Weekly Flylady Thread 3rd September 2007

pigpen

Michelle..your period might just be delayed with the stress of going back to work and lack of sleep etc.. I hope yiu get a better nights sleep tonight though.. can' tbe anything worse than a classroom full of children and hardly any sleep!!

Tiamai.. that woud be me.. lol.. I actually LIKE listing stuff on ebay.. hence I have a huge pile of my own stuff and fairly large piles from 2 of my sisters..

I have made a school pinafore and a pair of rather cute trousers for DD4 starting school on Wednesday.. I'll get her in them tomorrow when they are properly finished.. can't do waist elastic without her to measure and I can't attach the poppers to her pinafore without knowing the length and I need to get my sewing machine out to do the hem I used the overlocker for the rest. I was putting it off because I thought the overlocker was ill as I spent an hour trying to rethread it at my mothers 2 weeks ago.. it threaded up first time and sewed right away with no hassle.. typical or what?

I'm having a cuppa and sneaking off to my nest.. I am practicing going to bed earlier for school on tuesday.. Oh that sounds SOOOOOO GOOD!!!!! lol

HopeElizzy

I'm in this week ( I think:rolleyes:)!

Thanks for the list Lil_me

Hope everything goes ok for you tomorrow Michelle.

Sexymouse - I hope you're shoulder feels better soon - glad you still got paid!

Pigpen - you've done half of Mondays list already - isn't that cheating?:rotfl:

My ds starts playschool tomorrow so that'll be my first hurdle of the week. My second, and biggest hurdle, this week is my friends funeral on Tuesday. I rang work to let them know I might be late in as I usually work from lunchtime to early evening and K's funeral is at 11am. My supervisor said the other ladies could manage and I should take the day off. I know how stretched they are for staff this week that's why I offered to go in still but I'm quite relieved I can have the day.

So, Monday's fly list, um, well, I'll see what I can achieve...... after dropping dd at school and ds at playschool I will have an hour and a half till I have to go back for ds (20min walk) then when we get back mil will be here to look after him while I go to work for midday.

See you all tomorrow, same time, same channel............

tiamai_d

I did battle with ebay and I won!

Now I SHOULD go and do the dishes.

But WILL I?

Buffythedebtslayer

Hello, Can I join?

I only found this site cos of Flylady which I found from another forum ( I spend far too much time on forums:o ). I did a search for Fly lady and one of your threads came up and then I found the rest of the site on Friday and since then its been one long "crikey that's amazing I could shift my loan"moment.

Any how I am really new to this so hope its ok to just jump in?

I have the fly lady book and think she is fabulous and for me makes perfect sense,

Manic Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
Clean floors - i don't have floors everything is carpet but I shall hoover when I get in
Level Two
Clear and wipe kitchen surfaces - will do
Sort fridge bringing what needs using soon to the front - will do since it is so full!
Wipe dining table (clean table cloth if necessary) - don't need to since I can' actually see the table, hotspot much!

Level Three
Dust any extra furniture in dining room, checking for cobwebs on way round
Wash the washer drawer out if it's gunky
Clean oven if you didn’t do it last week
Extra Mission
Choose one or more of:

• Clean cupboard door fronts and fronts of appliances - will do
• Wipe window sills and clean windows in these rooms - might do
• Defrost freezer if required, rearrange and see what you have in there that needs using up - Should do!
• Sort through storage containers in kitchen, fling any tubless lids or lidless tubs if they can't be used for anything, anything broken or past it's use by! - done!

right I have a massive lists of things to do this week. Scary.

1. shop to buy plastic boxes mon = school sort out.
2. Ironing - clothes for work tues
3. Open university - Wednesday night
4. mark coursework -after school every day.
5. empty wardrobe and look at all clothes, give clothes away - thursday
6. put remaining clothes in plastic boxes. thursday
7. empty cupboard and sort out books, DVDs vids and stuff to sell on E bay.

If I can do that I will be really pleased.

Hi by the way!

pigpen

HopeElizzy wrote: »

Pigpen - you've done half of Mondays list already - isn't that cheating?:rotfl:

I hope so!!!.. lol.. I have a guy coming tomorrow to give us a quote for the new central heating boiler so I need to do the front room tomorrow (Tuesdays list!!!) so I had to do most of the kitchen today. Plus there were bits I had to do because they were BBBAADDD.. like unblocking the fabric conditioner bit in the WM drawer because I accidentally spilled wash powder in it... and I cleaned all my fridge out on Friday after a 6pint carton of milk emptied itself over everything!!.. and having to sort my tubs because my pans wouldn't fit in the cupboard.. see all vital stuff!!! I do have plenty to do tomorrow though.. including DS1's room.. I'll do you a pic in the morning before I start in there.. and this is AFTER he is meant to have tidied it... He is a PIG!!!!

Would you feel better if I said I have 3 big filthy!!! windows in my kitchen and it is 19ft x 12ft and I have to sweep and mop the floor!!!???

