Weekly Flylady Thread 30th November 2009

Zoelikesjam

i'm here just ghosting. had a terrible fall and dislocated my hip, and ripped some tendons and ligaments in my hip and wrist. Im on a special frame in the house and a wheelchair if i feel well enough to venture out of the house. so not doing anything just trying to keep sane and not go crazy, i am going stir crazy in the house on my own though...bored bored bored, i think you should all send me lots of letters and get well cards lololol. Ive just got slightly pee'd off tho...i posted on the disabilitys board cus we are having trouble with social services and someone posted a very unhelpful reply back, which has really upset me. Dont know if its cus im in pain and low and i prob took it the wrong way. quite stressed out now, doesnt help that jase is working away from monday till xmas and he cant get out of it, he doesnt go he loses his job....at this time of the year and in the current situation thats not a good idea.anyway, rant over. im going to read up on the thread and see what ive missed. i do hope everyone is ok. missing contact with you all terribly xxx

toottifrootti

Just a quick thought - we didnt hear how wilf got on did we?

and i wonder how sexy's week has been too - hope we will hear tomorrow

I am def gone this time
toots xx

Natty68

Quick update before I head off to bedfordshire..to sleep not the county


Monday- Living room, hall and stairs
Level one
Level Two
Vacuum under furniture you can safely move.. I don't want any hurt backs!
Level Three
Dust and deweb allthose corners and electrical appliances and shelves.. etc
Clear out cupboard ready to replace with new shelving unit!


Extras

1. Vacuum under furniture you can safely move
2. Wash any soft furnishing that need it
3. Start wrapping presents!!!! If you haven't already!
4. Binbag dance..

Tuesday ~ Kitchen of Grot and Dining Room of Gloom DONE

Extras

1. Clean out the fridge.. make use of anything almost past its best
2. Wash the windows
3. Dust and Deweb

Wednesday ~ Master Bedroom and landing
Level One
Declutter and vacuum the floor!
Level Two
Clear a box of stuff away
Binbag dance
Level Three
Clear away any stuff on the top of cupboards/chest of drawers/dressing tables etc.
Sort the airing cupboard/linen store/towel cupboard.. is there anything past its best? PDSA/animal charities often are desperate for such things!
Dust and deweb and wipe the paintwork

Extras

1. Ring someone you love who you've not spoken to in a while!
2. Write up the christmas cards and get them ready to post! - half done just the USA ones to do.
   
3. HHI
4. Wrap more pressies!!

Thursday - Bathroom, Loo & Study
Level One
Clear all floors of clutter
Dejunk pc desk!
Level Two
Wash windows
Wipe all paintwork
Vacuum/mop all floors
Level three
Clean the bath/shower/loo's/basins etc
Scrub down the tiles
Extras

1. Delete 50 unwanted emails
2. Defrag the pc and run a virus scan/spyware scan
3. Binbag dance
4. Write and post christmas cards!!

Natty's PreChristmas List

Make mince pies
Make last minute Christmas cake
Either make or buy Christmas pudding
Send cards to USA
Buy CD for P
Buy Yankee candles for N and S
Buy black tree decorations for pink tree in porch
Put main tree up
Put decorations up
Empty unit in living room
Put together new unit for living room
Buy bubblebaths for T
Make sausage rolls
Wrap up D's presents
Wrap up other presents
Buy chocolates and wine x 3
Decorate outside of house
Decorate indoor windows
Deflea dogs and cats
Write and deliver road cards
Flowers for mums plot at crem.
Write special cards
Buy extra cards.
Buy Christmas food
Ribbon for presents

Thursdays list:

Iron 15 items
Wash up breakfast things
Hoover
Wash bed linen
Wash towels
Declutter table (this is ongoing darn thing!)
Put chicken curry in slow cooker
Buy ingredients for cake
Pay bills online
Write USA cards and post
Post parcel and MSE cards
Buy stamps for USA - forgot while in PO!!
Buy goose from Aldi - :jactually managed to get one this year

greenbee

((((hugs))) zoe. You know you can always keep in touch here - and post to let us know that you're OK.

toochoosey

Huge hugs zoe, no advice re social services but looking at the advice given to carlsgerggal(((hugs))), I'm sure someone can help, Take care honey, I'm sure you feel like this year will never end, surely next year will be better xx

hollyh

Evening all,

Hugs Carlsberggal you are having a time of it.

