Unfuck my habitat

[GibberTheMonkey]

Do we have a thread already?
The prissy fly lady lot do
Anyone want to join me?

we are going to move!

saw a house today, put in an offer and it was accepted!

yay! so excited!
the couple now needs to find a place, and we hope we can all get on with it asap - but it gives me time to start preparing.

I'm going to sort stuff, label boxes, declutter etc so if we get lucky and can move promptly it's ready to go.

hope you're all ok.

I can't sleep. to excited!

So jealous!

I want my own house! Sick of renting!

Ooh, how exciting! Probably best to do as much sorting and packing as possible while you are still excited!

Bit of a crazy weekend here, very busy and today kind of feels like a hangover! I also have a stupid crick in my neck which is agony, so thankfully have a chiropractor appointment tomorrow.

Today is mostly unfucking the laundry. Poor DD has had to go to school in a summer dress because she had absolutely no shirts clean. I also need to find her French book by this afternoon. So morning at home it is then!

Ooh lucky you Zing! (Definitely unclutter as much as you can. I had a removals company around for a quote on our move next year, and it was very embarrassing showing her boxes that were still packed up from a previous move... 6 years, 4 houses and 2 continents ago... There will be serious un cluttering done this time around!)

Today I unfucked my clothes, realised I only have about 6 outfits that fit, and packed away all the stuff I have no hope of fitting into this summer, to be dug out again next summer)

I also unfucked all the random boxes of toiletries in the bathroom, so now I should hopefully be able to find the spares of things instead of buying extras all the time.

UNFUCKED
Clothes with pee on rinsed through (potty training)
White wash on
Clean sheets in tumble to completely dry and get creases out
Beds stripped
Sitting room quick tidy
Sink emptied, rinsed and filled with hot soapy water

• Break -

Next 20/10 the kitchen

UNFUCKED
Dishy emptied and reloaded, and put on again
All sides wiped down
Some stuff back in fridge/cupboard
Some recycling taken out
Tea towels put away
Kids table wiped down
This weeks meal plan and shopping list started

• Break -

Next 20/10 the hall and hoovering downstairs

I've taken out some recycling and the rubbish. Worked out how to hang new curtain rod- need a drill. Hub borrowing one from work. Took all old food out of fridge. Stripped DSs bed, remade with different linen while washing. Played 2 hours of fucking Go Diego Go on the wii.rang embassy for appointment for passport interview. Waited for thrm to ring back. Cleaned 2 toilets.

Slow day here today. Had my back done and feeling a bit delicate still.

Need to unfuck some washing and the cats bowls
Then on to pick DD up and go to ballet
Then back to the yard
Then dinner (chicken casserole in the slow cooke)

Hello all. Another day of pissing rain (grrrrr)

UNFUCKED
Usual morning madness - packed lunch, school run etc...
Done yard jobs (was going to ride but pissing it down)
Lunch
General laundry unfucking
Empty/reload dishy
Wipe down sides
Sweep and mop hall and kitchen

STILL TO UNFUCK
Make brownies for pta meeting
Laundry
Get swimming stuff organised
Pick DD up
Pick up friends
Swimming
Horses
Dinner
Baths
PTA meeting

Grr at rain. We have snow. Yesterday not a lot got done. Today even less. I have dropped DD1 to daycare. Taken DD2 for her photo for her residence card. Tried to buy clothes for DDs but the card machine stopped working. Tried to explain to the woman at teh migration board that DD2 is stateless, will not be European, and so needs a residence card rather than register heer right of residence. Woman insisted on her passport stamped for entry to Sweden. She was born here. Funnily enough, she didn't come out holding a passport, and there was no border control at my vulva when she came out. Left the migration board after being told I need an appointment to discuss the issue, but they don't make appointments, so I can come between 1 and 3 and sit and wait until someone takes pity on me. Came back home, Stateless child is no longer stateless, just got citizenship certificate. Went to pick up DD1, childminder says she was horrible, willful and so bad she screamed until her nose bled. And I had bought a coffee while out and it was full of the coffee grounds. So pretty much fucked off at the whole world right now.

Drier stopped working because I didn't empty the water container, so I can't put the washing away. Fuck.

That is a shit day :( I hope tomorrow is a better one for you.

My head is fried, I don't have the mental capacity for PTA meetings, all talk of mandates and signatories (i haven't the foggiest what they mean, and I'm the fecking Secretary!)

Hoping tomorrow is dry. Rain does stop things happening.

Today will be better. If the snow fucks off for a few hours they may finish our ice skating rink today so we can start skating tomorrow. Just need to work out how to teach 3yo and look after 2 month old at same time.

I will do the washing I didn't get done yesterday. Need ro make a chicken pie. Forgot to buy mushrooms yesterday. If we go to the shop I will take a load of cardboard recycling.

Must take passport photos of 2 month old. That will be fun. Would it be wrong to style her hair into a fauxhawk?

OK once baby is fed and changed i'm off ro the futility room.

Right, I've bought the app after reading a thread about whether or not SS would be interested in a really messy house. Apart from the fact that this house had chickens crapping on the kitchen floor it sounded suspiciously like mine - and mine has an imperfectly house-trained dog peeing on the carpet every now and then.

