Weekly Flylady Thread 5th September 2016

atypicalblonde

Good Morning all,

I hope you feel better quickly Dizzy xx
Glad you're ok Mumof2 xx

Up before the kiddies this morning, and have managed to form a semblance of a list in my mind in addition to the official list. I must must must:

- Do a WM load
- Cut hedges
- Attend lunch with DD at school
- Order a roald dahl costume for DD for next week - any ideas other than Matilda?!
- Look at my budget again. Spends have been pretty low this week and I've managed to keep up to my spending diary, hurrah :T
- Clean out the fire
- Write to the mortgage company

Phew, that little lot should keep me going

Have lovely days all xx

Biscuit_monster

Morning,

Dizzy get well soon x

Nicki glad the vet visit went OK.

After doing Monday's list yesterday morning,I got through Tuesday in the afternoon before school pickup. Then swimming with the girls. I will try and chip away at Wednesday today, but I'm at the paid stuff all day.

Have a good Friday all x

Valli

Violet beuregarde? Verruca salt? Mrs twit? Sophie from BFG?

Two loads through WM, one load through DW, the Flylady is IN the building.

atypicalblonde

Valli wrote: »

Violet beuregarde? Verruca salt? Mrs twit? Sophie from BFG?

Two loads through WM, one load through DW, the Flylady is IN the building.

Oh yes, Mrs Twit! I was thinking just about child characters, but Mrs Twit would be awesome! Gives me a perfect excuse not to bath the kiddies the night before too Thank you Valli :kisses3:xx

bossymoo

GWS dizzy xx

LR here is glorious and only needs my coffee cup removing

I'm doing a tip run today as I started reclaiming my dining room - and sorted DD birthday gifts - is it awful I've put some aside for the dance club tombola? She got so many stationary sets she'll never use - as we have heaps already... We're very grateful of course but they can be used to raise funds.

Right, DD needs breakfast and then we ought to get dressed!

kazwookie

Morning

Sorry been very busy, daily stuff has been done

Hugs all round

Bossy it sounds ideal to me to re gift on the stuff for the dance club, and it is out of your way.

Valli

GWS vibes to Dizzy. Hope you all have a lovely day x

mrs-moneypenny

Not seeing dd2 this weekend she's going somewhere to donate her long hair to a charity that makes wigs for children with cancer. She's been thinking of having it cut short for ages and said doing something like this makes it more useful, she had it cropped last time when she was 17 and it looked great. I think now she's got DGS she'll find shorter more manageable. Can't wait to see her new look and really proud of her for doing it.

bossymoo

Aww Mrs MP that's lovely, my friends DD did the same for The Little Princess Trust - such a wonderful thing xx

Kiddies away to school, WM going, and I'm sorting some pics out of their old warped frames which are going to the recycling centre. So I'm bagging up tat as I go - may as well make the most of it. There is a B&M near that I'll visit in the hope of finding a cover for my whirligig.

I have some studying to catch up on this aft, plus I'd like to sort DD wardrobe. In fact, I've a suitcase to put in the loft, which will clear the spare bed, so I may just empty her wardrobe onto there! Then she can help me after school... :eek:

Right, must stop wittering and start moving!

Honey_Bear

:wave: CY and *healing vibes* for you, Dizzy.

The bedroom sounds as though it's going to be mazing, Mrs MP.

Nicki, when I adopt my older dogs they always arrive traumatised and very, very anxious. Valerian is natural and most vets sell it now, if there's a specific event coming up like fireworks, some practices suggest it. However, I was chatting with a vet nurse who the other day and she expressed concerns that the current thinking is that dogs that are sedated are just as frightened but too sluggish to react because sedation lowers their blood pressure. I wouldn't know about dogs; when I take sedatives for dental treatment it lowers my anxiety considerably so I believe in them for me.

Dizzy Imp (thank you thank you thank you) sent me a huge Thundershirt for Kelpie when I first had him and we had the national fireworks championships here a few weeks later. Having followed the instructions I found on their website and You Tube to the letter - it worked. That's about as natural as you can get and I still use one (but in his right size) when I know something would bother him - he loves wearing it and hops about like a puppy when he sees it, and then does his, 'I'm being good' behaviour (ie sitting down) when I'm trying to put it on him which doesn't help at all but makes me laugh. I've still got it and if you want to try it let me know. It can be the Flylady Anxious Dog Thundershirt if we keep handing it around! They can wear it for up to eight hours a day/night, too.

On a longer term basis I also use DAP collars and diffusers until the dogs are calm without them. All of my dogs have shown signs of stress when they run out intially which is how I know to replace them, and then one day ... they don't. Kelpie needed both for a full year and then miraculously, after the first hydrotherapy appointment never needed them again. (I think he found the first hydrotherapy appointment so off-the-wall that he figured if that was as traumatic as life was going to be with me, he was pretty cool about day to day living.) They're the ones I use that I know work, others are probably available and may suit Zack's needs. If Zack's a collie, as I believe he is, they can be very highly strung so I'd be tempted to use a combination of the available remedies until you find a combination that works for him.

House needs a bit of titivating today, and I need to deal with the splots on all the window frames - having cleaned a couple of windows yesterday I realised they are all very bad and need a bit of TLC.