Flying out of summer (what summer?!)

[partypompoms]

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There are Baby Steps for starting out, add one thing at a time to start good habits and routines.

There are 5 zones that we will rotate through, don't worry about finishing it all this month, it'll come around again next month! Flylady is NOT about perfectionism!

Habit of the month of August is Laundry

Daily missions: each day of the week has a different mission.

• Monday: Home Blessing (or as we call it, home bleugh)
• Tuesday: plan & play
• Wednesday: anti-procrastination
• Thursday: errand day
• Friday: clean car & purse out and date night (what's that again?? 🤔)
• Saturday: family fun day
• Sunday: renew your spirit

Common acronyms we use:

• LOL: load of laundry (washing is certainly NOT funny!)
• DW: dishwasher, we are not rotating wives by any means, although an extra pair of hands could come in handy sometimes 😆
• LMS: lose/lost my shit
• DNLMS: did not lose my shit

I'm sure there's more I haven't mentioned, feel free to ask us to explain something. I'll try to update links every day, although if you can, it's worth downloading the app, you can even have it send you notifications (although I only have it for when the zones change).

I like the app as it has a tick list and I love a list.

Links are below 👇 and I'll tend to post the links the night before ready for the next day.

Launch Pad: www.flylady.net/d/new-links/

Zones: www.flylady.net/d/zones/

Baby Steps: www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/31-beginner-babysteps/

Morning. Last night’s storms were very loud! 😴

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❗️LOL
❗️Make phone call I didn’t get round to yesterday
❗️Breakfast/shower/dressed etc

Morning 🌄 everyone 👋
@SingToTheSky we had really loud thunder, thought the roof was caving in!
@BloomingHazel that looks awful, hope everything gets sorted soon!
@partypompoms 💐, I've only heard of PMDD because Cathy on Emmerdale has it, but I went through something similar when I was perimenopausal, I thought when I went to the GP and explained what I was doing she'd section me!
I'm still in the naughty/ sick bay, thought I was getting better but seem to have a secondary infection, I can't move without breaking into a sweat and coughing until my eyes feel they're going to fall out.
Hope you all have great days.

Sorry you feel so rough cherry 💐

And sorry about the useless H elf 🤬

Searching I have mild PCOS (polycystic ovaries) and have some of those symptoms. I have to have an annual hba1c as it goes hand in hand with insulin resistance (I had gestational diabetes as well)

Half an hour on hold and the issue was resolved in about 3 minutes 🤣 LOL is on so I need to just eat something and jump in the shower before my 9.30 meeting.

Ta da
Loose my shit at the state of the kitchen
get abandoned laundry load into dryer
get tea towel load through washer and dryer
removed the cobwebs from the ceiling
removed the dust from the tops of the cupboards only the bit you can see for now
removed the silicon mess from when the windows were installed
clean windows inside and out
clean the tiles around the window and the windowsil
finally put up the stupid thingies for the christmas lights that go around the window
start to put stuff back on the window sil
get the DW unloaded, reloaded and run
hooved the edges in the dinning room
clean the outside of the microwave and remove from bench
clean the bench and the glass tray that goes under the mircowave
provide migrainy ds with some lunch
provide lunch to the one stuck in their bed room with covid
make bread - dough and cooked
Drunk waaaay more coffee than is healthy for one person

just taking 5 and then need to go back to the kitchen. I have some very strong feelings about the other people that live here right now.

Cherry that sounds awful! I hope you feel better soon 💐
Sing it seems it's always a long hold for a quick fix!
hills that's quite a ta da list! I can imagine the feelings you have for the people, and not good ones 😱

I'm at work today, so we'll see if I have any ta das 🤷‍♀️
🍒👋

Also ta da
wash up all the baking trays, grills pans, pots pyrex yeah i mean all <sigh>
wash up all the odds and sods that don't go into the dw
unload, reload and run again the DW
clean out the bin cupboard
clean the cooker top and front
wipe down the benched
wash all the wooden boards
take the bins out and get them washed
get the recycling out
get the green waste out
hoover the kitchen floor
hoover the utility room floor
a white wash through the machine and onto the line
an old towel wash through the washer and dryer
wipe down the cupboard doors
provide all the people with all the things they need
set up a new batch of kitchen cleaner to be brewed
tea cooked and provided
ensure that things for tomo are gathered - passes, clothes, bag, money for parking etc
wash the kitchen floor
wipe down the kettle
clean the microwave inside

And that they say is that. I am tired, done and more than a little grumpy

Thank you for your advice, everyone. I shall implement. Here is to improvement

Hills that's quite a list you got there 😲
Cherry how are you feeling?

