My home is a mess

Emm-in-a-pickle

HelenJelly, I DO hope you get as much joy from your green leather chairs as I do from my one armchair & settee. Bought `em 6 years ago from a charity shop, still looking good despite dog enjoying them (WHEN you can actually SEE the settee, that is...folks use it to dump coats, schoolbag, books, etc, etc...well it IS a flattish surface, after all! GRRR!) They still look smart and wipe up lovely. I use some ancient cream cotton honeycomb-weave throws (boilable!)on the seats when I have a tidy period or for special occasions, the leather and the cotton seem to shrug off dog hair and muddy mess, spag-bol spillages, etc.

I`ve come in tonight after a 13 hour shift, (my 3rd in 4 days) so as anticipated, it`s like a bomb site. I now have 3 days off, but tonight, quite unashamedly, C..B..A..! DGD is here, DS, and OH - they aren`t at all domesticated, and beyond hope of alteration - again I CBA to fight to change them. Any slight improvements have been breif, unsustained, and not worth the energy & effort I put in ranting at them, I`m not here for whole days at a time to keep them up to it, and to be honest, I`M a Real Messy myself too, but shift patterns don`t help. I got home at 9.30, made us supper from scratch-ish in my small already by the time I got home bomb-site kitchen (thawed frozen chicken breasts in mild peri-peri sauce,
steamed rice and rocket/pakchoi/chopped radish/spring onion salad. It was really nice. Considering I`d no idea what I was going to do for supper till I was driving home from work!) I have UNASHAMEDLY piled the pots with the pots that were there already. NOW, I am UNASHAMEDLY relaxing with a few glasses of red wine (alone, except for you lot as OH is up at 6)I will tackle the kitchen tomorrow. I quite like washing up. (SAD!)
I`ve got DD`s chap coming to do the decking tomorrow - proper decking boards were delivered today, base and log-shelter he`s already constructed from freebie pallets from my brilliant veg man - DD`s chap got laid off, and getting him to do stuff here that needs doing is keeping him occupied and better for his dignity that I can pay him for his services than me giving her handouts. I`ve thawed a big piece of beef since yesterday that I`ll cut up and do in tomato and tiny rizi pasta with cinnamon, olive oil and fresh parsley, so when he`s done with the decking for the day I`ll run him home with a pot of this, DD can pop it in oven with grated cheese on top, I`ll do likewise with our share of it, but we`ll have ours late , room temperature and with salad & garlic bread. YUM.
Basically, I`ll spend the next 2 days attempting the domestic goddess crap, the 3rd day planning ahead, preparing myself and my poor beleaguered little kitchen (and livingroom) for what may as well be my 2-day total absence, feeling a little bit glum and hard done by/early night/then going to my Other Life - Work for 2 long days. But I wouldn`t swap it for the World! I`m an `All or Nothing` Messie, you see. I Love my job, I CHOOSE to do the long shifts (3 per week, & no more than 2 on the trot - doesn`t sound much, but some days when giving your all has drained your ALL, a CBA day at home is a downright NECESSITY. I sometimes think if I could get everywhere straight, as a baseline, I`d keep on top of it. But then it gets trshed, and I CBA, so carry on regardless!

hart44

Good morning messies

I woke up with a headache this morning then DD came down and reminded me she had a doctors appointment at 8am so had half an hr to get dressed and drive 6 miles to the doc's

Im glad you had a good day yesterday Helen

Snookey I love bargain shopping and the sales for t-shirts are great ((hugs)) for you and your brother not good news

I hate this sticky heat and CBA today but I must get some food today or we will be haveing ice out of the freezer for tea :rotfl:

Hope everyone is ok and don't do too much if it's too warm

helen_jelly

Hart - hope that headache goes, did you get on ok at the Docs [yourself not DD]
Snookey - Thats bad news about your DB, I hope you are all coping with the news, your DD story made me laugh, I love the things that kids say, when we were away last week my DS got annoyed with my Mum and called her a Great Bag of Annoyance!! I doubled up and thats her nickname now [and its not far of the truth!!]

Ok, I woke up this morning and satthinking about what my day was going to be like and I came to the conclusion that I'm pig sick of how this hows looks. Today I would describe it as dusty, dirty, dog smelly, hairy and so bloomin messy, I can't even blame the kids as its mainly me thats the culprit so I'm signing off for the rest of the day and I'm not coming back until 8.30pm when DD goes to bed so if you see me on here then shout at me and chuck me off


Have a lovely day everyone and I hope you all achieve what you want to

Helen x

Skint_but_Optimistic

Hugs to all having a bad time.

Oh god my house is back to being an absolute tip, and I dont even know where to start AGAIN!!

Its just stuff, coffee cups on the landing windowsill, a well meaning bucket with flash and a cloth in in the upstairs loo (its been there since a week yesterday) and general chuff. to think I did it all tidied out last week

Shocking.

And the washer is broken.

Pfft.

Maggie_Bob

@Skint but Optimistic - everytime I stop to congratulate myself on getting my place clean, I turn around and it's a mess again :rotfl:

natlie

Hi Messies

I have major cleaned the bathroom, it was horrible but now its shiny and like me stinks of bleach, I think I did use far too much. I have hoovered all of upstairs, done a load of washing and am about to hang it out and I have sorted my eby and charity shop piles.

