Weekly Flylady Thread 14th December

Mumof2_2

Morning all!

Pigpen glad the scarf is sorted. As for the person messing you around on the skills swap website well all I can say is more fool her!!

Narc0lepsy I hope your cold is very short lived as you really don't want that hanging around do you. I find taking 2 paracetamols sharpish when I get the cold signs can get rid of it very quickly if I'm lucky.

Frizzlef love your Elf list!

Here's my list:

Finish typing
Clean out chooks - MUST do - been putting off as rainy and horrid outside whenever I've thought about it but needs must now. Will put on J's decorating overalls and then have a shower after as not the nicest of jobs to do

Call Millies Wolfheart re Pip’s food
Wrap presents
[STRIKE]Order present for A[/STRIKE]

Monday - a bit of everything!
[STRIKE]Dust and deweb all through downstairs[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Wipe down your front door, inside and out.[/STRIKE]
S&S the downstairs loo / cloak.

Tuesday - kitchen and dining room
Wash a window

Also need to [STRIKE]walk Whiz[/STRIKE] and buy yet more milk - it'd be cheaper to keep a cow in the back garden I'm sure.

Best get going x

cyclingyorkie

Morning all - still not light here.


I have run out of excuses - I am doing the ironing.


Later I have book group and then the charity shop Christmas meal out.

MinnieMousesMummy

Good morning, Its going to be another busy day, which is not good, as I'm not feeling well today but I will persevere. The first job now that I have sent the kids off is to update my list.


Monday - a bit of everything!
Back to basics and shine your sink!
Clear your hallways and stairs - we don't want any accidents!
Dust and deweb all through downstairs
Sweep or vac too
Wipe down your front door, inside and out.
S&S the downstairs loo / cloak.
Uni/Work/Family
Complete assignment for uni (due Wednesday)
Extras
Dig out festive tableware / linen, if you use it - does it need a wash?
Check on spare bedding if you're expecting guests
Take a bit of time to reflect on the year so far
Make dentist appointments for the kids
Put ironed clothes away
Go through mountain of sock and pair/put away
Catch up with thread
Sort through dd's clothes and get rid of small ones

That's not good I didn't stop yesterday but there is hardly anything removed from my list, I hope today goes better.

Tuesday - kitchen and dining room
Clear & wipe your counters
Wipe down small appliances - any need descaling?
Empty and clean the fridge out
Defrost the freezer
Wash a window
Wipe the tiles / splash back
Wipe switch plates and remove grubby finger marks
Sweep and mop the floor
Wipe the big appliances and units
Clear and wipe a shelf or window sill
Clean the oven
Spend 15min on a DR hotspot
Wipe the table - including underside and legs
Wipe over the seats, wash any removable covers
Uni/Work/Family
Take kids to school/nursery/childminder
Let the chickens out to roam
Attend dd's part at nursery
Check uni emails
Spend 2 hours on uni work
HH filing
HHI
Do m.sing work that is in for today
Collect kids from childminder
Close the chickens away before dark
Extras
Make space in a cupboard if you'll be buying extra food in
Spend some time with your diary
Check your naughty and nice lists or any other lists
Are all your cards posted?
List unwanted stuff for sale
Clean out the pets
Catch up with thread
Put batteries in signing things

Biscuit_monster

Morning!

Yuk mumof2, we used to keep chickens, and I really don't miss shovelling stinky hen plop.

Did well yesterday, new hallway filled and sanded, not much tidying of dumpy house done though. On the plus side, did help out at school wrapping up about ten million tubes of jelly tots!

Today's plan.

Bit of tidying, hoovering type thing.
Wax doors and beams in hall
Shop for ceiling paint
Paint ceiling
Present wrapping to be finished.

There!

Have a good day all xx

bossymoo

Morning all,

Grey and dismal here - working from home today and tomorrow - dentist appointment this afternoon it's actually flat since I drained it _pale_ so if he gives me more antib's I may just stash them to take next week...

So I've got a plan for my last two days paid stuff - which I might even finish today if I'm organised! Leaving tomorrow to do planning for January and getting ahead with the calendar and so on.

Have booked airport parking for next week, and scrawled on my weekly planner what I need to do before then.

College taster session was very interesting but given only 5 turned up I'm not hopeful the course will run in January. I'm going to contact another college as a back up I think. I don't want to delay by another term. I'll be very pleased if it does go ahead, though. I shall need a lot of career planning support next year, I think! Thankfully our redundancy package includes just that!

But for now I shall just have to put it out of my mind and deal with this month first!

Must do laundry today - DD has run out of vests - how?

kazwookie

Morning

Like others it is grey and darkish here, I think by the 22nd of this month the nights start to slowly pull out again.

Ironing is on my list today
Plus yet another trip to the post offfice.
Daily stuff as well

nicki_2

Morning.

Feeling very tired this morning but I have 3 days to finish Christmas so can't waste any time!

