Weekly Flylady Thread 8th February 2021

roundtuit

Morning xx
Just popping in to say welcome back to HB and asb xx So pleased to have you both back in the Flylady nest xx

Hugs to Fayolle and DD xx

Minimum flying here - feed the birds, put out the recycling, make the bed, bin out for emptying, bin in again. paid the rent, paid the leccy bill. This morning I have requested my repeat prescription and cleared my unread emails. Paid stuff until 4.30 pm then it's the weekendddddd woot woot.

Hoping that Weekend Willi will be here as I've brought a sturdy box home from work so that I can empty DS's drinks cupboard into it ready to be taken to his house. 

Have a good day everyone. Big smile for YL doing as you are told. xx
Hugs 
Rxx

ionafan

Belated birthday greetings to Natty - hope the postman gets through to you today xx
Well done dancemum xx

Last night I went straight to bed after editing my post and had 9 hours' sleep.  Yes, I really was tired!  DH says he has been running a temperature all night, but thankfully he is nowhere near as poorly this morning as he was yesterday.

There's nothing in my diary for today, but I need to collect DH's meds from the pharmacy and pick up milk and bananas at the Co0p, and while I'm passing my friend M's house I will drop off her birthday card for tomorrow.  I have a couple of loads of washing to finish off from yesterday, and I need to take down DH's birthday cards and damp dust the LR.  It's cold here with a clear blue sky, but not quite as cold as yesterday, and temperatures are forecast to rise above freezing for a couple of hours.  I have promised to make DH a lemon drizzle cake (I cut it into small portions and then freeze it so that it's out of sight and - sometimes - out of mind, but takes very little time to defrost when we need a treat), and roast chicken is on the menu tonight.  In the meantime, I need to get a move on with these family history papers -  2 family groups sorted in three weeks is hardly great progress when I've got dozens more to do and real work needing some attention too.

Hope everyone has a good day.  (((Hugs))) spoons and sticks all round xx 

kazwookie

All those feeling under the weather, I hope you are improving, keep warm.

It was snowing earlier, very icy under foot, the sun is now out.

Baking done, fruit scones, cheese scones, and a tray bake brownies.

Not a lot else going on today, except general admin stuff, feeding of various birds, and such like

Jazee

Hello all.  My weekend has started so I'm going to slob as per the list once I've washed the dishes and put the hoover round.  Poppet has had a walk but Littleydog didn't want to come out today.

Hope you're all ok and having a great day. 

pigpen

apologies if it is huge.. but LOOK!!!!!!! I remembered I had some in paypal and another savings pot and threw it all in together..

Thank you for putting up with me wittering on about it, and helping ..

Next things... a bit of debt clearance (this would pay off 4 bills/debts)

OH gone to pick up stuff from school, post an ebeast parcel and buy bread.
I've fed the grots and given some past their best bits from the fridge to the furry stomachs!

Valli

Narc0lepsy said:

Oh and I did a 45min webinar with the company I'm likely to be spending money with to buy on-line versions of materials which cost me a fortune to buy in paper some years ago. 

Just catching up the Fred...and marking so I will reply properly later BUT
check with the publishers.  because we (work) had bought materials I discovered we can have access to the online stuff for no additional cost.

Honey_Bear

Yorkshire Lass - that happened with my father's phototgraphs of his family.  So many of them were unannotated that I had no option but to tell(!) my little brother, who will carry on the family name as he has a child and I don't, that he should have them along with all of his family tree research.  I have a few I was interested in but not the whole lot, thank goodness.  NMP (Not My Problem) helps.

Hi and :wave: to ASB, Natty, Roudtuit and Pigpen - that was a lovely thing to say, thank you.  Ionafan, you are making progress and now that you have a system it will fall into place.  It's the 'getting the chaos into a shape that makes sense' stage that takes most of the time in my experience but once you've got a model the rest is relatively quick in comparison.  The hard part is making the decisions, not the filing.

