Weekly Flylady Thread 5th February 2018

LameWolf

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

I'm fed up of picking up a 'clean' cup to find tea stains left in it and having to wash it again)

I get this a lot; mugs, cutlery, dinner plates.... I am so sick and tired of having to wash items before I can use them. :mad: I'm hoping that the situation will improve now Mr LW has his new spectacles. It's great that he often volunteers to wash up, but pointless if he's not going to do a proper job.

MrsChaos wrote: »

LW - I found something that works if we need to give our hound a tablet - dunk in cold KFC gravy. It's so gloopy that it completely covers the tablet and he's swallowed it before he even knows what it is. Not quite so easy with the cats.

I'm sure everyone's seen a version of this before, but it always bears repeating. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC372253/
With dogs - yep, go with whatever works. With my own little Penny-Dog it was always fish; one piece with the pill in, then another piece with no pill for being good and taking the pill.
Of my guests, Sidny and Harriet both liked their meds wrapped in a little of my HM bread. Pip had her Metacam liquid squirted into the middle of a slice of ham and folded round to contain it (her "sister" Pandora used to just get a plain slice of ham so that she didn't feel hard-done-by). With Jack, the pill went in his food bowl and was hoovered up with the food.

Dizzy_Imp wrote: »

Hi ladies - just lurking this week as I'm decorating like a demon. Tiled and grouted the cooker splashback yesterday and I'm very pleased with the end result....

Imho, that counts as a form of Flying - it's getting your home to a nicer state to be in, which is essentially what Flying is, after all.

I'm feeling unwell again today, after yet another night of less than 2 hours sleep. Mr LW did us some packet soup (I keep some in for emergencies) and a slice of bread for lunch. He's WU, and has been informed he needs to DUPA before Blokey comes to fix the kitchen tap.

Honey_Bear

OH doses Devil Cat up several times a day with pills and a liquid. We can both do the liquid on our own. The pills are a two man job and now involve a pillpopper, but even so I found one of his antibiotics on the kitchen floor yesterday. He's highly adept at pretending to swallow it and working it into his back teeth for spitting out later. Little bu**er. I have to say if he struggled at all at pill time he wouldn't have made it this far because struggling opens up the area where the tumour is and that isn't good. He's an utterly amazing cat and OH is brilliant in the pill department. As for all the dogs - I've never encountered a dog that can't be fooled by a bit of cheese, or chicken with a bit of natural yoghurt gluing the pill to it. Kelpie's bright, but he's not that bright when it comes to his innate greed. (He loves, loves, loves his snuffle mat.)

Vacuummed the ground floor, tidied the kitchen and did another volunteering stint. Mostly things are under control, and H2H will, in my case, clearly be a fits-and-starts project. Today I've been pouring a few kettles of boiling water on the green gunge on the sundeck and front steps which we've discovered is a far more eneregy-efficient way of dealing with it than scrubbing it. It means looking out of the kitchen on to it is a pleasure, rather than a sinking feeling of despair over the state of it.

tboo

Thursday Thrills Living room
Level 1
[STRIKE]
Empty out any rubbish[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE][STRIKE]Cleat coffee table[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Rehome aything which is out of place[/STRIKE][/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Wipe coasters[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Deal with any flowers/water & wipe plants[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Clear out fire/woodburner[/STRIKE]

Level 2

[STRIKE]Dust and polish any wooden furniture or just dust[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Check corners for cobwebs/spiders and remove[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Dust skirting boards[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Wipe handles/sockets/switches[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Dust electricals
[/STRIKE]
Level 3

[STRIKE]Lift chair/sofa cushions and vacuum under them[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Wipe leather furniture/vacuum sofas[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Sweep/mop/vacuum floor[/STRIKE]

extras
[STRIKE]clean window in lounge[/STRIKE]
MAD half hour - only half an hour - this is a nibble not a mouthful!
HHI
Binbag fling - grab a bin bag, run around t he house and fill it with gibble and CHUCK IT OUT
Sort out your handbag - make sure you're not carrying unnecessary carp around with you
[STRIKE]S&S kitchen[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]S&S bathroom[/STRIKE]

WM x 1
DW x 1
Cleaned window in dining room

atypicalblonde

DH has work for next week :j thank f...... for that, he is driving me bonkers at home!

3 dog walks done, loads of errands run, food bought and put away, DW run etc etc. The usual basically!

We have decided to stay as a family of 4, and that is the final decision. LW's utterly brilliant advice of tossing a coin and seeing what your gut reaction is to the outcome is something I will use again and again throughout life. So huge thanks, sweetie xx

LameWolf

You're very welcome, atb. It's a method that has seen me safely through many an insoluble dilemma.

Still waiting for Blokey to come and do the tap - though he's not actually Officially Late as yet. Mr LW has been sat at the pc playing "The Witcher: Assassins of Kings" for most of the afternoon.

Fayolle

Evening all. Apologies for the absence. I wish I could say that the time was spent flying, but that would be a massive lie!
Hugs, sticks and spoons where needed, especially to the injured Flychildren.
I've been unintentionally kick starting the slinky challenge, with (what I certainly hope is ) a 24 bug of some sort. Suffice to say, not a lot of last night was spent lying down in bed, and first thing this morning was eventful too. Today's diet has been water, water and more water. I'm just now risking a peopermint tea. To add to the fun, DD had her braces sorted yesterday, so between us we have been a bundle of laughs. DH is thankfully out this evening for a curry. As long as he doesn't bring any home, or even have the faintest whiff of curry about him when he gets back, all will be fine.
At this rate, weekend flying will be in order. Never a success when DH is under my feet!

ionafan

:wave:

GWS to all poorly Flyladies and splattered Flykids.

to hear you've got a house and a holiday, FBO, but about the loss incurred on your original booking.

DH has been in horse piddle as a day case today, so two of my working hours were spent taking him in at 8.00 and fetching him home at 12.30. He says that having the injection in his hip was far less painful than he had expected, so perhaps he will smile a bit more now (I am envious because I am in need of another shoulder injection but haven't been given a date yet.)

My sole flying achievements today have been to S&S kitchen and bathroom, and my essay progress is painfully slow - not helped by getting only about 3 hours' sleep last night, so I had to have zzz this afternoon.

Rosie has not missed out on her walk, although while I was out fetching DH she managed to get on the kitchen table and knocked over a vase of flowers: the water went all over DH's car tax renewal letter and his new railway magazine. Guess which one he was most cross about - I might have to iron it - will that count as flying too? :rotfl:

My brain is on a go-slow, so I think food is called for...

... but first, here is some Extreme Flying to amuse you

Have a good evening, all x

kazwookie

Evening

HM chicken noodle soup for dinner tonight, made enough for 3 days...

Washing u pdone
Kitchen done
Busy day at work

roundtuit

Good evening:hello:

Just popping in to say no movement on the slinky challenge chez moi this week. .

Flying? Just the usual: bed made and birds fed every day before setting off for work. I'm on a training course all day tomorrow: Strengthening Personal Resilience:cool:. Then weekend yayyy :T

Healing hugs to all the splatted fly children. Sounds like Pixie started a trend!

I'll be back to fly on Saturday. Enjoy your Friday everyone

D'oh - just been looking for Winter Olympics on tv - I've been convinced all day that it's Friday

Rxx

MrsChaos

Thank you LW - this had me crying with laughter. Just what I needed.

No flying other than daily stuff. Half-term starts tomorrow and I'm chilling tonight before an early night.