River ,'The Message'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
people who use Fly lady - much of her message is meant for SAH people, right?
SAH people with kids in school, or working people with no kids. There is no way to do everything she suggests if you are cleaning up after kids AND working outside the home all day. (Or even working from a home office.)
people who use Fly lady - much of her message is meant for SAH people, right?
As an anti-Fly, but one who's tried it and thought a good bit about her stuff, my take is that there's a lot of good stuff that anyone, SAH or not, can abstract from the system (having routines, forgiving yourself, breaking things down into doable pieces: all really GOOD things that I don't at all dispute!), wrapped up in a huge wrapper of pretty traditional cultural assumptions. Some people happily ignore that for the good parts, for others it seems like unnecessary extra spoons to hack through the unwanted bits (ironically enough), or it's even outright toxic.
I think it's worth at least looking at, if the good parts sound like they'd work for you? But also to be aware that it's a pretty strongly YMMV thing.
people who use Fly lady - much of her message is meant for SAH people, right?
A lot of her examples of routines are from her own routines, and as she is a SAH herself that is what they look like. But she also says that they are just examples, and she expects people whose lives are different from her own to make adjustments using the principles she teaches to develop the routines that work for them. When I was really FLYing well, I had three different routines. One for days I had off, one for days that I worked 8 hours or less, and one for the days I worked 12 or more hours.
ETA: for a gothy, less-cheerful, more simple reinterpretation, I submit for your attention, Batlady on LJ: [link]
Heh, on the Batlady LJ. When her first instruction is "Remove vacant cobwebs" (emphasis mine) I know I'm in the right place....
It reminds me of a childhood friend who is a professional musician -- for the Navy. I would never have pegged him as a professional musician, OR for going into the military, but the combination makes so much sense. He was always a practical kid, and it's a steady full-time job making music.
K's uncle is a retired band leader for the Navy. It was completely an appropriate job for him.
Did I mention my car is still fubar? Well not quite FUBAR, but we have to replace the catalytic converter today. ARGH.
It occurs to me this month I will spend $1200 on 3 separate trips to the mechanic. I should junk the car, but I won't until next year. I really don't want a car payment, but we are getting to the point where we tote less equipment around for Grace and Noah so it's possible we can begin to move to a smaller car. Which I would like. Plus getting into the Saturn is hard for Grace.
And for less-gothy, but with extra swearing, there's Unfuck Your Habitat.
The recipe for soap-scum-busting solution is magic! Equal parts Dawn dish soap and vinegar, spray it on, let it sit (time depending on how bad the scum is), then scrub and rinse. Smells ... strong; not bad, less of a strong vinegar odor, but it's a strong smell.
Completely NOT related to anything except my personal outrage: Malibu is going to begin letting volunteers issue parking tickets. Does that seem nuts to anyone else? Also, they say that it will free up the Malibu police to take care of more serious crime. Serious Malibu crime? I totally want to find their police blotter.
I am so over my coworkers lately, and I don't know if they're being particularly irritating or it's just the fact that I'm leaving the job soon and already mentally checked out.
If it were me, the answer would be the latter. Because I am REALLY good at convincing myself things don't bother me, when there's nothing to be done about them. When I can see a light at the end of the tunnel? Hate everything.