Weekly Flylady Thread 4th October 2010

MissHiggerty

My kitchen jobs done now - and a bit of gardening, too:

[STRIKE]Sweep and mop the floor
Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Shine the sink
Hang up the washing and clear the airing cupboard
Empty dishwasher
Make spare ribs
Wipe fronts of appliances and units, and the bins
Wipe table and replace cloth if needed and polished with beeswax polish ...mmmmmm....
Wash the windows[/STRIKE]

[STRIKE]1 hour gardening: weeding the front border and pruning and planting bulbs[/STRIKE]


Albatross List for the week:
* Piano tuner - arrange (he talks for ages and ages )
* Check Websaver gas rates are still OK for us
* School Gift Wrap order - [STRIKE]means going through the wrapping paper drawer... :eek:[/STRIKE] looked through the drawer, but need to place order now...
* Autoglass chip-mending for car windscreen?
[STRIKE]* Write difficult letter to D.L. and post it [/STRIKE]
* Savings with DH - ours; DD's (means dealing with the Halifax :eek:) - both on their way, but not as easy as all that (of course)
[STRIKE]* Do my income tax form on-line [/STRIKE]YAY!!!!!!! :T:T:T
[STRIKE]* Orchestra form to take next week (before they throw DD out![/STRIKE]:o)
* Finally sort out Broadband connection - have yelled lots at BT for all the missed appointments; have managed eventually to get an engineer; have got a new HomeHub for free and have got £20 from them for the missed apptments. :T Now just have to install the new HomeHub when it arrives, and hope it works.....
* Copy DD's music recordings for relatives (recorded August... and promised then )
* Finances for Sept; budget for Oct :eek:

I've also had lunch, taken the ribs out of the oven and had a bath.

Just a small bit of harvesting to do in the garden, then off on school run.




Won't be around tomorrow till later: DD has a really, really important audition in the morning, playing the cello (and I have to take her there). Please send some good luck vibes her way if you can: it'll help calm my nerves (I'm terribly stressed out on her behalf, and am trying not to let it show....)

Hugs to all who need them

MissH
xxxxx

nattyt

My HC turned into a 1hour and 40 mins! Have managed to hoover all through. Done all washing up. Put washing on line. As i was hoovering up the stairs noticed how filthy the walls were so went on a mad wall cleaning mission!! Now clean but i'm thinking hall, landing and stairs needs a lick of paint:eek: something else to add to the ever growing list! Sorted washing out. Got a couple of bits for ebay and charity so feeling good!!:D

Shysarah

It is nice to be back on board, even though the house is a dire mess the progress I made on gibble and such last time round is still evident..:T

So far I have...


Monday ~ Kitchen and Dining area
Level One
Sweep and mop the floor - Hoovered whole bungalow will mop etc when doing bathroom.
[STRIKE]Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Shine the sink![/STRIKE]
Level Two
[STRIKE]Wipe fronts of appliances and units[/STRIKE]
Make a cupboard inventory.. and a list of stuff to stock up on.. make sure you winter survival kit is sorted.. candles, matches, medicines etc... and your car too.. first aid box, blankets.. you never know when you may need them! - this is all up to date due to gibble attach previously.
[STRIKE]Wipe table and replace cloth if needed[/STRIKE]
Level Three
Clear and wipe tops of wall units.. only if safe for you to do so!!!!!!!
Clean out all the drawers.. they are full of what?!
Extras

1. [STRIKE]Empty and wash out bins[/STRIKE]
2. [STRIKE]Sort through mugs and crockery.. fling the cracked and chipped bacteria breeding grounds![/STRIKE]
3. wash windows
4. [STRIKE]Wipe/defluff blinds/curtains etc[/STRIKE]

Now decluttering a nice cup of coffee and playing on twitter.

Others tasks for the week are;

Studying for OU - finish week 1 and do week 2 to ensure organised for tutorial.
Work nurse meeting Tues 12.30
Take mum out to do shopping/garden centre Tues
Fetch key and open up and run support group Tues
Do some more eBay listings for me and sister
Call Npower regarding final balance

(taking it easy for now not too much at once )

Big loves, spoons and cuddles all round
Sx

Mudbath

Good luck to your dd MissH and calming vibes for you xx

Dusty - what I really find unfair about he child allowance is that if you have a couple and each earn £40K they can still get the child allowance but if you have one parent earning £44k and the other nothing or very little then you lose it. That makes perfect sense - not!

No flying done but I have done last tax years accounts and made this years up-to-date! So pleased I've done them!

Going to look at the list and make a start when I've had lunch.

Hugs to all xx

Dustykitten

MissHiggery fingers crossed for your DD and calming vibes for you.

Knitters? - I have booked a free knitting session at JL to remind me how to knit, I only ever reached a very basic level. If I want to knit a snood would I need a ring thing and is that too advanced?

Back from town. Got a great stocking filler/small gift for DS2 and vouchers for friend's birthday. Just need to get a little gift as something to open for Friday.

Dustykitten

Mudbath wrote: »

Dusty - what I really find unfair about he child allowance is that if you have a couple and each earn £40K they can still get the child allowance but if you have one parent earning £44k and the other nothing or very little then you lose it. That makes perfect sense - not!

That is exactly how I feel and I am so sure that there are many in that situation. It means that people who are just under the £44k limit at the moment and got a small pay rise would not only start paying higher rate tax but would also loose their child benefit so a regular inflation increase would make them much worse off

Craftyscholar

hedgesparrow wrote: »

that was really helpful. Decluttered one cupboard and two drawers in the kitchen. Remind me why I have kept every old net onion bag we have bought for a year?

sockdrawer wrote: »

On the me side of things though, I've decluttered a box full of old takeaway cartons "which might come in handy" (I've got heaps of tupperware so there's no need) and a bag of old roasting tins (tell me why I kept them for so long)

In case they came in handy of course :rotfl:

MissHiggerty wrote: »

Won't be around tomorrow till later: DD has a really, really important audition in the morning, playing the cello (and I have to take her there). Please send some good luck vibes her way if you can: it'll help calm my nerves (I'm terribly stressed out on her behalf, and am trying not to let it show....)

Hugs to all who need them

MissH
xxxxx

Good Luck vibes for DD and keep calm vibes for MissH.

Back from funeral - went well IYKWIM

Still no sign of roofer and it has been a perfect day for outside work.

gratefulforhelp_2

I find it interesting that its a very un-Conservative approach. Normally they would penalise couples where both work (the wife should stay home with the kids) and normally they wouldn't penalise high earners of any description. Interesting.

Decluttered a day's teaching, but 'tis all.

mummyslittleboy

DS picked up from playschool DW unloadad and re loaded, TD all done and folded just waiting for washing machine to finish, Going to prepaer tea and find list and get on with that.

HHC Anyone?

Dustykitten

Cake cooking so 20 minutes to S&S before I collect DS3