Weekly Flylady Thread 6th August 2007

tracyg

:wave: Thanks for all the hellos! Its lovely to have a warm welcome

Just popping in as DH is watching Location, it drives me mad but hes got a thing for Kirsty and as I've just made him clean up dog sick thought I'd give him something. Did a mad half hour earlier before DS tea (sat him in with me and was happy to go through the tip pile and stand up although he took a shine to some of DH nun-chucks (sp):eek: )and then when DH got in, have cleared all car boot stuff into garage, moved all packed stuff back into spare room (can go into garage on Sunday once its empity) and loaded DH car up for tip on his way to work in morning. So all junk now out of house so its just packing everything thats left now over the next couple of weeks. Just relaxing with a glass of yummy red after my busy day, had another estate agent round on yesterday so gave everywhere a good going over. So tomorrow

Thursday Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
Level One
Clean floors in these rooms (even if it is around the clutter)
Level Two
Clean bath, toilet and sink - done teus but will S&S
Level Three
[STRIKE]Clear clutter from floor [/STRIKE]- is none
[STRIKE]Wipe down tiles in bathroom[/STRIKE] - done teus
[STRIKE]Clean shower screen/curtain if you have one/if required[/STRIKE] -done teus
Extra mission:
Pick whichever you want to attempt

• Wash your bathroom mats - could do with it
• Sort a wardrobe or part of, a drawer or set of drawers making sure it has what needs to be in it and any 'extras' are put where they should be - could do with it
• [STRIKE]
  
• 15 minutes paperwork sorting! ALL DONE
• Clean windows in these rooms ALL DONE
• [/STRIKE]

Playdate 10am
Post letters
Wardrobe sort???
Shop pm for DS meal bits
Sort chicken stock from SC

Lil me - loving the new oven, v nice, hope pond boy wasn't too bad!
Solwaykid - tell me I'm being nosey but your job sounds v interesting - working for government, livestock movements. Hope the scan went well, remember I had to jump up and down at ours to get DS to move so we could see his back
Tinsel - good luck tomorrow
7WW - hope you get hold of your boss
Pen Pen - on your own till Friday, can we swap please?:D

Will catch you all tomorrow, off for a some crisps and BB

Penelope_Penguin

Aaaargh, can't have the small glass of wine just yet :mad: Since we lost our last set of hens to a fox, DH is keen to protect the next lot. He's improved the hen house, and has been going down to put the new chicks away each night. He's away himself, and as quickly as I'm putting them in, they're hopping out again :eek: :eek: :eek: If I wasn't so tired, it'd be comical :rotfl: :rotfl:

Going to try one last time, and hope they're sleepier now, or they'll be taking their chances overnight.

Penny. x

ShirleyPark_2

I've done pretty much nothing today, other than drive from Southampton to Royston and back again. I now have another rat, she's a rescue from a large group of rescued rats who'd been living in less than great conditions, most of the girls were pregant when they were rescued, including this one, even though she's only about 4 months old. She's settling in well, though my bossy girl is letting her know her place.

Hope everyone has had a good day, those of you who aren't well, or have poorly little ones, hope you all feel better soon.

Updated list
Kitchen
Clean cooker - started then got bored
Sweep floor
Move DIY stuff into dining room once painted and boarded

Dining Room
Sand down glosswork
Fill couple of dodgy bits on wall - done need sanding back
Repaint walls - one wall painted, second wall needing second coat
Paint glosswork

Downstairs bathroom
Clean floor
Screw carpet door grip back down
Paint walls
Put shelf up - got plasterboard raw plugs

Hallway
Clear junk
Move DIY stuff into Dining room once painted and boarded
Vacuum floor

Porch
Paint walls
Paint step

Lounge
Clear junk - just left with things that need moving into the Dining room now

Stairs
Vacuum
Take mirror off the wall

Landing
Finish striping paper off the wall
Seal the plaster

Bedroom
Washing - first lot on the line, bedding in the machine

Upstairs bathroom
Reseal around bath

My study
Tidy bookshelves
Clear intray

Plus
Clean both rat cages - done girls
Refil garden recylcing bag
Trim hedges - tried, about 30 seconds later it started to rain !!
Move empty plant pots etc to the shed - done 1/2 of them, then it rained
Get bambo canes and tie up raspberries - change of plan, use netting in shed
Replace blown lightbulbs
Sort out photos from saturday

ashfan83

Oh my goodness!

