Weekly Flylady Thread 9th June 2008

serena

I have baked a lemon drizzle tray bake instead of the planned banana, date and cherry loaf, because someone scoffed one of the bananas I needed. Suspects are currently being interrogated...

Lucifa73

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

I kind of like the idea of living 'in the country', i am a city girl through and through though. I know what you mean about the rudeness too, if you havent lived there for 30+ years you're not welcome:rolleyes:

I couldn't agree more. I went through secondary school being called a white settler and I'm still considered an outsider where I grew up. I was desparate to get away from Aberdeen as quickly as possible once I graduated.

Its not so bad here in Glasgow though but I too am just 10 minutes by train from the city centre.

pigpen

Davgirl1 wrote: »

Pigpen you could have stopped at my SIL house when you go to the Ricoh to see Bon Jovi - she lives about 10 minutes walk from the stadium and I'm sure she wouldn't have minded you and your brood lol.
Have to say I'm jealous - I saw them in MK last year and they were fab. Hope you have a great time.

Oddly enough my mothers friends live about 10 minutes walk from the stadium so we are stopping off there on the way there.. for a cuppa and a pee!! .. and I am only taking one of my brood.. and my mother and my sis!!!!!!!!!

germish_se

Thanx for the encouragement Serena, and yes storage is good, we rent a massive house but there is no storage other than the loft where it's so damp everything we put there goes stinky and mildewy, also get mildew on my shoes in the wardrobe and in the cupboards above the wardrobes, drives me mad. Have had to throw nice things out becuse they've been ruined (always try to rescue stuff if possible).
Not sure how to fix that problem, gradually reducing the stuff I want to keep tho which is a good start.
Today I decided to carboot (next week) 3 of my 6 shelves of books, big step for me as I am a book hoarder.Over the last 5 years I have gradually got rid of i the region of 300 books that I brought over to the UK when I moved here. What insanity, eh! Now down to 1 bookcase of mine and DH's books and one bookcase for the Terrible Twosome, they only just got in to reading so I'll leave theirs for now.
Slowly getting there.

Slowly slowly catchee monkey.

germish_se

1. Mad Monday - Kitchen of KreationWipe over the cupboards and large appliances
   Sweep and mop the floor
2. HHI
3. Deweb the downstairs of the house!!
4. Scrub down the woodwork.. skirtings, door frames etc

Terrific Tuesday - Bathroom of Bubblovia and Sparkling Study

Twinkle the tiles
Throw out/get rid of 3 things from every room in your house!!

Wonderful Wednesday - Bedroom of Duvet-nia & Landing of Loveliness

1. HHI
2. Clean the windows
3. Do freezer inventory

Fluffy Fursday - Sitting Room of Sunshine and Hallway of Happiness
Level One
Open the windows and turn on some music!
Wipe and water the plants, remove dead leaves
Declutter the chairs, floor
Level Two
Vacuum the floor now it is visible
Wash any throws/curtains/cushion that need freshening up We'll see about that, might be too ambitious
Clean any glass.. pictures, windows, mirrors etc
Level Three
Vacuum under any furniture
Sort through the shoes and coats and bags.. make them pretty!
HHC in the porch
Extras

1. Groom the hairy pets..hmm, there is no way to catch her and hold on long enough lol,but luckily our cat is very vain and always impeckably groomed all by herself
2. 29 fling boogie
3. Spend 15 minutes tackling the hotspot in your bag..Time to change to another one anyway, might even go and buy a new one I saw a awhile ago, I deserve it!
4. Wipe the woodwork in these areas

Just for laughs..

Tell Your Children Over Dinner. 'Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go.'
Well, here's my list for tomorrow, all ready to go.
Also booked in to see my tutor at 10 and will do (hopefully) the last couple of hours of my course! Fingers crossed,

Good night all and Good morning where appropriate!

Pink_Fairy_2

Brief post to say Thank you for all the good luck wishes. I've spent most of the day working on a 10 minutes presentation that went nowhere, then all of a sudden it clicked and took me about 20 minutes to finish it off. Apparently the other candidate who's been short listed was having the same problem! :rotfl:Anyway, the agency rep said she thinks it is fine and has covered all the points they asked for. In between, I have done a little flying, but now I'm off to bed.

So, hugs to all and goodnight, sleep well. x

soappie

~shuffles in again like the old lady that I am~

So much for my early night! Still, we've been fed. Of sorts. And in stages. I am about to crash and burn myself - not because I've done anything useful, simply because I can and that's what I need to do!

Germish - I totally understand about the books. I can't even contemplate doing the car boot thing when I have a book cull - I'd be standing there saying 'actually, I've changed my mind - that one's not for sale....' and take 'em all back again :rotfl:

So, what I do is bundle them up and take them down the book bank at the local recycle centre - that way they go to charity and I can't get them back out again!

But I'm now off to crawl into my nice clean bed and pray I have some energy to actually get up and going tomorrow morning at 5.45am.

Night night ladies.

Mudbath

Serena - i've been catching them and popping then in the garden as my dad told me they were good little beasties for the garden. Can I have your recipe for the lemon drizzle cake traybake please? I've not made it for years and would like to do a big one and freeze.

Soappie...have you sent your bugs this way? I thought my hayfever was bad today but I 've realised i've got one of those lovely summer colds.

Anyone who watches the apprentice....I didn't think he'd win! xx

skintscotslass

Mudbath - when it was down to the last two, I thought he'd get it. Siralan is too scared of women going off and getting themselves pregnant. He wasnt going to risk another woman in her 30s...

skintscotslass

soappie - hope you feel better tomorrow xx

pink fairy - good luck for tomorrow xx