Lists for the Slatternly - May edition

[TrillianAstra]

Okay, I am clearly worrying way too much about this but there are only a few spaces left in the old thread!

(What do I think will happen if we finish without a new list? We'll just make a new one. Relax woman!)

Thanks to alicecrail for the title.

Please finish the old thread before starting on this one - there could be a prize if you are number 1000.

So I went to meet my friend for coffee and they were drawing a pretty sign to go in the window saying they wanted someone to do some shifts in the little cafe. Am I crazy to have said 'hey, I'm not doing anything at the moment'? I've got a trial tomorrow morning, I just need to persuade them to let me only do the weekday shifts they have as I don't want to be working at the weekend if DP is working all week.

tea and MN DONE
washing ALL_DONE
pay council tax DONE
phone pregnant friend about coffee DONE
top up phone DONE
look at online bank and do this face DONE
wash hair DONE
make self look presentable DONE
washing up DONE
lunch DONE
meet friend for coffee DONE
take back jeans that didn't fit doingtomorrow
buy thin dressing gown didn'tseeaniceone
clean bathroom
check for more jobs DONE
apply if there are more jobs DONE1

TA - it could be fate

Oh well done TRILLIAN, fingers crssed for you

Fate? It's a job in a coffee shop for pocket money.

D'you reckon that next week I'll be serving coffee to someone who is just setting up their own business doing something fantastic and they will hire me to work with them?

They'll probably say they want one person to do all the shifts they're advertising for, and I really don't want to work Sat and Sun, so I might not even get this.

Everyone up DONE
Breakfast DONE
Make Lunches DONE
Wash Breakfast Dishes DONE
Clean Kitchen DONE
Go Downtown to do some banking and post office JUST BACK
Washing 2nd load on
Clean Sitting room HALF DONE
clean dining area SWEPT IT
Hall
Downstairs Bathroom DONE (poured bleached down loo and removed papers and DSs tracksuit bottoms )
Make Beds
Make lunch for DH DONE
Make sandwich for him to bring back with him DONE
Collect DN DONE
Make Dinner for DCs DONE
Nag about homework DOING
Tidy over ABOUT TO DO (if mn releases me from the grip it has on me )
Have meeting in girls school!

Oh well done TA .

Don't be all 'well done' yet, I'm going in tomorrow for a trial, and from the sound of it they'll do that for anyone who walks in off the street and shows the slightest bit of interest.

Hey, good luck with the trial! There are far worse places to work than a coffee shop...the smell of fresh coffee, pastries....mmmmm...

everyone up, dressed, breakfast done
packed lunches done
school run done
call dentist for appt done
shopping for food done
put breasd in freezer (sick of running out of bread every other day) done
ds4 to sleep for nap done
school collection done
organise day for ds3's friend to come for teadone
drop off swipe card and keys to dh who forgot themdone
clear clean clothes from spare bed into proper homesdone
make fish piedone
write to 2 friends and MIL
have a bit of time just for ME (decided this has to be something I prioritise each day as I'm about to lose my mind)
early bath and bed (I mean it this time, I have to go to bed early, which means no MN after 9pm or I get lost in the vortex....)

Hi Starbear

Well just back from dancing with dd, doing a roast chicken dinner so better get cracking
My tumble drier is going on the blink, although probably for the best going by last electricity bill

Buy euromillions lotto ticket done

Everyone up,washed & dressed done
breakfast done
schoolruns done
load dishwasher done
wipe round kitchen done
load washing machine donex3
take clothes off clothes horse &put away done
Iron stillmoretodo
Clean bathroom
clean ensuite
declutter dinning room
dhs accounts up to attic
hoover
Buy hoover bags outofstock

THIS WEEK
Tidy ds/dd2 bedroom
Tidy dd1s bedroom
wash windows inside
wash windows outside
Paint Lounge done
Buy tickets for dd1s end of year dance show (on sale Tues)done
Get hair done (thursday night)
dd1 hospital Friday morn
Clean & Tidy livingroom
declutter bedside tables
Clean plastic garden chairs
try out new fake tan
put stones in playpark
wash swings/slide/seesaw
Fix slides
Get more icing sugar& regalice
Make & Ice dds cake [nervous]
make a list of food for sunday
buy above food
Put aside money for bouncy castle
Pray its beautiful day Sunday doing

lots more.....

