5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

Well almost bedtime here in cold and windy Melbourne....just had to go out to pharmacy and the wind would have cut you in two....my lovely ever so chatty son (not!) accompanied me....jings! It's like pulling teeth trying to have a conversation at times!! However he did walk with me so I suppose that's a bonus!

Thank you for your good wishes re OH, it's very hard at the moment seeing him so poorly. Taking things day by day and not knowing what's ahead is very hard for a control freaky plan a header! I think having been given a diagnosis of cancer before makes every lump / bump / pain a worry .still waiting on results.

Well , a funny start to my day! Got to work and we found a very sleepy mouse (?) but possibly a small marsupial , sound asleep on top of a box. Not the thing you want a customer to see! So as we set up, kept an eye on it and I said we need to get it out before we open! Sleepy, sleepy wee thing continued to snooze! Anyway 3 of us , a box within a box and a pair of serving tongs, a doubled over with laughter Mhagster , one brave male colleague, one terrified male colleague and in the box within the box it went! It was then taken away outside! This was just the start of a crazy ,mad and busy day at work!

I enjoyed my drive home, I drive through a very nice estate , with beautiful houses, gardens, trees, distant hills, various parrot lookouts , as I drove to work this morning at least 200 parrots were circling above me as I drove, I slowed right down ( no one else on road ) and admired the view! I don't think I'll ever get fed up of seeing them.

Watched call the midwife with sound and practiced my Spanish on DD's laptop! It had sound!

Made chilli con carne for dinner.

Enjoyed a phone call to my letter writing friend....I so owe her letters but phoned instead! Nice to catch up with her.

So not a bad day ...it was 7o this morning when I went to work...same temperature as when we were home at Christmas ...felt bloomin' chilly!

Okay time for bed...have a good one:)

Tealady_2

Afternoon

Pleasures for yesterday,
1. Not falling asleep on my desk
2. Popping to Waitrose after work to get some free tea and a free yoghurt plus some Ibrophen for DD. Then popped into M&S and got a pasta salad, duck curry and 4 cherry and almond tarts for £2.40 but used a credit voucher I had so only cost me 60p :money:.
3. House to myself when got in so got a few jobs done whilst there was no one to get in the way.
4. Made a yummy chicken & cashew nut chowmein for dinner
5. Nice chat with Mum on the phone

Hugs to all who need them

Skint_yet_Again

(((hugs))) to all poorlies including chicken, ccp, kittikins (sorry if I missed anyone) & especially MHags OH hope for good news on the scans x

Well done tealady :T

VJsmum. Well done to your DS and DD fingers crossed for drama school, when does she apply ?

OT I agree with you, its turned really chilly x

mcculloch - thanks for the fab photos !! Really made me smile

Couple of pleasures for last few days

1. sunday lie in. Was totally lazy and didn't get up until lunch time
2. more catch up tv
3. roast chicken tea nomnom
4. Monday day off work - although running around like a headless chicken trying to sort out meds not ordered on repeat by chemist & doc appointment for more meds. Have been told to increase gabapentin from 900mg up to 1800 mg gradually over next few weeks. Not really what I was hoping but will give it a try, anything to get rid of this pain
5. physio last night confirmed spine mobility is improved.

CCP

VJsmum wrote: »

Well done for getting to 5 pleasures, CCP, that is the joy of this thread, is it not?

I quite agree. Sometimes it's a struggle, but it's always worth doing.

1) My manager has agreed that a report I have been asked to write can go to next month's committee meeting, as I need some information from someone who is currently off sick. It's nice to know that I'm not going to have to rush to try and get it finished for the meeting next week.

2) Managed not to lose my temper with the salesman at the garage where I bought my new car: I haven't received the new owner's documentation from the DVLA and he told me that it's the garage's policy not to do the necessary paperwork. :mad: I feel slightly better now that I have mentioned this to the DVLA: I think it's a legal requirement and there might be trouble that they're not doing what they should do.

3) Bought my train ticket for Friday, and paid for most of it with a voucher so it only cost me £6 of my own money. :money:

4) Took some LO pasta bake into work for lunch - I've got a bit lazy about taking packed lunches recently and must start doing it again.

5) Pub quiz tonight, with a Man City supporting quiz team-mate - I must remember not to mention their loss in the FA Cup final last weekend. At least not more than a couple of times. An hour.

Chicken - that's so sad about your cousin-in-law. I'm so sorry to hear that.

Hugs to all feeling unwell / in pain at the moment.

Chickenopolis

Good evening all !

Thank you all - however he lost the fight early this afternoon

Skintos - Gabapentin guinea pig or what?? Still it's good news about your spine.

VJsmum - I hope your DD gets in to Drama school.

5 for today

1. Felt better so went in to work

2.Had a bit of a funny almost fainty turn when walking in office.Probably due to lack of food yesterday.It passed thankfully.

3. Stopped the traffic in the OGV to let a moorhen cross the road without being squashed by traffic.

4. Terrier here:)

5. Quinoa and chargrilled chicken for tea -plain but tummy friendly

Have a good evening all !

ampersand

Oh, chicken - I am so sorry.

Further, the return of this vicious cold is just dragging everyone back again, re-activating aches and pains. Seedlings alert again tonight. Weather man was doomy, apologetic, but emphatic.

