Weekly Flylady Thread 27th August 2007

jjef

Morning all,

Lil_me – glad all went well last night, will you manage to get your feet up today to recover?
Pigpen – send your daughter to Scotland, the rest of my household love porridge but it has to be made with salt!!
Sexymouse – re where to work, if its long term go where you are happier but for short term I would go where I would make more cash.

:grouphug: hugs to all others who are needing them this morning.

Bits for me-
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WM
DW
walk dog
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Ironing
[STRIKE]S&S bathroom[/STRIKE]
Job application
Recycling
Hoover inside of car (DD2 made chocolate crispies at school yesterday and ate it coming home in the car):mad:
[STRIKE]Finish Mondays list[/STRIKE]


Manic Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level Two
[STRIKE]
Clean floors
Sort fridge bringing what needs using soon to the front
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Level Three
[STRIKE]Wipe window sills, clean any marks off windows if required[/STRIKE]
Extra Mission:
Choose one or more of:

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• Clean inside of fridge
• Clean inside of microwave
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Wednesday, Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
[strike]Check fire alarms are working
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Vacuum floor in bedroom and on landing
Level 2
[strike]Remove bed linen and wash, replace with fresh
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Clean window & wipe windowsill
Level 3
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs
[strike]Vacuum mattress before replacing with fresh linen
[/strike]Wipe doors and handles
Extra mission tasks

• Wipe at least one door and it's frame, don't forget the handle
• Dust skirting boards in any one room
• Sort one clothes drawer or wardrobe area, even if for 5 minute, remove anything that shouldn't be there

Cuppa is finished so no longer have an excuse for being here, away to turn on the radio and get that bedroom decluttered and cleaned.

cha97michelle

Mornin everyone.

Been quite busy so far.

• Up at 6:40
• me and charlie dressed
• at nursery for 8am
• 20 minutes of leg clinging till he would even vaguely settle, and then he still chased me out the door trying to go with me - absolutely heartbreaking
• took a box of stuff from home into school - sorted through it last night binning unsuitable stuff, but then organised it into drawers and stuff at school
• about an hour chatting to my friend - lots to catch up on and 1st time i have seen her without kids since i don't know when - probably a year ago when we were pregnant!
• drove home
• accepted delivery of an A level textbook - desperately needed as i am totally pooping myself about teaching a new subject and as it is new to our school there are no resources and no-one to ask about it
• changed charlie's bed as he is a snot monster again and the bottom sheet was grim
• washed all his bedding
• about to peg out
• will put a load of DH's stuff in
• need to go back into work as another colleague has messengered me to say he is at work, and it would be really useful to speak to him about some stuff
• need to give friend a bottle of tea tree shampoo as there has been a case of nits at the nursery
• need to post back a DVD rental
• will be going to my mums to visit once i pick Charlie up, so will be back later to catch up

Please don't be too chatty as it has just taken me an hour to catch up, and i will use it as an excuse to procrastinate even more.

hopeelizzy - big hugs to you.

Pollybear

Morning all

Two loads of washing out, including my bedding.

Bed remade. All bedrooms dusted and polished and vacuumed. Vacuumed bathroom, toilet floor and landing.

Vacuumed stairs, living room and kitchen. Dusted living room.

Time to cook lunch.

Got forms from bank re fraud and filled them in ready to post back this afternoon.

lil_me

Excited is the only way I feel now, I've had a call to say a pet I've been on a waiting list for for months is ready. A little pygmy hedgehog! Going to go get the stuff for it today. Naff the flying I'm off to get a hedgehog house

7_week_wonder

lil_me wrote: »

Excited is the only way I feel now, I've had a call to say a pet I've been on a waiting list for for months is ready. A little pygmy hedgehog! Going to go get the stuff for it today. Naff the flying I'm off to get a hedgehog house

Cool! I have a thing about hedgehogs - I love them. Though I have to confess I've never heard of a pygmy hedgehog. Do they eat all the stuff full-sized hedgehogs eat?

Have fun getting the hedgehog house,
7WW

pigpen

Tiddles is emptying the bag of shopping all over the floor.. and she got most excited at the top of the stairs when she saw the bag contained cereal bars.. I swear this child is part squirrel.. what with porridge and cereal bars.. she also likes prawns!! and cockles.. and doughnuts!!! she wasn't keen on the candy floss though.. she kept wiping her nose with it saying it was cotton wool... guess what we use when we run out of tissue!!

anyway.. DS1 has been sent to collect the 4 middle muppets from summer club.. DD1 is at a friends DD4 is upstairs watching some brain rotting trash on the pc.. and I AM going to play catch up today.. the front room is a pit and my bedroom is just a bin!!

