OS Daily Thread - Sunday 25th January

justpeyton4now

halight wrote: »

For those that are intrested Last night i did wash my hair also i did my nails and i waxed (im not telling were) and i used my face pak.
ooooooo avon book just come!!!!

I certainly hope you did or have scheduled a pedicure. With being on your feet with the twins and all, you surely deserve one. I hear bright red is a lovely colour for your toe nails. :rotfl:

VickyA_2

Good afternoon all :hello:

Sorry I've been MIA recently. I've been disppearing up to visit my mum and generally been too busy to even think. Speaking of my mum, she had her op on Monday and she was (understandably!) very tearful. At one point, they asked whether she would "mind moving into her own room". Absolutely not. I think she almost pushed her own bed round there (not quite....). She got home yesterday and had so many visitors yesterday afternoon, followed by this morning that I think she's looking forward to a rest. Not that she minds people caring, you understand. Actually, she's got some fabulous friends, including one who has suffered (and survived!) both breast and bowel cancer so she's appointed herself as unofficial mentor to my mum! If all goes well with the pathology results, then my mum will be starting chemo in mid-February.

Otherwise, DH and I have been as OS as possible. I think we're actually doing quite well. We took our own (I know! Some people will be gasping that we never did it before) sandwiches on a walk that we went on yesterday. Supper tonight will be soup, using a Delia Frugal Food recipe to use up carrots and leeks from the freezer.

Have a good day all. :wave:

Vicky x

snoozer

Hi everyone,

I'm finding myself slipping onto reading the thread and then not posting again so I must make more effort. Mind you my infected tooth has knocked the stuffing out of me and is still quite painful despite 3 days of antibiotics (on top of the antibiotics I take to keep my eye problem under control). I'm a bit fed up with it but there are far more worse than me on this thread.

I have baked mocha squares, brownies and cherry scones today so that should keep us going for the week. I am also ploughing through the washing.

We've got roast pork for dinner - DS and his GF are here. She's studying hard for her law exams I do hope she does well and manages to get a job at the end of it after 3 years at UNI and another at law school!

Spoke to DD - she and her Bf have hired a cleaner for their little flat but I don't blame them, they both work silly hours and the housework was becoming a bit of a bone of contention between them.

Hardup_Hester

Afternoon all
DD2 & I went to DD1's along with some friends, we had a girls night in, watched Sex & the City movie & ate pizza & ice cream & drank wine. It was a lovely relaxing evening & we all had a good giggle. It was a much needed antidote to all the carp on Friday.
I've emailed work a very long email, I really feel there need to be changes made. Still I'll cross that bridge tomorrow when I get to it.

Breakfast - poached egg on toast
Tea - roast beef.

I hope everyone has a good day.
Hugs Hester

celyn90

Welcome back VickyA - hugs for you and your mum.
Sybil - I'd second freecycle for getting rid of stuff; you'd be amazed what people will want; and it's got to be cheaper than a skip.

I'm very very cold. It's cold anyway down here and I've been working in a room with a temperature set at 4 degrees for the past three hours. I can't feel my fingers any more.

Off to town in a second, might pop into Boots again to see if I can spend my other £5 off no7 voucher. I bought some hair spritz stuff with one this morning and they went through 3-for-2 at a reduced price, so I got three for just over 60p with 250 advantage card points back . These will go in hampers for next Christamas.

Panicing about the outlaws coming too. OH is so lassiez-faire it's driving me nuts as we have to find somewhere for them to stay. I have worked out I have £45 of ocodo vouchers, £6 of high street shopping vouchers (can be used in iceland, normally I just use them for milk), £5 M&S voucher and £35 of tesco vouchers (I know I should spend these on deals, but at the moment it's not viable). I have just decided that they can eat what they are given and if they complain I will pretend I don't understand and I'm not catering for daft alternatives. The difficulty is is that both his parents are awful hoarders, so much so they have walls of boxes in their flat and rooms they don't use. The kitchen is packed high with more food than they could ever eat in the next ten years (and I'm not exaggerating) so they will expect to be able to pick and choose from hundreds of alternatives. I don't run the house like that - we don't have the storage space and no freezer. The difference in price of things over here also stops me buying eleven different varieties of fruit juice (not joking again), ice-cream (no storage space, but they will have seven or eight varieties open at any one time) and piles and piles of different cold meats (honestly, if I buy ham it goes off, as I don't eat it and OH forgets it's there). Meat is going to be an issue, I can see it coming. As is the lack of a car, TV and internet :rolleyes:.

I have told OH that I don't want to see the food wand in the house and he is to keep his mum out of my kitchen, but I know he won't do anything about it. It's going to be hell.

Dinner is chicken curry, rice and lentil dahl. We went to yosushi last night - (there is a 40% voucher on the web) and even for me (who doesn't eat fish) it was a nice evening. Either that or the plates hypotised me. We got to sit so we could see into the kitchen and even though I think it is truly nasty, I love watching people make sushi. It's such an art form.

