Christmas Flylady Thread 21st December 2009

Money_saving_Diva_2

Poppy!! Hope you have a great day hon. and also to Sunnygirls DD2.

Ok... after going back to sleep at around 0600, I was just woken by the phone and the dentists stroppy receptionist telling me that the dentist cannot get into work today as she lives in the middle of Dartmoor and is surrounded by sheet ice and cannot drive. Good job I am not in pain yet again. I am sure it is true but out of my window there isn't even a frost.

Anyway - OH is off work today and decided to cook me some porridge as we are both up. He is following the instructions to the letter only decided as 40g of porridge each didn't seem enough he would double it up. So is now complaining that it uses too much milk!! I didn't have the heart to tell him that I use half milk half water.

So I am now de-cluttering a mountain of porridge.

Have a good day all!

Diva.x

juliejim

:jMy parcel's arrived - kids are now fighting over it but hey! The DS game is Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games which we've already got so I may put that on ebay.

Better get back to doing another HHC - I can put the TD on now - it's really noisy so I didn't want to put it on before in case I didn't hear the door!

HHC 10 - 10.30 anyone?

juliejim

Off I go then!

rach

Just spent an hour catching up....
now to find my list!

Mum_on_a_mission wrote: »

But need help as very short on stocking bits for an 8.5 year old girl (I have a DS so not used to pink bits) - she's rather a grown up young lady. Ideas please as will be doing a quick dash through town tomorrow on way to Mr S for last minute fresh stuff.

shouldn't be too hard - smellies, little bits of jewellery, anything sparkly, little notebooks and nice pens/pencils, socks, knickers, lip balm, trying to think what else my mum used to get us?! I used to love my stocking (still do actually!)

greenbee - email recall never works for me! Have a good journey, or at the very least a safe one!

pigpen - i'm not surprised you feel like that, given the year you've had. I had a pj day (or half day) on Mon and it really helped!

dusty/lil_me I was just talking about grit bins with someone the other day. I wonder if they've been shelved. I've not seen any down here. You can always phone the council, someone in highways will know where they are!

soappie - i've sent you a text about a starter!

jjef

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

EEEEEK, woke up this morning to about 4 inches of snow:eek: Would be fine if i didnt have to go out, but i do. Need to pick up my brother from the station:j and go to my parents, however just spoke to my dad and apparently cars are abandoned all over the road at theirs as its sheet ice! Hmm, not sure what to do

OH abandoned trying to get into work today, we have about 7-8 inches snow, have the radio on at the moment and it sounds like Edinburgh is not moving very fast lots of overturned lorries on the motorways. Safe travelling if you need to go out.

My tesco delivery is due at teatime fingers crossed that the roads are cleared by then.

Dusty - grit bins i am lucky enough to have one beside the drive way, oh and thank for the heads up about the fat face sale will have a look shortly.

pigpen - try for a PJ day if you can we had a quiet one yesterday and feel so much better today for it..

list wise need to go and find and update.

gratefulforhelp_2

Wednesday Mayhem..

1. [STRIKE]
   
2. Make sure you have all the shopping you need to take you through to next week.. milk and bread especially!
3. [/STRIKE]Make sure the remaining presents are wrapped I will not have people sitting up while 5am on Christmas morning wrapping!
4. Have we located sacks for presents?
5. [STRIKE]
   
6. mop the kitchen
7. [/STRIKE]mop the bathroom/s and loo's
8. Clean the bath and shower and loo!
9. Bake some mince pies and tarts etc.. yummies!!!
10. Change any bedding you need to get washed before the fat guy arrives.. and I do not mean the OH/parent/ etc
11. [STRIKE]
    
12. Sort out the plan for christmas eve.. shop runs, present drop offs etc
13. [/STRIKE]Catch up on the laundry again.. ironing is tomorrows job!
14. Phone someone you 'forgot' to post a card to in time.. just so they know you've not forgotten them...
15. [STRIKE]
    
16. Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself.. reading.. relaxing.. goggling... remember you are important too.
17. [/STRIKE]Vacuum the whole of the upstairs!
18. wash windows through the whole downstairs if needed
19. do a crazy HHC decluttering downstairs

Grrrrr to all medical receptionists who think they are GPs - police are saying don't drive unless you have to so I have cancelled hosp appointment, since am not taking 2 and 6 year olds on a 40 mile round trip on the ice. You would have thought I'd wiped dog poo all over her desk, and murdered the consultant to boot. Grrrrrrrr
I'm also grrring at TAs who think they are teachers, nursing assistants who think they are nurses, and legal secretaries who call themselves lawyers.
Grrrr.

