Weekly Flylady Thread 26th November 2007

Dustykitten

Morning all

Fallen off the flying plane. Going out now to hopefully:

get a few christmas presents
Fill car up with petrol 5p off coupon thankfully
Drop old phones at school
Return Amazon parcel - wrong item ordered
Use boots points
Get new car tyres fitted.

Could be gone a while!

Afternoon:

Help in DS3 class
swimming lessons

Ok no flying again then - have sorted laundry.

mumofjusttwo

wanted to edit to add DS and |DD are now getting themselves dressed * mumofjusttwo picks herself of the floor in amazement *

I have got someone else's post on a different thread coming up? Any one else got any problems?


Now the entire post has dissapeared!!

ShirleyPark_2

I have no excuse this week, I'm off work, so lots of time. Admittedly I'm off work to study, but there's only so much studying you can do.
Kitchen is practically done, just the floor that needs mopping.

Tuesday - Lovely Living Rooms and Safe Stairs
Vacuum floors in these areas, even if around clutter
Clear anything from the stairs!
Move things so you can vacuum under them
Vacuum and wipe (if needed) sofas
Dust any areas below eye level
Dust anything above eye level (if safe to do so)
Clear anything that shouldn't be where it is, should the magazines really be on the floor?
Extra Mission Tasks - as usual if you fancy tackling something else you could try one or more of these

• Clean windows in these areas,
• Check you have your Christmas card list done, if it's not done at least spend 10 minutes on it
• Spend 15 minutes sorting paperwork, dealing with anything urgent NOW
• 27 Fling Boogie, you know the routine, grab a bag and clear that clutter!

Plus
Call BT about phone transfer
Sort all photos out
Backup computer [STRIKE]
Clean boys cage[/STRIKE]
Clean out empty cage and phone C about returning it
Tidy rat room
Sort junk on bookshelves in study
Connect speakers back up to computer
Studying
Vets @ 3.30
Sort out finances
Fix mesh on tank and then find a home for it
Clear another 5 things from the junk room
Sort 5 things from the storage cupboard

pigpen

THOSE WITH GROWN UP BOYS.... PLEASE tell me they get better.. I can't take much more from mine before I hoik him out on his @rse... he is being a total complete uter unadulterated f***wit.. he thinks because he is now 16 he can do exactly as he pleases and TBH if I was allowed I'd probably have hoiked him otu before now.. I REALLY look forward to the day he moves out.. and if one more person says *it is a phase* I may be forced to kill them.. it isn't a phase he is just simply not a nice person.

Hubby is currently removing the lock from his bedroom door.. privacy has to be earned by showing you are adult enough to be entrusted with it.. hence the lock goes.. if he still carries on.. the door is off!!.. ARGH!!!!!!!! In a word....

If you hear yelling emanating from the ether... it will be him and hubby tonight.. I'll just go out!

Right.. todays lists..

Where are we???

Tuesday.. right...

Dailies

WM
TD
DW
BM
SC (I have a chook to cook)
fold and put away clean laundry (currently resting on the kitchen floor!)
Sort sitter for the 12th December.. and 30th December.


Manic Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room/Area
Level One
Empty & clean out the fridge
Level Two
Wipe down surfaces
Clean floors in these rooms
Wipe kitchen cupboard fronts and kickboards
Wipe down fronts of major appliances
Level Three
Dust any extra furniture in dining area, checking for cobwebs on way round
Wipe & replace small appliances..
Extra tasks

• Wipe window sills and clean windows in these rooms
• Clen any 'medium' size appliances, bread makers, slow cookers etc
• Check the freezer

Tuesday - Lovely Living Rooms and Safe Stairs
Level One
Vacuum floors in these areas, even if around clutter
Clear anything from the stairs!
Level Two
Move things so you can vacuum under them
Vacuum and wipe sofas
Dust any areas below eye level
Level Three
Dust anything above eye level
Clear anything that shouldn't be where it is
Extra Mission Tasks

• Clean windows in these areas
• Spend 15 minutes sorting paperwork
• 27 Fling Boogie
• Clean out the vacuum cleaner, empty the bag/bucket, clean filters if they are washable.. that is assuming I have used it since I last washed them!!