Larumbelle

Purpleivy, huge hug to you :grouphug: I know how horrid it is to have this kind of illness. Just because there are no physical symptoms, doesn't make it any less of an illness, so do take time out for yourself if you need it. Some of those meds have really nasty side effects, I know that sometimes at the start of mine I've felt worse from those than anything else. What ones are you on (if you don't mind me asking - tell me to bog off if you like ) Although I know that I often feel better for pottering about, don't feel like you have to if it's going to make things worse. Look after yourself. Anyway, I'm not very good at explaining what I mean so I'll shut up. I'm thinking of you though - and Pen-Pin and the other poorly people. Please consider this to be a virtual box of choccies to cheer you up (I know it's not Easter yet but this is the best I can find)
:EasterBun

Had to go out for potatoes, went to my new butcher's rather than the farm shop because they sell marfonas, which I prefer. We paid £4.50 for 12.5kg which I know isn't the cheapest, but it's worth it. Although the butcher said we've bought the last sack of the year, the farmer had problems with them rotting in the ground. The other ones the butcher's got in are wilja, which are £5.50 for 25kg. I've not used them before but he said they're alright, and at least we'll save a bit of money on them! He gave us half a dozen of the wilja ones to see how we get on with them for next time.

He also gave me lots of lovely beef bones for stock. We've only been using him a month or so and we already have a brilliant relationship with him. I don't even have to ask for them any more, he asks me if I want 'the usual' then brings out a huge slab of bone and smashes off however much I want. He said that nobody else ever wants them, even if he specifically offers them to people, they'd much rather pay £3.50 for a little tub of ready-made stock and that I should go into business! :rotfl: I used to feel guilty for asking for bones, but he told me that otherwise he'd have to pay to have them taken away. The same as buying cheap cuts, he says he wishes he has more customers like me, because at the moment a lot of his cheaper meat has to be sold elsewhere at non-rare-breed non-free-range prices because he has to slaughter more animals to keep up with demand for the prime cuts. We didn't buy meat today though. What we've agreed to do now is for me to work out roughly what I need then call him when its quieter in the week and he has it ready and bagged for the freezer for me when we collect it at the weekend, cos there's always a huge queue on Saturdays and Sundays. Can you tell that I am completely in love with my butcher?!

Other than that all we bought was some eggs (his chickens are so free range that one of them was warming herself on our bonnet when we came back out), some bacon offcuts (not officially on the price list but always behind the counter for me) and some carrots. Oh, and a steak and kidney pie for Dave which is the standard charge for taking me there

Anyways, I'm off to move the last bookcase, and then get Dave to drill the holes for the speaker brackets - soon we'll have surround sound! It's a brilliant bargain home entertainment system, the speakers were off freecycle and the amplifier we bought for £20 reduced from £150 at Maplin.

taplady

VickyA - I hope your Mum's treatment goes as planned and that she is soon on the mend.xx

EssexHebridean

Welcome Longtimelurker - newbies always welcomed here - the more the merrier!

ROFL at Betheebee and her gin-ius idea! :rotfl:

MSD - was amused to see someone else with a dribbly cat - our little tabby (gone for a good number of years now) used to wake OH up in the night dribbling on his face! Made me laugh, anyway!

csarina sorry to hear your OH is having his dizzys again - after he'd gone a while without too.

Vicky A Glad your Mum came through her op OK. Not surprising she was a bit tearful really - at least they were able to give her some privacy though which must have helped.

Well my friend went home a couple of hours ago - had a great night last night with a not very OS chinese takeaway and then raided the whisky cupboard! I did roast chicken, roast pots and veggies for lunch today which went down well - the chicken was a good enough size that I now have the remaining half to strip the meat from too.

Since my friend went we have planned two weeks worth of meals and MrEH has sorted out the problem with my laptop refusing to talk to the desktop machine over the network. He has also just put the WM on with a white load - including his work shirts - and is now making pizza dough. DW will go on overnight tonight - what with three of us for lunch today there is more to be washed than normal.

Once the BM is going with the pizza dough we're going to have a go at the marmalade....wish us luck!

Rowan9

Hello - popped back in to see what sort of day everyone has been having.
VickyA - I hope that your mum begins to feel better soon.
Hope all haggis eaters enjoyed theirs today. I've decided to keep ours until DH comes home on Wed so I ended up having HM< veg soup from freezer and then egg and chips with a squirt of tomato sauce:D
Still haven't ironed my clothes for work so will go and set up the ironing board and do that while watching The Book Show. I'm looking forward to Lark Rise later. I didn't like it when the last series was on but I really like it now - good old Sunday evening telly!
Have a good restful evening all
W

Pippa.S

Evening all :hello:

I just did a great big post and lost the darned thing, goodness knows what I did.:mad:
Its very cold here today but at least its sunny and dry.

Not quite myself at the mo, what with MIL in hospital and DIL's mums funeral on Tuesday, and to top it all mum had an airmail letter from my cousin in Australia yesterday, her OH has left her, she is devastated, I feel so useless here when she suffering over in OZ.

She had an awful time last year first her Mum died then a few months later her Dad died. I worry about her, always have done.
She has an inoperable brain tumour and has been told she could die anytime, but she copes so well. She does have a daughter but she lives over the other side of Australia and as she is a bit unsteady on her feet since her stroke she does'nt get to see her much.

I am sorry for the gloomy post

Off to dish up a beef stew that I put in the SC before we went to the hospital and its just about ready now.

(((Hugs))) for everyone today and a special hug for VickyA and her Mum x

Anne
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