Weekly Flylady Thread 11th February 2008

Mum_on_a_mission_2

OK I've survived, I think, two back to back parties for 5 year olds! :eek:

Now chilling with a cuppa waiting for the painkillers to do their thing with my poor pounding head then will crack on..

HHI first I think, then as much tidying as I can a further declutter of my bedroom

Onwards & upwards,

Moam

StressedSteph

woohoo we made it :-)

Pink_Fairy_2

pigpen wrote: »

Standing in for Lil_me actually.. she is on study leave temporarily.

Ooops, sorry to Pigpen, Lil_me and Mudbath!!!:o (Yet another migraine type headache - that's every day for 2 weeks!)

Bonsibabe - have a lovely visit with your parents and enjoy a rest! You've worked hard preparing for them. Well done.

Last two years, we had snow in March which didn't last very long, but it did make driving hazardous so we weren't allowed to work away from home till it cleared, but it's flippin' freezin' here today!

Steph - Welcome! My toddlers are 5'4" and 6'2", so I'll have to dredge the memory, but it sounds like you're trying to do too much. The paid jobs may be a necessity, and certainly doing things from scratch is more cost effective, if a bit time consuming, but definitely only tackle one room at a time! When my toddlers were small, the best way to keep them busy was to give them a mini cleaning set to "help". It worked quite well, so could you do that with your 3 year old when 1 year old has a nap? And I'm sure Pigpen would say to only tackle Level 1 until you get into the swing of things. Remember (I don't know the origins - hope you like this one too, Dusty):

The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
for children grow up, as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

Oh dear. I lost the plot again! I was wondering why you would want the window open when it's so cold!:rotfl:

Boddy - I don;t like getting rid of books. I jsut moved to a bigger house, so now they're all in one room. (The room's about a foot smaller all round because of the bookshelves tho!):rotfl:

KM - I was really struggling to keep on top of things till I found this thread. I am usually up about an hour and a half before I need to go out (but that depends on how quickly you work and how much you need to do). I also find posting a list on here encourages you to actually achieve it!

Mudbath - thank you for that. (Have car, will travel!)

I've had a rubbish day! I did all my dailies, then the plan was to do the lounge ceiling, borrowed a nifty gadget from brother, but the textured paint was too thick and despite having been sanded, the ceiling's peeling! Brother's FIL came to do my apple tree (he's doing my garden, but I haven't seen him at my house since the day my mum died when he brought us back from hospital!), then the bad head was back with a vengeance. Had some lunch, then took gadget back to brother, then came back and went to bed for an hour, got up and had a bubble bath, then DH came home so he's making dinner, but I've still got to put everything back that I'd moved to do ceiling.

Where's the new thread? I need to try harder next week, but think a visit to the doc may be in order!

soappie

Dusty - re ORF - haven't phoned the gardener because I'll probably get his dragon of a wife answer the phone but I'll leave him a note when he's due next Thurs.

So, what have I achieved with my weekend list? Nearly did them all, but hey, they weren't all imperative. Had a lovely afternoon out with the camera. I 'm researching local history with the view to writing a book on the people who made my town what it was in the early days. So, I went to the local cemetery and spent about 2 hours just wandering through the gravestones, taking photos of interesting and relevant ones. It was soooo peaceful. Even saw a green woodpecker and a fox!

There was one large mauseleum to a local family which was stunning at the time I was there. There's a stained glass window at the west face of it which the sun was just catching as I was there. As the sun shone throught the wondow, some text was illuminated inside. At the risk of seriously boring all, I'll put a photo of it up on my next post. It really was beautiful.

The ebaying of the maps is going really well. I'm now around £250.00 in profit - and there's around a hundred more maps to go

• Do PAYE before the taxman comes after me He can wait another week
• [strike]Do invoice for last two weeks work and email off[/strike] Kerching!
• [strike]Wash throws in the living room as the weather is set fair[/strike]
• Find something to cover the big plant pot in the kitchen to stop eldest cat peeing in it!
• [strike]Wash my bedding, turn mattress etc. which I didn't do in the week.[/strike]
• [strike]Go out with camera as it's set fine and photograph those things I need for the research I'm doing[/strike]
• Do a bit of research for chap in Somerset
• [strike]De-poop the back garden[/strike]
• [strike]Put more stuff on ebay[/strike]
• [strike]Tesco[/strike]

soappie

That's better! Bear in mind the colour is purely from the sun shining through the window

purpleivy

I was thinking of jumping in with the Flylady thread, I did used to do FL a few years ago.

How do you all use the thread? I was a bit put off when I saw that there have been over 1000 posts since last week!

Pink_Fairy_2

Rubbish - it re-loaded and duplicated!

jjef

come on pigpen I want a head start on tomorrows list, its half term here next week so need all the extra I can get

Pink_Fairy_2

Soappie - that's really lovely. We're thinking of buying DS the Nikon D40 6.1mp for his birthday. What do you think? He did a lot of photography with his previous tutor and is very keen, so we like to cultivate anything like that. He's so limited for anything physical by his illness.

mumofjusttwo

purpleivy wrote: »

I was thinking of jumping in with the Flylady thread, I did used to do FL a few years ago.

How do you all use the thread? I was a bit put off when I saw that there have been over 1000 posts since last week!

hello purpleivy. Ob the first page of the thread it gives the list. Today a new list will start -when Pigpen gets around to it

Most of us talk and chat on it- some more than other :rolleyes: Pigpen AGAIN

A lot of us like to use the thread to see how we have progressed through the day or week. It is entirely up to you how often you want to post but feel free to join us. Although some of us a a little mad!!!


Welcome to this thread Purpleivy