Weekly Flylady Thread 15th June 2009

soappie

I'm off to bed now. Sleep well my lovelies.....

Quillion

Toots i am sorry but i was fine i would have stopped if i was struggling.

And i forgot to say that i made a shepherds pie and yrkshire puddings as well and 10 loads of washing and drying.

OK DONT SHOOT ME

I have started reading Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and OMG its a really good easy read. I read the first book whilst house sitting and have got the other three to read so next week i will be reading alot.

Rose Greenbee when we go to house sit i treat the house and gardens pretty much like my own. I cook and clean and leave the house spotless for my friends return.

My friends wife passed away last year after having terminal cancer and she was his world. They loved to holiday and we used to house sit for them. Today was her birthday and she kept a tidy house and used to love it when she got off holiday to clean house and organised cupboards in the kitchen and bathroom.
I always clean and declutter the fridges and the cupboards at her request and when i cook i make extra stuff for the freezer for Phil. He loves my shepherds pie.

I would not dream of staying in amy house and leaving a mess although on a couple of occaisions one of the dogs Bronwyn was scared of thunder. I left the house to drop my DH at work and it thundered. She got into the bathroom and tried to hide in the shower. She broke 5 plant pots scrambling and in the space of half an hour made a tidy house look like a warzone. Terry and Phil walked in the door 2 minutes after me as i was trying to coax the shivering dog through the house avoiding the broken pots.

Such is life.

I have also been job hunting and am going to apply for a few i have seen. I am really nervous about this as i have worked for the same place for 18 years but hey ho it has to be done. Im scared though.

I will have to sort update and create a new CV so i will be busy doing that too.

OK enough waffle off to bed for me.

TOOTS i love my flower xx

PEN PEN Arn't you a clever girl oh the power you have xx

Night all and Piper sweety hope you have had a great birthday xxxx

Natty68

Toots, unfortunately the discs haven't arrived from Medion yet. So I am unable to reformat the computer, but they better hurry up soon as the poor lappy is starting to get very grumbly with me. I am keeping my fingers crossed that the discs arrive very soon because lappy will be on her last legs before too long But I did get my new mobile within the 24hrs of phoning up 3 for a replacement, so I have been playing with that instead. It also helps that I have wifi on it so it can pick up my broadband here in the home.

Made a different dish tonight using up some chicken breasts, it was a jerk chicken seasoning that I picked up in Asda at the weekend. Had to buy some pineapple chunks as well..but boy did the receipe turn out scrummy. We also had fresh peas and broad beans from the veggie box, and it was my first time eating broad beans too Also I decluttered some overripe apricots that had come in my veg box early in the week, I picked up some bramley apples from the farm shop while I was out. Popped the apricots and apples in the microwave to stew, then made a crumble with them. Mmmmmm scrummy pud!!

Tomorrow I intend to catch up on the ironing pile/mountain while decluttering some V+ programmes.

Magnificent Monday - Kitchen and dining room
Level One
Scrub down the front of units and large appliances and kickboards
Level Two
Wipe and replace small appliances
Clean out the gruesome fridge
Wash windows
Level Three

Extras

1. Thoroughly clean the undersink cupboard
2. dust and deweb
3. clean the paintwork
4. Wipe the inside doors.. inside.. and out!!

Tuesday thrills - Master bedroom and landing
Level One
Strip and wash bedding
Vacuum and turn mattress
Level Two
Clear the floordrobe
Clear the floor on the landing
Wash the windows
Level Three
Vacuum the cleared floors!
Dust and deweb.. don't forget the bed frame and light fitting
Wipe the paintwork

Extras

1. HHI
2. Binbag dance
3. fill a box with gibble and put it all in its proper home
4. send 5 things to charity shop

Wednesday Whizz! ~ Living room, hall and stairs!
Level One
Declutter the flat surfaces.. even if you scoop it all into a box to deal with later!
Level Two
Dust and deweb!
Level Three
Polish any glass/ornaments/electricals etc

Extras

1. Wash any soft furnishings that are grubby
2. Wipe the paintwork over
3. 15 minutes filing
4. Sort through the box/bag you chucked your 'decluttering' into!!!

Thursday Scrub-a-dub ~ bathroom/loo and cruddy study!
Level One
throw out 100 things from the house!
Level Two
Wash/vacuum floors
Wash the bath mats, shower curtains and toilet hats!
Level Three
Wash all the windows and doors

Extras

1. Dust and deweb
2. Clear a shelf/cupboard wipe everything before replacing neatly
3. Do a five minute job you have been putting off forever.. like changing a lightbulb or moving a hotspot...

Fun Friday! ~ Monster rooms, Spare rooms
Level One
Spend half an hour doing soemthing for yourself.. make the hair appointment or have your nails done.. just take some time for you!!
Level Two
Change any bedding that needs it and replace with clean
Wash any curtains or pillows or bears that are in need
Level Three
Tidy a cupboard
Tidy the airing cupboard! (I know you all LOVE this!!)
Straighten the shelves etc
Extras

1. Wipe over the paintwork
2. Wipe any sticky marks off desks, walls and monitors!
3. Wipe over the bed frames!.. dust and deweb!

