Action Stations for August! Fledglings Flap Frantically and Swish’n’Swipe through Summer

[SingToTheSky]

Welcome one and all!

I’m quickly setting up the August thread (ok seriously I know someone says this every month but HOW is it August already?!) - MN has been a bit iffy today, and I got rather distracted this evening which I fear may be a portent of my hosting skills this month. Thank you to the lovely ED for steering us through July despite much to manage at home 💐

Anyway - do join in as we loosely follow the Flylady system, in order to gradually sort our houses out. The key word here is GRADUALLY. There is no turning the house upside down and banishing chaos overnight, there is slow and steady. You are never behind. Miss a day? Week? Decade? No worries, jump back in, it’ll all come round again.

Newbies always welcome!

Oh no Goth - we should just put this day to bed. Tomorrow is another day.

House sort of in order. Plenty of school kidmin.

Yes, it was a bit of a write off Wednesday yesterday, and today is a… did we get a name for it? Throwaway Thursday?

We stopped using the word Pontypridd for when everything goes tits up. Can we bring it back?! (For those who missed it, it was an unexpected autocorrect a few threads back!) 🤣

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Muddled sort of day here.
Suggested to DH we went to friend’s new cafe and he couldn’t think of a reason not to so we went at lunch time.

I had started some stuff in boudoir.
Moved plastic boxes under the bed, wiped them all.
Vacuumed under the bed, mopped under the bed.
Used cloth to wipe under the bed.
Put them back but checked clothing in two.
Decluttered.
Wiped all the metal and brass on my bed.

Have you seen the Avanti ad with the turtle?🤣😂🤣

Sorry about the periods That how unfair.
Zoo sorry about the teenager.
I can’t scroll back sorry.

I’m so bad at keeping up with this thread😩. I am still sorting through clothes. We had about 10 black bags full of clothes I don’t wear anymore so I’ve been ruthless and bagged the stuff that’s still in good knick for my sister and then binned the rest. I’m going to go through the DC’s toys soon and do the same. I finished most of it today and went through my wardrobe too just need to put all the rubbish I found in the bin and then tidy the mess I made. I asked DH if he wanted me to sort through his and then we realised he hasn’t bought any new clothes since we got together 5 years ago😂.
I think I’m nesting because I have the urge to absolutely gut the house of everything we don’t use. DM is taking the kids out tomorrow so I might do that when I have the house to myself.
Thank you that I’m hoping I won’t have to move furniture anymore after this DH wasn’t best pleased but if he had it his way we’d all just sit on the floor🙄. I hope you’re feeling better soon💐
dancing your dream sounds ace😂.
willow thank you for the living room love🥰 that’s a good idea to move it in the winter if I want it cosier. Tbh after a few days of having it this way I’m not worried about it not being cosy anymore it’s actually quite lovely on the evening.
red thank you❤️we don’t have much wiggle room with furniture either, both sides have lots of windows/doors which it makes it difficult to put sofas.
goth that’s so frustrating!
zoo I’m sorry about lil zoo it sounds so difficult🙁❤️.
sing sorry about the rubbish dayy💐
I’ve been talking to some of my uni mates today and we’re arranging a trip back to our uni city next summer. The pub we used to go to still does the quiz nights with music that we liked so we’re going to do that again. I can’t wait, I haven’t been out on my own since DS1 was born it’ll be nice to get me back for a weekend!.

Morning all!
Lots to report .
I was stressed after fiasco park trip with lil zoo,so decided massive deep clean was the answer. imbecile response

Tada
Take tubs off microwave
Move microwave.scrub surface and return
Was up all utensils in tubs
Wash up baking dishes,serving platters and silicon waffle cases that live there too
Dry and put back
Move mini oven,plate rack,mug holder
Scrub surface
Return stuff
Wash up everything on plate rack,breaking some so now don't have enough plates/bowls whilst lil zoo is here FFS

Girls room of doom
Since lil zoo was away when it broke all belongings went underbed/in blanket box..
Return crate towels to boiler cupboard
Add 2 baskets-

1. everyday stuff like toothpaste,face wash,shower gel 2 )hair clips,ties,mousse and hair spray

