Weekly Flylady Thread 10th March 2008

Justamum

Mudbath wrote: »

i've got a batch of hot cross buns that need eating if anyone wants one?

Now I really should be trying to lose weight - but go on you've twisted my arm

Justamum

Pigpen yesterday you said you needed to peel 10lb of potatoes to go in the slow cooker - just how big is your slow cooker?

Mudbath

soappie...i take it that's your car in the drive? welcome home! lol!

Mudbath

justamum - I thought a hot cross bun would stop me snacking as we're not eating until late tonight. seems to have worked as i'm not at all hungry now. my friend has just text me to tell me she left the flowers as she knew i'd had a bad day yesterday. they're lovely...can't flowers cheer you up!

at the moment i've turned the heating down to 16 and it's still really warm. maybe i'm just so used to being cold that anything is warm now, lol.

What i've done so far today;
- walk dog
- dry clothes for 10 mins and hang
- put dry clothes away
- move electric heater back to clinic
- put second lot clothes in dryer for ten mins and hang
- washing machine load
- sorted out stock from business i sold last year
- sorted out recycling
- put groceries away
- washing machine load
- dry for ten minutes and hang
- clean bath
- clean upstairs toilet
- clean upstairs sink
- clean bathroom floor
- 22 boogie fling
- vacuumed landing
- 25 boogie fling
- 18 boogie fling
- 30 boogie fling
- 35 boogie fling
- third washing machine load
- dry for ten minutes and hang
- sort second lot of recyling from all the boogie flings

going to do another fling in the bedroom in a minute xx

Justamum

I've done my best to catch up. So far I've done -

Tuesday twirling- Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
Level One
[strike]Clean floors in these rooms[/strike]
Level Two
[strike]Clean baths, toilets, don't forget the outside! and sinks
Clear any clutter from desk
Dust PC and desk and wipe off those cup rings!![/strike]
Level Three
[strike]Empty and clean out all the upstairs bins! (the proper bins not the rooms that look like bins!)
Clean shower screen/curtain if you have one/if required[/strike]
Clear a mega hotspot!.. shred it.. and fling it.. or just burn it! Thanks to Flylady I don't have any any more!
Extra mission: Take your pick![strike]Wipe the skirtings, door and window frames in these rooms
clean the radiators in these rooms
Fling all those empty bottles and tubes
Gather up the dirty laundry upstairs!!
[/strike]

• HHI... a bit more gone! Still to do. Will do that tomorrow.
  

Twinkling Wednesday- Living Room, Hall and Stairs
Level 1
[strike]Vacuum floors and sofas [/strike] The floor is already covered in cocopops again!
Level 2
[strike]Dusting, even if around everything
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
Clean TV, other electricals and cabinets[/strike]
Clean out the fire.. if you can do it safely!!! Don't go taking things apart please and make sure it is cold!! Will do that in the morning
Level 3
[strike]Wipe light switches, sockets (make sure they are not switched on!!) and banister
Wipe the bits on the stairs that need wiping.. skirting or just the exposed edges of the stairs.. mine look like fluff piles!
Tidy shoes, coats and bags .. Are there any that need rehoming/washing/polishing?
Vacuum under furniture you can manage to move without hurting yourself[/strike]
Extra Mission: Pick one or more of the following tasks –

• [strike]Paperwork clearance.. spend 15 minutes minimum sorting through those piles of paper.. or box it up to sort through later!![/strike] Did my monthly bank reconciliation when the statement arrived. I then had to cash my supplement cheque and put some of the money in to try and stop us getting a £35 bank charge!

[strike]Clean windows & any other glass like mirrors, pictures etc
Clean a radiator or two.
[/strike]

Thumping Thursday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
[strike] Clear and wipe kitchen surfaces[/strike]
Level Two
Sweep and mop floors
[strike]Wipe dining table.. (clean table cloth if necessary) [/strike]
Level Three
[strike] Dust any extra furniture in dining area, checking for cobwebs on way round
Wipe and replace all those small appliances.. kettle, toaster etc
Clean cupboard door fronts and fronts of appliances .. don't forget those kick boards..
Check those washing machine filters and drawers for ickiness!! Tumble dryer, cooker hood and dishwasher filters need to be done too!![/strike]
Extra Mission : help yourself

• Wipe window sills and clean windows in these rooms
• [strike]Wipe down any tiles and shine those taps.. a toothbrush is great for cleaning away the gunk![/strike]
• [strike]Clean oven if it really needs it.. or just do the hob[/strike]
• [strike]Empty the bin.. [/strike] I usually only wash it when the sun is shining and I can leave it outside to dry.

