BFB---It was almost gonna be a best seller!!!!!

Lauren--The cruise leaves on our anniversary May 11....It is gonna be soo cool!!!!WE are not bringing any dress up clothes and since neither one of us do the food thing, we are just gonna eat at the little outdoor place and get salads and such...

Lys--I am gonna check out the flylady thing also..I started reading it but will have to go back later!!!!!!!

Well, off to get supper going..Did the healthclub thing today soo running late!!!

SD#2's birthday is tomorrow...We are just gonna have a quiet time with family and then have her big party in April when she is off restrictions!!!!
Have a great evening.
RR

Howdy partners

Supposed to do measurements tomarrow, but weighing in on SAT so figure I will do both then. MUST GO TO GYM TOMARROW!!!

Rabbit: You either once again did my life a huge favor OR led me down the path to one more faliure. Not sure which yet. I have shined both my sinks and decluttered my bathroom. Today I spent almost the WHOLE work day creating my first draft of my control journal. (This was actually OK, as I don't have much to do between trips). I am now off to complete my evening routine. If time permits, I plan to spend a little time working in Zone 3. I hope I don't try to do too much and just give up - but I am really excited about it! (BF saw some of the stuff I was reading last night and straightened a bunch of the kitchen and CLEANED THE STOVE!! What a guy!

Nanci: Have a great trip!

Liz: Great job going to the gym when you didn't want to. I, too, would love to join ya by the pool - I have been working on the "fake tan" at the health club in hopes I will have enough of a base to get some real color in FL. Thanks for the words of encouragement - will definately tip a glass in your name!

Lys: Sorry to hear about the car! Hope things work out for the weekend. I didn't get any emails the day I signed up for fly lady, but today they are flying in... Good luck with the getting up early - I am working on this too. I had to make 2 separate "flight plans" for the am - one for when I make it to the gym and the other for, well, EVERYDAY!

BFB: I would definately buy the book! Keep plugging away - it will all come together in time.

RR: Give my bday wishes to SD#2! The cruise sounds great. I would love to have an actual vacation (rather than a work trip, a see the family vacation, a "OH $#!& I never finished packing before I moved accross country vacation"... Maybe someday!

Tech: Congrats on the loss! Remember, it all adds up over the long run.

Hi All,

Well, we finally have something to do for our anniversary this weekend!! We're staying at a place called the Olde Mill Inn...which is actually right down the road from work and a lot of our visitors stay there when in town!! But it's really nice. They have a winter romance package where you get chocolates and champagne on arrival Saturday and brunch Sunday, along with your accomodations, for $165./couple. That's a really good deal, because I know the corporate rate is 185./night. I wanted the deluxe suite but it's $450!! I said, um, no thanks, I'll take a regular room with a king bed!! So we don't get the marble bathroom with jacuzzi tub, and fireplace, but at least it's a nice place. And they're having a special St. Patrick's Day brunch Sunday also, so it'll be nice.

DH sent me a link for Yahoo vacations this AM. We can go on the same cruise we went on 2 yrs. ago - Royal Caribbean western caribbean cruise for $649./ea., but the date is September and that's usually the rainy/hurricane season in the tropics!! I told him for $10 more per person, we could wait and go in December. I don't know if we can save that much money by then though. As much as I'd love to go...even more than him...I'd rather get back on our feet a little more.

BPB- Maybe if you come back and post some books, it'll get you back on the wagon?! I miss you!!

Lys- Sorry about the van, hope everything turns out alright. I got my summary email tonight, did you get anything yet?

Bailey- Oh, I'll always be LBH here and to Mom...she writes "LBH" on little notes to herself having to do with me... She was just writing my address down yesterday and she wrote "LBHD"!! At least now it's official with SS, so my 401K doesn't get screwed up!! I can't believe it'll be a year on Sunday!!

Gotta run and shine my sink...have a great evening all!

Just a quick question for all you "flybabies". I joined Flylady quite a while ago (it could be a year by now but I'm not sure). I subscribed so that I get general reminders like morning afternoon and evening reminders as opposed to all the little reminders. And then I get all the missions and testimonials separately. Is this what you mean or do you actually get everything in one email?? If so how did you do that - do you think I have to unsubscribe and then subscribe again. Anybody know? I'm not too good at that stuff. And I get the emails to my hotmail account which I can't check from work so I would love to only have one email per day that I could forward to work if I wanted to. Anyone?????????? Help???? Otherwise I love the system - it can be overwhelming if you let it but I just pick and chose what I do and still like it for motivation etc.

