Weekly Flylady Thread 25th December 2017

YORKSHIRELASS

I keep moving presents, bottles of alcohol, spare glasses, bottles of pop and leftover food about but the kitchen still looks exactly the same. Have given up and I am sitting down with my book. Might have to go and make a serious attempt at it later.

Been to the shop so we now have bread, milk, loo rolls and tea bags. Have also taken 4 parcels to the post office.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

pigpen wrote: »

No.. he would have to want to and not do it as some pity thing or as a substitute for a birthday or christmas present or because he felt obligated or forced.. it does not take 9 years to decide this is the direction you want your life to take.

So, I am considering getting kittens instead.. 2, to terrorise Pi.

Kitchen needs a few runs of the DW but it is looking fairly clear of christmas detritus.. and the washing is under control..

Best go feed the gremlins! Then I am knitting the sleeves to the rainbow cardigan for the new grand-blob, I should be able to get that finished tomorrow.

You have to get kittens in multipacks, don't you?

Himself actually said 'yeah, I think I'd be OK with a puppy' two days ago. Which is great from my point of view, but it's not happening until we've moved. (I know you're not a dog lover, but I am more of an All Animals Person than simply a Cat Person).

Today's Jobs

Get dressed. Well, instead of nice clothes, a pair of gym capris and a t-shirt. Stick hair in rather chavvy ponytail.
Put hot water and heating on low.
Put clean towels in bathroom.
Not react to Himself saying 'just leave anything in the kitchen that you don't want to do and I'll do it'.
Found the kitchen table under crud. Ignore the Idiot Cat immediately reclaiming it to supervise my activities.
Put crud in the bin
Put more recycling out
Take rubbish from various bags left about the kitchen out.
Take bottles, cheese, etc, bought and not put away, and place in the fridge.
Swear at the world/binmen in particular for taking paper and card and not the brewery's worth of bottles and cans. And the FWs who have now stolen two of our recycling boxes. There's no way they would have blown away with the amount of stuff that was in them.
Find coffee table underneath various packets from the stinkfest that was his diet yesterday. Fold and clip the leftovers and put in cupboard.
Wonder why, when the greenery arrangement he bought reduced from the supermarket looks very nice, he chose to put it in an empty pickled onion jar with the labels still stuck on, rather than the vase or jug I have for the occasional bunch of growing things.

Put more packaging and wrappers in the bin.
Find the bowl of bread sauce still unwashed from 2 days ago.
Unblock the sink again.
Wash up. Wonder how we've gone through two bottles of washing up liquid in four days when I used half a bottle on the first day, but he doesn't appear to have done anything resembling as much washing up.
Clean the crud off the hob after finding it underneath dirty pots and tins.

Encourage the Idiot Cat out into the very soggy garden. Smirk at his carefully searching and watering one spot after he established it was too damp to risk his behind anywhere near the ground, only to have the wind blow and shake more water off the leaves onto his head than he would have got had he stuck with his usual spot.

Put the manky teatowels, cloths and assorted things he uses and then leaves on the floor/countertop/table/hob into the washing machine on a hot wash.
Leave sponges and brushes soaking in bowl with very hot water.
Sweep crud off floor and put into bin.

Make a big mug of strong tea.

Sit down with cats.

Studiously ignore the request for a cuppa emanating from the bath.

Fayolle

I'm sitting down contemplating.....absolutely nothing. Everyone else is temporarily occupied elsewhere, so peace and calm reigns. It won't last. I caught DH having a sneaky sit down this afternoon, when he had created chaos in every other room in the house earlier. Apparently he was "bored" with tidying up. Bless :mad:. I pointed out that cleaning the loos was boring too, as was cleaning up the kitchen. He shifted

Fridge sorted, kitchen jigged and re-jigged, wm back on again. Recycling out for collection tomorrow. Must write a meal plan of sorts.

kazwookie

Evening

Left overs eaten for dinner tongiht
Work done
Rubbish out

LameWolf

x_raphael_xx wrote: »

I happen to have both stilton and parnips needing using up in the fridge, could you direct me to a recipe

Here you go; I make half the amount to serve the two of us, and I didn't have any thyme leaves, so didn't use any.:D

Roast Parsnip and Stilton Soup

1 lb parsnips, peeled and cut into chunks
1 small onion, halved
1 tblsp butter
1½ pints stock
2 – 3 oz Stilton scraps
Sprig of thyme
Half a lemon

Preheat oven to 220 C
Put parsnips and onion in a roasting tin and dot with butter.
Bake for 5 mins, coat thoroughly in the now melted butter and roast for another 20 mins til cooked through.
Leave to cool a little.
Remove dried-up outer layer of onions and put remainder in a blender with the parsnips and a pint of stock. Puree until smooth.
Put puree in a large pan and add enough extra stock to make a consistency you like.
Heat gently and add some of the cheese, then stir til melted in.
Taste and add more cheese; the exact amount will depend on the pungency of your cheese.
Add salt, pepper, lemon juice, thyme leaves and a little lemon zest.
Heat through (don’t let it boil) and serve.