Another 12 photos out today and I was quite looking forward to heaving them out when I started on it this morning, mostly duplicates, but two that were have gone to the mother of a bridesmaid from a wedding.  I doubt she's ever seen them, so that's four I've been able to give her.  One box has been emptied and that meant I could clear the top of the dresser of all the gibble that's been there for more than a year, probably three or more.  All that's left is a jar of peanuts, a box of donations for when the CSs open again and some specialist recycling.  Major victory in the decluttering process - and all because I disposed of 12 photographs today.  I this kind of decluttering.

Bathroom and bedroom dusted, and the mattress cover is twirling in the WM.  Very good drying weather at the moment, dry air and strong winds.  Much needed here after months of rain.

pigpen

So.. The first appointment was LOOOOOOOOOOONG.. an hour of talking.. I don't talk to anyone for that long!  She said they would go straight in to the ADHD assessment because the hyperactivity seems to be causing the most difficulties at the moment and then look at other autistic spectrum issues.. I think she has Aspergers too if I am honest. I need to get the report the Ed Psych  form school.. He didn't work for the local authority but was private with the academy trust and he retired last summer so I don't know where to ask for that. I need to contact the Autism Team for the referral the SENCO sent to them.. that should be.. interesting. SALT never gave us anything but they may have notes from our appointment with them but that was when she was 3 or 4 so not really relevant, a new referral was made in September through school but we haven't heard anything due to it all being remote. I fortunately photographed the forms I filled in for school over summer so I can send those through. So.. next appointment is in about 4-6 weeks and hopefully the information will have been collected and looked at and we can have a proper face to face meeting and Dot can be wild in her presence.

Again.. I am apparently supposed to be broken after CF.. why do people think I should be broken? I'm not a victim.. he is a lunatic, I just put up with it because of my own inadequacies and lack of escape routes.. but I did escape and have removed all toxic people from my life and it is nice.. I'm just weird, I was always weird, that's not a result of the abuses and struggles I faced, it is just me. I'm ok with that.

Anyway.. moving in the right direction to get Miss Squish some support because she is wonderful. I don't want her to change, I just want her to cope and be understood and accepted as she is. The relief from having the payment for the assessment is massive.. honestly, I can not find the words.

Food time in here.. so I shall feed them and get the WM's andTD and DW on.

OH has mince still to eat, I'm having salad same as always, with sea bass maybe.. not sure what else I have.. might do new potatoes. The big beasts can have pies and the smalls can have fish.. That should be everyone sorted..

ionafan

Well done on the savings fund, pigpen.  I'm  very glad - for you and her - that Dot's ADHD assessment will go ahead soon.  She sounds wonderful and unique and of course you don't want her to change, but the more coping mechanisms she has access to, the better life will be for all of you.  I think children who are 'outside the box' always have a rough time of it, but after many years of exclusion and misunderstanding about what it means to be an achiever, there has recently been a major shift in attitudes towards children with Down's Syndrome, and we can only hope that the same will soon happen for children with ADHD and autistic spectrum conditions.

I've not had a very productive day so far.  Went out to the shops for an hour this morning and got thoroughly cold, went out with Rosie for an hour this afternoon and got even colder.  Result = brain shutdown.   But the chicken is in the oven and so is an apple crumble, so we shall have comfort food this evening.  The timer has just pinged so I must go and get the crumble out of the oven before it burns.

YORKSHIRELASS

Welcome home ASB so happy you are re-connected.

Pigpen I keep thinking about LW too for some reason, hope she is OK.  Sounds like you are making great progress and hopefully it will really help.  I totally agree that acceptance, understanding and support is everything.  We were told that DS1 is "on the spectrum" for something, but the help he got was virtually non-existent, and when he was a bit older he chose not to get a diagnosis.  He is totally unique and despite having missed most of secondary school he has done pretty well for himself.  

Anyway, my news, I have been to the optician and yes I need new glasses, despite the old ones only being 18 months old.  I feel a bit guilty because I have spent £430 which includes new frames.  The optician said that they could have put new lenses in my old frames but I was swayed by some lovely trendy iridescent blue/grey frames.  Anyhow, its done now and hopefully no more headaches in a week or so!

Paid stuff done, a little general flying, yet more washing over the airer.  It's weekend, the fire is lit and its time to chill out.