5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

savingforoz

Hi, everyone, happy Sunday!

My 5 for yesterday:

1. Double bill of NCIS and new season CSI:NY on TV in the evening.

2. Delicious savoury rice for tea and yummy homemade spicy lentil soup for lunch.

3. Having a day off from exercise - much as I am a gym bunny, one day off a week feels good!

4. Doing the grocery shopping for the week and knowing that I am going to come in well under in this month's grocery challenge, unless something drastic happens in the last week of February.

5. Arranging a cinema visit for Wednesday, with someone who initially I didn't get on with but who is now a friend. Always good when that happens!

angeltreats

Morning everyone, hope you're all having a lovely weekend.

These are mine for today (so far) and yesterday:

1. Going to a beginner's bonsai class that I spent my Christmas money on. It was possibly the best £50 I ever spent and very well worth the very long drive (2.5 hours each way) and a tank of petrol. I came home with two trees and a lot of knowledge that I don't think I'd ever have got from a book, and had an absolutely fantastic time.

2. DH sneakily bought me some silicon muffin cases and made me some muffins after I'd gone to bed last night. I was so surprised and delighted!

3. Knowing that I have only two more weeks to go before I quit my job and get my life back, no more travelling up to 3 hours a day and being constantly exhausted.

4. Buying the Daily Mail yesterday (I would never normally, I hate it) to get the free DVD of Love Story which is one of my favourite films and I've wanted to own the DVD for years.

5. A few new library books including Nella Last's War, a book about making bread and a Maeve Binchy which is one of my secret guilty pleasures.

6. Deciding to use our clubcard points towards a ferry crossing to Ireland so we can go and see my family and friends next month after I leave work. I can't wait. Also because we're driving over and will have a car over there, for the first time we'll be able to go to places like the Giant's Causeway that we never could before.

7. Watching Saturday Kitchen this morning (recorded from yesterday) and catching up with the lovely James :heartsmil

Ladyhawk

angeltreats wrote: »

2. DH sneakily bought me some silicon muffin cases and made me some muffins after I'd gone to bed last night. I was so surprised and delighted!

That's so lovely! And to me that is Valentine day should be about, not buying tat and expensive cards for the sake of it. Angeltreats, you're a lucky girl!!

house_elf

Happy Valentines Day:heart2: / Chinese New Year :beer:

Found [URL="htthttp://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190370741507&_rdc=1p://"]this[/URL] on Money Savers Arms..........anyone tempted?

Acey - What a day! What a week! I think there is a Chinese greeting which wishes someone a boring life. It's time like this you know what they mean! Lets hope you have a bit of space to just concentrate on practical matters for a while. :A

Friday

Decided to go to work as DD has early swim training and its half way to work anyway. Got to pool at 5.45am only to find that she has forgotten her bag! She had to borrow kit while I did a round trip to collect bag, college lunch, hair stuff (V important!) etc. By the time I got to work at 8am I was exhausted!

1. Everyone at work being sympathetic to me being poorly. PE teacher offering to take my classes in the afternoon, and getting to go home an hour early. Bless.
2. Passing on some OS ways to my class. We made heart shaped soap for Valentines day. Grated bars of soap, melted in the microwave. Added scented oil and food colouring, then cut out hearts with cookie cutter when it had set. They used so much oil, even I could smell it through my cold!!
3. Doing a maths activity which involves letting the class draw on the tables with marker pens.:rotfl: (Right angles, not just anything!). A guilty pleasure.
4. Watching Skyrunners with DS2. Everyone else out having a social life!
5. Comforting meal of fresh ravioli and posh pasta sauce. (YS 48p!).:money:

Saturday

1. EBay day. (Listed 15 things and got DD some perfume to replace the faulty bottle she got for Xmas).
2. Some nice £2 jumpers from the market. (Wallis and Jane Norman). Pity he only sells jumpers!
3. DD gave me a thankyou card and bar of choc to say thank you for driving home to collect her bag even though poorly:A
4. Made giant stew hoping to freeze half, but the b*****s ate most of it!:( Should be pleased they all enjoyed it!
5. Planning what to do next week. Inspired by Mineallmine's declutter total. Might be a half term flylady. EBaying? Trips out with DS1? Got to get a life outside school work!!!!:rotfl:

Have a lovely day. Sunny here. May go to watch the Dragon Dance in town.

xXx

lilmisskitkat

Morning all, hugs to anyone who needs them this weekend

My five for yesterday:

1. Getting lots of washing done - i love washing

2. Stayed in my jammies all day just pottering around the house with the kids whilst hubby went to footy

3. Writing my meal plan for the next 2 weeks and the shopping list to go with it - makes me feel so virtuous :A lol

4. A lovely Indian takeaway and wine - an valentines treat for us both, whilst catching up with Sky+ programmes.

5. Feeling really proud of myself because i have stuck rigidly to the food budget for the past month, using up what we already have and have managed to pay for DS's new buggy (£88) out of the food budget (£270 - 4 weekly) :j New month for us starts on Tues so can restock my Old mother hubbard cupboards lol

Hope everyone has a lovely day

Kate xxx

Alison_Funnell

Morning all. Happy Valentines Day.

1. A box of Ferrero Rocher from Mr. AF! Was not expecting that. We don't really do Valentines Day. Is it too OS that I saved the gold 'sellotape' from round the box?

2. Lie-in - without the cats for once!!

3. A whole day to ourselves as the DD is at work and then at BFs. So we an potter together and get things done.

4. Planning an afternoon in the kitchen prepping for the week - bliss.

5. Having time to get everything organised for work next week.

CCP

Good afternoon everyone.

I didn't get a chance to get on to the forum yesterday so my five for yesterday are a bit late:

1) Had a long lie-in - not entirely intentionally, I just couldn't wake up (another sign I'm coming down with a cold, I think).

2) Popped down the pub to watch the football. Not at all money saving - I'd forgotten how :eek::eek::eek: their drinks prices are - but I got a nice bacon sandwich (using bacon from the local butcher) for £2.50 and we even won, so I'm not complaining!

3) On the way home I ran into a friend I haven't seen since before Christmas so we had a quick catch-up.

4) Spent 20 minutes or so pottering in the garden, until the sun went in and it got a bit cold for that sort of thing.

5) Accidentally opened the wrong bottle of wine in the evening (I needed white for cooking but opened a bottle of red by mistake) so I had a drop and watched the Olympics before bed.

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sparrer - thanks for the tip about the oats - I'll give that a go (although my hands are a bit better today, I'm very pleased to say).

Hugs to everyone who needs them.

Muppet81

A bit late but mine for yesterday ....

1) Lie in with a cup of coffee till 9:00. Bliss.
2) Worked as a volunteer on a Battery Hen Welfare Trust rescue. 365 ex battery girls off to new homes with excited new owners.
3) Back home. FILTHY !!!!!! Nice soak in the bath and getting squeaky clean again.
4) Then off to friends for a wine and cheese session (knlocked cooking meals on the head a while ago by mutual agreement. Great to catch up with all the news.
5) Home at 2 in the morning and as it was a nice calm night I gave Mr Muppet his Valentines card/pressie early ... a 99p red paper heart shaped ballon that you light a block under, make a wish and watch it sail off up into the sky. It was beautiful and we watched it for ages till it became just a tiny dot in the sky then dissapeared. It was so romantic. Well worth the 99p.

Bye all and hugs

house_elf

Hi Muppet81 just popping in to say that sounds like a perfect day!

(I so want to have hens, but when/if we move we won't have space. Boo hiss).

HE xxx

mineallmine

house_elf wrote: »

5. Planning what to do next week. Inspired by Mineallmine's declutter total. Might be a half term flylady. EBaying? Trips out with DS1?xXx

Thanks house elf for your kind words. I've found the Great Declutter 2010 thread really inspiring. My poor house has been neglected due to horrible things but now's the time to make it a home again. Here's the thread: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2168703

Quite OS too, is that I find that dealing with clutter is making me less likely to buy unnecessary stuff. Today we bought pet bits and already I am thinking, wonder if some of those old scraggly cat toys should go?

And one anticipated pleasure:
- an afternoon kip in about 5 mins!