I've vacuumed the front room now.. clearing up my sewing bits of thread and fabric so it does look almost presentable in there it'll just need a 30 minute challenge!!

pigpen

Welcome Buffy.. you can change your name to buffythemessslayer!! We'll have you doing alsorts of wierd stuff.. like cleaning windows and throwing stuff out.. feel free to jump right in.. if you do less than me.. I might not feel so bad about doing nothing! !!

DeniseNZ

Morning all.

Back on deck this week - got lots to catch up on!! Didn't get back to last weeks thread again.

Michelle - Back to work already??? Good luck with that (and with the other too )

Monday:

[strike]
Walk Arsha
Check bank accounts
[/strike]Print some invoice letterheads off while at work
Copy monthly invoices and post
[strike]
Weekly menu
Grocery list
[/strike]Groceries
[strike]Get clothesline fixed[/strike] Mr Clothesline fixer should be fixing it as we speak
Finish off rest of invoices
Sit down and sort out business stuff **sigh**

Other stuff:

Manic Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
Clean floors - like Aimee they need washing - not just vacuuming!
Level Two
[strike]Clear and wipe kitchen surfaces [/strike] Done yesterday
[strike]Sort fridge bringing what needs using soon to the front[/strike] New fridge delivered on Thursday so everything is still in it's place
Wipe dining table (clean table cloth if necessary)
Level Three
[strike]Dust any extra furniture in dining room, checking for cobwebs on way round[/strike] Kids did on Saturday
Extra Mission
Choose one or more of:

• Clean cupboard door fronts and fronts of appliances
• Wipe window sills and clean windows in these rooms
• [strike]Defrost freezer if required, rearrange and see what you have in there that needs using up [/strike] Done
• Sort through storage containers in kitchen, fling any tubless lids or lidless tubs if they can't be used for anything, anything broken or past it's use by!

JillD_2

welcome buffy! You will be so busy on here you will never spend money again so your debt will go down for sure, good luck!

And just to keep myself on track here is my mega list update (Oas usual sorry for the waste of space, am determined not to delete the done stuff til its all done, as extra motivation to do it!):

My List - Done=71, ToDo=24:T

Yay I am winning BIGSTYLE!
- open a new account for maternity leave fund and move money in there
- clean steriliser and bottles etc - friend returning them on Monday
- get new curtain pole for our bedroom
- make Ruby Wedding album for Mum and Dad (it was 14 months ago )
- make sure everything is off old PC which kids now use
- get some stills off M&D wedding DVD for Ruby Wedding album
- write up baby books
- sort out receipts found in laptop bag
- return DS slippers
- return library books
- buy and put up new medicine cabinet
- collect freebie packs from pregnancy pack
- get nursery fees ready top be paid
- personalize DS schoolbag

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

Garden:
- level patio with sand
- fill in paths with bark chips - chips bought just need to spread them around
- 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]
- suss out how TENS machine works before big event!
- wrap kids presents "from" baby
- sort out DH wardrobe for extra storage
- find soace in our bedroom for spare bedlinen
- sort out receipts found in bureau
- filing cabinet hotspot
- make sure everything I need is off old laptop and decide whether to sell
- clear out bureau
- paint DS room
- cut grass
- hem curtains in DD new room
- weed paths
- weed and prune flower bed
- sweep up all debris
- move old tubs and discard dead plants
- wash buggy raincovers
- try paint samples on DS room
- select and buy paint for DS room
- label all DS school stuff
- sort out a hospital bag
- wash grobags, muslins, bibs and soft toys
- organise recipes
- get down grobags for baby from loft so I can wash tiny ones
- move DD height chart
- fix spare room cupboard door back on (it fell off this week)
- build cot
- get fitted for nursing bras
- buy apron for DS for school
- make mini album of holiday photos of kids for my Mum
- batch cook lasagne
- label all boxes of stuff in garage so we can find things
- batch cook cheesy quorn veg pie
- sort out overnight bags for kids in case we have to farm them out when baby comes
- wash boy newborn baby clothes
- move budgeting account money from low interest account to new higher rate one
- wash girl newborn baby clothes
- wash neutral newborn baby clothes
- hang swimming certificates up in kids rooms
- launder all baby covers for double buggy, moses basket, bouncy chair, play gym, car seat
- assess sheets for baby, do they need washing
- 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
- get down 0-3 boy and girl clothes from loft, to top up neutrals
- finish edging on rug for baby's room - will do whilst babysitting on Thursday
- print out a list of names and numbers for friends to look after kids when baby on the way
- clean baby bath stuff
- 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

[/STRIKE]

AnW'sMum

Ahem Jill darling why is that list getting longer??????

At this rate there will be 693 things to do by 19th Sept looks like we are going to have to come round and forcibly stop you from adding to that list.

I am off to bed, have watched The Queen and had 2 [strike]large[/strike] glasses of wine. This keyboard is starting to wobble all on it's own, any ideas????!!!! ( I know cheap date! , don't usually drink alone but it was a nice Chardonnay)

DeniseNZ

BLIMEY, Jill!!! :T :T :T