I have more than enough for my needs BUT I really WANT a landrover

MrsMoo2U

Ok, the weekend has arrived. I am feeling quite Yuk this morning so I need to give myself a really good talking to. Few star jumps and tai chi warm ups should get me up and at em I think.

What delights should I fill my day with today I wonder? Well, I think I will, as always, start with a quick walk around the forest with Moo. That always puts a spring in my step. Then I hear that there is a car boot sale in the next village starting this week so I may potter up there and have a mooch. If it is worth it I may well book to do one myself in a couple of weeks time. That would be a new adventure. I didnt make it into town yesterday. Bloomin phone never stopped all afternoon. I am sure that the universe was conspiring against me to stop me from visiting the charity shops, thus missing out on more carp to bring into the house with a view to shabbying. Oh well, I really must get on and do the things that I already have waiting to be started.

Just stole an idea from Moo2Moo, print the weekly fly lady list and put it onto the fridge. I will also put it on here and try to tick it off as I go along. I notice though that there is nothing for the weekend, so does that give me permission to leave any housework today? :rotfl:

Monday - Sitting Room and Hallway
Level One
Open the windows and turn on some music!
Declutter the chairs, floor and fireplace
Level Two
Vacuum the floor now it is visible
Dust the fireplace.. does the chimney need sweeping?.. sort it then!
Wash smelly soft furnishings.

Level Three
Vacuum under furniture
Wipe sofas and dusty places
HHC in the porch
Dust shelves and ledges and furry bits
Binbag dance... grab a bag fill it and fling it!
Spend 15 minutes tackling a messy cupboard or drawer
HHI

Tuesday ~ Kitchen and Dining area
Level One
Sweep and mop the floor
Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Clean the sink!
Level Two
Wipe fronts of appliances and units
Wipe small appliances and replace.. inside of microwave
Level Three
Clear and wipe window sills
Clean out the fridge thoroughly
Wipe over oven and hob.
Sort tea towels.. flingany that are shamefully manky!
Replace dish cloths that are gross
Empty and wash out bins!

Wednesday - Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
Level One
Clean floors in these rooms
Clean baths, toilets and sinks.. shine the taps with a toothbrush
Level Two
Clear any clutter from desk (again)
Dust PC and desk and wipe off those cup rings!!
Wipe keyboard, house phone, sockets, switches and mouse etc
Level Three
Scrub down tiles in bathroom.. defragment your pc while doing this.
Empty and clean out all the upstairs bins!
Clean shower screen/curtain if you have one/if required
Wipe the skirtings, door and window frames in these rooms
Fling all those empty bottles and tubes
replace any sponges, flannels, toiletries that need it

Thursday ~ Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
Declutter the floor
Remove and wash bed linen. replace before bedtime!!!
Level 2
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs.
Wash windows
Vacuum and turn mattress before replacing fresh linen
15 minutes floordrobe clearance
Level 3
Vacuum floors in bedroom and on landing
Sort one area of clothes or linen storage making sure only what should be in there is, anything that's had it's day or doesn't belong there is removed
Sort through a box or bag of stuff you've not looked at in months..
Binbag dance!
Wipe grotty paintwork.. touch up any bits that are looking shabby
Wash windows
HHI

Friday - spare room
Level One
Clear the floor!!!
vacuum the floor
Make half an hour to do something for yourself!
Level Two
Strip the bedding get it washed and remake the bed
Wash windows
Binbag dance
Level Three
tidy the cupboards /drawers of clothes
Sort through a box of toys/gibble
Wipe grotty marks from the walls and paintwork
Clean out any pongy pets
dust the light fittings/curtain poles etc
HHC in a room that needs lots of attention!!

The call of the Moo is beginning and the sun is shining so I will have to forget the stomach cramps and answer his Moo's request to go for fun.

vasseur

OMG there's loads on that list that I never bother doing....not so Anthea Turner now am I

What is HHI and HHC?

Hope you're feeling better now and the walk did you good. It has been raining off and on all day here

MrsMoo2U

polesalot wrote: »

OMG there's loads on that list that I never bother doing....not so Anthea Turner now am I

What is HHI and HHC?

Hope you're feeling better now and the walk did you good. It has been raining off and on all day here

I KNOW!!! Am I mad? I think so. I will just do level one each day. PAH. I thought that if I printed the list it would help but I just feel completely demotivated because I will never be that good. I feel like I am turning into my Mother. Her idea of housework was to give a list to us kids. I never knew that you could just hoover the stairs because my job was to brush them down with a stiff handbrush. What a revelation when, at 35 I thought one Sunday, why not just use the hoover :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
I am sorry I couldnt resist calling you Anthea. Was it scrooge that called you that? I kind of miss Scrooge, I loved her (?) last post on the challenge thread. I assume Scrooge was a she! That is the beauty of MSE. So many lovely people.

