Weekly Flylady Thread 22nd August 2011

Triker

Hi all, I'm in this week too, lurked last week.

The bathroom is still 'in progress'....:wall:

I have finally put some stuff on ebay and hubby took loads of rubble and rubbish to the dump today so the back garden looks marginally better.

Four days of work and then I'm off on leave for a bit, :j.

Greenbee hope you're feeling better.

Toots you ok hun, been quiet again I see.

Special thoughts are going out there for Lady Liberty who I think needs a Flylady surge of healing vibes at the mo. xxx


Piggers, good luck at the docs hun re your kidneys, hope you feel better soon.

Right, best check my ebay items out, have abid on already.

bonnie_bumpkins

I'm in again this week. Thank you pigpen .

My baby steps over the last few weeks have made a huge impact so thanks once more for the ideas and encouragement.

Lists:

Monday ~ Kitchen and dining area
Level One
Declutter and wipe worksurfaces
Sweep and mop the floor
Level Two
Scrub the sink clean and polish up those tiled areas.. clean the gunky grout
Degunge the fridge
Wipe the table, replace cloth if needed
Level Three
Wipe units, kickboards and appliances
Clean the oven and hob
Give the small appliances a wipe over and replace in their comfy homes
Extras
1. Wipe the insides of the unit doors
2. Clean a small appliance.. defuzz the kettle, decrumb the toaster etc
3. Scrub out one cupboard
4. Clean all the filters and door seals

TO DO
• Phone H re arrival time
• Find earring in hoover
• Make list of Psychology books for Claire the freecycler
• Finish essay plan for TMA 02 and write actual TMA
• Sort all OU stuff
• Put the rest of the spare bedding back
• Re-make my bed
• Put towels & bedding away in landing cupboard and/or airing cupboard
• Wash DS bedding and re-make his bed – including vacuuming mattress!!!!
• Wash DD bedding and re-make her bed – including vacuuming mattress!!!!
• Iron and take up DS's newly dyed curtains
• Mend the rest of DS's stuff
• Iron the three LR curtains – **LISTEN TO RADIO 4 WHILST IRONING**
• Wash my bedroom curtains


FROGGIES
• Find where I hid present for H (wrap and put by for visit)
• Decide what to take for J & A
• Take crap in boot to blue lorry
• Catch up on “Darwin” reading
• Get to grips with Evolution Megalab stuff
• Get cracking with maths stuff
• Sort out BT broadband mobile thing – EEEK
• Research new contact lenses - for when I have a job
• Buy more 'cambrian green' stones for front garden - when I have a job

Night all

Amara

Hello!
May I join in for this week?
I'd like to:
-wash the lounge window
-wash mirrors on a wadrobe
-wash staircase
-keep kitchen and bathroom tidy, very hard
-do a good dusting
Also, not very Flylady, but:
-do some paperwork with my business
-do some work with my bookkeeping course, I gave it up long time ago, shame
-[STRIKE]set up DD , saving for a car we'll need to buy next year, we don't think current one will last that long[/STRIKE]
See you soon!

mummyyof5

Im in again....thanks to all at FCC xxx

I cleaned all downstairs windows..inside and out

All clothes put away

Made a batch of washing gloop for my mum


Bed remade...

Kitchen tidy so wont take long tomorrow

OH off work again tomorrow..only averaging 2 days a week at the moment...not good...so not sure if we will stay in or take littlies out somewhere...will need to be somewhere cheap if we do....really want to get some more blackberries soon too....

Love and healing vibes to Lady Liberty...and loads to Toots too...Im assuming she is missing for the usual reason ????

Love to all and welcome to all newbies xxxx

youngmummy

hi all, hope everyone is well,
this week i would like to
dailies
check diary
WM
TD
Laundry out, folded and away.
washing up
hoover/mop/sweep floors
empty bins
clean bathroom and loo

Other stuff
phone bank
pair up all socks
meet up with friends for coffee
need to complete over the week
Level One
general tidy
Level Two
clear top of chest of drawers
bag up spare change
Level Three
Wipe units, and appliances
close Halifax bank account
clean under TV unit and sofa
sort out bedroom
wash bedding/put new bedding on beds

Extras would like to achieve this week:

1. Wipe the insides of the kitchen units
2. empty and sort out stuff in shed
3. clean all doors
4. clean mattresses

if i think of anything else i will update !

pigpen

WM done x2
Recluttered my house with a DD2

Apparently KH isnt having the children this week.. so it will be 2 full weeks he hasnt seen any of them except for DD2.. last time I spoke to him I told him he needs to make an effort and a fuss with DD4 as she is feeling sad because she doesnt see him.. then he dumps her for 2 weeks.. tw4t.

Girl have sprinked glitter all over their carpet and it looks like a shredder has been emptied on their carpet so they are vacuuming tomorrow.. and I need to sort through their cupboards for flingage!

I just found 3 brand new coats in my bedding cupboard.. 2 girls (both vertbaudet 11-12) and 1 boys (next 11-12 with tags on for £45.99!!!!!) ...of course they wont fit anyone this winter.. so they are going on ebay.. it is so annoying!

knitted half a sleeve.. it is very boring, I hate doing sleeves.. plus the pattern looks nothing at all like the picture.. hey ho!

Nest time anyway... hopefully Squeak wont poo at 3:30am tonight!

Oh.. I had words with my sister too... so now I will be all that is evil..

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Evening all - just checking in and wanted to say that the Fishie Gods were good this weekend. Jokingly made an offering of a splash of fizzy drink into the lake and it went mad at the peg for the rest of the day. There were two of us on the one peg, quietly giggling at jokes, with rods, reels, line, hooks, camouflage gear, the whole shebang costing less than the other anglers had probably paid for their bait, and they caught nothing. Once I caught a large Perch, on top of a carp and every other species of fish in the lake, they even started packing up to go home around 4 hours early. The few that stayed went on to hear me catch a nice Tench and a bunch of others, all just on red maggots. And talking to the fish instead of calling them things or concentrating on how I looked in photos or how much they weighed.

And then, as we were packing up, I noticed the float was looking funny. After a couple of minutes, having been told 'nah, it's nothing, there's only a couple of dead maggots on it', I thought I would just reach out and take the rod gently.

As my hand was 4 inches away from the rod, it flew off the peg into the water with a big splash and went skating across the lake at a rate of knots.


Cue me swearing very loudly, him going 'what?'

'Your rod's gone!'

'WHAT? WHERE?'

'OVER THERE!'

[crash, bang wallop as I leap over the gear and an inlet and start pegging it across the grass towards where the rod was headed, grabbing a big stick on the way]

[Thud as I hit the ground at the next peg and just catch the rod before it floats off into the bullrushes]

[Thuds as fishing buddy runs up with the net]

Retrieve the rod.

'It's stuck'

'No it isn't, there's still a fish on the end'

'WHAT?' [pulls gently on rod]

[Whomp as the fish tries to make another break for it]

'Errggghhhhhhhhh....it's............big.........HUGE!' [more swearing]

[THUD as I reassemble net and throw myself between his legs onto the peg, sinking the net into the lake. Head down, hoping that the rod doesn't snap or I'm likely to lose half my face.]


Five minutes of gasps, puffs and grunts ensue.


Until a beautiful slab of fishiness glides into the net and nearly drags me off the platform.


[hysterical giggling]

Back to original peg, one struggling with net and fish, one staggering with rod still attached.


Beautiful common carp gently placed back in water until weighing gear set up, hook slips out at the slightest touch, then out for photo and weighing, together with gentle rinsing with water constantly to increase oxygen sats.


Fish weighed. Giant.


Fish photographed, checked over once more - in perfect condition, not tired, gills fresh, deep, rich red - and returned to water unharmed.



Lots more giggling. Until a giant perch tried the same trick on my rod, but I caught it before it went and it bit through the line. That would have been excessive luck.


I finished the day taking 35 minutes to walk the 5 minutes back to the car, leaning on my stick, in pain, exhausted, dehydrated, with heatstroke, suntanned arms, covered in a combination of fish slime and maggot dust and soaking wet from the fresh water I was pouring over the fish constantly to minimise any stress. The fish certainly looked better going back to their home than I did.


But it was worth it.



Going to go next week when DD has been invited to go to KH's. Would have been nice had they asked, rather than arranged it first.


Today, I bought a lawnmower and then decided it was far too much like hard work to mow the lawn today, so spent the time doing nothing instead.


Back to housework tomorrow.

mummyroysof3

Monday ~ Kitchen and dining area
Level One
Declutter and wipe worksurfaces
Sweep and mop the floor
Level Two
Scrub the sink clean and polish up those tiled areas.. clean the gunky grout
degunge the fridge
Wipe the table, replace cloth if needed
Level Three
Wipe units, kickboards and appliances
Clean the oven and hob
Give the small appliances a wipe over and replace in their comfy homes
Extras
Wipe the insides of the unit doors
Clean a small appliance.. defuzz the kettle, decrumb the toaster etc
Scrub out one cupboard
Clean all the filters and door seals


good day to have kitchen jobs as my new fridge freezer comes today...im very excited:j

shellysue

morning all :hello:
spent yesterday afternoon chopping plums, got very tired doing that, [still having problems caused by meds.], got back ache, I was too tired to eat last night and feel horrible this morning.

off now to load washing machine

then
make bread
put plums in oven

sort kitchen

kazwookie

Morning

Count me in again this week in a fashion, bit of a busy week work wise so will do what I can.

Floors done
Apples last night picked from tree in garden, some stewed, now freezing, rest to pick and sort out.

Have a godo day hugs