Pollybear

Morning all

One load of washing done and draped about, second load spinning.

Waiting for Asda delivery.

Dusted living room, vacuumed living room, hallway, kitchen and stairs. All washing up done and put away.

I don't know when boys get better pigpen, mine is much better now he doesn't live at home (he's 25) but I really miss him. When he's here for more than a couple of days he still drives me nuts, but I miss him when he's gone. No pleasing me!

pigpen

Thanks Polly.. the only thing I would miss DS1 for is that my life would be so much LESS stressful and MORE peaceful... he on his own is worse than all 7 of the others.. and always has been.. am I allowed to say I really dislike him?? If he was anyone elses I'd loathe him!! When we've been away without him it is so nice not having his constant aggrovation and I do enjoy it.. he is on about 6th form college at the moment which means I have him for another 2 years.. I might leave home!! lol.. I would happily pay for him to live in student accomodation but then I KNOW he would end up in huge amounts of bother.. financial, alcohol and possibly drug related.. Is it too late for a termination??? I asked hubby the other day if he thought DS1 would be different had a different sperm fertilised the egg.. lol.. which makes it completely unreasonable that he is as he is!!

The lock is now off his door.. so he will be hysterical tonight and I am getting stomach ache thinking about it!!

Daisydoll

Ok that was weird I just posted and it ended up in the depression support thread not sure how that happened as I have never visited that thread only realised once I went back to re-read post! Anyway....

Morning ladies,

Am trying to get as much as I can done this morning as I have a hair appointment at 1.30pm:D

Tuesday - Lovely Living Rooms and Safe Stairs
Level One
[strike]Vacuum floors in these areas, even if around clutter [/strike][strike]
[/strike][strike]Clear anything from the stairs! [/strike]
Level Two
Move things so you can vacuum under them
[strike]Vacuum and wipe (if needed) sofas
Dust any areas below eye level [/strike]
Level Three
Dust anything above eye level (if safe to do so)
[strike]Clear anything that shouldn't be where it is, should the magazines really be on the floor?[/strike]
Extra Mission Tasks - as usual if you fancy tackling something else you could try one or more of these

• Clean windows in these areas, check curtains/nets/blinds while you are there, do they need a clean?
• Check you have your Christmas card list done, if it's not done at least spend 10 minutes on it
• Spend 15 minutes sorting paperwork, dealing with anything urgent NOW
• 27 Fling Boogie, you know the routine, grab a bag and clear that clutter!
• Clean out the vacuum cleaner, empty the bag/bucket, clean filters if they are washable MAKE SURE YOU DON'T PUT THEM BACK UNTIL THEY ARE DRY!

Also need to do:

• get haircut
• Package up ebay parcels and post
• wash and put back kids bedding
• Mop kitchen & dining room floors

lil_me

Pigpen, I really don't know what to say, if I say oh he'll be fine in a few weeks I would be lying, teenagers in general are just horrid in 90% of cases I think, I know I was an awful teen. Very rarely it strikes me that a teenager is lovely then when you talk to their parents, hmm, ok they just seem nice. Maybe university should start at GCSE level, they could live out from then, so they become someone elses problem. Actually do men ever grow out of the teen phase? My partner had several tantrums last night while shopping (he wanted to go, I was happy to leave him here!)

Right, well, not a lot done so far, have got the boys to school, DS2 moaned every step of the way, got there just as the bell went. Came back and walked the dogs, got very wet legs off the grass & mud, left hiking boots outside for now will deal with them later. First load of laundry hung outside, might air dry a little, second load is in. Got DP up and made his breakfast etc so he's fed, watered and quiet in his garage.

