Time for a plan Stan - new years resolutions start now!

missymoo81

Right, I've decided. I need to shake up my life a bit. I spend so much of my time sitting on my backside, when my house needs cleaning and money needs saving, debts need paying and assignments need writing..... So my new year will start tomorrow.... I really need to start putting my best foot forward, and not wait for new year to start my resolutions, the time is now! And IF I happen to fall off the wagon in the next 29 days, I will be able to start afresh on the first of January, with the knowledge of what I did wrong and how to rectify it and not to make the same mistakes again

The things I want to change.

I want to look better and therefore feel better
I want a tidy house
I want to have savings stashed for my teacher training
I want to be out of my OD and not have anything on my CC
I want to spend quality time with OH
I want to spend quality time with Roo and the new baby when it arrives
I want an uncluttered, clean house
i want to spend more time on my assignments and get the grades I know I can achieve.

So i need to start the steps to have all of these things, as I went out for a wintery walk this morning with baby Roo I started to think of ways of achieving my goals.

A routine i think is the most important thing thing I can put into practice, and then all of these things should be easy to slot in. But I need a routine I can stick too, not one of my usual, lets try and do a million things in a day.

Roo needs smore of a structure then hopefully I can fit a routine around him. I need to do sme sort of cleaning every day, so that by the end of the week my whole house would have had a good clean. I'm going to have a good look at flylady and see what I can do every day.

I need to spend just a little bit of time every day making myself look half decent instead of looking like a great big mess every day, it shouldn't take long, I just neglect myself and I know I shouldnt. I used to make such an effort.

I need to start saving money and selling things on ebay asap. My plan to start forging my way forward on the debts and savings is small to start with along with ebaying everything to get rid of the clutter and make some much needed money. I also intend on making everything from scratch food wise, and the money I save on the shopping, I will put into my savings pot. It doesn't sound like it will amount to much, but it really does, as we have bags and bags of bread flour, so free bread, thats a saving of nearly £5 a week, changing brands, instead of tesco brown rice, buying tesco value white rice which is a quarter of the price, having porridge for breakfast instead of expensive cereals, making pasta, fajitas, chips, all the things I usually pay for the convenience of having, I can save money on making. I'm hoping I can save atleast £50 a month this way. I want to pay off my OD and CC first before I start saving.

I'm thinking if I have more of a routine then the evenings can actually be spent with OH without spending all evening, washing, clearing up or cooking dinner.

I need to allocate some hours in the evening to my assignments too and to clearing up after roo. So that my afternoons can be spent having quality time with roo.

hmm just been out for another walk, as roo wouldnt sleep and have been thinking (always dangerous!) I would probably be better to start with a sort of time table, that can factor in off chance things too, so that I don't fall down with things if I want to go out etc.

Right time to come up with a plan, bear with me!

missymoo81

right routine at the moment:

wake up anything from 5.30-6.45. make a cup of tea and me and roo will sit in bed and watch tv til
8.45/9ish, when I'll sling any old clothes on, get roo dressed and go down and make me and roo breakfast.

9-9.30ish clear up a couple of bits in the kitchen, maybe put a washload in.

after that I just sort of sit in the lounge playing with Roo adn watching tv, talking to OH on the internet etc until about

10.30 put roo to bed for an hour

Ill maybe make the bed, hang up the washing, think of what to make for lunch, sit down and have a coffee, come on here.

11.30-12.30 play with roo

12.30 make roo lunch and have some myself.

1.00 tidy up lunch things then spend some time playing with roo

2.30ish go for a walk

3.30 try and calm down a very tired roo who wont go to sleep, try in vain to make something for dinner, try and play with roo but hes usually so tired and grumpy hes screaming at this point.

