Fledgling Flyers Olympic August thread.

[BitchyDragons]

Ok so not the wittiest of titles but this month we have the Olympics, holidays, return of football season and heading into the new school year. It's going to be a busy one...

Firstly thanks to Blue and Ellie who kept us on track last month!

Right, most of you should know how this works. It's a three pronged attack.
Phase one: The babysteps master these and you will be working like clockwork.
Phase two: Adding in Decluttering this will help you keep on top of the amount of stuff contributing to CHAOS.
Phase three: Missions Targeted activities to keep the chaos at bay and starting the deep cleaning.

The golden duster of Flying is stage 4: deep cleaning. This is for most, unrealistic and should only be considered once you have completely decluttered. PA might achieve this simply by virtue of some extreme life decluttering. Although I probably won't recommend her method.

Now for those of you who are completely lost, lets rewind a bit.
CHAOS: Can't have anyone over syndrome. Yep you know that state where you are embarrassed to have play dates fucking hate that phrase or people pop in unexpectedly.
The fly lady approach works by breaking the house down into tiny activities which you do repeatedly yep sounds bad written like that but bare with me and then build up into a routine that becomes habit and you stop thinking about it no really, you do.

Clearer? Yeah ok. I have probably lost you but there is loads of support and help on this thread. If you are confused then ask. However, as this thread starts on the 1st on August I refuse to post the first babystep until later today.

This thread comes with a warning: For those of you who have not yet encountered my leadership of the thread. Be afraid, very afraid aware that I have a rather unorthodox approach and that things can get a tad unpredictable. Starting with a namechange. So who?s on board this month?

Oh and spot markers can help themselves to a magic eraser and ensure there are no marks on the thread for the start of the month. Let?s start as we mean to go on

Grrrrrr

Was woken by the cat wailing to be let out an hour ago and am still trying to get back to sleep

PA A maid sounds fantastic!!! You should be seeing Cambodia and surrounding Asian countries and not endlessly mopping floors anyway! Hugs and hope your day continues better x

Just Hope you are okay - more hugs!

Bitchy Hope you are sleeping! :-)

Very unproductive day yesterday so copying list again...

To Do

• Grocery shop
• -Charity shop drop-
• Clean out car (ESP the boot)
• Sort out Internet connection
• Dinner
• Bake that bread I bought ingredients for weeks ago
• -1-2 hrs work for dh-
• Start some work/planning for back to school :-(
• Unpack suitcase/overnight bag from trip to parents
• Call to see dMil
• Ring a friend (procrastinating for weeks on this one) and EXERCISE!

Morning all!

Have another hug just

A maid sounds like a fantastic idea pa!

Well first night at my mums went dreadfully! DD refused to go to sleep, hysterically crying and making herself sick every time I put her down- even if I stayed in the room, the dogs ate my tea (I forgot they aren't as well trained as mine around food) and the curtains fell down on the plus side though the house is nowhere near as unclean as I thought!

To do:
Walk dogs twice
Clean 3 bathrooms
Try not to murder the dogs!
empty, clean and refill dishwasher
sweep floors

BBL!

Morning all

Lovely to 'see' you PA. I think that getting a maid sounds like a very sensible plan. It's such a big transition to move continents

Quick list dump -

To do
Find gym kit
Go to gym
Clear out Attic of Doom!

X-post, oh dear Lauren. Hope todays picks up!

I've come to the conclusion that I like cleaning other people's houses wish I could transfer this to my own house!

Lauren Come clean mine please! You are going to be a skinny minnie with all the extra dog walking! I noticed on MFP that you are still dropping the pounds - wish I could muster up some of your motivation (for cleaning and weight-loss!) Well done!

My ta-da is looking pathetic :

Exercised :-)
Showered/dressed
Ate breakfast
Washed dishes (yesterday's and this morning's
Wiped down counters in kitchen/quick tidy
Sent an important email
Rang my mother

Now off to do my grocery shopping. Bbl.

Oh castle as far as body clutter goes I think I've stayed the same for about 3 weeks now I've been REALLY lazy while the holidays have been here! Hopefully when the schools go back I will have more time and energy to exercise!

Hi all. Just started doing this. The daily load of laundry is really helping me. Am being deluged by fly lady emails but about one in five is helpful so haven't unsubscribed yet. Haven't shined my sink yet though oops

Cherrrypi- stop the emails and come join the thread. This lot are a friendly bunch and are incredibly knowledgeable.

Ta Da
sort through snow clothes
wash my snow trouser and re-waterproof them
deal with ds and his attitude to mess
deal with the toy mess that was the lounge thanks for that ds
consider how to get the furniture to work in the house
start prepping the house for major furniture shifting tomo
1hr decluttering in my room
sort out plans for funeral
sort out plans for christmas
sort out plans for tomo
sort out training kits for tonight (mine and ds')
15mins decluttering in the hall.
Take rubbish and recycling out.

Wondering if I might join you? Am I right in thinking you start a new thread each month? I'm thinking of a september start. I managed about 2 weeks of flylady last month then DD was born . Funnily enough have abandoned doing anything much in august except cluster feeding. However I feel it is nearly time and I did discover DP shining the sink again yesterday.

Hi cherry and cakes . You are both very welcome! Yes we have a new thread each months and take it in vague 'turns' to host each month, although tbf I don't think I've managed it since February last year .