Thanks,
Elisa

Attention flybabies

Well, It is 1:15 and I am still up BUT:

-Everything in my house is put away (ok, there is one little "homeless item" pile and BF's desk (= HOT SPOT for him)

-Last load of laundry is drying

-sinks are shining

-dishwasher has been run (only 4 more dishes sitting on counter, all rinsed)

-made a partial plan for tomarrow

-planned meals for tomarrow and packed breakfast and lunch

-got out workout clothes for am workout and packed up work clothes

-haven't gone through it all, but put all my "to be done stuff" in bags by the door

-brushed teeth, washed face, put on jammies

-entire Bathroom is shining and organized and decluttered!

Going to finish laundry and unload dishwasher tonite. Will not get through Laundry area before I leave on saturday (probably won't start), but zone 3 will be back next month - right?

Hope the baby steps are going well for everyone. I feel like I have been taking GIANT steps the past few days. Probably not a good idea, but I wanted to give myself a good start before I leave for the week

Hi All,

Happy Friday!! I find myself being more and more thrilled when Friday arrives these days!! Let's see, this time last year I was...hmm...probably going nuts, trying to finish seating arrangements!! I remember I was up until 1:00 in the morning the day of my wedding doing the cards for seating!!

Well, I shined me sink last night, then I filled all my water bottles for today, did a load of laundry, put a load away, vacuumed my bedroom floor once the clothes were off it, and through out a big bag of garbage from the bedroom!! It was nice to be able to just walk into bed, instead of stepping over magazines and clothes!!

Bailey- Sounds like you got a ton done!! I was thinking to myself, it's probably not a good idea that you joined right before you're going away, but you did it!! Maybe you should change your reminders to once a day while you're gone, so you're not inundated with emails when you get back?!

Elisa- Try going to the Yahoo Groups site and looking there. I think that's where I found the options for email. I believe the options were to get the all separate, once daily digest, only on special occassions, or not at all. I've been getting the daily digest the past couple days. I wish I could be home all day and get them separate.

Have a great day all!

Well, I have a lot to say, but not much time to say it in. DD#1 is sitting here with her curriculum disc needing assistance with her math, but I am making her wait. (Really long story, she is supposed to be on "spring break" but we found out that she has been taking our trust for granted, and not doing all of her math work - her grades are good (the curriculum grades most everything for me) but she is way behind, and now we are making her catch up before we go camping!!!)

Our van is supposed to be ready by 6o tonight, so we will be setting up camp in the dark. I guess better late than never. kids colds are better, but not gone.

Elisa - Go to Yahoo (I went through the join FlyLady web page on FlyLady's web site)sign in if necessary, go to my groups, click on the FlyLady group, and in the Purple bar where it gives an explaination of what the group is about, there is a Edit my membership link. When you go there, toward the bottom there are some choices including Daily Digest. Choose Daily Digest, and that should get you what you are looking for.

LBH - I just got all of my confirmation notices from Yahoo, and my welcome email from FlyLady this morning, so hopefully I will get a digest at somepoint this weekend.

Baily - Here's the deal, just don't let yourself get burned out. Last time I joined FlyLady (over a year ago, when she was with egroups instead of yahoo) I did the same thing, but I found keeping up with all of it was too much, and I gave up. Of course I have 6 other distractions; 4kids, 1dog, 1 DH. Babysteps don't burn you out, that is why she suggests it.

BPB - Please try to post more, all of us new members could probably learn alot from you, and we would all like to know you better.

Well, I have to go and pack, I didn't do any of it yesterday, because I felt discouraged about our van. And besides, I am not yet dressed to my shoes.

I'm home........without the boys! My parents said they would like to keep them another few days and so I came home alone. I'll go meet them Sunday at Lake of the Ozarks. Meanwhile, I'll take today and tomorrow to paint the living room, do some cleaning and organizing, and hit the consignment shops/thrift shops alone!

