Day 8 - Get a binder, put paper in it.

Ok, this sounds simple enough, right?  Well I have to admit that technically I have failed this.  Although I guess I still have time before I hit the bed to do this.

I'm sure that your all asking yourselves WHY on earth does she need to get a 3 ring binder (ok, they just don't do the normal 2 ring binders in Canada...  dont ask, I dont know why...  they dont know why you'd have a 2 ring binder....) and put some paper in it.

well here is a full explanation of WHY I need this binder...  http://www.flylady.net/pages/bbd8.asp  Although we aren't going to argue about why I can't find a 2 ring binder in canada, let alone what would actually happen if I used a 2-ring binder, would it be classed as failing the days task....  A binder is just a binder but they did specify a 3-ring binder not a 2....  I probably ought to stop being pedantic.

So anyhow, I am to write down my routines in this, and ensure that I actually read it and do whats on it.  Also if its written down, it also means that OTHERS know what to do......  other than tear the page out and throw it in the garbage.  If anyone was to do that I really know if I'd be sad, angry or quiet happy while feigning anger.......  lol. 

Now I'm also not meant to let my perfectionist side come out to play whilst doing this, and its recommended to just use a pencil while doing it....  I think that I can live with that.  truly.  I can still draw & doodle in pencil....  Ok, I will write down all the stuff that I need to first, then I can doodle!

So anyhow I guess before I get home for the evening I really ought to just hit up the dollar store.  Gotta love that place, it is as its name says, the Dollar Store, although some things are just a little more than a dollar and sometimes you can get several things for a dollar, but the basic concept is enough.  Its cheap, a great bargain, has stuff I always need and lets me indulge in frivolous shopping without spending a fortune.  That being said I have spent $60 there before.

Yesterdays challenge of putting my clothes out the night before, was a 50/50 success.  You may ask why, well I got my pants out and they were ready, as for the shirt I had to dig around this morning for that.....  I didn't finish putting away the laundry.  whoops!  I even got the boys clothes out for the day...  :D  Dominic (3) wore what he was meant to, however Gabriel (now 6) decided that he didn't like that and chose something else.  Why do I bother???  Although that being said, he got another spiderman sticker to go on this calendar for doing his chores!!!!!!  He is really getting into this all now too.  YAY!!!!  maybe, just maybe I can instill good cleaning behaviours into him.  Or not.....  he is only 6.

Anyhow I went to bed with shiny sinks, dishes done, clothes ready for the morning (kinda), lunches ready, I even mopped the hardwood flooring in the living room...  and I still somehow accidentally left the left over ribs from that nights bbq out on top of the stove....  *hanging my head in shame*.  It will get better.  Its already a huge improvement on what there was.