Slattern, list makers and procrastinators, fudging our way into Feb - ..........

[ToccataAndFudge]

everyone welcome (and yes I'm taking a flipping liberty starting the new thread )

DONE
Clean sitting room
Mop Floor
Swept Hall
Mop Floor

TO DO
Wash Dishes DONE
Clean counters DONE
Washing 1st LOAD DONE
Tidy Dining Area DONE
Brush Floors DONE
Collect DD3 DONE
Make Lunch DONE
Collect DN from school DONE
Collect DDs
Make DCs Dinner
Clean up after it
Take clothes off airer

DD and i still in pyjamas must get us both dressed and up to those horses. The owners of the yard are moving today, so would rather go later so can avoid them but seeing as we need to go shopping i can't leave it too late.

Done

All up etc
Load of washing in
DD to preschool
Supermarket
Clear out fridge
Load of washing hung up
Another load sorted
Recycling mountain into box
Cardboard boxes flattened & put in shed
Washing up
Wipe kitchen sides & table
Tidy sitting room
Change hoover bag
Hoover downstairs
Mop downstairs
Clean clothes away
Tidy dc room
Hoover upstairs

Next (unlikely to happen)
Clean inside of windows/mirrors
Dust& polish downstairs
Dust & polish upstairs

Hmm 30 mins til I need to pick dd up...do I do those last bits (don't wannaaaaa) or not?

DS's up and breakfast - DONE
DS's dressed DONE
Shower, dry hair, get dressed (me) DONE
Empty dishwasher DONE (by DS1)
Load of washing 2nd in
Ironing
Dry washing started
Sort kitchen worktop(s)
Visit ZW/FV neighbours DONE
Study
Dinner
Lunch DONE
Hoover
Bath Boys
Uniforms ready

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Depending on what postman brings (or not) ring IS and TC's/parents (urghhh) and Letting Agent

ok this last one has changed a bit. Was on the phone to IS, when my mobile rang - it was the Compliance Officer wanting to come out this afternoon to interview XH and I because I've made a single claim while we're still living in the same house. Basically to check that we are indeed "Separated but living together".

hopefully it will all go fine (she's coming at 3.30 - eek) and I'll be able to ring the letting agent to update her on progress.

Good luck TAF.

Alice - hope you avoid them today!

Um, hi everyone else

SCORE: Pants 1 Toilet 0
Mon:

• toilet training Doing
• DH up first DONE
• breakfast & tidy up DONE
• all dressed DONE
• DS1 to pre-sch DONE
• me & DS2 to speech therapy DONE
• pop to library DONE
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• DS2 nap Doing
• sort through & put away enormous bag of clothes from a friend for the boys Started
• pop round corner for ingredients & sausages for tea & collect coat from dry cleaners DONE
• baking with DS1 DONE
• get casserole ready DONE (organised!!)

• tea x 3 (spag bol for me, what for boys - experimenting with sausage casserole)
• boys to bed
• finish Sunday crosswords
• try for very early night (DS2 was up in the night laughing)

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register
• return borrowed DVDs x 2
• upload & order online prints
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door
• clean kitchen cupboard doors (Started)
• put pile of cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1 (Have tip about nearby place with spaces)
• sort out spare room properly as too much junk in there Started
• copy Wasting and think about Christmas! (maybe)
• put shelf bits in loft + some other bits (need a hand i think, esp with sore arm)
• sort through bag of 'stuff to go'; eBay, Freecycle, charity, bin
• take photos, weigh & list eBay stuff
• chase DS2's portage worker DONE

Done

All up etc
Load of washing in
DD to preschool
Supermarket
Clear out fridge
Load of washing hung up
Another load sorted
Recycling mountain into box
Cardboard boxes flattened & put in shed
Washing up
Wipe kitchen sides & table
Tidy sitting room
Change hoover bag
Hoover downstairs
Mop downstairs
Clean clothes away
Tidy dc room
Hoover upstairs
Clean inside of windows/mirrors
Dust& polish downstairs
Dust & polish upstairs

(well if you can call spraying a bit of polish and flicking a duster over any obvious dust 'dusting and polishing'

Next

Pick up dd
Sort out previous tenants & landlords post & redirect
Dinner
Wash up
Tidy kitchn& sitting room
bath & bed dc

FAQ hope it works out. i was investigated for benefit fraud when I first claimed because I only moved 1 street away and they thought I'd seen the to let sign and made it all up to get more money (previous tenants didn't change their details for ages) it was nine weeks before I got any money and longer for HB

Slight change of plan.....

