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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 9:13 am
Hello one and all...I wish that I had saved the posts that were lost. Did anyone else? The one thing I would like to say for certain is that everyone should do his or her own research on boric acid because it can be toxic if used improperly...like anything else. I had another rebellious moment with FlyLady this week because I can't imagine tossing everything that is under my bed. It is well hidden down there by a lovely dust ruffle and I don't disturb anything very often...twice a year...spring and fall. It is actually all the books, boxes of notes, and papers I wrote for college. I guess that one could say that I am sleeping on my education...probably an excellent metaphor for my current situation. Despite the board's being down yesterday, I got nary a thing done...too busy checking to see if the board was back! Then, when I could take it no more, I e-mailed Lk to shamelessly beg for information. Thanks, Lk, for putting up with me. Hope to see you all back here soon...
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 9:15 am
Oh, Oh, Oh, I forgot to say that I did order the feather dusters and the timer from FlyLady yesterday. That's getting something accomplished, right?
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 10:42 am
i have thrown almost 100 lbs of trash, and 50 lbs of give aways! these last two weeks my family has been flinging left and right! we have my daughter's room done, the hallway done, the entry done, and the living room done, left is the kitchen, dining and master bedroom. i have conquered the laundry monster!
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 11:05 am
Oh my, are we instigating a revolt? Not much getting done around here either this week. But the bathroom is finished (sorta), some of the racks and things still have to go back up. Vee, if those books and papers are important to you and don't bother anyone behind that dust ruffle, then just let sleeping dogs lie, what does that certain lady know anyway? Vee, bookmark the Mirror Site where the mods leave messages whenever the board is down for any extended period of time or pop into chat where the crowd tends to commisserate. Shoot, leave it to Landi to put us all to shame - not! Oh, but yesterday, for the first time I managed over 10,000 steps - albeit involuntarily.LOL
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 4:35 pm
That's wonderful, Landi. It feels really good, doesn't it? Your daughter must be happy, too. Such a sense of accomplishment! In no time you'll be doing the whole place is done dance. Lumbele, was someone dragging you around or how is it that you walked 10,000 steps involuntarily? I've been interested in the 10,000 step concept and I'd like to know how you feel physically after walking that much. Thanks for the link, I have it marked...I was just having so much trouble myself yesterday with my ISP that I didn't push it too much.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 5:00 pm
I tossed out another 100 pounds yesterday. Tomorrow I will hopefully be able to do a mega cleaning. Right now, my mouth still hurt, but tomorrow the dentist will adjust the plate so it DOESN'T cut into my mouth. Sunday, DH and I are doing a movie day. Monday, I will rehit this house to get things cleaned up and out of the living room and dining room. Then, on each area's Zone, I will do a 27-fling boogie each week. If we are going to be moving, I want MORE stuff out of here, and I will be watching the STUFF that enters a lot more too. In Feng Shui, having stuff under the bed prevents the chi from circulating and stagnate. We have a captain's bed, and I try to keep the drawers neatened up. Since last week, he's been waking up with a back ache; ten days ago, I stopped putting his drawer clothing away. I peeked this AM: his drawers are totally trashed.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 5:28 pm
Lk, what were you holding? Bricks? 100 pounds in one day, you are putting us all to shame. About the drawers, stop peeking!!! As long as they close, don't worry your little head about it. Just let him know where the iron is. If he has to iron his stuff to look presentable he'll be more careful putting it away after a while. I haven't met anyone yet who loves to iron, esp. not a guy. Vee, I read about the 10,000 step program here somewhere. At first I thought hey no problem, until I purchased a step counter and discovered that even a busy regular day for me only involved around 3-4,000 steps. So I started walking, adding a little more first every day and then every week. Yesterday I had already taken my walk in the morning, but in the evening dh wanted to check out the new Home Depot in the neighbourhood. Since I was already tired and afraid of sitting down (I would not have got up to go check out the new store), I decided to just start walking expecting dh to drive up behind me any sec. Well, the "dear" fella got sidetracked and I walked further than expected, not to mention up and down the HD aisles. On the way home I took a peek wondering how many more I might need and low and behold 400 steps over the 10,000. DS offered me dinner the first time I made it to that goal. Guess who won't be cooking this weekend. But I was pretty pooped and didn't do diddly today. Although I still have to fight for pretty much every step (haven't exercised in ages, totally out of shape) it is now to the point where something is actually missing when I skip walking, and the energy level has also increased. So all in all I think it may be a "good thing". As far as my muscles and shins are concerned the jury is still out.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 6:08 pm
