Weekly Flylady Thread 13th August 2007

tinselfairy

Morning.

JillD- hope you had a lovely anniversary, so pleased your hubby made it home in time.
Lil_me- hope all goes well at the doctors.
Kaz- not a good start to your day, but I hope you have a great time with your friend today.
Shirley- fingers crossed you get them doing as much work as possible at the weekend.
Solway- same here with the money thing. I really need to have a serious rethink of outgoings, doesn't help when partner is a bit more lax in his spending!

Sun is shining here today.:j
Out to the park for a picnic and meeting friends later on so need to do as flying as possible this morning.

Have a good day.

tracyg

Morning my lovlies! Hope people are feeling better today. Woke up without my neck ache:j so feel rearing to go! Must have been the half bottle of Faustino last night - oops. Anyway, DS was up early today but DH got with him so after watching Night Garden together while we had a cuddle hes got back to bed (DS that is). DH is away today so not sure when he'll be home tonight.

Tinsel - I'm another write it down/lists persons, always have been. Feels so much better to have on paper otherwise it just goes round and round in my head. Have a special jotter pad where I write all my lists and to do's:rolleyes:

Solwaykid Pigpen - know where you both are coming from. I've done the whole loan thing in the past pigpen but had to be really strict not to get back into debt again, had to break the habit of spending on credit cards. Now we are moving and moneys going to be really tight until Jan so need watch everything I spend, am thinking about getting a job a couple of nights a week in a supermarket or something part time when I can get someone to have DS for a few hours.

Right, sorry but I'm going to have to leave the flylady schedule as I can't keep up with that and everything else, somethings got to give. Hope you don't mind me posting though for a bit of motivation. So my list for weeks ahead (see, need to get it writen down!)

Today Dallies
[strike] Defrost chicken[/strike] baked spiced chicken for tea
Outlet 10am
Work on this weeks list

This weeks to do list 13 - 19
[strike]Viewers - mon[/strike]
Wardrobe sort T J
Sort van hire - emailed
[strike]Chase mortgage/book valuers
Return fishers paperwork/l & g - just completed, needs posting DH doing
Meal plan from freezer
Sort date planner
List of needed stuff
[/strike]
Car boot sale - sat
[strike]B & Q
Take plant cuttings and pot up[/strike]
[strike]D's collar ordered[/strike]
Start packing - aiming for an hour a day:rotfl:

To do next week 20 - 26
Order re-direct
Clean oven (going to start from now wiping with vingear then finish any manky bits next week)
Swap curtains
take down lounge and dining room lights and replace

To do 27 - 30
Final garden tidy/mow lawn
Deep clean throughout house
Packing


Off for a mouch about then better get dressed to go out. See you later x

Solwaykid

Morning, I hope folks are feeling a bit better today? Hugs to those who need one and those despairing of being skint.
I love being on here and being able to moan about such things with folks in a similar position. Lovely people that you all are :A

I'm really motivated at the moment; I don't know what it is about taking a day off work but I seem to get more done than I would bother to do on a weekend.

Wrote myself a list in bed last night to stop it wizzing round my head -we like our lists on here don't we! It's when you have to make lists of your lists that you know things are getting serious. I've got 2 lists on the go at work and often put one up on the whiteboard so folks won't ask me every 5 mins what there is to do. They must think I'm some kind of control freak but we do run smoothly and efficiently..a-tten-SHUN!

Anyhow..
Thursday Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
Level One
Clear any clutter from desk
Level Two
Cl[STRIKE]ean bath, toilet and sink [/STRIKE]
Dust PC and desk
Level Three
[STRIKE]Vacuum/sweep and mop these rooms[/STRIKE]
Wipe keyboard and mouse (these usually have more germs on than your toilet so important)
[STRIKE]Wipe down tiles in bathroom[/STRIKE]
Extra mission:
Pick whichever you want to attempt

• Clean windows in today's rooms
• Clean any light fittings and switches in these rooms
• [STRIKE]Wash your bathroom mats[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]
  
• Sort your toiletries, flinging anything well past it's use by and those empty containers. Leave out what needs using first like the last bit of shower gel in a bottle etc.
• [/STRIKE] Always on-going

My list for today
[STRIKE]Ring Happy Birthday Bro[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Colour hair[/STRIKE]
WM x3 good and windy today
Ring vet Bob's been fighting again and limping on the other foot
Charity shop drop off
Go to Tip with branches
then Clean car out
Sort car insurance
Ring loans people -there must be a better deal
Look at all my direct debits - in vain
Clean windows (my mother coming over on Sunday!)
Write a 'snagging' list for my lovely Step-Dad.
Pot house plants on
Clean up a big bag of honey jars I rescued from work.

Is it do-able I wonder?
Toodle-oo, back when it's cuppa time!

nicki_2

Morning all :hello:

Miserable day here ATM but I'm happy - having another lazy day but still pottering around. There's no way I'm upto going out just yet as I'm lacking enough energy BUT I was feeling energised enough to get the scales out this morning as I want to go on a diet because I really need to get rid of this excess weight I've been carrying around since puberty. I had to get off them and back on 3 times before I would believe what they said - I've lost 9lbs in a week :eek::j Okay, being sick and not able to eat is a major factor :rotfl: and I also know that some of that will go back on when I start eating properly again but it feels bl**dy good to see :rotfl::rotfl:

My plan for today is to keep on top of the dishes, do some laundry, rest on the computer, and keep DD entertained with another Harry Potter-athon by her request :rolleyes: I swear she will know all 4 films word for word by the time she goes back to school :rotfl:


Right, off to wipe the kitchen worktops down so I can make DD breakfast - OH managed to cover the majority of them in raw egg and didn't clean it up :mad: Laters :wave:

Oh, and I still haven't found OH's card I've given up - he'll have to phone the bank and ask them for a new one I think

sexymouse

I've just had a phone call from our local pub about the waitressing job I enquired about on Sunday. She had said she would call me that night, so I had given up on the idea of working there as it is obviously Thursday now. Anyway, decided that I am going to work a trial shift on Saturday lunchtime (this will be a really busy shift I would imagine especially if the weather is good), and then if we like each other, she will see if she can fit me into the rota. I still don't know how much I'll be paid though. Does anyone know if you get paid for trial shifts? I've never done one before, and not sure how it all works.

sexymouse xx

cha97michelle

Tried to post 2x last night but it wouldn't let me, even though other people's posts were added in that time.

