I find Flylady very helpful. It's also annoying as shit. Like I said before, I do a lot of translating in my head. I also appreciate that her products tend to cut down on disposables and are therefore good for the environment, even if she does insist on calling it "going purple lol." I'd jump on a Buffista version in a heartbeat.

oh, I forgot Castle tonight. That will be good for tomorrow night. time for bed for me.

Does your recipe for banana bread have spices in it, Steph? The CI one doesn't have anything other than vanilla. I added nutmeg, because I love nutmeg.

Turned out pretty well. Cut the sugar by 1/3, but I still think it's on the sweet side.

I find Flylady very helpful. It's also annoying as shit.

The ideas (a lot, though not all) are definitely helpful. But her terminology is just Ever So Too TOO Fucking Precious for me to handle. The "27 Fling Boogie"? Seriously? The "Weekly Home Blessing Hour"??? SERIOUSLY???

Does your recipe for banana bread have spices in it, Steph?

Just cinnamon, although nutmeg sounds good, and I tend to play fast and loose with spices when I bake. Let me rummage up the recipe....

Banana Bread (makes 2 loaves)

1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 1/2 cups sugar (though you could adjust it down -- or up -- to your preferences)
2 eggs, well-beaten
1 1/2 cups self-rising flour**
1/3 cup sour cream
2-3 bananas, mashed
1 tsp. cinnamon

Blend oil and sugar. Add eggs and mix. Add flour and sour cream and mix. Add cinnamon and bananas and mix. Pour into 2 oiled loaf pans. Sprinkle cinnamon on top if that makes you happy.

Bake @ 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

**If you don't have self-rising flour, then use regular (all-purpose, whatever) flour, and add baking powder and salt, at a ratio of 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon of salt for each cup of all-purpose flour.

Jilli, if you listen closely, another babybat just got its wings. Owen asked me for black fingernails (nothing new) but he also asked for a skull necklace. The nails, I could do tonight. The rest may have to wait until I can find the right one.

Eeeee! Go Owen! Also, I have found good skull necklaces on eBay and Etsy.

The ideas (a lot, though not all) are definitely helpful. But her terminology is just Ever So Too TOO Fucking Precious for me to handle.

Ewwww, that sounds like it would drive me crazy. Plus, would probably trigger my semi-repressed Cranky Teen side to hide in my room and do nothing but read when someone tells me to do chore-like things.

Also, I have found good skull necklaces on eBay and Etsy.

That's where I'm looking. I need one petite enough that it won't bother him when he wears it.

For me it is more her "must be done this way". her site didn't leave me a lot of room to pick and choose what worked for me. ( I could ,of course, there are no fly lady police )

But I really liked a lot of her ideas - working with timers, or numbers. And even doing things that create a routine. I do not need aphorisms to clean my house however. I do think a clean living environment is good. If I can get it to visually calm, even better. I just need ways to make things easier and efficent and ways to catch up when things get behind.

I have an idea that someone (not me) who really wants to do a flylady site, minus what I think of as the "Precious Moments" style.

Start a site called something along the lines of "Flylady for noncomformists" or "Flylady for the rest of us" that simply takes the flylady site and translates it into terms more people will be comfortable with.

If that were done without permission it would be plagiarism. So, of course, get permission first and don't do it if you can't get permissions. Looking over the site, the Flylady seems very nice, even if her style is ... well. The point is I suspect that if asked for permission to set up a sattelite site that translates her work for people whose style is just too different from hers to accept the way she puts thing, she might well say yes. (Obviously, merchandise links would be to her merchandise, not a seperate set - unless a different agreement on that issue was worked out in advance.)

Anyway, don't know how much less work it would be. But if you get her permission so it is must a matter of rewording (and OK altering some of her advice on shoes) I think it would be easier than trying to create everything from scratch.

Y'all rock. Posts are bookmarked for lemony goodness.