Ta das:
🧺Bathrooms extended S&S
🧺Lol done and out to dry
🧺Dry laundry put away
🧺Multiple dining room and kitchen clear ups
🧺DW rotated
🧺Plants watered
🧺New kids' clothes labelled and put away
🧺Food prepped and served

Can anyone recommend good waterproofs for adults that are not too ugly please? Ie cheerful colours, I am not too keen on mud coloured ones.. I am getting ready for rainy season and I am determined to continue taking kids outside to play as much as possible.

Hello to everyone and well done to everyone. (How impersonal!! Sorry)

✅ finished the home bleurgh except beds
✅ 3 Lols
✅ toddler group
✅ finished pirate costume
✅ walk around duck pond
✅ decluttered a couple of items
✅ emptied bedroom of rubbish

TUESDAY: FLIGHTPLAN

www.flylady.net/c/fp.php?tzm=-60&d=1

✅ plan and play day
✅ mission: put away anything from your bedroom that needs putting away. Take away any items that doesn't belong in there.
✅ September habit: before bed routine...

www.flylady.net/d/habits-of-the-month/september/

Elf it is the not recommended blitz method. Which due to the people sensibly refraining from entering the working area means i have a clean and tidy kitchen back and god help them if they trash it again cos i have opinions and i will happily loudly express them

Now i am feeling 100 and everything hurts i have a much earnt hot water bottle and some youtube waiting for me.

I think today’s mission would take me a month 😳 my room is the worst in the house, it is the dumping ground and now also my office 😬

📞LOL
📞made phone call
📞work
📞home ed stuff
📞had a quick look at new module website and posted on the forum
📞more work
📞emailed DS’ college because they’ve timetabled him differently to how they said they would
📞ordered Tesco
📞LOL into dryer

My house is very slowly returning to organised chaos rather than just chaos 👏

Tada
✅ up, washed dressed
✅ beds made
✅ lunches made
✅ 8 mins on bedroom (will do the rest of the time after work)
✅ cooked the sausages ready for tea later

I'm currently having breakfast, going to s&s, fold any dry washing and take upstairs & breakfast pots before work and school runs (hopefully!).

Hey All! Thanks so much for all the helpful tips. I'm off to do some reading now I think. DH and I both work full time (DH very long hours), DC+ dogs. I love them all but it can feel rather overwhelming at times. I'm in the office today so not much progress around the house - though I did push the hoover round a bit before I left for work and I'm hoping to tackle the clean laundry mountain when I get back home this evening, once the DC are in bed! I'm enjoying reading all of your ta-das and it's making me re-think about how much I do that I don't really give myself credit for. I always wish I could do more. I'm contemplating taking a day off work just to get a start on sorting the house out.
Interesting also to read about experiences with PMDD. I'm so sorry to those who suffer, it sounds awful. I can definitely relate to some of those symptoms. I've been finding my periods quite disabling recently. My GP has put me on ADs which have helped me quite a bit but I appreciate they're not right for everyone.
@BloomingHazel so sorry about your fire! Looks very stressful. Hope you can get things fixed up soon.

Our bedroom is also the worst room in the house @Searchingforsunnydays.

If woo asleep in front of the TV AGAIN last night, so tired! And so behind again.

Ta das today

✅ unpacked shopping
✅ dropped off some clothes recycling - bag had been sat on the floor in bedroom for weeks!

I will try to wrap some parcels up to send off when I'm picking up DC - definitely counts as decluttering as stuff is leaving the house!

