Weekly Flylady Thread 14th January 2013

froddington

Evening! I have a snow day tomorrow :j

Maybe I'll actually get something done in this tip house!!

Will catch up with the thread and update my list ready for the morning (and afternoon and evening and probably the next day too!!)

bossymoo

Hi!

Had a nice bit of reading time this eve. Cleaned up kitchen after dinner, sorted laundry ready for morning, made tea and hot water bottle, now in bed!

Skinty, are you booked in for Monday? Hope everything goes to plan. Will yours and baby's health settle down once you are, erm, umbilically separated? Hope so, and hope babes lungs etc are all ready for the big wide world!

We have a covering of snow from tea time. It appears to be starting again now, albeit very lightly. But we are forecast more tomorrow. DS wants to build a snowman. There's not enough just now, but you never know... We have no carrots though. We'd have to pinch a plastic one from the toy kitchen.

I did purchase some thick rubber gloves, in large, to go over my knitted ones, for just such an occasion

And we'll get some dry clothes on the radiator ready for our return. My gran (god rest her soul) used to make us cups of hot oxo after being out in the snow she wasn't spending money on "that bovril nonsense" rotfl she was a true OSer.

Mumof2_2

Popping the list for tomorrow up before I go to bed - need a good night's sleep as was up really late last night.

Good night everyone and Skinty make sure Little Skint doesn't get any silly ideas!!

[FONT=&quot]Friday - Final push[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
Level 1[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
Hoover anywhere in need
Give the kitchen sink a good clean
Level 2
15 minute tidy up of your messiest room
Level 3
Me-time
Wipe downstairs light switches
Extras
Clean out any pets
Finish something you've started[/FONT]
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My list
Book urgent GP appointment
Typing x 5
Collect DH’s parcel from post office
WM – lights
See if any party wall work come in late before sending off mid pm to Paul
List Leapfrog and backpack on Netmums
Ironing
Start food cupboard inventory (frog)

macpep1

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

apparently it's going to miss us up here, we've got clear sunny skies forecast for tomorrow with a little bit of snow overnight on Saturday. I'm getting another 30 bales of hay in though

Me too :jI think our country has turned upside down think Wales has to get it the worst, not sure if any of our flyladies are from there??

Maisie_M wrote: »

skint - keeping fingers crossed you make it home tomorrow and mange to hang on in there til Monday as planned.

innofan - sounds like the interview went well. Hope your DH gets offered one of the jobs he is after.

^^^^^^DITTO what Maisie Said^^^^

Monday Study and/or Living room
Clean the radiators, behind, inside, defluff them tried to do this today but hoover not able to do it. Going to see if I can get a special brush for it. Bend a wire coathanger & put a sock on it ( tip from Pigpen our old leader)

Hi All
Just a wee update, DH got on ok although he said he felt it was too short, but all interviews were in 15 minute slots, he answered all their questions and the interview panel said the saw he had done his research well. Someone in his current place called him tonight to try talk him into commuting to carlisle which is about 1 hour 30 minutes away from us ( he is currently only 20 mins from work) its not just the extra diesel and extra travelling, I work to fit in with DH shifts, one week I put kids out, next week I collect them, next week I am 8-5 all week as he can put them out & pick them up, we don't really have anyone who can do this for us as everyone works or is too unwell to do this, but DH is going to see what the shift rota is & I seriously think he is thinking of taking it, they give him 5k for relocating depot but that would be eaten up with fuel & board if he had to lodge a few nights each week, I feel so so selfish for thinking this way as I know others don't have or are struggling to find work, but I cannot help it, according to his work colleague in 5 years there will be a lot of drivers retiring!!!! We already discussed moving to Carlisle as that was the only way it would work deciding factor was that DD is in P7 & going to High School in August and its much too important a time in her life to up sticks.I would also need to look for a job although I daresay we could get by until I found something. Sorry for the rant ladies, I am so confused, he won't hear if he has been successful until week on Friday, he would be taking a large cut (1/3 of his current salary) for 12 months if he gets this job but the way I saw it was well its a job! We would just need to cut back on a LOT.
Sorry for the wrong post, I know i should be lucky we both have a job
Monday Living room
All done

Tuesday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level Three
Sort out/defrost your freezer, what can you use up this week – Weekend job, need to try empty more out the chest freezer in order to get inside freezer defrosted.

