Weekly Flylady Thread 3rd August 2009

fedupandskint

Magnificent Monday ~ Living room, hall and stairs!
Level Two
Vacuum the floors, including the stairs
Level three
Vacuum under any furniture you can safely move

Wednesday Wonders! ~ Bathroom & Study
Level One
Clean the baths, loos, showers, sinks etc
Level Two
Wash shower curtains/bath mats etc
Clean the tiles and shine the mirrors!

List update bump.

Chicken pie filling made and stock simmering away. Leftovers for lunch eaten from the beginning of the week. All washing done now and drying on the line.

Bathroom to clean next and drains to clean out with white vinegar and bicarb

If time will make one lot of soup from stock, then off to OH for tea

pigpen

johanne wrote: »

How bizarre is that???? I only claimed in april and having just got my paperwork out to triple check it deffo says £20 each for both earnings and matinence!

System is madness isnt it?! Sooner i get a job the better! Getting fed up with all the red tape of it all. Spent last 5 months looking and applying for something though and so far had no luck!! :rolleyes:

It must have changed on 1st April and they didn't bother letting anyone else know.

gratefulforhelp wrote: »

There is a hormone that is produced in your body in pregnancy and that hormone is produced in tiny amounts in very early pregnancy, but that amount increases quite quickly in the early stages. The test strip reacts with the hormone to become coloured, so in very very early pregnancy, the strip may not change colour (not enough of the hormone yet) or may just turn very faintly coloured. A few days later, if the person is pregnant, then the strip that didn't become coloured before, may do now, as there is more of the hormone present.

hope that helps?!

human chorionic gonadatropin

The production of this peaks at 6 weeks when the placenta begins working.. though not at full capacity.. it is almost untracable after 12 weeks as well as the placenta maintains th epregnancy this is no longer required.. it is thought this is the hormone which makes you feel sicky and tired too.. hence that improves after 12 weeks when this is no longer produced is sufficient quantities to have an effect

*Jellie*

Just popping in to say I'm still to ill to fly and the house is starting to look like I feel!!

sexymouse

Big hugs to fedup about your poor elderly doogie. It's so sad when they go, even when they have had a long life and it is expected - it's still hard to accept that they're not there anymore. Thinking of you and your family at this hard time.

Polly Puss looks gorgeous pigpen. I keep meaning to ask - how is Hazel now? What does she make of the new arrival(s)?

greenbee well done on doing so well at the interview - it did sound as though you'd researched well and prepared for the interview - hope it all works out for you and that if you get the job, you don't have to do much flying (aeroplane-wise). Fingers crossed for you.

Don't know if you'll pop on here soon, but
to Tia and her OH on the birth of their daughter.

Thanks for the get well wishes rose - I'm still very bunged up and had a really bad night's sleep last night as there were a couple of mosquitoes buzzing around the ceiling and I was scared they were going to bite me (bugs love me) - managed to kill one, but the other one must've flown back out of the window. Well done for all of the living room flying you've done - hope you enjoy having your visitor over.

Hugs for sarahshattered - hope you managed to clean up ok after DD's friend's accident.

Had a nice day out with OH in Southampton yesterday - was nice to be back there again (went to uni there) as it brought back some nice memories of when OH and I were first together. We went to Ikea and I treated him to a 9-piece cooked breakfast, and I had an almond croissant, and we had free tea/coffee/hot chocolate as I signed up for a family card. Then we looked around thoroughly, tried out some of the mattresses, but then the guy told us that their matresses were too big to fit on UK bedsteads as their's were 10cm longer than a standard double. We had hotdogs before going into town. We went to Debenhams to see what they had, and their range consisted of about 5 beds and that was it - think the people that ran the bed section must've gone into administration, and just left a few bits of stock behind as there were no staff around either. I did however, manage to get a new watch strap for the swatch watch my Mum gave me. We also looked in John Lewis, but they were expensive. Then we went back to Ikea to have cake and coffee as I love their almond cake (bought a frozen one to take home too). We decided to go back to the beds bit, cos I was sure that when I'd looked on their website, I'd seen matresses that were uk doubles, and I was right, so we've got our eye on this one if we don't find any others anywhere else - it's so comfy, especially after you've been shopping all day - the only downside, is my fitted sheets won't fit if we get it, cos the mattress is 26/7cm thick, and my sheets are already a tight fit - will have to buy some flat sheets and just make the bed with blanket corners.

Sorry I can't remember off the top of my head who it was, but whoever was looking for fabric, Ikea do it too.

2 loads of washing done today - think I'm going to have a little lay down on the bed with my little puddytat and read the book my Mum has lent me. OH will be home from work soon as he finishes at 4pm and he's on holiday for 2 weeks starting from tonight.

Hugs from a distance to anyone who wants or needs one.

sexymouse xx

toottifrootti

CoooooooooEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!

