Flying Fakers come what May! Come and join the half-arsed Fledglings as we post our To Do and Ta Da lists and get our houses just a tiny bit tidier...

[Cagliostro]

Or try to anyway!

All welcome! I am struggling to stay awake so I’ll do the proper thread stuff tomorrow, but if you’d like some encouragement and chat while you get your house sorted then this is the place for you. We follow flylady in a delightfully lax sort of fashion.

Special thanks to zoo for the title idea 💐 😘

Thanks Bower and cag. I've been lurking but not doing and now it shows. Lots of hot spots. Need to sit down and work out routines. Have a lovely Sunday all of you.

Ive been really slacking recently. It shows. But dc4 is just giving me the wosit feeling.

ivegot I saw that thread and thought of you!

I'm taking bower advice and have gone back to bed and left dh and dc playing together. I don't know why I'm so irritated today.

I saw that thread title and thought of you ive 😱 6am is really quite common for babies.

Well there is now nothing on DD’s lip that I can see beyond a slight bump. And no tingling. Still going to ask though as I won’t relax otherwise!

Well my plan of MacDonalds breakfast 😳 has fallen down as the bus times don’t work, and the diversion goes further away than I thought so the walk will take longer.

So far I have done nothing but get the baby dressed and rewash the towels that have been sitting in the machine since Friday 😳😳😳 (in my defence that never normally happens!).

That thread has gone poof now. People were saying PBP.

Anyway

Ta da cont...

All dc up fed dressed
Table and highchair cleaned
Washing on line
Bins emptied

You know that thing where you are asked if you want anything and you ask for another hour of sleep, and the dc is so loud that nope you are up despite them agreeing to it 7 fucking 30am before I could sleep due to insomnia. And I have been up since 10am. It is bloody good job that I do not have to drive anywhere today. Otoh we have no sodding kitchen again. you will all give me an allibli won't you? and there is wet levelling compound in patches all over the dining room floor. Parantly it will be worth it when we are done. I am beginning to think this is lies, ALLLLLLLL LIES and we will never be done

Insane week. I need a publication out by the end of the week - not started writing it
I need a database finished constructed and both black and white box testing so that it can go online next week
I need to find my room
clear the normal mountain of laundry
book holiday
sort car stuff out (check MOT, service, tax etc etct)
Oh and I need to re do the work that the publication is based on as there is a major problem with the construction/thought process.
AND catch up on sleep because the holiday that is planned is anything BUT relaxing.

And work and normal life stuff....How could i forget those two?!

RIght 1st up pain killers and coffee, then laundry on and a proper list/over view plan. Then my room. Arrrgh.

About 3.9 seconds away from loosing my shit .....

hills that sounds stressful, hope you have had your coffee at least now.

Ive uhoh what's happened?

I've only started coming out of my bad mood and that's just because I had tea and cake at the cafe and cake usually cheers me up! And I bought a nice pot plant for my kitchen.

Ta da
Put my stained clothes in the wash as ds squirted his chocolate milk at me in the cafe and I was wearing white
Hung up washing
Washed up

To do.
Finish daily routine
Swish and swipe bathroom

We haven't even got a proper dinner today , I was going to make soup but I can't be bothered and dh can't be bothered to make the bread so we have decided on leftovers for dinner. I feel stupidly guilty that I'm not providing a wonderful Sunday roast for everyone. Someone give me a slap! I am not a 1950s housewife!

No slap from me but I have just found a crap ton of hair grips as is always the case and can lend you one. They will live without a sunday roast. I can't remember when I last had a sunday roast. Never here unless I have cooked it. I am just dreaming of a functioning kitchen. Anything else is a bonus.

However, I have enough space to make bread thanks to the bread machine so it will be hot bread for lunch! well breakfast but shhh

hills I rarely make a roast on a Sunday but I do make one during the week fairly regularly. Don't know why I suddenly feel like I should be making one today- probably because I'm not making anything just using up leftovers! But thanks for the grip, I've got it and I'm using it

Right. I do need to move from the sofa and get just a bit more housework done so I feel a bit better. I feel so drained today but if I get moving I know I'll feel better.

I've congrats on lay in.we did a pepper plant in window sill once.amount tomatoes mine eat am tempted join you with Toms on kitchen sill
Foxes cake and chocolate sort many things
Cag hope boots put your mind at rest with dd lil.have you thought of one those things that hang in doorways they bounce about in?brains impersonating fudge so can't remember if she's big enough for that yet?I found very help full as could see me whilst Idid stuff and sometimes just sat with a free lap for a bit

Place at festering status,still struggling stay awake...
Tada
Up 930(and only then cos kittens were marching all over me biting my ear)
Gave zoolets cereal bars
Staggered local shop front for supplies
Drag self and shopping home with dd2 informing me school bag busted
See bag is irreparable
Head Asda George search new one.only had Peppa pig or Spiderman backpacks(she's 14 FFS)
Nipped in Aldi(next door) for lunch supplies
Staggered home whilst she pop back local row of shops (we have it's a gift here that sells range cheapish stuff)to hunt for a bag
Put fridge stuff away cheese
Dd2 skip back in with bag (£7.99)I can live with that
Made lunch
Collapsed back into bed
Just woke up.still fucking tired
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I second the doorway bouncer. All of mine loved that! One used to purposefully swing into the doorframe though....