Pull EVERYTHING out from under bed/empty blanket box
Sort wooden "beauty " box had couple years back and ensure only face packs,hand cream,white gloves,bath bombs etc in there
Sort jewellry box,removing earrings
Untangle necklaces
Recycling naice box full random stuff to house make up
Sort all paintbrushes,paints,fineliners and other art paraphernalia into respective receptacles and add to box.
Add sketch pads,puzzle and colouring books

We now have neat,half art,half teen girl belongings

Sort stack books,add to boiler cupboard
Discover 3 bags old school books.no idea of wants keep those..
Stick flash mop under bed and remove dust bunnies,sweetie wrappers and detritus couldn't get at
Mop it
Tidy chest drawers
Return bags school books

Dd2 side...
She help take everything under bed/under desk out
Had resort sending D's under to reach stuf at very back

zoo
I feel exhausted from reading all that!

hope Yes today is another day, so fingers crossed for this afternoon’s classes. Different care home and I know they were clear on Wednesday.

Done
S&S
Fed cat
Laundry on
Fed birds
5 min tidy in lounge

To do
Washing up
School run
Small shop
Post orders
Write Wednesday’s reports
Amend invoice
Hang out laundry
Today’s class

Morning. Busy day yesterday Zoo and Flower sounds like you were on one too with the decluttering.

Done:
Walked dog
Dw filled and on
Lol on

Next po3:
Fold dry laundry and put away
Hang out wet laundry
Clean kitchen sink and wipe down sides

Welcome back Goth
bloody hell zoo. try not to burn yourself out before the big day!!!

Dam they were not wrong about the vaccine side swiping you for a few days
Sorted tech (swore less then ds expected) it is new so buttons are in the wrong place.
dropped ds off with his father
got results. I also got what was needed so on to the next stage
folded the sock basket of doom and now have an art installation on the lounge floor entitled "lost socks"

just realised i have 10mins to be out the door for work and need uniform, coffee and to not look like i have been dragged through a hedge backwards.

have a good day y'all

Congrats Hills, pulling results out of the hat with everything else you have going on is a Proper Triumph 🥳. Glad the tech problems are dealt with and you got the vaccine.

Goth sorry yesterday was a wipeout due to someone else's incompetence. I hate it when that happens.

Zoo you've done an amazing amount, don't make yourself too tired for the wedding! But I understand wanting to make a pleasant space for Lilzoo over the next week. Hope she appreciates it and is kinder than last time. 💐

Difficult morning already as DD's social engagement has gone properly Pontypridd. The "friend" who cancelled her on Tuesday was over an hour late, without contact, to meet her this morning, and has now rolled up to borrow all DD's bridging work for history and Latin because they've not done any of their own or bought any books (or been to the library).

I WILL NOT SUPPORT THAT FECKLESS GIT'S WORK ON OUR DOLLAR AND DD'S MENTAL HEALTH AND HAPPINESS.

ok, I feel better now, sorry.

Ta da
❤️ Breakfasts made until next Wednesday
🧡 DS3 moved into DS2's old room - we think this is the last room swap we will do 😢
💛 Spare bedlinen sorted, some put out, some passed to DS2, some split between DS3 and DD, some put under loft room sofabed for sickbugs emergencies.
💚 DH has emtpied and moved the filing cabinet he had when I met him and now we have room in the music room to keep the guitar stand away from the radiator
💙 "School" trousers fixed for DS3 (he wants to try being smart for online secondary)

To do:
🚿 Hobble through shower
🍽️ Makes salads for lunches
🍽️ Write list of dinners I can batch prep - boughten ready meals are just not nice enough
📑 Make notes on dyspraxia and difficulties crossing the midline for DM to give to her cousin for newly-diagnosed granddaughter
📑 Client stuff
📑 Bullet journal stuff
🛌 Little nap

Have a good day, everyone.

Hills fab news about results, and did I read right that you’ve had the jab now?! 💐

Feeling utterly seagulls (another autocorrect), so much for a productive day. However at least DD1 got to her workshop on time, her usual Friday class has been cancelled (rather good timing really as it would be her 7th hour of dance today 🤣) and the lovely teachers of the workshop (it’s being run by the other dance school she attends) offered to sort a lift home for her ❤️ so at least the rest of the day is much quieter than expected.

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Friday at last. Don’t forget to clean out your cars and handbags etc as we limp gratefully towards the weekend!

