Weekly Flylady Thread 12th October 2009

MrsChaos

Hi :hello:

so glad it's the weekend. I was just about to relax with a cuppa, reading the thread, when I got a text with my new mobile bill (my phone and one for DS1). It's almosts £130 more than it should be!!! :eek::eek::eek:

He managed to spend over 1100 minutes on the phone in one month, not counting texts. If you hear screams of 'Help' in the South Yorkshire region later, please feel free to ignore. There will be no pocket money until he's married - at the earliest - and daily checks of how much he's used his phone!!! I really didn't need this so close to Christmas.

Here's how I got on so far today.

Today's non-negotiable, absolute must-do's:
wash hair, dry and straighten - done
Make lunches - done
sort clothes for kids - done
post postcard for exchange student - done
buy pizzas etc for tea and generally raid Jack Fulton's - done

I've also emptied and re-loaded DW, stuck towels in to wash and gone through the fridge to check for anything likely to grow fur. Not bad so far, and it's early days yet.

More flying later.

Jassa

hex2 wrote: »

and me please!




DS1 is busy singing - 'girl, your socks is on fire....' his interpretation of Kings of Leon

Brilliant!

Jx

jinky67

Mooooooooooooonday ~ Kitchen and Dining room!
Level One:j
Level Two
Empty and clean out a cupboard.. fling all that is dead, mouldy or inedible.. and DD1 says all weevilly things too.. but I like them.. they are full of protein!

Level Three
Clean the oven and hob
Clean out the fridge.. you do not need furry food!

Extras

1. HHI
2. Binbag dance
3. wash out bins
4. Wash the windows:D

Tuesday ~ brats room.. if you have no brats do your own room!
Level One
Declutter the floors
Strip the bedding get it washed dried and the beds remade!
Level Two
vacuum the floors
Straighten a cupboard of clothing
Wipe the paintwork
Level Three
Tidy a box of 'stuff'
binbag dance!
dust and deweb
Extras

1. HHI
2. Wash windows
3. Fill a binbag for charity shop!
4. Wipe over ALL the upstairs doors!! (don't moan, I have 7!!)

Wednesday ~ Living room, hall and stairs!
Level One
Declutter floors
vacuum right through
Level Two
Dust, deweb and defluff all those electrical appliances to!

Wash sofas/covers and any soft furnishings that need it
Level Three
polish mirrors, glass and metals!
Wipe radiators and paintwork
15 minutes filing!
Extras

1. 32 fling boogie!
2. HHI
3. Sort through a drawer or cupboard
4. Check window seals for any draughts and stop them up if necessary.. we will be draught free this winter!

Thursday ~ Study, Landing, Porch and other neglected bits!
Level One
Declutter the floors in the study and landing
Vacuum these areas!
Level Two
Declutter and dejunk the porch.. this is where first impressions of your house are made!
Sort through coats, bags, shoes etc.. are there any that can be flung? Who needs a new winter coat this year?
Wash the front door and wipe paintwork!
Level Three
Binbag dance!
Wash any sofas/chairs in these areas
Dust and deweb.. esp the porch!!
Extras

1. Wash any smelly pet bedding
2. Wash any grubby windows
3. List 5 things on ebay!/freecycle.. or just fling them to charity shop!
4. Change the curtains to the thicker winter ones!

Friday ~ Bathroom and Study ALL DONE TOOTS_party__party__party_
Level One:j
[STRIKE]declutter floors[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Scrub the bath, loo, basins, bidets, showers etc etc[/STRIKE]
Level Two:j

[STRIKE]Scrub tiles and polish mirrors[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Vacuum/mop floors[/STRIKE]
Level Three:j
[STRIKE]Wipe chairs and sofas[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Wash shower curtains, bathmats etc[/STRIKE]

Extras

1. Clean out and tidy cupboards
2. Replace and curly toothbrushes
3. Shine the taps with one of the old ones
4. Check all the smoke alarms.. don't forget all rooms with high sleepers in MUST have their own alarm in!

Jinky must make sure she reads her posts before she adds them:o:rotfl:

Love and hugs to everyone who needs them

And a special one to my new friend Diva:kisses:

hex2

Mrs Chaos - huge sympathy hugs. My SS did this to me three times in a year, the third time I gave notice on the account and put him back on PAYG. We worked out he must have sent a text every five minutes (inclduing when he was asleep!) for the best part of a month.

I have now hoovered the ground floor and binned some more junk, and S&S'd the kitchen. DS1 has worked really very hard and has cleared the playroom floor for me :T instead of whinging and doing nothing like DS2 :rolleyes:.

Dustykitten

Natty68 wrote: »

Ugh is it me or is it getting colder? For some reason my house feels rather cold I am considering putting my heating on low, just to take the chill off the place, but I am trying so hard to hold on until 1st November.. Somehow I don't think I will be keeping to this if it gets any colder tonight..lol

Feeling rather blaa for some reason,

I have set myself a dealine of 23rd October (next friday when the kids break up for half term). I've had the log fire alight in the living room several times and am lucky that the AGA makes the kitchen and family rooms warm. Hope you feel better soon - maybe it is because you are cold

serena wrote: »

Could the fairy godmother who magicked the Yankee tarts deliveries this week please pm me???

Love and hugs to all the poorlies, must go have a cup of tea.

