Weekly Flylady Thread 7th January 2019

Afternoon all.
Sorry for not posting yesterday. I’m not sure what happened, although there was definitely very little flying involved.
This morning I have run the wm x1, emptied the dw, sorted out clean washing but avoided the ironing pile, and sat with DH to force him to complete his tax return and submit it. He had the numbers, he is just an expert procrastinator. I will get him to do it earlier next tax year when I do mine but it is an uphill struggle.

I have put some beef in the sc for tonight to cook while I am taking DD to the stables.
The big job for the weekend is to start clearing the back bedroom RoD. As opposed to the small bedroom RoD:o. I have no idea where the stuff is going to go, hopefully some will end up being use to somebody else outside of our 4 walls.
Kaz - when my dad died, we did posies of daffodils. They were totally appropriate.

Afternoon. I've stripped and remade a bed (including turning the mattress) and done one load of washing. No point doing more until that dries, there's always tomorrow. I dusted and polished and vacuumed upstairs.


I've dead headed the hydrangea which always takes longer than I expect and produced a full black sack of heads. That's half filled the green bin. I got the grass cut out there a couple of days ago so it looks pretty tidy now.

Bit peeved today; why do I never learn that to use new recipes when it is for 'an occasion' i.e. not just the two of us, is a bad idea? Yesterday I made lemon shortbread using partly quinoa flour; I didn't much like the taste of them although thankfully the other 4 people de-decorating the church after Christmas seemed to either like them or be polite (well one chap had 2). I also made a lemon polenta cake using whole lemons (you can tell what Christmas ingredients I am using up) and it looks like a brick. I've just iced/drizzled it and will let it soak in, then I think I'm going to have to slice it and see what it is like as there is just enough time for me to make something else before we go round to a friend. I've made lemon polenta cake before and it's been fine; however this was a different recipe..........
I've also just finished a flower arrangement for the friend, having instructed Mr N to get tiny iris from Tesc0 as I wanted to do a fairly natural arrangement. He said they wouldn't be open for several days (the iris not Tesc0!) so got spray carnations instead, which is what I usually get. So I've ended up using the woodland/wild bits from the garden I'd already planned (rosemary, clematis, winter honeysuckle, 2 different colours of catkins)......with red-edged white mini carnations. Oh well.

- took down and put away all church decorations.
- did a load of pruning in our garden
- fiddled with the above-mentioned cake and arrangement
-now doing a bit of a report.
Hope everyone else's weekend goes a bit more smoothly.

atypicalblonde wrote: »

You know when you decide to be good and not buy any wine, then sit down and really wish you had a glass

Congratulations on being good, though!

Yesterday's Listy:

[STRIKE]Flying: Deal with laundry.[/STRIKE]
House: Deal with last year's toolkits.
[STRIKE]Self: Nails[/STRIKE], although the hooves could still do with a bit of nailpolish. Might do that this evening because I like the smell of nailpolish.
[STRIKE]Food: Make curried parsnip soup[/STRIKE].
[STRIKE]Admin: Write all outstanding letters to clear that file.
[/STRIKE]
We are out this evening, so I'm going to have to be all done by 5.15pm. It should be do-able.

It wasn't, and that's what I needed to know. The toolkits will have to wait until Monday because I was seriously out of time by the time I went out at 5.30 pm. I will deal with this Time Management issue even if it takes me all year to learn to be more realistic about what I can cram into a day. I'm chuffed as nuts I wrote all of the letters - one had been outstanding for two years; 13 got posted this morning. I've also realised that if I can't cram something in and then roll it over to catch up over the weekend, I never feel I've had a day off, given that I've definitely got to turn one room around tomorrow, so today is the only day I have to focus on stuff I want to do, rather than should do.

And I've worked out that there is another area I need to work on to clear a backlog:
Reading: Read one outstanding newspaper a day, and one outstanding book a month. I've got a teensy bit of catching up to do.

If anyone still as Christmas cards lying around and would like to recycle them via me, I can upcycle them, and send them some back, all ready for Christmas 2019 and it won't cost you a penny, other than postage. (To make it cheaper to send them, I'm only interested in the fronts, the picture bit, so you can rip the back bit off.) PM me if you'd like my address and if you want some back, include your own address.


Speaking of funeral flowers, we used this company for my mother's cremation because she loved spring flowers and I've always been happy with them.