Ta da
Gym
About a third of the 'Attic Of Doom'. Yey!

Bumbled along today, but did stand up to someone who really needed standing up to, so while not on a list, an improvement. :)

Hi Cherry and Cakes. :)

Castle thanks, I'll be ok, just need time and resources to get there.

Lauren thanks, good that mum?s house turns out not to be unbearable, hope today was easier for you.

PA you should definitely get help in if you can afford it. It may feel odd to you to do it, but I bet the income from the job would be deeply appreciated by someone.

Bitchy; Christmas plans? Impressed.

PMPY well done with ?the attic of doom? excavation. :)

Nite everyone!
I managed some of the things on my list so I'm deciding to be content with that. Sadly, the cat was the only keen taker for my banana bread, though I discovered it tastes quite nice toasted with butter melting on it...
Welcome to Cherry and Cakes !
Bitchy I am also impressed with your list - are you sure you weren't born organised?! My mum has been asking about our Christmas plans and I really don't want to broach the subject with dh because I know he won't want to go to my parents house (he will be working late in the pub Christmas eve, and siblings coming home from abroad for Christmas too,

whoops ..... plus dMil was in hospital for Christmas last year. Oh dear, Christmas is making me feel stressed already ...

Hope everyone will be renewing their spirits tomorrow and taking it a bit easier .... do you hear me Bitchy ???!

Renewing spirit here will be focused on getting my room to a point where it doesn't affecting my breathing. Which will involve moving a lot of furniture. Tidying and cleaning.

I can do organising but can't keep tidy or stay organised. Plus ds is Aspie and OCD. Having things organised is essential to keeping him coping with life. Now if I could get keeping tidy sorted I would be truely dangerous.

Christmas was easy to sort. Ds is at his dad's. Folks on holiday. Christmas celebration with whole family on another date then 25th Dec. Not really rocket science. As for the 25th I plan to sleep and ignore it. Other details can be fleshed out later. Simples.

No missions
Sunday is renew your spirit day.
Babystep

Morning all!

Christmas talk I started writing lists last night! All very exciting!

Yesterday wasn't too bad, managed to cross off everything on my list and DD was in bed by 9- admittedly 2 hours after bed time but at least I got an hour to myself before I went to bed!

To do:
Clean mums kitchen
Clean oven
Clean washing machine
Clean microwave
Wash kitchen and bathroom floors
Walk dogs at least twice. 3 sprinters and a pointer = hard work!

Springers*

Right I have drunk enough coffee to consider doing what needs to be done. First things first move 3 bookcases and a table and then I have 2 wardrobes to empty and move.

Have a good day all!

Morning all.

Quite a productive day yesterday but woke up in the night with the beginnings of a cold. Bleugh. DS1 is going to a birthday party shortly and has been jumping around shouting "party, party!" since at least 2 hours ago... Woke up too late to defrost the chicken so it's sausages today! Now just trying to decide which way the big black cloud is moving and whether or not to put the washing out.

On the plus side, have lost 2.8lb this week!

anyone?

Wow well done with the body clutter blue!

Good luck with that furniture moving bitchy it sounds like a big job!

I've finished my list apart from I need to dog walk again later. I don't know what to do with my day!

Ta da
move table
move 3 bookcases to temp locations
hoover landing and top half of stairs
Empty 2 wardrobes
Remove all posters/schedules etc off wardrobes
tidy enough of ds' room to move wardrobes
Move boxes off cupboards x2
forget asthma and allergy meds before starting the great clean out/move around
Sit in corner for 5 mins whilst waiting for meds to work.
Clean both wardobes throughly
Move wardrobe 1 into temp position
Move wardrobe 2 into new position
Rehoover landing
Remove drawers from chest of drawers and take downstairs
Clear clothes off temp position on bed into ikea bag ready for sorting through and culling before going away
Start to tackle my bedroom floor

So is a Ta Da list a list of things accomplished? If so that's a list I can only dream of Bitchy. All by lunchtime too.

It is a done list Cakes I am lucky as ds is old enough to occupy himself and is happy so spent all day infront of tv with a mountain of lego whilst I get stuff done. Also until i get this house completely spring cleaned my asthma isn't going to get any better. And I am fed up of the asthma and it hurting to breathe already.

Top Tip: Don't compare your ta da to anyone else's. Everyone's circumstances is different. And Everything you do is a ta da in itself. Everything little thing will build up towards the final picture.

Also I can't manage the babysteps. No matter how I try I can't get them integrated into my life atm. So I am working on the decluttering. And as many of the baysteps as I can manage. Am finding that the more I declutter the easier it is to integrate the babysteps. But this house has gone from something that looked like one of those horders programs to something that resembles a house in the last year. It is major progress but has been hard to get to this state. The problem of having 2 house's worth of stuff in one house. Storage is an issue.

Sympathies with the asthma.

Decluttering is going to be an urgent issue for me too. We keep moving junk from room to room at present.

However I feel I have a window of opportunity at present as no one expects a tidy house currently due to the baby. I can therefore have visitors without worrying. If I can start to pick up some habits gradually then perhaps I can get my life fractionally more organised by the time my maternity leave finishes. :)

Ta Da
Worked out DD is fooled by bouncy chair and stays asleep thinking she's still on me I may therefore have time for sink shining