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Aha! [livejournal.com profile] tvilingar pointed out that doing FlyLady could count as 'weird'. Hah! If it's FlyLady you want, I have more than enough weirdness to fill six measly points. I could go on for sixty! But won't.



1. I adhere to the FlyLady regime with religious fervour. I SHINE MY SINK every night.

2. I do a thing called 'home blessing' every Saturday morning after swimming. T'sons do the loos, the trash, the mirrors and part of the dusting. I do the mopping, the changing of the sheets, the rest of the dusting, the collecting of glasses and bottles and newspapers, the pig-cleaning, and some of the vacuuming. T'h does the vacuuming. We call it Saubermachen, though.

3. I keep FlyLady mottos written on post-its around the laundry, next to my Brad Pitt calendar.

4. I keep more FlyLady mottos written on post-its in the kitchen, next to my list of Morning Routine and Evening Routine and above my Brad Pitt kitchen pin-up.

5. I do the FlyLady 'swish and swipe' in the mornings. This means, that while I'm standing in the shower, I do a bit of bathtub or tile scrubbing with a sponge kept there specially. Now that my back is fucked, I grip the sponge between my toes. I also wipe the floor with my moist towel and spray the loo with windolene and wipe down the basin.

6. I have adapted FlyLady to writing my book. I aim to do ten minutes first thing every morning. If this happens, I give myself a gold star on my calendar. I set the timer for 20-minute increments. Every time the timer bings, I make a mark on my special sheet, much as prisoners make marks on their cell walls to count the days. Once I have accrued four marks (i.e., 1 hour and 20 minutes) I am allowed to stop for the day. I don't have to, though. Most days I do more, up to 3 h 20 min.

I should add that I find none of the above weird although I have found that others whom I tell some of this to did express responses that suggest that they find it a tad weird. I find it efficient, happy-making, survival skillish, life-sustaining, me-sustaining, and fucking kick-ass as I managed to write 1,000 words a day on average with this method over a period of 19 days.

I am also anal, but that is hardly weird. Lots of people are anal. This is why Freud invented that nice word for it: anal.



*gg*

Weird enough for y'all?

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Date: 2006-04-20 06:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] birdgerhl.livejournal.com
I have found that others whom I tell some of this to did express responses that suggest that they find it a tad weird
*koff*

b.x :)

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Date: 2006-04-20 09:06 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2006-04-20 08:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 2am-optimism.livejournal.com
Hee, my mum is busy writing a cleaning and organising book. this seems like perfectly normal behaviour as far as I can see ;)

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Date: 2006-04-20 09:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lobelia321.livejournal.com
Your mother? She is? Hoho.

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Date: 2006-04-20 10:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sophrosyne31.livejournal.com
i am in awe. i awe you.

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Date: 2006-04-20 10:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lobelia321.livejournal.com
Mwuahahahha.

It's just Flylady. Anyone can do it. But thank you. I am, actually, slightly in awe of myself sometimes. But it's been a long struggle, it really has.

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Date: 2006-04-21 10:04 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] the-oscar-cat.livejournal.com
As another flybaby (wow - -i never say that in public - it feels a little weird) this all makes a huge amount of sense.

I think you should be very proud of what you're accomplishing. *beams*

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Date: 2006-04-21 02:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lobelia321.livejournal.com
Hoho, out of the woodwork! *pets your lace-up shoes in flyish solidarity* :-)

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