Plum - as least it's the right time of year to change to hanging outside!

TA - what about a customer who gives you a lottery ticket for a tip?
Or a regular who gets chatting to you who works somewhere relevant for you and knows of a job going?
and so on!

ok i'm not normally the optimist but still, gets you out of the house and you can still apply for normal jobs off-shift.

all good i think! (wish i liked coffee and i lived near, quite fancy a part-time out and about job!)

Today:

• tea for everyone DONE
• boys to bed
• me to orchestra (check cash for sitter, remember i've agreed to pay rise!)
• remember to take everyone's pottery from social last week
• me to bed

Ongoing:

• get to 8stone 7lbs (currently 8,11)
• contact handyman (sort list)
• get photos of family & hang them up
• buy some more cheap photo albums
• contact neighbour to sort out fixing fence TalkedToHerWillGetHandymanToHaveALook
• book nursery for extra work days coming up & for Thurs when DS2 has his MRI
• go through all websites i've bought stuff off recently and change passwords
• research epilepsy alarms
• get written instructions for nursery to deal with ds2 ToDoByMonday
• research epilepsy and see if there's a MN thread to join Ongoing
• find correct sized refills for filofax pen

Yeah, hopefully it'll be fun workin in a slightly hippyish cafe. If I do the couple of weekday shifts surely there will be plenty of students/sixthformers who want a weekend jobI just reckon there will be people with actual cafe experience lining up to do the whole lot, as there are hardly any jobs around at the moment.

Moan. Whine. Won't get it anyway. Won't even get a job in a coffee shop, I'm so crap.

Sorry. Will stop that now.

Evening all.

Work ok today. Bit dull. Amused at people staring at my obvious bump and seeing their brains tick over but not asking me any questions like ' Are you getting really fat or are you preggers?'. I am 17 weeks now so surely they will cotton on. Boss and a couple of people I sit near know but not many others so I'm waiting for the gossip mill to go round and they all work it out.

TA - At least its something. Looking for work is a nightmare. You'll get all kinds of experience and like they say 'Its not what you know its who you know' so you might meet that Business Exec and get chatting. If not at least you'll get lunch.

Ah jobs.

Jobs
go to work done
Put something more comfortable on
Tidy bedroom(s)
Hoover branflakes off DS's floor done at last!
DS into bed
Make dinner for DH and I
Filing getting urgent
Watch all TV that couldn't watch when PIL here
DS's nursery bag

Tomorrow / This week
Pick up parcel from post office
Do some exercise x 3 times a week

LOL HMB - but i met up with a friend i don't see often last week and she was 19 weeks, but still not obv pg. she saw me and said 'wow you're looking skinny, lost loads of weight'
'thanks' said i
....
awkward silence as i relaise i can't say the same to her but it's not an obv enough bump for me to go 'OMG, when're you due?!'

TA - been there mate. got turned down for all sorts of jobs i knew were 'beneath me' (no offence intended, referring specifically to jobs that anyone could do rather than specialised jobs that require specific training, eg teaching)

i didn't get a job at M&S
i didn't get a job at Next (they were too snooty for me anyway, lol!)

i did however get jobs at:

• the local Chinese takeaway
• WHSmith (loved that job actually)
• random pubs

Oh, what M&S missed out on

Today:

• boys to bed DS2 done
• me to orchestra (check cash for sitter, remember i've agreed to pay rise!)
• remember to take everyone's pottery from social last week InCar
• me to bed

Ongoing:

• get to 8stone 7lbs (currently 8,11)
• contact handyman (sort list)
• get photos of family & hang them up
• buy some more cheap photo albums
• contact neighbour to sort out fixing fence TalkedToHerWillGetHandymanToHaveALook
• book nursery for extra work days coming up & for Thurs when DS2 has his MRI
• go through all websites i've bought stuff off recently and change passwords
• research epilepsy alarms
• get written instructions for nursery to deal with ds2 ToDoByMonday
• research epilepsy and see if there's a MN thread to join ResearcingMRINow
• find correct sized refills for filofax pen

JKS - It is a delicate situation when you aren't sure if someone has got a bun in the oven. The lads in the office (who know I am pg) are going on and on about me 'piling the weight on' every time I order a teacake from the canteen or eat a biscuit. I am 9st 7lbs fgs- hardly tipping the scales, cheeky s*ds . I shall worry about getting back in shape after having the baby (slight paranoia though ).

Jobs
go to work done
Put something more comfortable on done
Tidy bedroom done
Hoover branflakes off DS's floor done at last!
DS into bed onhisway
Make dinner for DH and I
Filing getting urgent doing
Watch all TV that couldn't watch when PIL here
DS's nursery bag
Try on maternity clothes from littlewoods done
Return maternity clothes to littlewoods - too small (more size paranoia!)

Tomorrow / This week
Pick up parcel from post office donebyDH
Do some exercise x 3 times a week

Evening all

TA - good news about your job.

I've done everything on my list, except my assignments, I really need to get those done.

Tomorrow can you add to your list to make sure I do some of my assignments!!!

at pregnant/not pregnant confusion etiquette. The friend I had coffee with apparently has 3 weeks to go, very exciting! She's really looking healthier than before, I've never seen anyone actually glow

And of course she is very obviously pregnant, no confusion there.

(the glowing could be down to spending many afternoons in the garden for the past two weeks as she's stopped work already)

People - while I am at your weight-controlling/ list-busting/ chore-dispensing / housework-loving / showy-offy get-things-doneness; you do all seem quite mad.

Does this thread help you get more done? Are you really interested in what anyone else has acomplished on any given day? Do you read a longer list and feel motivated to rush off and get a bit more done before bedtime?

Good luck with the coffee shop trial Trillian, sounds like it could be fun!

Being rather large, I was a good five or six months gone before you could tell. I'd stand with my hands in my back or rested on my bump to make it clear.

• breakfast done
• me dressed done
• DS dressed done
• check if I can have antihistamines stillnotsure
• research backpack baby carriers some
• order castor oil to try oil cleansing method
• order Pitrok
• think of present for step-MIL
• lunch done
• clear kitchen, wash pots, take out recycling and rubbish done
• washing - nappies washing
• DS nap done/walk/SIL take -him-- out
• DS snack done
• dinner done
• DS bath and bed done
• clear kitchen done
• clear top of fridge done!
• change our bedding done
• look at backpack carriers with DH and order one
• knitting! Must do!

We are indeed quite mad. It's great.

I think I do actually do more now that I make lists.

Squeezy -I find the list a useful reminder and its nice to have some friendly banter along the way. I don't think anyone is showy off? I rarely get much done on the list at all! I don't try to get a few more things done before bed unless they really need to be done the next day. Usually I veg out of an evening and give up on jobs. Don't know about the rest...

Jobs
go to work done
Put something more comfortable on done
Tidy bedroom done
Hoover branflakes off DS's floor done at last!
DS into bed done
Make dinner for DH and I done
Filing getting urgent started - more to go
Watch all TV that couldn't watch when PIL here doing
Sort out DS's nursery bag
Try on maternity clothes from littlewoods done
Return maternity clothes to littlewoods - too small (more size paranoia!)

Tomorrow / This week
Pick up parcel from post office donebyDH
Do some exercise x 3 times a week

Squeezy, this thread is very useful. Yes I do get more done. What's your problem?