Wonderful Weekend ListA chance to get other halves and children involved in the fun of flying!!

1. Clean out any pets/wash bedding etc
2. Change any person bedding that hasn't been done
3. Ring someone you love just to tell them so!
4. Clean one room to level three!!
5. S&S the kitchen
6. S&S the bathroom
7. 100 fling boogie!! everything counts!!
8. Wash uniforms/work stuff whatever you need for Monday
9. Write a list of new uniform bits the children will need for the next school year and we can have a 'swap shop' on the yahoo & facebook pages!
10. meal plan for the week.. see if you can manage it without going to the shop all week!!
11. Sort through and tidy someones clothes cupboard
12. list 5 things to sell
13. fill a binbag for charity shop
14. HHG (garden)
15. HHSOAADFA

Lady-Liberty

soappie wrote: »

Nope - 15 is just the start. You have at least another three years or so until something resembling normal service is resumed with blokes. You will soon - v. soon - reach the 'grunt' stage. There will be no mean mum conversations because all you will get is a grunt. If you're lucky. There is light at the end of the tunnel though - after about 3 or 4 years...

Yes, I so agree with this.........15-18 especially GCSE & A-level times were the worst.........the best thing my DS did was leave home & go to uni.......it changed him completley & he is a lovely human being now aged 19:rotfl:

LilySue

Dustykitten wrote: »

I personally found 14 awful with mine, he is fine at the moment at 15. What was your's like at 14?

Do you care what his friends think? Thought not.
He can get a job. My DS trained as a football ref for which he gets paid, he could get a paper round.
No social life is good, he can't afford one without a job and is less likely to get in trouble and will have more time to study.
Don't worry about it being your fault, he's in practise for being a man, he'll make a great husband one day.


Ironing all done, just setting WM and then off to bed. See you tomorrow flyers.

Fourteen was okay, it's fifteen that's been the problem, maybe he is just a late developer ....and thank you for giving me the advice I would have given someone else, think I am a bit too close to the woods to see the trees at the moment :rolleyes:

soappie wrote: »

Nope - 15 is just the start. You have at least another three years or so until something resembling normal service is resumed with blokes. You will soon - v. soon - reach the 'grunt' stage. There will be no mean mum conversations because all you will get is a grunt. If you're lucky. There is light at the end of the tunnel though - after about 3 or 4 years...

Hmm somehow or other the grunt phase seems like a light on the horizon at the moment...think this is a sign that I seriously need bed, or chocolate, or even alcohol......

And now I am so brimming with pride at having managed to multi quote, I can toddle off to bed........

funfairprincess

LilySue wrote: »

Warning slight rant content below:
And a question for other mothers of fifteen year olds, or just anybody, I need all the help I can get. Do you think fifteen is the worst age, because I'm beginning to think it is....ds2 who is at that magic age has just told me that all his friends think I am a mean parent because I have ONLY paid for a school trip to Poland as his birthday present....this trip to Poland is costing £225.....and because we are so mean and did not buy him a brand new bicycle as well ( offered him either the trip or the bike, he chose the trip) he cannot get a job, has no social life and hates his whole life...and guess what it is all my fault..............................

Okay feeling slightly better already, mean because I don't normally rant about my children online, but he has this unique ability to make me a very calm woman feel like tearing my hair out...........did someon mention vodka???

Know the feeling well my 12 year old thinks either I have my own printing press at the bank of England or I have a money tree. Tonight he was saying he wanted a plasma TV for his birthday (15 december) and a laptop for Christmas, eh? NO! I'm dreading the school trip things too. My nephew who is at the same school got a letter home about a trip £400+ his mum and dad work 2 jobs each (3 kids altogether) and he was told under no circumstances. I limit mine to about £60 for birthdays, I think thats more than enough as they get things all year, not like when I was wee and you only got Christmas and birthdays and the very ocassional treat. So just let your son know you are being more than fair as my 3 kids don't get that much for their birthdays put together and I take it you'll be forking out the spending money too????? TBH I think you are doing the right thing I have never felt that it's good for kids to get everything falling in their laps, they learn nothing that way.

