Weekly Flylady Thread 13th December 2010

JennyJewell

HUgs mumof2 and happy birthday wishes to AnW and Dippypud
Jen xx

sexymouse

Well I managed to locate the presents and bring them down to wrap, put a white wash on, wrote out a card to my M&D (forgot last night as it was bought seperately to the others and I can't seal it until Moon gets home to sign it).

Advice needed: Have wrapped another 2 presents as well, and I'm umming and ahhing over what to give SIL. We opened their present the other day when we got home from dinner at MIL's. Moon will be giving his brother a big Jelly Belly Bean machine (via his Mum on Tuesday as she's going to dinner with them), and I had intended to give the SIL some bits of bath stuff etc from my collection of presents as I don't really get along that well with them. However, when we opened their gifts (a box of Heroes and a cracker with a ball in for Ebony), a card fell out with £50 in it! :eek: They never usually give us much at all, so it was a complete shock, but I don't usually even spend that amount on my own family, and money is tight this year. I'm guessing they've been extra generous because they know about the wedding coming up (we weren't intending to invite them to the reception either because they'd make it all about them and spoil it for us), but now I don't know what to do for them (we'll definitely have to invite them to the reception now, as I'd feel really mean if this is why). I've got a cat calendar that I was going to give to the MIL that I could add to the bath stuff, but do you think this will be enough? Or, instead, I've just found a fluffy dressing gown that my sister gave me a few years ago that hasn't been taken out of the ribbon wrapping it? :think:

nicki_2

Afternoon all It was morning when I started reading :rotfl:

Happy Birthday Dippypud & ANW'smum:bdaycake:

Mumof2 - ((hugs)) for you and DD and happy birthday to DS

Well our snow has turned mostly to ice. I am so not looking forward to going to the job centre tomorrow morning. We're supposed to be there for 9.30am :eek: Still debating whether we'd be better off walking or trying to catch a bus. The bus will cost me about £5 since we'd have to get it there and back, personally I'm happy to walk, but I'll see how bad it is in the morning.

DD has been in bed reading since 8.30am and refusing to get up until she'd finished the book. I'm gathering from the "yes"'s thats just sounded out from upstairs she's finished and I might actually see her today :rotfl:Speak of the devil.... (this was typed about 45 mins ago...its taken me this long to catch up with the thread!)

My list:
[STRIKE] Remount upstairs smoke alarm (the one downstairs is done )[/STRIKE][STRIKE]
Reposition heating controller Need to charge my electric screwdriver first :mad:[/STRIKE]
Set up Wii & PS2
Put sewing machine away
Laundry And we're back to full wash baskets again after stripping the beds :rotfl:
Ironing
Shift craft stuff
Christmas cards (home)
Christmas pressies (family)
Washing up - so close...yet so far :rotfl:

Monday - bathroom, study and other grotty places! :j:j:jDONE:j:j:j

Tuesday - living room, hallway, stairs
Level one
Level two
Vacuum hallway and living room
Level three
Wipe the sofas and wash any skanky soft furnishings
Wipe the paintwork in the hallway and up the stairs.
Extras

1. Check the smoke alarms

Wednesday - KITCHEN!!
Level one
Wipe the cupboards and appliances!
Level Two
Wipe the light fittings and window sills
Wipe the fridge!
Level Three
Remove webs and dusty corners!
Sweep and mop the floor!
Extras

1. Clean filters and drawers and door seals
2. Polish any mirrors
3. HHI

Thursday - Master messroom! and landing
Level one
Level Two
Remake the bed
Clean the windows
Level Three
Wipe down all the furry paintwork

Extras

1. HHI

Friday -finale!
Level One
Level Two
Vacuum through the rooms that need it
Wash any grimy windows
Level Three
Extras

1. Final final shopping lists
2. Update remaining present lists
3. Wrap remaining presents

DD isn't feeling too good so I'm setting her the task of clearing the freeview of all the films & programmes she has recorded... about 12 hours worth I think :eek: I expect she's caught the chest/throat etc infection I had since I still had to prepare meals etc while sick.

I'm off to put the smoke alarm up. Been trying to find screws that would fit 'cause I've lost the ones it was put up with originally Oh well...upstairs I go!

AnW'sMum

Afternoon all

Thanks for the birthday wishes, Miss A and W brought me breakfast in bed this morning complete with vase and paper flowers on the tray

So far been to church which was FREEZING brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, just had a long shower to warm up and caught up on here. About to have lunch and then this evening we are going to Damon's ,so I have to remember to take my driving licence to get a free meal :money:

Diddypud and Master Mumof2 Happy Birthday to you both, hope you have a great day :bdaycake:

JennyJewell

Hi Nicki
Hope you all get better soon - know exactly where you're coming from and it isn't pleasant Loads of kids around us have been ill - 30 kids missing from two classes in my nephew's school in one week alone!! But thinking positively in that we'd rather be ill this week than next weekend over Xmas
Get well soon all x
Jen xx

MrsChaos

That's a bit better now. In the last hour I've managed to strip two beds, collect most of laundry, put first wash on, emptied and re-loaded DW, put rubbish and some recycling out, got dressed and had some porridge.
DS2 has just decided what he wants for lunch, so that's next and then the DW can go on again.
DH is bringing milk on his way home and I'm defrosting mince for shepherd's pie, so I won't need to go out today. No snow, but it's cold and icy now.
One of our kids took a beautiful photo of Cologne cathedral from a distance, framed by snowy trees. I'll try to get hold of it and see if I can post it on here.
Best be off again... x

soappie

Well that was a lovely couple of hours. DS came round because he wants to work on a i-phone app and knows he'll get distracted with games if he does it at home so we all decided to walk, with the dog, down to the nearest shops to get a bit of shopping done. It's a long time since I've had a walk with BOTH my children. So, a bit more Christmas shopping was done as the snow fell down..

Need to declutter a few words onto a website then will do some more housework

kazmeister

Have rounded up and sorted washing and first lot on. Found a lump of pork in freezer now defrosting for dinner. Made myself milky coffee now supping.

Need to go and get milk and walk doogie but first

is to look up a website advertised in easycook mag for great meat at great prices, 25 chicken breast for £29.75 so going to have a look. It would mean bulk buying if it looks ok but cheaper in the long run but it is free range and all beef is British unless advertised as not so off I go ................

vanilla

This house is freezing eventho the fire is lit and the heating is on.

Dusty hubby didn't manage much sleep last night so spent all night on the sofa. He's away today to bb shooting but he'll be tired when he comes home. Hopefully he hasn't mucked up his sleep.

Plan now is the front hall, it's a total mess and full of wellies, snow suits and coats.

JennyJewell

Hubby is going shopping and going to pick up some more supplies of honey and lemon for me It's been a real lifesaver for stopping my throat from being raw - I would recommend it to anyone, especially the squeezy bottle type
Jen x