Weekly Flylady Thread 19th November 2018

pigpen

shirlgirl2004 wrote: »

Hi everyone came on looking for a Flylady group. I have done the official Flylady essentials today but can I ask why this group has different daily tasks? I might be worn out doing both.

We are not the vile OTT American Flylady site.. it is horrid.. the emails alone from there are a full time job! Most of us looked there and ran away screaming.



Here, you decide your own dailies list.. what is important to you?
We have the daily list on post 1 and you do what you can or are able to do or all of it.. people here have different levels of ability, fit in around crazy lives and full time jobs and volunteer work and allsorts else.

We offer support for real life goings on, friendship, hugs, motivation and a chance to offload..

I hope that helps xx .. but welcome!! xx

pigpen

OH is going in the bin.. He is incapable of completing a simple task... so now I have to fit a DW, sort the leaks and do everything myself.. on less than 2 hours sleep!

I am not happy.

froddington

Hi all - thanks for the thread Natty :A (and for last week Valli :A)

Sorry I've been MIA - I really need to be in this week. Only 2 weeks until I go away an Dad will be coming round to feed the ratties, pick up post, etc. - and I can't let him see the place like this :eek:

Hugs for all who want or need one xx

Monday ~ Bathroom and Desk

Level One...
Clean bathroom floor
Clean bath, toilet and sink

Level Two...
Clear any clutter from desk and file the necessary bits and shred the rest!
Pull out PC desk and declutter/vacuum behind it, making it all pretty and clean..

Level Three...
Wipe down tiles and mirrors

shirlgirl2004

pigpen wrote: »

We are not the vile OTT American Flylady site.. it is horrid.. the emails alone from there are a full time job! Most of us looked there and ran away screaming.



Here, you decide your own dailies list.. what is important to you?
We have the daily list on post 1 and you do what you can or are able to do or all of it.. people here have different levels of ability, fit in around crazy lives and full time jobs and volunteer work and allsorts else.

We offer support for real life goings on, friendship, hugs, motivation and a chance to offload..

I hope that helps xx .. but welcome!! xx

Thanks for the explanation Pigpen. Guess I better get off here and clean my bathroom floor. :rotfl:

LameWolf

Hi, Flyfolks all.

I'm as "in" as my beastly painful back will allow. I may need to do a hankie wash, as the blasted thing is so bad it's almost making me cry most days.

Ah well - Snoozy Suzie will be here on Wednesday, so I have today and Tuesday to transform a midden into a hotel fit for Princess Pretty-Paws. Mr Wolf has kindly vacced the entire bungalow. :A

Also I have a Meet'n'Greet visit with a whippet and a whippet cross on Sunday.

I strayed a bit from the No Spend last week; I used £30 of my accumulated @mazon vouchers to buy a bed rail for Mr Wolf's side of the bed, as he keeps falling out. Thus far it's saved his bruised bot and equally bruised ego at least twice. Those who have experience, is this something we should expect with Parkinson's?

Narc0lepsy

Welcome Shirlgirl. Just do what you can.
I'm forever doing my own agenda.
Yesterday did a downstairs-vacuum everywhere, having done much of upstairs on Sat.
Enthused with my study declutter last week, I have sorted out another boxfull, much of which my teaching friend is happy to have.
Went to gym this morning, usual Body Balance instructor off and the replacement one did all balance activities (usually it is a mix of yoga, tai chi and pilates) so by the next class (clubbercise) I felt like a bit of chewed string.
Picked up friend from church as our local C0 0p has generously offered us any past-sell-date flowers for our arrangements, so we went to thank them and have a chat.
Posted letter and parcel.
Filled Bird feeders.
Washed up.
Mr N getting on well with decorating tho it's taking longer than expected. By Wed we will be onto glossing things I can reach, so we should get done quicker.
Have booked a Valentine's dance in Blackpool! Very excited, I dropped the hint but didn't keep asking as he still struggles at our dance class. However he gave the go-ahead and I've already found RSPB sites nearby so have assured him that the dance will only be a small part of the 3-day weekend.
Off to book b&B now while there are still sales and room.

