Blessed are the ListMakers!!!

[anonymousbird]

Slatterns, you are beckoned!

Come hither from thither but do not dither!!

Go Mini, go Mini :)
btw what on earth are the grapes doing in your house?!

Tues:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed DONE
• DH taking DS1 to school DONE
• strip beds & find clean bedding DONE
• swap bathmats & towels DONE
• general tidy Sort of Done

• chase scan
• ring school uniform shop (see if they have stock)

(- maybe go there)

• bf group?
• lunch & tidy up
• go to GOSH with DH & DS2 (general appt, nothing serious today)

(- DS1 being picked up by friends)

• come home & collect DS1
• tea & tidy up
• boys bath & bed
• orchestra (remember subs cheque)

Medium term:

• freecycle some bits: 1 Listed
• make pile for eBay Started & Added To
• give tent back to friend (Tues)

Longer term:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register; Find one that is taking on NHS patients
• upload & order online prints (DH getting rid of that PC so i need to a) research 'time machines', b) get one, c) move all photos from his PC onto it, d) link up my laptop with it so all photos from here go on it
• upload chosen photos from his PC & my laptop to Snapfish & order
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door - Autumn job really
• clean kitchen cupboard doors
• empty all cupboards out, check contents & restock
• put cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others; make my playlist; clear my iPhone of music, reload with just my playlist
• research backing up hardware for computers Done More
• make up basket of toys & pictures for DS2
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• tackle Areas of Doom (out of 5 stars);

Kitchen: 2star Arts & crafts area Started

• SHOWER; have bought squeegee & e-cloth on MN advice; Had a go with ecloth & with Viakal; Lakeland spray Arrived
• baby present for friend & arrange visit Emailed
• experiment with car seats in my car to see if 3 can fit

OK - another insomnia filled night - grrr - that's 2 nights in a row now - was sleeping fairly ok before that so now have a tiredness headache. Still I've vowed to get my house sorted and KEEP it sorted so will plough on in a little while.

The boys were fab this morning and put their breakfast things in the dishwasher (after emptying it for me) and put all the stufff away that they used in the kitchen - so that's still tidy

TO DO

Washing
Drying
Ironing
Empty Kitchen bin
Bring recycling bag in from the garden
Tidy living room floor
Clean mirror
Take Clothes upstairs
Take up towels/sheets from top of TV
Clean TV
Clean Toy box
Sort out DVD/CD shelf
Clean nest of tables
Hoover
Mop floor
Tidy mantel piece
Pull sofas out and clear under them
Lunch
Pick DS2 up from school - must remember he's got J.A.M. this afternoon so not until 4.15
Dinner
Strip beds
Remake beds
Bath boys
Fill in school forms
Get money out for DS2's trip

DONE

DS1 and 2 up and out to school
DS2 breakfasted
DS3 dressed
List made

Today

• Up, showered and dressed me and DC?s DONE
• DC?s to school DONE
• general tidy, make beds etc DONE
• DW load/unload
• Chickens
• Walk dog
• One load to run
• Dust and hoover downstairs
• Downstairs Bathroom
• Wear teeth whitening moulds for two hours
• View house
• Reading with DS (and now DD!)
• Collect dress from cleaners
• Dig up next row of spuds
• Restart shed painting - forecast is good!
• Do a rental vs buying costing calculation DONE

Ongoing

• Big batch of crumble topping to make and freeze
• Wellies to get
• Finish flower bed with DH
• Start plan for packing up/storage/moving us and all our stuff
• Pick and store apples for winter
• Back up photos
• Find somewhere to live for early November(!)
• Tidy the study
• Bin/Charity Shop/Keep exercise on the kids toys
• Restart meal planning
• DH's tax return
• Check pension documents for me and DH
• Plan outfit for Olympic Ball (separate thread!)
• Upgrade mobile phone
• Learn to use IMac (finally) and Itunes
• Stuff to flog on Ebay
• Register with Anthony Nolan Trust
• Put summer clothes away
• Check out this year's panto
• Tesco Day out vouchers to use up - plan something - half term??
• pick sloes for the sloe gin

Sorry, forgot to say hello!!! How rude!

Mini, we are cheering, can you hear????

I think that anything goes on the lists hey? Whatever takes your fancy and floats your boat.

Kids are on late pick up today, the sun is shining, so I have no excuses not to plough through that list... even the outdoor jobs should be not too hard today.

laundry
ironing
tidy up
dust
hoover
Good morning all, latest list. On top of this now I need to find an enamel colandar. Don't ask.

do the floors
email friend
go to bank
rehearsals
long term family budget
feed and fill fishtank
water plants
move containers to the garage
tidy up papes
clean bathroom
clean kitchen
sort out jumble
mow lawn TOO WET
cut back shrubbery TOO WET
post letters
write blog

fill birdfeeder
buy card and present for Sis birthday
ring Ma

Slowly and steady wins the race yes???

