Weekly Flylady Thread 8th May 2017

Soozy_B

Good Afternoon!


Hope everyone is having a great week?


I have a confession to make.... I am a serial lurker! So apologies I have not introduced myself before.


I'm currently working on a cleaning schedule for my Bullet Journal (nice little hobby) and both my OH and I work Monday-Friday full time.


My question is - can I adapt the days and tasks to cover the weekends as well?


Thanks in advance

Honey_Bear

ionafan wrote: »

Bath tonight, then? I didn't know it was your birthday :rotfl:

I hope the work went well in the end. And you're right and wrong - it wasn't my birthday (boo!) but I did run myself a bath as soon as the plumber was out of the door!

Dizzy_Imp wrote: »

I signed the consent form for Tiny to have sun cream applied at preschool. Summer is now over ladies and I take full responsibility.

So, it's YOUR fault! Glad things are feeling better. Good.

Soozy_B wrote: »

I'm currently working on a cleaning schedule for my Bullet Journal (nice little hobby) and both my OH and I work Monday-Friday full time.

My question is - can I adapt the days and tasks to cover the weekends as well?

Welcome Soozy! :wave: Of course! The lists are wonderful if you don't know where to start as I did. Following them made a huge difference when I first joined the Flylady Thread and I'm so, so grateful to the people who compile them because they remind me of things I foget to do sometimes, like check the smoke alarm batteries.

But if you've got very limited time and there are some things that you simply must get done, do those things!

I meant to clean out the cutlery drawer. Instead I did the sink, including the drainer very carefully for once, bleached the washing up bowl, dealt with a pile of kitchen gibble, spread evil chemicals in the bottom of the oven, swept and washed the kitchen floor (yuk) and sucked the carpets on the ground floor. I feel quite virtuous but the cutlery drawer is still full of crumbs because OH helpfully emptied the dishwashed cutlery back into it while he was making my porridge. I rather like him.

YORKSHIRELASS

Hi all

Have a lovely time atb. Oh and Dizzy glad things are a bit better - and I dont actually think summer has started yet here!

Tired, fed up, unhappy sums it up here. I am behind with housework, not on top of our finances and behind with job no. 2. I am finding that because I am so busy with job no. 2 and work from home I feel like I should be working all the time so even on an evening or weekend I feel guilty for not working.

There you are, moan over.

Hi Soozy. I know that the whole flylady thing works best if you follow the lists Monday to Friday and then have weekends off but I work full time so it doesnt work that way for me and I do play catch up on a weekend. Its more about encouragement and support on here than following the lists to the letter - everyone has their own way of doing it. Let us know how you are getting on!

LameWolf

Duckydo wrote: »

Also watered about eleventy billion plants and seedlings. Need to get a big rain dance going.

I have a Rainmaker I can deploy, if you wish?

Soozy_B wrote: »

My question is - can I adapt the days and tasks to cover the weekends as well?

Welcome Soozy. :beer:Yes, you can adapt to suit what works for you; lots of us do this in one way or another. I can't remember the last time I stuck to the lists as set, because I have to do whatever my health allows. This thread is here to help and encourage you, not to harangue you.

Bad night last night; seriously weird dreams (how is it I can remember several hours of "events" elsewhere, when in reality only 30 minutes had passed??) and I'm not feeling at all myself today - who was it mentioned a "jelly" feeling? (Sorry, brainfog, I can't call to mind who it was and I only read it 10 mins ago) Yep, that just about describes it.

Next task for me is to sit at the pc and 1. do my weekly finance spreadsheet backup, 2. plan a route to Yorkshire for our holiday next month and 3. start a packing list for said holiday; it's best i stick to sitting-down tasks today, apart from making dins, as I nearly passed out earlier - again.

Dins tonight is Qu0rn gammon-style steaks (Mr LW loves these), fried eggs and roasted root veggies (I got a big bowl of 'snips for £1 on the market on Tuesday). T'other half of the choccie mousse for pud.

Must go and get on, or nowt will get done.

