The Listmakers World Cup: Slatterns 4 - Areas of Doom 1!

[Alibabaandthe40nappies]

Welcome to the new thread everyone

All newbies and lapsed members welcome!

Need a kick up the bum or a shoulder to cry on, this could be the thread for you.

YEY she just text me, "they are fantastic, I'm delighted, thank u so much," YEY I can relax today!!!

oh I've given up - she'll have to take it as she finds it.

At least last time she came round it was a BOMBSITE, so anything better is a bonus really

PBM - glad you've heard back

OK must motivate myself today. TAF can relate to that where to start panic. Must prioritise.

1. get off MN
2. clear some space...anywhere its like living in a jumble sale here.
3. find list
4. Errrr

great news Plum Have good day all Moth report later

Plum - phew!

TAF & Mini - good luck!!

Am crawling my way through my ebay listings, will get there one day!

Wed:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed DONE
• DS1 to pre-sch DONE
• portage worker (10am) DONE

• online shop?
• collect DS1
• lunch & tidy up
• DS2 nap
• meet up with friends for afternoon, poss beach?
• tea x 2 (fish fingers day - check stocks lol)
• garden time
• boys bath & bed
• DH home late?/our dinner?

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register; Find another one that is taking on NHS patients
• upload & order online prints Started-Done More
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door - Autumn job really
• clean kitchen cupboard doors Done3More
• put cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others
• make my playlist
• clear my iPhone of music, reload with just my playlist
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1 - Have Name Of School; HavePhoneNumber
• sort out holiday in August to Jersey; hire car (+ seats) - call Opodo re seats
• put hippo in upstairs toilet cistern
• repot sunflowers
• go through diaries with DH (he's given me a printout for this week)
• see if high chair will fold flat enough to put in bin bags and then in loft Can'tFigureOutHowToFoldIt!
• eBay listings 6/13 Done
• ring electricity/gas company with meter readings GotEReading

well she's been on and gone - was a tip by most peoples standards - but she was fine (actually she's probably seen MUCH worse LOL).

Hands TAF a coffee, relax now (sets timer for 15mins then get something else down)

down mean done

I'm going to start with clearing out hoover

OH and other news recieved invitation today to BILs wedding celebration here, AND guess what????
The dcs are invited afterall am off to ring SIL to see if she knows what happened

Afternoon all.

Have spent most of the morning playing.

Did I tell you that neighbours on both sides have/are moving? [paranoid]

TAF, I used to hate landlord inspections. Luckily none of the last few have done them.
My first landlord would criticise the housewkeeping, not impressed. Pretty much all our clothes were piled up against one wall of the enormous bathroom though. Happy days!

Wedding stresses! They're a nightmare eh!

Hope it's gone alright Ipom.

• up, done
• breakfast, spatone, oj and vitamins done
• coffee + check mail and online banking doing
• shower and dress, wipe round bathroom done
• play lots
• dry pots done+ clean sink
• laundry - 2nd load in done
• lunch done
• shops
• garden - check for cat poo, water, feed the birds
• take rubbish, recycling and compost caddy out
• tea
• wash pots and tidy kitchen
• tidy downstairs
• DS bath and bed (DH)
• craft

Weekly cleaning -

• change beds - ours stripped
• hoover upstairs
• clean kitchen floor
• dust downstairs

Gardening -

• weed front yard + borders more
• put some of the peppers and tomatoes into growbags started
• mow lawn

Grot -

• carpet
• defrost freezer
• sofa cover

To Do -

• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on gifts to make/buy, use what I?ve got for now- get cross-stitch framed, mark dates in Calendar for making Christmas cake etc.,
• mirrors - put mirror tiles up above bathroom sink, other mirror up above dressing table
• buy external hard-drive
• find a dentist none keep checking
• pay coins in at bank, next 5 bags
• what?s up with the camera sd card memory?
• fix door handle
• tax credits renewal
• ring Binbusters

Aarrgh - internet keeps stopping working so not able to read everything. Although Mini 'Cheryl Cole'? .

Ipom - hope you are doing ok.