4.30 make roo dinner and me

5.00 feed roo,

5.30 bath roo

6.00 give roo his milk

6.30-7ish free for the evening

which is obviously a lot of time but god knows what I do in this time, it just seems to disappear. It doesnt help that i dont like to sit downstairs on my own, I tend to go upstairs to bed and sit on the internet watching tv, in bed as its cozy and warm, and obviously I fall asleep stupid early:o:mad:.

So that is my day..... god I spend a lot of time sitting around doing nothing! Well running around after roo, that needs to change, god I'm ashamed of myself for not really achieving anything in a day:o!! I do have odd days where I do loads to make up for my laziness, and clean like a mad thing (usually when someone is coming round )

Well im going to sit an analyise my 'free time' and see where i can start to slot in all the things I need to. Any ideas and thoughts are very welcome.

missymoo81

Ok after much thought I have come up with the start of my plan. The reason very little gets done, is beause I spent far too much time on the internet, either on here reading diaries, or on my phone just reading blogs and generally wasting time, when I can be doing far more productive things. Now don't get me wrong, I really need this thread for much help and motivation, but I don't need to sit on here for hours every day!!!

missymoo81

Right coming up with a plan on word then will cut and paste when done, thanks for reading

pixiechick99

Hi missymoo and happy new diary:T
I have just the same problem...wasting time on the internet, it's a pastime of mine:rotfl: I'm always full of good ideas and good intentions, but my days have a tendency to pass by with me not having done much:o
So I shall be reading your plan and hoping some will rub off on me! Most of your things you want to change I could have written about myself too;)

Good luck, I've subscribed:)

missymoo81

hey Pixie!

Lovely to see you

Oh I know, it is so easy to sit down with a cuppa and just chill out reading bits and pieces on the internet.

Well I've written my plan, well its more of a timetable to be honest, as that is really what I need at the moment, to get me into a routine and some sort of structure of doing things every day. My routine will differ slightly when OH is home. And also at the moment things are in such a mess I really need to spend some extra time sorting those out before I can think about doing anything else. so I have highlighted all of these in different colours. Its a bit all over the place at first but it will settle down when my house is a little bit more organised. It should only take a couple of days to get rid of the worst of the mess.

missymoo81

So my plan:

7ish wake up, make tea go back to bed with roo and wake up properly put a wash load in.

8.00 get washing, put away all dry washing and hang up new washing, make bed, open curtains, open windows etc

8.00 (things I will have to do at the moment as things just aren’t sorted enough are in blue) get washing, put away all dry washing and hang up new washing, make bed, open curtains, open windows etc. start sorting cothes on the bed and in the bedroom

8.30 get showered dressed, make up (look half decent) get roo dressed andready for the day

8.50 change beds once a week on a day when i dont wash my hair

9.00 make roo breakfast and me.

9.15 wipe work tops, quick hoover round

9.35 wash floor

9.45 take roo into the lounge to play. Feed fish. Play and read bookswith Roo

9.45 back upstairs to finish tidying, hoover and dust

10.25 roos nap time

10.30, do one thing every day.

Sort out cupboard and fridge

Sort out books and recycling

Clean out fridge and outside and bin

Clean bathrooms

Make roo some meals

Iron

Tidy hall way and lounge

Clean cupboard fronts and sink

Bake bread and cakes

11.00 sit down for coffee check internet

11.15 get roo out of bed (he usually wakes up about now) let him wake up abit

11.30 go for a walk or play

12.00 come back and play

12.30 make lunch

12.45 whilst roo is eating lunch clear away mess and wipe worktops, sweep floor

13.10 take roo back through to lounge and eat my lunch check emails

13.25 take plates through and put in dishwasher.