Another good 'cleaning' website that I like to go to is http://www.organizedhome.com . When I need inspiration to declutter a room or plan a cleaning attack I go there and read the discussion boards. I also made a home notebook based on a lot of the ideas there. The sections in my home notebook include a calander where I keep our show schedule, shipping schedule, my hours worked. Then I have a section for health/diet with my measurement/weight chart, exercise log, food journal. Then I have a home cleaning section where each room has a page with everything listed that needs to be done for cleaning/deep cleaning/one time projects, etc.. I have a section for each boy, then a section for the dog - vet records, kennel numbers, etc.., a trip planning section. Also have a Yellow Pages section with my vendor phone numbers, friends, family, numbers needed on regular basis. I really find that I refer to this book alot. I also put my projects/to-do for the year list in one section.

O.K. its raining buckets, so I'm going to go finish the laundry and start taking things off the walls to paint. - jul

LBH and Lyssa - you are both so right! I am going to unsubscribe right now and rejoin when I get back to town. I feel like I got a good start and will be able to pick it back up at a reasonable pace later.

I have done all kinds of lists of things to do before, but you know what I like about this? The dry erase idea. Last night, I did my whole evening routine. This morning, I wiped the slate clean and am ready to go again tonight. Nice feeling. This morning, I did almost NONE of my morning routine (ok, I did dress, do hair and go to work with my stuff), and...I just WIPED THE SLATE clean! No guilt and move on. When you schedule to get everything done so often, missing it now and again is not such a big deal. Hopefully this will really help me get my house in order (and my life).

Biggest problem? All I want to do is work on my control journal! OCD sucks.

Sorry to babble so about flylady.

LBH: Happy annaversary! Enjoy.
Lyssa: Enjoy the camping trip (and put those shoes on! is your sink shining? My shoes are on but my sinks have not been shined in 12 hrs

Later

LOLOL, we could all become really obsessed with this FlyLady thing and end up Organized, Clean and Skinny!! Not such a bad thing!!

Yep, you guys are getting flylady obsessed!! You'll have to start a new posting area for your flylady status reports. I still haven't had a chance to spend anytime on her website. I'm already an organization freak and have most things in it's place. Since we had family stay with us last weekend the house if all picked up for now.

It is so beautiful outside right now it's killing me to be at work!! Mid 80's and lots of sunshine. It's even worse knowing DH is out on his boat enjoying the day. I'm so ready for Saturday!! Everyone's invited -- come'on over!!!

Jul, wow!! Sounds like you're gonna busy. It seems like I've been busy doing house projects for the past several months. I figured if DH can take a weekend off so can I. I wish you luck at getting all your walls painted. We'll be doing that soon too among a million more projects on our list.

Lys, have a great time on your camping trip. I love camping but my last experience was so bad I haven't been back -- drunk people yelling and playing their stereos till 4 am 3 nights in a row. DH is camping in the rough this weekend -- no bathrooms or running water. I wasn't interested in going. Gotta have a bathroom.

Lauren, happy anniversary!! Your romantic getaway sounds heavenly. I love those kind of weekends. Yep, you gotta be careful w/tropical travels in hurricane season. Sept and Oct are the worst. DH and I took a one yr ann. cruise the first weekend this past Nov and we missed a hurricane by 1 day. The people boarding the boat later that day were not going to get to go to their destination.

BPB, okay...I'll be waiting for your sequel.

Bailey, you are one busy person!!! How'd ya do it all? And how do you work out in the morning if you're up on the computer at 1:15??? I was sound asleep by 9 pm last night and again I didn't want to go to the gym. One of the guys there tells me I'm his inspiration -- he knows he can count on me to be there everyday. So Thurs morning he said I will see tomorrow right. Well, this morning when that alarm went off I started thinking of excuses then I thought "nope, I told him I'd be there" so I got my fat behind out of bed. It's funny how we all inspire each other.

I want to thank everyone on this board. This has got to be the longest I have ever been focused on eating right and I'm down another pound this week. I know you guys have a lot to do with it. You're a great support team!!!

BFB--I am with U!!!Sign me up for SlovenlyLady!!!!UR too funny!!!

Lauren--HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!Have fun this weekend!!!!!

Off to prepare for supper out tonight!!!
Vicki