This is the first time I've come acoss the 'flylady' thread. I am so glad I did!

I was beginning to wonder if I was a little weird for having written down the different rooms in my flat and which chores needed doing, and then dividing them into a rota for me and my other half to do. Well he seemed to think I was mad anyway!

He's not going to get off lightly now and my flat's certainly going to be a lot cleaner and tidier now I've discovered Flylady! :T

Thank you!!!!

Feisty_Fairy

Hi again,

Just a quickie to say my bath problems are ongoing, all done and looked lovely, stepped into the shower and within 4 mins leaked through into the kitchen again!!!!!

Caravan is all going to go ahead too, spoke to the owners today and all should be fine, thanks god!

off now as not even had dinner yet, dont think i will bother, but up early in the morning cos off to soft play with the boys, hopefully will be tired so i can get on with flying and packing!

Bye for now and take care everyone!

Feisty!

beckiem

hi everyone
done my kitchen today and sunbathed for a while after while the kids were playing
then i pigged out on 4 pork chops and half a jar of apple sauce i feel a bit sick now but i hadnt had them for ages and there my favourite
tried to fix the strip light in my lizards viv thought ild try changing the starter motor i had 2 spare but i tried the second one and it got stuck so i had to take it apart to get it out so i figured ild wait till oh comes back on friday to fix it before i blow the house up:rotfl:
im having trouble getting motivated to do washing i keep letting it build up then try to avoid it (its in the utility room with the door shut)

Pollybear

welcome to the thread ashfan

sexymouse

Hello everyone, welcome back returners to the thread, and welcome newbies.

Today I managed 1 load of washing - still out on the line, so I hope it doesn't rain tonight (got caught up watching qvc tanzanite collection, and then A Beautiful Mind came on, so I forgot all about it). I did manage to change the sheets after hoovering the matress first, and the linen is in the WM with the powder etc in ready for me to turn it on tomorrow. Have decided that we definately need a new hoover - despite being emptied, our Dyson still has hardly any suck to it, and I think that I was generating more dust by the exhaust blowing everything everywhere.

Am going to ask if we can borrow my Mum and Dad's Kirby hoover tomorrow when we go round to dinner, and give everywhere a thorough hoover, as I've been sneezing all day, and am not quite sure whether it is hayfever or dust! Will have to build up my muscles though, as they are really heavy!

Well, I'm off to have a shower now so that I'm nice and clean for my clean sheets. Sweet dreams everyone.

See you all tomorrow.

Sexymouse xx

millionaire_in_training

Good evening all. I got washed and dried 2 loads today. Woohoo as weather has been dire here and heating was broken so the washing has been lying around so was fab to get it dried.Heating all fixed so I had hot water for first time in ages. Lay in the bath with bubbles up to my nostrils for half an hour........bliss!! Did a small amount of weeding. Cleared out 3 cupboards in kitchen. Found a good few bits and bobs for car boot and managed to tidy cupboards enough so that I could clear work surfaces. Looks super clean now:j . To be honest I think it just seems cleaner because I had hot water to clean it with. Was out this evening so nothing else done. Oh well there's always tomorrow.

JillD_2

Sorry but I never really got round to reading everyones posts today.
Hope everyone had good days
Hope all littlies being good
Hope LJD1's daughter is ok re nails etc
Hope lil_me feeling even a little better

Just realised its midnight, I need to get to bed and dishwasher needs emptied. Oh well will just do it in the morning I think, if I do it now it will waken DD (her bedroom above kitchen and she always wakens if we do the dishwasher too late).

Went to Blockbuster with the kids this afternoon, they chose 2 DVDs each and I chose 1, all 25p each so £1.25 - bargain! Hubby and I watched A Night At The Museum tonight, quite good, very silly, but rather entertaining. And such a bargain. Noticed they had Eragon, might try and get that for Friday night.

