Weekly Flylady Thread 21st December 2015

dancemum

Socket drying quickly vibes x

Ds2' bed changed. Ds2 bathed.

Miss Muddy Paws has printed muddy paws on all the clean sofa throws. They will be staying like that now.

List updated for final shop tomorrow

nicki_2

Hugs, sticks, spoons, vibes and large mug of whatever you fancy all around!

Quick check in to update my list...not that we've achieved much! Every job seems to be taking twice as long as I'd expect. Window is finished but no picture yet as the window was acting like a mirror and all you could see was the houses over the road. I'll try again in the morning with the sun shining at it. We cleaned the outside of the window and discovered its dirty in between the panes of glass. No idea how that can be rectified, but no matter how much I clean my windows now they're always going to look dirty :mad: DD also cleaned the brass and washed down all the paintwork. There was no point sweeping as there's rubbish blowing all over the street from the bin being emptied yesterday & today. Inside we have managed to get the garlands and tinsel up, the tree is up and has the lights on but will need major tweaking tomorrow before we put the other decs on. The dog is not in the least bit impressed and most of the evening hiding or crouched as if about to jump until he finally got on his bed and fell asleep. At least he seems to be leaving it alone.

Wed 23- Finish wrapping, and/or errands
Thur 24 - Get DD packed, change beds, prep bags for tomorrow
Fri 25 - Celebrate!
Sat 26 - DD going away and relax :rotfl:

To do:
Walk dog - Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat < All DD's,
[STRIKE]Finish the window[/STRIKE]
Laundry - throws/covers, dog, dog toys (they stink!)
Bath dog, groom & trim claws first if possible
Set up recordings on dvr - 9pm Tue onwards needed
Wrap
Cards for family. - DD has done hers, I still need to do mine!
Marzipan cake
Update accounts/transfer money [STRIKE]Tues[/STRIKE] Wed, Thur

Monday Mayhem..

• Make sure you have all the shopping you need to take you through to next week.. milk and bread especially! It is a Bank Holiday on Thursday so some shops are not open.. the big supermarkets are though. - Going Wednesday and I'm making a list as I go along.
  
• Make sure the last of the presents are wrapped I will not have people sitting up until 5am on Christmas morning wrapping! - DD is done, one other lot nearly done, 4 other people to go!
  
• S&S the bathroom - all the towels & blinds are washed and ready to go back in once cleaned.
• Change any bedding you need to get washed before the fat guy arrives.. and I do not mean the OH/parent/ etc - Thursday
• Change pet bedding and wash their blankies etc.. we don't want them putting you off your christmas sprouts! - Thursday
• Mop the kitchen floor!
• Get rid of the washing up.. delegation is good!
• Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself.. reading.. relaxing.. goggling... remember you are important too.

Tuesday - Time's nearly up!!!

• Iron yesterdays wash mountain
• Wash any soft furnishings in need of freshening up - Thursday
• [STRIKE]Tidy up coats and shoes and suchlike..[/STRIKE]
• WRAP WRAP WRAP!
• Spend half an hour doing NOTHING!!.. absolutely nothing!!!! Just sit.. and relax with a drink and a treat!

I'm really tired so I'm off for an early night compared to when I've been going to bed lately. Hopefully I can get up and stuck in tomorrow I have loads still to do and I'm starting to get just a little stressed that it won't all get done in time! :wave:

Natty68

lynnejk wrote: »

Hope you're feeling better Natty

juliejim wrote: »

Natty - hope you're feeling better,

FurryBeastOz wrote: »

Morning all. Thanks for last week bossy, thanks for this week Natty. I hope you have handed your family the list and are resting as instructed!

Thank you for all your kind words but as you can imagine I am still having to do stuff.. But I will admit I am starting to feel a fair bit better, just wish I could get rid of the cough now.

My house is looking like Christmas is here now, although we have succumbed to not having the tree up this year, which I am sad about, but with a 7mth old puppy running around eating everything and anything in his sights we thought it would be a wise choice.

Tomorrow I am going to go through and do things, slowly, that need doing. But I won't go overboard I promise.

Cards have all been posted too, so people should be getting them tomorrow/Thursday hopefully...

Valli

Kaz - ((hugs))

Piggers - ((hugs))

FBO - you have done brilliantly - I'm wishing you a happy AF xmas...

Me? - shattered but getting there. More to do than I have the time or energy for.

natty - there's no have - if it has to be done but you can't do it then someone else must or it doesn't get done. Or defer Christmas - many people have it later or earlier for many reasons. It is NOT worth stressing over...

Natty68

Kaz so sorry about moggy honey, was he an old moggy?
Piggers I swear your kitchen is jinxed, the other year you blew it up and had no kitchen for a year, now your electrics have gone awol as has your boiler.. A thought with your electrics, if you have household insurance you might be able to get something done on your household insurance..or even if you have HomeServe they will help, as we have them, and they are brilliant.
Merry Yule LW, hope you had a nice one. We had a quiet one here and I even managed to burn a small yule log First time in years have managed to do that

ionafan

(((Hugs))) to Kaz
(((Hugs))) to Pigpen
Take things easy, please, Natty
Key finding vibes to Dusty
Money finding vibes to mrs-mp - have you shaken all the magazines?
Happy Yule to the Wolves - enjoy your bubbly! I am eagerly looking forward to longer days and shorter nights.

