Weekly Flylady Thread 18th June 2007

DeniseNZ

Yesterday . . .

• Dust a collection – the tops of books on a shelve or CDs/DVDs/videos [strike]
  
• Sort towel cupboard/airing cupboard even if it's just for 10 minutes
• [/strike]Wipe the leaves of your plants
• [strike]Walk puppy[/strike]
  
• [strike]Work - here now[/strike]
• [strike]One load of laundry - wash, hang on line,[/strike][strike] get in, fold, put away [/strike]
• [strike]Pick up baby car seat [/strike]and high chair[strike]
  
• Mind LO after work
• Dinner - DH has started
• Update finances[/strike]

Today:

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• Walk puppy
• Dinner

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• OH prepared this morning, just vegies to do
• [strike]Work[/strike] - here now - lunch break
  
• Mind LO
• Play taxi driver for OH
• [strike]Laundry [/strike]- one wool jersey washed and still sitting in WM :mad:
• Get tomorrows laundry started - it's going to rain so it'll all be hung inside
• Watch LOST.

Keeping it easy today - anything else achieved will be a real bonus.

Solway Kid - Yes I am loving having a wee girl in the house - but how quickly you forget what time wasters they are. That's why not a lot is getting done! LOL
ShirleyPark - the bathroom looks great! Well done.
hev - hang in there - and don't forget the baby steps.

Mermaid

Hello everyone,

Sorry not to have been around much, although I have been dipping in every few days just to see what you are all up to. Hugs to everyone who needs them. Pigpen, hope you feel better soon, was nice to see the photos of you a couple of weeks ago - for some reason I imagined you with short hair! AnW'smum, glad the memorial service went OK, must have been sad and happy at the same time for you. Lil_me, hope that everything went as well as possible for your friend. Shirley Park, the bathroom looks great - sorry to hear about your troubles with your partner, hope things come right for you there.

Here in Mermaid land it's been soooo busy. We've finally had an offer on our house - the day before we were due to swap estate agents! The offer was a bit low, so we've asked them to increase it a bit and offered to throw in the cooker and extractor hood rather than take it with us. The really good thing is that the people who've made the offer are ready to exchange on their house, so if all goes to plan we could be moving on a couple of months!!! So excited!

The viewing wasn't without its stresses, my DS managed to trample poo into his bedroom carpet that morning, so I was still vaxing it out an hour before the viewers got here, I forgot to tell them to keep their shoes on, so they must have wondered why the carpet was damp :rotfl: ! Also the cat's had fleas - have given him drops and been vacuuming the whole house nearly every day - hope they didn't get bitten.

I get the FlyLady daily digest, and this week's missions are decluttering your wardrobe, so I spent half an hour sorting through all my clothes last night after doing the dailies. The hanging rail is now organised (skirts, short sleeved tops, vest tops, etc) and there is so much more space in there. I can't really work out where the space came from as I only took out one bag of clothes to fling (might Ebay a couple of items) and another bag of old hangers to donate to charity shop. I'll move on to the shelves above the rail tonight - don't know whether to put my jumpers up into loft for time being or not - wish the weather would make its mind up! We might sell the wardrobe with the house as it's a very large one so it needs to be tidy inside in case the buyers want to look in it.

I really want to be more organised about this move. When we moved into our current house, we didn't have any wardrobes (our old house had fitted ones), so the removal men took my clothes out of the cardboard wardrobe they'd transported them in and laid them on the spare bed. Unfortunately I'd forgotten to sort through the contents and they found a black lacy basque, and obviously liked the look of it so much they arranged it carefully on the top of the pile of clothes:eek:! I was mortified, I don't want anything like that happening again!

Now off to spare bedroom for a couple more hours sleep - had to get up as OH's snoring was driving me potty - has a slight head cold.

Have a good day everyone, and happy flying.

Mermaid

HopeElizzy

Morning everyone,
Well, you can probably guess from looking at my list I've been up since silly-o-clock! :rolleyes:
I've just hung out my first lot of washing in the bright sunshine and I've now sat down to have a cuppa.
The washing machine is on it's 2nd load, I've just done dh and dd's lunches that I didn't do last night and the dishwasher is running empty with a cup of vinegar in it to clean it.

Wednesday, Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
Vacuum floor in bedroom and on landing
[strike] Check fire alarms are working [/strike]
Level 2
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs
[strike] Remove bed linen and wash, replace with fresh
Vacuum mattress before replacing with fresh linen[/strike]
Level 3
Clean window & wipe windowsill
Wipe doors and handles
Extra Mission Tasks - pick any one or more of the following
27 fling boogie time, time for that midweek fling, go on grab a bag and clear that clutter!!!
[strike]Wipe light fittings, even if it is only one[/strike]
[strike]Clean a set of curtains or a blind
Clean any shelf, removing what's on it and giving those a wipe before replacing[/strike]

ShirleyPark - your bathroom looks lovely - well done!
Hev - You can do it! Just keep dropping in here for the [strike]chat[/strike] motivation.
Evening Denise - Littlies seem to do that, I'm not getting much done either with ds in plaster. During the day he has been lying on the sofa shouting "mummy I want........." alot.
Big HUGS to lil_me and Katherine
Pigpen - Glad to see you're feeling better - do you need a kick to get going again?
Broomstick27 - you have Spring Cleaning list? Ooo, I love lists - did you make it yourself?
Mermaid - hope everything goes smoothly for you - my sis and my mil are both in the process of moving atm and my mil keeps bringing things for me to sell on ebay for her.

