Weekly Flylady Thread 10th December 2007

liloandstitch

Big hugs to JJef and SIL family, and lil-me and DS1 XXX

DS is back to school today - he is still coughing really badly but I am helping out this afternoon, so I can bring him home, or give him a hug if he needs one. Flying will be level 1 if I can manage that much!!! Challenges for the week are - Put up Christmas decorations, visit Ikea, and visit Bluewater to finish Christmas shopping - so not much then - - AAAAAAARRRRRRGHHHH!!

heavenleigh

Morning all,

I thought id better come back to flying as im trying to get my house sorted for christmas and have been a little (ok alot ) lapse recently.
I started on Friday and have gutted the eldest twos rooms but still have a long way to go.
Im bagging and throwing out as much as i can to declutter along the way. With only a fortnight left i may not make it but hopefully some of you will spurr me on my way.

Manic Monday- Kitchen and Dining Room
[STRIKE]
Level One
Clear and wipe those surfaces, even if around things!
Level Two
Clean floors
Sort fridge bringing what needs using soon to the front, wipe any spills
Wipe dining table (clean table cloth if necessary)
Level Three
Dust any extra furniture in dining area, checking for cobwebs on way round
Wipe & replace small appliances such as kettle, toaster etc (wipe under too, especially the toaster!)
Clean cupboard door fronts and fronts of appliances, don't forget those kick boards
Check those washing machine, tumble dryer, cooker hood and dishwasher filters
Extra Mission
Choose one or more of:

• Wipe window sills and clean windows in these rooms
• Wipe down any tiles and shine those taps
• Clean the inside of cupboard doors
• Clean oven if you didn't do it last week
• Clean one cupboard out, what is that in there? anything out of date? Sort through it and clean it before putting everything back

[/STRIKE]

Other jobs to do today

Bag junk on top landing and my bedroom.
Sort through clean washing pile and put away
Hoover top of stairs and landing
Clean bathroom floor.

Ok i cheated on the oven i started it on friday but it took me until last night to finish it :eek: I didn't think it was possible to clean it up it was in such a state but it's now gleaming, i must keep it clean!

Leigh xx

pigpen

Hugs to everyone.. cos I am feeling huggy today.

I've washed myself.. I now smell ok and people may actually stand next to me without checking their shoes for poop!!

I've spent an hour sticking tickets on the remaining tombola prizes at school and I am aiming to get there this afternoon to help set up the tables at 1pm.. but I did say that was depending on whether DD5 was asleep or not I couldn't hold any guarantees. I also have 2 parcels being delivered which I don't want to miss.. think it is my lush stuff.. though it might be from play.. we shall see if it ever turns up!

Next door appears to have no electric as the house smoke alarms have been going off since 4am and are driving me insane now.. I am typing really loudly to drown them out a bit!! .. It wouldn't be so bad but they have all the house windows open so it is really loud.. I shall complain later when the guys get here.. gggrrrrr...

I've had 7 mc's.. but all earlyish nothing compared to losing a baby at 20 weeks I am certain..I'm at the point now where it doesn't matter any more.. I can't get attached and what will be will be.. I get on with it.. I'm quite certain I'd fall to pieces if I lost one at 20 weeks though so hugs to jjef and family!!

Dailies..

WM
TD
DW
BM
[STRIKE]SC [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Fold[/STRIKE] and put away clean laundry.. I have tonnes still to work through!
Buy, wrap and deliver brothers 18th birthday pressies & card.
[STRIKE]Take christmas fayre stuff to school[/STRIKE]..I struggled there with a big box of wine and have transfered buns to managable size boxes which will slot under the pushchair and I have the christmas cake which will fit in my posh black tesco bag and be ok I think.