One question: The app has 5 minute tasks. One of them is to wipe down kitchen surfaces. I have been attempting to clean my kitchen surfaces since yesterday afternoon, must have spent at least 40 mins on them so far and I haven't got all the way around the room yet. I am wiping the wall tiles at the same time, and wiping down sticky containers/knife block/kettle/slow cooker, but this still seems excessive. It's not a massive kitchen either. I'm on the last worktop but I haven't touched the table yet and the table is horrendously difficult to clean. It's raw wood painted with pink emulsion and food just sinks into it and the bloody paint comes off when you scrub it but the dried Weetabix doesn't. To unfuck it properly I need to buy sandpaper and varnish, sandpaper off the dried-on food, repaint it and then varnish it. I'm definitely not doing that today! Anyway, are you meant to just do as much as you can in the 5 minutes?

I think the idea is that by doing 5 minutes you are actually doing something, changing your habit in some way. For me, actually doing something for the few minutes it takes for the kettle to boil or the toast to cook, helps by changing how I do things. Usually I will look on Facebook or raid the cupboards out of boredom, but by wiping a side down or decluttering one pile of crap in that few minutes it changes my habits. Usually I put stuff off because I haven't got time to do it properly, so I don't do it at all. For example, the bathroom - should you not bother giving the sink and loo a quick wipe down, just because you haven't got time to descale the shower and mop the floor? Because that is what I tend to be like. Does that make sense?

Anyway, this weekend I am going to drop a huge bag of outgrown clothes round to a friend's, and visit the bottlebank.

Those are my must do's, I would also like to do some baking or something with the kids.

Cheddar for your table I recommend a wipable wipe-able however it's spelt tablecloth.

at Woodifer. There's something I never thought of! D'oh!

Yesterday I unfucked my Drawer of Death. General dumping ground for makeup, toiletries, cotton buds, reels of thread, ribbons, photos and so much crap. All the ribbons/cables/thread had formed a giant cats cradle in the drawer that required scissors to unfuck. DH went to Ikea and got me proper drawer dividers and now it is neat and tidy! I tidied the top of the chest as well but didn't get as far as wiping the spilt eyeshadow/baby oil/tea off it.

DH did some unfucking of the spare room - took down the spare bed so we can turn it into an office. This has, however, left us with a lot of stuff that was stored under the bed and now has nowhere to live, such as empty suitcases, tubs of shoes etc.

I did a bit of hoovering in the spare room, DH cleaned the mould off the windowsill and I hung out a load of washing and put the next one on.

These are laudable tasks, don't get me wrong, but they are not actually getting on with improving the cleanliness of the house. Both bathrooms need cleaning, the whole place needs hoovering and the kitchen floor needs washing. There's also a giant mound of dirty washing and 3 Ikea bags of clean washing to be put away. And the fridge needs some serious unfucking.

Also, I'm 14 weeks pregnant and suffered from SPD in my 2 previous pregnancies. After yesterday's efforts I spent all evening limping around in pain. They weren't even particularly strenuous efforts!

Right, I'm supposed to be working from home in my brand new shiny office. Maybe I should set the timer to do 20:10s on my work!

This morning I have
*spoken to the tax office in an attempt to get signed and stamped birth certificates in English sent for Älfi and I for Älfi's passport.
*put the robot hoover on in my room, emptied it and put it on to charge so it can go back in there
*fed a baby with a cold
*scraped about a third off the mystery bad repair plaster in the baby's room! which appears to not be repairing anything! but was half an inch thick and about 2 square foot.
*downloaded other certificates from the tax office to send off to exchange drivers licences.

Yesterday I did all the washing and got it all put away. Kitchen needs unfucking, but so does candy crush.

Sorry Cheddar meant to say congratulations. I had SPD in all 3 of my pregnancies, but it was worst in my 2nd (signed off work and on crutches at 30 weeks). With my third I avoided crutches, but I did make it much worse by believing my boss when he said our team building day had "a few short walks". I walked over 10 miles that day at 6 months pregnant. Don't do that.

I admire any of you trying to do stuff while pg, it's hard enough to get stuff done without, as well as growing a whole person at the same time!

Unfucked so far this week:
Big bag of clothes passed on to friend (been waiting to take it for about 3 months)
Bottles to bottle bank (one way to look like an alcoholic)
Bag of toys to playgroup

Feel good for finally getting rid of these things!

Cor I'm crap
I need to spring clean and unfuck my habitat
I had forgotten I had started this thread (namechange)

Glad you're moving Zing. I know you were desperate to (we need another maths thread)

I am also crap

Someone motivate me please

I am on strike. It is ridiculous trying to keep this place tidy with DS off school sick, DD1 being the most horrendous threenager ever, and baby DD2 vomiting on everything. 3 sets of pyjamas last night. And that was just mine. No wonder I have todo at least 3 loads of washing every second day.

I have unpacked and reloaded the dishwasher. Made DS lunch. Put cleaner in the toilet. Taken threenager from hell to nursery, tried to speak to them in Swedish about her being awful and hitting other children. Rang school to report DS was sick (way later than I should have). Bought a home decorating book and a crochet book for myself, which means on Monday I will have to walk to the ice cream shop to pick up the package. Stared intently at the 3 crochet projects I have going at the moment (a blanket for the baby, a boob hat for the baby and a hat for DD1. Oh, I showered today (that is a fucking win, on my own, too, luxury)

I have managed

2 loads of washing
Cleaned cooker
Cleaned fridge
Swept stairs
Bath all 3 dcs
Obviously fed them too

Need to get my arse into gear and get changed to meet friends for coffee, but meh..

Anyway, have a list as long as my arm and friends coming over on Sunday, so need to do stuff, preferably before the very last minute as is my usual way.

Will be back later with some unfucking

I need to get properly clean and tidy as I need my landlord to come round

But dd is waking once or twice a night still and I'm tired!