FF: Hi GC, hope you are better today.

Better than what, FF?

I stayed up too late, was late for work, and I got a bad lid at the coffee shop. There's coffee all over my car's stick. It was all I could do to ignore it while I drove in.

GC

better your cars stick than........


(((GC)))

Oh I guess I meant better as you move on with the new life you are forging. Confused now?

Hi Gimble! I am doing ok. I think once the D is behind me I can begin to really heal. Until then I feel stuck.

Oh my the Queen of the idiots is at the campfire! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Oh my the Queen of the idiots is at the campfire!



I was looking for smores, and I read sometimes to see how GC is.

I have some chocolate here...anyone have the marshmallows?

Oh my the Queen of the idiots is at the campfire!

No idiots here - wrong thread. Well, maybe I admit to being one part of the time. Ok, most of the time, but don't quote me.

Yes Gray, it could have been worse. Much worse. Be glad you saved yourself.

Sorry for the mess though, that's never fun.

J,
if it was the post I think it was, I was Mr mom the weekend my W was gone to visit her sister.

Problem is that I try to do all the regular outside stuff I usually do on Saturday, and I can't do that, and the inside stuff too. So, I wonder how you gals get so much done. Work, keep house, do yard work, and still be charming, beautiful, and sexy. Ah, but then, that's the fair sex, I should realize by now I could never keep up. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

SS

SS - who you calling not an idiot???

Or are you just saying Idiots aren't welcome??? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

I was just rambling - and you know it, so don't give me a hard time about it. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Besides, it's Friday, and I have the weekend on my mind. Either that, or I am just slow today.

Maybe both.

SS

I'm an idiot, I know nothing, and hard time is what it's all about in my neck of the woods.

WTH are the smores???

I ate the chocolate already - all by it's self.

Oops !!

No body told meeeeee.

SS

SS, there was that and there was something about how you wished things were as wonderful as some here think they are.

As for how we get it all done? Well, I honestly have no idea how people with lots of kids get it all done. It's hard enough chasing one of them around.

But here's a few rules that will help (mostly stolen from FlyLady):

- Break your work into 15 minute increments.
- Use a timer to keep you on track.
- Take a break every hour.
- Reboot your laundry -- and think of your laundry in reverse of the normal order: Put things away first. Then fold. Then dry. Then wash. Then collect. If you do it in this order, you'll keep the system clear and things won't back up anywhere.
- Figure out what's for supper when you make breakfast.
- Figure out what's for breakfast and lunch right after supper.
- Keep your kitchen sink clean and shiny all the time.
- Carry a plastic grocery bag when you walk from room to room. Pick up the things that don't belong there and put them in the bag.
- Never go upstairs without your hands full of whatever needs to go up.
- Never go downstairs without your hands full of whatever needs to go down.
- When you walk across the kitchen, make sure you pick up things that need to be put away and then put them away.
- Get into the habit of straightening as you go. Truly make it a habit -- to the point where you don't remember how a room got clean.
- Bless your home in an hour. That means taking ten minutes to each of these: Dust high traffic areas. Sweep or vacuum the middle of the high traffic rooms. Empty the trash. Mop the middle of the kitchen and bathroom floors. Purge paper clutter. Change sheets. Polish mirrors and doors. (Stop after an hour, even if you're not done. And yes, this is one of those "work up a sweat" kinds of hours!)
- Do the same things with your outside chores. Break your yard into areas that you can handle in 15 minute chunks and cycle through them until you're done.
- Turn off the computer.
- Turn off the television.
- Wear your shoes.
- Play cheerful music while you work.
- Engage your kids and make it fun for them. Explain that you only want them to spend 15 minutes on their rooms, and break down the tasks into specific items they can understand. Make their to-do lists short, particularly for young children and teenagers (who are really just young children in large bodies).
- Go to bed early.
- Take a bath or hot shower before you go to bed.
- Spend an hour at the end of the day reconnecting with yourself and your loved ones and (if you choose) your higher power.

And most importantly?

Remember to take time to make it fun for everyone. All the way through.

KY JELLY!!!!!!! My old, snobby, downstate, troll-friend.

Hey KY, I hear nowadays that with friction you get all heated up. That true? Kinda like Tresemme's hot oil treatment...only different. LOL

You lost me on this one J. Actually I thought the whole was a joke, but then I realized it wasn't. LOL

Still don't understand the laundry thing, unless it has something to do with Merlin the Wizzard and his "backward" theory of life, as in we are all traveling backwards to our birth. LOL

SS, there was that and there was something about how you wished things were as wonderful as some here think they are.

Oh shoot,
I just meant I am a regular guy, I go to work, I pay taxes, and I weed my yard. Sometimes my W and I differ in our opinions. Sometimes we are frustrated.

However, I suppose I have been married for 28 years, and it looks like no D this year either. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

No trouble out of the ordinary - Grin.

How about you J?
I think you could be feeling some frustration, but then, there are good parts to being in love too.

SS

Weaver, I here BFE has snow, is that true, you freak. I'm coming up for my birthday, can you believe my friends want to go to Marquette for the weekend, I'm trying desperatly to put my foot down.

SS, you are really digging a hole, you ate the chocolate, have you any idea who I am, and what I live for.

YOUR KILLING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can turn any thread into nothing, sorry GC

- Break your work into 15 minute increments.

The only thing I know I can do in 15 minutes is eat a cookie, and drink a glass of milk.

Bingo - This saturday is planned.
Thanks J.

SS

K,
I know, why do you think I keep pushing it?

SS

Oh I love Marquette jelly, but I don't think you fit in...it's the most cultural town in the UP. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

And yes we have snow...and so do you, who you trying to kid. Geesh, think we don't have the weather channel up here or sumpin. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

PS, you aren't queen here girlie...youse peasant just like the rest of us. (cept Gray of course)

BFE?

Is't that in the middle of Egypt?

-Qfwfq

Hi Q,
Long time no see.

House this weekend?

I'll be close to OOSP this weekend. Indian Peaks - elk.

SS