The Weekly Flylady Thread w/c 29 July 2013

Honey_Bear

I was going to multi-quote to remind of what to say to whom, but I don't seem to have got the hang of it. *hangs head in shame*

Today's frog - Mrs Dog has decided the bit of carpet in front of the TV is where she needs to 'go' in an emergency. After three episodes in two weeks, whoever said that you can wash carpets with plain water because there will be a residue of old soap embedded in the fibres was absolutely right.

Decluttered several £££s at the vet's, armed with a soggy white towel with pink stain, a box with the rest of the dog 'drops' in it for analysis and dog in the back of the car, clearly thinking, 'Oh goodie, a car trip this morning.' Said vet was at another surgery, but fortunately the nurse phoned her and three lots of stuff were prescribed over the phone. Mrs Dog has been dosed.

I did all the bathroom stuff on Monday, so 'Please Miss, may I be excused?'

macpep1

Hi all :wave:

Thanks Valli (was a shock when I saw your name at the top) for this weeks list, I am in seeing as I am back from my holidays, had a fab time & fab weather in Lake District then Legoland, we got back last week but our internet wasn't being connected until Saturday (switched back to 'Vergin Media' as my DS calls it. Upon our return it was discovered our wee cat has fleas & they only like the taste of me, I am demented with the itching, she has now been treated, whole house had to be hoovered, sprayed etc & I found 2 of the little blighters in my bed :eek::eek: so our whole room was emptied, vacuumed & sprayed, took all of Sunday to do it.

DH started with his new company on Monday I dropped DH off at the Station Monday morning as he is away all week & it is 'anticipated' he will be away next 3 weeks, Its gonna be a tough month with trying to organise childcare each day etc etc with working full time. I am going to speak to my boss today to see if I can reduce my hours, was hoping for 9-3 but don't think he will accept that so going to ask for 9-4 as MIL says she can collect kids when they start back school (2 weeks on Friday....yeehaaah!) DD is at my SIL's this week so only me & DS, the fun will begin when she comes home & WWIII breaks out between them :eek::rotfl:

So house isnt in bad shape at all & DS & I are the tidiest among the lot of us. Hope you are all well & I havent missed any juicy gossip, we also had another addition to our family last week, wee girl, one more in November & that will be 4 babies this year

thifty

Ceilings done! :j
Now for the best bit, putting the colour on:D:D:D:D:j

pigpen

I have nothing nice to say... so I am saying nothing!!.. I just didn't want you thinking I had fallen off my mortal coil.

DW on
2 loads laundry hung out.
recycling gathered up.
middle room vacuumed of bits of paper from piñata

helen_jelly

Valli and LW - I shoved jars and lids in the oven but as I'm such a silly idiot I whacked the oven up to 230!!!!!!! Result - hot jam and hot glass = a sticky mess on the oven top lol

macpep1

Ok Valli I copied your list & managed to condense the 3 pages :eek: into 1 . Finish at 3 today, DS to collect so should get a good bit done tonight, will fly for a few hours when I get home then work my way through mount Ironmore :rotfl:I am aiming to get it all done before the weekend is up (not DH's) he does his own :rotfl:

Manic Monday - LR
remove anything that belongs elsewhere to be rehomed
quick run round with Henry or Hetty or whatever's on suction duty
wipe switches, sockets and sticky door marks
vacuum properly - move that furniture if you safely can
as above plus complete dusting -don't forget the skirting boards!
Clean the windows

Everything's Tuesday - Kitchen

empty the binwipe over the worktops
quick run round with Henry or Hetty or whatever's on suction duty; or sweep and or/mop as appropriate
wipe switches, sockets and stickydoor marks
wipe all the cupboard doors anddrawers - don't forget the handles
make sure every horizontal surface has had a wipe
wipe the washer door seal

EXTRAS

Empty out ONE cupboard or drawer, wipe it out and put back only what is STILL useful once it's dry

