5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VJsmum

Laid up in bed with tummy bug itis

It doesn't bode well for me going to work tomorrow.

Didn't do any for Monday, so here goes

1. For a few hours the house was empty (bar me) and silent for the first time since December 16th
2. Lunch with friend
3. Decluttering still progressing well
4. GOt a refund on some shoes my DD bought - not the full price, but they weren't any use to us.
5. DS progressed well with some difficult maths

and for today

1. Enjoyed my walk to and from work
2. Got some great YS items in Mr M (haven't eaten them yet tho so they are not responsible for tummybugitis)
3. Catching up with work colleagues after the break
4. COming home after OH and he cooked tea :T
5. Being in bed!

Feeling a bit rough - ironic, given that DD's bug has just gone.

scotrae

I'm hoping that as I get a bit more energy I'll keep up with the thread better and take time to 'get to know' other posters. But for today:
1/ (my favourite, not the first) ... seeing a little lad and his mum playing 'boo!' either side of a swingboard in the high street - his giggle made me smile even though I was hobbling on two sticks for my train and cutting it dangerously close!
2/ having a good talk with my new boss, and being reassured that she hopes I can stay even if I need to cut my hours, work from home or change my role over time, depending on how my condition progresses. (Hopefully it won't.)
3/ coincidentally spotting the chairperson of the charity I work for and having a good chat with them on the train on my way home. Hopefully by now I've got the message across to everyone at work that I'm in this for the long term and I've still got plenty of unfinished business!
4/ sharing a tin of beans for tea with one son - not something I'd be serving for tea if hubby weren't at a meeting.
5/ cuddling up to one son on the sofa under my new fleecy throw, watching the Bake Off and chatting with other son. Nice to know that they can still do calm!

I'm looking forward to a 'rest day' from work tomorrow - so hopefully I shouldn't have any problem thinking of some non-work related pleasures.
Sleep well everyone and have a good Wednesday.

Scotraex

sparrer

Kittikins so relieved to hear about your dad, hope he recovers soon
Chicken I'm a bit like old hen, happily doing a shuffly sort of dance when I'm outside but will square up to the challenge when confronted (in my case it's not other chickens but thistles. The Scots'd be proud of the ones my garden produces!). The promoted chap sounds obnoxious, I believe there's a book of subtle put-downs one can buy, might be worth investigating
bupster your office sounds like a really happy place to work. It certainly makes the days more enjoyable when there's a good atmosphere
Ladyhawk I've been looking far longer than you and haven't found him yet! 4 hours over, that's what I call lucky :T
Frith if you lost 2.5st in a year it shouldn't take you long to lose what you want now, you always seem so energetic and your #3 puts me to shame
Millie I empathise re the car, I parked in Mr T car park late at night a couple of years ago and when I came out my car had gone. Really gone! Was just heading back into the store to see if they had cctv in that area when the trolley collector pointed it out - I'd left the hand brake off and it had rolled down the slightly sloping tarmac into a hedge two lanes away . Thank goodness the lanes were empty :eek:
CCP pleased you're feeling a little better after the implant. Well done on the insurance negotiation, they do try it on, don't they?
Catmom love the 5 cup cake stands, you could bake for sales through the summer, after all they need to earn their keep at that price!

1. a terrible night with very little sleep, strange how, when I know I have to be up early, I toss and turn for hours. I got up at 3am and listened to Paul McK cd - he has such a soothing voice I woke up just as it ended :rotfl:

2. Back to pulm exercise class, the first since pre-Christmas and am so slow I have a lot of catching up to do. Evil physio made me wear extra weights too, and afterwards said, as I was crawling out the door, 'there, doesn't that feel better?' NO comment!

3. Had coffee with DD, got attacked by the parrot who was in a grumpy mood and smothered by 2 of her 5 dogs, licked to pieces and came away wearing white dog coat :mad:. Love them all really..

4. DS sent me some garden centre vouchers, now I can get my new bay tree to replace the one last winters frosts destroyed

5. Arranged to take DGD2 to the London Chinese New Year celebrations at the end of the month. Told her there's firework displays, processions, stalls, side shows - and food. That cracked it

Sweet dreams
S

eta Scotrae, re your #2 and #3 - good for you, you tell 'em!

Kittikins

Get well soon VJsmum x
Sweet dreams Ladyhawk x
Sparrer - hope the pulm classes will get easier x
I love the sound of your ponies millie, I used to help look after a couple of Shetlands (real Thelwell types) when I was a young girl, and they could be little beggars to catch as well x

Purple_kitten

Sparrer: what is a pulm class, apart from masochistic?

Broomstick

CCP Well done on talking the AA down in price. I negotiated a reduction last year with them - not as much as yours from the sound of it though!