Need to

Tuesday - Lovely Living Rooms and Safe Stairs
Vacuum floors in these areas, even if around clutter
[strike]Clear anything from the stairs! [/strike]
[STRIKE]Move things so you can vacuum under them[/STRIKE]
Vacuum and wipe (if needed) sofas
Dust any areas below eye level
Dust anything above eye level (if safe to do so)
[strike]Clear anything that shouldn't be where it is, should the magazines really be on the floor?[/strike]
Clean windows in these areas (will do one at bottom of stairs too)
Check you have your Christmas card list done, if it's not done at least spend 10 minutes on it
Spend 15 minutes sorting paperwork, dealing with anything urgent NOW
[STRIKE]27 Fling Boogie, you know the routine, grab a bag and clear that clutter! [/STRIKE]
Clean vacuum cleaner out, have bought a second filter so don't need to wait for the other to dry
TV unit and electricals all need cleaning
[STRIKE]Second load of laundry hang out (probably inside) [/STRIKE]
Need to clean the front door as one dog got it manky this morning!
Put cardboard in shed for recycling
Put the tv/video combi somewhere which is on the floor
Take basket of clean laundry upstairs and put away
Go into town and collect DPs tripod from Argos
Need to sort the club cash box out, put receipts in and get everything ready for there
Dinner needs making, feed animals, walk dogs etc
Vacuum conservatory, dining room, utility and kitchen
Go and help DP run club (list will be up early for tomorrow)


I think that is all, will add more as needed. Oh flipping heck, all that to do and look at the time, best get a wriggle on...

Pollybear

My son wasn't toooooo bad when he was a teenager - not perfect obviously but bearable. It was a couple of years after he left home that he went through a bad patch and I felt so helpless knowing he was struggling and being unable to do anything. Luckily he had good friends around him who dragged him through it and he seems almost OK. I know he has got issues still but he seems prepared to put up with them for now.

It seems odd that when he was younger I had visions of him being at home for ever, one of those who are still living with Mum when they are middle aged, and I didn't want that for him. But I didn't really want him to end up living 200 miles away either.....

I thought he would end up living nearer one day, but he is in the process of buying a flat up near where he is based so I suppose that's it now.





Oh, and the Asda shopping has been delivered and it's all put away. I appear to have ordered 5 litres of tomato juice and I don't even like tomato juice........it was suppose to be orange but I've checked my printout and I ordered tomato. Must have pressed the wrong button. Damn! Hope somebody else will drink it. If I tell DH it prevents cancer he'll probably drink it;)

Ah well, as long as he's happy with his life and he keeps in touch I must just be glad for that.

It's very true that absence does make the heart grow fonder.

cha97michelle

Morning everyone.

Tried to get on from about 8:30 this morning, but between site playing up and charlie being mardy and clingy i have not managed.

pigpen hugs to you - i don't know what to suggest, but hope it goes ok this evening. Think back to how you felt yesterday with DS2 doing so well, so it isn't your fault, but that doesn't help you deal with it. Sometimes people aren't nice, and if we are related to them it makes it harder to deal with. I can say though my brother was a pain last year while doing gcses, and is much nicer now he has got onto the mechanics course and got a weekend job and a nice girlfriend. Maybe he is unhappy about something and he is taking it out on you lot, or perhaps he will grow up and act more maturely very soon.

my morning has been s-l-o-w !

• I have manged to whip the hoover round the living room and dining room, really need to do the kitchen too so i may do that in a second.
• changed lots of smelly nappies - why do antibiotics loosen everything up? and why does it have to smell so bad - one made me throw up yesterday, and i thought i was well past that stage in this pregnancy.
• got us both fed and dressed
• opened and dealt with post
• put charlie down for a nap
• peeled some veg for us to have with some leftover pie for lunch
• one load through the WM with washing up towels/dish/table wiping cloths as that won't be helping the germ spreading in the house
• sorted out a load upstairs of charlie white stuff (vests/socks) to put in later today when i can bring it down without hauling a child with me.

Just made myself a cuppa and had a mince pie to boost the old blood sugar. Diggerland voucher came in the post so another thing to nicely wrap as at the minute it was a leaflet and a voucher - no nice pack or anything - i had to pay 3.something just for that. Might make a card and put piccies of diggers on it or something like that.

Anyway, onwards to ring the nursery, pay the bills i didn't get round to yesterday as i was knackered by the time i got charlie in bed, and finish off lunch so i only need to quickly blast it in the MW when he wakes up.

Have a nice day whatever you are doing.

Michelle, x