Weekly Flylady Thread 19th January 2009

mummy2mygirls

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anyone fancy a HHC/HHI 12.30 - 13.00????
toots xx

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Ill join in with you toots!! going to attack the kids rooms and see what else i can get done...

toottifrootti

READY STEADY GO!!!
JOIN ME IF YOU CAN!



GREAT MUMMYTO MY GIRLS - LETS GO!!

carol22_2

I'll join you Toots, off I go....

gunsandbanjos

My dad just sent me this, i like it.

LET IT REALLY SINK IN - THEN CHOOSE . John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, 'If I were any better, I would be twins!'
He was a natural motivator.
If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, 'I don't get it!
You can't be a positive person all of the time How do you do it?'
He replied, 'Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or ... you can choose to be in a bad mood
I choose to be in a good mood.'
Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.
Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.
'Yeah, right, it's not that easy,' I protested.
'Yes, it is,' he said. 'Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood.
You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life.'
I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.
After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.
I saw him about six months after the accident.
When I asked him how he was, he replied, 'If I were any better, I'd betwins..Wanna see my scars?'
I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.
'The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter,' he replied. 'Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I could choose to die. I chose to live.'
'Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?' I asked
He continued, '...the paramedics were great.
They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared.. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'. I knew I needed to take action.'
'What did you do?' I asked.
'Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,' said John. 'She asked if I was allergic to anything 'Yes, I replied.' The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity''
Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.'
He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude.... I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.
Attitude, after all, is everything .
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.'
After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

emily_jackson

Hi,

Hope everyone is well & welcome newbies/returners. So far today I've showered & done errands. My main aim for the rest of the day is to help my friend decorate her maisonette. I've still got plenty to do in my bungalow, but she's just moved into the place, she's pregnant with my godson :j , she's not got many other people to help her & the place needs LOADS of work (it's a council property & the previous tenant didn't let the council in for 40 years :eek: ). Other aims are to do some more errands & laundry

johanne

skim read thread.... so *hugs* etc where needed....


NICKI - HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIS!! THE BIG 30 EH??? :eek: :eek: :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:


Lil_me - totally with you on the OH borrowing money front.... mine borrowed £50 this week to get him through to payday (28th) It means hes spent £600 this month so far on "stuff" as i pay all the bills, groceries, credit card, stuff for DD out the £500 a month hes *supposed* to give me out his wages... i told him i reckon hes got a second family somewhere hes supporting cos for someone who spends 48 hours a week in work and the rest at home he manages to plough through money like its going out of fashion!! It seems to vanish into thin air once its in his wallet ..... whereas i on the other hand have spent a whopping £30 this month on myself including a night in the pub so still have £90 left in my budget with only a week left till new financial month!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Although can only spend £40 of it as rest i gave to him.......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pigpen - Fabby news about the cheque!! :j :j :j

Liberty9515 and sammiell - hope you feel better soon!!

Soappie - Id apply and make the descion later. But good luck with whatever you decide it best for you!


Well today i have

• got my avon delivery
• made sarah breakfast etc
• sorted through avon delivery and bagged it up/checked off invoice etc
• put another WM load in
• GOT REAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLY excited as a courier knocked with a box of flowers! Opened it and was chocolates and a teddy in there too........!!! ooooooooooh i thought...... then realised i didnt know a "Dennis and Kathy" so why did they love me??!! So realising they made a mistake i searched the box for another name as the address on them WAS MY address..... found a name on it as a "contact" and thought "hmm i recognise that" so went through my avon records and found the name!! It was one my customers who also lives at number 35.. just a different street! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: So i packed DD into her buggy and went and delivered the flowers/teddy/chocs to their rightful owner ( ) - turns out its her birthday today and she was very happy/impressed id been honest and took time to find out they were for her. So hey ho least someone got a nice surprise eh?!

OFF TO FLY NOW WHEN I FIND MY LIST...

Flylady_Flower

I am afraid I have got very carried away with 35 funny emails from my friend, but thought I should share this with you all, as not one of you are like the chicken, pig or cow... and this is why!!!

A Fable
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. What food might this contain? The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning: There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house! The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr.Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me." " I cannot be bothered by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The pig sympathized, but said, I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. "Be assured you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose." So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.
The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital , and she returned home with a fever. Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient. But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock.
To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer's wife did not get well; she died.
So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them. The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.
So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk. We are all involved in this journey called life.
We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.

I thought that was quite apt for here...:A

likklegibbon

Having a quick surf while my friend gets her face on -

G+B and Flower- what inspirational stories

Johanne - your kind of selflessness is a rare gift -treasure it - (oh, and make sure you get OH to pay you back!)

Flylady_Flower

pigpen wrote: »

Flower.. no.. if you were a bad mother you'd have gone into his room and got his laundry that would not teach him anything.. you (hopefully) taught him that he is responsible for his belongings and hygiene and with luck the message will stay in!

Thanks Pigpen - am in a fowl AF mood this week and was thinking I went a bit far, but I feel better now... And well done on the debt repayments... way to go..:j

G&B - that's so right, will try to remember that each morning (and during the day too), especially at the moment...:o and DS is 15 - so should definitly know better!

ETA: GOING TO DO A HHC BEFORE NEIGHBOURS COMES ON AND I HAVE LUNCH - ANYONE WANT TO JOIN ME - STARTING NOW SO I FINISH JUST BEFORE 1.45...

mummy2mygirls

ok so i have done my HHC and managed to:

Wash dds bedroom windows, de webed and fluffed!! Wiped the sticky marks, polised, made beds and emptied the washing machine!!

Just going to have my lunch. oh my approved foods order has just turned up So i will be sorting that out before toddlers and all housework is onhold lol...

list is looking better

[STRIKE]WM atleast once[/STRIKE] second lot in!
[STRIKE]Hang up wet clothes[/STRIKE]
Put away/iron pile dry clothes
[STRIKE]
Wash up and put away
Make beds
[/STRIKE]
S&S Bathroom
[STRIKE]
S&S Kitchen
Sweep
[/STRIKE] and mop hall and kitchen
quick tidy in bedroom
Sort the babys room for atleast 20 mins..
Hoover (get dh to do this when he gets home as it hurts my spd!!)
[STRIKE]Recycling[/STRIKE]
Empty kitchen bin
Sort toys in living room for atleast 10mins
Iron atleast 5 items....

I want to try and do the last from todays list tomorrow aswell so have included it on my list:
Tuesday - kitchen and dining mess
Level Two

[STRIKE]
Wipe the front of the units, kickboards and the large appliances
Sweep and mop the floor
[/STRIKE] - will mop when dd is kept busy or having a nap.......
Level Three
[STRIKE]Clean out the fridge [/STRIKE]-
De-web and fluff the room
Extras

1. Wash the windows
2. Wipe down paintwork/sideboards/units in dining room

Wednesday - sprog/spare room
Level One
[STRIKE]
Strip beds and wash sheets and any other bedding in need!
Clear the floor of gibble
[/STRIKE]Level Two
Vacuum floor - (again will get dh to do as hurts spd to much!!)
[STRIKE]
Wash window
De-web and dust the room
[/STRIKE]
Level Three

[STRIKE]Binbag dance[/STRIKE] surprising there wasnt much to put in the bin bag!!!
[STRIKE]
Wipe away sticky marks
collect dirty laundry
[/STRIKE]
Extras

1. HHS&S of the upstairs of the house..
2. HHI while watching some gubbins of the gogglebox

can nearly remove all of yesterdays catch ups now - only have the extras, which ill do if i can reach the windows....