Weekly Flylady Thread 28th January 2008

soappie

pigpen wrote: »

Soappie.. fabulous.. Money for doing nowt and no fees to pay!!! WTG!! How on earth did you end up with all these maps though?

It's elementary my dear Pigpen. I bought them at auction

It was in my 'live for the day' phase nigh on 6 years ago when I didn't think beyond the end of the week. (i.e. I didn't realise I'd have a serious shortfall on my mortgage endowment etc. etc. I WASN'T doing the MSE stuff - far from it! And am now doing the best I can to mitigate the damage - You know how it goes...). Anyway, I was involved...

*boring mode [on]*

..I was involved (and still am) with a local community organisation which was researching the local area, its history, the status of landholdings etc. I saw an online catalogue of a local auction house which including an item described something like "maps - quantity - buyer collects". I went and viewed. There was an enormous box of them. I saw one I really wanted - a 1903 map of the exact area I live in on a v. large scale amongst the 'quantity'.

So, the day of the auction, I went and bid - I really wanted that ONE map. I won, I paid and had to heave the whole damned 250 odd of them home. (Actually, I lie there, I didn't heave them home, a v. kind taxi driver did as I had a broken elbow at the time!)

I extracted the really useful and interesting ones and kept them close. The others got put up in the loft. Until this christmas last when I got them down and decided they needed a home elsewhere.

*boring mode [off]*

So there we have it - the Mystery of the Maps. Due to some paperwork that came with them, I think they originally belonged to a local Estate Agent who was doing a clear out. If only they knew! I have almost doubled the price I paid for them and still have about 200 to go....

shell2001

:T Well done solway.

I got todays washing ironed (less 2 of my tops), main thing was DH work shirts, they are having photos taken at work tomorrow so goodness knows which one he will want to wear, saves me rushing in the morning.

Rolls in oven and smelling yummy.

Just started to watch that fake babies on replay, only the intro so far and its made me feel really uncomfortable, not sure if I will make it to the end.

Right will make a hot choc and get comfy, night night all and it all starts all over again tomorrow:rolleyes:

pigpen

I have now paid a further 3 bills.. less to pay when hubby's wages go in on thursday.. and I can update my siggy strip a little!! .. I love watching those numbers go ..

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pigpen

soappie wrote: »

It's elementary my dear Pigpen. I bought them at auction

It was in my 'live for the day' phase nigh on 6 years ago when I didn't think beyond the end of the week. (i.e. I didn't realise I'd have a serious shortfall on my mortgage endowment etc. etc. I WASN'T doing the MSE stuff - far from it! And am now doing the best I can to mitigate the damage - You know how it goes...). Anyway, I was involved...

*boring mode [on]*

..I was involved (and still am) with a local community organisation which was researching the local area, its history, the status of landholdings etc. I saw an online catalogue of a local auction house which including an item described something like "maps - quantity - buyer collects". I went and viewed. There was an enormous box of them. I saw one I really wanted - a 1903 map of the exact area I live in on a v. large scale amongst the 'quantity'.

So, the day of the auction, I went and bid - I really wanted that ONE map. I won, I paid and had to heave the whole damned 250 odd of them home. (Actually, I lie there, I didn't heave them home, a v. kind taxi driver did as I had a broken elbow at the time!)

I extracted the really useful and interesting ones and kept them close. The others got put up in the loft. Until this christmas last when I got them down and decided they needed a home elsewhere.

*boring mode [off]*

So there we have it - the Mystery of the Maps. Due to some paperwork that came with them, I think they originally belonged to a local Estate Agent who was doing a clear out. If only they knew! I have almost doubled the price I paid for them and still have about 200 to go....

I think that is a really interesting tale... and that is said wholeheartedly.. I love bits that have 'history' about them..

Good luck with shifting the rest!!!

x_raphael_xx

pigpen wrote: »

I have now paid a further 3 bills.. less to pay when hubby's wages go in on thursday.. and I can update my siggy strip a little!! .. I love watching those numbers go ..

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I know exactly how that feels, I am paying off HFC loan 1 in 2nd week of Feb. My cheque & letter are already written out & waiting to be posted!

vanilla

Hi everyone it's been a tiring day here, DD went down for her op at 9.30am and the nurses told me she would be an hour for the whole thing and recovery and to just stay in ward, 10.30am came and went then it was 10.45 so panick set in then 10.55 and a nurse came and told me to head down to recovery.