I feel shallow to list an indulgence -

1. Did it - another Sod It! moment - off to Dublin, Friday@17h. Heineken Final tkt is mine. There is a lovely miracle woman, Sharon, who works for Eurolines in Luton. She rang Dublin to 'persuade' release of one of their non-English tickets, if any remained, for my aller-retour. England have been allocated only 26 tickets! - all long gone. But I have mine now, all printed out, in a plastic thingy. Match ticket is from Surrey teacher. Their friend has not recovered sufficiently post-op. to travel. We've just spoken again. It really is going to happen. Luckily, they'll be supporting Toulon too. He formerly taught 11 years at JW's old school in Frimley, which - I informed him - is also an area within 20m of moi in NZ.

2. Thankyou again, St Martin of Lewis, for your insurance guides which I religiously follow each year. So, nsd/npd after a fashion, if you'll allow that has meant an incredibly cheap car policy. Best ever, by some distance. I feared the worst, given the CE equality gender ruling.

3. Ooh, listening to The Archers - haven't lately. Matt's onto Lil - d!nouement and bribery time, cunningly sprung to clash with a forked tongue Paul rv? Two weeks away, Turkey, Istanbul. Lilian's a kebab. Oh, Linda's Jane Austen idea's voted down. Jazzer's Highland Games are victorious. Excellent.

4. I'm cold - going boringly to bed with hwb shortly. Early start demain. Fencing, guttering, Spits prep. and more.

5. Noting what's on around Dub as I'll have w/e empty from early a.m. arrival till kick-off and next day's 20h departure. It pleases me that I'll use Bus Pass in and out of village for main journey. Some pangs as I re-live some recent Ireland years and most recent some one.

Comforts all round offered tonight, needed I think.

Tealady - free yogurt? Have I missed this one?

Noted: slight upgrade in frith sleep:-)

Skint- in my inglorious ignorance, I just feel that a warmer climate would help you even more. Glad you've had some improvement.

vjm - DD will do it.

mhags - waiting and saying a few words to Dave Allen's best sort of God for OH

VJsmum

Oh Chicken - I am so sorry to hear that My deepest sympathies to you and your family
Good for you Ampersand - be sure to have a Boxty for me

THanks for the good wishes for DD - only I think I might have misled you (am I the only one who reads that as "mizzled"?). DD has just done her AS level so needs another year at school first. The application process will start in the Autumn. She is good - who knows if she's good enough? We shall see...

Today's pleasures

1. GOt some washing semi dried on the line and got it in before the rain came
2. DD's law exam was "a doddle" apparently
3. Still marking - not a pleasure, but it's going down
4. Made bread pudding and bread and butter pudding to use up stale bread. Had soup and B&B pudding for dinner - was lovely
5. Found an old friend on facebook

Have a nice evening all

Ooh forgot - the No Sh*t sherlock" award of the day goes to "all secondary options are optional":rotfl:

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Chickens, flights, miss, marking. Good to see the educationalists get their red pens warm. Go on. Note out of ten. X marks the spots. Gosh, I has stated this fine, no wet eve.

Chilli con Barry. Seems me artful meal will be mine, served by sum wench in the shay and d hostel. Well, this weeks food is ok, bar is ok. F in room is

You know.

So no pleasure from that and away from Ms Black.

Oh, I am so pleased that I am still in the control group for bowel cancer. Yep. The endoscope thing back at Easter. No marks yet, so I can. Jenny limiting etc. so it is good that the research goes on and someone will benefit from it.

Rites I said no plerasures as away from Ms Black. But things are coming up with the upstarts aye thinks.

Notes all. No, notes . No oipadski, KNIGHTS ALL

DundeeDoll

Have read all your pleasures, sadnesses, laughs and losses. Hugs to those who need them. Caught up on some sleep last night but have a chesty cough so having another early night today. Memories of sicilian weather keeping me warm as the scottish skies threaten.
1) catching up on the archers. Half way through the omnibus
2) remembering to pack lunch -tuna pasta salad
3) meeting oh at the hospital - she had a 4pm appointment so met her after for a coffee then came home
4) dd2 driving us to l!dl she's passed her theory and getting in as mich practice as poss
5) realising i'm now over half way through my 50 new things before i'm 50. The whole project had a bit of a lapse with marital wobbles, but now back on the case with 15 weeks till the big day.

Purple_kitten

I’m sorry I have been a bit MIA I just needed to get back on form I didn’t want to write half hearted pleasures and as usual this thread as re-inspired me

McHags hugs to both you and DH waiting for those results.
Chicken I am so so sorry.
CCP: Loving your pleasures

1. Felt quite queasy at work but eating the food I took in made me feel better:p
2. Another work day closer to the weekend, all be it a rather busy one ahead.
3. Had a plan tonight and it worked a dream, everyone at work seemed to be talking football and about a match tonight, so I looked up when it was on, went shopping to Mr T at the same time and got lots of bargains, happy bunny, and happy freezer :T I'm finding the bargains harder to come by at the moment so it's good news for the freezer.
4. Dinner is cooking a way of RTC BBQ ribs with potato wedges and a hughe 20p salad bowl, we will be stuffed:o
5. It’s nice to be feeling back positive again, I don’t make a good “blue” person.:eek: