Christmas Flylady Thread 21st December 2009

toottifrootti

Valli wrote: »

Over the top but I am adding, for us all, stay safe and warm and travel safe vibes for ALL - loved ones, friends and neighbours.

And wondering if I can add lots of school closed vibes for Jan muhahahaha

AnWs not seen you around - hope you and yours are safe

thanks Valli - I second that :T

AnW'sMum is fine just been really busy and not had a chance to get on the thread - I was speaking to her earlier tonight.

serena awh poor DD - hope its just a cold (((Hugs)))

toots xx

LilySue

Serena I hope your daughter feels better tomorrow, we've spent several Christmases at home with sick little ones, it's got so I am pleasantly surprised if we are all fighting fit on Christmas day.

Just got back from Tesco's...I think half of Norwich was there buying groceries as if there will never be another opportunity to shop.

I've just got two more presents to wrap, so I will got and do that then off to bed, will update my lists tomorrow, I've found these Christmas lists very helpful

nikki2804

Monday Mayhem.. DONE

1. Make sure you have all the shopping you need to take you through to next week.. milk and bread especially! It is Bank Holiday on Monday so some shops are not open.. the big supermarkets are.
2. Make sure the last of the presents are wrapped I will not have people sitting up while 5am on Christmas morning wrapping!
3. Have we located stockings?
4. S&S the kitchen
5. S&S the bathroom/s and loo's
6. Clean the oven and hob ready for your feast!
7. Clean the fridge to accommodate you bounty of food
8. Change any bedding you need to get washed before the fat guy arrives.. and I do not mean the OH/parent/ etc
9. Make sure your timetable for christmas day is sorted and everyone knows their tasks.. who is spud peeling? Who is stuffing the bird etc..?
10. Catch up on the laundry .. ironing is tomorrows job!
11. Phone someone you 'forgot' to post a card/present to in time.. just so they know you've not forgotten them...
12. Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself.. reading.. relaxing.. goggling... remember you are important too.
13. Change pet bedding and wash blankies etc.. we don't want them putting you off your christmas sprouts!
14. Dust round the whole downstairs
15. do a crazy HHC decluttering downstairs

Tuesday - Time's nearly up!!! - DONE

1. Children... quick.. tidy your rooms you don't want Santa thinking you don't look after your stuff.. he might not leave any presents!
2. Iron yesterdays wash mountain
3. Vacuum through downstairs.. and the stairs!
4. Mop the kitchen floor!
5. Get rid of the washing up.. delegation is good!
6. get out any special christmas crockery and make sur eit is all clean and nice to use.. placemats etc too!
7. Prepare a list for that last second shopping
8. Declutter your desk.. if it is anything like mine it is full of receipts and invoices!
9. Have a skim 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!
10. Toy boxes can be banished upstairs!
11. Wash any soft furnishings in need of freshening up
12. Tidy up coats and shoes and suchlike
13. WRAP WRAP WRAP!
14. Make a note of when the binmen are coming!!!
15. Spend half an hour doing NOTHING!!.. absolutely nothing!!!! Just sit.. and relax with a drink and a treat!

Wednesday Mayhem.. DONE

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

Okay, well i tell a porky. I have milk, bought it yesterday but I went to get bread this morning - had to walk as car was snowed in (pushing a buggy in a foot of snow is no mean feat btw!!) so just went to the local (horrendously expensive) shop instead of MrT's. They had no bread!!!:mad:. Not a major problem tho, can do without or scrounge some off my mammy (now that mse!!!)

kazmeister

macpep1 wrote: »

so sorryiv n advance, after my earlier rant about my KH of a DH I swear he is totally trying to send me over the edge, I got out pressies I have still to wrap, sorted paper ribbon etc and couldn't find the sellotape holder thingy (I keep it in a box with wrapping stuff)so I text him and asked him if he was using it today and he said "yes" so I text him back (he is playing pool) and said well "where is it", he text back "I dunno" so I text him back sayin "well where the fu*k did you wrap the pressies" and he said at his sisters dog grooming shop and said "Dont you ever swear at me as it was YOUR present I was wrapping so I am now sat with a rug covered with paper, ribbon pressies etc and have no sellotape as he has locked it in his sisters shop which is closed until new year, I cant go out as kids are in bed and HE is playing pool and I have 2 pressies to wrap for my work colluague tomorrow, someone PLEASE tell me am totally over-reacting here after the butcher thing as am sat in tears as I told him he done nothing to help me I am so totally peed off BIG time :mad:

Its that time of year again isnt it !!

Triker wrote: »

Can I have some get home safely vibes please ladies....my hubby went out to visit a friend, the Police have closed the Humber bridge and pretty much closed most routes back to our house.

Its been raining which is icing over and I'm a bit worried....

I sincerely hope your DH find a safe way home - hugs honey

toochoosey wrote: »

Hugs ALL and Kaz............OH gave me money last night to get vouchers for his nephews....Great...Then he gave me some more cash, so I said I won't spend that much tomorrow, so he said to get something for me.....very sweet, anyway, I bought lots of food and stocking fillers for DD. This evening he asks me what I spent the money on , so I told him and he asked what I bought for myself...I tell him "nothing".....thats when I realise that it was my Christmas present!!!! It WAS what I asked for....I just expected it in a card on Friday!!!!!