Went in through the door and Aliyah is in such a state really crying, that she was nearly sick, blood over the sheets, scared the life out of me. I was like a blubbering idoit. The nurses up in the ward knew she had hearing aids but the nurses in recovery didn't, so there trying to calm her down but she's no hearing aids in and there moving about so she can't lip read.

There had been some sort of problem with the operation and she started coughing in the middle of it and they had to put a tube up her noses and down her air pipe.

She recovered well after she got back up to the ward, ate cereal and toast (she's a bottomless pit that one). Got another hearing test done and her hearing has improved abit, they didn't put vents in as her glue ear is gone but did widen the canal abit.

Sorry for the long post, so glad it's over and will be heading to bed very soon once hubby returns with food:rotfl:

pigpen

Vanilla.. I'm glad little one is ok.. though it is very scary when they are all bloodied.. poor love.. hope she recovers really quickly!! (((hugs))) to you too.. bet you are glad it is over with!!

I am going to go sort a few catalogue returns and reload the WM's and TD's.. uniforms and packed munches.

oops.. I forgot to feed them the cake I made earlier!! ..oh well..

taurusgb

Oh what with one thing or another I haven't had time to read the whole thread - but I have picked up on the fact that pigpen is going to be in charge.......oo-er :eek:

cha97michelle

Evening everyone

Pretty normal hard day here.

lil-me i appreciate you running the thread normally, and i think you need a break to get your work done, so decision sorted. My friend at work is doing a maths degree with the OU, and it is really hard going. She is knackered and hasn't even got into the coursework yet.

pigpen thanks for taking back the golden mop and fluffy mules. I am not bothered what you do as i am pretty much doing my own thing here. Basically what i can do to keep my head above water - and only just, so whatever the majority wants is fine by me.



I am shattered today. My grand plan of getting lots done involved me arriving at work at 8, doing several trips to the car to get everything up to the 3rd floor, then discovering the guy i do form with was at the drs, and i was supposed to be covering despite me not actually supposed to be there - think i will have to go and whinge tomorrow, as for a 30 minute form period, i couldn't leave them unattended. Taking the **** though as usual. I then had to negotiate with the lab tech to get my resources i needed. Then discovered the student teacher didn't think he was teaching my class so had to plan that, so then worked like the clappers to get the rest of my books marked before y10s lesson, stopping to ring irate parents and etc etc - you get the picture.

One of my colleagues was off and the teacher didn't come to cover the lesson, but i am afraid i just stuck my headphones on and pretended i hadn't noticed as i would have ended up losing an hour there too.


so then taught my usual 3 lessons, went to a meeting, handed out a letter to parents that should have gone yesterday, put a kid on report, dealt with another problem kid, wrote an exit slip, rollocked y10 for half of them not doing homework, tried to put data on the school computer system for reports but it wasn't working, and so on and so on all day.

From getting in, i have had to email some resources to the student teacher so he can prepare for Fridays lesson, write a letter to the management requesting a drop in my hours when i go back after maternity leave, and planned a year 11 lesson for tomorrow. Honestly, 32 more days and counting.


so pretty usual as you can see, and i wish i either knew more and wasn't so panicked, or knew less and was ignorant of what needs doing. Either way would be less stressful.

I did want to do some more marking tonight, might challenge myself to 5 books, and then have a bath - better a bit than none i suppose.

Anyway, onwards and upwards. Glad that on the whole the day has been uneventful for you all.

Michelle, x

skintscotslass

It's taken me forever to catch up on everyone's posts!!
vanilla - hope DD has a quick recovery xx

I've made a chicken curry for tea on Friday which I'll pop in the freezer once its cooled. I also made the lovely hm hob nobs from sammy kaye's thread. Dusted and hoovered the stairs and living room. Eaten loads of hm hob nobs. Just need to pop the recycling out, wash the pots which cant go in the DW. TD sheets (when is the rain going to stop???) Also got a sale on Amazon so need to pack that and write a wee list for myself for tomorrow.

Ashbart - when I talk about BF, I mean my boyfriend!!

Hope everyone has a better day tomorrow xx

PS Pigpen....I'm scared!!!