Weekly Flylady Thread 20th December 2010

AnW'sMum

It's snowing again :eek: first time in almost a couple of weeks. We were going to go up to MIL but that is very much under review, will see what it's like once we are all bathed and dressed (had a v lazy morning here )

Miss A has wrapped her presents for W, he has her's to wrap in a bit.

lil_me

Kazwookie lovely to hear from you, hope the trip is going well

Ashia please do let JayJay know she is missed and I hope she is well x

:rotfl: soappie easy mistake to make, unfortunately WIL is still within 5 miles *yes her house is that close and she doesn't come to see the boys* actually she phoned today .... To tell DP she was throwing out some things she left there and demand he took her shopping to which he said no you have 3 cars DIY! That was after she ranted at him for being in bed, which has nothing to do with her. Then she said well he would have to do her Christmas shopping for her, asked what she wanted, clothes for herself and was told again .......no. Then as an empty gesture asked what the children wanted - I say empty she doesn't usually bother buying anything despite asking....... See told you I would end up ranting! Anyway I think she is learning we've had enough at last.

Right need to get a wriggle on. Car to move and path to clear to make dragging stuff I need rid of to the garage easier as our binmen don't collect if it's snowing ..... They're due tomorrow so I guess we won't see them now until at least new year. Then in addition to sorting downstairs I need to sort DPs Dad's house, then finish our Christmas shopping

saver-j

hello

Thanks for the tip on the boiler AnW's Mum, that was exactly the problem, apparently it is a design fault with condensing boilers and there have been at least 20,000 call outs to BG for this problem this year alone. Unfortunately my parents didn't manage to get it going again themselves though and after they had been without heat for over 36 hours, refusing to come to my house because they had been told the person would come yesterday, and no sign still at 7pm, an irate phone call was made about 2 pensioners being promised a call out, and then being told it would be today, BG were told in no uncertain terms that that was not good enough and someone arrived to fix it at 8pm last night. So that's one worry sorted.

Hugs (gentle ones for Mumto5)and spoons to all in need. And hope those who were celebrating the winter solstice had a lovely day yesterday, especially the LWs.

I seem to be struggling to get going this morning and list doesn't feel like it's going down much. HHC 11.20am - 11.50? Edit - will run to catch up with JJ instead.

Monday Mayhem..

• S&S the kitchen
• Clean the oven and hob ready for your feast!
• Clean the fridge to accommodate you bounty of food
• Make sure your timetable for christmas day is sorted and everyone knows their tasks.. who is spud peeling? Who is stuffing the bird etc..?
• Phone someone you 'forgot' to post a card/present to in time.. just so they know you've not forgotten them...
• Dust round the whole downstairs
• do a crazy HHC decluttering downstairs

Tuesday - Time's nearly up!!!

• Children... quick.. tidy your rooms you don't want Santa thinking you don't look after your stuff.. he might not leave any presents!
• Vacuum through downstairs.. and the stairs!
• Mop the kitchen floor!
• Get rid of the washing up.. delegation is good!
• Prepare a list for that last second shopping
• Declutter your desk.. if it is anything like mine it is full of receipts and invoices!
• 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!
• WRAP WRAP WRAP!

Wednesday Mayhem..

• Make sure the remaining presents are wrapped I will not have people sitting up while 5am on Christmas morning wrapping!
• mop the kitchen
• mop the bathroom/s and loo's
• Clean the bath and shower and loo!
• Bake some mince pies and tarts etc.. yummies!!!
• Sort out the plan for christmas eve.. shop runs, present drop offs etc
• Catch up on the laundry again.. ironing is tomorrows job!
• Phone someone you 'forgot' to post a card to in time.. just so they know you've not forgotten them...
• Vacuum the whole of the upstairs!
• wash windows through the whole downstairs if needed
• do a crazy HHC decluttering downstairs

Thursday ~ Almost done?

