My home is a mess

Rummer

:santa2: Good Morning Messies :santa2:

Well I am feeling much better today and I am celebrating by having truffles (the chocolate type) for breakfast .

Currently I am sitting the the middle of absolute chaos :rotfl: and I am trying to convince myself that cleaning the whole house is a good idea!

Incase you are off line over the hols
Merry Christmas Messies!!!
I will be about over the holiday period to chat to those that are still about

Emm-in-a-pickle

Hi Messies! I`ve just got up and had a read here - a well deserved lie-in as planned after the last 2 days on longday shift. Stayed up very late last night, too, made a curry and talking (not arguing!) with OH & DS.

Rummer, I`m SO glad to hear you`re feeling better now. Thanks, everyone, for your posts & the lovely moral support we all share on here. I hope you all have a really lovely Christmas - however busy or messy it gets!
I shared the `not dusty unless you can autograph it` observation with colleagues too - it was too good not to share! We`ve been like headless chickens on the ward too, staff sickness & quick rota changes, good folks being willing to come in and help out (thanks to our sweet-talking Charge Nurse who can coax an extra shift out of anyone, Bless`im!) Frantic efforts to get patients home (safely!) before Christmas, a lot of extra phoning to organise discharge planning, setting up home-care etc., getting take-home prescriptions done early, etc., but also taking details of new referrals waiting for a bed on the unit. PLUS a lot of visits from ex-patients who are now doing SO well you`d never believe how they were when they were with us. One young man (who is still disabled but once wasn`t ever expected to recover from being paralysed/speechless/totally dependent etc) WALKED in with his dad yesterday (even our tough gruff physio had brimming eyes) and they happened to come at the same time as the Mayor on his pre-Christmas visit. Our lad got all the hugs while the Mayor smiled and tried a few handshakes but knew he`d been Upstaged!! That visit actually MADE my Christmas - I`m filling up now just typing about it. Off today & tomorrow, and feeling nice & Christmassy.
Going to the PUB for a few hours this evening (EEK! In 3 hours time!) & having a quiet panic about what else has to be done.(Haven`t the energy for a full-blown panic just yet). Still undecided what to wear, & what to do for supper, but must decide the latter soon and put something on to cook for the after-pub munchies! Tomorrow is just buy bread/milk, and cook ahead for Christmas & Boxing Day after work.A few last-minute bits to wrap.
Messy status - it`s VERY wet weather again so pointless doing floors/changing rugs. Not too bad. And will get worse before it gets better, I`m ok with that!
Dragging self away to kitchen now to make decisions about food....

gilly1964

helen_jelly wrote: »

Today I have

Put the BM on to make Olive Bread for DH [can't stand the stuff meself!]
In the middle of washing up [water was too hot so on here to let it cool]

I have to
Take kids to see Arthur Christmas at the pics
Tidy like a mad woman so that tomorrow all I have to do is wrap the Xmas Eve hampers

See you all later
Love and hugs




Helen x

Love and hugs from another MK messy - we are seeing Arthur Christmas as 18:10 - wonder if we will be sat near each other - lol

Merry Messy Christmas
Gill

candygirl

Feeling crap today.OH has been coughing all night, and kept me awake but slept thru it himself, and doesn't get why i'm pooped:mad::mad:
Am babysitting for nocturnal DGS tonight lol:mad::D:D
Cleaning wise am doing SFA today:rotfl::rotfl:

Rummer

Been tidying for ages with very little results :eek:

I have however made a lovely giant pot of soup that I am going to enjoy for dinner and my DD has had a lovely relaxing day (as have I). Also booked a lovely few days away with my OH as a special xmas treat .

Does tidying yarn into snowflake shapes count as reducing mess :rotfl:

rosalie-lavender

Rummer wrote: »

Been tidying for ages with very little results :eek:

I have however made a lovely giant pot of soup that I am going to enjoy for dinner and my DD has had a lovely relaxing day (as have I). Also booked a lovely few days away with my OH as a special xmas treat .

Does tidying yarn into snowflake shapes count as reducing mess :rotfl:

Of course tidying yarn into snowflake shapes counts as reducing mess. I made millionaires shortbread to reduce my mess, it is just a shame that the rest of my house is still a tip.

Still, I watched the hoarder programme this morning and feel much better about my mess now.:rotfl:

Rummer

rosalie-lavender wrote: »

Still, I watched the hoarder programme this morning and feel much better about my mess now.:rotfl:

I did point that out to my OH that I clearly wasn't that messy as we could at least (with minimal effort) travel around the house and fit in the bedroom :rotfl:

Fruball

EmmInAPickle - lovely story about that lad - must be so rewarding and I think its lovely that they have popped in to see you all

RosealieLavender - pmsl at you feeling better about your mess now that you've seen the hoarder programme! It makes my house look wonderful too (by comparison!). I felt sad for that chap, but i'm sorry, I was wetting myself laughing at him, and subsequently the counsellor, sliding thru that hole - when I could just see shoes, I almost broke a rib laughing... I think that counsellor needed counselling himself after that ordeal... Can you imagine the smell :eek: Still, very pleased that people helped him and hope that its looking better by now!

:hello: to all the other Messies - I am around Christmas so will no doubt be online now and then

Merry Christmas everybody

Buffythedebtslayer

I love you lot. I know haven't been here long but honestly it is such a relief to find all these people who are just like me!

I went Shopping. ooo I gave away a load of magazines to my LOVELY Charity shop! i have spent SO MUCH money i am not even thinking about it. I think with some last minute tidying (I know shocking eh!) tomorrow it will be all sorted.

I am so shattered now tho. got a party to go to tonight and MUST dye my hair. Greys ago go............................

Happy Christmas you lovely lovely people xxxxxxxxxxxx

Fruball

Forgot to say... We have reached phase 4 of the clean/tidy for Xmas... Phase 4 = lots of black sacks and heap it in my bedroom to be dealt with another day

Result = tidy house, room for tree and presents and happy Me but need to be nimble as mountain goat to get to my bed. Which is fine as its only me going there! (Bedroom will look unnervingly like the The Hoarder Man's house though :eek:) Possible benefit of my very, very untidy bedroom is there is so much stuff in there that the DDs haven't noticed a big box (One of their main pressies!) and a very large carrier bag full of wrapped stocking fillers :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I shall go in there later to excavate some clothes for the next few days, and wash them.