Anyway laughed about now.....I will get myself something in the sales

Still catching up...........

Oh tooch, please dont say that. OH had been talking about how he'd got an extra £200 which he would give me to 'help with Christmas'. He came home from work the other day and just left it by my place at the table. Naturally I thanked him etc etc but please dont tell me that was my Christmas pressie too as I bought a new tree and decs and some more bits for the children. What was left I put into the bank towards paying my credit card :rotfl:

serena - Hope DD isnt coming down with something nasty
toots - I hear what you are saying but someone has to do it, seriously noone else does a darn thing round here. I hope your delivery comes tomorrow and if not that you have enough essentials to have a comfortable Chrimbo

To anyone else travelling or expecting friends and family home, stay safe vibes for you all, and to greenbee I hope your lack of posting is due to no internet not that you are still travelling.

DD is still wrapping pressies having just come to me and said I've used all the sellotape :rolleyes: luckily I still had a few sticky dots. Just got to hope DS doesnt need some tomorrow which actually in the grand scheme of things is pathetic me even thinking about.

Right more hoovering, upstairs then the kitchen, then clean the kitchen and mop ALL the floors downstairs. I will get it done tonight.

PS TO ANYONE WITH A FROZEN TURKEY - IT SHOULD BE DEFROSTING NOW

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Kids' bedroom still a pit.

Everything else done.

Just tomorrow spent making gammon, stuffing, veggies, etc, so we don't have to bother with much of it on the day itself.

The cats are remarkably interested in the kitchen goings on. Could it possibly be that goose, gammon and beef are tempting them?

Locking the kitchen door overnight.

rach

Monday Mayhem.. - DONE :j
Tuesday - Time's nearly up!!! - DONE :j

Wednesday Mayhem..

1. Clean the bath and shower and loo!

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?
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

grateful - some receptionists are great. my step grandma phoned her Drs a few months ago and asked for a prescription (she gets regular chest probs). The receptionist said, 'oooh, Mrs X, you sound very breathless, I think I should get the Dr to call and see you'. Dr called, wasn't happy with how she was and had her admitted hospital. Turns out she had lots of fluid on her lungs and was then diagnosed with lung cancer But, we're very grateful to that receptionist!

julie - hope you're feeling better. I think dh may be coming down with a sinus thing here

lil_me - well done - on passing your thing and on the bargain tree!

soappie - glad you got a starter sorted, and that you survived the walk to work!

greenbee - hope you've had a good journey and are safe and sound chatting to your family

triker - hope DH gets home ok

serena - hope DD improves soon

froddington

Ready for tomorrow - though I'm going to the cinema in the morning!

Night all, sleep well xx

Monday Mayhem..
Make sure the last of the presents are wrapped
S&S the bathroom
Change any bedding you need to get washed before the fat guy arrives..
Dust round the whole downstairs

Tuesday - Time's nearly up!!!
Iron yesterdays wash mountain
Vacuum through downstairs.. and the stairs!

Wednesday Mayhem..
mop the kitchen
mop the bathroom
Vacuum the whole of the upstairs!
wash windows through the whole downstairs

My one-a-day (or 7-a-weekend!!) list
- car checks
- [STRIKE]post x 2[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]bills x 2[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]make cake[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]cards x 3[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]update diary[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]money to bank[/STRIKE]

Dustykitten

Really enjoyed BJ (not that I haven't seen it once or twice before). Receipts all sorted.

Triker - I hope OH gets home safe

Macpep1 - hugs, straws and camels and all that

Serena - I hope you DD recovers very quickly


Off to put some washing on and into bed for me. See you all tomorrow

poohbear59

hugs macp, kaz, triker for your DH
Hi Toots, L-l pigpen, hope you are all okay and not too stressed/overdoing things.

jojo, just read your list and realised my ham/gammon is still in the freezer. Glazed ham may have to wait for New Year instead.

Made 30 mince pies and then burnt 18 whilst making lavender bags!! You win some, you lose some.

I got alll the way to the doctors today after climbing down the glacier/hill to be told she rang to give me a phone consultatio to save me travelling. I allowed an hout to get 5 mies in the car as the drifting snow is bad:)

helen_jelly

Get well vibes to those who need them
Safe journey vibes to the travellers out there
Putting up with DH vibes to those who are getting !!!!!! off with their DH's

I've got a pile of ironing that is higher than me!! About 5 loads to put in the WM and a kitchen that looks awful but I'm past caring about it - gonna iron what we need to get throught the next 3 days [doing that tomorrow], shoving the washing that needs doing into a couple of black bags and hiding them in my BR and then that just leaves the kitchen - the hotspots that have built up are going to be dealt with by bunging it all in a carrier bag until next week when I'll get the bags out from the cupboard under the stairs - that leaves me with just a basic tidy up all the way round which shouldn't take too long, go to work, go to Christingle at 4pm and then just wait for kiddies to go to sleep so Father Christmas can bring the pressies to the tree.

Mudbath - know I shouldn't but I did - I laughed at your catastrophies - sorry

Have a good day tomorrow everyone and I hope you all keep safe

Helen