And me please.

I've done another box in the RofD and I know now that I will finish the room! Aim to start with is all the stuff you can 'see' or is on the floor and then I'll move onto the cupboards - I've done one already.

Just cooking dinner whilst DS2 is at footie training and then I want to have a look on ebay and see if some of my other stuff is worth listing next week.

greenbee

serena wrote: »

Could the fairy godmother who magicked the Yankee tarts deliveries this week please pm me???

And me please!

hex2 wrote: »

Greenbee, feel free to ignore me but the more you say about your new job the more IMHO I think you should jump ship quickly if you can. You can get away with a six month or less change, looks worse if you stay for 18 months and go. If this is how they treat new starters when they should be 'wowing' them for buy in and a strong positive psychological contract then how do they treat longer term employees?

That's kind of how I'm feeling at the moment... I've decided that I'll have to make my mind up before the end of my probationary period. I have a meeting with HR on Monday to discuss further - I need to know how I can be sure that the existing problem is fully recorded as there was no DDA declaration on any pre-employment paperwork, and also to tell them that my GP has a. referred me to the physio for the first time in years due to pain caused by my working conditions, and b. says that they need to send me to an Occupational Health specialist to assess what adjustments need to be made to standard working practices and conditions, as neither she nor the physio is qualified to do this.

Strangely enough, I'm doing all my work on paper at the moment, rather than via the company systems, as I don't want to leave anything behind that they can use if I go!

I've had a bit of a blitz downstairs, as I discovered a GINORMOUS spider busy hibernating behind a cushion on the sofa. So I've taken it apart, opened up the sofabed, moved the sofa (another marginally smaller one was lurking there), done the floors, moved most of the furniture, hoovered the curtains (front and back) and made a start on the hall (doormats done, door curtain done, most of the floor done). I has to stop to talk to the GP and then the health insurance people, so I'm going to tidy up and try to have a relaxing evening and not think about the indoor wildlife...

Hopefully off to visit a friend tomorrow and go to Bicester village, then I'm out again for lunch on Sunday! I think I might be in danger of developing a social life (oh yes... and I'm out on Tuesday evening too with my old team).

I'm sure I'll be back here later...

poohbear59

We have had our heating on for about a month here. Luckily we have a wood burner so can scrounge/scavange fuel for it but the oil boiler has been on every day too.

I haven't been nto the room of doom. DH has been in and fed ancient cat in there. I may go in and start tidying/cleaning tomorrow.

My DS3 is coming home for the weekend. I haven't seen him for nearly three weeks so I am really looking forward to seing him.

hollyh

Hi all,

OH has taken both Ds's with him to the shop so i'm posting whilst i've got 5 minutes peace.

Since my last post i have

Hoovered living room
Lit fire
Put shower curtain back up
Put washing on airer
Cooked Tea
Brought washing in
Folded dry washing
Put damp washing on airer
Wiped table
Washed up
S & S Kitchen

Utility Room
Tidy
S & S
Hoover & Mop

Extras
Photograph & list contents of Ebay pile
Update spending spreadsheet
Wrap presents & update Xmas spreadsheet
Phone DRs
Freezer inventory
Menu plan
Declutter cabinet in Living room
Fill in application form
Tidy & sweep outside door area
Pay other CC
Deal with post

Edinburghlass_2

Thought I better pop in and let you know I've managed to do a S without the S before having a R&R as I see there have been a few welcome posts to me and I thank you kindly for the welcome but I doubt my appearance will be regular

Tonight I'm going to tackle the kitchen while watching Martin's prog at 8.00 pm ITV and have some soup that my daughter made this afternoon. (the reason I need to tackle the kitchen) Not quite soappie's recipe more using a bag of woopsie veg I picked up in Asda last night but it was blitzed with the new blender so I need to find an accessible spot to put the blender in.

Have a lovely evening all :j

Scared1980

Evening everyone... Been so busy at work this week I haven't managed to come on to update the lists... so here goes....

Mooooooooooooonday ~ Kitchen and Dining room! - DONE :j
Tuesday ~ brats room.. if you have no brats do your own room! - DONE :j
Extras

1. Wipe over ALL the upstairs doors!! (don't moan, I have 7!!)

Wednesday ~ Living room, hall and stairs! - DONE :j
Extras

1. 32 fling boogie!
2. Check window seals for any draughts and stop them up if necessary.. we will be draught free this winter!

Thursday ~ Study, Landing, Porch and other neglected bits!
Level One - Done
Level Two - Done
Level Three
Binbag dance!
Wash any sofas/chairs in these areas
Dust and deweb.. esp the porch!!
Friday ~ Bathroom and Study
Level One - DONE
Level Two - DONE
Level Three
Recycle the empties and decant dribbles
Extras

1. Clean out and tidy cupboards
2. Replace and curly toothbrushes
3. Shine the taps with one of the old ones

Wow... Done better than I thought :rotfl:

I have a whole Sunday to myself this weekend... DD's are with their Dad and my lovley OH is off playing golf... so intend on doing a lot of de-cluttering and then spending at least 2 hours pampering myself .

I am considering picking up my law degree again soon :eek: Now the girls are a bit older and going to bed well etc. I don't really have an excuse!!

Hugs and feel better vibes to everyone who needs/wants them.

Lyns
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