Pleased to hear of the arrival of several more Secret Santa :xmassmile gifts today. If you were expecting one and haven't received it yet, could you please let me know. Thank you.

We had a lovely day with all the family here yesterday - all the grandchildren played very happily with each other, and DH even managed to get the trains running for an hour in the afternoon, once the rain stopped.

DD and DGS1+2 stayed overnight and left after breakfast this morning. DH had already driven himself to SW, so they gave me a lift there on their way home.

Towards the end of the SW meeting DH fell asleep (it was very hot in the scout hut, and he hadn't been feeling particularly well since we got home from holiday). When I tried him to wake up as the meeting ended, I couldn't get any response from him, so a friend called the ambulance. DH began to come round when we laid him on the floor, but the ambulance crew took his BP as soon as they arrived and it was ridiculously low - only about 65/30. Consequently we have spent most of the day in A&E. Fortunately DH is feeling a great deal better now. The consultant reckoned that part of the cause of his "collapse" was his BP medication, for which the side effects include lightheadedness and dizziness, but because DH's temperature was also going up and down, he prescribed a week's course of antibiotics too. We finally got home at about 8.30 pm.

DH is now banned from working on the heritage railway on Christmas Eve and Saturday 26th - we don't want him fainting on a train full of families out for a fun day - but I'm sure he will be fine in a day or two.

So the upshot of it all is that today's flying list has now become tomorrow's - saves me having to think of anything else!

Valli

ooh missed those- hope the keys and cash have been found
Tomorrow I will clean my BR IWILL and the DR which has managed to cover itself in a spectacuilar layer of dust

MinnieMousesMummy

Good evening, It has been another very busy day. I am going to update my list and then get to bed.

Monday Mayhem..
Change required bedding
Clear hotspot in master bedroom (old moses basket which is full of bits and pieces)
Clean the front door, inside and out
Sort through and rewrite cv
Get rid of old work catalogues
Declutter the hall
Check ss points account
S&S the kitchen
S&S the bathroom/s and loo's
Make sure your timetable for Christmas Day is sorted and everyone knows their tasks..
Clean out the chicken coop
Clean out the hamster cage
Dust round the whole downstairs
Vacuum through downstairs.. and the stairs!
Mop the kitchen floor!

Tuesday - Time's nearly up!!!
Declutter your desk..

Wednesday ~almost done!!
Take rest of kids toys to their rooms
Let chickens out to roam
Go into town and collect cake
Visit MIL to drop of presents
Phone DM
Check uni emails
Make sure you have all the shopping you need to take you through to next week.. milk and bread especially!
Make sure the remaining presents are nearly wrapped I will not have people sitting up until 5am on Christmas morning wrapping!
Have we located sacks for presents?
Mop the kitchen
Mop the bathroom/s and loo's
Clean the bath and shower and loo!
Close the chickens away before dark
Bake some mince pies and tarts etc.. yummies!!!
Change any bedding you need to get washed before the fat guy arrives.. and I do not mean the OH/parent/ etc
Sort out the plan for christmas eve.. shop runs, present drop offs etc
Catch up on the laundry again.. ironing is tomorrows job!
Phone someone you 'forgot' to post a card to in time.. just so they know you've not forgotten them...
Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself.. reading.. relaxing.. goggling... remember you are important too.
Vacuum the whole of the upstairs!
Wash windows through the whole downstairs if needed
Do a crazy HHC decluttering downstairs
Prepare a list for that last second shopping
Toy boxes can be banished upstairs!
Wash any soft furnishings in need of freshening up
Tidy up coats and shoes and suchlike
WRAP WRAP WRAP!

pigpen

Natty68 wrote: »

Kaz so sorry about moggy honey, was he an old moggy?
Piggers I swear your kitchen is jinxed, the other year you blew it up and had no kitchen for a year, now your electrics have gone awol as has your boiler.. A thought with your electrics, if you have household insurance you might be able to get something done on your household insurance..or even if you have HomeServe they will help, as we have them, and they are brilliant.
Merry Yule LW, hope you had a nice one. We had a quiet one here and I even managed to burn a small yule log First time in years have managed to do that

I know.. my house hates me!!!

I have the homeserve but it is £99 excess I don't have.. I will dig out my home insurance tomorrow see what that says..

I have had 5 New Years over the last 15 with burst pipes/no heating/leaking radiators .. we had the fire 9 years ago at Christmas, 2 years ago my dishwasher died on Christmas day and last year it was m daughters boiler at new year and they stayed here 3 nights while it got replaced with a newborn and Spam.. Its a nightmare!!

pigpen

Pixie has JUST gone to sleep...