5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Kittikins

1. Went to register with a teaching agency and had a great time, met a couple of the chaps, who sound very keen (as they always do) to get me working. Fingers crossed!

2. Couldn't find a parking space anywhere for love nor money at the local station, I was even prepared to pay for one if I had too! so ended up driving down to Brighton for the meeting, and got a great space in the car park not far from the office, which ended up costing me less than it would have had I parked and trained it.

3. Went to B&Q and bought lots of Dulux paint on the 3 for 2 offer. I now have paint for the kitchen, bathroom, sitting room, one of the bedrooms and the hallway. Just the other bedroom to get, but I'm hoping that I'll have enough from the smaller bedroom to maybe eke it out by mixing with white paint.......

4. Fab time at Rainbows, the girls were cute and despite being a grown up down, we hopefully kept them very entertained. I taught them a new game, kind of twister-esque without the mat, which went down a storm

5. Yummy dinner and chat with DD tonight

6. Have hopefully arranged various bits of childcare with chums over the next few days, I'm so pleased I only have one child to worry about, keeping track of her clubs and social life is virtually a full time job in itself, and then trying to find myself a job on top.....!!

7. Great chat on the phone with my mummykins.

8. Managed to get some washing dry on the line!

Tealady_2

Evening

Pleasures for today,
1. Breakfast at home with DD this morning. It was only toast made with HM bread but nice to have the time
2. DD very happy with the Billy Elliott DVD I had bought for her and only cost £3.
3. Friend at work fixed the issue I had with DD's computer. Will repay him with some HM soup at some point.
4. Was given a box of chocolates as a thank you from lady at work that I had made the blanket for and she also gave me £10 which is going to the charity BLISS
5. NSD but did use some clubcard vouchers to pay for DD's young person railcard.

Hugs to all who need them

Patchwork_Quilt

1) Took some sandwich boxes home from work as they have been lying around for months and there was a note saying that anyone could have them. Since we have no small sandwich boxes at all (where did the lids go?) this is a real blessing.
2) Sausage casserole and baked spuds in the oven at the same time for tea tonight. Left over sausages are going into our lunches.
3) Mum sent us £20 but she only owed us £14 ... We'll get straight, eventually.
4) DH is still car-sharing to work. On average, it saves a there-and-back twice a week, or 40% of his work travel costs.

Skint_yet_Again

sparrer wrote: »

Skint . Well done on the reverbe, £1 has to be in the 4 star finds

sparrer... I dont bend over for less than £1 :rotfl:

DundeeDoll wrote: »

Also unfriended all xoh's friends on fb. Very cathartic

DD sounds like you have been "putting up" with some people and its a relief to get rid of them? Your true friends will shine through.
Am so sorry to hear about your friends cancer

Frith - bracken poisoning :eek: don't think you can eat them either so hope they recover

Not much happening here today

1. not much traffic on way to work
2. leftover chilli and rice for lunch

3. have sent off for application pack for another job, admin for local rape crisis so worthwhile work but not sure whether I can cope with it on a daily basis. It think it probably takes a special type of person to do the work day in day out and not sure I'm that person .

4. spag bol for tea, DS (17yo) has "girlfriend" round (but tells me shes not his girlfriend yet they are just "seeing each other" to see "if it works" ..... not sure what "it" is :eek: as long as hes being "safe" and kind I dont want to know :rotfl:) so cooked a bit more value pasta and managed to stretch meal to 3 people

5. DS has ordered himself some new gloves for when he does his police work and he got a voucher code for free nxt day delivery :j my work is done


hugs to everyone x

Purple_kitten

The work day was ok a pleasure in it’s own right.
Got back and fell asleep for an hour with DH on the sofa – an evening nap.:o
Made bangers and mash for tea, and made sure to make enough mash to have a topping for shepherds pie in the next couple of days.
Watching a Christmas movie on the sky Christmas channel, and if I had my way it would stay on this channel until new year.:rotfl:

sparrer

Skint_yet_Again wrote: »

sparrer... I dont bend over for less than £1 :rotfl:

:eek: :rotfl:

DD what a thoughtful student

1. 2 nsd/npd's
2. Looking at trikes on line, the savings in petrol would certainly help pay for one
3. Made a big batch of leek and potato soup in the sc, it was a bit bland so I added a little hot chilli powder - no longer bland!
4. Heston's Fantastical Food
5. I put some trimmings on two tops to give them a new lease of life, now they look completely different and match some of my trousers so will make 'new' outfits.

Sweet dreams S

Broomstick

I couldn't work out why I was suddenly getting lots of 'check your details are up to date' messages by phone and email from the Floodwatch people but I've just checked our local river levels online and it's two inches off the height that the river was at when it last flooded our house (we weren't living here then). We haven't received any official warnings yet but I'm just a bit concerned.

