Weekly Flylady Thread 11th December 2023

soappie

Morning all

Thanks for the list Natty

Breakfasted and drugs taken
Today, as the sun is shining, I'm going to wash the bedding and hang it out for a bit before finishing it off in the TD so I might as well dust and dyson in that room too.
I need to complete my occupational pension application form and send that off.
Recycling day tomoz so that needs to go in the bin.
DS is in London all week so I can eat when/what I like as I'm not constrained to his tastes and set lunch hour! I have a lamb shank and a pheasant to scoff at some point this week... (cold chicken and veg from yesterday's roast for dinner tonight - may do a cheese and potato pie with it).

Stay well people

ionafan

Morning all.  Thank you Natty for the new thread x  I shall be flitting here and there this week, so will try to cross some things off your list as well as mine.

Our Internet "service" has been playing up very badly recently (we haven't got fibre broadband in this area, despite living within the West Midlands conurbation which is supposed to be a hive of industry, so it's slow at the best of times), and some days I can hardly stay connected long enough to catch up with the thread, let alone add a post of my own.  I wrote another long post early yesterday morning when it should have been ok, but lost that one too.   I won't bore you by repeating everything, as it's now well OOD. 

This week DH and I are going to be in and out like the weather house people, apart from one day when we are going out together! (and even that is due to my having a meeting near a place where we particularly enjoy going for lunch, so he will have to take a book with him and wait for an hour or so).

I haven't even started on Christmas cards yet, and DS1's birthday present definitely won't be ready for when he comes with DGD1+2 for his belated birthday celebration tea on Wednesday - at this rate, he might get it by the end of January if he's lucky.  On Saturday K presented me with her fluffy acrylic jumper, on which she had spilt a lot of coloured candle wax, and asked me to get all the wax off for her.  I gave it back to her yesterday, having picked away at one little patch for half an hour, and told her that I really don't have time to do it in the daylight, and I can't see to do it under artificial light, so she would have to do it herself.  She has far better eyesight than me.  As it is, W (her DD) has outgrown her old Cubs pullover, so needs all her badges transferring to a new one, and I had already agreed to do that.  

Today's plan:
- FUPA clean washing
- eat breakfast, clear kitchen
- get meat out of freezer to defrost slowly
- strip my bed, ask DH to do his
- start WMx1of ?
- PUPA in LR
- shower and dress
- clean bathroom as per today's list
- quick trip to the corner shop (or if necessary go to MrAl) for full fat coconut milk - I've only got a tin of half-fat, and that won't suit the free-from-everything-except-calories butterscotch pie recipe that I'm doing for the Old Wives Christmas party tonight
- finish the pie, and make buttercream to fill the coffee cake for DS1
- DH is out for lunch
- finish the chicken, mushroom and butterbean soup that I started making yesterday and eat 1/3 of it
- start sewing badges on W's pullover
- call at optician's on my way to Action Heart
- breathe a sigh of relief that I haven't got to walk Rosie today (the dog walker is coming for her)
- update church website
- cook something for tea
- spend the evening with the Old Wives

And breathe....

Have a good week, especially if you've got time off work xxx

pigpen

Interview done.. he should find out on Wednesday.. but it sounded positive.. the interviewer came from a similar background as OH so that bodes well.

Not heard about my wee niece yet.

Squeak is refusign to go into lessons so we may be picking her up at 11:30.. again.. I need some KS3 workbooks.. she is not sitting about doing fluff all... I am NOT having that.
I need to email the LA re the EP assessment.

My chest is driving me mad.. this cough is going to be the end of me!

I haven't done a single thing.. I am finishing the christmas shopping today.. I am determined!

kazwookie

Thank you for the lists

Woke up to a shocking email to say my cousin's husband had passed away, OH and I knew, he was ill and had visited him in hospital, so sad and at this time of year, they don't work winter months and had all sorts of plans for the winter inc a 3 month trip to Europe.

Daily stuff done

Clean hoover filters it works so much better now.

Chicken curry cooking for dinner

OH has helped, (the 1st time in weeks) in chopping logs.

WM x 2 done, put out on whirly, as it saw sunny but it didn't last long, on in TD as I get cheap rate betewwn 2pm and 4pnm!

Deer / birds / cats fed.

Bins sorted  / bleached etc

pigpen

Kaz .. that is a rubbish start to the day ((hugs)) Today is the 19th anniversary of my Nanna passing.. I get it. It really doesn't feel that long.

Pixie off to dance class..

tomorrow we have OH, Pixie and Twinkle at dentist at 9:15.. then Twinkle has her dance exam at 11:40.. then I have to get her back to school.. I have a letter to forward to school to cover the exam.

I really need OH to get this job for the sake of his mental health.. he would finish earlier too 9-5 or 10-6.. with occasional office days which would be wonderful.. fling him out of the house for a bit.. he is weird and likes people!!

dinner.. pack ups and airer clearing to be done.. tonight I am starting on the wrapping for the grand beasties..

I need to get a ticket for the girls music concert at school too.. I will have OH sort that when he drops Pixie back at school after dentist.

I am somewhat over-busy this week.

Twinkles appears to have had gluten at some point and is destroying the bathroom every 5 minutes. I have used a full bottle of disinfectant in 3 days.

YORKSHIRELASS

Really hoping it's good news on the job front Pigpen.  Keeping everything crossed. 

I have scrubbed the bathroom and set DW going.  I need to leave at 6.30am tomorrow to take Father to hospital so I have just had a shower and washed my hair, I have too much hair to do it in the morning.

Anxious about driving to the big city and getting Dad to where he needs to be on time.  The plan is to get him in for his appointment then take Mum Christmas shopping.  It could be a stressful day. 

Cloth_of_Gold

Went to the dentist this morning for a clean and polish. His charge was outrageous so I'm pondering changing but we'll see. Popped to the shops on the way home, made lunch and washed up, took some recycling down, did a load of washing and 3 loads of TDing. Made supper, washed up, did some emails, did an online grocery order and now about to do the final eye treatments of the day.

Jazee

Morning all.  Hope everyone is ok today and that YLs day is not too stressful.

 I had a fantastic xmassy day out with family yesterday but I did iron two items and s&sd bathrooms before I left.

 I'm meeting with friends after lunch then have a doctors appointment this evening.  I intend to fly this morning with my usual Tuesdailies.

Have a great day everyone.

roundtuit

Morning xx 

I'm up, made my bed, dressed, packed my lunch, eaten breakfast and supped my brew.

I'll feed the birds and put out the recycling before I trudge off to the paid stuff. Don't want to go, but I should be fine when I get there and get stuck in.

Hope everyone has a good day. 🤞 for a stress free day for YL and 🤞 for pigger's OH. 

Rxx

Asparklierblonde

Morning all

Quick one from me as need to get stuck into paid stuff. Still feeling really under the weather, we all have this hacking cough now, it's awful. Animals fed, DD away to school, DS leaving shortly. I doubt we will see the sky today, it is so gloomy and dark!

Take care all xx