Weekly Flylady Thread 23 October 2023

Asparklierblonde

Morning all

Valli I hope today is more settled for you xx

Terrible night's sleep here, which seems to be par for the course ATM. I did remember to get the chicken out to defrost for lunch at 1am so that's something!! 

I will be AWOL for a couple of days visiting Mum, normally I would shudder a bit at the thought normally but I NEED a break from here -from mud, from thinking about meals, from a constantly filthy floor etc etc. DD had a friend to sleep last night so has been far more sassy than normal...

Right I am going to have brekkie, take care all and I will see you on the new thread xx

pigpen

DW done second run

2x WM (4 loads done)

Dreamies jar filled
DW tablet jar filled
WUliquid filled
Cat biscuits filled
recycles/maggot/bin bins all filled
cats fed.. whether they are full or not is undetermined as they are screaming in the kitchen for dreamies I think.

Rinse aid needs filling and the sides need wiping but I am not doing that in my oodie it is too messy.

4 loads of laundry to dangle on airers.

I will then bring in the stuff which is soggy wet and been on the line for the better part of a week.. rinse, spin and rehang.. small bits in TD.

I need to pay the last bit off the freezer and that will be £50 a week I can reallocate.. and the freezer will be all mine!!!

pigpen

Freezer paid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S ALL MINE!!!!!!!!!

Quids reallocated to DD1 for 3 weeks.. then it is going to dance class. or else I can't enrol them for after christmas.

Honey_Bear

I do hope your need for showers settles down very soon Valli.  Your atittude and fortitude is so robust about the ongoing situation means that I sometimes forget how much you're still dealing with, like having to balance taking certain drugs with real, actual, day to day life.

And, on another level, ASB, you dealing with sassy kids, mud, rain and wind, exhaustion and extreme budgetting.  Good on you for keeping going but I'm glad you're going to have a bit of a break.

House looks reasonable after the efforts yesterday, but I know our bathroom could do with a bit of a swish and a swipe. 

In the Lidl Too Good to Waste box this week was quite a bit of ginger root.  We're doing a rhubarb, apple and blackberry crumble for pudding this afternoon.  Does anyone have any idea if we can use any of that ginger to add a bit more flavour, or would it be too bitter?  I can grate and freeze it anyway for other uses but while it's still fresh it could be useful, couldn't it?

pigpen

HB.. ginger tea??? ginger cake loaf.. slice and freeze in servings? .. gingerbread mans.. so much nicer with fresh than the powdered stuff.. though, mine is probably about 90 years past the BBD.

ASB .. sounds like a few days off are just what you need!

I have clothes about my person.. off to wipe.. and hang.. and rinse.. and list 5 more bits on V1nted.. FLING!!

pigpen

ooh.. I sold a thing... *adds packaging a parcel to list*

roundtuit

Brew 2 supped. Breakfast eaten. Got dressed. Fed the birds. Put out the rubbish and recycling. Coffee supped. Read a couple of magazines, now in the recycling box. Drove into town to pick up my repeat prescription and called in Mr Al's on the way home. Groceries all put away. No need to go anywhere tomorrow now. Man is due to come to service the boiler between 12 and 5 tomorrow. The last time I arranged that timing he turned up in the morning!!! He can come when he likes now. 
Lunch next
Rxx

Cloth_of_Gold

@pigpen I can't really complain because DH told them to do that.

@Valli glad to hear you're better today; hope it continues.

This morning I had a good walk before the rain started. Stopped off at a bakery/deli and bought one of their large  cheese straws, which have some caraway seeds on the top, and are absolutely delicious. I heated it for a few minutes just now and we shared it, and I had a glass of red wine from a bottle that I opened last night. It seemed doubly nice as it is cold, grey and wet outside.

After I came back from my walk DH wanted to go to the park but just as we were about to go out it started to rain so we drove to a local museum cafe instead and had a coffee, which was nice. I had an Ocado order coming between 12 and 1 and just as we were pulling up, at about 11.30, my mobile rang and it was the Ocado driver saying he couldn't find our address. I could see him on his phone so I pulled up next to him and said 'follow me'. It seemed a re-run of yesterday, with him coming early and with no warning, but at least I didn't end up with everything in the corridor outside the flat! It wasn't problem-free though as I dropped a tub of trifle as I was putting things away and it spilled out. Fortunately it was on the kitchen floor so easy to clean up and not on our newly cleaned carpets, which would have been annoying.

Going to prepare lunch now and then DH wants to watch 'An Inspector Calls', which I was supposed to record earlier in the week. Fortunately it is available to rent on Amazon Prime, which has saved my bacon!

roundtuit

A couple more magazines read and put in the recycling box. 
WULTD.
Ice cream tub and foil dish now soaking - to be washed and recycled

Rxx

pigpen

2x WM (that's 6!!)
Partially cleared some work surface..

OH emptied bins and cat trays

Kitchen, backroom and half the hallway vacuumed.. my back hurts too much to do any more.

Henry's nose fixed.. with the helped of 2 knives and some w-u-liquid.

Cats refilled..

FGS... Pudding having a howl... lets go see what treasure he has