Went upstairs to get dressed/DD dressed when DD starts tidying her room (it needed doing) so i am dressed, DD is not but her room is tidied. So will make some cauliflower cheese in a minute to go with baked potatoes this eve once we have done horses and gone shopping (going to go to horses when DH gets home [wimp])

DONE ALREADY
Everyone up
DD clean nappy (DH did)
Everyone breakfast
Empty dishy (DH)
Superficial clean of the kitchen sides (DH)
Strip beds (half done)
Wash sheets (first load doing)
Get rock cake recipe
Put educational spot dvd on
Clear up breakfast stuff
Dry sheets
Put more sheets on to wash
Make rock buns with DD
Get dressed
Lunch
Dig some more paper out for DD to do some drawing
Tidy DD's room

TO DO
Get DD dressed
Unpack suitcase
Attack area of doom that is the living room side table (its not pretty)
Do horses
Write shopping list
Go to Waitrose
Dinner

Next
Load dishy
Make cauli cheese
Wash potatoes
Get DD dressed

oh don't say that freakoid 9 weeks? .........I'm hopefully only moving to the next street as well

Afternoon. I'm running out of steam, but I think a coffee and a sit down will help.

Alice,

Ali, I am a little of oven cleaning man.
Mine's not very dirty (yet) but we've only been here since October.

TAF, hope it goes well.

I think Butterpie's list might have scared Butterpie off.

• all up, dressed, teethbrushed done
• beds made, windows and curtains open done
• condensation patrol done
• spatone + OJ + vitamins done
• breakfast done
• check email and online banking doing
• laundry - fold dry washing done, sort loads done, put load in done
• continue shredding
• water plants done
• change bed sheets stripped
• tidying and decluttering upstairs some
• tidying and decluttering downstairs donesome
• ongoing list stuff!

+ bring green bins back round done

• lunch done + wash pots donemost
• walk - shop? library?
• feed the birds
• take rubbish and recycling out
• Tesco delivery 3-5pm done
• tea chickenin
• put breadmaker on
• tidy downstairs
• DS bath and bed
• is the kitchen cleared?
• ready for the morning? bag packed
• ironing

DIY jobs -

• paint front door - 1 coat inside, 1 coat outside
• put up Simonon print
• get frame for fireplace print - what size?
• open painted-shut window in bedroom ? Not sure it can be done
• mirror up in bathroom - going to get a different mirror
• big mirror up in bedroom
• fix wardrobe door need correct screw ikea can provide spares (I think) need to find instructions to get part number found phone store done! should be here within a week. arrived! DONE!
• get new curtains for front room
• shelves in cupboard + clean and anti-mildew paint (project for next Dad visit)

To Do -

• make compost bin - empty old dustbin, find online instructions again done,
• finish filing done!
• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on one or two gifts I?d like to make, find patterns, instructions etc. and buy materials
• mould mission - hallway, front room window, back room wall
• sort out random ornament box in bedroom that?s been there since we moved!
• Barclaycard
• Return Jamie Oliver cookbook to SIL
• stitch card for Mother?s Day started
• buy swimming costume

Wasting - we bought a new one when we had our new kitchen put in 18 months ago, and it has NEVER been cleaned! The grillpan goes through the dishwasher whenever we use it, but that is it. I MUST keep on top of it now.

TAF - eek hope it goes ok

Alice - you are a wuss, but I would do exactly the same!

Freaky - your tap de-scaling mission, how is it going? I just did mine with some Mr Muscle 100% limescale destroyer that I found under the utility sink when I had my clearout last week. It is amazing, my sink taps are so shiny now. Still need to tackle the ones on the bath, and they are much worse.

Right must go and wake DS up. I have got so much done today though, feeling v.virtuous

TODAY
Me and DH up - done
Shower and dressed - done
Get DS up and dressed - done
Unload dishwasher - done
Reload and clear up remaining kitchen mess from yesterday - done
Clean hob - done
Run dishwasher again - done
Spatone + vitamins
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Unload dishwasher again
Ocado 10-11am - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs - done + 10 mins declutter - done
Wipe over bathroom - done
Put away shopping - done
General tidying and decluttering downstairs - done
Put away extra dining chairs and table leaf - done
Recycling and bin out for binmen - done
Lunch and tidy kitchen - eaten
Man coming to clean the oven at 1pm - done OMG it is sooo shiny!!
DS nap - done
Empty upstairs bins - done
Go through odd sock drawer - done
Activate new bank cards - onedone
Put up height chart in DS' room and measure him
Dinner x 3
Clear up
DS bath and bed
Post DS-to-bed tidy
Kitchen clear before bed
Take ADs