Wednesday Week – Ensuite & Bathroom

remove anything that belongs elsewhere to be rehomed
flush the loo and scrub it
wipe the outside of the loo with a cloth
clean the bath
hot water and detergent and a wipe(not with the toilet cloth,please!) to shift shower screen soap scum
clean the loo roll holder -remember people might have 'less than clean' hands when they're wrestling with the paper...
wipe or dust all high horizontal surfaces - door tops and screens
clean the basin
Mop the floors

tarotangel

Well spoons are on strike so not much flying here. Although I’ve now got two strawberries. They will be heading in the direction of neice and nephew. In good news I called docs and the locumagreed to put me back on Noriday although he said he didn’t think mymental/emotional issues was because of the Cerazette. I thought he’s not dealt with many women onthe pill as I know a lot who have these type of issues because of thecontraceptive pill

Pigpen – Ooh I’dbe fizzing with anger, how you keep your cool I’ve no idea. I was advised to get pregnant at 23 as thatwould help, they think I have Endometriosis but won’t explore it because I had aPulmonary Embolism.

Optimistic-Mummy – Notrambling at all all information helpful

Lamewolf – Hope youare having a spoon filled day today. Sometimes I can’t hack workmen on my owneither especially when my brain is foggy

Nicki - Hope that the alarm has stopped

Thrifty – Whatare you planning to do with the cherries?

SkintBreeder – Nowonder you CBA, you need a bit of a rest me thinks. (((hugs)))

Mumto5 – How is DS3ankle today?

Bossy – Woohoo 20days off

*Vanilla* Youneed to make another list for OH to make up for not doing the things he was supposed to

PoohBear – Hope DGDis feeling a lot better

Narc0lepsy – *Waves* Hi

HoneyBear – What Ido is open a word document and do it all in that and then copy and paste it andedit it. I find it easier doing it thatway but sometimes the editing in Word doesn’t come across on the MSE websiteand I still forget to add folk in at times

Macpep - Hope all the fleas have disappeared now

PunchyMc

Ok, so it's been hard work, but I managed to focus entirely on the bathroom, ignoring other rooms I went into to put things away. That's normally where I go wrong, I'm too easily distracted

• [STRIKE]open window to let in fresh air[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]remove anything that belongs elsewhere to be rehomed[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]flush the loo and scrub it[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]wipe the outside of the loo with a cloth[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]clean the bath[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]run the curtain through the hottest wash it can stand and peg it on the line for a blow[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]clean the loo roll holder [/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]wipe the shower rail; wash the shower curtain rings[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]wipe or dust all high horizontal surfaces - door tops and screens[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]clean the basin[/STRIKE]
• Clean the windows
• Mop the floor
• [STRIKE]chrome shower rails can be polished when they're off[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Put out fluffy towels[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Make sure all tops are screwed on after every use. Check the use withins - and chuck out those dust-gathering body scrubs etc that you don't use![/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Add anything that's running out to the shopping list - don't forget the loo roll![/STRIKE]
• Also: rearranged cupboard so new housemate can fit his stuff in, washed cupboards, scrubbed tiles, and detached shower head for a good soak. Basically cleaned everything I could get my hands on :rotfl:

Carpet (put in by previous owners, will be removed as soon as I can!) not hoovered as OH is a strange man and enjoys doing that!:beer:

Not sure whether to look forward to tomorrow or not now

mrs-moneypenny

bitten into a large frog
DH said DS2 can have his sisters old room to game in but its been turned into a bit of a store, one of the bookcases is full of dvds that arent age appropriate if him and his mates are in there. so got all the dvds out of one of the downstairs cupboards and all the suitable ones are now upstairs and the grown up ones are all over the settee. im trying to alphabetize them so they can go back in the cupboard (after ive listed them as they are double stacked. first cupboard i tackled a couple of years ago and that has printed lists taped to the inside of each door so its easier (in theory) to find the one you want.
HHCx2 me thinks to finish

LameWolf

OK, the dress is washed (currently dripping into the bath cos I can't wring out worth tuppence); the loo has been scrubbed/vinegar-ed (limescale-battling tactics).

Emails all read, and a few no longer needed ones deleted. Accounts spreadsheets have been updated, and the provisional rota for Mr LW's work has been entered in the PDA - I'll write it on the kitchen calendar when it's confirmed.

Unknown caller (number came up, but not one I recognise or have in my directory) on my mobile duly ignored; if it's important they can talk to the voice mail. They didn't - and a visit to the Who Called Me? website elicited the info that it was a junk call.:mad:

I think I still have a tiddly-widdly little salt spoon left, so will do a quick Dys0n Tango, and get the duster-onna-stick and do what I can manage - dusting round the large dragons.;)