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Landi
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07-29-2002

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 8:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i just got my fly lady journal, i've been gone out of town for 4 days. you cannot believe what i came home to! and then i had to cook! i'm not happy, not one bit! i'm taking all my laundry to the wash and fold to get it out of my hair!and of course i have to work all day.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 8:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
okay, what do i do with this little sticky flylady thingie that came with my control journal?

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 8:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Landi: {{Hugs}} I can imagine what you came home to. DH forgot how to open the DW door while i was away.

You use the cling to remind you of things, to make you smile, or, if you can't think of anything, you can send her to me...

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 10:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okay--I am BACK from Home Depot! I have braces, brackets and 5 shelves. Two for my bedroom set up and three for the books.

The books will be on (for right now) two brackets with shelves for 4'. I will get the third 30" and 12" bars (30 + 12 = 42; the magic number of needed height) later this month when I get more shelves, and the bars for DH's side of the room.

I also finally have my oral surgery day and time: June 9th at 3:30PM PT. So, as of 5:30PM, I will have teeth!

AND, I finally got the results from the blood work I had done on April 30. No rheumatoid arthritis,(which puts fibromyalgia as a definite according to the doc), no thyroid problems, sodium is fine, calcium and protein is low, and cholesterol is 156--good, not great.

Even without the results, I had started taking daily supplements of a multivitamin and extra calcium. So, I'll be curious to see what it is next year.

Knowing what my cholesterol is means that I can work on lowering it, but I do not have to be obsessive.

So, after I watch Starting Over, I'll do a little work (about 90 minutes) and then start on my decluttering, etc.

Purplecow
Member

12-08-2003

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 10:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, LK, did you carry all that stuff? It's so heavy and unwieldy! Did you pick up hollow wall anchors while you were there or are you going to try for the studs?

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 11:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
No, I had a ride; it's already 98-degrees here.

I have hollow wall anchors already, so I didn't buy any new ones. I am, however, planning on studs....to the point that I will be doing tiny pilot holes where they won't be seen to find the first stud...from there, they should be 15-17" apart. Books = studs.

I did get everything white: bars, brackets, and wooden shelves.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 11:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
good job lk! i've been devouring my control journal. i can't wait to add more to it! i've been wanting something like this forever! i always say "what if something happens to me? what's my kaiser number" now holly and dh will have a place to look for those kinds of things! it's quite an amazing journal. first thing i did was make a copy of it, in case i mess up a page or something! i love projects like this!

btw... i saw husband's storage today... I AM NOT MOVING THAT NO WAY NO HOW!


Purplecow
Member

12-08-2003

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 11:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just so you don't worry about the weight, LK, none of my strips is on a stud. The studs didn't match up with the length of the shelves. The only trouble I ever had was with the 4 ft. shelves buckling slightly from the weight.

What's in this control journal? I don't write much on paper anymore.

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 12:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow, everyone is so active.
Today I put some of that thin rubber liner into my drawers in the kitchen. The new drawers esp. since they are 30" and everything rolls around in there to the point i had to constantly rearrange them again. Enough of that.LOL
Then I splashed a jar of horseraddish sauce onto my kitchen floor and cabinets, cleaned up the worst of it and figured "Week 2, I'll just scrub the kitchen down". Lucky for me the phone rang before I could put that thought into action. The tile man is coming tomorrow to do the backsplash, so I'll wait until he is done. Just wait, now that it has stopped raining the garden door man is gonna want to come tomorrow, too. Heck, if the 2 of them can work around eachother, what do I care?!?
Landi, I made my own control journal, but I am curious, too as to what Flylady has in hers. Mind sharing? BTW, what's a kaiser number?

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 12:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have FlyLady's. It is essentially a more coherent version of what is on her site.

I actually retyped the info to fit me, so I have a control journal is anyone wants to send me their snailmail address who wants her journal.

Lumbele: I LOVE that rubbermaid stuff.

Purple: good to know about the studs. I know I should hit at least one stud in a valid place.

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 1:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yahoo! I know I will hit a stud or two. A friend of DH's is coming over tonight, and is bringing his electric stud finder.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 1:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
out here in california - kaiser is the main medical - it's an hmo with it's own hospitals/doctors/etc.

send me your address via PM, and i'll send you a copy of mine.


Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 3:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lk and Landi, thank you for the kind offer, but somehow it doesn't feel right to have you buy the journal and then give me a free copy. I was just curious what she put into hers aside from daily/weekly/Zone/Emergency sections.

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 3:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lumbele: I was NOT going to send you a copy. I bought a copy to make sure I hadn't left anything out.

I have done that. The EMPTY, NOT WRITTEN IN control journal is now clutter. Rather than put it in my donation box for Deseret Industries to puzzle over, I was offering to send it to you.

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 3:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, in that case. One woman's clutter is another woman's....LOL Thanks!

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 3:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
same here! i've already thrown out the babysitter list and the shopping list. i'm just using it, so that i don't forget anything. i think my journal (when done) will be MUCH more extensive. i want to be able to let the family use it, and know what numbers are important, what bank we go to, where i go to purchase certain soaps and foods,etc.

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 3:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Landi: You're sounds like mine, actually.

Mine easily fills a 1" binder--and that's without the holiday stuff.

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 3:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, i gotcha beat, mine is 2".LOL 3" anyone?LOL

Purplecow
Member

12-08-2003

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 4:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Man, I don't have even 1/2 " to write about ANYthing!

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 4:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL. Lumbele...I double-sided the pages.

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 4:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, Purple!

Spinner
Member

10-27-2003

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 4:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LK, thanks for the support re my starting on my closets. I have no doubt that I'll get them done, but they'll have to wait their turn. <G> There was a time when I would have started all my projects at once and been unable to finish them before we were all sick of the mess, but no more. Right now, I'm working on painting a bathroom where I'm removing wallpaper--whatever amount I have time to remove and prime--so I'm working in little sections. I'm not opening a closet with a wastebasket at my side <G> until the bath is done. One baby step at a time! But I'm dreamin' big! So, when I finish the bath, please start nudging me a bit about the closets! (They face the hall from which the bath opens; don't need anymore going on in that hall than is there already!)

My Journal: 5 x 9 notebook, holds half-sheet of paper punched on the 8.5" side--I prefer this because it'll fit in one of my large purses. I went to the Fly site, printed what she had for routines and chores for each week in the zones section, other stuff. Then with these on my computer, I started modifying them for me and when I was done I printed and put in notebook. I'm about ready to make some changes; I need to add some things to routines. It's all a bit premature; I'm new at this and still learning--but I like having what I'm trying to do written down, even if I change it soon. Fluttering is still the way I think of myself, and sometimes not even that. I can guarantee a shiny sink, but that's about it sometimes.

Purplecow
Member

12-08-2003

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 4:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okay, if everyone here wants to feel really good about herself and the condition of her home, go to http://www.squalorsurvivors.com and look at the photos. I feel like a princess already.

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 4:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Spinner, you are tackling this whole thing just right. Remember the old days, when you finally went at that big "job" that needed doing for ages and how it somehow never got finished, every time you are tempted to take on more than an hour's worth. Trust me, when you start seeing progress that temptation creeps up on you. RESIST!!!LOL Fluttering is safer.

I can't count how often I have changed things in my journal. It is a work in progress.

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 5:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
YAHOO!!!!!!

I have STUDS suitable for ALL of the shelving. the end supports of the book are both on studs, and if I need a third support, it too can be on a stud. How cool is that?

Tomorrow I will have BOOK SHELVES!!!!