LAUNDRY
1 load - readytogoin
Finish drying yesterday's washing - done
Fold dry washing - 1loaddone
Put away clean things from airing cupboard

CLEANING THIS WEEK
Sweep kitchen and hall - done
Mop kitchen and hall
Hoover downstairs - done
Dust downstairs - done
Hoover upstairs
Dust upstairs - done
Mirrors and glass doors - done
Stairs and bannisters - done
Shower screen
Dust upstairs lightshades
De-limescale bathroom sink taps - done

Ongoing/Areas of Doom/Extras
Organise paperwork/filing
Organise books
Hang photo frames in DS' room
Find a painter to do the kitchen
Put up extra hooks in utility
Send new baby parcel to friend
Find out how to get my passport changed to married name (only 2.4 years since the wedding!!)
Find the next size up dungarees that I bought for DS a few months ago...
Sideboard (this is a mega task)
Sort through glass cupboard in the kitchen - started
Call furniture donation scheme about stuff in garage

She turned up at just gone 3.40

And has just left.

She filled in the first page of the form.

I started told her about the housing options/house thing and how I was waiting on confirmation of my benefits.

She did a double take - rang the office and has now left without doing the forms as she said it would be a waste of time given that I'm only still here because I need the letter.

Should hopefully have my IS letter in the post in the next couple of days

Ali - don't blush, we've lived here nearly 6 years and never cleaned the oven... x lots. I don't think it's actually that bad but like the sound of a 'man who does'

Wasting - well done on wardrobe!!

SCORE: Pants 2 Toilet 0
Mon:

• toilet training Doing
• DH up first DONE
• breakfast & tidy up DONE
• all dressed DONE
• DS1 to pre-sch DONE
• me & DS2 to speech therapy DONE
• pop to library DONE
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• DS2 nap Doing
• sort through & put away enormous bag of clothes from a friend for the boys DONE
• pop round corner for ingredients & sausages for tea & collect coat from dry cleaners DONE
• baking with DS1 DONE
• get casserole ready DONE (organised!!)
• put casserole on DONE

• tea x 3 (spag bol for me, what for boys - experimenting with sausage casserole)
• boys to bed
• finish Sunday crosswords
• try for very early night (DS2 was up in the night laughing)

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register
• return borrowed DVDs x 2
• upload & order online prints
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door
• clean kitchen cupboard doors (Started)
• put pile of cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1 (Have tip about nearby place with spaces)
• sort out spare room properly as too much junk in there Started
• copy Wasting and think about Christmas! (maybe)
• put shelf bits in loft + some other bits (need a hand i think, esp with sore arm)
• sort through bag of 'stuff to go'; eBay, Freecycle, charity, bin? DONE (all to charity tomorrow)
• take photos, weigh & list eBay stuff NotNecessary

Actually it was 9 for income support, only (?) 7 for tax credits and I did then get a rather large chunk all at once. But had to borrow loads off my parents and clear out my savings and I'd paid 3 months rent plus deposit before I even got HB, was quite stressful.
Hopefully your meeting will sort yours though.

Ali I tried that stuff but my taps are brass (tasteful ) and it did strange things to them!

Bugger forgot to post the gro again! Sorry am useless. Shout at me til I do.

DD weed herself three times at preschool today She's come home in someone elses trousers.

Freak can you use vinegar on brass? I did my taps with cotton wool soaked in vinegar wrapped round the taps for a couple of hours. You can put plastic bags over them and leave overnight if very bad. Just check before you do it with brass though.

Alice yes you can, they recommend vinegar and bi carb. They were already buggered before I moved in (dull and marked) so the limescale remover mishap didn't do too much damage

well done Toccata hope it works out

Alice I'm nearly finished the toxic parenting book and there is a good bit in it about how you respond to people

respondining versus reacting and being non defensive

so responses for your mother would be

oh?
oh I see
thats interesting
your certainly entitled to your opinion
I'm sorry you don't approve
let me think about it

You probably have to see the examples in the book but I'll be using them in future, although conversations with my mum are getting more strained as I don't feel I have anything to say anymore

Freak dod you think your dd mentioned the window cleaner to xh and that is why he thought you were going on a date???

Ali I think I am going to have to get range master out soon as a few of my knobs are sticking, I'm putting it off though as it is ££££££
(I am resisting from the knob and lube jokes)

I have barely done anything have been floating on and off mn
really need to go sort dinner
and underwear!