Right, I must get on with the knitting tomorrow night, no excuses!

• breakfast done
• me dressed done
• DS dressed done
• check if I can have antihistamines stillnotsure
• research backpack baby carriers some
• order castor oil to try oil cleansing method done
• order Pitrok done
• think of present for step-MIL doneandordered
• lunch done
• clear kitchen, wash pots, take out recycling and rubbish done
• washing - nappies washing
• DS nap done/walk/SIL take him out
• DS snack done
• dinner done
• DS bath and bed done
• clear kitchen done
• clear top of fridge done!
• change our bedding done
• look at backpack carriers with DH and order one tomorrow
• knitting! Must do! ffs! I really need to do this, it's for DS birthday! Which is one week away! Aaarrgh!

Do I win a prize for being the first one to post this morning, I have just put the writing on dds cake board don't think I have used the right glue, just realised I should have used icing sugar and I used glycerine (hopes somene will say this is ok), I don't know what possessed me but hey ho
And my dishwasher has decided to break, it took 4 hours to do a cycle

Anyway will check in when it is really Wednesday
Hi Squeezy, yes the lists help even days when you don't get anything done

Everyone up,washed & dressed
breakfast
schoolruns
empty dishwasher
load dishwasher ithasbroken
wash dishes
wipe round kitchen
empty washing machine
load washing machine
take clothes off clothes horse &put away done
Iron stillmoretodo
Clean bathroom
clean ensuite
declutter dinning room
dhs accounts up to attic
hoover
Buy hoover bags somewhereelse

THIS WEEK
Tidy ds/dd2 bedroom
Tidy dd1s bedroom
wash windows inside
wash windows outside
Paint Lounge done
Buy tickets for dd1s end of year dance show (on sale Tues)done
Get hair done (thursday night)
dd1 hospital Friday morn
Clean & Tidy livingroom
declutter bedside tables
Clean plastic garden chairs
try out new fake tan
put stones in playpark
wash swings/slide/seesaw
Fix slides
Get more icing sugar& regalice
Make & Ice dds cake [nervous]
make a list of food for sunday
buy above food
Put aside money for bouncy castle
Pray its beautiful day Sunday doing

lots more.....

Squeezy - another who agrees i get more done since i started on here
no i donn't rush around before bedtime, i crash out like most people (i think!).
Though i did once do something (forgotten exactly what!) just to complete a list
is that showy-offy? ah well, was only the once, lol.
we probably are quite mad!

Plum - sorry no idea! dishwasher, argh now that's serious!

TA - hope you enjoy the trial even if nothings comes of it

up far too early with both boys here, and couldn't sleep last night, so knackered now

got loads happening today, if it all works out.

Today:

• usual up, dressed, breakfast AllUp
• ds1 to pre-sch (9)
• ds2 nap
• must email nursery about tomorrow, ds2 news & other extra days
• alarm man coming to sort paperwork/deposit (10) (find chequebook!)
• colleague coming to discuss work events (10.30)
• collect ds1 (12)
• lunch x 3
• delivery of chair for ds2 at some point today
• ASDA delivery (3-5)
• scout man coming to collect jumble (about 4.30) (get more together, check through toys, etc.)
• tea x 3
• boys bath & bed (really should do bath tonight)
• DH home late
• early night for me

Thurs:

• MRI for ds2
• nursery for ds1
• everything else will hopefully just happen, lol!

Ongoing:

• get to 8stone 7lbs (currently 8,11)
• contact handyman (sort list + fence)
• get photos of family & hang them up
• buy some more cheap photo albums
• book nursery for extra work days coming up & for tomorrow when DS2 has his MRI
• go through all websites i've bought stuff off recently and change passwords
• research epilepsy alarms
• get written instructions for nursery to deal with ds2 ToDoByMonday
• research epilepsy and see if there's a MN thread to join ResearchingMRINow
• find correct sized refills for filofax pen