I NEED to do more ebay pics and post these parcels (sending DS1 to do those shortly!.. He loves it when I send him lol!!)

pigpen

And... now she's legged it with a full box of cereal bars and a packet of noodles!!!

Ginger_Girl

Good afternoon!
Back from doing the payroll! Spent 15 minutes trying to fax the flipping thing to the bank - only to realise after all that time that some wally had disconnected the phone line (for reasons best known to themselves - AAARRRGGHH)
Anyway - came back to find DH (on hols today) - having dusted and cleaned tv/dvd/stereo and speakers. He had also hoovered downstairs and put on the DW - all without being asked! Less flying for me today!!
He was having probs cleaning the speaker covers and wondered if any of my 'bag-lady cyber friends' (I did say FLY lady!!) - had any ideas?? I promised to ask!!!
Plans for later - walk with kiddies (my last week of hollies with them), uploading some baby stuff onto Ebay and maybe making flapjacks (or flat-chacks as DD2 calls them). Tonight - some work-work and then on with the ironing!!

lil_me

Yep they eat what hedgehogs do, got to get some spikes dinner or cat food, mealworms etc I buy for my lizard anyway and it can have those. Need a 3ft hutch type of thing, litter tray, nest box and lots of other stuff, going to cost me a fortune as the hedgehogs £150! aswell so big spending day but I have been waiting nearly a year for one. Oh and that cat food whiskas sent me when I don't have a kitty will now have a good use. http://www.britnett-carver.co.uk/c2c/exoticmammals.html there is a piccy of one, these are 8 weeks old and teensy but will be fully grown in 12-14 weeks, about 4-5 inches long usually, smaller than british hedgehogs. I will post a photo when I get him/her.

I did have a soak in the bath this morning to relieve aches which helped loads, my hands still look dirty even though I've scrubbed and soaked them, DP says he can't see it but I can, will just have to keep trying to get it off.

Tracyg what a lovely tribute, I would have been emotional too

Pigpen, tiddles sounds like a right little character, love the wiping nose on candy floss, made me laugh a little too loud

Shell ((hugs)) you could have a word with the health visitor, they will usually suggest looking at diet, sleeping patterns etc first from my experience. It could be anxiety which can bring the devil out in my son, reassurance and talking about what may concern them is really the only way to do anything when it comes to anxiety. Using conversation such as 'we know you might be a little worried but.....' as saying 'there is nothing to worry about' is no good for anxiety, just makes them angry as they think you don't believe them and won't help them. Sounds like you've had a right time with her, hope she is calmer today. Unfortunately you're the closest person to her most likely so you will probably get the biggest tantrums, will usually find especially in anxious children they will got for 'flight' rather than 'fight' with other people. Maybe if her understanding is good agree a 'talk to mummy time' where she knows at that time each day she has mummy to herself to talk about anything she is worried about to stop her getting angry, or nice things if there is something she wants to tell you? Could maybe do it twice a day at first, once on a morning and once on an evening, just so she can talk about anything she wants to. It gives her that time where she knows she has your full attention, even when we give kids a lot they feel left out sometimes because of siblings, especially when they are the oldest. Of course at these times also talk about the good things she will be able to do at school and nice things you can do on the way home or at home after and before. Sometimes oldests don't like going to school as they think they are going to miss out on something at home when they are away, some see it as you're sending them away even, sad but true as I've known many children to say it.

aimeelister

A hedgepig cooooooool! Very cute, but what does it do, or is it a pointless pet like my guineapig and you just enjoy them anyway.

Right well the kitchen got done on Tues, along with the Lounge. Today is the Bedroom. I have the extras to do to properly catch up.

Wednesday, Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
Check fire alarms are working
Vacuum floor in bedroom and on landing
Level 2
Remove bed linen and wash, replace with fresh - weekend job
Level 3
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs
Wipe doors and handles
Extra mission tasks

• Sort one clothes drawer or wardrobe area, even if for 5 minute, remove anything that shouldn't be there
• Clean your vacuum cleaner out, get that hair off that brush, it'll improve it's performance aswell as being cleaner!
• Clear one hotspot, or just spend at least 5 minutes tackling it
• Clean windows in the house
  
• Make any important calls you've been putting off
• Wipe down the stairs
  

Hope everyone is doing well. I know there are some big hugs to fly across the internet waves to people so catchem while you can.