Just been to one of DS's friends parents ace massive and gorgeous house (just moved to this area). They mentioned all their plans for redoing stuff. Came home and thought . Our house is lovely but does need some work.
DD teething and had to force calpol into her via the medium of yogurt, which she spat out and cried about. Ah well.

Up and breakfasted done
DS to school done
Clear away breakfast things done
Put shopping away doing
Walk or gardening
Vitamins DONE
Rubbish out
Recycling out /plastic
Lunch for me and DD DONE
DD for nap DOING
Open windows
put washing on DONE
put washing to dry DONE
Washing in, folded and put away
tidy kitchen
empty dishy
dishy filled and on
admin/filing/post
dinner
bath DD/DS
DD /DS to bed DD
tidy bedroom
put toys away in lounge
feed cat
Water plants

Extra stuff
Make cutlery tray fit into cutlery drawer
Post off accounts info
Send meter readings/direct debit form to BC
Buy mould resistant paint
Book party for DS
Update diary
Get car windscreen fixed re-arrange

Ongoing
Write nursery donation letters
Buy new address book and fill in
new curtains/black out blinds for DS's room
New curtains for our room
Measure for carpets upstairs
Paint summer house/greenhouse

Half I hope dear gd starts to feel better soon. Re Cheryl, who wouldn't want her hair? I know, I know... she has extensions. So I grade how mine is going against the 'cheryl'. In other words a 5%'cheryl' No? Come on homour your old mum.
See ya later got to fly.

HMHB - try baby neurofen instead?

Taf - glad it was ok.

Wasting - i'm stressing about 1 neighbour moving, 2 would do my head in!!

Plum - weddings & families, bah!

Af here, so back in the saddle, as it were...

Oh and weird thing here, missed the gasman yesterday, or so i thought, turns out nanny was here but he didn't ask to come in then looked at card - 0845 (ie free)
number crossed out and a mobile number printed there instead. And it's from a different company to the one i think we're with x2 so i've shredded it and not going to ring with the readings. They can do an estimated one if it's really them.

Wed:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed DONE
• DS1 to pre-sch DONE
• portage worker (10am) DONE
• online shop?
• collect DS1 DONE
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• DS2 nap Doing

• meet up with friends for afternoon, soft play & tea
• tea x 2 at soft play
• garden time
• boys bath & bed
• DH home late?/our dinner?

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register; Find another one that is taking on NHS patients
• upload & order online prints Started-Done More
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door - Autumn job really
• clean kitchen cupboard doors Done3More
• put cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others
• make my playlist
• clear my iPhone of music, reload with just my playlist
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1 - Have Name Of School; HavePhoneNumber
• sort out holiday in August to Jersey; hire car (+ seats) - call Opodo re seats
• put hippo in upstairs toilet cistern
• repot sunflowers
• go through diaries with DH (he's given me a printout for this week)
• see if high chair will fold flat enough to put in bin bags and then in loft Can'tFigureOutHowToFoldIt!
• eBay listings 6/13 Done

JKS - I am allergic to aspirin/neurofen so don't really want to chance it with her. Still, she is asleep now and hopefully will feel better when she wakes up.
Wierd gas man thing though????

Wasting - the new neighbours could be really nice and offer to look after your DC's and bring you cakes??? or, even better be really quiet and leave you alone.

Up and breakfasted done
DS to school done
Clear away breakfast things done
Put shopping away doing
Walk or gardening
Vitamins DONE
Rubbish out
Recycling out /plastic
Lunch for me and DD DONE
DD for nap DOING
Open windows
put washing on DONE
put washing to dry DONE
Washing in, folded and put away
tidy kitchen
empty dishy
dishy filled and on
admin/filing/post
dinner
bath DD/DS
DD /DS to bed DD
tidy bedroom
put toys away in lounge
feed cat
Water plants

Extra stuff
Make cutlery tray fit into cutlery drawer
Post off accounts info
Send meter readings/direct debit form to BC
Buy mould resistant paint
Book party for DS
Update diary
Get car windscreen fixed re-arrange

Ongoing
Write nursery donation letters
Buy new address book and fill in
new curtains/black out blinds for DS's room
New curtains for our room
Measure for carpets upstairs
Paint summer house/greenhouse

Weird about the gasman JKS...

