Weekly Flylady Thread 14th April 2008

jjef

i have PC access for the afternoon, my brother brouhgt round his laptop and his daughter for me to look after, so managed to catch up with the thread.
johanne - labour vibes from me to, sorry to read that MIL has been a pain
tia - go girl, we just went to look at our new house and ended up buying it, it was the style we had looked at before which we liked but fortunately for us it needs work done to it which has broght it into our price range, we get the keys next week and I am starting to get excited.
pigpen - liked the nails I have sent you an email but will Pm you hear as well.

Flying wise this week managed the kitchen and have caught up with the ironing, not sure when I will get back on so going to tackle the living room tomorrow deep clean and all.
WILL BE BACK WHEN i CAN.
jEN

Dustykitten

Mudbath well done you on the walk. I went out with my friend for an hour this morning and that was enough for me - how long did it take?

Just oof to pick up DS1 then time to update my list before I take DS2 to footie.

Soappie glad you've not been tempted to post on here all day - how did you get on with that mega list

Johanne lots of peoples (probably most) waters don't go until well into the labour - mine were broken with 2 of them right near the end.

dinx1972

Right Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix has finished and guess what only 1 BAG of ironing left. I am so proud of myself for clearing 5 baskets of ironing, not only done, put put away as well.:j

Dustykitten

Mad Tuesday - Living room, Hallway, Stairs
Wipe and water neglected plants
Clean windows, pictures, mirrors etc.
Clear a hotspot

put all the paperwork in one heap and sort through it

1. meal plan this week!

Dusty's list

Outside

sow remaining seeds Veg is all done now so flowers next
tidy fence border it is too wet out there

Inside
spend 15-30 minutes filing that paperwork!! done today more tomorrow
Sort out one survey site a day, 2 done


TMFs
Hand sewing 15 minutes each day this week

Out of house
Collect DS1 cricket shoes
Buy compost
New school troussers DS1
Source Beavers sweatshirt
Buy more stamps

Mudbath

Well done dinx -whoever does the most ironing has to do mine so you've won that accolade this week:rotfl: .

Dusty - the walk took 3 hours to do the 10 miles, we were really going for it and that could be why i'm feeling . As soon as DD comes in from brownies i'm going to bed!!

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Mudbath

Dusty - is the beavers sweatshirt turquoise? What size do you need? DS gave beavers up because the woman running it was a liability. If you need the same size it's yours xx

Dustykitten

dinx well done you - Our wardrobes would be empty if I had 5 baskets of ironing.

Rant/? to follow
Given myself a headache by shouting at DS1. I have been a fool to myself over the years and done too much for my kids making them lazy, unhelpful and unappreciative. Not really sure what to do about it. They all watch too much tv. Trouble is we have cable as no aerial and I don't know how to bar most of channel, they watch rubbish american comedies and heaps of repeats of top gear etc. I am always going in and turning it off. Please give me advise as to how to make them cutback - do I go for tv free days? Cut the cable channel?s I've tried limiting the time before but find they obviously don't turn it off through choice so I am permanently monitoring it; one will say I've not been in here the whole time it was on or he choose that show. When I turn it off there is always a fight between them. I hardly ever watch it and neither does DH so I really feel like ditching it.

rant over

Right next taxi service of the day.

serena

Another busy day - I think I do much much better when the sun is shining!

Master bedroom done, vacuumed all downstairs and up the stairs, washed boys' bedlinen, washed down outside and inside both greenhouses, supervised DS1's coursework, and two hours on the allotment. Phew!!

I still haven't heard anything from DD, so I'm assuming her phone isn't working for some reason. OH topped it up again this morning just in case, but nothing. I'm now relying on the thought that if anything were really wrong, then someone would have phoned us. I now jump about three feet if the phone rings... Good job she's back late tomorrow evening, I don't think my nerves can take any more!!

Love the house pictures, but aren't the prices reasonable! We're thinking of moving, but have put plans on hold for a while, partly because I had enough stress ove the last six months, and partly because of the wobbles in the housing market. We're going to concentrate on getting our house up to scratch, doing all the decorating and DIY bits that will make it easier to sell when we're ready. I'm quite tempted to selfbuild - although this time OH won't be doing the work for a couple of years, we'll just project manage! If I can find a nice large plot of land, mmm...

dinx1972

Dustykitten mine were - that's why I had to iron:rotfl: .

Mudbath

Dusty - mine are allowed half an hour of electronics a day so that can be tv, playstation, computer or whatever. Consequently they rarely choose the tv as an option because they'd rather do one of the other things. During the easter holiday we let them have a lot more as they were stuck in a caravan when the weather was awful and the more they had on the nintendo ds's the more appalling they got, really sullen and grumpy. Could you take the fuse out of the tv and say it's broken or am I the only one who'd be that mean?

Edited to add - they are allowed their cd players on for longer as they both love talking books and I don't mind that as much as tv xx