MrsMoo2U

Oops sorry forgot to say, I have no clue what HHI and HHC are but I can pretend cant I?

MrsMoo2U

Right today's
TA DA list

• read and updated diaries on MSE (whilst in bed lounging and feeling sorry for myself)
• Gave myself a talking to in the mirror and a kick up the behugy
• took Moo for a lovely long walk to the forest, listened to the birds singing, looked out to sea and gave myself another talking to.
• stopped off at the bottle bank with this weeks glass containers. Shock no alcohol bottles in there
• made breakfast from last nights homemade bread
• washed breakfast dishes
• made bed
• had a shower
• tidied living room
• daily banking
• played with Coco my African Grey Parrot and cleaned his/her cage
• filed all of the weeks post away in relevant files including the follow up list
• wrote birthday card and posted it to friend in time for Monday
• ordered flowers for friends birthday
• went into town and visited charity shops - no bargains today but have eye on a console table that needs to come down in price
• bought a new copy of Dalai Llama Art of Happiness in Waterstones (birthday voucher used)
• Tidied flat,
• mopped floor in flat,
• sorted out wardrobe at flat and bagged up clothes for charity shop and shoes for recycling bin
• took shoes to recycling bin at Morrisons and dropped bag of clothes at charity shop
• sorted through box of books and seperated into To Keep and to sell
• Emptied a box of crockery from storage into cupboards at flat.
• put more boxes into storage cupboards in flat to make space in living room
• polished the wooden dining room table ready for collection tomorrow from ebay buyer
• read two chapters of Art of Happiness
• washed dishes
• Took Moo to the beach for a long walk and some beach combing
• Listened to Proms on radio in the car whilst watching a rainbow at the beach
• Made tea for Moo and Cokes
• Made tea for myself, veggie lasagne.
• Washed towels brought home for packing boxes at flat
• hung towels out to dry
• brought towels in because it started to rain
• listened to late night prom on radio
• playe with Coco again
• Updated diaries on MSE

Wow, didnt think that I had done much today but that is quite impressive even if I say so myself. Oh and I forgot to add that I stopped at the Landrover garage for a drool but they didnt have any second hand landrovers in and I was too chicken to go in and look at the new ones just in case the salesman got me.

So the day has ended on a high. One other thing that I am debating keeping on this diary is a copy of my gratitude journal. For several years now I have kept this. I started it at a time when my Dad was very ill with only months left to live. A friend told me that I had a lot to be grateful for as I was so down she suggested that each day I should write down three things in my day that had made me smile. I try to do this every day. By thinking about this it helps me to put thing s into perspective. So today

Today I am grateful for

• the sun shone for most of the day, allowing me to enjoy my walks with Moo so much mor e
• This evening I listened to the proms on the radio whilst sitting in the car during a rain shower. The rainbow that apperaed over the Dyfi Estuary was beautiful and could only add to the atmosphere of Bach.
• My sister texted me just at the moment that I needed to talk to somebody and I could not have needed that contact more than just at that moment!.

vasseur

You got loads done!

I like the idea of a grateful list. Once years ago when I was very down in the dumps (probably over some man ) a friend said to me that 'there is always someone worse off than you' and she was right! When you look at everything, in the grand scheme of things I've led a pretty charmed life. Far better to look at the positives like your friend suggested.

Nitey x

moo2moo

What are you like? Incidentally thats the abridged version of things to do, I reduced the actual one by getting shut of all the irrelevant stuff.

HHI and HHC are half hours spent ironing and cleaning / celaring respectively. You know you want to. Equally if you cheat and do the easy stuff first you can actually get loads crossed off in v. little time. I opted for the alternative and got the worst stuff out of the way thus almost completing Tuesdays chores yesterday. Today will be spent polishing my halo, watching 95p films at the cinema and school shoe shopping at the giant outlet village whilst trying not to purchase any unnecessary items in the Le Cruset outlet sale. Need to go back to bed for considerably more sleep first though.

Walks ont he beach sound fab. I love doing that but its a half day outing just to get there from here. We stick to the lanes and country parks instead as most of the local footpaths were secured against dogs during the last foot and mouth outbreak and short of a set of bolt croppers can't be used without lifting the hairballs over fences, at 35kg apiece thats not going to happen.

