5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

vj'smum : hard enough for me getting used to being upside down & back to front!

I don't think I said yesterday but I saw Santa.....just walking in our wee shopping area....then today I saw him again. I had just parked car, chatted to someone I knew, said goodbye....and there was Santa again! Bizarre....it's 29o & far too hot for the full Santa get-up......unless it really was Santa!

I think over here, the general feel is rundown to summer holidays, we would feel in June /July with oh! It's Christmas in between. Lots of people (round our way certainly) have went to a lot of effort to decorate their homes & gardens but it gets dark at 9pm whereas in UK lights would be on from 3pm at this time of year. On the 'town' decorations the tinsel sparkles in the sun and like this morning the sun was making sparkles all across my dining room walls,ceiling & floor & looked quite beautiful.
Back home for me, this would have been my busiest time at work, busy time at school with Christmas activities, church services, catching up with friends, maybe a bit of snow..?, buying lots of yummy extras (all RTC of course) and cooking up a storm in my kitchen. So for us here, with no family & a few less friends than at home (have made some now!! ) there is a general air of scunner-ment! Scottish readers will know what I mean by that! Little child no longer a believer (truth was asked for & told!) so will be an entirely different feel on Christmas Eve I think.

Anyway:
1.early start to work today, made porridge for girls , shared a smile with driver going in opposite direction as we had to stop to allow a group of ducks to cross the road! And they took their time!
2.Had to make a delivery from work & the lift was out of action.....7 trips up & down stairs....the pleasure....they kindly brought everything back for me so I didn't have to do the return journey!
3.Getting my eyebrows waxed! Was wondering when I would get the opportunity to go and found a little beauticians very near work, popped in and came out looking less gorilla more human!
4.Home....via shops & Santa spotting! Hurrah for Fridays!
5. Me & colleagues were given a gift from a customer (who I have became friendly with ) was so nice to be thought of and the home made biscuits will go down a treat! Very pretty too!

I hope you have a lovely day whatever your weather...please don't be envious of 29o, it's fine for your holidays but not for day to day! For me anyway! I now need to go & tackle an ironing mountain in my hot laundry room!

CCP

Evening all.

1) Not one, but two lots of HM biccies from colleagues today - shortbread and gingerbread, my two favourites. :drool:

2) A trip to my GP proved less stressful than expected - usually it's really busy and you can wait ages to be seen, even with an appointment (1 hour and 20 minutes is my record :eek:) but today it was really quiet and I was in and out within 15 minutes.

3) Expecting the GP to be really busy, I told my colleagues that I wouldn't be back at work today, so I ended up home almost an hour earlier than normal.

4) Mog's back on his usual diet and has stopped drinking so much water, which was really worrying me - the chicken diet was obviously too dry for him and was making him thirsty. I hope that's now the last of the vet bills for a while.

5) Idly pondering what to eat for dinner tonight, and realising how lucky I am to be able to choose. And, as a bonus pleasure, I took something out of the freezer and realised I can now see the shelves in several places, and don't have to force the door shut.

Have a pleasant evening, all.

Chickenopolis

Good evening all !

savingforoz- I love the sound of your three legged foster cat - I am a sucker for pets and people who are a little "unusual" . It would make me want to own it and love it even more

millie - a festive holiday how exciting Will you break in to song like Julie Andrews ??

5 for today

1. Woke up at sensible o'clock as it is my day off and OH let the chickens out for me.

2. Hens cavorting around in "The Somme" aka my back garden they have been in their eglu run for the last two days due to a missing fence panel and were desperate to come out - maggie hen came out and seemed a bit brighter.

3.Wrapped up a mountain of Christmas presents which took hours . As I have altered sensation in my left hand due to neurosurgery it feels like I have a boxing glove on when I am wrapping up presents as I can't feel the paper. They are wrapped up so badly , that they only need labels on to say who they are for as it is obvious who they are from :rotfl:I did laugh .

4. OH and my sister coincidently brought me marm*te multipacks of crisps. I have eaten a packet of the aforemetioned make of cashews and crisps and now smell of it !! I just fancy them at the moment

5. It snowed a bit here but did not settle, thank goodness . It scares me as any fall usually results in spinal xrays and whisperings from radiologists about boken necks :eek: Bliddy chilly though !!

Have a lovely weekend all !!

Ladyhawk

Evening all,

Still don't have tinternet at home so am using the blueberry. So please excuse my typing which I am sure is even worse than usual!

Brr... Chilly morning this morning... Complete blizzard when I was standing on train platform at 6.30am!

1) Despite the weather my train was only 2 minutes late which was lucky as I was 1 minute late!
2) Nice lunch (fish and chips - a rare treat) with a couple of colleagues
3) Nearly finished my christmas shopping - just need to find something for my little nephew
4) Giggling at the giant white bunny wandering around Oxford St... I think they got the wrong holiday!
5) Spent the afternoon looking at MBA courses... Sheesh they are expensive!

Night night - sleep tight!

