Fledglings aim for an amazing August - the Flylady thread

[TooStressyTooMessy]

...or just aim to get through the summer holidays!

Welcome to the August Flylady thread. This is a really lovely thread where we loosely follow the Flylady system (see the Flylady website ) in the hope of having organised homes and lives.

Every day I will post a link to the launchpad which has everything you need for that day if you do want to follow the system strictly. Plenty of options to follow the system more loosely as well :).

Please do familiarise yourself with the Flylady website, especially if you are new. The Flylady is (understandably) keen that people do look at the website.

On the website there is information for beginners. You can also sign up to the Flylady emails but we would advise not to as there are hundreds of them.

We post our achievements (ta das) and our to do lists and any other general chatter about life / flying.

Information on getting started: www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/

The launch pad is also a good starting place:www.flylady.net/c/lp.php

Fly stands for Finally Loving Yourself. The general idea is that short bursts of tidying / organisation are more achievable than marathon efforts. Flylady advises 15 minute bursts is effort but you can tweak this to fit your own circumstances.

Be kind to yourselves, jump in where you are and be careful not to crash and burn!

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A daily summary (which should update automatically every day) is available on the Flylady website at flight plan here.

The link to the current zone and missions is [[http://www.flylady.net/c/sp.php#missions here].

Re. zones, do what works for you. I don’t always stick to the zones myself and do what works best at the time!

daily focus

missions for the week

Flykids mission

August’s habit is laundry - attempt to conquer Mt. Washmore!

beginner babysteps.

The best place to look for an overall summary is the launch pad.

Happy flying everyone.
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Please note that while there is lots of information on the website, from a security point of view we would advise caution with putting any personal details in or downloading anything.

Also a huge thank you to Expletive for the July thread .

tidy I think my insomnia is hormone related,I started like yours,now I regularly have between 2-4 hours solid sleep then my brain wakes refreshed and yay it's morning in the middle of the night and I've no chance of more sleep.by midmorning I'm doing the zombie thing then about 7pm get a second wind..I can fall asleep literally in two minutes I'm so tired,but stating asleep is a while different ball game!! Ok get the odd night I sleep better but I starting to find one good night leaves me more tired

Tada
Bleach lav
Wash on
Cats all fed
Kits walked

Ment be 31 here today so all systems go for a bit,then zoolets up and out so we get some fresh air before hot enough for dd2 to crisp!!

Plan for later
Bit painting in D's room
Pottering in shady spots of garden perhaps

Busy week ahead
I need finish uniform shopping
Kids have dentist Tuesday and D's has ASD initial assessment Wednesday

Back to school for us is Wednesday after
Holidays have flown by here so fast.....

zoo and Tidy

Plan here is school uniform sorting and playdate later. At DD2’s activity now with DD1.

Ta da:-
Have looked at DD1’s holiday homework.

Tada
Zoolets fed
3hour walk/bike ride
Third load wash in machine,one dry,one on line nearly dry
Lunch done
Wash up and wipe surfaces

To do
Bit painting in D's room
Bit gardening

Dinner tonight is unanimously voted for as "cold and snacky" so that'll be hummus/cottage cheese/tuna with lots peppers,cucumber and carrot sticks,lettuce,sugarsnaps and cherry tomatoes.crackers/toast fingers.pud will be fruit salad or raspberry sorbet.nice and easy❤️

That dinner sounds fab zoo. Had a lovely play date and feel much more human for a gossip and cup of tea with a friend .

Kids in PJs early for once. Going to feed the cat then do a power hour.

launch pad link

toostressy it's a favourite go to quick easy tea.sometimes sub out tuna for ham/corned beef.sometimes use roasted chickpeas or add some nuts to dd2 portion for " protein and crunch" shes loving Aldi salted cashews at mo

It's so humid now
We all do in grass out back from 6-730 .even nelly willingly put leash in and trotted out to lay in grass for a bit!!