See you all later :hello:

Solwaykid

HopeElizzy wrote: »

I've just hung out my first lot of washing in the bright sunshine and I've now sat down to have a cuppa.

Lucky you HopeElizzy, I DREAM of sunshine and being able to hang laundry out. Day 9 of rain and cloudy skies.. so disheartening.

My kitchen cupboards are officially clean and organised. Tonight I'll sort the wardrobe and drawers in lieu of master bedroom and give the light fittings a good clean. How does dust gather so high up I wonder?

Couldn't get hold of my Bro or SIL to ask them about the scan but my silver surfer mum e-mailed me a picture of it. Very sweet, but I think it might be a puppy.

Have a useful day all or take it easy if you're juggling a million things.

HopeElizzy

Solwaykid wrote: »

Lucky you HopeElizzy, I DREAM of sunshine and being able to hang laundry out. Day 9 of rain and cloudy skies.. so disheartening.

My outlaws are Geordies so we love going up north. When you get the good weather (which you will do eventually) Northumberland is a very beautiful place. We've experienced snow drifts on one of our trips up a few years ago and we still keep coming back. You can't beat Bamburgh beach in the sunshine.:D

AnW'sMum

Solwaykid wrote: »

Couldn't get hold of my Bro or SIL to ask them about the scan but my silver surfer mum e-mailed me a picture of it. Very sweet, but I think it might be a puppy.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:but I know exactly what you mean!

Have a good day everyone

mamashaz

Morning everyone. It's a gorgeous day here in north Lancashire although we had a thunderstorm in the night.

Hope you all have a good day!

Wednesday, Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
[strike] Vacuum floor in bedroom and on landing did stairs too
Check fire alarms are working [/strike]
Level 2
[strike] Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs[/strike]
[strike] Remove bed linen and wash[/strike][strike][strike], replace with fresh[/strike]
Vacuum mattress before replacing with fresh linen[/strike]
Level 3
[strike] Clean window & [/strike][strike]wipe windowsill[/strike]
[strike] Wipe doors and handles[/strike] - done the inside of bedroom door
Extra Mission Tasks - pick any one or more of the following
[STRIKE] 27 fling boogie time, time for that midweek fling, go on grab a bag and clear that clutter!!! [/STRIKE] - found 3 things to eBay so 24 to go!
[strike]Wipe light fittings, even if it is only one - landing [/strike]
Clean a set of curtains or a blind
[strike]Clean any shelf, removing what's on it and giving those a wipe before replacing - cleaning make-up tray - yuk![/strike]

boston_uk

Wednesday - boston's bumbling about day!!

Special highlights for today include:

Taking down the glass lampshades in lounge (8), and hall (6) washing and replacing. ( will take me a time as I have to climb and am not good at that)

More windows

Sorting the storage under the window seat on the landing, packing it for moving stuff and getting rid of rest - ebay or freecycle or charity shop.

Freecycler coming today to collect a bit more stuff and I have to go to PO and ASDA later as I forgot to get the dogs' chicken wings, we ran out of pasta last night, and need a couple of cards. OH away overnight so got the evening to myself !!! Apart from talking to him on Skype that is :rotfl:

Horrendous storm here last night - thank goodness for UPS'S!!!! Still overcast and threatening today but dry so far.

Off to finish the kitchen S&S - already done the bathrooms and work email so on track so far today!

Have a good one folks - take it gently!

ShirleyPark_2

Thankyou for the lovely comments on the bathroom, it's a huge improvement, shame it's only now that we decided to do something about it.

Today is the first day I've had off work this year, it is long overdue. I'm going out later to puppy sit for the guy who I car share with as this is the first week that the puppy has been left alone all day. So I'm going to pop in and play with Molly for a while. She is so cute and cuddly I'm quite looking forward to it, I'll probably take my camera with me and see if I can get some good photos of her.

List for today
Vacuum floor in bedroom and on landing
Check fire alarms are working
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs
Remove bed linen and wash, replace with fresh
Vacuum mattress before replacing with fresh linen
Clean window & wipe windowsill
Wipe doors and handles
Clean a set of curtains or a blind - do lounge and dining room as these have already been taken down.

Plus lots of DIY !!

debtfreehopeful_2

Morning all,

lil me - just sending good wishes for you and your friend and her family,
hev - try not to beat yourself up, you have a young child and its hard to get your act together when they want attention and need feeds and things. I sat last night and realised that when Sophie was Ellens age i had no clue of organisation and it took me till she was 18 months to get sorted and on top of the house, then i fell pregnant! So now im getting back organised and its not always easy and ive had a few cries over it and often feel completely useless with it all but when i stop and think i realise that at least im trying as it would be too easy to sit back and ignore it. keep it up youre doing well im sure

anyway onto the business part!! Im going to add today onto Fridays list as my bedroom is tiny.so todays jobs are

[strike]sweep kitchen[/strike]
[strike]mop kitchen[/strike]
clear bins
sort table
[strike] sort desk[/strike]
clean doors
pot out tree
washing
s+s kitchen
sort wardrobes

these are all those tomorrow jobs, the ones im always going to do tomorrow plus some dailies so if i can get through these ill be impressed and things will become a lot easier than they have been