Sorry about af.

Mini cheryl does have good hair I agree.

Non housework day again today, took dd to big school for half an hour storytime, then over to preschool. Got bus to friend's for coffee, then to town (don't know if you remember dd was getting BO? have bought her a crystal stick deo to try, no way I'm putting normal anti perspirant/deo on a 4 year old!), then to homebase, walked home, cleaned the buggy, picked up dd, now she has gone for tea at a friend's and ds has been having a tantrum ever since. Luckily the house was cleaned on mon so it's just maintenance really. Bit of a stale smell despite open windows, am wondering if ds has weed somewhere? Maybe need to clean carpets.

Ok, I think someone hit me over the head. Have spent the afternoon cleaning out DD1, DD2 rooms and the main bathroom!

DH was going on a delivery to a town about an hr away and took DD1 and DD3 so I got to be upstairs without 'help' from DD3 and she wasnt crying looking for me every 5 mins.

Need to tidy downstairs now and head to scouts in an hour

Well done CC

Wasting - i'm exhausted just reading about your day!!
New neighbours could be single & fit....

HMHB - how is she now?

Wed:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed DONE
• DS1 to pre-sch DONE
• portage worker (10am) DONE
• collect DS1 DONE
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• DS2 nap DONE
• meet up with friends for afternoon, soft play & tea DONE
• garden time HomeTooLate
• bit of tv pre-bath Doing

• boys bath & bed
• online shop?
• more ebay listings?
• DH home late?/our dinner?

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register; Find another one that is taking on NHS patients
• upload & order online prints Started-Done More
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door - Autumn job really
• clean kitchen cupboard doors Done3More
• put cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others
• make my playlist
• clear my iPhone of music, reload with just my playlist
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1 - Have Name Of School; HavePhoneNumber
• sort out holiday in August to Jersey; hire car (+ seats) - call Opodo re seats
• put hippo in upstairs toilet cistern DONE
• repot sunflowers
• go through diaries with DH (he's given me a printout for this week)
• see if high chair will fold flat enough to put in bin bags and then in loft Can'tFigureOutHowToFoldIt!
• eBay listings 6/13 Done

Well done CC

What's this about single and fit?? If they are I am moving near to wasting

Oh My Bloody God. What a day.

Got nothing done.

Got the income sorted, just to come home to an eviction notice!!

Called up the mortgage people to ask what they are playing at and they said they are sorry, but my records have not been updated since last year when I told them that The Sparks was made redundant!!

Bloody hell!! Gave them a bloody ear bashing on the phone and paid them he monthly installment - just for them to say that it had gone down....by over £400 per month!! Why the hell didnt they say that sooner?

Anyway, getting a call from them tomorrow to explain what had happened and to confirm the new monthly installment and to apologise.

Upside is, if this new installment is correct I can afford to pay it even in my current financial position!

Just hope this all gets sorted. so much for a decent nights sleep tonight.

FFS. Can no one do thier job properly anymore? Is everything run by complete idiots? Even the dole office managed to mishear Natwest and come up with Invobank!

and breathe in.....eat icecream.....drink wine....and breathe out.

WANKERS!!!

for fuckity fucks sake!! Arggghhhhhhh.....

(sorry just had to add it in for some reason)

Fuckity Fuck works well for me too!!

That is so sodding annoying, but the reduction in mortgage could be bloody brilliant

Wed:

• bit of tv pre-bath DONE
• boys bath & bed DONE
• breakfast stuff ready DONE

• online shop?
• more ebay listings Doing
• my dinner DONE
• wine (did i mention AF is here, hey ho, free pass for more wine then, lol!) Doing
• DH home late

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register; Find another one that is taking on NHS patients
• upload & order online prints Started-Done More
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door - Autumn job really
• clean kitchen cupboard doors Done3More
• put cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others
• make my playlist
• clear my iPhone of music, reload with just my playlist
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1 - Have Name Of School; HavePhoneNumber
• sort out holiday in August to Jersey; hire car (+ seats) - call Opodo re seats
• repot sunflowers
• go through diaries with DH (he's given me a printout for this week)
• see if high chair will fold flat enough to put in bin bags and then in loft Can'tFigureOutHowToFoldIt!
• eBay listings 9/13 Done

Ipom - raaahh that is annoying, but also fab about the reduced payment

JKS - boo to AF - no chance it's an implantation bleed?

