Weekly Flylady Thread 2nd June 2008

hollyh

Hi

Just a quick flying post as i'm about to pop out.

Wonderwebby Wednesday - Kitchen of Kreation
Level One
Clear and wipe the table
Level Two
Wipe the little appliances and put them back in their homes
Level Three
Sweep and mop the floor
Shine the grotty windows
Drag everything out of the pan cupboard.. wipe it out and put back the bits you are keeping.. no tubs without lids or lids without tubs please!!
Extras
Deweb the downstairs of the house!!
Thrilling Thursday - Bedroom of Duvet-nia & Landing of Loveliness
[STRIKE]remake bed with the clean bedding[/STRIKE]
Put the floordrobe in the wardrobe
[STRIKE]Find 10 things to get rid of!
[/STRIKE]Level Three
Vacuum the landing and bedroom.. starting at the bottom of the stairs!!!!
Remove anything that should be elsewhere.. your bedroom is NOT a shed!!
Remove some dust bunnies and wipe over the light shades
Extras
HHI
15 minutes sort out of the landing gibble.. see if you can find something to rehome!
Clean the windows
Dailies
Washing wm x 3 line x 2 put away yesterdays ironing and then my wm broke:mad:
Washing up x3
[STRIKE]Make beds
[/STRIKE]
Bake bread
HHI
HHG
Extras
[STRIKE]Sort toys again
[/STRIKE]
Get cheque signed and posted
Ebay - [STRIKE]New pics [/STRIKE]& list
Clean recycle bin
Repot 2 herbs
Plant 5 herbs
Shredding
[STRIKE]New budget
[/STRIKE]
Get fw bin bags
[STRIKE]Wrap & post parcels
Contact buyers
[/STRIKE]
Transfer £100 c-s
Take 117 out CB acc
Clean car in out & hoover
Phone wm man & cancel
Phone bank & cancel

Dustykitten

Evening all

I've been chasing my tail all day, that is what happens when you spend an hour chewing the fat at the school gate rather than starting your day! Not been up there all week with working so was catching up a bit. Visited Sis which was nice and coffee with ex PTA was also lovely - we have all said we need to do it more often.

Flying, only dalies done and like Mudbath I just can't be doing with it today.

I'll revisit my list tomorrow and see what I can get done.

Thrushes have survived another day (I insited the cats stayed in for 10 hours by locking their cat flap - they soon got the message and slept all day).

DS1's sunburn is still sore but not as red as yesterday - he daren't fuss as he knows he'll get short shrift.

Holly hope your little one gets off lightly with the pox
Nicki have a fab weekend
Soappie you brought back so many memories of nights in pub gardens for me. I don't find sitting in my garden relaxing - I always feel I should be doing something. I'm more a morning person than twilight but if we get some sunny evenings then I think I'll entice OH out there for a drink. I agree with having a time for ourselves on the list, I am dreadful for this and am hardly ever not doing something, I admire people who can just sit.

Justamum it is lovely you family are trying so hard to make your day special
AnW'sMum I spotted a big clump of buttercups in my sisters borders today, usually my gardening head would pull them out but they looked so happy and bright and made me think of you my love. It is overcast here but I hope you get a clear sky.

Right OH is out so a quick tidy in the kitchen, washing on and then to delete some old docs/mails. PC was playing up earlier so did the virus checker and yet again the boys had picked up 2 virus's from games - they are banned yet again.

pigpen

soappie wrote: »

Pigpen, I agree with you about the getting old bit - I am truly getting old. The joints creak in the morning etc. etc. But, I - and am I allowed to do this? Will I be kicked off the board for saying this? - ~gulp~ I'll be brave ~gulp~......

I disagree with you about not putting the gloaming sitting on the list.

If we were all wonderful, perfect, excellent, A+, top dollar flyladies, we would, yes, have our houses so spickety span and everything so wonderfully under control we'd only need to flick a duster and voila - sorted! But I know I'm not like that. I know I have my hotspots, dirty spots, unmentionable spots, the 'oh my god if the police knocked on the door right now they'd have to arrest me before I let them in THERE' spots.

Disagree all you like.. maybe it is something you should use as your ' half hour just for you' time which was on todays list...

I am off out to get ratted wiff my fwend.. when she turns up.. characteristically LATE as always lol.. I do love her but her time keeping leaves a LOT to be desired.

weekend list will be up in about 2 minutes!!

serena

mudbath - I haven't had a chance to get onto the pc since you posted. I have read all the Erica James, favourite is probably Precious Time. I also like Maeve Binchy and Joanna Trollope, and have recently got hooked on a totally different type of book when a friend gave me a Kathy Reichs. I'm off to get the one that Taurus mentioned tomorrow - if the Oxfam bookshop don't have it, then I've just remembered that I have a booktoken I haven't spent yet.

