it straight on the plastic!!! xx