Anyway - gist of it was i am waiting in for delivery of my wardrobe/bedroom organisers and storage solutions, and then i will be trying to have a sort out/organisation session in my room. Charlie started for me this morning by sweeping everything off my bedside table and tearing up some tissues. :rolleyes: He's really keeping me on my toes again today, and DH keeps laughing at me when i tell him what he has been up to. Means i am really struggling to get anything done, but we are having a bit of a laugh.


Anyway, list here, and i'd best get on while he is sleeping as he won't be for much longer.
Thursday 16/08:

• [strike]All up, fed, washed and dressed[/strike]
• [strike]Feed cats, deal with litter tray[/strike]
• [strike]Deal with post [/strike]
• [strike]Make bottles[/strike]
• Check clothes on airers/remove any dry ones and sort by folding or putting on ironing pile
• [strike]Wash a load of towels[/strike], [strike]if raining put in TD[/strike]
• Wash bath mats, then hang up on airers
• Wash some of my dark stuff – mainly trousers – dry jeans in TD but put combats on airers
• Put away travel bags from our room
• [STRIKE]Wait in for John Lewis delivery[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Open and check parcel[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Take chest of drawers out of my wardrobe[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Remove other clothes from bottom of my wardrobe[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Clean bottom of my wardrobe[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Put handbag organiser in my wardrobe[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Check my handbags are clean and then put in organiser[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Also put my belts in one of the compartments[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Put the clothes hanging organiser in the wardrobe[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Put the stuff from my chest of drawers in there[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Empty bathroom[/STRIKE] and kitchen bins
• Put out bin
• Clean kitchen bin, and sink/draining board/plastic drainer
• Pack baby bag for clinic and visits tomorrow

Meals:
Breakfast = cereal
Lunch = tuna pasta
Dinner = [STRIKE]spag bol (make extra portions for Charlie and auntie)[/STRIKE] on the go in the SC

extra jobs for DH today:

• clean up the cat kill outside
• take chest of drawers out of his wardrobe
• organise contents of his chest of drawers into wardrobe hanger and my smaller chest of drawers
• clean bottom of wardrobe
• put chest of drawers back in bottom of wardrobe
• carry broken drawers downstairs and put in garage ready for taking to tip at some later stage

sexymouse when i have done trial shifts at proper businesses then i have been paid for it at the usual rate of pay for that business. The only time i didn't was in the student bar i worked at in the hall of residence where they gave everyone two trial shifts then picked the best workers. Meant they got nearly a term of free labour so a bit cheeky really.

kazmeister

Quiet here this morning.

Updated my list and removed everything I've done.

Still not showered as decided to hoover and wash all floors downstairs as well as some other stuff. so will go do bathroom jobs and then shower as friend will be here in a little over an hour :eek:

lil_me

Doctors went sort of ok, the GP I seen told me off for not going back straight away when the antibiotics didn't work (that was weeks ago now) and put me on another type and took throat swabs, I was right, I still have tonsilitis.

Sexymouse, to be honest you should be paid for trial shifts, if you're working you should be in my opinion. However, I know of a place near me who has been 'looking' for staff for a while, so far just the people I know of they've had 6 people in unpaid working in the last few weeks all doing 'trials' seems a very naughty way of getting free labour to me.

Tracyg as usual you're more than welcome to follow your own, I'm sure you know regardless you'll be welcome to post

Got a lot to do today, didn't manage to get our sheets done yesterday so will do them today as the weather is a bit better.

My need to do list

Level 3 PC and bathroom (have started I can get in the boys PC room now!)
Dailies left - floors downstairs, S&S kitchen, dog stuff, meals, evening wash up
Laundry away
[strike]Wash our bedding[/strike] stripped and one load in
Vacuum mattress, turn mattress and remake bed
[strike]
Check freezer list and edit where needed, forgot to add/take off some stuff
Sort paperwork for club, sort cash box, tickets, stock lists etc[/strike]

sexymouse

Thanks guys, I knew someone on here would know. Called the CAB too to check, and they said that legally they can ask me to work unpaid as there is no contract involved, but that they would recommend that I don't as if there was an accident, which there could be if I'm a waitress, then I probably wouldn't be covered by their insurance or something like that.

Forgot to say get better soon lil_me, and I hope the antibiotics kick in soon - I know how bad tonsillitis makes you feel having been a regular sufferer myself, and being allergic to penicillin and erythromycin, and another antibiotic I was given in the past! lol

Pollybear

Morning all (just)

Two loads of washing on the line, dry today (so far).

Vacuumed through downstairs and dusted living room.

Cleaned bathroom, don't know what level but cleaned toilet, sink, bath and washed floors.

Went over to shop and paid the papers, dog enjoyed the walk - she was full of it this morning! She forgets she's 12 until she's had a sleep and can barely walk after

Victoria sandwich in the oven then I'll be starting lunch.

And so far I haven't cried today

Off to check sponge.