I'm going to run to the bank etc this morning as its forecast rain this afternoon. I hate shopping in my coat when I'm walking a distance as I get hot so I want to be there and back so I can wear my hoodie to go instead I've got accounts up to date, swapped out vouchers (not that I'll probably use them when its so much off a £40 spend) and been through my receipts on the Mr A price guarantee so now have £6.73 to spend in store :money: I'll hopefully call in there on the way back but we'll see. I can always stick something else in for tea instead of the stew

Tue - Catch up with to do list, Order deadline, bank, pay bill,
Wed - errands in town (cards), Carol Concert
Thur - Wrap DDs gifts (could be done Saturday), last minute errands/me time, Reindeer parade??
Fri - DD breaks up at 12, Bath & me time in the am
Sat - DD out with ex, wrap DD's gifts, deep clean livingroom
Sun - Decs up!
Mon - Delivery, "Argghhhh I forgot" errands
Tue - Nag DD over any homework that needs doing & wrap any remaining gifts
Wed- House clean top to bottom
Thur - Get DD packed
Fri - Celebrate
Sat - DD going away and relax :rotfl:

To do:
Find out when I can renew DD's bus pass (add to town errands if not online) - Useful "A few weeks before term" given on the website. I'll have to call into a travel centre when in town tomorrow now.
Write/post friends card
Finish the window That'll have to wait until I get home
Check my reward level on SS (wait for emails to arrive) - Still waiting on emails to arrive
Place Ar order - Tuesday for Wed collection
Laundry - dark, light, bedding - Urgent now DD has declared she needs her Christmas jumper by Friday!
Change my bed
Shopping lists for Mr A, Mr Al, and other shops (hide from DD!)
Print TV instruction book out (need to work out how to set things up on it properly) Printing now!
Fling old work books
Pay credit card bills (post bank trip)

Monday - a bit of everything!
Level 1
Back to basics and shine your sink!
Level 2
Dust and deweb all through downstairs
Level 3
Wipe down your front door, inside and out.
Clean brass
Clean windows
Extras

• Dig out festive tableware / linen, if you use it - does it need a wash?

Tuesday - kitchen and dining room
Level 1
Clear & wipe your counters
Wipe down small appliances - any need descaling?
Level 2
Wash a window
Wipe the tiles / splash back
Wipe switch plates and remove grubby finger marks
Extras

• Check your naughty and nice lists or any other lists << I have about a dozen lists! :rotfl::rotfl:
• Are all your cards posted?

I better get my stuff together and get moving. :wave:

ETA: Scrap the hoodie. Its drizzling so I've got to wear my coat One cooked Nicki, and after I had a shower this morning!

Mumof2_2

Walked the dog, had a cuppa and I think I can say I've finished getting all the Christmas presents thanks to online shopping at Mr T and Amazon. Now going to clean the front door and then get out in the garden and sort out those chooks which will take a good 30 minutes or so. Then shower (decontamination time!), early lunch and get my typing done. That's the plan.

Narc0lepsy

Mumof2 wrote: »

Narc0lepsy I hope your cold is very short lived as you really don't want that hanging around do you. I find taking 2 paracetamols sharpish when I get the cold signs can get rid of it very quickly if I'm lucky.

Thanks. Mr N had one at the weekend, and it literally was less than 48 hrs so I'm hoping mine will be similar. I went to bed with a hot lemsip and have had another this morning. It's cold, murky and damp outside so I ain't goin' anywhere until I go out for a meal with friends this eve, thankfully it is local.

I'm a bit peeved at the floor fitters, they have just rung (10.40) to say they will be here in the next hour or two! They were meant to ring first thing, Mr N spoke to them yesterday. I would have gone to zumba at 9.30 even though I don't feel brilliant, as it is the last one Pre-Christmas - I'm going to a concert at the Albert Hall next Tues.

Anyway so far I've swept the old conservatory floor as the new vinyl can go on top of it.
Started another report.
Followed up a couple of flagged emails.
Topped up mobile phone.

The lounge now looks a total wreck; it has the conservatory furniture in it and now this rather large tree we bought last night; strangely it looked much smaller in the large Tesc0.......

The kitchen looks a total wreck as it has some conservatory plants in and 2 boxes of food to go to the 'boat people' (a friend is Minister of the local canal area, and there are some families who have very little and are struggling).

My study is a perpetual mess but I'm used to that, so about to make a coffee and get my head down over a report.

Be nice to yourselves you busy people; enjoy the good bits and don't stress over the chaos. We have Christmas for a reason, and it isn't manic shopping or too much food......

Mumof2_2

Very good advice Narc0lepsy about not getting stressed about Christmas; it's so easy to get carried away with it all and getting in a right old state.


About to do my lunch now - did the chooks and it looks so much nicer now and then for some weird reason had a go at sorting out the back porch where we keep the chicken and dog food. I threw away all sorts of odds and ends that are completely unnecessary, took the bins out, gave the floor a really good sweep after chucking away the horrid old bits of carpet that were down there and just generally tidied it up. We've definitely had little mice in there as found lots of evidence so hoping with being able to keep the floor swept that will deter them. Really enjoyed my shower after all that!!