5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Lily_The_Legend

1) Used some leftover spending money I had from this week to buy some essentials at Morrisons to tide us over to next credit card bill/next pay day. Also used a voucher from Coinstar after tipping a load of change into it. I know it takes a percentage off but I worked out that it would be cheaper to do that than to drive to the bank and get it changed up into pound coins etc. After all that I ended up dropping the voucher in the shop somewhere but luckily someone had handed it in to customer services! :j Even then I didn't quite have enough (must have done my sums wrong) and had to put my chocolate back!! :eek:

2) Made some carrot and coriander soup for lunch, and left the rest to cool for the two of us to have tomorrow.

3) Ate the last of Twink's hobnobs. Will have to make some more tomorrow, they're so nice!

4) I'll work out a meal plan for the next few days later on.

5) Sitting in the study to keep warm and it's nice when the sun comes out.

Ooo just thought of an extra one - will put the kettle on for a cuppa while writing down a list of all the food we have. I've really enjoyed just eating from what we had this week rather than go shopping earlier in the week. It made me realise what we can and can't do without.

ETA: Just thought of one more - have done a few surveys today. I'm trying to get a couple of extra vouchers to put towards Christmas. I'm due to get paid for some freelance work soon and I'm going to save the majority for Christmas. Started doing a budget last night, but I'm sure there are things I've forgotten!

Frith

Bad news out of the way first - smaller son has been excluded until Wednesday. I had a phone call at 9.30 from the nice TA to say things weren't going well. Then another at 12.30 basically saying "Help!"

By the time I got there (10 minutes), 2 TAs had him cornered in the upstairs library where he was trying to throw and kick things. As soon as I got him outside he was fine.

Anyway, 5 for today (Friday!) so far.

1) Went to sleep very early last night (for me).

2) Went down to mum and dad's with some scraps for the pigs.

3) Went to Sainsburys. When in Sainsburys, I overheard 2 ladies looking at the child's Hallowe'en fancy dress costumes. One said "Martin Lewis says there is a special offer on elsewhere" !!!!

4) Lovely, bright day inbetween the torrential showers!

5) Garden looking good and have just brought in lots of logs and stacked them by the stove to see us through the weekend. Give me 3 months and I'll be wanting central heating, it happens every year.

6) Will do toad in the hole for tea.

7) Bingo later! Its run by the other local school (not son's) and it just across the way in the village hall.

Other news from last night is that bigger son wanted us to go to his school's open evening. So we 3 went and MrN's son 5 (who is in my bigger son's classes) AND my mum and dad. First I was amused by the teachers trying to work out how we were all related. (I supposed I could have sons of 12, 11 and 9 but perhaps not 2 really dark ones and 1 with white blonde hair!) Goodness knows who they thought mum and dad were. Also interesting is that mum went in her wheelchair and you get 3 reactions to that. a) People ignoring the chair and being normal, like the lovely librarian. b) People being over the top friendly and darting across the room to shake mum's hand like she is the queen, ignoring the rest of us! Then you get c) - the music teacher. She took great delight in basically telling mum what a piano was and what the pedals do.... mum is a piano teacher!

Purple_kitten

To get it out of the way, it’s not a great day I have had conversations today that I just never envisaged having, information is swimming around at the moment. I so want to do an ostrich impression, but enough of that, it’s poets day after all!!
Pleasures:-
1.I saw a woodpecker very briefly on the bird food amazing flash of colour.
2.I am cooking up some cheats curry, I picked up a few of those readymade ones marked down at 10p,well we now have 6 days worth frozen.:rotfl:
3.I was feeling a bit blue, dh had gone out to the garage sorting stuff out, when I kicked my bum into gear, I was looking for jobs on the web when I popped into the kitchen for a tea where he had put some red sparkly c word lights up as he knew it would make me smile. :oAwww. Shame he’s taken them down again, I’d leave them up all year!
4. Popped to Lidl and spent far more than I envisaged as they had 30% off things like salad, chicken that made it cheap enough to turn into pet food etc.:rotfl:
5. One for later I am going to burn some candles and run a hot bubbly bath:)

Skint_yet_Again

VJsmum wrote: »

Skint - I am returning to yoga tomorrow.

