5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Caterina

Hi again all and thanks for your order to get well NOW! it is working, even though the sniffles are still present. But I am out and about and ready to post my pleasures for today:

1 - Did my driving lesson! Was told that I would fail a test because of my (pathetic) 3-point turn, goodness knows what he will say when I have to reverse-park LOL, however the pleasure is that I am giving it a go and winning over my fear of driving. Have booked 6 paid lessons now and will I KNOW I WILL drive again. So there!

2 - Free coffee at Wait R0Se with DH using their loyalty card, ordered one card for DH too so we can have TWO free drinks in the future!

3 - The veg I needed were stickered, so very cheap!

4 - Also stickered was an amazing mixed bouquet with sunflowers, gerberas and all sorts of fancy stuff, it is now sitting proudly on the living room mantelpiece. Needed some flowers to cheer myself up and now I got them!

5 - Feeling better all round, even if not 100% yet (still very tired and a bit weak) but feel I am on the mend.

Have a good night all x

Purple_kitten

It's the weekend and it's tipping it down in Kent at the mo with the blackest skies.

1.I sent of some paperwork that’s been hanging around and a complaint form that has been waiting to be sent, never mind it's been sitting there for ahem a while.

2. We popped over the bridge to find a home bargains store, wow far better than a pound shop, got lots of actually needed things, and a few just in case things as they were ridiculously cheap there.:D

3. While over there we stopped in at a cafe in time for their happy hour full English, and tea for £3 each.
4. We popped into costco and had some serious voucher savings on meat and dishwasher tablets, £ 40 overall, and now we have a year’s worth of dishwasher tablets, they don’t do the offer often but worth it when it comes up, though have to say it’s not my favourite pastime splitting meat down into little bags, but worth it.:rotfl:
5.I have had a bit of a flutter and entered the lottery, feeling lucky, well ish.
6.Still feeling positive but start job hunting in earnest again next week, and I have had another interview request for next week for what sounds like an interesting role, just via a bit of a numpty agency.
7. Looking forward to a glass of “wobbleade” with dinner later.
8. The local traffic is diabolical with incidents everywhere, glad to be inside with no plans tonight, hmmm now I am sounding old and hermit like, ah well,;):p

Skint_yet_Again

Phew its been a long week

1. its friday :j no more work till tuesday

2. DS has gone out. Kept asking for a lift and doin me 'ed in, ..petrol light is on, sky is black and I really dont feel like going out again... told him to bog off (and didnt mean buy one get one free ;))

3. Lots of leavers at work so cakes and chocolates all round

4. curry for tea smells lovely and should be ready soon

5. did I mention its the weekend

ampersand

I've just dived in from spitty dark. then pretty angelwing skies alternating, as I sit outside, with upturned tray on lap, writing letter to M as I surveille incinerator.

1.....and that's first pleasure. The smell, the good sound as twiggy bits, more or less dried branchery and prunings spit and crackle and rip into the grey dull end of day in defiant orange flames.

2. New toothpaste - a pleasure as a tube lasts me so long and I always feel I can squeeze another brushful out, but couldn't this morning. so new tube justified and started. No doubt sibling pleasure of schooldays - sharpening new pencil, starting new exercise book, first day of new summer white ankle socks etc.etc.

3. My hair has been really well done this time, result - je pense - of the ironing flattening thing Marta persuaded me to let her use. It now hangs curtain edge straight and loose and somehow looks longer still, despite trim. People[inc. unknowns]have complimented me on it - in town! Incredible! Lawks, that now looks so vain, but it's just so 'new territory', can't quite take it on board.

4. T&M goodwill voucher arrived - for £10! This too is incredible and generous! Rang and thanked them.

5. Have anticipated R5 Ryder Cup commentary with pleasure, knowing how unlikely this too is for me...first heard it many years ago when having an arduous longhaul session of apricot prep and stone-smashing>kernel extraction and found myself swept up in the excitement of it. And so it is proving this afternoon - already. I have no interest in playing, but it is gripping, marvellous radio.

6. Took Dr's ref. thing over to Gym and appt for reassessment plan is Monday@15h.

7. Zapped a dead coffee after coming back from gym and looked out to see a baby black bunny from T nextdoor grazing my grass. It loped behind the rhubarb as I went to tell T but we failed to catch it. Minutes later, as I returned to feed fire with another armful of prunings, there it was again, so this time we did a successful Phil Drabble sort of manoeuvre and it was caught. Dear little thing, the tiniest handful, but what a kicker!

8. Still waiting for Freecycle mower man who was coming at 6. He'd better not come when sth antique-y is on box....

CCP - could you please tell me about your lightbox? It's sth I know I need and have heard of benefits over many years now. I'm glad your foot is healing - and your cold, Caterina. I've had same all week - no idea where it came from. Just woke up with it on Monday. You're probably the person to give me a recipe for my beetroot leaves, which look so good. Surely I can use them?

tilams - saw your POETS day ref.and such was my ignorance I googled it, thinking I'd see some local events for National Poetry Day. which I enjoy. I now know the difference:-), BUT the bonus is that I discover National Poetry Day is next Thursday, 4 October. Wouldn't have known otherwise.

Bonne nuit à tout et à tous! .

Frith

Pretty much the end of a grim week. Antibiotics for me, X rays for bigger son, exclusion for smaller son.

Here are my pleasures for today so far.

1) Not too bad a sleep.

2) Sons off to school quite happily.

3) Items arriving for bigger son's birthday (12 tomorrow!) in the post. All hidden away...

4) Went into town for bigger son's presents. He asked for a hoodie with a zip all the way down the front in a "geometric pattern". No pressure, then! Got that from H and M.