Wednesday Hall, staris, landing, Bathrooms and loos
Level Two
Declutter any drawer – Do my underwear drawer


Thursday - Master Bedroom
Level 1
Change the bedding DH said he will do tomorrow with stairs he didnt' manage today
Even cleaned out the ensuite :T

Friday - Final push
Level 1
Hoover anywhere in need
Give the kitchen sink a good clean
Level 2
15 minute tidy up of your messiest room - PLAYROOM!
Level 3
Me-time
Wipe downstairs lightswitches
Extras
Plan to cook something different on the weekend - SW Beef in black bean sauce & SW Pakora

My little kitten going to vet tomorrow to get her bits taken away, wee shame she is just a wee bubba

nicki_2

I've spent the day doing paid stuff so not flown other than some dailies. Its been snowing lightly here since about 3pm, but its not settling as such, the side roads look like someone's spilt icing sugar but our road looks like someone has had the hosepipe out Unfortunately I have more books to collect in still, but I've said I'll call Tuesday night for them I'm trying to keep weekends work free, and I refuse to work on my birthday (which is Monday) and why should I when I'm my own boss? Would be different if I was working for a company somewhere but while I have this freedom I'm going to make the most of it. :rotfl:

Tomorrow I have to take DD to the bus stop again, so I'm going to pop into Mr A's while I'm out and grab some bits like milk and fresh fruit. I'm organised enough to have my list on a sheet on the wall so I'll take a photo of that on my phone with me tomorrow...saves paper and ink/lead :rotfl: Then I'm going to play it by ear as to whether I come home and fly, or whether I come home, put shopping away and go back out to some other shops as we're running low on "soups for cups" then come home and fly. All depends on how much "snow" (and at the moment thats used in the loosest of terms) we have in the morning.

I'm off to bed, so I'll catch up tomorrow when I'm home to stay Night all

skint_breeder_5

Rowan tree, sadly old habits die hard.....EX MIL had worked on the basis that I would be staying in hospital, and despite a 6 person chicken, careful cooking instructions for chicken, chestnuts (which for some reason are carbs that don't turn into a sugar spike and can trick my diabetes) potatoes and veg

All the best of the breasts, legs and wings had gone, I had to pick the carcass round the PINKY bones :mad::mad::mad: and what I call "back fillets" those little 50p sized bits on the underneath, and nuked it to make sure I didn't add food poisoning to the list....the jacket potatoes had been microwaved despite me advising to put them in the oven while the chicken was cooking to keep the cost down ( not very :money: Mr MSE would be spitting his cuppa all over his screen if he read this!) and I was left with one the size of an egg - and coincidentally the express instruction to put a cross in the top of the chestnuts and put in the oven for 30 minutes while chicken was cooking was ignored......as there was no evidence that the chestnuts had been done, I went to the veg cupboard to put them on with a view to sticking a pizza or something else in the oven ready for food tomorrow and they were MISSING :mad::mad::mad:

Stupidly I was looking in the wrong place, they were in the food recycling uncrossed and burned to cinders.....they were left in the oven for a whole hour and a half. When EX MIL smelt the burning she took the chicken out (hence why there was PINK flesh next to the bones) then binned the evidence in the food recycling covered with a mountain of used teabags and YESTERDAYS food gibble that I had put in there.

I am beginning to think DD3 picked the wrong time to give up being a veggie

So what for the Skint Ritz was an expensive dinner for everyone else, had me practically reduced to tears - I might have had a better tea if I had stayed in hospital overnight :(:(

Steroids have had me spiking very high tonight, despite having next to no carbs, and I have had to perform two emergency corrections for tonight already (already warned once the second lot of steroids are in my system the spiking WILL be worse tomorrow :(:(, so it's not looking great that I will be on Fred tomorrow night :mad::mad::mad:) I am feeling severely fed up, as it looks like I will be testing and correcting all night long.

On the plus side I have *potentially* saved £100 tonight :money: it's rubbish day tomorrow, and after the chicken fiasco I decided to go down the suspiciously full black bin back that had about 2 inches of gibble in it this morning - despite warning about fines that CAN be levied by my Council for failing to recycle it goes to prove a policy of "what Skinty doesn't know won't hurt her!" has been in full operation here today.......:mad::mad::mad: funnily enough a £100 fine by CBA syndrome will hurt me and the young Skints a lot - it would potentially be cheaper to pile up all the rubbish in a big stinking pile for the next 6 weeks (til I am back on form) on the grass and scatter some rat poison blocks round it :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: of course I am not going to do that, but I fear having the EX MIL "help" is going to cost me dear in more ways than one.