Very little achieved today, thanks to yet another migraine. These are getting too frequent.
However...
Start updating your new diaryand/or calendar. Make a note of...

Family mobile numbers
Birthdays, anniversaries etc
Dates of MOT, insurance renewal...and also make a note to book these in or start getting quotes 2-3 weeks beforehand.(and not on the day it is due, which for me this year was a Sunday and I was stuck with whatever I could do online BUT I did get a £60 M&S voucher for my troubles as I found a deal on MSE like a good little moneysaver)
This is all covered. I printed out my 2018 calendar some time ago, as I had dogsitting bookings to go on it; and all the regular stuff is in my PDA, and automagically moves itself on once it's ticked. And it "squeaks" at me a month in advance, because that's how it's set up.

roundtuit

First day back at work survived: the phone rang twice!!! and the second time was a wrong number Got caught up from my week off and had a touch of drama when a colleague collapsed and banged her head - the paramedics took her to the hospital to be checked over and the last I heard she was waiting for a CT scan and getting stroppy because she wanted to come back for her car (obviously feeling better then!)

Had a phone call from Dad asking me to pick up a prescription for Mum on my way home from work; so did that and dropped it off as I passed their house.

I've just WUDUPA :A On a work day!!!! Need to get in to the habit, but one day at a time Baby steps.

I'm going to pay my TV Licence online, and then read 'til The Miniaturist starts at 9.

Rxx

mrs-moneypenny

Thank you LW that sounds delish and I have all the ingredients in so will def be making that. Tomorrow's soup is already made it will be todays leftover 'Christmas soup' which is basically the left over cooked veg from Christmas dinner which I added to some boiled leeks and whisked with the stick blender. But I will make that for the next day.
Dd2 made the bosh recipe vegan mushroom Wellington Christmas Day along with a vegan 'beef' joint it was absolutely lovely I'm going to make another for New Years dinner which we'll have on New Year's Eve this year.

Spent most of the day vegging with my cross stitch, I have about 3/4 of George Michael's hair left to do

froddington

Quiet, lazy day today - caught up on lots of TV and ate chocolate

FBO - hugs x

Nathsmam - Welcome to the [STRIKE]madhouse [/STRIKE]thread

List updated - not looking too bad!

Monday - Christmas Day

DONE!!!

Terrific Tuesday Boxing Day

DONE!!!

Woeful Wednesday

If you have 15 minutes...
wipe down work surfaces, sweep, vacuum then mop floor.

If you have 5 minutes
wander round with a clean, damp cloth and wipe switches and door handles.

If you have 10 minutes
any room looks better straightened, so get in there, shift rubbish, straighten furniture and plump cushions. Wipe/polish any tables. But focus on tidying rather than cleaning.

Thursday Thrills - Kitchen

Level 1
Clear out the fridge and wash the shelves, baskets etc
Dispose of anything that needs flinging
Clean out any defrost drains
Wipe jars and bottles before they go back in
meal plan to use anything on it's last legs
Wipe all door seals and decrumb

Level 2
Start with ONE cupboard...maybe the one nearest the door
Empty it out, wipe down the shelves, and doors inside and out
Put back what lives there - if it's groceries do a stock rotation - oldest to the front

Level 3
Clear sides/worktops and wipe down
sweep and mop floors
Tidy round

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I'm going to have to do the washing up again, aren't I?

All we've had is some fruit, cheese and a bit of parsnip soup today, but in that time, [strike]we seem[/strike] he seems to have used 9 plates to my 2.


Oh well, maybe if I do it, he'll eventually notice that clearing up as you go along and tidying up completely afterwards are handy.

Dizzy_Imp

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Oh well, maybe if I do it, he'll eventually notice that clearing up as you go along and tidying up completely afterwards are handy.

I think that may be wishful thinking, sadly.

Morning ladies! Have been coughing all night. My Dad appears to have left me his lurgy, which is fabulous :mad: and curiously the lounge TV turned itself on twice in the night :eek: so I had to get up and deal with that. And, rather helpfully, our new super-duper hi-tech, all singing and all dancing home security system sent me a text to advise unusual activity in the lounge too, which meant I was completely awake when I got back to bed....grrr.....

I'm slowly emptying the caravan of a year's worth of clutter and rehoming it back in the house. I have five hundred and eleven items to iron and an entire bookshelf to sort. Skids go back down south today until 30th, which is also when friends arrive for a few days, and so it all begins again....

Looks like no rest for the wicked.