Weekly Flylady Thread 7th May 2018

pigpen

I only allow people to come collect stuff when OH is at home.. and I also figure that as put something up for free I may as well take it to a charity shop and let them benefit from it too.

I have parcels to post today and am heading off to meet OH from the gym.. this afternoon we are taking my uncle 2 armchairs and removing his to the tip.. and we have some bits for the tip too if we get time.. and OH has a table to erect for the garden so the girls can eat out there.. the 2 I have are disgusting and are headed for the tip too. Operation garden reclaimation underway!!

Best go hang out washing, then post parcel, then meet OH.

and the grandpink has chickenpox now.. so DD1 has her home all itchy and grouchy... there were 5 others in her nurseyr class the staff found spots on after Miss Squirrel lol. It seems pointless keeping any of them off, clearly everyone who is going to get them is already going infected!!

Mumof2_2

I'm so bad at this whole Flying thing - sorry guys!! I have been doing a few bits like vacuuming and washing etc but nothing really to write home about. DD and DH gone to Dartmoor this morning as she is doing the Ten Tors event this weekend - I am driving down with her BF on Sunday.

Just watching the birds on the feeder whilst I'm typing this - they're going bananas for the suet pellets, dear little things!

Frodders just seen re your mum; good that you took her to the GP and the meds will start working soon, just need a little while to get into her system.

Iona I don't have anyone come around to collect stuff if I'm here on my own - I always make sure DH is home.

Off to see what I can do in the 50 mins or so before I leave; will grab a coffee I think to keep me going. Trying not to eat between meals as these drugs make me think I'm permanently hungry even when I've just eaten and, as the Dr said, will make a stick get fat so what hope have I got lol! Only eaten twice 'off piste' which Is eminently better than last time I was on them when I put on a stone and a half.

froddington

pigpen wrote: »

and OH has a table to erect for the garden so the girls can eat out there.. the 2 I have are disgusting and are headed for the tip too.

I had to read that twice as I thought 2 of the girls were disgusting eaters and having to eat outside!! Tis a bit harsh to send 2 of them to the tip!! :rotfl:

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

pigpen wrote: »

I only allow people to come collect stuff when OH is at home.. and I also figure that as put something up for free I may as well take it to a charity shop and let them benefit from it too.

I have parcels to post today and am heading off to meet OH from the gym.. this afternoon we are taking my uncle 2 armchairs and removing his to the tip.. and we have some bits for the tip too if we get time.. and OH has a table to erect for the garden so the girls can eat out there.. the 2 I have are disgusting and are headed for the tip too. Operation garden reclaimation underway!!

Best go hang out washing, then post parcel, then meet OH.

and the grandpink has chickenpox now.. so DD1 has her home all itchy and grouchy... there were 5 others in her nurseyr class the staff found spots on after Miss Squirrel lol. It seems pointless keeping any of them off, clearly everyone who is going to get them is already going infected!!

Well, maybe it saves the occasional expectant mum who hasn't had the pox themselves from ending up in hospital or the baby from getting it in utero - I ended up on oxygen in the 2nd trimester of Offspring #2 thanks to somebody taking their child to school whilst spotty - and any immunocompromised staff or kids elsewhere in the place would probably appreciate it if they're kept off school.


Dodged a bullet at the dentist today - after a bit of poking round whilst the anaesthetic took effect, she tilted her head to the side, looked a bit perplexed and said 'I think what we've done already is working. We'll keep an eye on it, but I'll give you a full clean and you can be on your way'. So I got my own back on Himself, who has been inflicting me with tooth related puns all morning, by booking him an appointment for a check up. He doesn't do going to the dentist - but after a bit of [strike]nagging[/strike] pointing out that it's a lot worse to have to fix things than making sure they don't happen in the first place - and a promise (threat?) to buy him some stickers if he goes (he covers his guitar with the things), he gave in and said he'll go.

In the meantime, he's asked what's for tea (I'd already said I was cooking tonight) and I answered with something he liked the sound of - but that the kitchen was unusable. He's therefore clattering about in there. And doesn't quite realise that, because he's starting some temporary work on Monday afternoon, it is being blitzed tomorrow morning whether he likes it or not.

Honey_Bear

Thank you One and All (as the Cornish say) for all the support while the pain in the derriere was here. I still haven't fully recovered, largely because it turns out that there are other needy people in the world I hadn't met and now have. What is WRONG with people - I don't have the answers for your loneliness!