every day my husband is shampooing a carpet. both bedrooms and the hallway are done. tomorrow he is doing the living room. i can't believe it, it looks brand new! pretty soon i'm going to have to do the most dreaded task of all... my desk.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 6:16 pm
I was actually curious to see what they looked like since he was complaining about his back, and I remembered what the FS book said. Fortunately, none of that stuff has to be ironed. Let's see, broken small appliances, papers, and just stuff got tossed.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 6:34 pm
Aha! Just as I suspected..."I was pretty pooped and didn't do diddly today." I commend you for doing it and finding out that you could walk that much! I am so tuckered after much less walking than that so I am going to have to build up to that. I probably would have been struggling to put one foot ahead of another by the time Home Depot loomed. Well, Lk, looks as if Landi has her hubby all trained, but some are more of a challenge than others . That Feng Shui stuff is interesting; although, I don't give it too much credence. One thing I do know is that I hate to be seated with my back to a door the way my office used to be set up. I think that has something to do with Feng Shui. We have company coming for the weekend so the house is in full buzz...I have been banished from the kitchen where whoopie pies are being baked. Apparently, I said something disparaging about the filling . If I am unable to check in before the weekend, hope you all have a great one.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 6:40 pm
Vee: Yes it does. Good FS requires that the person at the desk has a solid wall behind oneself. I don't need to train him. He is who he is.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 6:46 pm
Ahh, yes, I hear you! Hope you know that was just a joke...I really don't believe in training husbands! 
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 7:18 pm
Me neither, Vee, I believe in getting them already trained.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 9:05 pm
he's not trained, he's just been humiliated into following along with the program!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, June 25, 2004 - 4:57 am

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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Friday, June 25, 2004 - 7:29 am
LOL Landi, whatever works, you go, Girl!!!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, June 25, 2004 - 5:15 pm
I don't know what went wrong, but I have been cleaning like a fool all day long for company arriving late tonight... I am so tired... Maybe old habits just die hard. It felt like I had to touch everything in the house or I would not have prepared for my guests properly. That doesn't make much sense even to me. Have a great weekend...I can't believe it's Friday again so soon. Don't shoot me all you hard workers out there!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, June 27, 2004 - 10:47 am
Where is everyone? Guests are miniature golfing...ah, a moment's peace. Hope you're all having a great "feed your spirit" kind of day.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, June 28, 2004 - 9:54 am
Still here, Vee. Don't worry, those old habits will get broken once you have everything decluttered and a good daily and weekly routine going. Except for DS's room company can ambush me any time/day now (Can'tHaveAnyoneOverSyndrome used to be the norm before), I'll just have to barricade his door. The downstairs however is still another story. But then I'll still need something to do this fall/winter, now don't I? DS and I made a small dent in the garage today, but couldn't continue because we needed "the boss" to tell us what can be turfed and what is still needed. DH has been giving all kinds of excuses for a couple of weeks now why he can't help work in the garage just yet. So today I decided to take a page out of Landi's Humiliate 'em Into It Book and just grabbed the bull by the horns and started on my/our own. Landi, how long before your method kicks in? Lk, how's the mouth? Feeling better/good yet?
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Monday, June 28, 2004 - 10:41 am
The mouth is feeling much better. I had the side filed down, so now the cut in my mouth is healing up. Still working on the eating concept, but I'll get it. I'm trying hard to get this stupid apartment done. I just keep getting waylaid by not feeling well, or writing, or something. I'd like to stop time for a weekend, give myself supermeds so I feel totally awesome, and just finish up.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Monday, June 28, 2004 - 11:41 am
my method kicked in after he saw i was throwing his stuff away from his closet. i'd keep coming out with stuff and saying "you haven't worn this in yearrrrrrs", and tossing it into the giveaway box. he still hasn't cleaned his stuff off the kitchen table, but he is doing all the dishes he accumulated while cooking this weekend. it helps that with the stuff that has been done, we are keeping that up. i'm sure he'll do his table, when i do my desk. i'd say... a good couple of weeks. personally what i would do about his "stuff" is put it in a pile, and say "i'm donating, throwing out, etc. etc. this pile" and see if he reacts. if he doesn't... out it goes!