Manic Monday- Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
Clear and wipe those surfaces, even if around things!
Level Two
Clean floors
Sort fridge bringing what needs using soon to the front, wipe any spills.. fed curly kale to the bunnies.. they loved it.. we hated it!
Wipe dining table
Level Three
Dust in dining area, checking for cobwebs on way round
Wipe & replace small appliances
Clean cupboard door fronts and fronts of appliances, don't forget those kick boards
Check those washing machine, [strike]tumble dryer[/strike], [strike]cooker hood [/strike]and [strike]dishwasher filters[/strike]
Extra Mission

• Wipe window sills and clean windows in these rooms
• Wipe down any tiles and shine those taps
• Clean the inside of cupboard doors
• Clean oven if you didn't do it last week
• Clean one cupboard out

mary43

Morning all..................oh dear............not doing very well on this

Made some Birthday cards for grandchildren (they have birthday at christmas as well) on behalf of my Mum as she's not able to do any, did card for new foster boy who arrived last week and in the process of all this created more mess than there was in the first place.
Every 'hotspot' is still a 'hotspot' and I'm sure stuff breeds overnight.

Shan't get much done today in that area as I have to take a young lad to the bank to sort out his bank charges and getting them back.
That's the afternoon gone.

Dinner is chicken, white wine sauce and taglettel...........easy peasy and thats all out ready to be done later on.
Letter rack about to fall over its so full of 'stuff'.

Oh eck................I'm a lost cause at the moment

Maybe tomorrow ????

nicola1982_2

Right I'm going to get level one out of the way now, then sit down and deal with my cold

pigpen

Parcels arrived.. it is the rest of my mothers bits from ebuyer.. that's her done.. phew!!!! Where is my lush order?????

LJD1_2

JJef - hugs and best wishes to you and your SIL and her family. Thinking of you all.

Nicola - you're thinking of having a party when you're about to have your stitches removed!!! Are you totally mad!!! You make sure it's not you tidying up after the party. Good luck with it all.

DS was only sick once last night. The fact that it was literally all over me is beside the point. Bless the little horror! The plus side of him being off to today means that I have to be at home too so i'm planing on flying my way through the house and getting as much done as possible for the week. So far i've done a good job of the kitchen and scaped the carpet on the stairs. I've also cleaned out the guinea pigs and done a load of washing.

Jobs for the next hour;
1) Sort out the ironing
2) Sort out some more washing
3) Put one christmas tree up with lights so the children can decorate it when DD comes home from school.

My mum has been a total star and bought round two big Waitrose shepherd's pies for tea so I don't have to think about cooking. She's a star!

Hugs to all. Off to do the next three jobs now xx

Dustykitten

Back from town - will update list. Had a row with JL - need to write to head office now. Brought some soup and seedy bread which I will scoff now.

PP has af arrived????

tiamai_d

Was feeling a bit grumpy, till I read the old thread and Shell insinuated that I would make a sex joke out of her playing at doggies, I most certainly would not!

jjef Hope your SIL is ok, and it works out better next time.

So far I have been quite good. Hubby talked at me about BB stuff and I got bored and fed up and grumpy (I had been trying to sort out my list for Christmas food). Then he went to work and i decided the boxes of decorations that were still sitting there were getting sorted. So dec's up and boxes in hall ready to be packed away later.

Sweet and sour rice for lunch then tackle the kitchen. And the rest of the house too, just remembered my blinds are being installed tomorrow.

and.. DS2 is well trained, he spills milk, he cleans it up!

The_Dragon

I need to get on with various bits - but the house is more or less clean (if not tidy! we are still waiting on storage to arrive!)

What I really need to get done is stitching for other people (I am seriously late getting one of these out!)

So this is my weekly list so far

1. Soak chickpeas
2. Make chickpea curry
3. Get cards for Henry and Natalie
[STRIKE]4. Organise gift for Henry - AP - DONE[/STRIKE]
5. Send card for Henry - AP
6. Do minimum of 5 hours stitching on “Gather ye Rosebuds”
7. Parcel up and send gift to Team Tango - AP
8. Sort out fun stitching project
9. Re-cycling out
10. Go to FLYmeet
11. Get Christmas pressies sorted out
12. Sort out car stuff - AP

Other stuff will be added as it crops up AND if I do something extra I will add it and instantly cross it through (makes me feel better!) - cleaning is tricky on crutches though!