Weekly Flylady Thread 22nd January 2024

Valli

morning all. 

up and vertical.  I didn’t complete connection AND i’m stuck on wordle

wM x 3 plus yesterday’s so my lines will be full

MinnieMousesMummy

Morning all, It's a sunny but cold day

My list for today
Get dressed
Feed the animals
Do paid stuff
Declutter 50 emails from inbox
Do required uni work
Strip, wash, and remake bed
Hoover floors downstairs
Dust downstairs
HHI
Do 2 loads of laundry

It is another short list for me today but think that is everything that I need to tackle. Hope everyone has a lovely Friday. 

flamingo747

Morning folks

S&S x2, windows wiped, beds made, TD finished and PA, WMx1, general tidy everywhere,  hedge trimmer taken to my mum by Mr Flamingo, WUDUPA, Junior Flamingo back to school 

To do: pick up in garden, line dry, iron, go to CS with my mum and drop 2 bags, check shopping budget, do groceries, full floors, relist stuff on F-B
Weekend to do: xmas in the loft! Dumpy bag of garden waste to tip

pigpen

4 girls dropped at school.. Squeak didn't get on the bus because it didnt say it was the school bus nd the driver had no idea where he was going and was trying to get confirmation from the office who were nt responding and he had no idea where the school was!
Dot's meeter&greeter was not there.. she did ok and they text saying had got to class.. one less thing to worry about today.

i have the senco meeting about Twinkle at 10. just throwing a cuppa and breakfst of 2 packs of mini cheddars, to give me belly ache, down my neck.. it is a 4 minutes drive.. i'm ok for a few minutes.

Squeak DLA renewal to post.. which I thought I had already done a month ago.. apparently not!

laundry shuffling to do when i get back.. via B00ts and prescrition picking up

kazwookie

Piggers, how can the bus driver have no idea where he is going?? pure madness, he must have a route to follow.

WM done out on line double pegged.

Fire done

Cats fed

New to me bench has arrived.

OH has a new to him car to collect next week, and hand over his, so I've offered to help him tidy up the inside and remove his stuff out of it, he says he is not going to bother as they have already given him a price.

Sunny and blowing

Valli

My stepdad used to be a bus driver...I once discovered, by talking to an aquaintance in a pub who, it turned out was also a driver for the same company, that his nickname, at work, was 'wrong way George'.  So there you go...

Lines full of washing.  Door company phoned with door sizes.  Repeat prescription ordered.

Narc0lepsy

Golly, you early risers put me to shame...but I'm often last on here at night so hopefully it balances.  Anyway, with determination that I will achieve more today:
- one load washing on the line. The wind is 'brisk' but the sun is out and the birds are singing.
- did a marathon lot of washing up (or so it seemed). So an environmental question: what do people use to wash up with?  I have just reluctantly, after a year without them, bought more 'scratchy sponge' washing up thingies. Yes I know they are nasty plastic. I have tried their bamboo replacements (ok but not scratchy enough for pans), brillo-type wire wool (ok but too scratchy for some things), a brush (gets full of grot) and a sponge on a stick (ok but still the sponge bit is plasticky).      Sigh. Oh well, I've just not contributed to a flight this week so please allow me a pack of scratchy sponges........trying not to think of the sea creatures that might eat them.
- had a good clean of the sink and washing up bowl. Dishcloth (cotton!) is in bleach.
- filled bird feeders.    Don't forget the RSPB bird count this weekend.
- have returned to my helpful (when I remember it) "don't leave one room without doing something to improve it" so the recyclable waste from the container in the en suite has been put in the recycle bin, the container is in the DW, the box of coffee grounds which sits by the kitchen sink has been put on the blueberry bushes.
- I've done a bit more of the report and I've just made myself a coffee (miss that coffee icon/emoji thing) so I can do some more.

Valli

I use scratchy sponges too, Narco.  Not happy but something scrubby is sometimes called for; even though I have a dishwasher.  

Honey_Bear

I occasionally need green scratchy pads and use them until they’re worn completely down to stop myself feeling too guilty about the plastic element. What I’ve discovered is that they can go in the washing machine when they’ve grim, so I really do use them until they’ve finished iyswim.
We no longer use plastic handled w/u brushes but it was a heck of a job to find wooden handled ones. When I did I bought a big supply of them. I put them in the dishwasher when they’re vile and that sorts them out. Beloved likes a w/u brush; I love jcloths.
Huge congratulations Soapie on the debt busting. I hope it gives you a shiver of pleasure every time it crosses your mind.
1 load out on the line. It’s a beautiful day here, like May.

YORKSHIRELASS

I forgot to say well done too Soappie,  I am a bit behind you on the debt busting front but very happy for you.

I have never found anything cost effective and environmentally friendly for washing up either. 

So today was a workshop thing at work with 7 people who I only vaguely know.  I was supposed to have been asked to get some information ready to present to the group but the message didn't get to me until 2 hours beforehand.  Not a problem I chirped, I can do it!  Why do I do this to myself?  Cue massive anxiety not helped by the fact that I am still feeling under the weather.  And breathe.

Oh and on Monday I am at a meeting at another site and have to give someone a lift.  I am anxious enough driving anywhere unfamiliar without a complete stranger sat next to me. 

So.. home to eat fajitas made by DH, change into my scruffs and curl up under the heated blanket.  I have a lot going on at work next week so I need to rest up this weekend and kick this cold into touch. 

Oh but I will fly a little too.