The Flylady website just has way too many different things to look at at once. I start reading one box, then I notice another box and start reading that, and I have no idea what anything says because I can never finish a sentence.
Simon: You're out of your mind. Early: That's between me and my mind.
'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Hil R. - Aug 21, 2011 10:57:31 am PDT #28168 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Connie Neil - Aug 21, 2011 11:03:18 am PDT #28169 of 30000
brillig
I find her little winged logo highly offputting.
Liese S. - Aug 21, 2011 11:06:29 am PDT #28170 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, because aren't you supposed to swat flies?
Also, why do I have to wear shoes? A system that requires I put on outside pants and shoes is a system destined to fail for me.
Scrappy - Aug 21, 2011 11:10:27 am PDT #28171 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We found this book very helpful: [link]
It gives you a way to organize when to clean what and lots of time-saving tips. He's quite bossy and thinks his way is the only way, but I just ignore that part. It really helped me clean faster and more efficiently, so I have to spend less time doing it.
Ginger - Aug 21, 2011 11:14:11 am PDT #28172 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I don't get the shoes thing either. My dislike of the shoes and clothes is one reason I work at home. Also, when my mother still had the energy, she was a housecleaning machine. The woman used to wash walls. She habitually did all her housework in her pajamas, then got dressed. Sometimes that was at 3 p.m., but she would have done more cleaning in that amount of time than I do in a month.
amych - Aug 21, 2011 11:15:17 am PDT #28173 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Seconding Scrappy's book rec, which I had totally spaced the title of! It's actual techniques and advice on tackling cleaning things in a quickie pass vs a more thorough job, with no glurge about how you obviously have no self-respect if you don't keep things clean for your man. I should dig it out from under whatever pile of clutter it lives in.
WindSparrow - Aug 21, 2011 11:27:21 am PDT #28174 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
smonster - Aug 21, 2011 11:44:27 am PDT #28175 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Purple puddles are happy tears. I like the shiny sink, I think because it's easier to talk myself into cooking food if there's not already a pile of nasty dishes to deal with.
I am going to have to check out Batlady! And the book rec.
askye - Aug 21, 2011 12:10:47 pm PDT #28176 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
There were a couple of cleaning/organizing books in with the others I got off freecycle. Speed Cleaning book was one of them and the How Clean is Your House book.
I guess the idea behind wearing lace up shoes is that you are wearing actual clothes versus pjs and slippers. Or something. I don't like wearing shoe, esp in the summer. So I'll only wear shoes sneakers if I have to wash dishes or cook (if I'm barefoot my legs/hips start to hurt. I really want a gel cushion pad for the kitchen).
Stephanie - Aug 21, 2011 12:20:32 pm PDT #28177 of 30000
Trust my rage
I have a black sink of some sort. I love that it needs no polishing