We had some news yesterday - trusses may be able to be delivered to the house in 2-3 weeks! Eeek! I'll believe it when I see it, but that's much better news than end of November!
Shed should be taken down all the way today, not sure if anything else will get done today (or if that will even get done!)

I had no ta das yesterday, not surprising. But I was at work all day. I tried to take the Jeep through the car wash, but there was a long line.

To Dos:
☕️ LOLs, lots of LOLs
☕️ cook omelettes for lunch, they sound good
☕️ cook some hard boiled eggs (we have a lot of eggs to use up)
☕️ put casserole together for dinner tonight
☕️ get white chicken chili prepped, in a bag, to go in the slow cooker tomorrow (or Thursday). Chicken is in the freezer, so must defrost that
☕️ home bleugh

I'll try to fit a workout in there too, it's hard to plan anything when I don't know what other's plans are 🤷‍♀️
First I need to get dressed & ready for the day, before the restoration company shows up, whenever that may be!

Evening All!
So my ta-das today:
✅ hoovered bedroom and kitchen
✅ kids prep’d for school
✅ full day in the office (does this count?!)
✅ went for run at the gym and had a nice long shower (with their hot water 😊)
✅ picked up DD from her friend’s house
✅ made soup and garlic bread for everyone’s tea

So I don’t think that’s too bad all things considered. I’d really like to sort out the laundry before I go to bed (it’s currently optimistically placed on my bed!) and I’ll need to pick up DS from scouts but I can combine that with a dog walk so that kills two birds with one stone. Right now though I need to get the kitchen cleaned up (taking notes from the September bedtime routine and forcing myself to do this sooner rather than later in the evening when I’m tired!) Going to try to get DD to help me which will probably be more effort than actually just doing it myself but I’m on a mission to get my DC to help out more round the house!

@BloomingHazel great news about the trusses.

Aww brilliant news @BloomingHazel !! So pleased for you and 🤞it all goes to plan !!

@MissDollyMix I put most things down in my tada list because then when I think I haven't done much , I can look and give myself some credit that actually, I've done lots to keep the house ticking over ! I think we can be too hard on ourselves at times ❤️ that's an amazing tada list today , happy that theADs are working well for you .

@derrydee our bedroom is the dump it room for when I don't know what to do with something 😂 so it'll take a long time to sort out !!

Tada

✅ dry washing folded , taken upstairs AND put away 😱
✅ breakfast pots
✅ s&s
✅ school run
✅ work (extra hours again this week)
✅ home school run
✅ tea cooked
✅ most tea pots (some dinners have been plated up for later on )
✅ dd2 ready for gymnastics
✅ ds ready for football
✅ dd2 taken to gymnastics
✅ food shop
✅ unpacked shopping
✅ clothes ironed and out for tomorrow

Back at gymnastics now until around 830, I will probably just do what needs to be done for tomorrow when I get home and get settled .

@BloomingHazel I think its incredible that you are still on good terms with your neighbour. People fall out over the slightest thing and yet here you are moving forward after something dreadful.

@MissDollyMix one of the options the gp offered me was a very low dose Prozac which which you take for only two weeks a month. They've found it's very good for PMDD. But I'm trying the pill for now.

✅ hula hooping
✅ made packed lunches
✅ morning routine
✅ made a massive chilli for a few nights
✅ ironing
✅ soft play with friend
✅ afternoon routine
✅ taken child to rainbows

Need to make a shopping list for tomorrow and evening routine. Soooo tired though as have been wide awake since 3am.

WEDNESDAY: FLIGHTPLAN www.flylady.net/c/fp.php?tzm=-60&d=1

✅ anti procrastination day
✅ busy the dust day in bedroom: all furniture and decorative items. Move items and dust underneath.