Oh yeah and 2 lovely MSE'ers sent me some breastpads in the post which arrived today, and did I mention we got a baby bath support from freecycle at the weekend and the guy even droped it off ? Feeling very lucky and grateful, thanks to those generous people

Oh and physio for SPD leg pain finally called, have arranged a session for week after next :T

List for tomorrow:
- get kids up and breakfasted
- empty dishwasher
- tidy up from breakfast
- washing machine on
- washing out on line
- renew car tax online
- phone friend to see if she minds pox ridden son coming round
- washing in and put away
- wash those flipping baby bath things which are STILL all crusty and dusty upstairs
- chop bottom off DD curtains prior to hemming them
- clear out bureau

Thursday Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
Level One
Clean floors in these rooms (even if it is around the clutter)
Level Two
Clean bath, toilet and sink
[STRIKE]Clear any clutter from desk[/STRIKE]done today whilst filing
Dust desk and cupboard tops
Sort place for printer so cable stretches

Extra mission:
Pick whichever you want to attempt

• Sort a wardrobe or part of, a drawer or set of drawers making sure it has what needs to be in it and any 'extras' are put where they should be.
• Clean windows in these rooms

and night night til tomorrow

My List

Do Now:
- move budgeting account money from low interest account to new higher rate one
- open a new account for maternity leave fund and move money in there

Longer term:
- batch cook cheesy quorn veg pie

Baby stuff:
- print out a list of names and numbers for friends to look after kids when baby on the way - started asking folk for availability and phone numbers, getting there.
- clean baby bath stuff
- launder all baby covers for double buggy, [STRIKE]moses basket, bouncy chair, play gym, car seat
[/STRIKE]- clean steriliser and bottles etc
- wash all newborn baby clothes - [STRIKE]neutral[/STRIKE], boy, girl
- sort out a hospital bag - started a pile of stuff for it
- sort out overnight bags for kids in case we have to farm them out when baby comes
- get fitted for nursing bras

Hubby:
- get down 0-3 boy and girl clothes from loft, to top up neutrals
- look for Avent bottles which appear to have got lost!!
- retrieve 2 buggies from under mountain of wood in garage
- get DVD in playroom sorted
- move DD height chart
- hang swimming certificates up in kids rooms
- fix spare room cupboard door back on (it fell off this week)
- build cot

Sewing machine stuff:
- make some trial breastpads
- hem curtains in DD new room
- make cushion covers for cushions for DD new bedroom
- seam curtains in our bedroom

Other:
- label all DS school stuff
- make mini album of holiday photos of kids for my Mum - waiting for photo paper to arrive
- get new curtain pole for our bedroom
- label all boxes of stuff in garage so we can find things
- finish edging on rug for baby's room - will do whilst babysitting on Thursday
- make Ruby Wedding album for Mum and Dad (it was 14 months ago )
- make sure everything I need is off old laptop and decide whether to sell
- make sure everything is off old PC which kids now use
- organise recipes
- clear out bureau

Garden:
- sweep up all debris
- move old tubs and discard dead plants
- level patio with sand
- weed paths
- fill in paths with bark chips
- weed and prune flower bed
- get hubby to dig me a new flower bed
- plant things in new flower bed!

Done: (leaving it here to make me feel good!)
[STRIKE]
- fix freeview in playroom

- sort out photos into nice storage boxes OH bought me
- finish and post letter to my Dad in hospital
- print out birth plan (for what its worth LOL)
- clean car seat and base
- buy newborn nappies and emergency formula
- get printer in study up and running again
- pay credit card bills
- pay window cleaner
- transfer all aranged play date things to diary and calendar
- shred big pile sitting beside shredder
- wash and put on spare room bed linen
- hang pictures in spare room
- hang curtains in DD new room
- stick up wall stickers in DD new room
- move DD door name plate
- put up baby's name plate
- clean room ready for baby
- get cot, moses basket etc down from loft and clean
- batch cook shepherds pie
- batch cook chilli
- batch cook sausage caserole
- batch cook quorn and veg caserole

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