Weekly Flylady Thread 4th October 2010

TAG

Curlytop40 wrote: »

Wipe fronts of appliances and units-hmm 45 minutes scrubbing has got mine done!!!

Ahhhh but next week it'll just be a quick wipe over!!

hedgesparrow

Vanilla - poor you. What a horrible day you have had. Hope tommorrow is 100 times better for you.

I have finished level one and done the changing the cloth and wiping the table down business. I also picked up my husband, picked up my car from the garage, put a load of laundry on, have cooked dinner and done a little food shopping. I feel I have had a fairly productive day, and am going to stop housework now for the evening as I am sneezing as I type. Thank you for making my first day on this thread so fun! (did I really say that about housework?)

Penelope_Penguin

Dustykitten wrote: »

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

It makes me mad :mad: I do some work advising people on their benefit entitlement and this tinkering will make our job much harder. Why base it on your tax level at all - just combine tax credits and child benefit - if a family earns below £44k they get child benefiit, if not they don;t Easy (but clearly too difficlut for Smug Osborne's little brain). And this is the end of tonight's Party Political

And breathe .............. had a long day at work; prepared, served and cleared tonight's tea; prepared tomorrow's tea; done urgent admin. I'm now pooped, so am going to browse here, then have an early night with a hot chocolate

See you all tomorrow :A

TAG

Valli wrote: »

*runs in* wave wave
a question

which stoopid overworked busy flylady who's back-up crew is on holiday has agreed to do 5 days work this week

...

yup...

this eejit!

so I *might* pop in on saturday

still at least the house is clean enough to neglect, if you get my drift..

Silly Valli!! ;)

Off to watch a bit of Kat and Alfie now :cool:
Back later xx

Curlytop40

Monday
Sweep and mop the floor-scrubbed on hands and knees!!
Clear and wipe worksurfaces-one side done yesterday, other yet to do.
Shine the sink!-done!
Level Two
Wipe fronts of appliances and units-scrubbed!!-and look SO much better!! Also scrubbed the kick boards.
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!-I ignored this-whoops!
Wipe table and replace cloth if needed-intended to wax the table but my old cat has been asleep on it all day as he was in the sunshine and I didn't have the heart to move him-it'll do another day.
Level Three
Clear and wipe tops of wall units.. only if safe for you to do so!!!!!!! -will do this when mum gets the stepladders out of the very spidery garage for me-love the newspaper tip thankyou!!
Clean out all the drawers.. they are full of what?!-did 3 yesterday!!



Extras

1. Empty and wash out bins-still to do
2. Sort through mugs and crockery.. fling the cracked and chipped bacteria breeding grounds!-done!
3. wash windows -still to do and they really need it!
4. Wipe/defluff blinds/curtains etc-still to do.

I am shattered and my right arm is really aching-told you I had to scrub!! However my kitchen looks so much better and I feel really good about it!:j

Curlytop40

TAG wrote: »

Ahhhh but next week it'll just be a quick wipe over!!

You mean I have to do it again this year!!:eek:LOL!!!

toottifrootti

Mudbath Oh no poor stripey babes :eek:- I do hope its not the pin and just some silly strain - give her a huge squishy hug from auntie toots xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and tell her to be a good stripes and rest:rotfl: that will be a first!
pavlovs_dog sssshhhhh if its not on this week's kitchen list then we wont see it until next week now - it is normally on the list!!!
vanilla oh honey what a rotten day you have had - you really need some support through this - I hope the head will sort out DD's bully - if not I would be trying to go higher - board or education authority?
As for DS first stop GP and have him checked out and as you say check his glasses - if a 6yo is talking of killing himself then something is not right - keep pushing until you get him sorted - and i would be asking at the school why you were not told about this on friday - if you hadnt wrung would they have told you? as you know I have no kids but I do know kids say silly things but I would have thought saying he wants to kill himslef is not your average 6yo talk! surely the teacher must have found it strange!
I hope with all my heart that you get the support from the GP - and be sure to tell the GP how it is affecting you - you have a huge plateful of problems with DH as it is so no wonder you shed some tears - you are amazing how you cope but even you have a breaking point so look after yourself as well - we are here if we can help at all or you just need to let off steam. HUg squishy (((hugs))) and a mug of hot tea and a choccy biscuit coming your way xxxx

toots xx

vanilla

Thanks everyone for the hugs and support. I thought it was strange to toots that nobody said to me on friday or even this morning as i leave the kids into school and be at the door to collect them. They have the house phone number as well as my mobile.

I rang the opticians and she wants to check that the lens are right and then retest him. Then he's booked at the GP to see if he still has the sore throat and hopefully that end will be sorted.

I'll be speaking to DD's teacher tomorrow morning and hopefully that will cool down and if not i'll keep my record and go in again stating that if it doesn't stop i'll have to go above her head.

Sorry everyone for going on and i know it's nothing to do with flying. I'm just all over the place, i just want peace. Think it's time i went to bed. Nite all xxx

cally_c

Evening all!

Hugs Vanilla, hope you get a good outcome & that tomorrow is a much, much better day for you
MissH good luck for you & your DD tomorrow.

:jMONDAY ALL DONE:j

Jobs:
Garden:
[STRIKE]find replacement greenhouse cover
[/STRIKE][STRIKE]bokashi bin sorting
[/STRIKE]add compost & sow winter salad
Hanging baskets
Tidy back garden
Tidy side garden
Tidy front garden
The rest:
write letters: Joy, Julie, Mand, Nancy
[STRIKE]make green tomato chutney
[/STRIKE]do some coursework (ongoing)
Family History:
transcribe WW2 diary
check Navy record
scan & enter Post office employment records
Lace research

Love to all.....

ajmoney

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!

I found myself yelling at the tv this morning when I heard that. OH and I are not planning to have kids but if we do...he earns too much by about 1K and that is only because he has a pension from when he was in the forces that he worked very hard for. If we change our minds about kids I think he will be switching to part time hours.