Gentle hugs also to Zoe.

It's DS2's Nativity tomorrow i can't wait. Although i don't envy the Teachers keeping 20 2 & 3 yr olds on track.:D It's going to be interesting, i just hope Ds2 behaves.

Since my last post i have

Cooked Tea
Let Rabbits out
Made Ds1's lunch for tomorrow
Washed up
S & S Kitchen
Cleaned table
Tidied & hoovered Living room
Put Ds2 to bed
Spent HH making paper snowflakes to blame on the Elf

Tuesday ~ Kitchen of Grot and Dining Room of Gloom
Level One
mop/vacuum the floors
Wednesday ~ Master Bedroom and landing
Level One
replace bedding!
Declutter and vacuum the floor!
Level Two
Sort and stash any presents you have lying about.. clear the floordrobe!
Clear a box of stuff away
Binbag dance
Level Three
Clear away any stuff on the top of cupboards/chest of drawers/dressing tables etc.
Sort the airing cupboard/linen store/towel cupboard.. is there anything past its best? PDSA/animal charities often are desperate for such things!
Dust and deweb and wipe the paintwork
Extras

1. HHI
2. Wrap more pressies!!

Thursday - Bathroom, Loo & Study
Level One
Dejunk pc desk!
Level Two
Vacuum/mop all floors
Level three
Wipe the cup rings and dust off the desk

My Extras

• Ebay 1 item listed
• Update Xmas SS & Wrap

• [STRIKE]Update spending SS, end of month accounts & Dec budget[/STRIKE]
• Take small bean tin into nursery
• Take game back
• [STRIKE]Elf letter &[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]mischief[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Clean indoor hutch[/STRIKE]
• Pay cheque in
• Get stamps & post letters
• Deal with post
• Menu plan

pigpen

carlsberggal wrote: »

grateful - any advice greatly appreciated, just spoken to DH's DD; say it's sh$te still her mum is saying the same things like 'go down to tour dad's I don't want you' but that she won't speak to us, we are caught between a rock and a hard place and will have to go down solicitors route so that's it done legally. My girls say we should just pick her up but that can be classed as abduction can't it?

Pigpen - sorry it's off thread again, please forgive me

Well.. having aked about this on Monday..

I was informed.. over the age of 8 the judge will ask the child what they want.. with parental consent. Over the age of 12 they can make the decision without parental consent if they have been 'advised' independantly and assumed developed enough to understand the implications of their decision.. all children are eligible for legal aid so DD could go to a solicitor of her own accord.

If I was DH I would drive up and talk to mum face to face.. the mum only has to write a letter stating that DD is moving to yours (or he can write and she sign it) and you can use that as 'evidence' should she decide 2 days later she wants her back.. in which case obviously others would be involved but at 14 the police would not remove her from your care unless it was an unsafe place for her to be, which I am sure it isn't, or if DH had a criminal record for a few things.

Don't forget just for advice you get 30 minutes free with many solicitors so DH could go to a few different ones for different free sessions.. they will draft a letter for you in this time too sould you need it.

The thing you need to be sure of is that she does really want to come to yours and is not just saying it to spite her mum or because she thinks you will let her do as she pleases and her mum sets different boundaries.

I hope you can come to some agreement.

Zoelikesjam

Thanks girls,
i shall stay hanging around greenbee, just you try get rid of me!
Tooch, i shall be sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo glad when this year is over, maybe 2010 will be a much happier and less blinking accident prone and less stressfilled! If i can just hold onto that thought everything will be fine!!! x

greenbee

pigpen wrote: »

Well.. having aked about this on Monday..