13.30 play with Roo, quick dust round

14.30 put roo down for nap

14.30 prep veg/pasta for dinner

14.50 sit down coffee

15.00 get roo up, let him wake up a bit

15.15 get roo snack and some milky tea (he loves it)

15.30 go for a walk or go shopping

16.00 play with roo and watch tv

17.00 try and tidy toys away a little

17.30 prep roos dinner

17.30. give roo dinner, wipe work tops get things ready for our dinner

17.50 run bath, tidy away roos toys if can

18.00 give roo bath, give the bath room a quick once over

18.20 out of bath moisturise and

18.30 get bottle ready, switch dinner on

18.30 feed roo

when OH is home

19.00 finish making dinner

19.30 eat dinner

20.15 clean kitchen, wipe over cooker, load dishwasher and put on and unload

20.45 chill and spend time with OH

10.45 go to bed, sort out washing for tomorrow put in bag



when OH is away

19.00 come down and tidy up, wipe cooker and work tops and high chair. Load dishwasher, unload sweep floor

19.30, 2 hours to

work on assignments

Sew

Read

Have a sort out

Make things

21.30 go to bed and snuggle up, go on the internet or watch tv.

10.30 sort out washing for tomorrow and put in bag

If were out for the day must do the cleaning etc in the evening, and will eat something premade out of the freezer

missymoo81

i know it will seem far to fixed and schedulised for some people. but im under no illusion I will stick to it by the minute, it is more to give me an idea of when I should be doing things.

missymoo81

Ok am starting my new routine and I have already come across a stumbling block. Although my routine is good for making me do things and not wasting time. At this very moment the houswe is in such a mess, it needs much more than half an hour here and there to clean it. When the house is clean and tidy etc the routine should in fact work really well, but today it is a bit difficult, for instance I am already on my second load of washing with 3 more to do. The kitchen is a bombsite from making soup yesterday. I really need to change the bed. The spare room is in such a mess again, due to it being a dumping ground.

Soooo revised plan for the rest of this week, is to clear up the whole house in every spare moment and have roo playing along side me, so that hopefully my routine can start with avengence later on in the week. I will write down later what I have managed to achieve today. I promise I will spend no time sitting on my backside doing nothing. Yes I know i am not on an allocated computer time, but I thought I would update you and hope that I can gain some much needed, support, advice and encouragement.

Ta ta til later, Missymoo

pixiechick99

Wow, that's a brilliant timetable:T
I think your idea of really getting the house tidy and organised this week is sensible, then it will be easier to keep on top of it. I always have that intention but then let it slip...oops:o
See, that's me just in from work...I have until about 4 when my girls get home from school (but they're 15 and 13 so don't need me to be available every minute!) - I have sat down with a cuppa and the Internet, and I probably won't do anything useful for a while;)

Keep posting lists of what you have achieved, I find that motivates me - a 'ta dah, look-what-I've-done list as opposed to a to-do list!

I work in a school so get regular school hols - I always have great ideas of what I'll get done then the time comes and I just lounge about, spend hours pooling online and just waste weeks. It's so easy to do:)

missymoo81

Hey Pixie, Well Roo's just one so he's constantly needing me, and with another on the way I'm feeling it a bit.

Oooh how interesting you work in a school, I used to do that, hence the reason for my assignments, I'm trying to finish my degree (in the next 3 years hopefully) so that I can then do teacher training and become a teacher

Well I have been very busy today, although not solely on tidying I have actually made a good start on my christmas shopping

But I have also:

Done 3 loads of washing
cleared the spare room
changed the bed
tidied up the mountain of clothes
sorted the drawers
thrown lots out
Break down all the boxes and put in recycling
hoovered all of upstairs
sorted all of the washing into piles
sorted charity shop stuff
moved stuff to their appropriate homes
emptied the bins
bagged up 5 meals for Roo

so not too bad for today, consequently I have really neglected downstairs, it still resembles a bomb site, so that is tomorrows job!

I have been thinking, and I've forgotten to factor in some things into my routine like: wiping skirting boards, hoovering the stairs, cleaning bathroom floors etc. so I need to come up with a plan to fit these in.

I really need to work on my assignment tonight, so I have decided to break it down into half an hour blocks, as I really dont want to do it. But first I'm going to have some tea.