Anti-Procrastination Week

What a week!  On top of keeping up on daily routines and maintaining my hotspots and laundry, I've gotten a lot of additional things done.  I worked in the office Monday through Thursday and from school a bit where I was able to login remote.  I got a lot of work backlog done.  I was banging out deliverables left and right.  Of course, I know there are still a lot of items I owe people, that will always be true.  I feel like I went through volumes of work this week.  Hope next week is just as productive if not more.

On the personal accomplishments:  our daughter went to the dentist Tuesday after school, I scheduled a parent teacher conference for next Monday night, returned the central vacuum hose set I ordered online as it was the wrong one, ordered and picked up the right one from the local mom & pop installer company because they always give me the right parts if I need them, we got our taxes back from the accountant, and we owe, but I already had set aside the right amount to handle it, the boys got a haircut (although DH took care of that one - I just made the appointment) and now I'm at school today and ready to give a final presentation for Systems Thinking class tomorrow.

So it may not have been an official Flylady Anti-Procrastination week, but it was for me!

Routines, Routines

I posted before about the app called Home Routines.  I've gotten all my routine tasks in there and now it's just a matter of keeping up with it every day.  Here's a picture of my Morning Routine.  It's 12:30 PM and I'm still working on it, but I'm working from home and under the weather today. I'll get the rest finished soon.

And I almost forgot to mention I ordered a new central vacuum hose online, as the last one is broken.  I'm making due with one that is extremely subpar!  Does not make vacuuming fun.  Ordering it online was a lot cheaper than the local retail place I order it from and their hours are hard for me to stop by.  This one will be shipped free to my house.

Also, I organized the boys socks!  Seems weird, but it had been bothering me how many to small sock pairs they had in their drawer, as well as how many of them did not have mates.

Weekly Home Blessing

I had to take today off as I couldn't get the boys into the backup day care at work and Niki (the nanny) needs the week off to go home. Since it's Monday, I'm doing the Weekly Home Blessing. I'm changing sheets, dusting, vacuuming, winding the grandfather clock, wiping down the kitchen appliances and mopping the kitchen floor. If I have time later, I'll clean out the closet in the hallway. Maybe I should take pictures.

How is Flying Going?

So back to school has come and gone. Phoebe's only missed the bus once so far. Poor thing is sick right now. She came home sick from school yesterday and I kept her home again today as she still has a fever. If she still has one tomorrow, I'll take her to the doctor. She may have strep throat, but I thought it was just a virus. We'll see.

I started trying to exercise most nights, doing the P90X videos. I'm on the 3rd week and it's going well, but there is no way I could do those videos 6 days a week yet. I get so tired some nights. Evening routines are going well. I need to get better about washing my face every night and putting on moisturizer. But the sink dishes are done most nights, I pick out my clothes for the next day and I exercise. In the morning, I'm working on getting to work earlier. I've been drinking a protein shake for breakfast in the morning and that is working out great. I take my vitamins most days.

I'm working on getting my routines stronger, trying not to beat up on myself, making sure the checkbook is balanced and bills get paid, and work gets done at the office. I also want to work on my Financial Control Journal and I'm listening to Pam Young's "The GOOD Book" again.

Hope everyone is joyfully FLYing!

FlyLady Radio Show Coming Back!

I was listening on iTunes to the Flylady Pamper show from 7/28/2011 and they said their regular weekly show will be back on starting 8/18/2011!!! I'm so excited. I've missed her show so much!!! I really do need it to keep my motivation going.

Although things have been going great. We went on vacation the week of 7/18, which is why I've been absent here. But we did great! I had index cards for all of us with our packing list including for toiletries, food stuff and beach stuff. I'll have to see if I can find them and post them here. We also did great that the house was from Saturday to Saturday, which I think is terrific for unpacking when you get back. We got back about 1 PM on Saturday, we got the car unpacked, unpacked the bags as soon as we got in and started a load of laundry. By Sunday, we were all relaxed from the trip back. I don't think we want to go into how that relaxation was gone within 15 minutes of being back at work, LOL.

Pretty soon we'll be doing Back to School planning. Can I say how much I'm looking forward to the kids going back to school! It will be so nice to not be policing computer time and organizing sleep overs.

Happy Flying!

Cozi and Home Routines iPhone App

Today, I got all my schedule updates in Cozi, on the wall calendar and with my work calendar. I do love Cozi as I can take my calendar with me where ever I go. And I can put shopping lists in it, as well as other tasks that need to get done. I was starting to use Cozi to put my daily routines in it, but then I found the Home Routines app for the iPhone. I'm working on keeping to the few tasks I'm growing on my routines using this app now.

I have been doing a great job "Swishing and Swiping" since the beginning of the month. So go me! And on my other blog, I have the update about the physical I had at the doctor's this morning. I'm so proud of me prioritizing that. Hope everyone else is doing well on their routines and other necessary tasks!

Swish & Swipe & Car Wash

But not at the same time! I was very proud of myself yesterday. I started off July's habit properly by swishing and swiping the master bathroom after I got ready for the day. Very good start to July's habit!

I also took my car to the car wash yesterday and when I got home I vacuumed, Windexed the inside of the windows and used Pledge on all the dashboard, leather seats, doors, and such. It looks so clean!!! The car is 10 years old and I want to keep it as fresh and nice-looking for us as possible, as I see no need for having car payments for awhile. I was inspired knowing that Fridays the Flylady way, you should clean out your car and purse. Didn't do the purse yesterday, but I know it's just the wallet I should clean out as the rest is good. I'll do that today.

Today I woke up late as we have no kids until tomorrow and we went out dancing late last night. That was so much fun!!! But now I'm up and showered and dressed, and I'm going to get a few things done around here. Wish me luck!