Zoolets all showered.little ones fed
Just about try eat at least a bit bread n cheese.i lose will to live nevermind eating in heat...

Mother nature take note-zoo house want autumn now and are quite happy for you to give us a bitterly cold winter JUST MAKE IT STOP BEING HOT...pretty pleasexx

Hey

Things got bad, was in hospital today. Was well looked after. Zero flying, obviously. But I found out I finally have the referral I need, it even went to the service manager, and it said something about “aware of breach dates” - is it stressy who is NHS here, do you know what that might mean in a MH context please?

I’m now watching the big two dance to Kpop videos while the toddler runs about naked

Sorry to hear things got so bad Laputa, did you wait long in A&E (I know they have target times).

Gorgeous day weather-wise here, had a BBQ to make the most of kit. Kitchen looks like there has been some kind of fight and I'm not sure who won.

💐 Laputa

Cut hedge and weeded front garden. Very hot today.

Way too hot here today (31°). Managed three loads of washing and a bit of tidying but it was too hot to do anything outside apart from put the washing out. I went for a short walk with a friend first thing this morning and came back dripping with sweat, yuck. DS cooked dinner, and we did some of his school work together. Now flopped.

I'm with you Zoo - bring on autumn. Your tea sounds nice.

Ive - hope you're ok in this heat.

Laputa - sorry you've had to get to this point before you get the help you need, hope things move on a bit faster now.

Laputa .

Yes, I’m NHS but should disclaim I am not an expert on waiting times / dates.

Breach is basically how they explain someone has been waiting too long. Eg if you wait longer than 4 hours in A&E you breach (many times there are good clinical reasons for this such as waiting for the appropriate expert / bed and I disagree with 4 hours as a blind target). Anyway, if they are talking about breach dates then it implies they are talking more about your wait to access MH help rather than an A&E type wait. Does that seem likely? I

Out of context of the rest of the letter / paperwork, “aware of breach dates” to me means you have either breached (waited longer than ‘acceptable’ or simply that you or the letter writer is aware of how long it is until you breach. As in, how long do you have on the calendar until you are seen / how long have you waited past the ‘acceptable’ date.

In a nutshell, when you breach you go over the agreed time limit for waiting. Breach dates would be the date that happens. I’m afraid people breach all the time. To me it wouldn’t mean anything different in mental health, just still to say that is when you would breach your waiting time. I am not in mental health though so cannot be sure.

Does any of that make sense. Again (my standard disclaimer!) I am not an expert on this.

I’m going to link to something explaining breach times in England but please don’t take it as gospel as things do get updated.

Here is some reading Laputa.

If you think about breaching it basically means you go over / through the boundary / barrier. So if you breach you go over the line or the boundary that is the ‘maximum’ time you should be waiting.

Thank you so much all, and thank you stressy for the info, it’s really helpful! From the context of what else he said (as far as I could make out, I struggle to take info in at the best of times!) it sounds like they had realised they fucked up big time so that may be the “already passed breach date” thing. This letter was written a few days ago, I just didn’t know about it until today. Either way looks like an appt is imminent and that is unbelievably good to hear!

Can’t sleep! They did give me tablets for a few days but it’s unlikely I can feed Cagletini on them so I need to research and then figure out what to do

And no I was treated really well in the hospital actually, I was horrifically nervous about going as I was half convinced they’d dismiss me. Triage nurse put me in a separate non medical room to wait for the psych staff rather than sending me back to the waiting room (wait time there for general medical stuff was 3.5hrs!), and when he arrived he spent well over an hour just talking with me, making loads of notes, he was really great. Restored my faith in the system a bit TBH.

Laputa
Hope you are getting the help you need and deserve
K-pop.ugh.dd2 not super keen but every one else she knows adores it and some have planned learn some Korean over summer hols so they know what content is actually about
Naked toddlers are cute,except when emitting bodily fluid on carpet

As temp here was 32 yesterday D's ventured out into garden in just his pantstbh with our unruly 10 ft hedge there not a chance anyone saw him(and throws a LOT of shade on garden,great in heat) and his anxiety ment he wasn't coping being so hot!