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, June 28, 2004 - 12:27 pm
Lk, I am so glad you are on the mend! Don't beat yourself up about not being able to finish up your plans for the apartment. It will get done - eventually. Patience! This afternoon I keeled over and did an inventory of the pantry. To have a better oversight I would have had to beg for more shelves which means less storage space or make another list of what I have parked in there. Just hope it will be accurate longer than all the previous ones I used to make. Landi, I already have a big bag of "garbage" sitting in the garage (which I know he will rummage through before tossing it), but the garage is generally DH territory. That means from about April till October there is no room for a car out there. By October he is weak from months of nagging and he'll make room for the winter - until next April. Now I'd prefer the car in there all year, so I don't have to stick ice in my pants when I want to get into the dang thing. It gets HOT up here, too! The trick is to maintain the areas you have "flown" over while working on the rest of the house. Eventually it will be a breeze, even if you skip a couple of days. Realising that is what made me a convert.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Monday, June 28, 2004 - 11:01 pm
Well, if I don't mentally beat myself up, DH does it through guilt. Tomorrow and Wednesday I am going to kick butt around here. He started ripping apart his office today because he couldn't find something. I am going to have to get him a new desk (the other was a freebie that he constantly banks his knees on and just is not big enough) and some floor-to-ceiling shelves. He's already grumbling about my plans to spend the money, but since he didn't want to bring his old desk--as I requested--because it was too awkward. He's not happy, but I'm going to spend about $500 to get the desk/file/hutch and shelves. I think it is worth it--and everything will be able to come with us when we move. Anyway, in his ripping through looking for transformers, he kept pointing out that if I would just get the apartment done, that everything would be findable and why can't I get this stuff DONE so that the apartment doesn't hide things on him. So, my goal is to get it done. Find a home for everything, or out it goes. Take no prisoners. etc. ad nauseum.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 5:09 am
Yikes, that sounds like a lot of pressure. There are times when I am grateful to be single...at least no one is telling me how things "should be." Had to laugh at your description of the garage, Lum. My parents built a new garage a couple of years ago and it is filled with so much of my father's stuff that there's no room for the car. This sure makes it tough on my 95 year old grandmother and my mother. Good grief! Men! Can't wait for my duster to arrive...I am thinking of it in magical terms .
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 5:46 pm
Okay, I filled two more garbage bags and one more box of stuff for donation out of stuff I had thought I was keeping. I filled 5 garbage bags and 4 boxes of new stuff to clear out. Still a lot more to do, but a good start. I am no longer asking if I love the item; I am instead asking if I love the item enough to drag it across the western US. Amazing how much that can influence your decision. DH vetoed the recliners (how am I supposed to sleep on that without hurting my back? At least with the couch I can stick my feet on the end table), so I guess I'm stuck with the horrible have couch that we have. I hate it--it's too small to lie on comfortably, my heat/massage mat won't work on it sitting up, and if anyone is over, and they sit on it, you invade their personal space to sit next to them. All reasons I really wanted the recliners. However, my mom is agreeing to go in on the office stuff for DH. She's buying the filing cabinet for his office. He is going to have to go through things in there at some point, though. I've measured his office space, I still need to measure the furniture and play with the arrangements. I am getting blackout liners for the window in there, since the printer, fax, and scanner will be in front of the window. I wish I could justify a 4-in-1 machine to clear the desk clutter, but for now, I really cannot. The laundry is done, folded, and put away. The dishwasher has been run, emptied, and reloaded. New Simple Green wipes made and ready for usage. I also updated my billing info with AOL. I called the toll-free number to find out what happened. Apparently, their computer decided to eat my update last year, so we redid, and I got 2 free months. Later, we called for DH's account and I asked his CS rep for a free month, and got it. Sometimes, it doesn't hurt to ask. Granted, it is only 7.95, but still... I'm going to catch a few hours of sleep, and then work again tonight. It doesn't get cool in out living room, so working during the dark hours will likely be best.
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