5) Did the charity shops in town and got a White Stuff dress/tunic that I will either wear or Ebay.

6) MacMillan cake sale at school sold me the cakes for the birthday party tomorrow (hidden away too).

7) Did Sainsburys so have food in now. And paper plates, candles, party poppers...

8) Cheaty meal in the oven then sons and I are going to tidy up, clean then decorate the house :-)

Rubbish bits for today - smaller son opened the boot of the car and a jar of passata fell out on the pavement outside our house and smashed. In sorting it out, I stood up and bashed my head in on the lock of the car boot. Lurched about a bit and smacked shin on the car tow bar (I'll let readers guess how many dozens of times I've walked into that...)

And OH can have his own paragraph. I mentioned bigger son's birthday last weekend (several times) then asked him when I would see him next. "Sunday" was the reply although obviously he couldn't commit to any sort of a time... I felt very hurt that he had shown no interest in the birthday. Yesterday night got a phone call suggesting he bring himself and sons to birthday. Didn't know what to say. All invitations sent out, food sorted, seating sorted. Had it in my mind that he wasn't coming (AGAIN). Bigger son now hates him after he didn't come round for a month, then did come round only to drive off in a huff after an hour which made me cry. :-( So bigger son didn't want him here anyway.

I ummed and ahhed my way through the phone call until he said he would see us on Sunday, not tomorrow. Then he went a bit odd (surely I don't imagine ALL this?) and started telling me all about his collegue who had met her partner on the internet, shortly before I met OH... but this partner moved in with her new man almost immediately and has been commuting 3 hours every day to get to OH's work. Now they are moving to a new house and she has a job nearer her new home. Why would OH tell me that little tale when he has been away for 8 weeks and has told me he has no intention of ever moving or changing job for me?

So I challenged about it but then you get furious denials, hot air and blustering. Then I got a text about he was terribly upset he had "not been invited" to bigger son's birthday.

I don't know what to do. He shows no interest in any of us. He won't commit to anything (even a damned time of arrival!) but then goes sulky because I haven't guessed at what he might suddenly change his mind to do at very much the 11th hour.

I feel like I'm going mad trying to second guess him. :-(

Sorry for the epic post.

Chickenopolis

Good evening all!

1. Day off

2. Country pub for lunch .. "for local people"

3. The country pub was about 300ft from the house that my uncle built .I have fond childhood memories of that house and walking up the pitch black lane as a kid with my top up pulled showing my white vest so that I wouldn't get run over:rotfl:

4. Had a walk done the lane and decided I need a country cottage !

5.A collard dove thinks it is one of my hens and is in their run and is always with them in the garden . Perhaps I will adopt it.

6. Made two blackberry and apple crumbles and some buns - the house smells lovely.

Have a good weekend all

eta Frith ((hugs))- I am afraid I would say if you turn up ,you turn up and if you don't you don't - but make sure Frith ,that you enjoy yourself anyway !!Sorry - for my adding my two penneth worth x

Frith

I'm not sure anymore that I want him to turn up. He came to smaller son's birthday (telling me that morning, I think) and was surly, had a go at my sister (!), shouted in his son's face, kept threatening to go home and refused to play cricket with everyone else.

He didn't want the cricket to take place in case his son got competetive. But what was I supposed to do when my brother and brother in law and my sons disappeared with the stumps and started playing?

VJsmum

In the words of Dixon of Dock Green

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4F4ZOlZZY8&feature=related

CCP - I am interested in the SAD lamp too
Very jealous of blackberry talk - maybe I should go on a hunt
Frith - you must feel like this :wall:when you should be feeling like this

Todays

1. After a tortuous start - DD went off to school, stayed the day and came home quite happy, whilst OH and I spent the day worrying - !!!!!!? but good nonetheless.
2. Let off steam with girlfriends over an M&S lunch
3. Got £5 of a £30 shop at Ald! - because L!dl have opened up next door
4. DS made delicious sausage plait at school - so easy tea with a tin of baked beans
5. 2 delicious glasses of red with the sausage plait and beans!!! And to think I should have been lording it up in a swanky London restaurant :rotfl:

Up and out early tomorrow on a dad visit - the first time i'll have seen him at home since December.

CCP

VJsmum and ampersand (and anyone else who's interested) - if you have SAD, what you need is a full spectrum lightbox, which provides all the wavelengths of light that, during the rest of the year, you get from the sun (in winter you get a narrower spectrum, or maybe just less light in general - sorry, my grasp of the physics involved is very shaky! ). When I first got one, about 10 years ago, they were very expensive (I think I paid about £350 for mine :eek:), but they're now much cheaper and much smaller - I've just had a look on Am&zon and portable ones start at under £40.

You might be able to get an idea if one would be helpful by trying a daylight bulb, usually used by crafters - I used to use my DM's when visiting her, and although it's not the same thing, it would tide me over for a few days until I got home and could use my proper lightbox again. (I don't do it anymore as I now have a a portable lightbox and just take it with me when I go away. )

Is that at all helpful?

sparrer

1. Weather similar to yesterday, woke to beautiful sunshine and had a shower during my siesta. Perfick
2. nsd/npd
3. friend came for coffee and brought fresh raspberries which we had with a dollop of ff yogurt
4. said friend ran me to surgery in her car. Saw GP who said I can't do bodyflight but thought the print-out I showed him was interesting and could he keep it? Cheeky. Being weaned off one of my meds, we're both happy with progress
5. Spray painted some pinecones to freshen them up, got a bit carried away and now three candle holders, a vase, a picture frame and the lounge curtain tie-backs are all old gold

Have a good weekend