Weekly Flylady Thread 19th October 2009

toottifrootti

Wed
send trousers to cousin
print poems for tomorrow
Thurs
order W&W shrubs
gift to Annie
[STRIKE] 60in60 in BR[/STRIKE]
return hospital book
Fri
[STRIKE] bin day - make sure it is full
check bank a/c
Phone re muscle treatment
phone dietician by lunchtime
evening shopping 6-8pm - do shopping list
change bed - [/STRIKE]put on mattress topper
Saturday
C coming for coffee - am
if necessary speak to DB
if possible speak to painter
get money
quiet day
do some packing
Sunday
Phone Mother /NOF/C
quiet day
finish packing
Monday ~ Master Bedroom
Level Two
vacuum the floors
Level Three
Tidy up the[STRIKE] floordrobe, inc. shoes bags [/STRIKE]and toiletries.
dust and deweb
Extras
HHI
Wash windows
Check doors and windows for draughts and make a plan of action for dealing with them
Tuesday ~ Living room, Hall
Level Two
[STRIKE]declutter and [/STRIKE]dust the mantle putting back only what should be there
Wipe and water plants, dust and deweb
Level Three
Clear and wipe [STRIKE]window sills,[/STRIKE] and any electricals and picture frames etc
Empty and clear out a cupboard..
Extras
HHI
binbag dance
Wipe the paintwork
Wash any windows that have been neglected
Wednesday ~ Kitchen of Grot
Level One
Declutter and mop/vacuum the floors
[STRIKE]Find and [/STRIKE]wipe the worksurfaces
Level Two
Wipe the big appliances and units.. don't forget kickboards!
Wipe small appliances and replace.. do one thoroughly.. descale or decrumb or degunge!
Level Three
Wipe the table and replace the cloth if necessary.
Sort through and clean out one cupboard
Clean the oven and hob..
Extras
Clean out the fridge.. [STRIKE]make use of anything almost past its best [/STRIKE]
Wash the windows
Drag out a large appliance or 2 and clean behind and under it
Dust and Deweb
Thursday ~ Childrens pits, spare or neglected rooms!
Level Two
Drag out and sort all the gibble from under the bed!
Straighten the toy boxes and shelves
Level Three
Dust and deweb
Wipe sticky grotmarks from the walls, doors and paintwork
Extras
Binbag dance
HHI
List 1 item to sell
sort the shoes, coats and bags!
Thank Crunchie it's Friday ~ Study and Bathroom
Level One
Spend half an hour doing something for yourself! Coffee with a friend, hair appointment... whatever
Declutter the floors!
Level Two
vacuum/mop floors
scrub the fixtures! polish the mirrors and taps
Level Three
dust and defrag the pc and [STRIKE]declutter 50 unwanted emails and 5 links from your favourites.[/STRIKE]
Wipe over the desk and any chairs that are in these rooms
Extras
wash windows
wipe doors and paintwork

my list isnt too bad considering i wasnt doing the lists:rotfl:

OK heads up ladies - i need to tell you something!!

I am going into hospital on monday for some more treatment for my muscles - quite routine ( well should be) - I will be in at least 5 days and it will depend on when I finish on friday if I get home or have to wait until monday for the all clear.
Do not fret the stars will be handled by the lovely soappie and me when i can - i have got my lappy working and have a dongle to connect to the internet - it will just depend if I get the chance to use it when i want to!!

toots xx

greenbee

thifty wrote: »

I meant the new kitchen not mine! Mine of course will be spotless including the oven;) will have hob food or takeaway night before too but we are long way off from that yet. The man we are buying from works away a lot and eats out a lot so there was very little in the fridge so am hoping it will be pretty easy to clean. But being the control freak that I am I will want to be at the new house cleaning before hubby and friend load the van up and deliver but will want to be at this house making sure they dont break anything and load everything properly!

When I moved in here, I came over with my cleaning stuff as soon as I had the keys, and by the time the furniture arrived I'd got quite a bit of cleaning done. If you're all travelling together, make sure that the cleaning stuff is accessible, so you can clean each room before you unpack properly. But if you have time to get into the house before your furniture, do it yourself and then its done properly!

Valli wrote: »

I have just done THIS for the fridge...

You can’t have what you want when you want it because…

·the bathroom suite needs replacing and the shower is broken.
·the back door has a broken hinge.
·many of the double glazed window units are steaming up and ALL need to be replaced. And the patio door is broken.
·all the carpets in all the bedrooms need to be replaced.
·the oven is broken and doesn’t heat up properly (no timer).
·the telephone bill is prohibitively expensive…don’t call mobiles from our landline.
·the kitchen units need replacing; the tumble dryer should NOT be in the shed.

So you get what you NEED

not what you WANT

Well done!!! Can you put any kind of call barring on the phone? Or use pin numbers so you can restrict some people and not others? (Or tell them to call their mates from their dad's house!)

thifty

Valli wrote: »

I have just done THIS for the fridge...

You can’t have what you want when you want it because…

·the bathroom suite needs replacing and the shower is broken.
·the back door has a broken hinge.
·many of the double glazed window units are steaming up and ALL need to be replaced. And the patio door is broken.
·all the carpets in all the bedrooms need to be replaced.
·the oven is broken and doesn’t heat up properly (no timer).
·the telephone bill is prohibitively expensive…don’t call mobiles from our landline.
·the kitchen units need replacing; the tumble dryer should NOT be in the shed.

So you get what you NEED

not what you WANT

Well said!:T:T:T Wish a few more parents were like this would make my job a lot easier!

