5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VJsmum

Tealady wrote: »

Did write Yum on it though VJsmum as I now know this is the law:D.

Quite right too - I am very pleased to hear it :T


DD - "First you were afraid, you were petrified, .... but did we think you'd crumble, did we think you'd lay down and die? Oh no not us - YOU WILL SURVIVE". Not really trying to be flippant, well done you. You must feel like you've climbed a mountain - which you have :T
OT - i like to see a balanced diet, I think there's something from every food group in there, nicht wahr?
Sparrer - we have a beauty school down the road, I really should check it out.

I am sat in my bed having worked like a trojan all day and finally just emailed a rather large document of lecture notes and supporting material to Korea. Lets hope it makes it across Russia OK!

so for today
1. Finished the Korea documents. Tell a lie - I have some seminar tasks to put together but I have next week for that.
2 No hangover that a bottle of diet coke couldn't cure
3. yummy tea of YS pasta sauce (19p), YS prawns (about 60p) and some pasta.
4. My new work computer has arrived on my desk and will be installed tomorrow :T
5. Much praise at work for marking squillions of dissertations - not deserved really as it was simply because i have no other work. Still I'll take the praise, thanks very much.

Have a good night all

Frith

Still ill, been in bed since 8pm. Here are mine for today.

1) Glad to get up after patchy sleep due to killer sore throat.

2) Still admiring new window frames.

3) Nice tomato soup for lunch.

4) Smaller son, my mum and I went to see the new school. It is 30 miles away and took 1 hour 15 going and an hour coming back (we tried a different way). It looks like a very small normal school with 3 classrooms until you realise there are 4 kids in the end classroom, 2 in the middle one and 3 in the last. Sobering to look round the time out rooms. When I can get smaller son onto the stairs at home to sit by himself, he strips plaster off the walls, pulls the sticky stuff off the steps (tape to stop your feet slipping) and turns the lights on and off until I turn the lighting circuit off at the mains. So the time out rooms specially designed have light switches on the outside and nothing you can peel off/break. There are marks on the ceilings where the pupils throw their shoes in the air.

Also weird to sign the Positive Handling policy (should be called a Manhandling Policy) which gives the staff permission to use bit of force to break up fights and "help" children to the time out rooms.

The only really poor bit is the travel they have offered. A minibus leaves our local town at 7.45 to arrive at school by 9. Local town is 10 miles from here and they have offered a taxi to take him to the bus but the taxi would be here at 7! I did ask what smaller son was supposed to do from about 7.15 til 7.45 but there was no answer to that. So 4 hours of travelling a day for him.

A plus was the efforts they had gone to already. In his classroom (where we had a chat) they had already got folders ready with his name on and put his name on the behaviour board and on his drawer. He spent the time counting how many times he could find his name! My mum asked if they did a Christmas concert or show because it takes a while to get your head round the fact it really isn't that sort of school...

5) From there to bigger son's parent evening. Top set for everything and extra top set for science. No problems.

6) Tired and ill so fish and chips for tea.

7) Lay in bed with sons while they watched a particularly far fetched old Jackie Chan film!

Patchwork_Quilt

1) Got my hair done at my usual salon. No-one has noticed but I feel a lot better!
2) Coffee with a friend at the local cafe and she has asked me to make her a felt case for her glasses for Christmas in the same colours as the phone case I did for her birthday. A real pleasure, as it means a bit of sewing and will give far more pleasure than the small cost might suggest.
3) Made a pasta sauce for tea that will turn into chilli tomorrow with a few kidney beans and not very much effort.
4) Some charity shop bargains today, including a new pair of trousers for work that fit beautifully. Even though charity shop clothes wear out more quickly than new ones, it still feels worth it at a fifth of the cost.
5) Two loads of washing line dried and one on the airers over the landing bannister.

Sending hugs Dundee Doll.

Kittikins

Yesterday's pleasures and grumbles....

1. Having been on a dull course in London on Wednesday, I now have a stinking cold after sitting next to a stupid woman who was patently very unwell Just what I need, my third cold of the season! Grrrrrr.

2. Completely forgot to find anyone passing by to help with getting the sink out of the car and somewhere, so yup, got it out and half way up the drive by myself and had a twingey back for the rest of the day.

