New life, new me......

Skint_yet_Again

Morning grippers !

Wow WW you inspire me, you're going to be busy with Spice and decorating and running, sounds fab

Karb hope the heating engineer bill isnt too painful today x

well I am fed up of feeling ill now. Leg is a bit better, more physio on arm tomorrow, but cold is back with a vengence today After 2 weeks I thought it would have gone by now.

Anyway, today I am going to see if I can get some cheap plants for the garden. Its sunny here today...it looks like spring! , but will try and get something frost resistant as although it looks like spring its bl**dy freezin !

Have researched problem with my car washers blocked and so am going to get my head under the bonnet and try and clear that later. Will also get a bucket of bleach and scrub down the front forecourt to try and get rid of the black stuff off the flagstones.... cant afford a pressure washer so it will have to be one-handed elbow grease

Hopefully a bit of fresh air and exercise will make me feel better. Hope you all have a good day whatever your plans x

WelshWoofer

Skint - you put me to shame, I'm cheerfully ignoring the mossy stuff growing on the drive.:o And you have a streaming cold - take it easy!

Just back from a 5km run around the water park - it was quite hard at the beginning but I managed it with two 30 secs walks to catch my breath. Feel quite good now - will do it again some time this week.

Might go on a trip to Ikea this afternoon to look at the bedroom furniture. Will try to control myself - I always end up coming back with weird and wonderful things from the marketplace part.:p

WelshWoofer

Ended up bringing back a dustpan and brush, 6 tumblers and some plastic food storage boxes for the grand total of £7.:rotfl:

I found the furniture that I'd like and its cheaper than I'd hoped for so good news - will have a look online and see if they can deliver from online orders (sure they can).

Off to the park for a wander with the dog in a minute then will be glad of a sitdown and some tea.

WelshWoofer

List of spring cleaning to get done in the next week or so

1. Clean the wooden floors downstairs - done
2. Wipe down the skirtings with antibac stuff (have a mucky dog) - done
3. Give the downstairs loo a proper good seeing to - done
4. Clean mirrors - done
5. Gather a few household things together for the charity shop and drop them off (pictures etc) - done
6. Take photos of bedroom furniture to put on freecycle - man coming get them for some money instead:) done
7. Tidy out spare room wardrobe ready for giving away and redecorating - done
8. Take down curtains and wash bedding from spare room ready for decorating - done
9. Give main bathroom tiles and taps a good scrub - done
10. Give en suite bathroom tiles and taps a good scrub - done
11. Clean insides of upstairs windows - done
12. Clean wooden blinds - done
13. Sort out main wardrobe - make charity shop bags up
14. Wipe out kitchen cupboards - done
15. Scrub shower glass doors - done
16. Bleach kitchen bin - done
17. Clean inside of kitchen window - done
18. Dust light fittings - done
19. Clean inside of conservatory roof (yukky job) - done
20. Tidy out bathroom cabinet - done
21. Sort kitchen drawers - done

Other jobs

1. Try to sell wedding dress
2. Try ebaying curtains and cushion covers from last living room makeover
3. Get plumber/handyman to sort dripping toilets - found a number of a retired plumber and have left a message
4. Get light switch fixed
5. Buy new bulbs for lamp and lounge - done
6. Do some batch cooking for when back at work - done some soups and am making cheese and potato pie tonight
7. Clean car inside and out - done
8. Price up painting of eaves - done, £280:eek:
9. Get grass cut (looking scruffy compared to nextdoor)
10. Look into someone cleaning guttering and conservatory roof - phoned man that stuck a card through the door

Schoolwork

1. Mark controlled assessments
2. Write 6th form feedback reports (18 of them:eek:)
3. Mark yr 11 books - done
4. Finish C3 ppts - done
5. 6x C2 ppts - done
6. Finish Yr 9 ppt

Exercise, Grooming and Diet

1. Lose 5 lbs in April 1lb gone so far
2. Batch cook healthy cal counted meals for when back at work - done
3. Get back to comfortable 5k running (managed it today but it was a struggle)
4. Swim every week to help back (just niggles that go when I'm stretched from swimming) - done
5. Get eyebrows done
6. Dye hair before going back to work
7. Have a couple of sunbeds to use up the course
8. Buy new toothbrush and extra whitening toothpaste -done

Redecoration of Spare Room

1. Paint walls - done
2. Do skirtings - done
3. Get carpet laid - coming on Thursday
4. Order furniture -done
5. Buy accessories (light shade, pictures etc) - done
6. Iron new bedding and curtains - done
7. Look into blackout blind (this can wait until next payday)

WelshWoofer

I don't have any plans for tomorrow so am going to put the day to good use.
This is the plan (in addition to dog walking).....

• Clean the wooden floors downstairs - done
• Wipe down the skirtings with antibac stuff (have a mucky dog) - done
• Give the downstairs loo a proper good seeing to - done
• Clean mirrors - done
• Gather a few household things together for the charity shop and drop them off (pictures etc) - done
• Take photos of bedroom furniture to put on freecycle - man coming to pick them up tomorrow for cash instead!
  
• Tidy out spare room wardrobe ready for giving away and redecorating - done
  
• Take down curtains and wash bedding from spare room ready for decorating - done
  
• Give main bathroom tiles and taps a good scrub - done
  
• Give en suite bathroom tiles and taps a good scrub - done
• Do some batch cooking for when back at work - tomorrow will be spicy parsnip soup, made leek and potato soup today
• Finish C3 ppts
• Go for a swim/run
• Have a sunbed

That should keep me out of the biscuit tin!:rotfl::rotfl:

Skint_yet_Again

WOW WW !!! thats an impressive list !!!

Ok, you were right... I was a bit optimistic this morning - it must hav been the sun shine which lasted all of half an hour before it became grey and freezing ! I caught the weather forecast for snow over next few days so decided not to get any plants for the garden after all. I ended up just doing some housework ...tidying, ironing, hoovered upstairs, then I put my thermals on and attacked the slabs with a bucket of bleach and stiff broom. I stopped after about 20 minutes as my nose was streaming, managed to make a bit of an impact and have felt a bit better this afternoon so must have done my sinuses good

I only booked a week off for easter as DS is at college they only had good friday plus this week off. I'm due back at work tuesday, but I'm going to ring in tomorrow and see if I can book tuesday off so I can take DS to his interview.

WelshWoofer

Skint - you may notice that there are hardly any outside jobs on the list! I hate gardening. I have aboslutely no interest in it. At least you've done some outside tidying, mine will probably remain ignored!
What do you have planned for today? Hope the cold is better now?
Where are you in the country? More snow!

Its a bit grey and dull here today - will take the woofer to the park in a bit to tire him out so I can get on with the jobs on the Thursday list.

WelshWoofer

WelshWoofer wrote: »

• Clean the wooden floors downstairs - done
• Wipe down the skirtings with antibac stuff (have a mucky dog) - done
• Give the downstairs loo a proper good seeing to - done
• Clean mirrors - done
• Gather a few household things together for the charity shop and drop them off (pictures etc) - done
• Take photos of bedroom furniture to put on freecycle - man coming to pick them up tomorrow for cash instead!
  
• Tidy out spare room wardrobe ready for giving away and redecorating - done
  
• Take down curtains and wash bedding from spare room ready for decorating - done
  
• Give main bathroom tiles and taps a good scrub - done
  
• Give en suite bathroom tiles and taps a good scrub - done

Had a very busy and tiring day but the house looks lovely and clean and smells all freshly done.:)
Called in to the second hand shop that I sold a bookcase to ages ago and the man wants to have a look at the bedroom furniture to buy it from me. He's coming tomorrow and will hopefully leave with most of the stuff and give me some dosh.
Anything is better than nothing and, more importantly, he'll get it all downstairs and out of the way.:T

I also answered an ad on Gumtree for unwanted paving slabs - I have 9 just cluttering up the garden from when the conservatory was built (about 8 years ago!). The bloke has been in touch and is coming to collect them too - don't think its for any money but they will be out of the way
Will have a think about what's next on the list to do and crack on with that tomorrow.
Just an hour or so of schoolwork to do later and that's another thing I can tick off the list.

Looking forward to tea - am starving after all that manual labour.:p

WelshWoofer

Here's Friday's list of things to do - it really helped to focus me today so I'm doing it again

1. Clean insides of upstairs windows - done
2. Clean wooden blinds - done
3. Wipe out kitchen cupboards done
4. Bleach kitchen bin - done
5. Clean inside of kitchen window - done
6. Tidy out bathroom cabinet
7. Sort kitchen drawers - just done this while tea was cooking

And other less energetic things to do....

• Have a look in papershop window to see if there's a handyman advertised (sure I saw one) - phoned one that stuck a card through the door
• Mark half a set of year 11 books
• Get the man around to look at the bedroom furniture -still waiting! - - done
• Order new furniture - done
• Look into selling wedding dress and curtains and cushions

Skint_yet_Again

WelshWoofer wrote: »

Skint - you may notice that there are hardly any outside jobs on the list! I hate gardening. I have aboslutely no interest in it. At least you've done some outside tidying, mine will probably remain ignored!

:rotfl: I usually leave the gardening to mum and dad when they come down as I usually manage to kill most things but I did have 2 large planters by the front door with dead things in. One local cat kept spraying against the side of them so I got mum and dad to move them into the back garden. It looks much cleaner and tidier out the front now and smells a bit fresher The most gardening I do is cutting the grass, everything else has to fend for itself


Well done on your list today WW. Good news on the furniture, hope the chap buys it from you and its a bonus if he takes it away !

I'm in the south, and we've had a few snow flurries today, but nothing much thankfully. I had physio this morning then popped to the local garage that does my mot & service and they used their air machine to blow the blockage from my windscreen washer bottle. So now I can see where I'm going and they didnt charge me :cool: Apart from a quick trip to @sda and a bit of washing I've been quite lazy this afternoon but I feel much better thanks.

Tomorrow - I'm out to lunch with friends. I want to mask up all the woodwork on the stairs ready for finishing the painting now I feel well enough to get another coat on the walls. Hopefully that will keep me busy over the weekend !