Valli

Hi Soozy...I set 'em and I don't follow 'em. Having said that I can turn a room round in 20 minutes and that will include dusting skirtings and wiping switches and other 'out of sight' bits. It meant, when I was incapable of cleaning (emotionally) it didn't take me long to get it back to pristine...once I was back in the zone.

Fayolle

I love the lists! I don't follow them to the letter, but they tell me what I could do...then I might just choose to do something else! So yesterday I decided to soak the oven shelves, because Natty told me it would be a good thing to do. I now have lovely clean oven shelves, and in return today I have done zero flying. Such is life, I suppose. But these days I do try to have the weekends pretty much off from housework, and for that I thank the wonderful list makers and fellow fly ladies. Washing, ironing and cooking excluded, but everything is a compromise.

Today it has been raining on and off, but the garden really needs it. Keep dancing, Duckydo, as I still have an empty water butt! I'm hoping that tomorrow morning will be dry so that I can get to the allotment before I have to drive DD to riding, and hang around for the best part of the afternoon. I have a good book to take with me to while away the time if needed. Apart from that, a quiet weekend is on the horizon....at the moment.

Duckydo

Well the rain dance worked here for the morning, and lingered over lunchtime, but that may have just been cos we were in the cloud. The garden definitely benefited, but it's looking dry here again for the next couple of days so may need to keep watering the seedlings.

Zero flying done here today, but spent a lovely morning playing with DD, and fab afternoon watching her and my cousins DS tear round her garden while we nattered.

ionafan

Morning all :wave:

Well, the piece of work finally got finished at 10.45 last night. Good thing too, as I am being assessed on my presentation at 9.00 this morning!
:eek:

The alarm woke me at 6.00 and I have already made :coffee: for us both and what we call a grazing box" for my DH - it's his lunch box full of finger food, that he has something apart from biscuits and bread pudding to eat during the day on the railway :cool: and to try to keep him full of SW free foods. It's not really working, but things would be worse if I didn't do it.

He went to the GP on Friday and was told that he has wear and tear arthritis in both hips, probably also his knees, and his Achilles tendon is still playing up. He is being referred to physio (if the NHS ever gets its computer system sorted out ) and will have to go on the waiting list for an op at some point. Hey-ho.

Now off to have my shower and try to wake up for a full day of presentations and other training
We're going to a concert this evening, during which I may fall asleep, I'm so tired.

(((Hugs))) spoons and sticks to all in need.

Hope everyone has a good day x

atypicalblonde

Morning all

Had a fab time away, just the tonic

Big hugs to YL my lovely, hope you manage to have a restful weekend and your mood lifts xx
Iona - it'll be this evening before you know it, big girl pants on for today xx

Back to reality today. I have folded and put away one load of washing, and the other is on the heated airer and almost dry. Will stick a towel wash on after my shower. Kiddies are watching Bob the Builder. Rib eye steaks for tea, DH will cook.

I hope Bossy is ok, haven't seen her for a few days.

Have fab days all xx

Honey_Bear

FurryBeastOz wrote: »

I know the feeling. Very flat today. Facing 2hrs of HMRC webinars. While I wouldn't go back to those days for anything (2yrs on Monday:j:T) there are times a stiff drink would be a kindness.

Huge congratulations on the two year anniversary FBO! I'm really pleased to be able to tell you that the longer you stick with it, the less often it feels as though a tipple would help with the dreary side of life.

(((Hugs))) YL. Feeling overwhelmed is often more a sign of tiredness than being out of control, surprisingly, which is why the more you do, the worse it feels. Please don't feel guilty taking some time for yourself.

Good luck with the assessment Ionafan and I hope you have enough energy left at the end of the day to at least enjoy the concert.

I've just found a 3 hr video of something I was involved in 30 years ago and having watched the first 12 minutes I know what I'm going to use to fill all my spare time over the weekend, but I've got to do something at 11.00 am this morning. The house is looking fair to middling rather than a middenish, although I've lost the hot water bottle again. Where do people keep them so they are easily to hand when wanted?