Have already done dinner

DD was tired and hungry so just had it early to stop the whining, maybe they'll be confused and go to bed early too

Plum she may have but he is suspicious and jealous anyway, accused me of having an affair many times when ds was tiny because I didn't want to have sex with him-reality was I had a constantly screaming baby attached to me and he was being an unsupportive wanker.

Done

All up etc
Load of washing in
DD to preschool
Supermarket
Clear out fridge
Load of washing hung up
Another load sorted
Recycling mountain into box
Cardboard boxes flattened & put in shed
Washing up
Wipe kitchen sides & table
Tidy sitting room
Change hoover bag
Hoover downstairs
Mop downstairs
Clean clothes away
Tidy dc room
Hoover upstairs
Clean inside of windows/mirrors
Dust& polish downstairs
Dust & polish upstairs
Pick up dd
Sort out previous tenants & landlords post & redirect
Dinner
Wash up

To do
Tidy kitchn& sitting room
bath & bed dc

JKS, thanks. I'm sorry I'll have to delete the wardrobe saga from the list, but I'm so pleased it's done!

TAF, sounds like a sensible benefits bod. Hope it all gets sorted soon.

• all up, dressed, teethbrushed done
• beds made, windows and curtains open done
• condensation patrol done
• spatone + OJ + vitamins done
• breakfast done
• check email and online banking doing
• laundry - fold dry washing done, sort loads done, put 3rd load in done
• continue shredding some
• water plants done
• change bed sheets stripped
• tidying and decluttering upstairs some
• tidying and decluttering downstairs donesome
• ongoing list stuff!

+ bring green bins back round done

• lunch done + wash pots donemost
• walk - shop? library? no
• feed the birds
• take rubbish and recycling out
• Tesco delivery 3-5pm done
• tea done
• put breadmaker on done
• tidy downstairs done
• DS bath and bed
• is the kitchen cleared?
• ready for the morning? bag packed
• ironing

DIY jobs -

• paint front door - 1 coat inside, 1 coat outside
• put up Simonon print
• get frame for fireplace print - what size?
• open painted-shut window in bedroom ? Not sure it can be done
• mirror up in bathroom - going to get a different mirror
• big mirror up in bedroom
• fix wardrobe door need correct screw ikea can provide spares (I think) need to find instructions to get part number found phone store done! should be here within a week. arrived! DONE!
• get new curtains for front room
• shelves in cupboard + clean and anti-mildew paint (project for next Dad visit)

To Do -

• make compost bin - empty old dustbin, find online instructions again done,
• finish filing done!
• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on one or two gifts I?d like to make, find patterns, instructions etc. and buy materials
• mould mission - hallway, front room window, back room wall
• sort out random ornament box in bedroom that?s been there since we moved!
• Barclaycard
• Return Jamie Oliver cookbook to SIL
• stitch card for Mother?s Day started
• buy swimming costume

Get up done
Feed DD done
Get breakfast for me and DS done
Get dressed done
Get DS dressed done
Get DD dressed done
Put rubbish out for collection done
Change beds nope
Wash bedding nope
Clean kitchen floor nope
Empty dishwasher done
Reload dishwasher done
Clean Dyson filters nope

Might try to get either the floor or the filters cleaned in between feeds before I go to bed. DD tends to cluster feed in the evenings though so I don't get a lot of time to do much.

Had a lovely time with my brother though

grr, just lost a post.

Anyone else's "Threads I'm Watching" coming up blank?

SCORE: Pants 2 Toilet 0
Mon:

• toilet training Doing
• DH up first DONE
• breakfast & tidy up DONE
• all dressed DONE
• DS1 to pre-sch DONE
• me & DS2 to speech therapy DONE
• pop to library DONE
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• DS2 nap DONE
• sort through & put away enormous bag of clothes from a friend for the boys DONE
• pop round corner for ingredients & sausages for tea & collect coat from dry cleaners DONE
• baking with DS1 DONE
• get casserole ready DONE (organised!!)
• put casserole on DONE
• tea x 3 DONE (casserole a hit with DS2 at least)
• boys to bed DONE
• go up to settle boys & change DS1's pooey nappy (think he was holding it in all day!) DONE

• finish Sunday crosswords
• try for very early night InPjsAlready

Tues:

• continue toilet training...
• all up & breakfasted
• all dressed
• strip beds & find clean bedding
• change over bathmats & towels
• general tidy pre-cleaners
• DS1 to pre-sch
• to Sing & Sign with DS2
• pop into bf group for a cuppa if time
• collect DS1
• lunch & tidy up
• DS2 nap
• afternoon? maybe text friend to come over?
• tea x 3
• boys bath & bed
• me to orchestra (check cash & remember bag for friend)
• DH home late

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register
• return borrowed DVDs x 2
• upload & order online prints
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door
• clean kitchen cupboard doors (Started)
• put pile of cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1 (Have tip about nearby place with spaces)
• sort out spare room properly as too much junk in there Started
• copy Wasting and think about Christmas! (maybe)
• put shelf bits in loft + some other bits (need a hand i think, esp with sore arm)

Evening, another day survived completed.