My five for Tuesday:

1. Am formulating a plan for tonight to get the most important stuff upstairs then, assuming all is still OK tomorrow am going to declutter at speed everything at ground floor level and dump/recycle/charity shop everything that's redundant, make sure we have extra bin bags and that our Wellington boots don't leak and find somewhere to park the car that is out of harms way if I need to do this in a hurry. This has all needed doing for absolutely ages so I'm going to view potential flooding as the means to focus on this job. There has to be a good side to it!

2. We had a good visit to my parents.

3. Nice and easy mushroom soup and yellow-stickered M&S designer bread for supper.

Can't think of any more right now but may come back for more later. Off to look at the river levels for real...

B x

brizzledfw

Hope it's not a stressful night Broomstick..couldnt just read and run! Fingers crossed the levels fall

PS Am a longtime lurker here!

sparrer

Oh I do hope you'll be safe and dry Broomstick, good for you making plans and hope you can rescue everything you need to - if it needs rescuing. Have you got somewhere to go if you need to? Well done for finding a positive in a horrid situation. Thinking of you

ampersand

So it's now tomorrow already and I'm wide awake, listening to worrying early drift/gain>Romney[Indiana] on various stations of radio. Will be flicking between BBC and Grauniad throughout coming hours....
All unsettled, all day, all last night and so anxious again now because of this.
Can't articulate the 'why', but my stress levels are sky-high..

'Pleasures' feel as if they need to be in parentheses, so:

1. Bleak wet windy cold has ripped away most remaining leaves from grape vine, but exposed another little sprig of grapes - a trinity therefore.

2. npd/nsd, although rain prevented a planned action and further consignment to auction.

3. ...aah, just hearing that the flip back result in Indiana was pretty much expected, but Virginia is the big worry now.

4. Put washing out hopefully under gusty veiled sky, but had no idea that rain had started until out to pick raspberries - 200 gms. I've left the washing, but will go out and check after this.

5. After raspberries, knew I must at least get out, do anything somehow, so put oilskin on and trekked out in failing light. Coincided with neighbour trying to carry/load difficult boxes>car, so could at least relieve him of this[he often needs stick to walk.] Set off in driving rain, reaching back field down lane. Decided to walk muddy field edge, met man and dog, seen but unchatted before now. He described a hedge opening further on, leading to further ancient field and Fen dyke. On I went. I am all Democrat fearful as I go and the weather is more than fit for this. I try to determine if these inner pessimist wranglings are an insurance against fears born of Romney's campaigning to the wire. Why? I have absolutely no knowledge/input/self-interest issues to account for any of this. Suddenly, I realise I'm almost alongside the ancient stand of poplars I see distant across the farm from my kitchen and out back. They roar in the wind and rain. Walk continued through a new-build lane behind our excellent surgeries. It was a huge surprise - so many houses, big, like a gated executive community, with far too much hard landscaping, given the warnings about water run-off. On I went. trying to find where I was supposed to head to pick up a further farm lane dog walker had described. It's dark now and I'm walking 'blind', concerned I may be trespassing. I just kept going, thinking I could always retrace steps if there's no way through....and there it is. A circular swing-gate. Another field. The ancient dyke defines a vast emptiness. On and on. Me, too, then a natural cutting, an exit of sorts and the village hinterland resumes. I know where I am now and continue another half-hour or so back here. Can strike through x Close on village street index, if nothing else:-)
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Broomstick, Frith[and brother], DD - feel I am keeping watch with and for you through night and immediately want to apologise, for this seems so arrogant.
Please know the concern is genuine.

....and now, for the first tiny moment, I am hearing that a something, a whiff, a hint, a sniff[all R5 terms]is in the air, that it is NOT coming through for Romney in Virginia or Florida. 'A hint of a smell - and it's pungent if you're a Republican' is the next phrase from Rhod Sharp and an Ohio link-up from Hamilton County.....it's just about the same, 56%, as last time for Obama and this is unexpected by the GOP. They expected a drop-off in the youth vote which, so far, in this small sector, seems not to be happening......
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More apology from me as I close, if none of this is your territory, so will add a 7th-

November 5th, 2012 by Martin Lewis
Looking after the world's most precious Sapphire
And I thought MoneySaving was tiring! I’m on paternity leave at the moment as last Thursday our beautiful first child (MSE Junior) was born. Her name is Sapphire Susan Lewis and while she weighs a wee 6lb 6oz, her weight in joy is immeasurable.'

Read Martin's "Looking after the world's most precious Sapphire" Blog.

I'll celebrate that.
Peaceful nights and quiet minds to you all.
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0130h news - projection is 77/76 in electoral collage votes to Obama....early early, too early yet.
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Thankyou to blvd Grauniad for this top-notch linky and the news that Virginia and Florida polling stations are staying open, but suspending all results broadcasts[ah, now resumed in Virginia]in order not to influence those still queuing, which is an oddity when one thinks 'So why are they there, if not committed to one candidate or the other and determined to lay that on the line?'.