I was informed.. over the age of 8 the judge will ask the child what they want.. with parental consent. Over the age of 12 they can make the decision without parental consent if they have been 'advised' independantly and assumed developed enough to understand the implications of their decision.. all children are eligible for legal aid so

see... there's a flylady for every occasion (and no, we're NOT doing smurfs again :rolleyes::p:D)

kazmeister

well I caught up with the thread if nothing else (havent been in since erm tuesday night)

Greenbee -[STRIKE]hope[/STRIKE] glad you got Wm sorted
LadyLib - hope everything went ok with the scan
Toots - enjoy everything about your new carpet
nikki - sorryto hear about OH's uncle
pocketrocket - welcome to the thread, glad you enjoying it so far
Pigpen - how many tubes of toothpaste do you use to clean the bath, DD used a whole one to clean the sink once :rotfl:
thifty - dont envy you a house move at this time of year
mudbath - well done to your DD for making the netball squad
MSD - Hugs Prayers and thoughts for Tristan
alicemary - welcome to the thread
louboutingirl - hugs for you, sorry the appeal didnt go the way you wanted it to
boddy - glad the shopping's going well, How's mum?
vanilla - thats a lot of birthdays in a short space of time
lamewolf - thats what I do, have a really good day flying then spend 3 recovering
rosepink - well done on getting where you wanted to be with the weight and give in to the tiredness (I certainly have this week )
LadyLib, Toots and Tristan - I am so sorry I missed the visualisation. I hope you all gained some strength from it
Toots - thank. treatment was fine today, just a sore arm - feels like a lead weight, guess that would be all the iron then :rotfl:
mudbath - how brave of your DD to decide to rescue a hammy when her poor one just died. less her.
jillD - enjoy your mum being there
SSL - nice to see you back hope all is well
Jinky - you havent seen my DD's room its a skip, so if you have OCD tendancies would you mind popping round and see if you can put it in some sort of order pretty please :rotfl:
Piggers - sounds like you needed a hug this morning
macpep - good news on your results
toots - thats a massive list :eek:
valli - you lost me with the who keeps keys thing, not surprised you didnt know where they were
Lady Lib - Huge hugs today honey
wilf - thats awful luck for you and DD. hugs for the poor person who felt that desperate
DeNattom - welcome to the [STRIKE]nut[/STRIKE]clean and shiny house
lilme - :eek: how did you lose all your cards
crafty - treat yourself I'm sure you deserve it
Dusty - hope the glass of wine helped with the shoulder and AF. Hope tomorrow is a better day
zoe - ouch - thats massively painful so huge coping and healing vibes coming your way.

As for flying, yesterday I still felt whacked so spent the morning on the sofa doing sweet FA, then had a walk out with DH, came back and made mince pies for him and DD and cake for me and DS .
Today I had my treatment which was fine and then had a sleep this afternoon, wrote the flylady cards so should get in the post tomorrow or Saturday, and have loaded the dishwasher with washing up.

Thats it and I have loads to do now as DS has asked if his girlfriend can stay on Saturday :eek: and I havent met her yet so I need to have the place looking slightly reasonable. Expect me to be busy tomorrow .

Another parcel arrived today so thats more presents sorted, only have a couple more to get plus DS stocking fillas (not easy), oh and DH's as to what to get - ANY IDEAS ??? All the wrapping to do!

Thats it for now, I will pop in tomorrow

Kaz x

ETA forgot to say DH has offered DD £10 to clean her room :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

ETAA - Good news car was due MOT on Sat, had a light bulb we couldnt get to work (when changed) and a seat belt that wouldnt clip in. Our little SAAB chappy couldnt fit us in but told DH the light might might be the relay and he would have to order at £90 !! so DH took it out and discovered with a magnifying glass a hairline crack on the circuit board which he repaired with a bit of solder and removed a sweet paper from the seatbelt clip. Result passed first time so well chuffed for an 8 year old car