Hello everyone else, have read through but can't remember anything! I am in a bad mood this evening, had a day out yesterday when I would normally be at home and then a hectic rush this morning which meant my normal 'morning' jobs didn't get done.
Came home this afternoon and everywhere was just such a mess. And DH had taken the washing off the line damp and not folded it properly so it needed re-folding and lots of it will need ironing.
It is just all so bloody relentless, and it's not even as if a cleaner would help really. It's all the things that need doing every day.

Bah just ignore me, I'll be better tomorrow

DONE
All up
Me showered and dressed
Breakfast
Get washing off the line
Get changing bag out of car from yesterday and re-pack
Put nappies on to wash
Go to sing along and smile
Back to a friend's for lunch
Home
Tidy kitchen
Tidy upstairs and make the beds
Nappies into dryer
Towels on to wash
General tidy downstairs
Re-fold washing
Put away clean and aired clothes
Tidy airing cupboard and put damp folded washing in it
DH fix toilet
DS tea
Our dinner - maccy d's - oh dear
Clear up

TO DO
Get DS into bed
Run dishwasher
Shred
Shower
List for tomorrow
Bed

Other work interupted my work today which disrupted my housework!!
Ipom feel free to have a good rant you'll feel better.
i also had a people messing me about today but not quite as serious as yours.

Moth count NIL Yay. looks around suspisciously, bet the little buggers are munching in silence and also sniggering. Starting to feel like a cross between Basil Fawlty and Inspector Clueso.

List
pick up hedge trimmings
pick raspberries done picked at least pound and half might have to make jam.
think of recipes for using raspberries
DH admin
CC amendments some
Office -4 star area of DOOM
garden bonfire -goody goody
tidy everywhere
Tidy my shed
hoover moth areas
check spare room for moth, getting urgent
think about decorating
plan some time to do some of above
student portfolio
PG day2 prep some
water all plants done
sort dates for COH
invoices done
do med. fliers
magazine rack mini DOOM area

Ali I know what you mean about the clothes folding. my DH does same. Folding often means you don't have to iron some stuff. and its not hard.FGS

Bloody hell Ipom! Still, a reduced payment is good.

JKS, confusing me with Freaky, my day was not tiring believe me. Played with DS, walked to Morrisons, had a nap.

Well done CC!

Freaky, am lolling thinking about your peeing ninja boy.

HMHB, hope she's feeling better.

• up, done
• breakfast, spatone, oj and vitamins done
• coffee + check mail and online banking doing
• shower and dress, wipe round bathroom done
• play lots
• dry pots done+ clean sink done
• laundry - 2nd load in done
• lunch done
• shops done
• garden - check for cat poo, water, feed the birds done
• take rubbish, recycling and compost caddy out done
• tea done
• wash pots and tidy kitchen most
• tidy downstairs + hoover done
• DS bath and bed (DH) done
• craft

Weekly cleaning -

• change beds - ours stripped
• hoover upstairs
• clean kitchen floor
• dust downstairs

Gardening -

• weed front yard + borders more
• put some of the peppers and tomatoes into growbags started
• mow lawn

Grot -

• carpet
• defrost freezer
• sofa cover

To Do -

• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on gifts to make/buy, use what I?ve got for now- get cross-stitch framed, mark dates in Calendar for making Christmas cake etc.,
• mirrors - put mirror tiles up above bathroom sink, other mirror up above dressing table
• buy external hard-drive
• find a dentist none keep checking
• pay coins in at bank, next 5 bags
• what?s up with the camera sd card memory?
• fix door handle DHdone
• tax credits renewal
• ring Binbusters

Ali I love LA Ex too

Ali, do you think you're coping better than you were a year and a half ago though?
I know I've never had my own home as nice as it is now, despite the toddler grime.