I am back!!! I bet you never even noticed i was gone:rotfl::rotfl:
I have managed to rig up a temp pc connection for the weekend because i was missing you all so much i just had to see what was happening!

thank you all for the kind wishes, texts, cards etc - you made me sad and happy at the same time - sad because I missed you and happy with the love and caring wishes you all sent.:A:A

I am still in a lot of pain from the infection in my wound but hopefully the Ab's will sort it out - the stitches should have come out yesterday but it was too sore and inflammed to touch.

Ok so whats been happening???
toots xx

helen_jelly

Toots - nice to see you back, hope your infection clears up really soon and that you feel heaps better

Helen x

fedupandskint

Magnificent Monday ~ Living room, hall and stairs!
DONE!

Wednesday Wonders! ~ Bathroom & Study
DONE!!!

All flying done today, leaving tomorrow free :T

Flying helped me take my mind of my doggie whose has gone now. He had a long long life and came on holiday with us walking and climbing. He was seventeen and a half at the end and he hung on as long as he could. He is at peace now sleeping as he liked.

Just trying to get used to him not being here now and it will take a while. My younger dog is two and a half and he is getting used to him not being here too. It is like losing a relative, even though it was right and for the best for him. The vet said he only a had a few days left at the most.

My eyes are quite sore from crying and weeping, I look a bit puffy and red around the eyes for now.

This is a new phase of life now without him and it is just getting used to him not being there after all this time.

No more dog bereavement talk after this post on this thread now as I need to move on and not remind myself and dwell too much in the future.

Thanks to everyone for all your kind words :A as usual the support on here is fab :T

fedupandskint

Hellooooo Toots!

Great to see you back, hope you are ok and recovering nicely. We all miss you on here and you have been missed!

Take care my dear and take it gently and look after yourself x

rosieben

welcome back tooti :wave: lovely to see you back, you were very much missed although pigpen and soapie have done a great job of keeping order Take care of yourself!

methekidsandthecat

Afternoon all

We are back from the no so sunny holidays!! Had over an inch of rain on Tuesday and more on Monday and Wednesday.... still it was nice on Thursday - we drove from Bath to Eden Project - had a great time but I was shattered all day yesterday.

Traffic was horrid today on the way home especially around Oxford and at Peterborough services on the A1.

Had some great news - Mum and Dad have now got a bungalow - 2 bedrooms and the Council will paint it and they should get the keys in a few weeks as I have also asked that the locks are changed as they are dreadful and the patio needs leveling. They will need new carpets throughout as they are dire and very dirty. I am so pleased but still more work for me in the short term - tomorrow we will be going down to clear the loft - hopefully most of this can go straight to the tip. The 2 GT's will be coming too so I will at least have some help for this bit. Not so dear sister has still not lifted a finger to help!! It was worth driving a 100 miles back from holiday to view the bungalow with Mum and Dad and loosing a day of the holiday!

Right - need to start on trying to clear some of the chaos here.....
Magnificent Monday ~ Living room, hall and stairs!
Level One
Declutter the guff and put it where it belongs!
Empty bins etc
Level Two
Vacuum the floors, including the stairs
Level three
wipe and water any plants - plants currently reside outside!!!
fold linen and put it away
Extras

1. 15 minutes filing/shredding
2. Binbag dance!

Tuesday Terrors! ~ Kitchen and Dining area
Level One
Declutter floors and work surfaces!
Wipe worksurfaces
Level Two
Wipe all small appliances and replace
Sweep and mop the floor
Level Three
Clean out the grotty fridge
S&S the hob & oven
Wednesday Wonders! ~ Bathroom & Study
Level One
Declutter the floors
Clean the baths, loos, showers, sinks etc
Level Two
Collect all the laundry and deposit in the basket!
Wash shower curtains/bath mats etc
Defrag PC while you clean the tiles and shine the mirrors!
Level Three
Empty and clean out any bins
Recycle/bin any empties and make a note of what you need to restock on

Extras

1. dust and deweb
2. 15 minutes filing and desk clearance!

Thrilling Thursday ~ Childrens Rooms and Land of Spare Oom
Level One
Strip beds, vacuum and turn mattresses if needed and remake with clean bedding
Level Two
Declutter the floor
Laundry in the basket
Level Three
Vacuum the floors

Flinging Friday ~ The Queens Boudoir and the landing!

Level One
Strip bed, vacuum and turn mattresses if needed and remake with clean bedding
Empty a box of junk from the landing
Level Two
Declutter the floordrobe
Laundry in the basket
Level Three
Sort a box of stuff from your room.. any box!
Sort a cupboard of clothes.. make it neat.. can anything be flung?
Vacuum the floors

I have taken out some things that I know I will not have time to do - but still lots so i had best get and do a HHC....

I hope everyone is ok - I have not had time to catch up but I will later this evening.

See you at 5....

Me