• Spend at least half an hour doing nothing at all!
• Check when payments need to be made, if possible set them up to go on the right date through the bank.
• HHI
• Is your cake iced?
• dust and deweb everywhere
• Binbag dance
• Wipe down all the worksurfaces in the kitchen
• Wipe all the units and appliances
• Sweep and mop the kitchen and dining area
• Play laundry catch up.. see if you can get it all done!
• Wrap, wrap, wrap

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• Prepare veg for christmas dinner .. store covered in cold water overnight, it will be fine!
• Mix yorky pud batter for tomorrow.. it is so much better if you leave it to stew.. quick whisk as use as normal
• Prepare any other bits.. stuffing, salad etc Make starters before bed.. sneaky but a great idea!
• PRESENTS .. nuff said! (stockings with a few bits of fruit and a cereal bar make for a healthy breakfast!)
• Wash pots before bed!
• Bathtime to wear everyone out!
• S&S the kitchen
• S&S the bathroom
• Straighten the tree
• Prepare eggnog, mulled wine or other festive beverage
• Get the roll of binbags at the ready
• set up the video & camera!!! Fully charged and ready to roll!!
• Quick whizz over the clutter and carpets..
• Relax, enjoy yourselves and have a lovely time with your family!!
• If it isn't done now you don't need it to be done it isn't important!

Saturday - CHRISTMAS DAY!

• Bag up all the wrapping paper and put it outside!
• Delegate pot washing/DW loading!
• Slice off the remaining meat and either freeze or refridgerate for tomorrow!
• Save remaining cooked veg for stew! It can be frozen if you don't want to eat it in the next few days.. or sling it in the crock pot with the carcass for stock!
• Before children go to bed they must stack their new things nicely!
• A quick S&S over the kitchen should see it looking fabulous again If you leave it by New year it will be a tip!!
• Prepare any run and grab style food for Boxing day.. I know a lot of families have get togethers on the 26th.
• Wipe the table/table cloth
• Put the best crockery/glasses away, or just out of the way so it doesn't get damaged.
• Go play with the children .. eat lots of junk food and delegate as much as possible!!
• Quick wipe over the hob should see it sparkling again
• Start thinking of those resolutions you will be breaking by the middle of January! lol
• Enjoy your day with your loved ones, spare a fewv minutes thought for those who cannot be with us this year and who have lost loved ones.. I wish you all a happy, joyous, trouble-free fabulous New Year!! Without you lot.. I wouldn't be here either xx

maybemischief

Dailes
SS Kitchen & Table
SS Bathroom & Loo
Make beds
Kids stuff up & away.
Unload/load DW
laundry
Fed/clean animals
Vacuum downstairs
Monday Mayhem.. All done:j
Tuesday - Time's nearly up!!!

• Iron yesterdays wash mountain
• 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!

Wednesday Mayhem..

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

greenbee

saver-j wrote: »

Thanks for the tip on the boiler AnW's Mum, that was exactly the problem, apparently it is a design fault with condensing boilers and there have been at least 20,000 call outs to BG for this problem this year alone. Unfortunately my parents didn't manage to get it going again themselves though and after they had been without heat for over 36 hours, refusing to come to my house because they had been told the person would come yesterday, and no sign still at 7pm, an irate phone call was made about 2 pensioners being promised a call out, and then being told it would be today, BG were told in no uncertain terms that that was not good enough and someone arrived to fix it at 8pm last night. So that's one worry sorted.x

For anyone calling out BG engineers, do please remember that a lot of them have given up their leave voluntarily to come out and fix these problems, many are driving in dangerous conditions to try to get to people so please be nice They have also been providing advice for several years on condensing boilers and ensuring the condensate pipe is lagged (mine has pipe lagging on in both inside and outside and I've been OK so far).

Finally got the work done I needed to last night after reflexology and shopping... two and a half hours of very productive work with an idiot man who doesn't have any recollection of what he said after his car crash on Friday, and has apparently been very worried by my emails and IMs over the last couple of days (detached and professional...). This emerged after we'd finished working when he mentioned that if the heating in his ex-wife's house was fixed today (looks like it won't be now, it's half done) then he was going back to the flat today and then down to see his parents as his mum is ill and that's where they're all supposed to be for christmas. So we've agreed to leave things and talk once christmas etc are safely out of the way. It has made me rethink a few things though...

