Weekly Flylady Thread 10th September 2007

Dustykitten

Morning all - it is lovely out there - been out for my fast walk/run done my stretches/hoovered and mopped kitchen and hall floors.

Then to go to town for food bank etc now so hope to fit in a bit more flying later if not have all of tomorrow at home alone so will be able to catch up then.

MushyPeas

Hello motivational team

Another newbie here. At present I stay with a buddy during the week (on her sofa-bed) and am at home at the weekends so I can't stick to the 'traditional' flying schedule. However, I do like the lists that are provided (thanks pigpen!) and hope to take part so it keeps me on the OS straight and narrow.

MushyPeas Tuesday list:

WORK
Work: full 7 hours! (I owe my dep time!) DONE
Work other: C DONE / RW DONE / A TO DO TOMORROW

STUDY
Study: 30 min ECDL

ADMIN
Post photos to aunt DONE
Re-book ECDL exam E-MAILED TO REARRANGE
Re-book Osteopath DONE
Post claim for car cleaning to local Council DONE
Print recipe for cooking tonight (look on OS recipe thread) DONE
Keep up to date with personal accounts DONE

Also:
Change meeting re: course E-MAILED
Order friend's wedding photos DONE

FLYING
Shopping: toiletries, cleaning products (see if I can pick up OS products), food
WM - one load and iron afterwards (impressive, eh?!)
Make batch of lentil soup incl. for tea
Sweep / dust lounge

I have a bit of a conundrum: I'm renting a sofa bed off a friend during the week, so sort of a lodger. The place needs a clean/tidy and I'm happy to help out. Do you think I should just stride in and start cleaning (suggesting she is untidy and unclean) or ask first? I'm going to dust/sweep the room I sleep in tonight and then really want to tackle the bathroom in the future!

Also going to start a dailies list for myself, is there an example anywhere of what other people do for dailies? Or is that just me being nosey

MPxx

pigpen

Mushy.. that is a complex one.. I would speak to the friend first and say you WANT to help out cleaning wise but don't want to offend so are there any jobs she hates doing you could do? (my answer would be I hate it all get on with it!! and I'd throw a cloth at you!! lol) Otherwise you could go about it the sneaky way.. go for a shower and 'spill' something and just 'get carried away' and have the bathroom sparkly.

Now.. I'm escaping up the merries to see if I can get this wall in DS1's room stripped before Tiddles wakes up!! see you all in a bit!!

Pollybear

Two loads of washing on the line, including my bedding. I know I'm a day early but I just felt like doing it, the weather is lovely.

I'm planning to vacuum upstairs later. Planning to, I don't know if I will. The dog is having an operation today and I can't think about much else. I'm sure she will be fine - says my head - but my heart tells me different......The house is so empty without her, even though there are three of us here today. Just waiting for the phone to ring.

maralum

Thanks for the reassurance pigpen and nearlynewbie, I've been really worried about her, she's only a little dot. She's gained 5lbs since birth, but hasn't grown in length much (not bothered about her height though - I'm only 5'1 myself, we always have a handy stepladder in this house). She's still adorably chubby, got all of the arm, leg and knuckle rolls, so I thought she was ok, but the HVs get all of a fluster when children don't fit the figures!

nearlynewbie

Tuesday Living Room, Hall and Stairs
Level 1
[strike]Vacuum floors and sofas
[/strike]Level 2
[strike]Dusting, even if around everything
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
Clean TV, other electricals and cabinets
[/strike]Level 3
[strike]Wipe light switches and banister
[/strike]Clean any other glass like mirrors, pictures etc
[strike]Tidy shoes[/strike], did last week when foudn DS1 feet had grown 2 sizes over summer!coats going to do this and bags .. wash any that need washing in preparation for cold weather!! I once found a half sucked lolly in my pocket that had been there for 5 months!!
Extra Mission
Pick one or more of the following tasks

• Clear one hotspot, or just spend at least 5 minutes tackling it
• [strike]Vacuum under furniture you can manage to move without hurting yourself [/strike]removed graveyard of wasps, exhausted spiders and daddy- longlegs from under largest sofa!
• [strike]Clean the fluff from the fire.. not while it is on!! [/strike]did this before summerDon’t forget to arrange for it to be serviced before winter sets in if you have a gas fire!! Or chimneys swept for real fires! Central heating boilers etc need servicing too! must book this and Aga service when finances recoverd from summer holiday
• Wash a pair of curtains, [strike]or some nets [/strike] in the machine now or a throw from a chair or bed
• Those up for the 30 minute ironing challenge per day.. that’s on your list too!! tonights task

have also

• stripped DS3 bed - must hoover mattress(really on cabin bed-!! this may my first and last go at this task)
• done and put out 2 loads washing
• put cricket whites in bag to go in loft
• made bread
• made yogurt
• made musesli- but run out of dates and apricots

MUST

• go on muesli run to buy ingredients from health food sho[p
• have a walk
• 15 minutes garden
• 30 minutes ironing
• 15 minutes paper work
• ask if neighbour can child-mind for DD after school if I work an extra half day
• go to charity shop (again!)

pigpen- I'm afraid my DKs get the same packed lunches every day- Iat least i know they'll eat them.

pigpen

maralum wrote: »

Thanks for the reassurance pigpen and nearlynewbie, I've been really worried about her, she's only a little dot. She's gained 5lbs since birth, but hasn't grown in length much (not bothered about her height though - I'm only 5'1 myself, we always have a handy stepladder in this house). She's still adorably chubby, got all of the arm, leg and knuckle rolls, so I thought she was ok, but the HVs get all of a fluster when children don't fit the figures!

5lb's since birth isn't at all bad!! DS3 gained 6lb by 6 months!!!!

So long as she is wet, dirty, full of beans and alert when awake she is fine.. And.. that is exactly why I don't see HV's.. Tiddles has been seen once by a HV when she was 3 weeks old (or thereabouts!) I refuse to have them in the house!! I think DD4 was only seen 3 times.. and 2 of those was because she was unwell and I couldn't get her in to see the GP so I took her to baby clinic.. rfused to have her weighed etc and got put through to see the GP.. sneaky but effective!! lol

Right.. update..

DS1's room is now stripped.. I'm getting Tiddles some food, making a cuppa, finding the steps (Goodness knows why I won't go above the 3rd step so I may as well use a chair) then I can do the landing too.. I WILL have my house deocrated if it kills me!!!!!!

ooh.. binbags that what else I came down for.. *grin*.. I knew I should be blonde!! lol

vanilla

Hi everyone, haven't done much so far but will start soon. Had an ot out today about getting a disability grant and i think it went well but we'll get the decision within the next 4 weeks, i was so nervous last night i hardly slept but at least it's all over now.:dance:

Maralum don't worry about weight gain, your baby will take what it needs. I have 2 that were small at birth and are still under weight, they've been seen by so many people. To me there just very fine.

Now to get a nice cuppa.

pigpen

2 weetabix cakes in the oven.. they apparently take about an hour.. so should be ready to come out just as I have to leave to collect the gremlins so I have 1 hour to completely strip the landing.. and get all the mess cleared away.. DD5 is eating the bowl scrapings!!! Who remembers doing that as a child???? She thinks it is wonderful because normally there are 4 or 5 hands in there.. and she just has a spoon!!! lol

ok.. back to the grindstone.. you do realise I've not touched the front room??? lol

pigpen

and.. most exciting.. my seeds arrived this morning!!!!