The allotment is nearly there - I just wish it hadn't rained all of the halfterm, which is when I had planned to get it all straight. I have a full plot, and it's divided into 14 beds. One flowers, three fruit, one runner bean and strawberry, and the rest are vegetable. I do crop rotation, but a variation, based on when crops are in the ground - two beds of each - 1)early crops followed by winter crops, 2) main summer, 3) potatoes, 4) last year's winter crops followed by late summer crops (eg tomatoes, sweetcorn, squash). The missing bed is the one where I dug out the raspberry canes, and that is having cut flowers for a while until I get rid of the bindweed! Right this minute, I haven't cleared the left over remains of the winter crops so that I can plant out the late summer, and the plants are beginning to get rather large!

DD and DS1 are both out with friends at assorted pubs, so either OH or I will be doing a late night taxi run... I must go put the duvet cover on my bed in a minute - I've been doing a bit of catching up, and practically managed all the main flying list over this week, so won't have to do much this weekend. I fancy doing some baking if the weather isn't good enough for gardening!

bonsibabe

AnWsMum - don't have anything yellow i could wear today but i have had a yellow duster in my pocket all day and have been thinking of you. Lots of love to you from us here. xxx:A :A :A

Thanks to you all for the lovely messages of support. And yes I too wish their bits and bobs would shrivel up and drop off! lol.:D

I've been in touch today with my SSAFA social worker for my disability. She is livid! And just waiting to find out if DH's advising officer thinks a letter from her and the doctor would help. Have worked it out - since we got married 7 years ago, DH has had to have time off because of my disability ... ONCE!!!:p I think I'm doing pretty good there!:D Considering my best friend (also disabled in a similar way to me) has had over 4 months in hospital over the last 2 years, and her hubby hasn't had a problem getting time off work!:rolleyes:

We did have a bit of good news yesterday but like the old saying goes, we won't be counting any chickens just yet! Felt a bit better today, although still worried about what will happen, but definitely in fighting mood! Although if I have to watch Alvin or Mickey Mouse one more time I think I will scream:rotfl: .

Again, thank you all, it really has cheered us both up all your lovely messages. Lots of love to you all xxx:beer:

bonsibabe

ps Hex2 - I love your house, it looks like my dream house!

Pink_Fairy_2

Just for a laugh - I got this email today:
1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.

2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice.

3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with that.

4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It 'In.'

5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.

6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Cheques , Write ' For Smuggling Diamonds'

7. Finish All Your sentences with 'In Accordance With The Prophecy.'

8 . Don't use any punctuation

9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.

10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.

11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is 'To Go.'

12. Sing Along At The Opera.

13. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme?

14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play tropical Sounds All Day.

15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You're Not In The Mood.

16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom.

17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream 'I Won!, I Won!'

18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking lot, Yelling 'Run For Your Lives, They're Loose!!'

19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner. 'Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go.' Pigpen, I thought of you! LOL

20. And The Final Way To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity.......

Send This Posting To Someone To Make Them Smile.

Its Called ....... therapy

Back in a mo.........housefull of teenagers, they've made me pizza, and I've made them raspberry and white choc chip muffins! Fair swap, don't you think?

Mudbath

Serena - I love hearing about other people's allotments. We've got the battle of the bindweed too! We have a second allotment that we're keeping strimmed rather than dug over and that's our fruit allotment. It only has a couple of trees, two red currents, one black current, three raspberries and three gooseberries at the moment. We'll sort that out once the main allotment is sorted. There's a huge piece of land behind the allotment shop that connects our allotments and we've been told we can use that too. We've kept it strimmed and have put the pumpkins on there and they're doing really well. Tonight we put some more boards up along one of the beds and hopefully this weekend we'll empty the greenhouse and plant the remaining plants out. We've left some things a bit late to put out this year as we've been building the beds. It's great fun. I'll give Kathy Reich a google.

I'm going to do a splutter rather than fly tomorrow. I've a couple of clients and i'll do a S/S around the house after them.

Have a great weekend xx

Dustykitten

Thanks Pink - I think Pigpen should put one on the list every day next week to liven things up a bit - I love the ATM one and seriously am going to do this when one of my kids is with me.

I have been on a deleting spree ? when I delete mails/docs I then empty the deleted bin is there an equivalent for when I delete favourites?

Still mails to do but I have done well on the favourites and docs. I really need to try to keep revisiting this task once a week.

Craftyscholar

serena wrote: »

Do you have a 'library' or book room? I confess that I've always wanted a book lined room all to myself. We just have bookshelves on almost every wall, including a ceiling high set on the upstairs landing

My idea of heaven. I realised one day that every time I 'fancied' a room in a magazine it had bookshelves:o
There are people who treat books as 'clutter' and boast about getting rid of them