3. Have come to the conclusion that DD and OH are more like oil and water than I wanted to admit to myself. He gets uptight, she knows how to play him up a bit, and I get stressed wishing they'd both grow up a bit! No harsh words, but I will endeavour to not ask him to babysit again, like I need the expense of a babysitter!!

4. The status quo of my lovely church home group has changed, lots of new people, and so the community feel has gone, hopefully to evolve and return asap, but I didn't feel I could talk as freely yet, and boy do I like to talk!!

5. It was officially my last day of employment

But on the flip side.....

1. New people at the home group hopefully mean new chums in time

2. Lots of cuddles and silly songs with DD in the morning before getting up

3. A friend took her up to school for me so I could get on with stuff.

4. Applied for a job that sounds quite good, part time, so no need for childcare.

5. Have just done my online JSA application, talk about doing it as early as I could eh?!

6. Yummy leftovers for dinner

7. OH took me out for amazing lunch

8. Nice weather in Brighton

9. OH's posh bicycle pump saved me 50p on getting my car tyres pumped up! Well, every little helps.....

10. Made the most of being in Brighton by popping to the posh shops, not buying anything (polishing my halo!!), then going home via A$da for essentials (including the 'Father Christmas' dress for DD) and 'cheap' petrol.

11. Free parking in Brighton, courtesy of OH's blue badge.

12. Last day of work - and of course had no work to do as I gave it all back on Friday last week

13. Despite the course in London being rather dull, I did pick up some good hints and tips and have hopefully tweaked my CV to make it a lot better than it was.

14. I can think of 13 pleasures off the top of my head, that's a great pleasure in life

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny

Chorning Muckers.

Frydi. No shave day.

Now it is Frydi, yipppppeee. Quiz nite and again I shalls be watching them gal thirst daters. Hops that tall blonde is in again, thinks she is testing the water. Mes and the current Ms Sonny will be cuddled up, cus tis cold, and do the quiz.

I will be able to give advise from the Uncle TILAMS heart stories page later. Your problems will be dealt with in a sin pathetic manner and confidentiality will not be used. Trust me, I am a ogler at this matter. Just a fought, Ms Sonny always queries why so many ex servicemen go through wives like ... Always on hand too help. I explained the difference between a proper Trenchard boy and others.

Pleasure for now.

Perfecto Weeetabux, two of, crisp. Topped with sugar and orange. Sided with milk to make top non soggy. Wolfed down and gone. Now toast and raspberry jam. Tea.

Also had to get the E45 out, best afire 2011, and grease the balls. Had an attack of jalapeño rob not. Nicely sooooooothed now.

Back later

mcculloch29

Morning TILAMS ... Ms Sonny has a point with the ex-service marriages. As far as I know, my ex who is also ex-service is still on Wife No 3, but given his track record, that could have changed.

What a smashing list Kittikins - with your positivity, by the time they have processed the JSA application, you will be in a new post. I've bought several posh bike pumps and my son has appropriated, then lost or broken, each one. Actually, the last one is probably in his car boot.

From what you've said Frith, the pigs are still breathing. Good. Hope you are breathing more easily soon too and feeling a lot better. The short stay unit sounds like a place where SS will settle and progress.

Sparrer, I'm so pleased that looking at trikes was a pleasure for you. In my area we have huge grass verges and wide pavements, so in the absence of cycle paths, I ride the trike on the pavement. The road into town has a lot of lorries and a nasty roundabout.

I've never been challenged by the police about this. I do have special dispensation from the security guys in our town centre to ride the trike there - all other cyclists are banned.

1. Work has picked up a bit which is good - I hate not being busy.

2. DGS's video game arrived bargain price from Am*zon in plenty of time for his tenth birthday.

3. Ald! opened yesterday in our town. Free bag, free trolley token and all my favourite things on the doorstep. Plus my DD's former colleague served me, so I had an extra-special friendly greeting. Cupboards and fridge now restocked.

4. Your pleasures - thank you for sharing.

5. I've just had a small parcel arrive, ripped open but contents intact. Phew! It's a new ferrule (rubber 'foot') for my favourite walking stick. It's colour co-ordinated (bright red) and, once I get it on, it should last the rest of the life of the stick.

Patchwork_Quilt

A little early today but I suspect I'll be snuggled up on the sofa with DH this evening ...

