Tuesday 17th
Flylady Update!!!
Well, if ya can't be one, hire one!! I know I know...I sound like a spoiled brat. It's not as bad as it sounds!! Really it's not!! I've done many things for most of my adult life. Some good, some bad. Along with drinking and smoking, I also had a cleaning lady for most of it, up until January 2005. I have always hated housework with a vengeance. I come by that quite righteously as my mother, and her mother before her would rather clean stalls in a barn than scrub toilets and floors. For me it's picking up dog poop, but you get my drift. It's genetic so there is not a darn thing I seem to be able to do about this.
For all those years, when I would have a financial pinch, I would eat peanut butter and jelly, not turn the A/C on, cut one leg out of pantyhose so I could get more mileage by wearing two pairs of one leg each, etc. etc. to keep my cleaning lady.
I reluctantly made this tremendous sacrifice of giving her up when I quit my corporate job in Jan 2005 to join our fledgling family business. Fast forward to the fall of 2006. Mr. Doggy became an incessent nag about my smoking (he quit 1009 days ago to my 141). He quickly figured out a good incentive - "you can have your cleaning lady back with the money you save on stinkerettes." Well, I finally quit but believe it or not, I am rather conservative financially in all other respects but that cleaning lady thing. So I said no no...I'll keep doing it for the good of the budget (martyr martyr martyr I hope I spelled that right since I wrote it 3X). **interpretation: "keep doing it" in this case really means "keep not doing it and keep feeling guilty about it"**
Now that I have quit drinking too I am 1) saving enough money each month for a cleaning lady AND a small bit of shopping and 2) I WANT MY CLEANING LADY BACK WHAAAAAA!!!! (may I please have some cheese to go with that whine)
I broke down and told Mr. Doggy during a little lunch break today that I really truly cannot be fully and totally happy without my cleaning lady after all. Being the wonderful person that he is, he said: "so what's stopping you? A deal's a deal. And I'm really proud of you for quitting drinking all by yourself" (and by that he means "he" never nagged me to quit - geez - nobody is alone around MWO, thank the Great Pumpkin for that!!)
So. I guess my statement yesterday that financial rewards would be out for awhile is being reversed. And a certain man will probably be veree lucky later if I can stay awake long enough, or if he will wake up when I do which will probably be after about 2.5 hours of sleep.
Anybody like this Flylady program better than the original????????
WHEEE!!!!
DG
2 hours and 45 minutes away from finishing 100% of week 1 AF Today is just an AWESOME day. It's a rocket fuel in yer kudzu sort of day!! Will enjoy this feeling as long as it lasts!
Flylady Update!!!
Well, if ya can't be one, hire one!! I know I know...I sound like a spoiled brat. It's not as bad as it sounds!! Really it's not!! I've done many things for most of my adult life. Some good, some bad. Along with drinking and smoking, I also had a cleaning lady for most of it, up until January 2005. I have always hated housework with a vengeance. I come by that quite righteously as my mother, and her mother before her would rather clean stalls in a barn than scrub toilets and floors. For me it's picking up dog poop, but you get my drift. It's genetic so there is not a darn thing I seem to be able to do about this.
For all those years, when I would have a financial pinch, I would eat peanut butter and jelly, not turn the A/C on, cut one leg out of pantyhose so I could get more mileage by wearing two pairs of one leg each, etc. etc. to keep my cleaning lady.
I reluctantly made this tremendous sacrifice of giving her up when I quit my corporate job in Jan 2005 to join our fledgling family business. Fast forward to the fall of 2006. Mr. Doggy became an incessent nag about my smoking (he quit 1009 days ago to my 141). He quickly figured out a good incentive - "you can have your cleaning lady back with the money you save on stinkerettes." Well, I finally quit but believe it or not, I am rather conservative financially in all other respects but that cleaning lady thing. So I said no no...I'll keep doing it for the good of the budget (martyr martyr martyr I hope I spelled that right since I wrote it 3X). **interpretation: "keep doing it" in this case really means "keep not doing it and keep feeling guilty about it"**
Now that I have quit drinking too I am 1) saving enough money each month for a cleaning lady AND a small bit of shopping and 2) I WANT MY CLEANING LADY BACK WHAAAAAA!!!! (may I please have some cheese to go with that whine)
I broke down and told Mr. Doggy during a little lunch break today that I really truly cannot be fully and totally happy without my cleaning lady after all. Being the wonderful person that he is, he said: "so what's stopping you? A deal's a deal. And I'm really proud of you for quitting drinking all by yourself" (and by that he means "he" never nagged me to quit - geez - nobody is alone around MWO, thank the Great Pumpkin for that!!)
So. I guess my statement yesterday that financial rewards would be out for awhile is being reversed. And a certain man will probably be veree lucky later if I can stay awake long enough, or if he will wake up when I do which will probably be after about 2.5 hours of sleep.
Anybody like this Flylady program better than the original????????WHEEE!!!!
DG
2 hours and 45 minutes away from finishing 100% of week 1 AF Today is just an AWESOME day. It's a rocket fuel in yer kudzu sort of day!! Will enjoy this feeling as long as it lasts!
) I reckon you should blow caution to the wind and get that cleaning lady back. I'm a good money manager also, and work from home. My reasoning is that seeing as I work (paid work) at home, I don't want to have to turn around and do housework on top. That's my rationalising... I'm sure you can come up with a good one for yourself too :H But definitely get one. Quitting the cigs and the booze... you'd be saving a small fortune. My cleaner comes in fortnightly (did it weekly for a while but found it unnecessary) and are worth their weight in gold.
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