TO DO

Ironing
Tidy living room floor
Clean mirror
Take Clothes upstairs
Clean TV
Clean Toy box
Sort out DVD/CD shelf
Clean nest of tables
Hoover
Mop floor
Tidy mantel piece
Pull sofas out and clear under them
Lunch
Pick DS2 up from school - must remember he's got J.A.M. this afternoon so not until 4.15
Dinner
Strip beds
Remake beds
Bath boys
Fill in school forms
Get money out for DS2's trip

IN PROGRESS

Washing
Drying

DONE

DS1 and 2 up and out to school
DS2 breakfasted
DS3 dressed
List made
Empty Kitchen bin
Bring recycling bag in from the garden
Take up towels/sheets from top of TV
Emptied mop bucket (from yesterday)

JKS 'tis the time of year when the grape fairy takes up residence. Nah. We have a splendid grape vine in our conservatory black dessert grapes, it is prolific and we are blessed with many bunches (organic even) but they all ripen at once and there are more than we can eat, so we give 'em away etc. and they start to drop which can make it a bit skiddy underfoot.
managed to:
do bit of work
bit of shopping
empty and refill dishy

Thanks for the cheering, off to do a bit more.

Plum I think there is an element of cake eating going on with wc, he basically wants us both. From what he said he realises he may have rushed things with gf but does love her and has a pretty good setup with her so is going to try and make that work (also so as not to mess the kids around further). But he kind of wanted me as well with the view of maybe being with me in the future, depending which way things went. Obviously I said no way Jose to that. But he did admit that I deserve more than that so said he will go along with whatever I say...at the moment we are going to try to go back to being just friends but if that doesn't seem to work then we might have to steer clear for a bit

I think if it hadn't been such a long time since I had a man I might find it easier not to start humping his leg when he walks through the door

Anyway, must move on!

DONE
Not a lot
All up etc
beds made
washing up
sides and table
clear up milkshake powder that ds spilt everywhere
toddler group
lunch
dd changed into uniform

well I've been slowed down a bit by a lack of pegs - never mind the sock eater - I think I have a peg eater

TO DO

Ironing
Tidy living room floor
Clean mirror
Take Clothes upstairs
Clean TV
Clean Toy box
Sort out DVD/CD shelf
Clean nest of tables
Hoover
Mop floor
Tidy mantel piece
Pull sofas out and clear under them
Pick DS2 up from school - must remember he's got J.A.M. this afternoon so not until 4.15
Dinner
Strip beds
Remake beds
Bath boys
Fill in school forms

IN PROGRESS

Washing - one maybe 2 loads left
Drying
Keep kitchen tidy/clean

DONE

DS1 and 2 up and out to school
DS2 breakfasted
DS3 dressed
List made
Empty Kitchen bin
Bring recycling bag in from the garden
Take up towels/sheets from top of TV
Emptied mop bucket (from yesterday
Get money out for DS2's trip
Lunch

and now I have a headache........what to do - have a nap/lie down and not get so much done this afternoon - or get the stuff done so I can (hopefully) nap later????

Have a lie down I would say.

THE LIST
laundry
ironing
tidy up
dust
hoover
do the floors
email friend-email playing up!!!
go to bank
rehearsals
long term family budget
feed and fill fishtank
water plants
move containers to the garage
tidy up papers
clean bathroom
clean kitchen
sort out jumble
mow lawn TOO WET
cut back shrubbery TOO WET
post letters
write blog
fill birdfeeder
buy card and present for Sis birthday
ring Ma

Thinks if I clean kitchen and do a bit of ironing I might just get away with it

MaMo. sympathise with the peg situation. You see there are peg goblins, they hide under bushes in the garden and then steal your pegs and eat them, or worse take them to bits and just leave you with a half peg, which must be the most useless item in the universe.
Ideas on a post card.....

searches thread for my lenghty reply to Freak, must check other threads incase I have posted else where

Whoops plum

Mamo do anything that absolutely has to be done, anything else ignore and lie down.

Mini do you have a wasp problem with your vine? My parents used to have one in their conservatory but it attracted so many wasps, remember being terrified of going out there!

It isn't anywhere WTF,
Anyway it was basically keep your distance for awhile and maybe he will understand his own feelings as gf also deserves better,
and you will know wiether he is just a rebound man
(and get yourself off to Ann Summers)

Actually last bit wasn't in previous post thought I might as well stick it in there and I had a list in last post[sigh]

Wierdness. Wonder where it went?

