5 Days

Holidays are OVER!

5 Days.

Five days till my new year.

My 2009.

Whatever shall I do with it you ask?

Well I will tell you...

• Potty train Bagel
• Work on projects the month or a few months PRIOR to when they are due (not days before!)
• Since I am in the card making business it is silly that I do not send out fun cards. My new year shall consist of a small list of people that will appreciate home made cards. Make them cards for V-Day, Easter, Mothers Day, Father's Day, 4th of July, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. Also send out birthday cards to lots of people, and anniversary cards to weddings I have attended. Just a simple idea... but I need to organize the idea.
• Organize pictures. I am pretty good at this as of late. But prior to the last 6 months I have 8 photo boxes FULL of pictures. I need to organize, scrap and move on. Possibly scan some all time favorites to disk. But I do have the last 2 years on labeled disks, with most of them having the index prints also with the disk (get the index prints for the extra .99!)
• Good god organize my paperwork, files, and plug in and use the shredder!
• Separate the Stampin' Up! business paperwork from the home.
• A big one is to pick up after myself! I suck at this SO BAD!

Lots of house work to keep up with, I think if I had a weekly schedule, a basic one to go by, I would not be so overwhelmed by the house.

I also need to get laundry together, get a good system for that, and keep it in effect.

My mom wants to organize her art room (shocker, my mom also has an art room) all in pinks, so I am going to help her with that too.

Oh I want to do some painting in the kitchen, and the mud room (not a real mud room (I would love one!!) but the area by the garage door is made for shoes and coats, I want to paint that a light bright color.

Lots of plans, gatta get to work!

Me loves my fat suit.

Laundry Day.

Well it's not wash and dry laundry like you may think... it's put away all the clean clothes day. This is a day that no one, I mean not even the laundry lovers out there (yeah they're out there... mom) would want to tackle.

I have... drum roll please...


16 bags of clean clothes.
and
5 big laundry baskets of clean clothes.

To put away.

WTF? You ask? Well I suck at laundry. No really I do, shocker I know, with all that to put away it seems I am on top of my game, right? Riiiiight.

So I have nothing but some bill paying this morning, breakfast with the kids... then I will lock myself, and the little people on the second floor to attempt to put away all laundry.

I need to have my imaginary Peter Walsh and FlyLady right next to me, because I am going to be throwing away the nasty, and donating the not used, and returning some to my mom that I don't wear any more. I want to try on a shit load of my clothes, and decided what I am going to attempt to fit into again. I want to loose weight but not right now.

I am going to enjoy the month of December in my fat suit. I really thought about dieting in December but it's like trying to tell the fat kid he can't have cake. Too much good food. And I will be just like all the other cattle, and promise that on January 12th I will eat good. (not the first, it's a Holiday too, and I am going on a girls weekend the 9-11th so that would just mess with a good time)

I will dedicate myself back to Spark People, and get my shit together. Spaghetti and I really want this. So back to the purge of laundry. I will be trying on, making a "I wish" section in my closet, that I WILL fit into again.

Wish me luck... I need it!

7 days...

Sigh... Baptism is in 7 days. Which means family. friends. All checking out my house. I need the whole house, yes whole house, in clutter free, clean, smelling nice, and all cute and cozy. Sigh... no pressure...

Rules to post. Bagel's room.

Bagel's room.

Sleeping rules.
Close the bedroom door.
White Noise on.
Armour tied shut.
Hanger on closet door.
Lock door when leaving.
Books away.


Awake.
Night light off.
White noise off.
Blinds open for free sunlight and heat.
Door shut.

You have to make the time

Oh Fly Lady, I love you.

I told you all how I receive about 10 emails a day from Fly Lady, and after 2 or 3 days, yes I know your smart! That is like 20 to 30 emails just from her! Some are reminders...

Go to Bed at 10. (I get this one at 8)
Get up and do your morning routine.
Plan what's for dinner. (morning email)

Then there is the testimony emails, most I read, or skim, some I just delete. (I don't read the ones for older kids, yes you can teach your kids to fly right along with you!) It's great reading from others that this is really working. That if I am down I can get back up. And that I am not the only nut that is excited about my shiny sink.

Then there are the emails from Fly Lady just about everything. Like the one about Time in a bottle. It was great, and a quote that I have heard before

"When you say you don't have the time to do something. That is not true. We all have the same 24 hours in a day. It's just what you choose to do with them"

Everything from sleeping to eating and working is your basics. But when I do all my art work, read a book, or take the time to blog, this is what I choose to do with my spare time. Some people watch t.v. or go out with friends. It's just what you do.

So back to Fly Lady and the time in a bottle. She had mentioned how cool it would be if you could go into your neat and tidy bathroom, into the medicine cabinet, and find a bottle of time. And you could take as much as needed for that day.

Well you can in a weird kinda way. There is things to do, prep work. That makes saving time possible. Fly Lady says your night routine is the most important, and I agree. If I do stuff for the next day, it goes so much better for me. For me it's making the coffee and having all the sippys and bottles lined up for the next day, have the dishwasher loaded and ran before bed. If all the dishes are out of my sink I can function better it seems in the morning.

Also having my clothes laid out, and the kids for the next day. There is little steps like having my purse, and or the diaper bag all packed and ready to go. And yes at night I am not in the mood for all this. But if I do it early enough, between feedings and getting Spaghetti off to work, I can get ready.

Some of the other emails were about, letting yourself be less then perfect, and seeing things through your childs eyes, time in a bottle, and finding peace during the Holiday Season. These are just a few paragraphs, either from other Flybabies, or FlyLady herself.

I want to be prepared, and I want to have a place for everything. It will take time. Fly Lady said it took her 9 months to do her house. I have been trying, and yes I fall of my wagon all the time. I don't do the control journal like I should, I don't shine my sink every night. But I sure do like it when I do. I feel better.

Oh and yes I do put my shoes on everyday, it does something to me, motivates me more to do housework.

Hope this helps some of you. I have lots of tweaking to do with my routines and cleaning, but I am trying! If you want to be a flybaby, go to the site, join the Yahoo group, and then you can get these emails. There are alot of them. but nothing the delete button can't handle!