1) Foodie pleasures - gluten free toast with butter and Marmite this morning. Not money saving at all unless you count the fact that the rolls needed eating. Then I've had home-made soup for lunch. (Warning - book recommendation coming up) As advocated in The Wharf Street Vegetarian Cafe Cookbook, I put all the leek tops and celery stalks in a pan over 2 days and boiled it up for some lovely stock. Then it was just a case of adding lentils, celery and onion. Yum. Finished off with two home-made gf mince pies that were looking rather lonely.
2) DD'S bed frame has come, finally. The packaging was in an awful state but we will see if it is all there. The bed frame and mattress were on special offer. The duvet etc, which I picked up from our local store last night, was bought with T3sco vouchers and I am selling her old bed frame from the adverts in-store.
3) Got some studying done for my OU essay but I can feel my confidence has slipped a little. This time, I'm going to print it out and see if I can mark it myself before I hand it in. The tutor likes a logical argument - not my strong point but if I can survive this year, I'll have a degree!
4) Going to see a friend to deliver a birthday card soon. She's providing the coffee so it will only cost the petrol to go.

Have a happy Friday folks!

villagelife

My five are

1. Not MS but had meal out with DH last night and we had lovely talk with nothing interrupting us - at home there are always things too do.

2. Saving on heating by being out!

3. Meeting at work went very well.

4. Free pen came in the post - well timed as I seem to have lost all of them.

5. Took lunch to work today which was very tasty.

Frith

Tiring day and I'm still ill. :-(

Pleasures so far.

1) Surviving the Speed Awareness Course. Amused me that all the other 24 people present were between 50 and 70 and there were only 3 other ladies! Was looking forward to telling dad that statistic. Then I found there were more men there who have the same first name as dad than there were women!

We had to do the "put you hand up if you've had your license 1 or 2 years" then 5-10 years, then 10-20 years. All the old blokes were watching and waiting to see my hand go up but I have had my license for 20 years too. The man sitting next to me said "But you look about 12!" :-D

2) Smaller son stayed at my parents while I was away and made Christmas cake. When I got back, he was in the wood helping my dad and brother fell trees using a winch thing.

3) Pigs are still alive and eating better.

4) Stove lit and not going anywhere else now. Could do with a day in bed, I feel so ropey, but will retire to the sofa once I have made curry.

5) MrN has been round to help bigger son mend his bike and is coming back tomorrow to finish it. :-)

6) "Some good telly tonight" as my dad likes to say. HIGNFY and bigger son wants to watch Derren Brown.

7) Just one sheet of homework for smaller son to finish and a nice bit of music homework and a bit of science for bigger son.

CCP

Evening all.

Frith - that's great news about the piggies. I hope you start feeling better soon, too.

Patchwork_Quilt wrote: »

3) Got some studying done for my OU essay but I can feel my confidence has slipped a little. This time, I'm going to print it out and see if I can mark it myself before I hand it in. The tutor likes a logical argument - not my strong point but if I can survive this year, I'll have a degree!

Snap! This is my last course, too - we'll have to have a joint virtual party to celebrate when we get our degrees. _party_

VJsmum - I thought of you at work yesterday, when a colleague mentioned someone she used to work with who took 45 minutes to mark 3 dissertations - it's obviously nowhere near as time-consuming as everyone else makes out. (Honestly, did he think anyone would imagine he'd done more than glance at the dissertations in that length of time?!)

1) No work today as I had to take my car for repairs.

2) After a bit of an argument (caused by forgetfulness rather than an attempt to cheat me, I think), the dealer agreed to uphold the offer of an hour's free labour to identify the fault as they couldn't find it last time. :money: The part is that they found the fault, and it will cost best part of £500 to put right. :eek: The part is that I've already decided to sell the darn thing, so I'll sell it to the dealer and they can pay to fix the fault, even if it means I get a bit less in part exchange value.

3) I had to leave the car at the dealer's all day and get the bus home, which worked out much less expensive than I thought as a friend told me last night about a special ticket which allows you to travel anywhere in Portsmouth for about two thirds of the cost of a normal ticket from the dealer's back to my house. :money:

4) Got the result for my latest essay - 85%. Obviously that's , but it's also :mad: as it's the exact same mark I've had for the past five essays I've done, and I'm struggling to know how to do better.

5) Jambalaya for dinner tonight. :drool: I don't like rice when it's just plain rice, but I love things like jambalaya where it's all cooked together. (Typical contrary CCP! )

Have a lovely Friday evening, all.