VJsmum... I have muscles aching today that I didnt even know I had :rotfl:.... But I am so glad I enrolled on this course. Due to back/neck/shoulder/arm pain I have only been walking until now but our class is small (3 yesterday, max 5) and our teacher is great. He tells me constantly to listen to my body and only do what I can. I am not able to sit on the floor so I sit on a chair, but I am surprised by how much I can do

missmoneysave well done on the cooking.. and its great that your counseller recognises the struggles you go through every day hope counselling continues to help you x

VJsmum wrote: »

Oh really? It's bright and sunny here!

Oh dont talk to me abut the weather ... DS goes to S Africa on Wed and the forecast is for heavy rain the entire time he is out there so its really put a dampner on his enthusiasm

Erm, any pleasures for today?

1. sunny (but rather crisp... brr !!)
2. computers off all day for upgrade so very few phone calls
3. actually being able to chat to team, usually so busy I dont even get chance to speak to person sat next to me
4. pizza for tea ... @ldi special with garlic bread and wedges
5. am just going to have a soak in the bath to ease my aching muscles. Am glad its friday :j

CCP

Evening all.

Sorry for the no post yesterday - I went out with my pub quiz friends to see the Manfreds play at a local theatre. They were very good indeed, and I even got to meet Paul Jones briefly. (Well, more 'walk into' than 'meet' if I'm honest. )

Anyway, for today:

1) A day off, so I got to wake up late to the very unusual sight of the sun shining through the curtains.

2) Did some tidying up on the pooter which has improved the performance dramatically.

3) Took mog to the v-e-t to have his claws clipped, and the vet passed the time while clipping by trying to teach me and the vet nurse to say "cat !!!! smells worse than dog !!!!" in his native Welsh. :rotfl:

4) Received a brochure from my favourite jewellery company with a 15% off voucher as I haven't ordered from them for a while.

5) A lovely parcel from another OSer - you know who you are, and I'm very grateful! :A

6) Making HM chorizo and red pesto pizza for dinner tonight. :drool:

Re chicken names - I used to know someone who had two bantams called Sage and Onion. More seriously, I g00gled the varieties you're getting, OT, and the colour of the Calder Rangers reminds me of my favourite semi-precious stone, Amber, so how about that as a name for one of them? I've been trying to think of suitable gem-stone names for the others - perhaps Topaz for the other Calder Range, and Agate and Jasper for the two Rhode Rocks?

Kitchen Garden and Lily_The_Legend - welcome to the thread - it's always nice to have more posters on here.

missmoneysave

Evening all,

Had a stressy, tearful day but somehow managed to get loads done. Think I'm a bit run down, got soooo much to do this month and I have an OU exam on wednesday that is eating away at me but muddling through. I cannot wait until November for a change of pace...and then it'll be Christmas! Anyway my five for today;

1. House is spotless. Spent all day cleaning as I've got my BIL coming round to sort the leaks in the central heating on Sunday, don't want him thinking we live in pig sty!

2. My new mop. It was a fiver and it makes doing the laminate floor so much easier. I am in love with a mop (something I never thought I would say!)

3. One for later, a well deserved relaxing soak in the bath.

4. Catching up on some t.v on the I player. My two faves are still in the bake off and Gawain was topless in Merlin :cool:

5. Cellophaned my grandads 70th birthday present. It's lots of small things that he loves, toffee, beer, socks etc. It was cheap to put together and looks lovely and i know he'll appreciate the effort.

And a sneaky number 6. Today's weather. It was warm enough to have the windows open and let the house breathe and it dried my washing beautifully, a lovely surprise in October.

