5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

VJsmum - sons went back to their father's this morning and are nearing ice cream town as I type! Look out for 2 x 5 foot tall boys, both very dark, one with brown eyes, the other with green. :-) And a surly looking large, dark man.

DigForVictory

Weekend Sleep! Almost as good as holiday sleep. When I did wake early, a son & I cuddled down together & watched an episode of Castle on the iPad. He's not as overtly huggy as the littlest, so I am happy to get what snuggles as I can before he goes teenage & roll-the-D50 predictable...

After two trips out to get a specific sort of paint for the lads models, Finally got it! Three tiny tins, no change from a fiver, but the happy chirps & burbles make the fuss worthwhile!

In a sunny patch, got lads to peg out laundry in exchange for flailing around with power tools. They do love using the strimmer, and don't mind me holding the cable so they can't cut it & I have a sort of leash. Lots of praise and approval therefore & the back garden mostly chopped back.

One son cleaned the bathroom. As in everything off the floor, all porcelain gleaming, all taps & mirrors sparkling (how? he's not tall enough!), clean bathtowels folded neatly, spider farm relocated (again, how?!).
Now I must buy some more looroll, as the reserve pile is looking small.

Still a couple of cans of the hideously expensive but taste & happy memory packed lemonade left. Must ask cousin what her home made recipe is (a family one, uses citric acid & in London she keeps being asked why she's buying it, so was startled to be handed a half kilo & no interrogation a couple of days ago!)

Loud cheers for consultant's secretary who faxed the correct dosages & "weaning schedule" over to the medics so son was properly sorted for his anticonvulsants. The young monster still hasn't quite realised these need to be taken Every Day. Pharmacy were *great* despite having a day "like Christmas" - nonstop since they opened! :A

CCP

1) Realised too late (on my way to work) that my cardigan had shrunk in the wash and no longer came near to fitting me. The pleasure was dropping it off at a charity shop in the city centre and knowing someone else will get to enjoy it.

2) Sent a slightly stroppy email to the hotel my mum and I stayed in last month as they still haven't responded to my complaint. :mad: I don't know if the email will make any real difference, but I feel better for writing it!

3) Received a free travel-size vacuum bag (for shrink-packing clothes) for registering the full-size ones I bought to store winter duvets.

4) Yellow thing has once again made an appearance.

5) Scampi salad for dinner - I do love scampi! :drool:

Chickenopolis

good evening all !

VJsmum - it sounds like you are having a lovely time! ..again ! Jealous ??moi??

5 for today

1. Work carp -,but hey ho I am out on site visits for 50% of the week .

2. Line manager and I are failing to see eye to eye .I have refused to sign supervision notes as I don't agree with what was said.

3.Took the terrier to the park - it was nice and breezy.

4. Made A girl named Jacks carrot , cumin and kidney bean burgers- need a bit more va va voom for my taste so I will "adapt" to suit next time . Very filling ( and cheap) though. Gave a couple to DM, she liked them too. Great in the ceramic pan.

5.At last, just sat down.

Have a lovely evening all !

Purple_kitten

Very worried about a poorly animal, we took him to vet last week and she didn't find anything, now his little heart is pounding, really worried so back tomorrow but worried she won't find anything and worried if she does...:( talk about no win.

1. Work wasn’t too too bad
2. Popped out at lunch to pick up a couple of bits for the caravan.
3. Home and bless DH admitted the casserole I left to slow cook didn’t get put on until 5pm!
4. I am ridiculously tired having not really done to much a pleasure cause I am slouching but have a long to do list.
5. I have applied for a lovely looking part time role, it would be lovely.
6. Working from home tomorrow.

Tealady_2

Evening

Pleasures for today,
1. Moved desks today but at least I am by a window and there is the fact that I still have a job so should be grateful.
2. As our department is now all over the building I ordered Pizza for lunch (paid for by boss, he just doesn't know it yet) for the team, all very yummy and nice for us all to have lunch together. DD was an honoury member of the team for lunch.
3. Hearing lots of praise about DD at work. I was unsure about her working in the office to start with but she is doing a really good job and impressing everyone with how she just gets on with things and is always polite. If only it could be the same at home;)
4. Nice walk home with DD both glad to get out of the office today.
5. Used the tomato, red wine and herb sauce I made yesterday as a base for bolognaise for dinner and was yummy. So much nicer that using a jar and gets the seal of approval from family.