DS is ploughing through the non recyclable night time pants due to chocolate/chocolate biscuits he is being given (I bought disposables although I don't use them, specifically to save EX MIL not bothering with his washable pants and letting him wet his bed, the settee or my bed for nap and bed time and costing more money in laundry and cleaning products)

My blood pressure was already high this morning, so sorry for venting on the thread....I promise once I hit "Submit Reply" I am not going to dwell on it anymore, problem shared/blood pressure halved hopefully :o:o and restore one setting back to how it was before I came home :eek:

DS not ready to settle, and EX is not "ready" to do DS duty for the night shift, and there is two inches of snow now settled on the drive.....going out with my trusty new snow shovel is not on my to do list tonight, although I might go and chuck a few handfuls of salt out so I don't going flying (in the A/T variety) tomorrow :rotfl::rotfl: sorry ladies, if I didn't laugh at that one I think I would be crying right now

Time to go to watch some kids TV and polish some spoons on the side :D:D

macpep1

Forgot to add, the family memeber who had the other 'important appointment' was my cousin (we were brought up together by my aunt so like sisters) was due to start IVF in February, she told me at Christmas she was pregnant :j she found out by mistake as she was at hospital getting bloods done and they told her so she was in complete shock & didnt want to announce it until she had her scan today as she didn't believe it as she done a test (at 10 weeks!!!) and it was negative, I tried telling her HCG levels are high at start but not later on but she was too scared to believe as they had been trying for 5 years, she came in tonight to show me her wee blimp (13 weeks) so happy happy news for them :T

Aww Skint what at time you are having of it, I hope youhave a restful night if that is at all possible, is it gestational diabetes you have or do you have diabetes? Excuse my ignorance x

cyclingyorkie

fingers crossed for the the flyhusbands re jobs....

skint - calming vibes coming your way. I understand re your ex-mil- I had 3 caesarians in 3 years which meant my mum coming to stay 3 times - cue DD1's red dungarees washed with OH's white work shirts and OH let mum sort out my coming home outfit after the last baby - I was presented with a Fosters Lager T shirt I used to clean the kitchen floor with!

If they are sectioning you on monday how early will your flybaby be?

Strange times at yorkietowers - DD2 came home from work on tuesday upset about the death of a little boy who used to go to after school club - he had been ill for a while and initially treatment in Germany had seemed to be helping but he died of complications .....

Remember I said what my sister and I had found in my mums garage? Well my sister took the box of railway stuff and at the bottom were several press clippings dad had kept. Sis sent these to me and they arrived today - most are about the cold winter of 1962/3 - my first winter. As I started to look through them i was suddenly in tears - my dad died in 1988, but it brought it all back.....

Anyway my sister enclosed a top for DD2 - it's lovely - it's a Tescos one and it's a size 6 - her note muttered about how she must remember to take her glasses shopping with her! The funniest sight when we were both at mums was her forgetting her glasses when we went out to eat - and sharing mums glasses!

Anyway - time for bed... Night foks...

ionafan

macpep1 wrote: »

Hi All
Just a wee update, DH got on ok although he said he felt it was too short, but all interviews were in 15 minute slots, he answered all their questions and the interview panel said the saw he had done his research well.

That's good - I'm glad his preparation paid off.

macpep1 wrote: »

he won't hear if he has been successful until week on Friday, he would be taking a large cut (1/3 of his current salary) for 12 months if he gets this job but the way I saw it was well its a job!

It's a long time to have to wait for a decision that will change your lives whichever way it goes.

macpep1 wrote: »

Someone in his current place called him tonight to try talk him into commuting to carlisle which is about 1 hour 30 minutes away from us ( he is currently only 20 mins from work) its not just the extra diesel and extra travelling, I work to fit in with DH shifts, ...I feel so so selfish for thinking this way as I know others don't have or are struggling to find work, but I cannot help it, according to his work colleague in 5 years there will be a lot of drivers retiring!!!! We already discussed moving to Carlisle as that was the only way it would work deciding factor was that DD is in P7 & going to High School in August and its much too important a time in her life to up sticks.I would also need to look for a job although I daresay we could get by until I found something.

It's so difficult to make a decision when there are so many variables, but I think the main problem is that jobs are so few and far between these days. I don't think you're selfish, just trying to be practical and balance the books and do the best for your family. I feel for you both. Huge (((hugs))) to you.

x

juliejim

Morning All

Just popping on to see how the interviews went and how skinty's getting on.

Skinty - hope today's a better day for you and ex MIL behaves herself.

No snow day for me - we have snow but they never shut the school where I work - it's a bitterly cold wind though so I'd rather just stay here all snug in my dressing gown!

Have a good day all

Hugs

Jue