Weekly Flylady Thread 20th November 2017

ionafan

:xmassmile Flylady Secret Santa :xmassmile details have been sent out to all taking part this year.

If you haven't had a private message from me, please make sure there is space in your PM inbox!!!!! and then PM me to say you've done so. Thank you x

Dizzy_Imp

Morning ladies! I'm bright and breezy today after the shenanigans of yesterday. Today is a new day.

Plans for today include:
Change bedcovers
Put away ironing
Feed and check poorly chickens (yes, two more with the lurgy in a box by my bed)
Hoover caravan throughout :eek:
Paint a wall in the lounge
Sneak out for a cuppa with a friend
Go to the quacks about my permanent exhaustion. Not looking forward to that bit.

Plus a little bit of flinging in the playroom, if there's time.

Off to dry my hair and trowel on some slap.

atypicalblonde

ionafan wrote: »

:xmassmile Flylady Secret Santa :xmassmile details have been sent out to all taking part this year.

If you haven't had a private message from me, please make sure there is space in your PM inbox!!!!! and then PM me to say you've done so. Thank you x

Thank you SO much for sorting this, and happy anniversary

Back later, rushing xx

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Natty thank you for adding me to the pledge and card exchange lists. I have to ask what is a fabric club? It sounds intriguing

Heck of a shock last night someone I was a governor with passed away, she was such a lovely lady and last time I saw her she looked fantastic and was in remission and we had a lovely catch up chat and usually meet up at the school Christmas fayre each year. I'd only been told last week the C was back so sad.

Had a discussion about Christmas with a lovely Muslim co worker yesterday she does Christmas stuff in school for the children but doesn't want to take part in the meal, secret santa etc. I made her laugh when I said to be honest I'm not sure which part of the bible santa appears in or the instruction to buy shed loads of gifts and more food and drink you can possibly consume appears in. It seems to have evolved into an orgy of excess. Saying that I love Christmas and really want my tree up ASAP, I think I'll have to wait until first weekend in December or the lads will threaten to leave home they are full of the seasonal joy of Scrooge at the mo.

Only in for lunchtime and afterschool today so hoping to catch up on the lists, hugs to all who want one. But I do need to nip my p at some point and take the pharaohs headdresses in as well as the crocheted snowflakes to swap them over and take the knitted autumn leaves off the corridor trees, I'll leave giving the knitted bluebirds the stocking for their nest till after decoration day.

Right better get on. X

pigpen

Mrs MP.. Saint Nicholas is a Turkish 4th century saint who would give gifts to the poor and needy as a sign of hope and peace and love and faith.. this is how santa is loosely related to christmas, they purvey the same message.. however Saint Nicholas feast day is the 6th December but the celebration was shifted to the 25th to coincide with the 25th when the Christians hijacked the Pagan festivals, which saw Odin flying through the skies at Midwinter to mark it out as their own... Odins flying 8-legged horse became a sleigh and reindeer, the beard remained the same and Coco-cola turned his clothes red, American culture married him off as it was only proper... and we have a modern santa.

A more relevant question would be how many people believe in Santa and christmas than the whole Christian version of the Nativity.. tbh.. the Christian version is pretty horrible when you think about it. I'm with the Santa version every time.

mrs-moneypenny

Thanks pigpen, the santa version is much more appealing I agree it just goes to excess sometimes and puts a lot of pressure on people to have the 'perfect' Christmas. Usually stressed mums who have enough on their plates anyway.

I have actually got very near to decorating the hall mirror (ok I did it) the stickers say ''tis the season to be jolly" and the lights are like old fashioned filament bulbs so I've draped them round the mirror frame and but the stickers on the mirror, they don't actually say Christmas just 'the season' so I'm going to ignore scrooges and leave it up.

pigpen

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

Thanks pigpen, the santa version is much more appealing I agree it just goes to excess sometimes and puts a lot of pressure on people to have the 'perfect' Christmas. Usually stressed mums who have enough on their plates anyway.

It is actually OH that is having drama in here. I want a new floor going down in the back room.. and I want some decorating doing and I would much prefer he spent money on those than bought me something that would clutter up the house.. but he wants something for me to 'open' .. he can't afford anything until mid-December when he gets paid next anyway.

This is my 'christmas stress' .. I would rather everyone put money into my floor than bought me presents of stuff and clutter. I need £500 for a downstairs toilet, £250 for the floor and around £500 for a shower/bathroom stuff .. so anything that would help towards that would be fabulous.. I have a piggybank that donors could fill so even if they put 5p in it would help.. but no.. I will get stuff I don't need and receive it gratiously and with appreciation because noone really listens to what I truly need! And as I hate my birthday I am usually in a grump anyway lol.

I'm just happy seeing everyone happy, I don't do christmas dinner because noone eats after stuffing themselves with sweets, we do christmas day on the 24th because it makes my life easier and I do what I can and never ever stress about any of it other than finding time to wrap!!

My mother was coming round for all of 3 minutes then.. oh well.. she will be round for presents in 5 weeks...

atypicalblonde

Afternoon All,

Just back from taking my grandma shopping. We went at 9am so it took a lot longer than expected! On the plus side she did a huge food shop, finished Christmas present shopping and thoroughly enjoyed it. I have already done 13k steps so I'm happy!

DD swimming lesson after school; thankfully DH is at home so I can leave DS with him (much easier with just one child in tow!) and he can have dinner ready for when we get back. Need some time to speak to DD about her attitude too - she's only 5, is in Year 1 and all of a sudden "life's not fair" :eek: honestly, she used to be so angelic and now she grumps about things at any given opportunity. It is wearing my patience thin!

DH is out in the garage chopping wood pallets up, so although he hasn't any work today at least he is saving us money on buying kindling!

Re. Christmas - the excess really sticks in my craw. We have hardly spent anything this year, through some canny shopping, second hand buys (for the kids from charity shops) and generally spreading the message around that we are not buying stuff "for the sake of it". DH and I haven't bought each other presents for years - I would rather we put that money towards an experience doing something as a family rather than "stuff" that we just don't need - it's a constant battle keeping this place clear and tidy as it is!

pigpen

Valli... package arrived... thank you.. I shall finish this scarf and put it to good use.

Honey_Bear

Happy anniversary Mr and Mrs Ionfan!

*Healing vibes* for your chooks, Dizzy, and I hope today is a good day at Chez Diz. For someone who feels exhausted all the time you're doing a fair impression of someone who fairly pings and pops with life.

Not the intention to At All but all of the big files in the filing cabinet's top drawer have been pruned. Shredding has happened, a big bag of paper for recycling is ready for collection, there's a pile for the attic like recent tax returns and I've got a solid inch stack of A4 ready for cutting up for scrap paper. I'm about a third of the way through the drawer and having done the worst I've cleaned it out and raked out all the other files for a much quicker part of the process. Even if I only do one drawer of it today, that's a mega mega achievement. I still have cupboards to turn out and two bedrooms that need dusting, vacuumming and bedmaking, but I've Done The Worst Of The Fat Files!!!! Yay!