Weekly Flylady Thread 30th December 2013

ZCC72

Ok, so this .am has been rather lazy, although I have been out and got supplies for bulk cooking - does thinking about a meal plan count?! Now I need to walk my stinky boy (while the rain and wind are holding off) but will be in for a HHC at 2pm, if anyone would like to join me? I plan on cleaning the bathroom. Tbh, it's relatively tidy already (shock! Horror!) so I can give it a bit of a deep clean.

Off to brave the Great Outdoors, back soon xxx

MrsChaos

Thanks for the company, Jue. More washing up done and some sorting in the kitchen, followed by updating the budget. WM also on.

DH has just gone back to work, but he's not been busy at all and may well be home within an hour. He wants to go into town and I can live with that - means I don't have to go tomorrow. Best check the mealplan and shopping list first.

Lunch made and eaten - bacon sarnies for DH and DS2, HM cream of spinach soup with a quartered boiled egg for me. Now I'm going to finish my cuppa and update the list.

Before we go out I still need to sort the laundry and clear/hoover the stairs. Oh, and wash the dishes from lunch... Anyone for a HHC from 13.45? ETA I'll get a head start and you can join me, ZCC72.

Rosetta92

Hello Everyone

So the big New Year preparation clean up starts here :j

Monday Bathrooms and a bit of Everything Else
Only got 15 minutes...
S&S toilets and sinks (including the kitchen)
Have home been found for all the presents? Try to get one thing out of the house for each thing in - new socks, get rid of the religious ones etc
30 minutes to spare....
HHI
Clean the bath and/or shower
Wipe any dusty surfaces in the bathroom
Got an hour....
Use up/decant any dribbles from shampoo etc, bin the empties to make space for Christmas smellies. no new smellies this year
Meal plan for the week
Declutter floors not just into a box or binbag to hide away, try to put things where they belong, a home for everything will make life easier
Sweep/mop/hoover floors you can now see

Extras
New year, New you, what would you like to learn to do this year (much more inspiring than the same old loosing weight and exercising) - for me it is to make sourdough rolls and learn more knitting techniques i like this - will need to think
Meal plan for the week done up till Thursday - can never think beyond the two days of steak pie
Count some blessings from the year gone by
Chill something fizzy to toast the New Year been chilling since it didn't get used at Christmas :rotfl:

Also:

Buy steak pie ingredients
Organise NY drink shopping trip - ideally not on Hogmanay :beer:

Thanks for the list, and have a great week folks :j

R

froddington

Welcome to all newbies and returners.

I still want to hibernate but really need to do something! I need to pop to the corner shop for a couple of bits in between rain showers.

serena wrote: »

Hi Froddington! Yes, all well here. DS1 is now running his own business, although currently in Madrid visiting girlfriend. DS2 finished his A levels, got his B, and his place at Bath Spa, where he has been since late Sept, and is loving it! DD and I visited in halfterm as missing him badly. DD is applying now for uni, fingers crossed! I have been working full time on and off covering for colleagues over past year, hence disappearing from Flylady. I hope you are well!

I'm doing ok - thanks. Good to hear the updates from your lot and pleased to hear all is well Maybe 2014 will be the year we manage to meet up again ............... ?

ZCC72 wrote: »

HHC at 2pm, if anyone would like to join me? I plan on cleaning the bathroom.

I'll join you as soon as I'm back from the shop and am also going for a mega bathroom clean.

LameWolf

Hi all; I'm in as far as lupus and looking after Ronnie for the week allow. Many thanks to Natty (last week) and Dusty (this week) for running the thread for us.:beer:
Also, a warm welcome to new and returning Flyers.:beer:

Tree will be coming down Wednesday, when Mr LW will be here to help, and he can also put the box of [STRIKE]carp[/STRIKE] decs back in the loft.

I also want him to retrieve from the loft the two lamps we used to have as bedside lamps; I replaced them with the sort you just touch to operate, as my hands are useless without my splints on and I was having trouble with the switches; but now we've got rid of the old XP pc there's space on my desk, and the lounge could use a bit of atmospheric lighting as well as the main lights, so they can go on there, and make the lounge look a bit “friendlier” iyswim.:o

Monday Bathrooms and a bit of Everything Else
Only got 15 minutes...
S&S toilets and sinks (including the kitchen) Done
Have home been found for all the presents? Try to get one thing out of the house for each thing in - new socks, get rid of the religious ones etc N/A
30 minutes to spare....
HHI N/A – Mr LW cleared it yesterday
Clean the bath and/or shower Done yesterday – Mr LW has to move the bath lift so it's a weekend task.
Wipe any dusty surfaces in the bathroom Done
Got an hour....
Use up/decant any dribbles from shampoo etc, bin the empties to make space for Christmas smellies. N/A – we always use up one bottle before starting another. No Xmas smellies – in fact I'm on my last tablet of soap, and will have to share Mr LW's from here on, I think!
Meal plan for the week Done
Declutter floors not just into a box or binbag to hide away, try to put things where they belong, a home for everything will make life easier N/A – it's all kept done as far as possible; only things on the floor are Ronnie's two toys.
Sweep/mop/hoover floors you can now see Done before Ronnie arrived (yesterday)

Extras
New year, New you, what would you like to learn to do this year (much more inspiring than the same old loosing weight and exercising) - for me it is to make sourdough rolls and learn more knitting techniques I am literally going to take a single day at a time, and survive that. The best I can do at present is getting up in the morning and deciding “today is NOT a good day to die”.
Meal plan for the week Done (see above)
Count some blessings from the year gone by *counts dogs *
Chill something fizzy to toast the New Year Will do as soon as there's a bit of room in the fridge (may need to do Fridge Tetris later) – we have the bottle (half price, I forget which SM as I use several), it's in the spare room at present!