Proper Landrover garages tend to be v. overpriced but private sales in Land Rover International magazine are muchly better and full of ads claiming I have 6K of reciepts yet only want 3k for the whole vehicle. OHs first one was a v. reasonable £1K I would hazard a guess than five times that has been spent on spares so far and still it doesn't have wheels attached or anything else much either.

MrsMoo2U

Well it is silly oclock here in the land of Moo. I cant sleep:( Been lying here for over an hour thinking GO TO SLEEP and we all know what that means. So I tried reading, my current book is a bit slow to say the least. It was a pass me on book so not one I would normally have chosen. I am sure that it is very good because it is a thriller and I normally love those. I think at the moment though I am in the mood for a decent chic lit, switch off and just enjoy kind of book. I would read my Art of Happiness but that is a book for when I want to be wide awake and learning. The dawn is creeping in here. I guess that it wont help me to sleep if I have opened the curtains to watch the day light slowly rolling across the hills towards me. The sheep and cows will be waking soon. As it is Sunday I am sure they will do their usual round up and lots of baahing in a couple of hours when I will probably have just fallen to sleep.

Moo I agree about Landrover garages. I just go in there for a bit of a fix really. I keep my eye on ebay and Autotrader listings so that I have an idea of how much they go for. I always take ages researching stuff before I buy it so that when I eventually get round to it I am fully armed. I figured that with a landrover it would be extra important to do this so that whoever I buy it off doesnt spot me coming a mile off. I want one that doesnt need anything doing on it at all because I am rubbish with cars. Having passed my test at 17 and then not driven until I was 42 thanks to having all of my confidence stolen by 2x ex OHs who talked me into buying cars and then wouldnt let me drive them. Hence the need for a landrover (it did used to be a campervan but I quickly learned that the kind I wanted would always need work on them)
It is really funny round here at the weekends because there are often convoys of landrovers. Some kind of club where they all meet up to go for a rally around the country lanes.
I am very lucky to live not too far from several beaches. There is the town beaches and also a really big beach about 20 minutes away that overlooks the Dyfi estuary and across to Tywyn.
I like the abridged version of the list, however I just realised I dont have a fire :rotfl: I did spot the name tags on the list and removed that. I will have to amend it a bit for me too. Last week I just looked at the thread every day. It is good to be organised. I have to admit to being quite relaxed about housework. I have spent so many years working full time that I always tended to do housework at the weekend. Since moving here I figured there were far nicer things to be doing with my time.
Right I should really try to get some sleep whilst it is still a bit dark out there. Otherwise that will be me wide awake for the whole day.
Liking the sound of 95p film day. Might look to see if my local cinema is doing that. Only problem is the town is full of holiday makers at the moment so probably wouldnt get in.

moo2moo

You have to kidnap a child in order to be permitted access to the 95p films however failing that I have two I could loan you

The landies you see won't be from the same club. Sounds like you live on the route for "Happy Valley" which is one of the better known of the Welsh greenlanes. Protrax run a monthly guided tour there and pretty much every organised landie club within a days drive with greenlaners ventures there annually (highly recommended for teaching the clueless novice what a landie is actually capable of). Other notables include the "Corwen Car Wash" and "Strata Florida". OH usually takes one or other of the DDs out with him when he goes and they have a fab time.

At least you passed your test at 17. I had lessons and then left for Uni not restarting lessons again until I was pregnant with DD2. On the day of my test the examiner was too scared to go more than a couple of minds from the hospital in case I should suddenly go into labour on him, I was rather huge at the time. He couldn't get me out of his car fast enough which was probably just as well because I needed the loo every 20 minutes at that stage. I learnt to drive in a Nissan Micra, aquired my dads old clapped out Vauxhall Astra which failed its MOT six months later having been neatly scored down the passenger door by me completely screwing up parking in a v. narrow parking space. After that came a Ninety, several of OHs estates all of which have power steering and which I make people sea sick in because I throw the steering wheel around like I'm on a tight slalom course in a non-power steered car which is waht I'm used to driving. THen there the shed on wheels which lacks power steering and finally the boys toy which is a County spec Defender with incredibly heavy power steering and monster sized tyres.

Project Landie meanwhile is a 90 chassis with a 300 tdi engine attached and an array of petrol bits to be converted or ditched plus a hotchpotchof body panels which are in the tediously slow process of becoming in your face red. Figure another five years before that attempts an MOT, would love it to be considerably sooner but OH seems to have lost interest for the mo.

moo2moo

Oooh been googling. That would put the southerly end of Bala lake about central to us. Let me know if you ever fancy venturing there for a days dog walking, its one of those places that I've driven through but never stopped at.