Hugs to all who need them

lovefullshelves

Happy happy joy joy
1. Canned 4 x 1pint jars of applesauce:D
2. 2 loads of washing dry thanks to the yellow thing!
3. Dehydrated green peppers that had slug damage, crispy!
4. Tea cost aprox £1.50 for 3 of us:D pasta bake and roasted summer squash!
5. Dehydrated tomatoes, am I supposed to eat them like sweets?! They're supposed to be for winter!
6. Country veg soup for tea last night, cost all of 31p for a tin of toms and tenpenorth veg oxo cube(plus alot of free HG farm veg!), enough left to freeze in baggies to make two pasta stir ins
7. DS painted dad's shepherds hut:)
8. Removed debit cards from purse. No more spending this month if it aint in a baggy with its name on.(hairdressers, bread etc)
9. NSD:D
Frith big hugs..ex's can be a nightmare..i know..I have two of them!! DS's dad didn't see him properly for the first 4 years of his life! And DD's dad told her it wasn't worth him coming all the way from scotland to see her!! She was only 13 bless her!
And as you are my friends I can share my DS's bombshell of today.
His 6th form isn't doing the same courses this year and he doesn't know if he's gonna continue. If he doesn't continue no more tax credits.
So I shall be living on my actual wages of an average of £90 a week.
Hmmm. I am seeing this as a challenge and I am not scared. Maybe he'll just start different A levels.
Ah well, I shall keep smiling there's always veg to eat!!
Big hugs to all who fancy one;)

Skint_yet_Again

VJsmum good luck with the family meeting !

PK sorry to hear about your poorly animal, hope its sorted at the vets this time x

Tealady, well done to your DD doing so well at work

LFS you have my sympathy re tax credits ! When my DS left college I lost tax credits, maintenance and ch benefit. Luckily he is working and earning enough to pay board but its nowhere near the amount I was getting before. Have taken just enough from him to keep us afloat

Pleasures for today

1. replaced both windscreen wipers. After the rain on Saturday I realised they had both split, so they are now mOT ready and much cheaper to do them myself rather than during the MOT/service.

2. lots of RTC items in asda this morning
3. pottered in the garden and cut the grass
4. Chinese belly pork for tea with vegetable rice using up some almost too slimy mushrooms and a shrivelled pepper
5. cleared 3 bags of rubbish from the utility room and tidied the rest so can now get in to use printer

Had to laugh at DS tonight .... hoovering his car!! Wasn't so eager to hoover the house whilst he was at it :rotfl:

Frith

Pleasures for today (well, yesterday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Continued post builders tidy up.

3) Went into Ludlow and looked round the charity shops. Then went to Aldi and got all my food shopping for the week for £18.

4) Sons went back to their father's and are now in Wales sounding quite happy.

5) MrN came round to sort out the hose leaking at the back of my washing machine. Turns out a washer had fallen out when the builders had disconnected it so it had a slow leak. It had a bit of a faster leak when MrN was sorting it but it turned out OK in the end! He also gave me a bowl of his blackcurrants which are now in the freezer.

6) Tasty bit of tea - sausage sandwiches with mushrooms, tomatoes and some Danish Blue.

7) Lots of texts and 3 phone calls from smaller son.

8) Went to mum and dad's so we could all play University Challenge.

mcculloch29

Back after absence - work, mostly and watching IPC (Paralympic) World Swimming Championships every night for a week online, really enjoyed myself. I have followed paralympic sport from from its early years in the media and to see it take such a priority now is wonderful.

The commentators on the live broadcast invited tweets so I Twittered away and got a lot of them read out, I tried to make them amusing and thoughtful.

So, 1. Sporty stuff... Marvellous.
To put the Paralympic swimming achievements into perspective, the fastest male swimmer this week would have beaten Mark Spitz over 100m freestyle.
The GB women's individual medley relay squad - some of whom have quite marked disabilities - would have won Olympic Gold against able - bodied swimmers in Melbourne. They are all phenomenal athletes who happen to have impairments.

2. Dr Christian is 30 today. He's quite surprised he made it this far. I'm extremely relieved.

3. Dr C's home made bread. Yum.

4. Losing weight steadily.

5. Book I bought for my sister to give to a friend for his birthday arrived, she was getting stressed about this..

6. Haven't caught all your pleasures but I will do my best to catch up