Weekly Flylady Thread 2nd June 2008

Pollybear

Dustykitten wrote: »

Polly do tell what you spent your 28p on.

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I had a clubcard voucher for £1.50 and I bought some mushrooms (£1.47) and a packet of midget gems (31p) so I just had to pay 28p - and I gave in my voucher for a free bag for life and got that to carry them home

So we've had mushrooms on toast for tea, yum.

DD bought me a plant in Woolworths reduced to £1 (chilean potato vine) so I've planted that, cut back some ivy which was trying to take over the world (or at least the garden), cut the back grass and swept up. Oh, and cut back the dead nettle which was trying to keep up with the ivy in the quest for world domination.

serena

Lovely day - spent the morning on the allotment, and cleared the weeds off another bed ready to plant out the courgettes and squashes. Sunday lunch, and then some reading, then gardened at home all afternoon.

taurus - you wretch!! I nipped back to Asda after dinner yesterday, found Harlan Coben's Promise Me, and have had my nose stuck in it until I finished it! I nearly didn't get anything done in the garden this afternoon,as I wanted to finish it! Now I'm going to be hunting down some more of them. There weren't any in our Oxfam bookshop yesterday, which is most unusual - they must be very popular.

Must go have something to eat, see you tomorrow after work.

nicki_2

Evening all :hello:

I'm back and shattered Friday I took DD to Wigan and caught the next train back to Liverpool then went straight around to my mates house and sat up late talking after he ordered us a Chinese (He leaves for work at 7am and only has one key so it was easier for me to stop over than try to get to his for 7am) Then yesterday I cleaned his house from top to bottom for him :eek: It took me 6 hours and I only did tidying up, dusting what I could reach (he's taller than me so I couldn't reach some of the shelves and I wasn't about to go getting out his stepladders :rotfl: ), hoovering and gave the kitchen and bathroom a S&S enough so I would use them :eek: When he got back from work he was walking around the house going "I've got a floor, Oooo I wondered where that went! Wow the windowsils are white!" :rolleyes::rotfl::rotfl: He's promised me he'll keep it like that and do some of the jobs I left him and if he doesn't I'll kill him :rotfl::rotfl: In return he cooked me dinner and we sat and gabbed until gone middnight again Then he woke me up on his way out to work to say bye and told me how to lock up without a key so I could have a lie-in and grab a shower.

Sooooo....I've more than made up for my lack of flying but just not at my house :rotfl: Now I'm off to bed soon as I'm soooo exhausted. Catch you all on the new thread ... :wave:

Dustykitten

Dinner done, having a lovely time finally planting out and tidying up the back garden. Had enough for the day now but think I will concentrate on getting the garden done this week with minimal flying.

My house always used to suffer dreadfully in summer due to the pull of the garden but flylady has stopped that. However, I feel the balance has gone slightly the other way and now I don't garden if I have stuff to do in the house.

New plan with kids rooms - hoover all rooms and change bed each week and then just do level 3 in one room is working really well.

Going to try to do the same with OH office and my study/family room - hoover both each week and then concentrate on one room each week.

Right time to get the ironing board out as I want OH to put the curtains back so I need to get them ironed.

soappie

Why do I still cook a roast dinner on what's been the hottest day of the year so far?

I must be mad......

bonsibabe

right kids are getting bathed, hubby on laptop, back to flying for me

cha97michelle

I don't know how i managed it, but we still cobbled together a roast dinner despite DS1 being really off it (constipated i think) and DS2s crying every time i put him down. Both boys are now asleep, DH washed up, got my washing in, and is now finishing off cutting the grass and putting DSs toys away.

I was going to do something with the day, but my eyelids shut after i fed Sam at lunchtime, and i had a couple of hours asleep on the sofa, so i may now have enough stamina for the week ahead. I am dreading seeing what pigpen has in store for us :eek:


I know DH is wanting a bath, so i may try and do something with some clothes, and then see what time it is when we have done all that. Today just seems to have disappeared. Wish it was bank hol weekend again.

Michelle, x

lil_me

Awww Michelle sounds like a trying day but at least your DH was there with Charlie while you caught up on some much needed sleep.
saving is fun, I love my slippers, I would wear them all the time if I could. I wouldn't take them if just going for dinner but would if staying over. I've bought some plimsole things for when we're away next weekend because DP said no slippers he knows if I take them I'll just wander round the site in them. Oh and the reason I like slippers is I HATE FEET!!! I don't like feet, I hate people showing feet, I insist on shoes being kept on in my house or something on feet. I'd rather clean the cream hall carpet every day than see feet, yuk!
Dusty, I'm still struggling with the balance, I start one thing the rest gets left. Today I've worked my sockies off in here, gardens been left as has the studying. Once I get caught up with the studying it'll be a mess again. I really need to find that 'why am I so disorganised' book that I bought and keep loosing
soappie, I gave up on the roast and did a quick spag bol (sauce was cooked and in freezer)

Some good news, DPs brother might be buying our spare car, I say spare, it should be for sale and I should be making an advert to sell it but I love it so neither of us have made much effort. Good news is if his brother buys it I can still 'borrow' it.

Other good news is DPs seeming more interested in keeping the house nice, to be honest I always feel like I am fighting a loosing battle as I will clean then between him and the boys they trash it. There isn't a single can or cup on the shelf which makes a change (last week the worst it got before I got sick of looking at them was 11) he didn't remember how to open the dishwasher yet but sure that will come in time......He really appreciated the effort I made today while he was bathing the cars which made a change he said 'Wow you have been working hard' nice to just be appreciated, how long it'll last I don't know.

Speaking of baths, blimey, is that the time, the boys are in the garden, I best go find them and get them dunked before school tomorrow. Bins, I must remember to drag them out tonight.

boddy

Evening everyone.

Phew its been red hot here today. We have spent a lot of time in the garden at work. The boss went and bought a gazebo and it was great as the clients could sit in there. They thought it brilliant when we had tea in there. Some blue tits are nesting in one of the bathroom air vents. We noticed today that the little ones are here. But there is a dead bird at the front of the vent.

arwernelf I will look out for books by Maggie Hudson.

Pink Fairy Im glad the girl has been in touch and hope things get sorted out for her.

nicki Sounds like you have had a brilliant time.


Soappie Know what you mean about making a roast dinner on a red hot day. I did the roast at work and was melting.

Off to try and get the cat in. He came to meet me when I came down the street but got his eye on next doors cat. It chased him and he is scared of it. I wouldnt care he is bigger.

rach

evening all,

i'm back from my holiday - was absolutely wonderful. we walked half of the pembrokeshire (west wales) coast path - about 80 miles, and i feel like a different person that when we went away. i'm working from home tomorrow (and don't plan on working too hard!) so i'm going to enjoy another day without a commute.

will try and stick to the list this week, though it might not be a bit each day. DH said earlier perhaps when he gets in tomorrow he will do all the floors and we can get cleaned through, so if he's keen i'm not going to stop him!

anyway, catch you all on the new thread!