Weekly Flylady Thread 17th March 2008

pretz_2

hiya everyone
well today as gone well and due to bad weather not much work on so bonus as ive done sooo much cleaning and now oh wants to know if ive been swapped with a stepford clone lol,

Mad Monday - Living room, Hallway, Stairs
Level One
remove clutter from floors, chairs and fireplace done
Level Two
Vacuum floors and sofas done
Wipe and water neglected plants done
Dust those flat fluffy surfaces done
Polish the porch dont have one
Level Three
Vacuum under the furniture you can move done
Clean windows, pictures, mirrors etc. done
Clear a hotspot done
Vacuum hall and stairs done
Extras

• Wipe woodwork in the hall and stairs not done yet but will be done when lo is in bed
• Wipe front door.. inside and out! done
• Delete 10 links in your favourites which are dead or no longer used!!! dont have any
• Sort that corner full of shoes and coats and bags... I know you all put this off so get it sorted.. before the better weather hits!! done

EASTER EBAY CHALLENGE!!
We all have a box of stuff we keep meaning to ebay and putting off.. well.. this is your week!!

1. This week.. locate the box and photograph 25 items!!!
2. Upload pics to the pc
   
3. If you use turbolister.. update it! nothing to sell so dont need to

also done the normal things of
cooking dinner
washing dishes
ironing
washing and dry

gone tackle the mountain of ironing this evening to

soblivion

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

Would you be so kind as to post the recipe:D

Here you go gunsandbanjos

My other traybake is flapjacks:
8oz butter;
8oz sugar;
2 tblsps golden syrup;
10oz Tesco value porridge oats (this is what they were invented for!);

Preheat oven to Gas Mark 3. Melt butter, sugar and syrup in a saucepan; add oats. Spread in tin lined with baking parchment (can you tell I don't believe in
washing up much?!) and bake approx 35 mins.
To this basic recipe I usually add 2 tblsps sunflower seeds, 2 tblsps sesame seeds and 2 HUGE tblsps peanut butter. They are extremely nice plain, but they are wonderful with the added ingredients, plus I can kid myself that they are somehow more GI with the added "wholefood" ingredients (the seeds, not the peanut butter particularly!). You can also spread chocolate on the top if you're that way inclined.

This is how the lady wrote it out, it was so simple to do and when I've done other recipes before they've been too chewy or too hard. This was perfect. Where it said sugar I used natural golden caster sugar was all I had and cheap porridge oats like the lady said.

If you are the lady whose recipe this is, thank you very much. I did search for your post to credit you but I couldn't for trying. (sorry)

kazmeister

Hi peeps

Been at work all day so only had a quick glance at the thread.

Came in for OH to tell me that British Gas have reviewed our gas consumption/payments and have decided to up our payments from £62 per month to £79 which sounds fair enough but they have just paid us back £303.63 that we were in credit !!! I rang them up (even tho' OH had already had a 20 min conversation trying to do the same this morning) and was able to successfully rip holes in pretty much everything the bloke said. Account reviewed every 6 months and if more than £80 in credit automatically refunded. Oh is that so - so why have we been in credit since at least March 06 and the least amount was £260 and at the most £480, so what happened to that auto refund. Was told our gas consumption was based over the last year and then divided over 12 etc, and then proceeded to show him that when I took same figures it worked out at £62 per month, so he then says over 2 years to which I told him it worked out at £52 per month. He finally gave up when he said dont forget the price of gas has gone up over the last 2 years and I told him that ours hasnt because we have been on a 3 year price guarantee! He finally agreed to reduce it to £70 per month after I threatened to go back to "bill me after I've used it in future" :mad:

Anyway this isnt getting my list done.

Hope everyone is ok, and hugs to everyone who is poorly or has poorly rellys.

Will catch ya later

Davgirl1

Will try the flapjack recipe tomorrow. DS was complaining earlier that I didn't have any pastry left for jam tarts so he can have that.

Will do my best with the kitchen but DD has tonsillitous so she's not going to be at school for a few days - glad I took her to the doctors now. Hopefully she will sleep ok as she has had a nap this afternoon and went to bed at 6pm.

Right back to making easter eggs. Will catch up again later.

Mudbath

hiya
completed my list today so need to sort out one for tomorrow though i know i'm at fracture clinic all morning.

talk about logic...we used to have three local high schools but two of them got closed down and the third was extended. my local primary school had just been told that a quarter of the children in year 6 didn't get into the high school which is two miles away. instead, the children have got places at other schools including one that is 24 miles away! i've got 2 more years before my daughter goes to high school but now i'm starting to worry. can they send someone 24 miles away to school when there is one only 2 miles away and we're in its catchment area? xx

Mudbath

Hiya
my list for tomorrow;

Killer Kitchen - Tuesday
Level One
Clear and wipe work surfaces
Open the windows and let in the spring!
Level Two
Sweep and Mop the floor
Wipe the cupboards, appliances and all those manky corners!!
Level Three
Wipe the table, replace cloth if needed
Clean all those small appliances. Empty crumbs out of the toaster, scrub the microwave, descale the iron and kettle, shine the breadmaker, polish the slowcooker.
Take EVERYTHING out of the fridge give it a deep clean.. including shelves and drawers!!
Extras

• Clean windows and sills
• 144 boogie woogie flingy wingy
• walk dog

and that's it for tomorrow xx

nicki_2

Well after a couple of hours hard graft and lots of helping DD on the computer at the same time :rolleyes: I have before and after pictures :rotfl:

Before:

That chest of drawers is half-filled with bits and pieces like stationary, tools, hats, scarfs etc.

There's more hiding behind this stuff

There was also what used to be a cupboard where I stored all the paints which is now empty as I put the stuff in the understairs cupboard Oh and I brought the shoerack down from my bedroom - seemed pointless it being up there with just 3 pairs of my shoes so I got DD to bring her ones down as well





I also got rid of a filing cabinet in the livingroom and replaced it with the chest-of-drawers and all the paper/envelopes/stickers, craft stuff and ebay packing stuff is all in it

I have stuff to list on freecycle, more for ebay and I'm making great progress in getting the place organised and sorted out to what I WANT :j

Off to watch Delia now while I check emails. I'm at the job centre tomorrow morning so will leave the kitchen until we get back. Which reminds me, I need to sort out the dishes from tea - I'll do that first before I get engrossed somewhere else :wave:

Madcatgirl

I sort of fell off the wagon last week - I did so well for the first couple of days. Then I had a huge stress at work and ended up working really late and just coming home and crashing, then I was away over the weekend and drove 350 miles with my car breaking down all the time:mad:!

Anyway, I've got thursday off work as well as easter, so I have more time this week. I want the house to be really clean by the weekend, as I'm going to pick up a new (non-broken) car! Saying that, it's only level one today for me as I've just got in having taken the cats to the vets straight after work. I'm off to do my level one, and then cook a really nice beef stroganoff I got the recipe from Sainsburys magazine. Happy flying, and many thanks again for this great and inspiring thread!:j

Mudbath

wooooo! love the before and after piccies nicki, very organised. this week i'm concentrating on getting the place straight again and over the easter holidays i'm going to concentrate on organisation! i can do it!!!

Madcatgirl

Wow Nicki - your cupboard looks great! Very Anthea Turner organised! That's a job for me at the weekend!