I left a message for the GP yesterday saying that the referral would be covered by my health insurance, and could I please have a private referral and then the details of where I was referred. Got a voicemail 'this is the doctor returning your call' :mad: so need to call back. I wasn't impressed with him when I went to the surgery, so will try one more time, and then will ask to speak to someone else.

Fire is very slow to get going this morning, so I haven't achieved as much work as I'd have liked. Need to get on and get it done. I have a very busy afternoon with client calls, and then tonight I MUST get on with putting up christmas decorations, making chocolates, wrapping and clearing up!

hex2

Greenbee - stress makes people do some very strange things but he really is messing with your head, deliberately or not. I hope things get sorted out soon.
Lady L - thinking of you, hope you and your DS have a lovely day.

I have a wonderful number of birds today - thoroughly enjoying myself watching. My second ever spotting of a woodpecker here :j. I am very lucky in that we have a mature crab apple, several pyracanthas and a huge sorbus absoliutely smothered in berries so lots of food naturally even before I put more out, and a big bowl of warm water.

Our bedding is in the WM, various bits of stuff have made it in and out of the freezer, and I am going to go through the fridge and veg basket and sort things out. Need to make my truffles before the cream goes off.

We actually have quite a bit of snow that came last night so no supermarket delivery, and no landrover as DH has taken it. We walked to get some milk and it was nice to see a complete lack of panic buying.

Dustykitten

Kids all being roped in to help, and so far are very willing, two out delivering cards, one making pancake mix, ironing put away by them.

Need to clean the grate, hoover it, empty hoover bag and then finish hoovering moping downstairs then I'll make the pancakes for the boys lunch.

Dustykitten

hex2 wrote: »

Greenbee - stress makes people do some very strange things but he really is messing with your head, deliberately or not. I hope things get sorted out soon.


I have a wonderful number of birds today - thoroughly enjoying myself watching. My second ever spotting of a woodpecker here :j. I am very lucky in that we have a mature crab apple, several pyracanthas and a huge sorbus absoliutely smothered in berries so lots of food naturally even before I put more out, and a big bowl of warm water.

Greenbee _ I agree with Hex, be strong sweetie

Hex - enjoy:j Mrs Blackcap is back, not seen her since early spring but apart from the Redwings (who have eaten every berry on the holly tree) no other unusual visitors but still lots of Blue, great and long tailed t!ts

Chloris

Monday Mayhem..

• 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.
• Dust round the whole downstairs

Tuesday - Time's nearly up!!!

• Prepare a list for that last second shopping

Wednesday Mayhem..

• Make sure you have all the shopping you need to take you through to next week.. milk and bread especially!
• Make sure the remaining presents are wrapped I will not have people sitting up while 5am on Christmas morning wrapping!
• Bake some mince pies and tarts etc.. yummies!!!
• Change any bedding you need to get washed before the fat guy arrives.. and I do not mean the OH/parent/ etc
• Vacuum the whole of the upstairs!
• wash windows through the whole downstairs if needed

DH is going to try to do the shopping tonight, fingers-crossed, snow and ice permitting! I am aiming for bed linen on Friday and I am leaving the dusting as close to Saturday as possible (MIL coming and I want it to look as clean as possible, plus don't want to do it twice in one week!). Presents were all wrapped, DH has had a delivery of some more for the children that I didn't know about. I will do them this evening. I could clean the windows and bake, or I might just cuddle my children and read to them instead.

Hope everyone is coping, I just can't keep up with this thread! Thank you to everyone at FCC for the lists - you make it all seem possible and managable! And thank you to everyone who posts, you all are an inspiration.

Craftyscholar

Just made my way - very carefully - to the wheely bin.
Waste of time - lid welded shut with a layer of ice :eek::eek::eek:

Back in house and staying here.