Morning everyone!

eta one of my tutor group said to me last week

"Its true, isn't it, that your blood is blue while its inside your body and red when it comes out?"

"er...no" I said "Its bright red with lots of oxygen in and slightly less bright red with less oxygen in, who told you that?"

"My mum, she must be right, she's a nurse":mad::eek:

rach

This is what my list looks like now. Feel like that's all manageable! Have reordered game from Argos (last one in stock ) and will text friend to say can I drop it off later this aft.

Monday Mayhem..

1. Change any bedding you need to get washed before the fat guy arrives.. and I do not mean the OH/parent/ etc
2. Make sure your timetable for Christmas day is sorted and everyone knows their tasks.. who is spud peeling? Who is stuffing the bird etc..?

Tuesday - Time's nearly up!!!

1. Vacuum through downstairs.. and the stairs!
2. Prepare a list for that last second shoppingskim through the TV guide and decide what you want to watch.. it saves missing bits of stuff if you know what is on and when!! Don't forget to make time for Queenie!
3. Wash any soft furnishings in need of freshening up

Wednesday Mayhem..

1. Make sure you have all the shopping you need to take you through to next week.. milk and bread especially!
2. Clean the bath and shower and loo!
3. Change any bedding you need to get washed before the fat guy arrives.. and I do not mean the OH/parent/ etc
4. Catch up on the laundry again.. ironing is tomorrows job!
5. Phone someone you 'forgot' to post a card to in time.. just so they know you've not forgotten them...
6. Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself.. reading.. relaxing.. goggling... remember you are important too.
7. Vacuum the whole of the upstairs!

Rach's plan!

Monday:
DH working
Friend coming - present for her DS, package up hm goodies, take packages to deliver up north from her
Dinner - enchiladas & wedges
Put presents into bags for locations
Christmas emails x10

Tuesday:
DH working
Box of hm goodies for friend
put cards up
Supermarket - potatoes, parsnips, eggs, chocolate, sunflower oil
Hardware shop - disposable trays, glue spots for mil
M&S - Champagne, buy something for DH's auntie, other bits and bobs
Christmas emails x10
pick up reservation from Argos, deliver to friends for her kids (& box of goodies for her and hubby)
Train to town 3- 4pm for Opera, eat out beforehand/get sarnies from M&S for interval!

Wednesday:
DH off
eyebrows 11am
haircut 2pm
lunch out with DH?
fishcakes, waffles and beans for dinner or chinese takeaway!
make rocky road & fudge for friend we're seeing tomorrow

Thursday:
AF due
package hm goodies for friends
lunch out with friends
Peel potatoes & parsnips
midnight communion? 11.15pm

Penelope_Penguin

juliejim wrote: »

:jHHC 10 - 10.30 anyone?

I'll join you :T

DH has had a furtle with the CH and I'm now beginning to thaw out :j

Penny. x

pigpen

I wish I had time for a pj day..

I have a fair chunk of shopping to do still.. and my mother wants me to go do her shopping for the children.. she is incapable.. the children are meant to be off to KH's today. the 2 large pinks are meant to be going shopping .. must remember to thrust boots vultures at them! with the words 3-4-2 ringing in their chell-likes.

The whole hovel needs cleaning.. and.. I got up to go to the loo at half 6.. and promptly fell half way down the stairs.. AGAIN.. I now have another bruise on my derriere!!!

I think I may get a chamber pot and not go pee in the middle of the night ever again!! I was however up 3 times lat night! Then up with Mimi.. and Tiddles... and the cat...

No time for a list..

Off to get dressed.. sort the washing.. kick girls out of bed and then the door.. and then probably sit and fret about all the things I SHOULD be doing but aren't! lol

Lady-Liberty

sexymouse wrote: »

Took Mum to Starbucks and she loved the fruit toast - very upset that they had no eggnog lattes again though and probably won't be getting any more in either.

They'll be running out of fruit toast at this rate maybe the fairies have taken the eggnog :rotfl: xx

Mudbath wrote: »

:wave: Glad I make you laugh LL - well, I think I am!!!:rotfl:

:rotfl: xx

Diva Sorry about the dentist Sweetie.....now if you are only decluttering porridge get your a$$e over to messy xx


Have spent too long on FB........ xx