Also washed the clothes, TD two loads of clothes and one load of towels
Took DS's outgrown school trousers to school for the second hand uniform stall

Pigpen did I do enough for a treat? As I'm vegetarian I don't fancy dog biscuits, cat food or fish flakes - can I have some hay please? (I'll have it with some soya milk and sugar to make it go down :rotfl:)

nicki_2

Mudbath wrote: »

nicki - when will your ou course start? i did a few courses with them a few years ago and really enjoyed them though they were all health related.

I've just signed up for the personal finance one, which starts May 3rd. Really easy and I've just tried to print out the application for funding but my printer decided to throw a wobbler and consume about 5 pages at a time so I'll have to go through and see how well its printed! :rolleyes:

Now just to have a look at the degree I was going to do - I'm now wondering whether to combine Business Studies and ICT ? Will go off to have a mooch at the Business studies course now while my tea settles (change of plan, we had cheeseburgers but they're repeating like mad ATM for me and DD decided to scrape the cheese off as she didn't like it :rolleyes: ) then to speak to Ex on the phone with DD and then she can toddle off to bed and I'll get on with my accounts as I can't concentrate on them with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on in the background :rolleyes::rotfl::rotfl:

Mudbath

i've heard a few people mention that course nicki, wasn't there a thread about it on the dfw board. the two people i know that did it found it really useful. ds has just started reading harry potter and wants us to borrow the dvds off grandma. grandma is cooler than me as she has all the dvds, lol.

soappie

Evening all

DK - if it was raining just after 2pm you posted, you may or may not be interested to know it's still raining now!
Mudbath - yes, that's my car on the drive - as long as it's a silver 4x4 thingy and thank you for the welcome home A little history lesson - the expression 'on your rag' derives from the days before disposable things and ladies used rags which had to be washed and boiled....

:cool: ORF ops can now stand down until Monday - thank you for your efforts :cool:

Right, my second free lunch was had today and was quite pleasant. My third free lunch this week will be tomorrow - though that's more of a 'launch' type lunch event. There'll probably be boring speeches and advertising etc. But, as long as there's wine, I'll survive (and no - I'm not driving - I'm being chauffered by a friend).

Will be working tomorrow around the lunch and all weekend - but from home. Have so far managed to stave off working over Easter weekend and even booked Thursday afternoon off - don't fancy battling for road space with the Easter vacationers setting off early. I shall need the break. By then, I'll have worked through almost three weeks solid without a whole day off.

Right, tonight, I shall do the kitchen challenges and WILL start on the community newsletter.

nicki_2

My sister has done the course and said it was really easy after everything we already know from here :rotfl: Thats why I'm going to take it, easy but hard enough to get my mind working again and back into study mode.

As for Harry Potter - I'm very cool apparently as I have all 7 books and all the DVDs, but I'm even cooler as I'm letting DD read them and watch the DVDs even though she's only 6 :rotfl::rotfl: She loves it! Apparently she works at Hogwarts ;):rotfl:

Right, time to sort out what "toy" (aka Barbie/Little Pony things) DD is taking into school tomorrow :rolleyes:

soappie

AnW'sMum wrote: »

In the press this last week or so now there have been three officers from three different forces (sorry should be 'service' in this pc world) who are no longer with us. My DH, the CC of GMP and a DS from Lancashire. What kind of message is that sending out to Joe Public and would be police recruits?

And now there's a fourth. News in these 'ere parts all over the radio this evening is that an Inspector from Dorset was found in Poole Bay this morning. He boarded the Barfleur ferry just before midnight last night as a foot passenger and must have fallen off somehow not long after it set sail - no-one saw him go...