LameWolf

Shirlgirl where are my manners? Welcome aboard.

I'm one who just has to do what they can, when they can, due to health issues. There's no recriminations if you don't get everything on the list done; indeed, I can't remember the last time I actually followed the list.

What you will get here is all the encouragement and support you could possibly wish for.

Froddy *waves* give the wee ratties a cuddle from their Auntie Wolfy.

dancemum

Various loads of washing done in a variety of homes.

Took dancepops to his last falls exercise class and sorted his medication.

Rang to rearrange an official appointment in other city which would have made me get DS2 out of the house before 7am. Can’t have a home visit due to health and safety risk (I mentioned VCB on his form). Appointment is now in our nearest city at a later time and a friend is coming too

Attended a tapathon event yesterday and off to tap later this evening if I can manage it. I still have a chesty thing going on.
GP apparently gave us the wrong flu jabs so we are supposed to have another. Sounds a bit strange.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

LameWolf wrote: »

I strayed a bit from the No Spend last week; I used £30 of my accumulated @mazon vouchers to buy a bed rail for Mr Wolf's side of the bed, as he keeps falling out. Thus far it's saved his bruised bot and equally bruised ego at least twice. Those who have experience, is this something we should expect with Parkinson's?

Depends on what he's doing at the time. If he's trying to turn over, it makes sense that he's not able to catch himself or tense his muscles sufficiently to stay on the bed.

HOWEVER - as I'm more than happy to share something that happened in my teens...

My first proper boyfriend. Standard 4'6" bed. He was fairly tall and [strike]bulky[/strike] was turning into a right porker from eating cheese sandwiches, chips and cake all day, every day. He reached over and started stroking my shoulder at about 2.30am. I pretended to be asleep. So he decided to *ahem* take matters into his own hands, IYSWIM . Silently cringing, I stayed 'asleep'.

Right at a crucial point, he realised he needed to be somewhere else, but, due to the obvious distraction, wasn't concentrating upon where he was putting his *other* hand.

He missed the side of the bed and fell out with the biggest THUD I'd ever heard, faceplanting into the carpet. At least I think the sound was his face hitting the floor first.


At this stage, I couldn't stay 'asleep' any longer and had to ask him if he was alright. 'Yeah', he says, 'Must have had a bad dream'.

He never, ever tried to wake me up again.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


FIL is being a d***head and is now back in his midden, refusing all contact from SS, Home Helps, the Emergency Call Button people, Physio or his Medical Team. He's going to have to get on with it, as if he's determined to waste the next ten to twenty years of his life by trying to starve/break a hip/have yet another stroke rather than be relatively healthy and do what they say, I'm certainly not bankrupting myself in financially supporting Himself going down there to enable him to do so.

I had no clean clothes for work this morning because I apparently failed to tell Himself that the clothes I took off last week and put in the linen bin (upon his instruction) needed to be washed. Should I get a s*dding flagpole and raise a Standard to say 'Manky knickers and socks in here. Please wash them'?

The cooker has gone pouff. We have no money (thanks to the costs of ^^^^ and Himself being psychologically unable to even consider looking for work because he was expecting to have to go back down there at short notice and is now worrying himself stupider than normal because he'e now expecting a call for another hospital admission or death). So it can't be replaced. Work is insanely busy. The cats are idiots. Children are annoying (except the five 'naughty' ones who dropped what they shouldn't have been doing in the first place to help me when I dashed down the corridor squawking that something involving a lot of heavy lifting and shifting I'd been promised would be done ready for lunchtime because I was physically unable and physically didn't have the time to even think about it myself had been forgotten. I quite like them at the moment.). My head is fried.


And now Himself is asking me to decide what for and precisely how I want him to cook dinner. I DON'T CARE. Just do it.

And why has my single, emergency, premixed can of Gin & Tonic miraculously disappeared from the fridge whilst I've been at work?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

kazwookie

Shirlgirl welcome I don't fully follow ths lists but I do use them as a guideline.

Dinner done
Work done
Need to do kitchen again
Cat is being cuddled