Interesting to hear about the Prozac Pompoms. The generally accepted stance on those types of meds is you have to take them daily for them to work. I don't believe that. I think it depends on circumstances and what exactly you want the meds to do

Good news re the trusses Hazel

My bedroom is also the dumping ground Sunny and Sing I've recently started to tackle it but realistically I've run out of room so won't be able to totally solve the issues without decluttering, which is hard when I don't actually want to get rid of anything that's there

Working definitely counts Dolly! Bringing money in is important to keeping the house ticking over just as much as cleaning it is. Ta-da lists are great for making you realise you've done more than you thought. Now I have them established, I tend to just put eg "morning routine" on mine (when I'm doing them, I'm busy decluttering at the moment) but when I initially created and listed out the morning routine it was 18 separate, if small, tasks. Keeping house is not as easy as people make it look

I found FlyLady's system good for getting over the feeling of being behind on everything Derry. I like the cyclical nature of it all. I find if I'm lacking time to finish a task I can make a mental note to start with that part when the task comes round again, so nothing ever gets left indefinitely

Wow that level of kitchen trashing would make me LMS too Hills, you did well getting it back under control in one day

I've spent the last couple of days just pottering around doing basics, faffing about and staying up too late. I need to stop procrastinating tomorrow and get something useful done

ta da
📷put dryer back on for a bit
📷put shopping away
📷work
📷home ed
📷booked dance classes for Cagletini
📷put several loads of clean laundry away
📷put Cagletini to bed
📷paired up lots of odd socks and decluttered some

I feel a lot more on track this week. Long day tomorrow but the morning will be nice as I can have a quiet morning with just DS and then have brunch with my colleague before work in the afternoon.

pompoms life is too short to hold grudges, especially if they live next door! He really feels bad for what happened, it was an accident. Plus he has a long road ahead to recover from his burns (and apparently will not be covered at all under his insurance to get them treated properly, so isn't going to a doctor about it anymore).

I have even better news re house - the shower is getting fitted tomorrow! it'll be done while both DH & I are at work, so we'll see how it goes.

I have always treated my bedroom as a sanctuary. I do not like things gathering in there, although there's a couple things I can think of that need to come out of there but mostly a couple of receipts. When my space is clear in my bedroom, I sleep well.

dolly if I have any ta das on a working day, I'll add that I worked. I have no time in the morning before I leave, and everyone is still asleep, and after being gone all day I only have the energy to cook dinner most nights sometimes not even enough energy for that the only thing I do consistently is get my lunch ready and clothes out for work the next day.
I do work x4 10hr shifts, but with lunch hour and travel time, I'm out of the house almost 12 hours the days I work.
You had a great ta da list!

Ta Das:
🌻 bed completely stripped (including mattress & pillow protectors)
🌻 LOLs x7, including sheets, protectors, towels and comforter (duvet without a removable cover)
🌻 pulled out frozen chicken to thaw
🌻 bleached both bathrooms
🌻 made a phone call, had to leave a msg
🌻 all clean clothes put away
🌻 handwashed dishes x2
🌻 rotated DW
🌻 cleaned plastic totes holding dog food (Dobby no longer has puppy food & is switched now)
🌻 washed dog bowls and tray they sit in
🌻 dead head my roses and cut some lavender to put on my bedside table in a vase
🌻 picked DS up from school
🌻 vacuumed main floor (DS did basement yesterday)
🌻 prepped dinner for tomorrow night ready to go in the slow cooker in the morning
🌻 cooked casserole for dinner tonight
🌻 got my lunch ready for tomorrow (leftovers)
🌻 wiped kitchen countertops & sink
🌻 got the slow cooker out ready for the morning
🌻 took DDs old car to storage (the phone call from this morning was to set it up as it's in our way!)
🌻 put dog kennels in Jeep ready for the morning, they'll stay at ILs during the day when work is going on when no one is home
🌻 swept outside, the neverending leaves are still neverending!

I just need to get my clothes out for tomorrow and take a shower (then my meds etc.). I'm tired 😴

Oh, we also had to clear our the bathroom - take the shower curtains down, bath tray moved to a different room, etc. When DH told me they were going to work on the bathroom tomorrow I told him that all I needed to do was clean the bathrooms, so I'm sure I'll need to do that again tomorrow 🙄