JKS - so annoying when that happens. Lost internet this morning and was lost without my list of jobs. Really wanted to tick them off.

Breakfast done
All up and dressed done
Clear away breakfast things done
Pilates or walk or gardening
Vitamins done
Rubbish out
Recycling done
Lunch done
Online food shop done
Bring logs in
Light woodburner
put washing on
put washing to dry
Washing folded and put away done
tidy kitchen done
empty dishy done
dishy filled and on again on done
admin/filing/post done some
dinner done
bath DD/DS done
DD/DS to bed done
tidy bedroom done
put toys away in lounge done
feed cat done

also
Write meithrin nursery donation letters
Buy new address book and fill in
Pay cheque in
Arrange DD's christening! Ring Vicar done
Pay cheque for boiler done /accountant - need to post
Ring childminder done
Ring builder re wall done
Buy lightbulbs
Ring docs done

Plum what is this book and where can i get it? I think it would help me and my sister who is really getting the shit atm.

• all up, dressed, teethbrushed done
• beds made, windows and curtains open done
• condensation patrol done
• spatone + OJ + vitamins done
• breakfast done
• check email and online banking doing
• laundry - fold dry washing done, sort loads done, put 3rd load in done
• continue shredding somemore
• water plants done
• change bed sheets made
• tidying and decluttering upstairs some
• tidying and decluttering downstairs donesome
• ongoing list stuff!

+ bring green bins back round done

• lunch done + wash pots donemost
• walk - shop? library? no
• feed the birds
• take rubbish and recycling out
• Tesco delivery 3-5pm done
• tea done
• put breadmaker on done
• tidy downstairs done
• DS bath and bed done
• is the kitchen cleared?
• ready for the morning? bag packed
• ironing done

DIY jobs -

• paint front door - 1 coat inside, 1 coat outside
• put up Simonon print
• get frame for fireplace print - what size?
• open painted-shut window in bedroom ? Not sure it can be done
• mirror up in bathroom - going to get a different mirror
• big mirror up in bedroom
• fix wardrobe door need correct screw ikea can provide spares (I think) need to find instructions to get part number found phone store done! should be here within a week. arrived! DONE!
• get new curtains for front room
• shelves in cupboard + clean and anti-mildew paint (project for next Dad visit)

To Do -

• make compost bin - empty old dustbin, find online instructions again done,
• finish filing done!
• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on one or two gifts I?d like to make, find patterns, instructions etc. and buy materials
• mould mission - hallway, front room window, back room wall
• sort out random ornament box in bedroom that?s been there since we moved!
• Barclaycard
• Return Jamie Oliver cookbook to SIL
• stitch card for Mother?s Day started
• buy swimming costume

Morning

Well, the old people had gone by the time we got to the yard yesterday and the new ones were there and they seem really nice, and have said we can borrow their horsebox to move our horses

Feel more positive again this morning (just as well seeing that i can't see my living room floor )

Dh had to leave the house at 5.30 this morning, and won't be back til about 5 this evening, so a long day with just DD, luckily she seems to be back to her lovely self again.

DONE
Everyone up
Everyone breakfast
Get dressed

TO DO
Have cup of tea
Dress DD
Empty dishy
Tidy sitting room
Put washload on
Go to town
Make lunch (cauli cheese)
Do some cutting and sticking with DD

LIVING ROOM (it needs its own list!)
Pick up any washing
Take any washing up to the kitchen
Pick up any rubbish
Put all pen lids back on! and put them in the basket
Tidy up farm
Tidy up all puzzles
Tidy up train track
Put away all other toys (take some upstairs)
Hoover sofas/floor (will do once DH gets home as hoover still in bits)
Clear side table
Clean side table (its filthy )

morning everyone - got lots I want to get done today (which may alter depending on what the post brings lol)

But going to put it in bite sized chunks so I don't get overwhelmed (haha)

To Do

Empty dishwasher
Load of washing on
DS3 dressed
Me dressed
Visit all ZW/FV "neighbours"

DONE

DS1 and 2 up and out to school