3tabbycats

Evening everyone!
I haven't read todays posts, except for Valli's about DS's phone which caught my eye on the way to the end of the thread..made me chuckle Valli, though I doubt theres much chuckling going on in your house!

Haven't updated all my lists yet so will pop back in the morning with them.

Enjoy the meet all of you that are going..hugs to all that need.. see you all tomorrow..x

greenbee

toottifrootti wrote: »

OK heads up ladies - i need to tell you something!!

I am going into hospital on monday for some more treatment for my muscles - quite routine ( well should be) - I will be in at least 5 days and it will depend on when I finish on friday if I get home or have to wait until monday for the all clear.
Do not fret the stars will be handled by the lovely soappie and me when i can - i have got my lappy working and have a dongle to connect to the internet - it will just depend if I get the chance to use it when i want to!!

Please promise you'll keep in touch (even if via another flylady rather than in person) so that we have regular updates on your progress. And let us know if you need anything! I hope the treatment goes well and you're up and about and full of beans as soon as possible ((((hugs)))) and lots of love xxxx

thifty

Thanks Greenbee and grateful. I am not moving into a hovel, it's lovely but I just want it to be perfect I suppose!
Goodluck for next week Toots we will all miss you loads, it's always wierd when you arent here, xxxxx

sexymouse

Evening all,

A massive to everyone who has given me advice and support. I will definitely contact the union now I'm on half term - I usually get to school at 8am and don't get home until 6pm at the earliest, despite only being a 15 minute drive away at the moment - the other night, it was as late as 7pm, and as the union are only open 9-5, it's made it very hard to contact them as even my lunch hour has been spent getting stuff ready for the afternoon, as we have no TAs in the afternoons. I didn't know you could be externally observed pigpen, so thank you for that information. Also thank you to lil_me for the link to acas - hadn't heard of them before, so will have to look into that too. Thank you to Lady-Liberty, who despite everything going on in her life, has taken the time to write a very touching description of me on here, and made me out to be an angel (I'm not) - I wish there were more I could do to help you my lovely. Thank you to thrifty for talking about her experiences, and grateful and valli too - it's nice to hear from other teachers that I'm not just being oversensitive. Thank you also to rosepink for remembering my observation, and to some of you on here who I've not "met" as I've been away from the thread, who've still taken the time to wish me luck. I really am so grateful that I found this thread - without the support on here, I don't know what I'd do. Thank you also to Toots for always sending me a funny joke in text or email, to cheer me up when I've had a bad day - you really are my guardian angel - tonight when I was having dinner at my M&D's, I found out that one of the emails that you sent me, that I forwarded to my Mum, has been given to my nan, and she's been showing it to all of her nurses! lol

There seem to be lots of people on here having a really hard time at the moment for some reason or another, and it makes me realise how much I do have to be thankful for. After all, I have a partner who loves me - a lovely 3-legged cat, I see most of my family regularly, and I have a roof over my head. The children in my class like me, and so do the rest of the staff, and they've all been great. I also have some of the most wonderful friends anyone could wish for, and I can come on here and see them whenever I want to. I've also unintentionally lost a stone in weight in the last 7 weeks without going to the gym, and OH is appreciating the new smaller me.

I know this thread is meant to be about flying, and I'm really sorry that I've not mentioned any for a while - I promise to join in with some HHCs (I miss doing these) over half term, as all of my books have been left in school (mainly up-to-date with the marking), and I'm determined to get the house in order again.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow and seeing everyone again - if anyone else would like to join us too, the more the merrier - every flylady I've met in real life, has been lovely.

Well I guess I'd better head off to bed, as it'll be an early morning tomorrow as I'll be going into town with OH when he goes to work, as I still don't know which train I'm going to get yet.

Hugs to all of you - I love each and every one of you!

sexymouse xx

PS - I do mean it, and I haven't had any alcyhoil! xx

Valli

Dusty
that's a really hard one...so much so that I don't know what to say.
She needs to do something, clearly...
but there are so many kids who 'know' what can and cannot be done to them that, for some taking classes is merely crowd control.
Personally I feel that having HUGE schools with thousands of kids contributes to the problem...because the badly behaved kids can get together and cause mayhem.
And when you get primary parents coming in and telling teachers what we can and cannot do well by the time they get to secondary some kids have NO respect for teachers AT ALL. I think it's very sad...
I mean I had a mum come into me Weds. - could her daughter have books they haven't been changed this week...
me-I'm sure they were
child - no
me - didn't you come with me to the cupboard to get your books?
child - no
me - well you're ticked in the list...check your bookbag
NEW BOOKS were IN THERE!
some parents believe every single word their little darlings tell them - and this is a child I sent to the deputy not two weeks ago for pulling her tongue out at me
(Mum was told there had been an incident and that I was sure it wouldn't be repeated - because if it was I would tell mum all about it;))

soappie

lil_me wrote: »

Thanks for listening to my being a soft bag of fluff ((hugs)) for all you special people x x

Lil-me - I've always known you're a big softy xxxxx And the DS away at camp will be fine - he'll love it! Just try and enjoy the time you have with the other one xx

Valli - hugs - I think you need them...

Right I'm off to bed. Have managed to keep BD at the end of the garden for most of the day. I hope he remains there. Sleep well everyone

toottifrootti

awwwwwh sexy honey what a lovely post - we are all here behind you and wish you success as you are a lovely person and deserve it. have a lovely chill out day tomorrow. I am sad i wont be able to join you next week for an HHc but i will be lurking!!
I am glad the jokes are doing the rounds!!!
lots of love
toots xx