The tree man is supposed to be calling today to mow my front garden and give me a price to cut the trees at the front which are growing in the house and the council came this morning and took some old bulky waste stuff from around the side of the house.

Next job - hoover the stairs and kitchen floor wash the kitchen and bthroom floor and tidy and hoover the lounge phew!

Nat

xxx

MummyEm

Messy doesn't even describe ours at the moment :eek:

Think I may have to just accept that cleaning and tidying during the school hols is a big waste of time!

Kids are going to inlaws for a couple of days mid aug so will be having a clear out in playroom/garage/shed and clean house from top to bottom but until then, will just keep to minimal tidying, hoovering and wiping bathrooms over.

helen_jelly

Emm in a pickle - armchairs are "looking good" we're really pleased with them, they fit in where the 2 seater sofa was so that meant that there was not a huge change round in the LR.

The old sofa has been taken to the dump, I then took DS to the shops so he could spend some money on console games - he bought 5 games for £12.50 so he was very pleased and he's agreed with me that I'll give him a game each Monday and that way he has games to last the hols!! Anyone with a gaming mad son will know how quickly they go through the games!! But he is good at trading them in and he refuses to pay full price for them - taught him well

I'm off carpet shopping this week sometime

See you all later

Helen x

ExTrolly101

Hello Messies.

Hugs to those who need them. Oh messies it's en days since my last confession!:rotfl:I am such a !!!!!!, housework wise!!

After fab friends did garden and heped fold 9 loads of washing seem to have a earwig infestation:eek::eek: every piece of laundry I am having to shake out. I'm so frightened by the litte critters! OH only built and sited 3 out of the 4 pieces of swedish flat pack. Most of DS clothes in one DD has been colouring in bed despite been told not to, felt tip all over pink sheets:mad: most has come out thank goodness. Family activity week at childrens centre was brilliant. We even picked our own veggies from school farm, made HM soup and HM bread!! Really enjoyed that one! OH went working in Burton U Trent on Fri, obviously he went out on Fri eve and had too much to drink(no food) and when I rang Sat am was really a*sy on phone.:mad::mad: I had already been up 3 whole nights with DS so I could have swiped him down the phone from Leeds!!:p
Spent Sat am in local shopping mall Build a bear I think the bonus was the very good looking store manager, probaly old enough to be me son(only technically)!!;);) got a few bits and new arg*s books. Sat eve tried to tidy LR, only 1 seat available out of a possible 5. Didn't finish and vowed to do it on Sun morning:rotfl:Sun morn took DD & DS to car boot got :rotfl:bed guard and MR fast bake BM for £4 each!! Had to pick up OH and drove to London, too hot and arrived at Hatfield seething mad with OH and kids, lets the do what they want even though I said no. Stayed in Travelodge OH got for£19 very :money:next morning had furious row and eneded up on tube heading for Vic coach station, after much furious teaxting etc, was reunited with family at Stratford. Went to see Olympic park, very impressive, heat oppressive. Went to next TL in Feltham, visited OH cousin in eve. Yest went into city got an expensive bus ticket thingy and had a good tour. 32 temp, hot and bothered. Anyway, before I left home it looked like it had been bombed and burgled!! Came back and looked worse!! DS at nursery this am, DD at hol club at local church. I decided to clean car out as I had been eaten alive on drive back last night, 18 bites in all!! Have hoovered washed interior and spayed with Acclaim flea spray from when i had my cat. Vac not strong enough for all debris so went to garage and used theirs too. Only need to do ddashboar and febreeze seats. Harmony restored ish within family unit. House a midden. Just off to pick up DD from my mothers where she's been all afternoon, allowing DS and I had a little rest;):rotfl:I've missed been a messy please will you forgive me and can I return?

Emm-in-a-pickle

Maggie Bob - that`s exactly how it is here too! Can`t feel good about getting cleaned up because it`s back to square one before you have time to gloat!
HelenJelly - I`m glad your green leather chairs are pleasing you, sure they`ll continue to look good for ages - when you can see them, that is, if your place is at all like mine!
ExTrolley - So you are NOT one of the folks who tidies up for the burglars before you leave home? Nor am I! Also, I reckon the unaccustomed heat is partly to blame for a lot of grumpiness/domestic dis-harmony - patience and tolerance more stretched. I DO sympathise about the earwigs, and it IS that time of year. My poor mum was always terrified of earwigs and beetles, so I grew up rescuing her and them, catching them and putting them outside. My mum`s gratitude far outweighed any notion of being scared of them myself. (I`m ok with most things, but ANTS do my head in if they get indoors, or too near me outside, and Flying Ants reduce me to a complete gibbering wreck! All other creatures that stray indoors get Rescued and put outside....)

A few days ago DGD (aged 11, into all manner of wildlife and not spooked by creepy-crawlies at all) and I found an earwig indoors, and proceeded to `rescue` it, with an old birthday card, ripped a corner off to flick it onto the card as it wouldn`t co-operate. Flipped it too hard so it missed the card...several times. Ripped another corner off the card so we could both try to get the silly thing onto the card...and STILL it kept overshooting the card.We both got to the giggly stage, and called it EARWIG TIDDLEYWINKS. Eventually we did get it onto the card and put it outside.