My shit was nearly last at general no one fucking doing anything. But then i had to nip out and am now calmer although still very little has been done.

I’ve been so rubbish at flying this week despite trying. I can’t seem to do enough as the places gets messy quicker than I can seem to tidy it!

Ta das today

Laundry load hung on line and another one in
Swish and swipe
Some gardening including weeding and watering

Everything else is a mess despite earlier efforts this week. So disheartened! Big family event next week so my house really needs to oook decent!

Hope all who are poorly or tired feel better in the sunshine today!

ta da
hang up the wet washing from yesterday
wash my duvet
make bread for lunch
duvet spun and in dryer
school uniform wash on
1st hand wash load on the go
sort through craft projects
negotiate with ds about homework
negotiate with ds about computer stuff he wants me to say yes to.
Look at bathroom and consider when deep cleaning that can be added to the to do list - Wednesday I think possibly.
Look at kitchen and utility room and wonder how 1 person can make such a mess ok building work but still!
Sort out packing list for next weekend (a short trip to see family)
make 2nd batch of bread
pillows through the wash
2nd hand wash load done
fold 6 baskets of laundry - leaving 1 basket of ironing, 1 pile of old towels and 1 basket of socks to have further work to be done.
collect recycling to go out
collect rubbish for going out
collect tip stuff for going
collect charity stuff for going
look at piles of stuff on bed and realise going to regret this later.
Make a start on the stuff on the bed (ignore rest of floor for now)

Bugger all flying done this weekend, it's been too nice to be inside.

Been to the park with DD for the last two days. There's been an event to make the 450 anniversary of the Battle of Langside and we got to hang out with owls

Ta da
Swish and swipe bathroom
Daily routine finished

Dh making beans and eggs on toast for dinner and some leftover macaroni cheese on the side. Quite looking forward to it now.

I have been a real misery today and I think it's because I have spent most of the day hungry! Just can't decide what I want to eat and we don't have much in anyway, just generally can't be arsed.

You sound really down foxes :(

I’d take a day with owls over flying any day goth 🦉

I’m sitting on the front lawn for the second time today. Going to start the pasta bake in a minute though. Definitely feeling better for being outside. Maybe that’s the answer since I’m not going to manage to get much done inside on weekends anyway.

I found an abandoned bunch of flowers on the walk home (one can’t help but wonder why they were chucked away) so I nicked a lily to dissect with the Caglets tomorrow in the name of science. :o

Thanks cag just one of those days I think, no energy and just feeling easily irritated and just basically annoying myself ! I basically need to treat myself like a small child and give myself a healthy snack and put myself to bed

Ooh yes wonder if it was a lover's tiff so the flowers got chucked?

ta da (keep forgetting to do these)
✅two towel washes
✅lots of walking
✅bought cheese
✅cheered on DH finishing his half marathon
✅spent time outside so lots of vitamin D
✅bought next size socks for the baby

also ta da
deal with faulty fire alarm
more washing
supervise and keep warring parties spearate
feed the men folk
more negotiations with ds about computer stuff
deal with stroppy teenager who has been told to make school bag up tonight and showeryes shocking and horribly evil of me. I know
bring in washing from line
get DW loaded and running
realise that I am dosed up on max dose of pain killers and that there is nothing else I can take for 2-3hrs
put bins to disinfect soak so they smell nice and fresh again
apply wood glue to fix something
slowly loose will to live
planning of what needs to be done when
sort through a massive box of books
remove plant pots from bath were they were washed 3 weeks ago and got forgotten
put my bedding in to wash
file paperwork
water plants
find and add plastic folders to new recipe binder and make note still need to transfer recipes from old falling apart book into it.
put things into craft room for actual putting away at a later date
ask for some help in setting up a craft project also known as muuum pretty please, although tbf i am finishing off one she abandoned so it can leave the house
argue with ds about computer stuff - what he wants to do is affected by GDPR but it is unclear how so I said NO. guess how much he likes that word?

Hello all . I can offer white wine for the naughty corner.

Hills , amazing ta da list, especially as you have building work.

foxes , it is hard when you spend the day in a bad mood, it happens to me sometimes and I get. I thing done then get annoyed with myself for getting nothing done . You have two young DC so I think are totally entitled to have a weekend feeling shattered every so often.

Cag, I often forget ta das and my own updates too when thread leading as focus on getting links on and keeping an eye on the thread. Thanks again for doing this month.

Owls sound fab Goth .

Totally agree with door bouncers, they are fab and take up hardly any space. Do just need to keep an eye the DC don’t fling themselves into the doorframe as has been said .

Hope SC ok, not heard from her on here for a while.

Have really focused on trying to tidy up as I go along and getting DDs to do the same this weekend. It helps that I was off on Friday to start to tidy and then DH was off all weekend and not doing much running so I know it is a slightly artificial weekend. But I am really hoping we can make some progress. I am definitely guilty of doing everything for them for an easy life but they are getting older and need to start helping around the house.

We’ll see how it goes next week. I have 3 main aims:-
Tidy as I go
Get DDs to put things away when they are finished with them
Get them to bring their laundry down / our in laundry basket rather than dumping it all over the house.

Will see how we go!

Ah fuck I’ve crashed. Achey as hell and struggling to stay awake. There’s laundry all over the bed too 😭😭😭

cag i can post the links in a bit if you like? I am going to be up at least 2 more hours anyway.