Weekly Flylady Thread 23rd September 2013

roxy7699

missymoo also feeding again but first time since this morning. Last night was quite good and stretched out to three and a half hours. Can you believe I forgot to sweep lol, I got back upstairs and then remembered and thought no. I did however express some milk, wash up and shuffle some washing.

Dd1 is convinced she's well enough for school today although is still wheezing like a smoker. I'll take her in under strict instructions she's to call if she's not coping.

Very foggy today, quite surprised me when I looked out.

Need to go back to the town hall today, found out yesterday you can only leave documents between 9-12 which isn't very helpful. I don't even want to see anyone. Then flying will resume.

Thoughts, love and prayers to toots family today.

cyclingyorkie

DH away for his op. I await a call to go and get him later.

We will have been married for 26 years on Thursday. We still have a lot of the small wedding presents we were given - a pyrex jug springs to mind. We had a wedding list - each mum ran half of it (200 miles apart). When we married O/H was a student and we were going to be living in basic student accommodation- so we wanted the basics - pillows, sheets, plates, kettle etc. My mum took a long time to accept that I didn't want to put a dinner service on my list. Her best friend didn't want to buy anything off my list - she rang me up and told me that she was buying me a tea pot set. She wanted to buy me something that would last. I haven't had it for years - it was too small and dribbled everywhere...

Luckily my mother-in-law had lived from hand to mouth when she got married and appreciated that my list was the sensible way to go about it... not much point in having a china cup and saucer if you haven't got a kettle to make the tea with...

Just2Ashamed

Monday - Kitchen
15 minutes....
Get the dishwasher on!
Hover and mop floor
Empty the bin and take recycling out
30 minutes to spare....
Clean both windows and get the minging net in the wash / persuade DH to put up the blind
Sort the under sink cupboard
Got an hour....
Wipe the worksurfaces over
Dust on top of shelves/cupboards/furniture
Wipe the window sill
Extras
Sort out your T-towels, oven gloves apron, dispose of old one and wash dirty ones
Wipe some door handles

My very own list of horrors:
Get some revision done for the rapidly approaching exams :eek:
Weekly meal planning and sorting out what cleaning bits need replacing
Persuade DH to move bed to a more sensible place in the bedroom and empty the underbed storage of doom
Dispose of at least 10 items from the room of doom
Arrange shopping trip with MIL and SIL
Prepare a 'homemade' alternative to takeaway for dinner so DH hopefully won't notice he's not spending money pointlessly :rotfl:
Arrange a service for the boiler which is now saying it's due in the next 25 days (they were out last week but seemingly didn't notice this!)
Move the dehumidifier to the bedroom
Change sheets on bed
HHI each day - anything that doesn't currently fit (i.e. not maternity) to go into proper storage
Arrange hairdressing appointment - booked through Wahanda with cashback, very MSE!
Prepare DH's work clothes for the rest of the week
Email to the council (useless again!)

Managed to get a full night's sleep last night :j so am feeling a lot more enthusiastic today! I don't know if I've missed a list or if it's not up yet, but I'm going to take this as an opportunity to catch up with what I missed yesterday :rotfl: DH has been fed and decluttered to work, so am going to make a cuppa and assess what needs doing in the kitchen first. I might crack on and do the meal planning while I have breakfast.

cyclingyorkie

At the moment we are trying to declutter mum before her move - 26 years on she is still finding it hard to accept that neither me nor my sister want the china dinner services...

mrsmortenharket

Morning all.

Very foggy here.

My list has washing on it & some window cleaning. The previous owners didn't wipe the windows & the black surrounding the windows is dreadful. I've done some of the windows, but more to go. It's horrible. I wipe every morning when the windows are steamed up, it doesn't take a minute.

Lisa x

optimistic-mummy

DW Unloaded refilled and turned on
DP nudged
Im dressed and washed

before 8.45 i need to :
Get DP out of bed
get LO dressed and washed
find LO's coat
put LO's lunch and coat by the door ready to go

Dustykitten

Raph I saw that on the tv yestereday, it does not look fun!

