Weekly Flylady Thread 23rd May 2011

shellysue

thanks to all at FCC, I will try my best to mop the LR floor tomorrow :j
we may get a royal visit from DD with or without the new bloke - he's an ex RAF MP sergant. stand by your beds for kit inspection
I may get the giggles[STRIKE] if [/STRIKE]when we meet him:rotfl:

froddington

I'm in again - thank you pigpen and Toots :A

Open evening at work tomorrow so not going to get much flying done but, as I finish on Weds, I will play catch up from then.

embb wrote: »

Thanks for the thread guys, not promising much as I'm mega busy at work this week as I've got extra jobs and am hopefully going to see Pirates 4 on Thursday avo if I can twist OH's arm.....but I'll do what I can.

Oooh - me too. Going on Thursday late afternoon

4 piles of papers filed and therefore 4 files decluttering back to school tomorrow - aiming to make it 8 before bedtime.

Will do a listy now .........

Valli

DS (17) has announced his GF 'can stay over Friday night'...I don't remember inviting her. Anyway, she's here now and has told me that her brother's got his 1 year anniversary with his GF and as the parents are away at a concert he wants to be alone with his GF so his sister's staying here with her BF (DS). Now I know they 'do' and I'm not going to stop them just by being fuddy-duddy about it and they are both not far off 18. So I'm going to let her stay...

Thing is I have asked her, and she's told me, that her parents don't know. I presume this means they don't know about her plans or her brothers.

Opinions please?

Personally I feel that, as long as I encourage them to practise safe sex in a safe environment I'm doing a good thing. But I'm on my own here - just want someone to reassure me really.

seafarers_wife

Im in properly this week, as OH is going to be doing lots with the new house so i will be trying to stay out his way

Monday ~ Living Room, Hall and Stairs
Level 1
Vacuum floors and sofas
Wipe over sticky sofas.. see what you can scavenge from under cushions!
Level 2
Dusting, even if around everything
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
Wipe bannister/handrails
Clean mirrors and other glass things that are meant to be shiny!
Level 3
Wipe paintworks and any grubby marks off walls etc
Clean any fluffy electricals and defluff behind the radiators!
Vacuum under furniture you can manage to move without hurting yourself
Extras
clear a hotspot or 3!
Clean light shades/fittings and lamps.. and lightbulbs.. replace with energy saving ones if needed!
Clean a window or two.
Wash any smelly soft furnishings!

5. write away with change of name - work in progress
7. hand in notice to landlord once competed on house - done awaitign acknowledgement
11. sort out power of attorney
21. book dentist before OH goes back to sea
26. get quote for carpet cleaning rented house
27. back up all my spreadsheets onto both desktops and OH netbook in case my laptop goes belly up - MUST DO THIS AS MY LAPTOP GETTING VERY SLUGGISH
28. get pics of edinburgh and sydney framed.
29. take edinburgh prints with me this weekend.
30. sort out electrical box before we move
36. get up to date on filing
37. clear my shredding pile - wip
38. build our bed
39. build spare bed
40. sand down paintwork in our room
41. wipe down all paintwork in our room
42. paint woodwork in our room
43. paint our room
44. undercoat fireplace
45. top coat fireplace
46. sand down living room skirting boards
47. paint living room skirting boards
48. paint living room walls
49. fill in and sand down holes in walls
50. buy carpet for our room and have it fitted
51. fix skirting board in bubs room
52. strip skirting board in bubs room
53. undercoat and paint skirting board in bubs room
54. paint walls in bubs room
55. buy carpet and get fitted in bubs room
56. demolish wardrobe in spare room
57. sand woodwork in spare room
58. undercoat and paint woodwork in spare room
59. paint walls in spare room
60. buy carpet and get fitted in spare room
61. loft ladders to be fitted
62. move everything from the rented house and deep clean before handing keys back

pigpen

Valli.. I'd make sure she tells them she is staying with you.. so if they see their house destroyed by a meteor they know she at least is safe!

Pink things bathed.. blue things in next!

Looby_Lou

I'm back in again this week. I'm not sure when I'll get time to get anything done as I'm helping out at school.

Monday ~ Living Room, Hall and Stairs
Level 1
Vacuum floors and sofas
Wipe over sticky sofas.. see what you can scavenge from under cushions!
Level 2
Dusting, even if around everything
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
Wipe bannister/handrails
Clean mirrors and other glass things that are meant to be shiny!
Level 3
Wipe paintworks and any grubby marks off walls etc
Clean any fluffy electricals and defluff behind the radiators!
Vacuum under furniture you can manage to move without hurting yourself

Extras

1. clear a hotspot or 3!
   
2. Clean light shades/fittings and lamps.. and lightbulbs.. replace with energy saving ones if needed!
   
3. Clean a window or two.
4. Wash any smelly soft furnishings!

froddington

My list - have put 2 a day on my little list as I should manage that by next Sunday!

Monday ~ Living Room, Hall and Stairs

Level 1
Vacuum floors and sofas
Wipe over sticky sofas.. see what you can scavenge from under cushions!

Level 2
Dusting, even if around everything
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
Wipe bannister/handrails
Clean mirrors and other glass things that are meant to be shiny!

Level 3
Wipe paintworks and any grubby marks off walls etc
Clean any fluffy electricals and defluff behind the radiators!
Vacuum under furniture you can manage to move without hurting yourself

My 2-a-day (or 14-a-weekend!!) list
- make GP appt; make hair appt
- post x 2; write postcards x 4
- phone re pets; phone re garden
- sort CDs; sort DVDs
- file postcards; shredding
- update diary; update 101 list
- tidy car; car checks

Valli

pigpen wrote: »

Valli.. I'd make sure she tells them she is staying with you.. so if they see their house destroyed by a meteor they know she at least is safe!

Pink things bathed.. blue things in next!

I've got a feeling that isn't going to happen - since they'll be away all weekend the 'mice' are playing...they are choosing to leave a 17 YO and a 16YO 'home alone'... I know they are old enough.

Just warned DD she might be staying.

The_Dragon

Made a start - the first bits of filing are done (okay I put away the recently delivered Art of Crochet, just need to put away the yarn that arrived with it :rotfl:)

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Valli wrote: »

DS (17) has announced his GF 'can stay over Friday night'...I don't remember inviting her. Anyway, she's here now and has told me that her brother's got his 1 year anniversary with his GF and as the parents are away at a concert he wants to be alone with his GF so his sister's staying here with her BF (DS). Now I know they 'do' and I'm not going to stop them just by being fuddy-duddy about it and they are both not far off 18. So I'm going to let her stay...

Thing is I have asked her, and she's told me, that her parents don't know. I presume this means they don't know about her plans or her brothers.

Opinions please?

Personally I feel that, as long as I encourage them to practise safe sex in a safe environment I'm doing a good thing. But I'm on my own here - just want someone to reassure me really.

If you are comfortable with them at home, then that's what counts. I wouldn't be pleased at being party to any deception, so if it blows up in her face when her parents find out, then that's their problem. And I would tell them that in the hope that she decides it would be better to prempt things and speak to her parents so they know where she is.

I would have let DD1 have her boyfriend over occasionally (despite coming to detest the whining, over possessive prat) if she'd had her own room.

I only said no (which kicked off the shtstorm of boblical proportions, along with her not attending college, that led to her going to live at her father's and treat him with pretty much as much contempt as me) because she shared with her sister and still wanted him to stay.


But then again, DD1 still hates me, so what do I know?