Weekly Flylady Thread 19 May 2025

Spikeygran

I had to laugh. OH decided he was putting the vacuum round as me the dog and cat were outside. I've just walked insided, the loo mat is in the corner of the bathroom, and the coffee table, pouffe and sofa are halfway across the lounge. The standard lamp is 2 ft from where it normally resides and the kitchen chairs are all pulled out. 

Well at least I  know hes moved everything!!! 

Cloth_of_Gold

Hello everyone. I thougt that I'd pop in and let you know I was still here.

First, the flying. Not much today as we spent several hours out on a hospital visit. I did put on a load of towels to wash before we went out and they are now in the TD, in batches. Other than that it's just perparing lunch and WUPA the breakfast and lunch things.

Nothing much has changed here. A's mobility continues its slow decline - he now uses a walking frame around the flat instead of the four-footed stick he used to use. He doesn't go out much now, apart from hospital and GP appointments, as it's too much effort. We had to go out today though as he had a hospital appointment at the sleep clinic. He had previously done a sleep test which showed what we already strongly suspecrted: that he as severe sleep apnoea. 

At the clinic today he was given a CPAP machine and has to wear a mask when he's sleeping. As you may know, the machine pumps air into the mask and prevents the airways from closing. Hopefully he will tolerate it and it will help him to sleep properly and help me not to be woken up several times a night by incredibly loud snorting and snoring!

He has two other appointments this week - a GP appointment (I forget what that is for) and a physio appointment.

I hope that you are all well.

eltee2

eltee2 said:

Morning all

Busy this morning so will fly after lunch.  Hoping to get Level 1 kitchen & dining/living room done

✔️Open windows
✔️Air & remake bed
Exercises 1✔️, 2✔️ & 3✔️ (got extras on Mo, We & Fr)
✔️S&S bathroom
✔️Level 1 kitchen & dining/living room
✔️DW

El

Also managed a spontaeneous (sp?) defrost, deep clean & refill of freezer #2 which lives in the garage.

ionafan

It's good to see you, @Cloth_of_Gold.  If A finds his new CPAP mask uncomfortable or badly fitting and therefore noisy, there are several designs which the hospital should be able to supply.  My DH has had a CPAP for several years and has worked his way through the range of mask options.  The one which he has now is much better than the previous ones and - although much smaller - less liable to slip, which is what causes the snoring to start again.

I started the day with many good intentions but hadn't had enough sleep last night, so I crashed again around lunchtime.  Hopefully tonight will be better.  But I have managed to shift money between accounts and renew the house insurance and I've made a good start on a "quick" admin job for church.  After tea I emptied 4 of the flower pots on the decking, ready for the summer bedding.  Everything was so dry and dusty, but it has just begun raining - enough for Rosie not to want to go out into the garden before bedtime! - so hopefully enough to dampen down the dust.  And we watched the Mastermind final

Will try again tomorrow.  G'night all xxx

Valli

i have managed to sort mums stuff from the home and bag it for the cs or, in the case of undies and socks, the bin, although bras will go to a senate charity.  Well the stuff I brought into the house, anyway.  There’s a suitcase in my car still.  Although it seems wrong to do it so quickly, but I didn’t see the point of taking it to the house, putting it away etc only to have to go through it again. 


DD and I went swimming; the outswim cancer teacher asked if she was my granddaughter!  Not because I look so old but the teacher thought she was a teenager and was wondering why she wasn’t at school 😂. DD is 29.  DD ALWAYS carries her ID!

Funeral and wake venue provisionally booked.  I do feel a bit like i’m wading through treacle.  Oh I changed my bed too…usually do

that on Fridays.  

Nice to see CoG back and welcome newbies

Cloth_of_Gold

Thanks Ionafan - it's good to know there are other options. When they showed us how to used it, it seemd to make hardly any noise at all though. They said they will send him a follow-up appointment in 6 - 8 weeks to see how he is getting on. They also said they can obtian the data from the machine remotely, although I;m not sure how that works as it's not connected to the internet. 

One problem that became apparent at today's appointment was that if A needs to get up in the night (which is a certainty) he has to remove the tube from the front of the mask. This requires him to depress two little 'buttons' - one on each side of the end of the tube - before it can be pulled off. Unfortunately his grip is so weak now that he couldn't press the buttons hard enough, even though when I tried it, it required very little pressure. This means that he will have to wake me up to do it for him. Still, if it means that that is the only disturbance I get duing the night, it will be worth it.