Finding it very difficult to concentrate on this post as I am sitting on the sitting room floor with a dog tearing a beef tendon to bits while wearing a harness and 5m of blue rope, while two five month old kittens are exploring the sitting room around us. Theoretically the dog is used to being around a cat/cats, and equally theoretically the kittens are used to dogs. Someone should have told the individual animals that means they have nothing to worry about because each of them is indicating in their own way that there are aspects of this merger that are less than 100% confidence-inspiring. I'm touching a lot of wood.

The fridge has been turned out, the washing up cleared and various irritating kitchen related muddles sorted out. The sitting room needs a [STRIKE]thorough[/STRIKE] quick vacuum and the shower room a s/and/s but that's about as good as the rest of the house is going to get today. I still haven't recovered from last Thursday's extreme late night what with one thing and another.

Definition of middle age = one late night is one late night waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Honey_Bear wrote: »

Thank you One and All (as the Cornish say) for all the support while the pain in the derriere was here. I still haven't fully recovered, largely because it turns out that there are other needy people in the world I hadn't met and now have. What is WRONG with people - I don't have the answers for your loneliness!

Finding it very difficult to concentrate on this post as I am sitting on the sitting room floor with a dog tearing a beef tendon to bits while wearing a harness and 5m of blue rope, while two five month old kittens are exploring the sitting room around us. Theoretically the dog is used to being around a cat/cats, and equally theoretically the kittens are used to dogs. Someone should have told the individual animals that means they have nothing to worry about because each of them is indicating in their own way that there are aspects of this merger that are less than 100% confidence-inspiring. I'm touching a lot of wood.

The fridge has been turned out, the washing up cleared and various irritating kitchen related muddles sorted out. The sitting room needs a [STRIKE]thorough[/STRIKE] quick vacuum and the shower room a s/and/s but that's about as good as the rest of the house is going to get today. I still haven't recovered from last Thursday's extreme late night what with one thing and another.

Definition of middle age = one late night is one late night waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many.

Ah, but they were accustomed to ONE particular example of the species. From Kelpie's point of view there are two small, energetic and differently decorated/coloured balls of fluff and venom with pointy bits on every corner, rather than one, predictable, known entity of fluff and venom and pointy bits - and from the kittens' point of view, this is an entirely different lump of smell and dribble, noise and Potential Death that has to be cowed into submission to the one they had known before.

It's like me - I know some people that I adore, some I can tolerate, some I would actively avoid if I had half a chance and some I would actually prefer to know they're [strike]dumped in a binbag in a ditch[/strike] five thousand miles away, lest they suddenly heft up at my door wanting a place to stay for the night [strike]when then actually mean move in and stink the place out, make noise, start wailing about how tough their life is and cop a strop when I actually give more of a damn about Himself's feelings than their wish to be flattered and fussed over like a spoiled toddler[/strike].

I don't know which category somebody falls into beforehand - finding myself living with one of them would lead me to puff up my metaphorical tail like a bog brush and make growling noises, just in case they turned out to be just like the Stinky Lodger Who Will Never Darken Our Door Ever Again (and has been systematically blocked from any means of contacting us just in case she realises that we actually didn't move back home last year).

Honey_Bear

You're right, Jojo, and I sort of knew that, but it was worth it just to have your 'venom with pointy bits on every corner' description! They all eventually fell asleep, woke up when OH came home and then fell asleep again. I think it's going to be okay.

While they were snoozing I did the pet insurance calculations and we've decided to self-insure the cats and planned the day out tomorrow. That's two things I can cross off the lists.

YORKSHIRELASS

Morning all

Must get some hours in on job no. 2 today and must look at our finances which as ever will look depressing. 9 weeks till our holiday, passport renewal forms are ready to send off, travel insurance to sort. DS2 needs clothes - I think this could be a challenge - he has found some socks he likes for £16 apparently. I dont think he realises that we are on a budget!

pigpen

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

DS2 needs clothes - I think this could be a challenge - he has found some socks he likes for £16 apparently. I dont think he realises that we are on a budget!

Mine get what I choose to buy them until they are earning their own money then they can spend as much as they like on whatever they like.. once they have paid board! I think you need to remind him of tat budget.. or give him a set amount and his shopping list and send him off to shop.. valuable learning!.. This is how I did my lot from 13/14.. even the ones with issues!

Lunch done.. sandwiches for on the way back from swimming ready .. I need to load girls into costumes and brush hair and we are set.. in theory that should take about 20 minutes... inreality I will run them there having spent 45 minutes yelling!! (i'm still eating!)

marie2

Dishwasher and washing machine run but that is all. Thank you Honey Bear for taking the time to help me despite your busy, stressful week.