Helloo fledglings!! [Flaps wings at everyone, particularly fellow low flyers Jilly, Jammy and Jelly ]
Is anyone else ancient enough to remember "I am a feathery owl call Sage"?? Well, that's who (geddit?) I feel like on this thread!!
(To those young enough not to understand the above reference - don't worry - I haven't finally drunk too much gin gone mad - it's a character from the Herb Garden which was my favourite BBC programme as a child.
Anyway, enough of the chat ...
How's it going? Everyone certainly seems to have been pretty active today. Well done!! Start small, maintain, and build up very, very gradually.
I've had a killer of a day at work missing deadlines ... but at least I've come home to a glistening sink and a clear dining room table. Done morning and most of evenign routines but no zone decluttering. Will have concerted effort over w/e to catch up.
Dh travelling and the whole of the rest of the office out until Thursday,so it's only me holding the fort which is why I'm not here posting so often currently.
Must get dd to bed but before I do:
To anyone who is interested, here is the link about SHE:
something to do with the way the Flylady system evolved as I recall
As Dreamteam so rightly says, all the terminology on Flylady is completely barf-tastic ...
Thanks for yet more speedy replies Dreamteam btw
Have a wonderful time WTH with your dh, wishing you red wine and roses and the whole caboodle
LOL AlexDrake and Paranoid - do not get too comfortable, well, only a bit!! The baby-steps start deliberately slowly (and there are a few rest/duvet/failure days built in to the system).
This is a learning process - it takes 27 days to establish a habit apparently - and the Flylady system is designed to keep us focused on spending the least time cleaning by doing it in a very focused way.
The challenge is to keep doing each baby-step each day and to MAINTAIN the progress. Slowly does it - that way we banish "all or nothing" habits/attitudes - and helps eliminate that awful "oh I can't face doing anything because it took me 50 minutes of horrible scrubbing to do x, y, z last time and now I have a huge resistance to it" (if that makes sense). We overcome the resistance by just tackling things 15 mins at a time.
I know the Flylady site itself is wierdly cutesy and irritating - but the underlying principles behind the routines are sound. Sorry for essay !! Enjoy your leisure while you can Honestly, the whole Flylady thing is not that onerous - but doing it EVERY day can be a challenge.
And to the person who asks (sorry - I am all scrolled out!!) for the sake of clarity we are doing baby-steps to coincide with the day/date so yes we will be baby-stepping over the w/e but as someone else said, we won't be doing zone cleaning or missions.
Phew! See you all again soon!!