Valli, I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. We lost our mother in 2004 but my brother and I still talk about her, and my father, a lot - it keeps them with us in one sense. Dealing with clothes and other personal belongings is very difficult but I really believe that it's best, if you can, to do it as quickly as possible. I know what you mean about it seeming wrong but even the most mundane items can become freighted with emotion in time. These isn't any right or wrong on timing though - it's whatever feels right for you.

Your DD is very lucky to look much younger than her age. Long may it last.

weenancyinAmerica

Valli, I went with a group of business women to Las Vegas when I was 27 - and at every casino I was attacked by a mob of security agents coming to get my ID. One of them finally gave me a lanyard to use to put my license in and that worked as in California if you were under 21 they took your picture from the side and not the front - so they could tell at a glance I was old enough to be there. I also used to take my sister - 15 years younger than me - to Disneyland with her two friends. One of her friends looked a lot older than she was (12) while I obviously looked a lot younger. After problems getting through, we finally switched tickets - and no further problems. It used to frustrate me occasionally then. My sister went to her own 30th birthday party once and was refused entrance to a nightclub because she didn't look 21 yet  - and her entire party of fifty got up and left with her. Now it is not so bad as we all look a lot younger than we are. It evens out after a while.

eltee2

Morning All

Having our boiler serviced sometime this morning so will potter about PUPA, tidying etc. until it's done

The story so far...
✔️windows opened
✔️got showered, hairwash & dressed (don't want to scare him!)
✔️bed aired & remade
✔️exercises 1
✔️breakfast eaten

Coming up...
✔️Finish this cuppa
At least level 1 of lr/hall/stairs
Receive & put away Eye-sland delivery
WM x3
Lunch

Later
Vacuum LR/DR/Hall & stairs
S&S kitchen & bathroom
DW

Possibly eat a 🐸

El 

Fayolle

 Lovely to see you back, CoG. Our local hospital has a sleep clinic, which seems to be the most efficiently run and helpful department in the whole hospital (and we have had good service at some of the others, so that is praise indeed). I hope the mask makes a difference for both you and A.

I am trying to stay focussed and resist the siren call of outside. So far, I have:
dropped DH at the station for his trip up to the capital to meet a friend for a day out
changed bedding, washed it, now hanging on the line in the sun
washed hair, then cleaned bathrooms, for once in the right order
dusted upstairs and the hall
Just having a 2nd coffee (it’s a 2 coffee day, most unusual for me but needs must), then I will hang out the 2nd load of washing that has just finished.
Still on my list for today - vacuum upstairs, stairs and hall, give the  kitchen sink a really good clean, finalise tomorrow’s grocery shop and the dreaded admin Tuesday session, otherwise it will get behind and this regular slot seems to be working for me.

Honey_Bear

I was asked if I was a 'half' on the bus in Bournemouth - on my 21st birthday!  It catches up eventually though and I probably look at least my age now.  Belovéd still doesn't.  Everyone is really shocked when they find out he's 78. 

:wave:  @Cloth_of_Gold

Valli I took out all of the name tapes I'd sewn into my mother's clothes when we knew she wasn't going to wear them again and we were all keeping her company sitting beside her bed at the nursing home, and the day she died I took them all to the closest CS deposit place.  I felt very ambivalent about that at the time but, like you, it didn't make any kind of sense to bring them home to take them out to drop off at a later stage.  It was one job that didn't need me to agonise over it, and there were enough that were difficult for me not to feel I was taking the easy option/s or not taking my responsibilities seriously.

Strands without any hints, all four lines on Connections with no lives lost and Wordle in five. 

I've rescued a large spider from the bath and he's now living with the plumbing in our bathroom.  Spider 2 I rescued from the roasting tin drawer in the kitchen and he's now resident on the sundeck.  I thought spider season was supposed to be in the autumn.

I've made a batch of kedgeree which is cooling in the fridge, and am keeping an eye on the mudajara on the hob.  I should also make some mushroom strog but that can wait until tomorrow.

Now to get back to shifting stuff around in the yard so that we can build the mini-greenhouse Belovéd bought me for my birthday well over a month ago that's been living under the superking until we had enough space cleared to put it.  Indoor Flying can wait until the weather turns, as long as the basics are done every day.