FLIGHTPLAN

Here are this week’s missions. It is the final day in the boodwa, and we are meant to declutter our dresser surface.

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Right. FFS Sing you’ve had long enough doing nothing, stomach ache ain’t going anywhere so best just get the hell on with stuff.

po3.1
❗️Get dressed
❗️Pull yucky leaf out of Edna
❗️Gather DD1’s stuff that she needs to try on (bras etc) and check emails to see why the last item hasn’t arrived yet

po3.2
❗️Sort laundry and put LOL on
❗️Work out a few tasks that can be delegated to DS
❗️Gather papers in living room and boodwa, sort into tutoring, home ed, recycling etc

Progress:
Dry laundry put away
Wet laundry hung out
Kitchen sink, hob and surfaces cleaned

Next po3:
-Empty vacuum cylinders into bin outside
-Vacuum bedroom, landing and bathroom
-Do another wardrobe and drawers sweep for things that can be added to the charity bag

Hills hope you made it to work on time and that side effects haven't been too awful.

Willow the filing cabinet sounds like a major victory.

Thank you, Sing, I have been in need of a lovely new pin cushion.

:o

po3.3
❗️Write up the week’s lessons
❗️Tidy Cagletini’s puzzle/game shelves
❗️Sit and relax, eat something and read (while delegating tasks to DS)

Thanks Honey, I am so pleased to see the back of it. It's an ugly metal office-circa-1980 filing cabinet that he bought for £20 in 1996 when he set up his own business. It was full of total gubbins that is mostly gone now, and we have a three drawer wooden cabinet sensibly filled with stuff we need to keep (I love filing ). He did offer it to FIL, who has stacks of paper 6" high on the dining table, all surfaces in there and around the kitchen, but FIL says his filing is perfectly sensible thank you, despite never being able to find anything. So it's going to to the tip!

Also ta da
💖 wash with only slight tweaking of stitches (ouch!)
🧡 done the dyspraxia stuff for DM

Afternoon! Sorry for disappearing again. Wierdly I thought I'd posted yesterday but maybe I dreamt it up?!

Lots of stuff happening on the thread, everyone sounds very busy. We have a lot going on this weekend and I'm already exhausted, we haven't even got to the weekend yet

I will try and check in again later!

po3.4
❗️Get things ready for DS to take upstairs for me
❗️Clear another Kallax shelf and organise the Caglets’ study books on it
❗️Do feedback form for DS’ workshop and ask about tutoring

po3.5
❗️Organise tutoring resources a bit more into an extra folder I found
❗️Clear another Kallax square to put the rest of my sheet music on
❗️Disappear upstairs to change into jeans, and then do a bit of gentle BRC sorting while watching Netflix on my phone

Soooo yesterdays back ache has been replaced with stomach ache

Ta da

😑 feel sorry for self

Hills well done lovely on results💖

Venue is at a spa and golf estate.room has a divider for ceremony,then tableswill be moved into position as wall "disappears"whilst celebratory drinks and photos go on(for 90 minutes says plan for the day!?)
DD was so very excited and happy it made me want to cry and sight her dad

Only just posted as I forgot, so I’m already nearly done with that list 🤣 not done the whole BRC sorting but got rid of/put away plenty and shoved the rest into the biggest bag. Can’t focus on the film. Just need to move the music books now. Then once DH leaves for his meeting my next list can be:

po3.6
❗️LOL in dryer and put blanket wash on
❗️Clear another Kallax square and gather Cagletini’s other activity stuff on it (wipe clean books, letter games etc)
❗️Do some of the printed stuff with Cagletini

zoo that's a huge list! 😳
Sing you've been very busy today too
foxes Hopefully you have fun things planned for this weekend. Try to take some time to yourself, even if it's just half an hour
hills I hope you have a quick recovery from the vaccine
Welcome back goth
honey you reminded me that I need to clean my vacuum filter out from all the dry wall, thank you 😊

I haven't done any flying.
Yesterday I stayed at work late, ended up getting in 11.5 hours instead of 10. I didn't get home until 8pm (I left the house at 6:40am). I ended up picking up dinner on the way home, taking a bath to soothe my aching muscles, then watched some TV.
I need to get some flying done this weekend for sure. I also need to paint my shed before the weather turns here.