Maybe today hasn't been that bad after all. Clearly listing my five a day is good for me. Thanks folks x

ampersand

Welcome inded KG and Lily[do count your coins yourself - even more OS- and acurate].
Now, as the keyboard cord has lasoed my leg twice, hiting the deck in consequence, it now refuses to do ANY key neding a double strike[including space bar Del. and Ins. and Enter], you may al have ho-hum fun inserting the mising leters. For myself, can't be ar5ed, which I NEVER say and rarely think, but it's sudenly that sort of whatever. Excuse moi do,with aded Please.

1. As it is clearly major general scruby night for many, as gainful excuse for lengthy hapy stinky bubly soak, I ran same in anticipation, especialy after [saying it again, 2 weks without hot water]. Did email as it ran and coled down, only to go in just now and find the whole darned thing has emptied itself. B&Q demain, sink mate, resealing job ahead. Hold on. This was suposed to be pleasures - it wil be if my OS repair works.

2. Visit this afternon, beter than last time. Plain speaking on both sides.

3. Finished 12-page fortnight leter+bits for France. What's more, sent it:-), but£6.62:-(!

4. Spoke to M in France. Oh yes, you want to know it's suny - 24C.

5. As son as rain stoped and sun came out, about mid-day, it turned biterly cold and en route I loved again that feling of sun through windscren which aproaching winter makes ever more precious.
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Frith, I'm outraged for smaler son. If I was chased and cornered like that, I'd react. Hel's Bels - what ARE these people thinking of with your bright and interesting boy? It's marvelous that older son sems to be finding himself in his element with a lot of Big Schol.
re: your maman, Shades of 'If I Speak up and E-nun-ci-ate REALY LOUDLY AND CLEARLY, can she understand me? - spoken over her head, of course.
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Hope I'm not to late for Monty Don - but i-player awaits, if so.
MAY EVERYONE'S TRULY LOVELY BATHS BE LOVELIER THAN MINE CE SOIR - and I'm wishing I was guest at table for mhagster's no.4.
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Alt+133 should give me 'a'+grave, but now does ♪, on which note. unintendedly perfect, means I exit left, whistling.
Tomorow had inded beter be another day.

Kittikins

Big hugs Frith, Master Frith (xxx) , Missmoneysave, PK and all who need one xx

1. Sunshine (until school pick up time, grrr....and I had loads of washing on the line that was dry but wasn't by the time we got home)

2. NSD

3. NPD

4. Nice cuppa with chum when she came to pick her children up and a bit of putting the world to rights.....

5. Lovely email from a colleague in the US saying how much she'll miss me when I leave my company.

6. Worked from home

7. Another friend has hopefully got a space for work experience for me, hoorah!

VJsmum

Frith - stupid school :mad:
Welcome new people - this is the friendliest thread on the forum

Todays

1. The weather and long may it continue
2. Yoga - didn't feel like i was doing much till I came away. Felt a bit sick and light headed with all that BREATHING. And cream crackered. Good though
3. reduced stilton soup for lunch with a big crusty roll
4. Hair done - not so badgery now. Put my foot in it with hairdresser - asked about her man only to find that there is no longer a man as they have called off the wedding which was to be next saturday As someone once said "a closed mouth gathers no feet"
5. Delicious monkfish for tea - to make up for the minging chicken slop. Definitely not MSE :eek::o but s*d it - that's why we save at other times.

And, hoorah, it's the weekend again.:T

DundeeDoll

Welcome newbies hello oldies hugs to those in need of hugs and slugs to those in need of slugs to slug at slugsworths
1) after a night of non-stop heavy rain had reduced to a drizzle so didnt get too wet walking to work
2) nice phd student unexpectedly in so i got nice latte made for me
3) good seminar all afternoon starting with lunch
4) poets woohoo in the pub 4:30 (but had worked late mon, tues and thur and caught up on my marking so more woohoo)
5) then off for meal with mates. Not very os but very tasty