I realize you're supposed to buy into the whole system and everything, but I'm past needing that in my life. I figure I'll use what works for me and ignore what doesn't.

Actually, Flylady pretty much says to make it work for you. I ignore the shoes thing, I think that's geared towards people who stay at home and in their pajamas all day. My kitchen is a shithole right now and I have a ton of laundry, and I don't know when I'm going to get to either one (meeting after work tonight).

Oh, sarameg! I hope everything sorts itself soon.

I hope you get your power back soon, sarameg!

There is a Batlady yahoo group for the less perky among us. [link]

poor sara.

I am so organizationally and house-cleaning challenged right now, I do not even know. My sink is a disaster, kitchen counters and table are too, stuff is just everywhere and there is too much of everything. Maybe next week after Labor Day travels, I will be energized to make some headway.

I dunno, BatLady can't spell accommodate.

Yikes, sarameg--I hope power comes on soon and that your car needs very little to get back on the road. Poor you!

There is a Batlady yahoo group for the less perky among us.

That's really funny!

Oh, sara, that's major suck in one weekend. I hope life gets back on track quickly. And definitely fuck work for today.

sarameg, I hope you get power soon. Ours came back on this morning after 30 hours without, and then after 2 hours went off again. I cleaned out the fridge this morning before work, but I haven't opened the freezers to check what they look like.

I want a generator for xmas, after the DH and I took turns all through the storm to bail out the basement after the power went out making the sump pump useless.

My daughter's new preschool, however, was open this morning, and so I am now nanny-free (meaning we could afford the aforementioned generator). The following is for Vortex: After the two other share families didn't bother to say "Thank-you" to the DH and I for hosting the share nearly every day for the past 18 months, one of them had the nerve to email me (twice) to ask me to look around for one of their "kind of expensive" plastic cups they think they left at my house. I assured them I'd look for it. I lied.

Yikes, sarameg, good luck! I hope things get better soon.

Mostly because I get socks every year for Christmas from my sister and they are often woolen, which do me no good in San Francisco

I see these words, but they do not compute. I live in the East Bay, and I still wear wool socks 9 months of the year. When I worked in SF, I wore wool to work all year round.