Weekly Flylady Thread 19th October 2009

jinky67

greenbee wrote: »

If you're using a PC you can just use the 'Print Screen' button and then paste the print... (I thought Valli knew how her PC worked too...:p)

If you're using a Mac, go into apps/utilities & open Grab. Hopefully it will be self-explanatory from there.

Your PC/Mac OS help menu is always handy for this kind of thing

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Press the "Prt Screen" button. This puts what's on your screen onto the clipboard. You can then paste into a word document, and print multiple copies

Valli, you need "Overly Chatty" in your sig :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

ETA, too slow and greenbee added Mac instructions

whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh, right over my little head:o

Valli wrote: »

Why? (she asked innocently)

cos you ADMITTED IT, not that you were classed as:p:p:p:p

soappie

Jinky,

On your computer keyboard, theres a button (usually top right somewhere above the number pad) which says PRTSC or Print or something. You click that and then open up word OR an image editing software like MS paint and then hold down the control button and hit V - that pastes a picture of everything you've got on your screen into a file which you can then save.

Going one step further, if you hold down the ALT button at the same time as clicking the PRINT <screen or whatever> button, only the window on the screen that has the current focus (i.e. is the active one) is copied to the clipboard.

serena

valli - I pretty much use Pen-pen's tomato recipe - but with fresh tomatoes, and a large tablespoon or two of tomato puree. To make vegetarian lasagne, I usually use ratatouille. I mostly always have bags of this in the freezer to make use of a glut of courgettes. It always takes ages to defrost though... I had this yesterday at the pub on the meet, served with a very good salad (so often they aren't...) and garlic bread - but made from ciabatta rather than French stick, which was an interesting change. I would however have suggested to the chefs that they remove the bay leaves from the tomato mix before layering up the lasagne...I think it was described as a mediterranean roasted vegetable lasagne. I have a feeling that Sarah Raven does a version with swiss chard which sounds delicious, but I forgot to sow any this year.

I'm still shattered.

I have however, had a little sleep in, having put the alarm an hour later. I delivered DS2 to rugby practice this morning, then paid my allotment rent and collected vegetables - probably the last of the French beans - they were tiny, but it was well worth a late sowing in August, I've had three or four good pickings from that patch, the last tiny courgettes, carrots, leaf beet, and lettuce. After lunch I went into town with DD as she had an interview for a Christmas job in the card shop. Fingers crossed she gets it.

I don't like it being dark late afternoon...

:hello:to the newbies, and also all my flylady friends.

I had a count up, and I can claim stars for:
BathroomDone!! :D:D,
Main Bedroom Done!! :D:D
Living room Done!!:D:D:D

I never had time or energy for the rest last week, but I'll be doing the kitchen tomorrow, and have the kids' rooms on their lists of what to do this week!

sexymouse - DS1 loved Camden Market, and wants us to go back sometime! How was the fair?

toots - love and hugs for this week. I'll miss you.

jinky67

soappie wrote: »

Jinky,

On your computer keyboard, theres a button (usually top right somewhere above the number pad) which says PRTSC or Print or something. You click that and then open up word OR an image editing software like MS paint and then hold down the control button and hit V - that pastes a picture of everything you've got on your screen into a file which you can then save.

Going one step further, if you hold down the ALT button at the same time as clicking the PRINT <screen or whatever> button, only the window on the screen that has the current focus (i.e. is the active one) is copied to the clipboard.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, thank you, that makes more sense to a technophobe like me:T:T:T

Penelope_Penguin

jinky67 wrote: »

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, thank you, that makes more sense to a technophobe like me:T:T:T

I'll stick to helping with lasagne recipes from now on

kazwookie

Chicken Kiev for dinenr tonight

Had an afternonon sleep

Got 4 'watchers' on ebay atm

greenbee

Monday ~ Master Bedroom
Level One
Level Two
Level Three
dust and deweb
Extras

1. HHI
2. Wash windows
3. Binbag dance
4. Check doors and windows for draughts and make a plan of action for dealing with them

Tuesday ~ Living room, Hall and Stairs
Level One
Level Two
declutter and dust the mantle putting back only what should be there
[STRIKE] Wipe the sofas if needed[/STRIKE]
dust and deweb
Level Three
Clear and wipe window sills, and any electricals and picture frames etc
Empty and clear out a cupboard..
Extras

1. HHI
2. binbag dance
3. Wipe the paintwork and bannisters
4. Wash any windows that have been neglected

Wednesday ~ Kitchen of Grot and Diming Room of Gloom
Level One
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!
Clear and wipe a shelf or window sill
Level Three
Sort through and clean out one cupboard
Extras

1. Wash the windows
2. Drag out a large appliance or 2 and clean behind and under it
3. Dust and Deweb

Thursday ~ Spare room
Level One
Clear bed and put away junk/suitcases
Level Two
Sort through wardrobe and be ruthless! Chuck out stuff that's had it and list all stuff to keep...
Clean window
Dust & deweb
Level Three
Clear worksurface in utility room
Relist stuff for freegle
Wipe all lightswitches, lightbulbs and lampshades (makes it lighter!)

Extras

1. Binbag dance
2. HHI

Thank Crunchie it's Friday ~ Study and Bathroom
Level One
Level Two
scrub the fixtures! polish the mirrors and taps
Level Three
Clean and sort a shelf and dump old training/reference material no longer needed
dust and defrag the pc and declutter 50 unwanted emails and 5 links from your favourites.
Wipe over the desk and any chairs that are in these rooms

Extras

1. empty and wash out bins
2. wash windows
3. wipe doors and paintwork

OK... so I haven't actually got that much further, but at least the floors are clean this weekend!

rosepink1984

Question: our place is so messy at the mo, it's out of control, and we are reaching the point where we cant tidy up because the places we would tidy things to are covered in mess! I feel that I'm constantly trying to tidy and clean and getting nowhere. Looking around I would say that 75% of the mess is DH's and he has no time or motivation to do anything about it. He actually objected earlier when I made his three piles of clothing lying around into two piles, and when I explained (again) that I can't cope with all this mess, he pulled a "I don't know what hte problem is" face.
So my question is: would it be acceptable to just shove everything into black sacks? I could then go through them and tidy things away properly - or if it's DH's gibble I could hide it in his truck or just move his mess out of the way more easily.

What do you all think? I'm feeling like a very demoralised flylady at the moment, cos my efforts seem to be going to waste

thifty

Monday ~ Master Bedroom
Level One
Level Two All done star please
Level Three
Thursday ~ Childrens pits, spare or neglected rooms!
Level One
Level Two All caught up too so that makes all 5 now:beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:
Level Three
My extras
[STRIKE]1hr on allotment and take seed order in.
[/STRIKE][STRIKE]Peg washing out if its as nice as supposed to be
[/STRIKE]1hr in back garden
[STRIKE]get dh to mow both lawns!
[/STRIKE]sort through dds clothes a friend gave me today and put away
[STRIKE]change dds cot again![/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]make some scones for my dad who is poorly sick[/STRIKE]
go to gym tomorrow night when little ones are in bed - there Greenbee I've said it now and seeing as AF have gone away again I have no excuse other than myself!

embb

Rosepink I'd say yes! I've done it myself before, when the kids were little and there was junk everywhere I used to have a mass 'fling in a binbag tidy up' then sort it at my leisure, purely done because I couldn't bear the clutter anymore.

Tea almost ready, done some more xmas wrapping so that's the two youngest kids finished and wrapped :j made OH's sarnies for tomorrow, hope it's ok cause the stuff was useby today lol he'll be alright.