The basic recipe for Eggy, Cheesy, Potato Pie goes like this (based on a recipe by H.Ladell, I think):

1.25 Kg potatoes
A small tin of sweet corn (original recipe had frozen peas but we prefer corn)
2 large chopped onions
butter
5 eggs
150ml milk
200g grated cheese
herbs, salt and pepper if you want
6- 8 slices of tomato to decorate the top (optional)

I butter the 12"ish x 9"ish oven proof dish we have that fits these quantities well.

Steam the potatoes until cooked, let them cool and cut them into smallish cubes/chunks, fry the onions in some butter until soft then add them and the sweet corn/thawed peas or whatever other veggie bits or herbs you are adding to the cooked potatoes and gently mix them all together in the ovenproof dish.

Beat the eggs and milk together with the seasoning and pour onto the veg mix together with about half of the grated cheese. Turn everything over again in the dish until it's mixed enough, level off the surface and top with the rest of the cheese and tomato slices for decoration.

Bake at 220 degrees or so for about 40 mins.

I think it was meant to provide 8 portions. In our house (2 starving teenage boys) it does 6! We serve it with green veg or salad. It's also good the next day cold, keeps it's shape in slices and so does lunchboxes too.


Anyway, here's five pleasures for Tuesday:

1. Yet another (this is getting repetitive :rotfl:) NSD. That makes nine in all this year. I have to shop tomorrow but nine is just brilliant and I'm feeling unbearably smug with myself about it!:D

2. Visiting my parents and giving my mum some Lakeland Stayfresh plastic bags to try with her veggies - she was very pleased.

3. Getting a grant application sent off to see if we can get some funding to cover DS1's sports costs.

4. Veggiebox arrived - it's a pretty standard one this week with no difficult veg. If we don't have mushrooms in the box we usually order them as extras and DS1 has taken to frying all the mushrooms on Tuesday lunchtimes. He has them on toast for his lunch and I just have them by themselves. They are so fresh and so scrumptious. It's become a Tuesday treat. DS2 doesn't like mushrooms so I don't put them in meals - I'd rather have them like this anyway.:D

5. Finding out a new bit of information for the work I'm doing. It was unexpected and that was a nice surprise.

Sweet dreams
B x

Chickenopolis

sparrer - Thank you -wise words , as ever xx

Kittikins

Mmmm, love the sound of that cheesy pie, might have to try it, maybe with some mustard stirred through as well (love the kick from sauces like that). Deeelish!

Frith

5 for yesterday. Not the easiest of days. Both sons have gone a bit anti-school and smaller son has got a bit "impatient" with some of his class members since going back after Christmas. He has some SEN and, if goaded enough, will eventually hit out. Unfortunately, he hit out at another boy's face yesterday so I have to go in for a meeting about it. :-( It's annoying because he is due to see his child psych in February and the Complex Communication Difficulties Team are due to go in to school and have a go at them (oops, I mean try and teach them how to deal with him better!) AND he'll be assessed by an Ed psych to get more help. I wish he'd behave in the meantime!

Anyway....

1) Waking up with OH. Albeit for 2 mins before he went to work.

2) Made a vat of soup and a nice casserole type thing for tea. Did both those in the morning.

3) Popped down to chat to dad and brother.

4) OH came round for tea. I had texted him asking if would distract bigger son for a while so I could have a big talk with smaller son about the hitting thing. So he had stopped off at home to pick up a board game and played that with bigger son for ages so I could do my stern voice upstairs uninterrupted.

5) Then we all played the board game!

6) Much excitement later on as we had a Sainsburys delivery. (I've broken my car). And much merriment when the man pulled up outside our cottage (in the dark, in the middle of nowhere) then drove off because he thought he was in the wrong place! Ooo, and had £10 off my order as it was my first with Sainsburys online. :-)

7) Woke up this morning after dreaming that OH's city (very flat compared with here, East Midlands) had a huge outcrop of rock that I had never noticed before, like Ayers Rock! Spent quite a lot of the dream exploring it.

Must get organised, try and speak to smaller son's teacher then, while I'm already unpopular (laptop confiscated for a week due to poor behaviour), I'm going to enforce a visit to the barbers. You may hear some wailing and insults thrown at about 3.15 this afternoon when I let sons know.........

ninnoodle

CCP - that recipe sounds delish - thanks for posting! I must try it!

Mine for yesterday:

1. Another lovely run in the moonlight. Although I'm feeling slightly delirious with a cold at the moment, I hope it passes soon.

2. Some body fat analyser scales I got for 70% off in the sales arrived. Me and my OH had lots of fun downloading the software, putting in our stats and then.....standing on the scales. This was right after 2 gigantic portions of hm cottage pie so we were feeling particularly er, 'bloated'. And the results weren't pleasant :eek: I've put on a stone over the past few months and appear to be the heaviest I have ever been in my life So, out with the double portions of cottage pie washed down with glasses of wine and hello HM veg soup washed down with water.

3. I managed to get everything done on my ticklist today

4. An old pal from uni contacted me on Facebook. I haven't spoken to her for 17 years!

5. Had a very nice lunchtime walk in the woods