Weekly Flylady Thread 19th December 2022

roundtuit

Morning  xx

Thank you for the link iona - I've watched it and I'll have a look at more of her videos as she makes a lot of sense.

Thank you YL. The thought of 'making' myself return to work on 28th was rather overshadowing and spoiling Christmas anticipation but having been offered and accepted a phased return I'm feeling more positive about both the return to work and Christmas. 

I've had a shower and washed my hair - finally could do so without my neck hurting. Ahhhh. That feels better. And I've WULTD a bowl of pots. So that feels better too.

Today is an 'at home' day so I aim to get all the pots WUDUPA by this evening. Only one more bowl of pots to wash - it's not a mega mountain like the old days, just feels that way as I'm usually more on top of the pots. 

Love to all
Rxx

ionafan

You're welcome, round.  Glad to hear that your neck is improving.

I've showered and dressed, and I have found another cardboard box to declutter to DDiL1 - she uses particular shapes and sizes for her business postage.  Fer-ling! 

Must crack on with the shopping list...

Suffolksue

Delurking to say I can’t stop laughing at the fitted sheet video 
thank you 

x_raphael_xx

thriftyscotslass said:

Yesterday, dealt with one humungous admin frog yesterday - spent 4 hours identifying an error in our gas bill, finding evidence and sending it back to our supplier. £270!! - how can they get it so wrong is beyond me!! People can't afford it - rant over.

I got home from work the other day to the water bill, while we were checking it over the lad from next door knocked. His bill was over £800! So he obviously has a leak somewhere. (He wanted to know if we knew where the stopc0ck was.)
His meter was sitting in a pool of water, so hopefully the leak is on the waterboards side of responsibility.

I've scanned and shredded a mountain of personal paperwork the last 3 days (using the office facilities while the boss is away). I'm not avoiding my paid stuff on purpose, the accounting software is playing up and not transferring the transactions I need (there is an outage on a server somewhere) so I don't have a lot else to do apart from the odd email every hour or so.

Must ring the vets and the pet insurance today.

thriftyscotslass

x_raphael_xx said:

I got home from work the other day to the water bill, while we were checking it over the lad from next door knocked. His bill was over £800! So he obviously has a leak somewhere. (He wanted to know if we knew where the stopc0ck was.)
His meter was sitting in a pool of water, so hopefully the leak is on the waterboards side of responsibility.

Ouch! Fingers crossed.

pigpen

Mattresses dropped at DD1's and her CS bags collected.. she now has somewhere for the 2 smalls to sleep and floor space (2 cotbeds dismantled and all the binbags gone.. Jasper is REALLY pleased about his big bed.

Twinkles thermals finally made their way here.

OH is being nagged to get down the unwrapped presents so I can get those done tonight once the grubs are in bed.. I will have it done.

In the meantime I have run the DW and both WM's.. I need to reload those and feed the TD.

But.. here I am, knitting a third mitten!

YORKSHIRELASS

Hi all

Well I thought the hospital was going to be a waste of time but I was so wrong.  I saw a young newly qualified Urologist for my painful bladder syndrome which she tells me was last reviewed in 2012.  Lots of practical suggestions and some new medication if my GP agrees.  She did offer investigations under general anesthetic if I really wanted it but agreed that was probably overkill at the moment.

Glad that's out of the way, some paid stuff done, car washed, clean washing put away, a few bits ironed and the LR dusted around the Christmas gibble.  Going to light the fire next, pork steaks for DH and DS for tea, I am having a veggie pie.  Mash has been requested so I should probably go and peel some spuds.

x_raphael_xx

x_raphael_xx said:

Must ring the vets and the pet insurance today.

Vets rung. They don't have Januarys staff rota yet (Pup is due kennel cough vax & healthcheck), so they will ring me back.
Pet insurance rung - No resistance, she asked why I was cancelling, I said 'Cheaper in a comparison'. She said 'All done'. I was expecting a quote check and haggle but call competed very quickly. New pet insurance has been set up.

I also rang the mortgage people for details on easiest way to overpay. Details got-ted, I'll be making our first overpayment tonight.

Fayolle

Evening all.
Well done, YL, on decluttering the horsepiddle appointment.
Glad that Jazee and Iona are feeling a tad improved.
Work cluttered at a fast pace today. So much to do before Friday lunchtime.
Pork steaks from the new-to-us farm shop had for dinner here as well. Not my first choice of dinner, and as I stupidly froze all 4 together, I get to repeat the meal -or something similar - tomorrow evening too. Note to self - freeze in pairs next time. 

Kitchen tidied, double whammy hit of ironing done. 

DD is out with a friend in big town which makes me uneasy. DH has thankfully offered to go and pick her up later.

Narc0lepsy

For some reason last night I felt reasonably alert and finished the 2 flower arrangements after midnight, one for each neighbour. Can't imagine how I had the energy and interest in that rather than finishing a report....
So of course the late night that felt fine at the time meant that the early (for me) start wasn't pleasant. Remembered to put the cream and lemon curd in the cake baked yesterday.  Noticed Mr N's car had a puncture as we walked past it to get to my car.
- drove Mr N to gym then went to have the car washed as per the service plan.
- while that was being done I got a few bits from the R&nge and ditto Mr T as they are walking distance from garage.
- collected car and booked service for Feb.
- picked up Mr N and visited one friend, bearing the cake. Appreciated.
- went round to next friend who is almost blind. She was sorting out Mr S delivery, with some difficulty as they had missed a couple of things and others were in unfamiliar packaging - that's a big issue if you can't see.  We offered to go to Mr S and get the few missing things. Got to Mr S and half the town was in the car park, plus the staff - there was some sort of power cut! Drove through traffic to Mr T (yep, the one I'd been in earlier).    Seems the world has run out of crackers for cheese (mixed box) so rang friend to find out which she wanted in individual packs!
- dropped off 2 more local Christmas cards.
- Mr N took wheel off his car. Large nail/screw in tyre. Drove it up to local garage.
- froze the lasagne, christmas puddings and some mozzarella.
- since then I've made 3 more flower arrangements, spoken to my mum on the phone (twice) and my brother, done some more of a report.    Now I'm being summoned to dinner (ready meal).