Weekly Flylady Thread 11th February 2019

Happy Birthday Natty.

Visit 1 of 5 done and I've decluttered myself off to bed, sooo tired.

Himself successfully moved the curtain poles so that the curtains hang properly and block out the light. I'm ridiculously pleased about this.

He managed to wash one of them without obvious disaster and put it back up, the other one will be taken down and washed in the morning (I have a single floor length curtain on each window, more like theatre curtains than normal ones, so one draws to the left and one draws to the right).

Whilst he's practising for tomorrow's rehearsal, I cleared the top of the CoD and promptly replaced the stuff with the two giant baskets of random crud clothes that were on the floor. Just having a cuppa and I'm going to find a couple of pairs of shoes to chuck out for not being comfortable/looking scraggy/never get worn. Eventually, I'll see the bottom three foot of the tiny wardrobe [strike]he has mostly taken over with his shirts[/strike]. He's got the job of hanging my dresses up in the wardrobe in the studio.

Slightly miffed at the blue stain left on the bath by his spilling luminous shower gel today and not cleaning it up straight away. And the way the loo was blocked by his insistence upon posh bog roll - I had to ask him if I'd find anything other than paper if I put a WU gloved hand in to clear it _pale_ before I touched it. Fortunately [strike]for him[/strike], it was just too much posh paper. Honestly, it was spotless for less than 48 hours. But it's back being perfect again now.


Hoping that he'll vacuum tomorrow after taking the other curtain down, as the dust level will be high enough to set my skin off again. I'll 'ask' him in a bit, as I still refuse to issue him with lists of chores (and his head would probably explode if I gave him a FlyLady list), but if I 'ask' him to

Take Curtain down & wash
Strip bed
Vacuum floor all around bed
Vacuum mattress
Put curtain back up
Make bed with clean base sheet, clean duvet cover and clean pillowcases

- that's not a list of chores, really, is it?


Think I'll also take a spray and scrubby thing upstairs now to clean my bedside cabinet and the bedframe + the windowsills. Might leave the polish and a yellow cloth up there for tomorrow when I get in.

MadamMim2013 wrote: »

Ooooh Happy Birthday Natty :bdaycake:
Toasting you on your special day with my :coffee:

A bit late here, hope your day was good and full of cake.

Welcome to newbies.

- Car service manager rang am and was suitably apologetic, tried to book it in for 2 weeks time until I said I was going on a long trip on Friday so he gave in and agreed Thursday if I take it in (they were going to collect it originally).
- did a bit of washing up and tidying in kitchen
- finished and emailed report, started another
- wrote another email to idiots at a certain electrical store having emailed previously, giving my reference agreement number and details of laptop to cancel my service agreement. Today I had one saying they couldn't cancel it until they had my address and the details of the 'product'. Both of these were on my agreement, and I'd put the complete reference of the laptop in my original email. Why is life like wading through treacle?
- had drum lesson
- visited MIL and did a few things for her.
- knee still very large so reluctantly cancelled zumba for tomorrow.
- practised dances with Mr N for the weekend, regardless of knee (it didn't hurt).
- did a load of pricing up for decent broadband. :eek: There is only one company that does more than 1.3mB in our area and it's not cheap. I've resisted so far, but ours is like watching sleeping snails crawl, not just for working but we can't reliably get TV catchup or long YouT)be stuff.

Good morning
For some reason that I can’t quite remember, I said that I would take DD to school this morning. This has of course led me to be awake since 4am worrying if I have petrol (I have) and when I can get to a garage to fill up (we live 25 mile round trip from a petrol station, but given that I have over half a tank, this is irrelevant for today). Any excuse for a worry.
Once I get back, I need to:
Sort out recycling
Change kitchen light bulb so that the filth is fully illuminated, then...
Properly clean the kitchen and dining room
Find the utility room surfaces
Sweep and mop floors
See about renewing my passport which from March will not be valid 6 months ahead of the date inside it
Then there are the bathrooms...

First I need the child out of bed.

Have a good day all.

Mrs Moneypenny

Huge hugs. Once a Flylady always a Flylady and I can assure you you will get support here as you set off on your new route through life.

Natty hope you had a very happy birthday.

Yesterday was busy. WM and DW done. Out today with mum and sis. Hope you all have a good day.

Another fail on the slinky too. Need to reboot the grey matter on this one.