Weekly Flylady Thread 19th August 2013

FizzWhizz

Oyah! Thanks Valli, I think. I hope you're wrong about the attack, in the nicest possible way xx

Molly41

Many thanks for the kind welcome x

Yes Lamewolf I am very much up for a 15 minute challenge. That will be just the right amount of time - I just did a 20 minute challenge with the timer in the kitchen - sink and sides - and had to sit down at 15 minute mark:eek:

Pigpen - I know what you mean about feeling about a raisin. I never understood when mums told me that they did not how much the babe had at the boob. It goes from full to empty and visa versa. Make sure you eat loads and drink well x

Valli - hope you get over your asthma quickly. We are also prepping for university and our conservatory currently looks like Ike@ on a bad day.

Honey_Bear

I am an eejit. Mrs Dog has been to the beach before, because I now remember her trying to drink seawater - she's a fast learner. The tide was out today which means there is a vast sandy expanse so we let her off the lead and had two really good runs with her. She also found a deepish inlet and dropped herself in it, twice, to cool down. Very spaniely behaviour, I believe, although I don't know much about the breed. (In my experience collies don't do that *cue comments from Flyladies who have collies that do*) Chalet flown inside and out, shopping done and 15 melamine dinner plates scored for 33p each (!) at 99p shop.

I was supposed to leave OH in the car with Mrs Dog and a newspaper while I was shopping, but there were birds of prey (kestrels, all types of owls etc) on display and a '£1 to hold one' fundraiser, so I gave him a generous donation so that he could spend some time with them. I have a very happy OH and dog this afternoon.

GI Congratulations on the income front, well done. Dusty: I find when I'm at the chalet on my own (which I know you're not) that if I wipe the crocks and pans out with a paper towel, and put the cutlery in a pot to soak, that the flies lose interest. I then only have to wash up once a day. Pigpen, your cat's tests are on my mind - and Dot's morning antics are still making me smile. Go Dot!

Valli

Excellent find on the melamine there HB - just ensure that, if it's in the chalet, your users know it's NOT microwave safe.

it's a thermosetting plastic (as opposed to thermoplastic plastic, which is)

Honey_Bear

Oooh thanks for that Valli. The melamine was originally meant for next year's film catering, but just this afternoon I realised that it would be a good idea to keep it at the chalet because it's mostly used by families with young children (each of which books the same weeks for the following years as they leave.) The only crocks there are my Portmerion, which OH hates and I love, so it makes sense to have stuff that is less likely to chip even if the microwave thing could be tricky.

How do you know so much, Valli? You're really good on legal stuff, flying stuff, and now science stuff. *tips hat with respect*

dancemum

Thanks have calmed down now and have had a freezer dinner rather than what was planned. We will be having birthday cake soon as DS2 is 11 today.

I rang customer services and they told me to ring tomorrow as they were only guide prices.

Glad Mrs Dog and Mr H Bear had a good time today x

OH hair cut done ready for swimming.
Cat blankets found

Hope your inhalers work Valli x

Good luck with Uni preparations, I'm taking notes in case I'm in this position in 2 years.

Welcome to newbies and returnees x

Off to sort the cake x

FizzWhizz

Happy birthday to your DS2, dancemum! _party_

Dinner is almost ready, I've also made Mediterranean veg soup and sundried tomato bread. Feel like flippin' Nigella Headpiece still firmly in place!

bossymoo

Happy birthday, danceboy!

Well, FIL brought kids home at lunchtime, I showed him my finger (:rotfl: not the finger) and he asked how, so I pointed at the tree (and pile of branches below.

He went to get a saw, took off the last errant branch, and chopped everything up small enough for the brown bin :T

The I took kids to a party - neither of them would eat - so we ended up at the drive thru on the way home not a usual for me - and they didn't eat all that either. Pfft. Which is why I don't usually let them have h@ppy meals...

Anyway, that was followed by bath and bed for small peeps as they are both tired, DS voice going funny and he's coughing :cool: but he loved the magician at the party - was transfixed. And they are both now the proud owners of magic wands!

I have put uniform away - went to uniform shop this morning, they had sweaters in DS size when we were on hol apparently but sold out again - so he has only one. I got him two logo tshirts instead, I think he'll be too hot for sweaters for at least another 2 months anyway.

Now he's told me his trainers are tight :eek: better try on the school shoes again too

Feeling rather tired now! Is it really only 7.30?

bonnie_bumpkins

Hello Molly :hello:

FizzWhizz the hairpiece looks gorgeous! When is the big day?

dancemum as well as a voucher you should also get free delivery tomorrow I think... worth asking... good luck. Happy Birthday to danceboy!

Another flyboy had a birthday recently - GI's? Happy Birthday - whoever you are

Great news on the new signings GI

Today DD dragged me round Maidstone it was wet and my open-backed shoes were sloshing & squeaking - by the time I was walking up my road I sounded like a duck. DD got a bag for 6th form & lots of T-shirts for dance in Pr!mark & mucho stationery in P0undland :money: I treated myself to a pot of intensive hair conditioning cream and some anti-frizz serum. I'm another one with unruly hair (thick & frizzy)... as well as sounding like a duck I looked like a lion with an afro when I got home :eek:

The high point of the day was late lunch in N@andos where we shared a chocolate cheesecake *dribbles* After an exhausting day I had one of my [STRIKE]old lady snoozes[/STRIKE] power naps when we got home.

Shoved a load of towels in the WM & hung a clean load around (will TD to finish them off tomorrow).

Still chuckling at Dot's 'antics'

Ooh, forgot to say, glad Mrs Dog enjoyed the beach x

bossymoo

Hmm just done DD party invites. Question: do I invite my cousins son?

Pro's: is the kind thing to do, would avoid embarrassment of not inviting him and them finding out, plus mine were invited to his earlier in the year.

Con's: his behaviour on holiday was atrocious and I spend the whole first week on edge wondering which of my two he would harass next - don't want to spend DDs party wondering the same - the other children we're inviting all know how to behave in company. He was constantly in DS face on hol, and at one point had DD up against a wall by her neck :eek: and the next day pushed her under the water and jumped on her. I'm still mad about it.

Mitigants: there are no other kids in our family invited (rest are much older) so his parents are unlikely to even remember DD birthday, let alone find out she had a party. What he doesn't know won't hurt him.

I guess the upshot is I don't want him there. But if its really unfair not to invite him (he's 3.5 so 6mths older than DD) then please pull me up about it. I know its not his fault he's like that, he has no boundaries