FizzWhizz wrote: »

DH has been dispatched to 1celand for party food as it's DSD's birthday on NYD and we're having the family 'round. I have never hosted a gathering before (quite a sad admission but when I was married to KH I was barely "allowed" friends and inviting them to the house would have been completely off-limits ) so I'm a little bit nervous. Hoping that making the house sparkly over the next two days will allay my fears.

FW, I've never hosted a gathering, either. It's so far out of my comfort zone that it's probably on another continent!:eek: Best of luck; I'm sure you'll be fine.:o

Valli

Honey_Bear wrote: »

:wave: Newbies! Best community in the world for getting some order (back) into our lives.

I'd heard the very strange term "pack ups" some years ago from a Yorkshireman I met on a training course. I don't think he would have thought a bit of slimming world cheese and stale bread would qualify for the term. Btw, Valli, the Astor Hotel is now sadly defunct, along with two others literally next door. The 4* had a fire and is now flats, the other one has been pulled down, and will be flats. I don't know what will happen to the Astor, but we've noticed that a lot of other B&Bs and small hotels on the Hoe are now ... student flats. Bit of a trend going on, I think.

Lol you're quite right - that would not qualify for a pack-up:p

and thanks for the info on the Astor - I didn't hold out much hope for it! Sad though.

I have run all the laundry through the TD, put away ironed and aired stuff and ironed or hung (as appropriate) a maidenful.

I have removed whoopsied mince from the freezer and made a bolgognaise. Left it as that for DD (in a casserole dish) and added mushrooms (whoopsied) to the remainder and made lasagne, to use up some of the cheese brought home on Christmas day. DD doesn't like it so it's a DS-is-home treat as we both do.

(DD would not eat bolognaise at all at one point - she started off with pasta only, then graduated to a spoonful of sauce on a separate plate until, after years of offering/serving she now eats spag bog;) - I use this story to persuade reluctant eaters to, at least, have a taste;))

I'm sitting here with my phonics planning file.

Dustykitten

roxy7699 wrote: »

My 2014 plan is to definitely be more MSE, up my income in any way possible with the view to increasing my family a little bit more, to let go of the past and stop dwelling on things that I can no longer change. Finally to finish painting the blasted hallway it should not take 15 months in a flat; or even 15 hours for that matter.

:rotfl::rotfl: and hope your plans work out

rebeccaharris31 wrote: »

Meal plan for the week - Please see question below
Can steamed veggies be used as a pie filling? I've got enough veg to last until next Christmas :rotfl:and thought about this late last night. My original plan was to chop some sausages, fry them, add some veggies and put a flavoured mash topping on to make a sort of pie. But then I thought it would be more healthy to steam the veg but didn't know if that would be possible ..... Thanks for any advice.

Rebecca

I would bung the veg in with the sausages half way through but if you've steamed them it will be fine.

FizzWhizz wrote: »

DH has been dispatched to 1celand for party food as it's DSD's birthday on NYD and we're having the family 'round. I have never hosted a gathering before (quite a sad admission but when I was married to KH I was barely "allowed" friends and inviting them to the house would have been completely off-limits ) so I'm a little bit nervous. Hoping that making the house sparkly over the next two days will allay my fears.

Hope it goes well and you enjoy it. We have friends round a fair bit and i still find the food part stressful

Had another lazy start a my foot joint kept me awake in the night. DH is busy sorting hundreds of CDs, DS2 busy with homework, DS3 needs to get his done too.

Dustykitten

Welcome Newbies, keep posting so that we get to recognise you

JulieJim you are now on the ironing list

Going to do a HHC to warm up and feel I've made a start.

nicki_2

Afternoon all.

I managed to get another 3.5hrs sleep and feel much more human now. I'm in the middle of watching Shirley Valentine and laughing my head off. I appreciate the humour so much more now I'm in my 30s as opposed to 18 when I first saw it.

Going to run to join in the HHC by putting the WM on and putting my work stuff that arrived this morning away in the cupboard. Bathroom is looking pretty good so won't need much doing to it.

Monday Bathrooms and a bit of Everything Else
Only got 15 minutes...
S&S toilets and sinks (including the kitchen)
30 minutes to spare....
HHI
Clean the bath and/or shower
Wipe any dusty surfaces in the bathroom
Got an hour....
Use up/decant any dribbles from shampoo etc, bin the empties to make
space for Christmas smellies.
Meal plan for the week
Sweep/mop/hoover floors you can now see

Off I go :wave:

serena

Kitchen half done. Interrupted by a lift to work for DS2, a quick fresh food shop, and a longish phone call from my sister. As she was ill over Christmas, it was good to chat although she still sounds full of cold.

Just waiting for DD to finish her late lunch, then I'm determined to finish the kitchen....

Still lashing it down with rain and blowing a gale.