Yeah that's the plan. We had a little discussion yesterday when he did my windows about what was acceptable and I said basically anything that would upset gf if she knew about it or anything he wouldn't tell her is not ok. So a quick hug/peck on the cheek is fine but no cuddling, also no texts saying he is missing me or can't stop thinking about me...but he can still pop in for a friendly cup of tea and a chat.

DONE
breakfast in bed
read magazine
kissed children off to school
Pilates
blow dry and manucure
Lunch with pals
shopping for shoes
organize pool-house upholstery

IN PROGRESS
pick picture for Xmas cards
unpacking of net-a-porter boxes

TO DO
choose tonight's outfit
book Xmas in Mauritius (or Gstaadt?)
See new polo ponies
organize jaunt to Paris with the girls
scold Nanny

buzy, buzy, buzy...

Ah, the sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hooray.. etc.

I have approximately 4 pegs. . B*stard dog me thinks.. they are probably buried somewhere.

Wish me luck - off to view a house to rent. Need to persuade the agent that of the 10 people interested, we, yes, we, the ones with the two feral children and a crazy dog are the ones to let the house to. Oh yes, we are the perfect tenants. Really we are. . Unfortunately, I will have the little darlings (not the bastard dog though) with me for the viewing . Bribery with chocolate buttons is required. It was the only time they could do, AFTER school. Think my fate is sealed.

Of course, the house may be awful, but I am not in a position to be fussy. This is the first rental house I have even got a viewing on, and have been looking for two weeks. No one wants a stupid brown dog living in their house.

Come to think of it, I don't want a stupid brown dog living in my house. Moment of weakness after weeks/months of persuasion nagging/wearingdown by DH. Sigh.

Today

• Up, showered and dressed me and DC?s DONE
• DC?s to school DONE
• general tidy, make beds etc DONE
• DW load/unload DONE
• Chickens DONE
• Walk dog DONE
• One load to run
• Dust and hoover downstairs
• Downstairs Bathroom
• Wear teeth whitening moulds for two hours
• View house - eek.
• Reading with DS (and now DD!)
• Collect dress from cleaners
• Dig up next row of spuds
• Restart shed painting DONE - first coat is on!
• Do a rental vs buying costing calculation DONE

Good luck with the house anon

Ds has chucked most of my pegs behind the shed/over the fence. Luckily I had many pegs so still have just about enough for a line full.

Not getting much done at all today DD being on afternoons is really messing me up, am lacking in get up and go and sick of splitting up fights between her and ds.

Freaki, Am in admiration of your boundry setting with wc. You don't want to be someone's back up plan.
Plum, touch wood, cross fingers, not had wasp prob with vine this year( not since wasp nest discovered in neighbouring field and dealt with in an organic way, no pesticides involved honest, justfire.Ahem.)We are nice people really. They did strip the lot one year, the whole conservatory was humming.

Freak My post got lost cos they have created a new private message thingy, check you inbox I used you to try it out on!!

Got it plum, and have replied

Mini thankyou, it's not easy cos obviously I have always liked him and he is now offering it to me. BUT I don't want to be his back up plan/second best/bit on the side and when I get tempted I just think how guilty I would feel about gf and how shit it would make me feel to have him and then him go home to her. Also the fact he is willing to cheat on her isn't an attractive quality (even if I can con myself into thinking it's only because I am so gorgeous and irrisistable ) so I'm best off on my own until I find someone single, attractive, smiley, lovely, good with dc and trustworthy Am I asking too much there do you think?

Am I being thick, sorry, Freaky, what does wc stand for??

Don't stand for second best, it was the best advice my Darling Dad ever gave me when I was about to make a huge mistake. A teensy bit of me has always wondered "what if..." but the vast majority me thanks heavens that as a relatively young impressionable and, at the time, emotional woman who was hurting a lot, he persuaded me to listen to him... it is very hard though, and I didn't have any added stuff to mine - was not married, did not have DC etc... I only needed to be strong for me, no one else, and even then I wobbled several times along the way.

You are brilliant, I take my hat off to you. Not sure I could be so strong..

You aren't asking too much, you just (rightly) have high standards!!! Go girl.

House was great but just too much money and they want it occupied a whole month before we need it, and the budget just can't stand the extra burden of that... so reluctantly, will have to move on and keep looking. I loved it and could definitely live in it.... but DH, bless him, applies clear logic and head before heart in these situations (much better than me!) and it just won't work.. Ne'er mind.

Sorry anon, no not being thick. WC here stands for window cleaner. Long story of me thinking mine was fit then accidentally sending him an embarrassing text meant for someone else which led to us becoming friends and then more recently having a semi snog.