A&W'sMum the rose is beautiful, is it sented?

Mumto5 sorry your MiL has had to say goodbye to her dog at such a difficult time

It was interesting how different our views were on money as wedding gifts.

My favourite spider is busy building it's second huge next outside the window where I sit being watched by a cranefly from the otherside of the glass.

nicki_2

Morning all.

I didn't get anywhere near where I wanted to be yesterday so I'm going to carry on with that list today.

RANT ALERT - Feel free to skip

I need to sort out something for tea tonight, but first I'll need to wash the slow cooker pot again. DD did washing up last night, the slow cooker pot was the only thing left upside down in the drainer to ensure it was completely dry before I used it this morning which I do every time I use it. Because it had "a layer of ick" in it, DD put it back in the dirty pile with stuff in it. That ick was marks from where I've used metal utensils in it so there was no harm in it being used as it was. I only scrub those marks out with bar keepers friend once a month as I don't want to damage the finish Now its full of ick from the dirty dishes.

Also after doing all the washing yesterday (except the towels & cleaning cloth loads which were planned for today) I've got to wash DDs PE kit :mad: They've mostly been playing mat rounders since term began but yesterday they did netball and DD seem to have brought home loads of mud and something smelly on her kit, particularly her sweatshirt & socks which are the only items without spares as she hardly wore them last year. Next time I go to town I'll be buying new ones so there's two since she has PE three times a week. Her white trainers also need cleaning as thats there the ick has come from Fortunately I can throw them in with the throws/cushion covers from the sofas as she's also managed to get something on them :mad: Please tell me this is normal tween behaviour!! :wall:
RANT OVER

Personal:
Shredding
Pay CC
Update finances (including business)
Writing x 9 pieces
Work through to-do/Pending files
Toots list
Filing
Emails / surveys
Scanning (old documents from pre-2006)
Ironing
Colour hair
WM: PE kit/sofa throws/cushions, trainers, towels, cleaning cloths,

Kitchen
15 minutes....
Hover and mop floor
30 minutes to spare....
Clean a window
Sort the under sink cupboard
Got an hour....
Dust on top of shelves/cupboards/furniture
Wipe the window sill
Extras
Wipe some door handles

Tuesday - Living Room, Hall & Stairs
15 minutes ....
Do something from your Toots list, or at least start something if you have nothing you can do in 15 minutes
30 minutes to spare
Declutter and dust the mantle
Dust any flat surfaces including the hearth
Got an hour.....
Hoover the floors
Give your cushions a bash outside, watch the dust fly (duck Toots we could all be doing this together)
Extras
HHI
S&S toilets and sinks

Just going to have another coffee then I'll get started on the washing and see what DD has left upstairs for me today. :wave:

kerri_dfw

Forgot who suggested it but the basket with bubbles idea sounds lovely and I might pinch it for the wedding this weekend, but include some gorgeous little bone china measuring spoons and scoops for £10 as something that will last. Off to M&S I go after work on Thursday then

skint_breeder_5

Tuesday - Living Room, Hall & Stairs
15 minutes ....
Do something from your Toots list, or at least start something if you have nothing you can do in 15 minutes
30 minutes to spare
[STRIKE]Declutter and dust the mantle
Dust any flat surfaces including the hearth[/STRIKE] done yesterday
Got an hour.....
[STRIKE]Tidy away, CDs, DVDs, Books
Hoover the floors
Give your cushions a bash outside, watch the dust fly (duck Toots we could all be doing this together)[/STRIKE] done yesterday
Extras
HHI
[STRIKE]Test the heating (ie put it on for an hour) - bleed rads as required
Organize for chimney to be swept, stock up on firelighters, is the wood store full?[/STRIKE] had heating on since Unification :rotfl:
[STRIKE]S&S toilets and sinks[/STRIKE] done yesterday

Oh dear that just leaves ironing and the Toots paperwork on the chair that I brought in from the kitchen.......maybe I should check yesterday's list again....washing those kitchen windows suddenly looks very appealing