L

Millie2008_2

millie - a festive holiday how exciting Will you break in to song like Julie Andrews ??

possibly not....I would probably cause an avalanche
Maggie sounds like a total dude, pleased she was able to stretch her little legs

CCP- shortbread and ginger are my faves too!!

LH- would have loved to have seen that bunny:D

Mine for today

We woke up to a dusting of snow today- not much really, but enough for me to drag GSD out of her bed and play on the lawn with her for 10 min. She was doing her usual clown trick of running around and hoovering it up into her mouth, then leaping in the air. Mental!!

1. Not terribly OS, but last night, we found a possible skiing hol and almost booked it, but I had a last minute "it's a bit expensive" wibble, so we decided to leave it. Checked again this morning and it had reduced in price by £220pp overnight (last room available), soooo we will be flying out 2 weeks today to the 3 vallees in France for New Year. I am stupidly excited. Poor OH has 2 weeks of me being stupidly excited to cope with, poor him!!
2. Mum (who likes wrapping things) wrapped some of my xmas pressies for me. She enjoyed it, I don't, it bores me. win-win!!
3. Made steak pie for dinner and it went down rather too well (the portions I had earmarked to freeze got inhaled). I made mini mince pies with the left over pastry and dusted liberally with icing sugar- they didn't last long either!
4. Dad found $35 that he had forgotten about from his last trip to the US and offered them to me to change into euro- bless him!
5. I have 2 bunnies lying next to me and Arthur is snoring- so cute

I have decided to allow the horses a lie in tomorrow til 7.30- they will be thrilled (not very), but I am sure they won't starve waiting 30 min for their breccie!!

ninnoodle

savingforoz wrote: »

Ninnoodle - that's not my kitty,sadly, just a little sweetie who I found online. I foster homeless cats and my current furbaby, Tinker, is purring on my lap as I type. She's black and white, has only three legs, and possesses cattitude in abundance.

Savingforoz - she sounds gorgeous! I am cat crazy - I would open a cattery if I could!

Millie2008 - that is brilliant about your holiday! It was meant to be! How exciting!

Mine for today, another quiet day:
1. Received a Christmas card and £20 in the post from my OH's mum
2. Pretty white frost everywhere this morning
3. Lovely warm log and coal fire tonight because it is Friday
4. I was dreading some work meetings today but they all went really well
5. Got a lovely late birthday card in the post from a friend

Have a great weekend folks.

sparrer

Ladyhawk I hope the young girl is alright. Thank goodness she had the nous to phone her father, sensible girl for doing so and sensible parents for teaching her what to do in a crisis

1. The snow which fell and covered everything was, thankfully, gone by mid afternoon.
2. Lunch date and evening social were both cancelled, but a friend phoned out of the blue and came for tea
3. New television stand arrived, I've got as far as I can putting it together. The next bit is a 2-person job so will ask DNeighbour in the morning - she's so efficient she could do it single-handed
4. New toilet seat arrived, with instructions for 5 different models - I bought the 6th. Fun, fun, fun...
5. Made 6 apple & pear crumbles from the last of the hg fruit in the freezer. This afternoon's friend and I had a ramekin (4 ramekins for £1 in cs) of crumble each with squirty cream (free with coupon), and fresh decaf coffee (free sample), made in the Bodun cafetiere (50p in cs).

Sleep well

Kittikins

Yesterday's goodies.........

1. Early payday and I spent the grand sum of 50p on car parking at the hospital for OH's physio appt

2. DD had a 'party, party, party' at school for the end of term, oh how she loved it

3. We were invited to a party, party, party on Christmas Eve but sadly we won't be around...maybe next year

4. I chatted to the surveyor who was assessing my current house and he was lovely and told me that there's nothing to worry about in his report to my buyers, no damp, no woodworm, the roof is very old (i.e. original, just slates and rafters or whatever they're called) but fine

5. My mortgage offer for the new house came through

6. I dragged a friend to peer through the windows of the new house and she thinks its lovely too

7. Saw OH *swoon*, horrible shame he's got a new, possibly quite scary MS thing to deal with which I'm praying will be temporary, but I was glad that I could cuddle him and take him to the physio/doctor/chemist etc.

Let's see what today holds....hugs to all that need them x

VJsmum

mhagster wrote: »

I hope you have a lovely day whatever your weather...please don't be envious of 29o, it's fine for your holidays but not for day to day! For me anyway!

Hmmm, nope sorry that doesn't work.:D I'll take hot over cold anyday. 2 years ago I took group of students to Dubai in March after the long cold winter and, as i stepped out of the airport into warmth and sunshine, it was all i could do not to burst into tears ( literally, i was swallowing hard). I chuffin hate winter so much.

Annnyywwayyy - for yesterday

1. a sneaky coffee with a friend
2 teenage dinner party went really well for DD
3 She actually helped to organise it - it was one of the conditions that she had to pitch in, but i wasn't sure she would
4 there is food left :T
5. It didn't snow.

Chickenopolis

Ladyhawk wrote: »

4) Giggling at the giant white bunny wandering around Oxford St... I think they got the wrong holiday!

L

might be the Harvey the rabbit from "its a wonderful life"??