Got to say my DS1 has just started a wee job selling maccaroon and tablet and if he sells 1 box he gets £6 he got 2 boxes last week and managed to sell them no problem without OH or me helping so he's asked the boss guy for 3 this week. He only got the job cause I told him I couldn't keep up with dishing out to him all the time. Famous last words there are 3 weans in this house not just one!:rolleyes:

Right Taggarts on pause and it's one of the old ones with Taggart in so off to watch that.:o
see you all in the morning.

thifty

Magnificent Monday - Kitchen and dining room
Level One
Level Two
Wash windows doing this tomorrow as i want my first star toots!
Level Three

Extras
1. Thoroughly clean the undersink cupboard
2. dust and deweb
3. clean the paintwork
Tuesday thrills - Master bedroom and landing
Level One
Level Two
Clear the floor on the landing 2 bags to go in loft dh to do on sat
Wash the windows
Level Three
Vacuum the cleared floors!
Dust and deweb.. don't forget the bed frame and light fitting
Wipe the paintwork


Extras
1. send 5 things to charity shop
Wednesday Whizz! ~ Living room, hall and stairs!
Level One
Level Two
Dust and deweb!
Level Three
Polish any glass/ornaments/electricals etc
Vacuum under the furniture you can safely move
Extras
1. Wipe the paintwork over
Thursday Scrub-a-dub ~ bathroom/loo
Level One
Level Two
Wash/vacuum floors
Clean the baths/basins/bogs
Level Three
Wash all the windows and doors

Extras
Dust and deweb
1. Do a five minute job you have been putting off forever.. like changing a lightbulb i need to sew 2 buttons on!
Fun Friday! ~ Monster rooms, Spare rooms
Level One
Level Two
Level Three
Tidy a cupboard
Extras
1. Wipe over the paintwork
2. Wipe any sticky marks off desks, walls and monitors!
3. Wipe over the bed frames!.. dust and deweb!
Wonderful Weekend ListA chance to get other halves and children involved in the fun of flying!!
1. Ring someone you love just to tell them so!
2. Clean one room to level three!!
3. S&S the kitchen
4. S&S the bathroom
5. meal plan for the week.. see if you can manage it without going to the shop all week!!
6. list 5 things to sell
7. fill a binbag for charity shop
8. HHG (garden)

thifty

Gosh you ladies can talk and fly! Just had to read from page 24 and was only awol for a day!
Toots and rose Pink- thanks for your kind words.
I teach secondary and wish more parents would set boundaries and not give in! Keep up the good parenting. Oh and if anyone has any tips on what to do with a wilful 4 year old boy send them my way:rotfl:
Does anyone ever print off the lists and like a to do list to take round the house or am I being too OCD?:rotfl:
Oh and Toots the flying may suffer a bit soon as me and my friend are going to sign up for an allottment tomorrow:o Will cleaning my spade count? Night all

hollyh

Evening all,

Happy belated Birthday Piper.:j

Hugs to Pigpen, how's your bunny?

I haven't done any flying today:rolleyes:. I've been to college, then lunch with my Sisters. Then i went to OH's house for coffee, picked up Ds2 from nursery, took the rabbit to the vet ( she was bitten probably by another rabbit in the shop, she's had anti b's and i've got medicine for her ), stopped off at the chip shop, bathed Ds2 & put him to bed. Then i fell asleep on the sofa for 1 1/2 hours:rolleyes: and did 2 1/2 studying. So i'll be playing catch up again tomorrow.

I can't be bothered to find my list now, i'll find it in the morning.

lil_me

Pigpen ((hugs and more voddies)) maybe time to get access agreement sorted if he's taking the wee?
Pleased your DD had a lovely birthday FFP lovely photos, thanks for sharing those
((hugs)) for greenbee too

Woooop one of my expenses claims has come through, £150+ cheque which will clear on time for hols only problem now is where is the one I handed in before that? Argh always something to chase up!

DS2s on a trip tomorrow, thought I would be nosey to see where they are going when I noticed 'minimum age 10'.....so shall be asking when I drop him off what he'll be doing/we're paying £20 for.

Ok listipoos for the weekend, including what I missed from Tueselday

Tuesday thrills - Master bedroom [STRIKE]and landing[/STRIKE]
Level One
Strip and wash bedding
Vacuum and turn mattress
Level Two
Clear the floordrobe
Wash the windowsdone landing
Level Three
Vacuum the cleared floors! done landing
Dust and deweb.. don't forget the bed frame and light fitting done landing
Wipe the paintworkdone landing

Extras

1. HHI stop swearing!
2. Binbag dance
3. fill a box with gibble and put it all in its proper home

Wonderful Weekend List

1. Change any person bedding that hasn't been done
2. Ring someone you love just to tell them so!
3. Clean one room to level three!!
4. S&S the kitchen
5. S&S the bathroom
6. 100 fling boogie!! everything counts!!
7. Wash uniforms/work stuff whatever you need for Monday
8. Write a list of new uniform bits the children will need for the next school year and we can have a 'swap shop' on the yahoo & facebook pages!I got some spare trousers so far, 7-8 I think they are will double check tomorrow
9. meal plan for the week.. see if you can manage it without going to the shop all week!!
10. Sort through and tidy someones clothes cupboard
11. list 5 things to sell
12. fill a binbag for charity shop
13. HHG (garden)
14. HHSOAADFA

My Extras

Take DS2 for trip - after asking about age thing
Tutorial 10.30am -12.30pm
Dailies inc DW etc
Catch up on several loads of laundry found!
Sort a kitchen drawer
Sort the 'plastic pot' cupboards
Buy something to treat my athletes foot I think it is, really itchy, sort, cracking feet
Finances update