Expletivefight in kitchen,not sure who won sounds like my front room.major effort required tame that today I think.i literally cannot see dining table surface

I can't believe phone is telling me it's 16 here still i can actually,I'm bloody boiling
Hoping today is the last hot one(forecast is 29/30)can humans melt????

About get up and plough into the day
Hoping get loads done early then slack off to things like meal planning/home ed stuff once temps hike
Busy week ahead so need get on top of place today so theory is if I can just manage stay on top of place we be ok...

Bbl

DD1 has been learning korean :o she has a couple of notebooks rapidly filling up with all those circles and lines. I’m just leaving her to it :o she draws stuff from videos too. She’s also now getting into Thai pop thanks to DSD (some is very catchy!) and they’ve been watching a drama together (can’t remember if it’s korean or Thai). The obsession is rather taking over but at least she’s doing interesting things with it I suppose 😂

I’m up feeding the toddler and watching king of the hill.

Well done to DS! My anxiety doesn’t like the heat either.

Re naked toddler, we pretty much leave her to it as accidents are very rare 😱😱😱 she asks for a nappy on when she needs to go! Considering the other two weren’t aware of this until around third birthdays I’m still shocked.

Wow,that's impressive Laputafor the naked toddler!!(and well done dd2 putting good use to her curiousity in interests!

So I set myself huge list and set to it at max speed.swestimg like I'm in a mad exercise class but plan is get it done then shower and do the planning of meals and lessons.
N.B remember I started at silly o'clock and am flying like a crazy woman!!

Tada
Bleach loo
Fed cats
Wash on
Kitchen-
Windows wiped
Sills clear,clean and stuff returned
Tiling all wiped
Surfaces wiped
Kettle and toaster wiped
Hob cleaned
Oven front,TD and wm wiped
Cupboard front wiped
Floor swept
Bins empty
Recycling out to kerb(binday)
Bathroom
Window wipe
Sill cleaned
Bath skirt and radiator wiped
S+s
Disinfect littertray
Feed zoolets

DS dungeon-
Windows wipe
Plants watered
Bed made
Wipe surfaces I can se
Sweep floor

Girls pit of doom
Beds made
floor swept
surfaces wipe
Windows cleaned

Hoover hall stairs and landing tidy as went and rearrange shoes(remove ones no longer fit) more artfully than fetid pile

Ironing of yesterday stuff done and put away
3loads washing already complete
One on airer
One drying outside before bin men come
Other in drier
(More about go in machine)

I have ridiculous strong sense smell(think mad pregnant nose) and I can smell bin lorries in washing dry outside on bin day,so mad rush get it dry or dry other ways prior to them coming anywhere near!!

To do
Living room

Its. Too. Hot.

Laputa im glad your ok

Tbh i seem to have hit a wall where i dont even want to go into labour. I cant be arsed. Too much hard work Hopefully this attitude is weather related ....

Hope so I'veor that's going to be a bit of a problem...
Can't help you probably haven't slept much.bad enough being kicked and need a wee every 5minutes without the SPD.then add in this bloody heat.it literally dries up all your energy I swear it does!!

Well I did it

Ive .

Hello all. Trying to do some sorting out so school stuff and DDs’ rooms today.

I've I remember feeling like that with ds, it was really hot when I had him too and I think it was definitely a weather related feeling!!

Talking of which ds is 3 in just over a week how did that happen?!

Today I've been trying to do small bursts of housework and then sitting back down to cool off it seems to be working fairly well as a solution! It always amazes me how much I can do in 15 minutes when I really try!

Wow foxes. 3!

I have nearly gone through all school uniform and bags etc. Need to tidy stuff away, sort out outgrown uniform, make a list of anything still needed etc.

Next though I need to start tea.