5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

CCP

Afternoon all.

I'll get some pleasures in now as I'm going out straight after work and won't have time later.

CCP wrote: »

3) Received an interesting letter which, at worst, gives me the opportunity to be really nosy and, at best, gives me a decent sum of money for doing not very much. (Sorry, can't go into details as it's a legal matter!)

1) My nosiness paid off: I am in my letting agent's good books for finding out enough for him to do a thorough investigation, for which he paid me back by telling me everything he found out, and...

2) I can claim the money as well - £100 for 5 minutes of my time sounds good to me!

3) Ordered myself a nice new winter coat, reduced from £90 to £27, from a website mentioned in the MSE newsletter. :money:

4) After a major downpour last night (sufficiently heavy that I took the un-MS step of getting a taxi home from the pub quiz, feeling that was a better option than drowning!) it's fairly warm and dry today, and the yellow thing has made a couple of tentative appearances.

5) Day off tomorrow.

BoP - I hope the terrible tiger's OK.

VJsmum - that tower's smirking at me. Make it stop, please!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

CCP wrote: »

BoP - I hope the terrible tiger's OK.

Our Tiger has placated the Vet, gosh there are like policemen, get younger. He strutted around as usual and ...

He has a chest infection to go with his dickie ticker, so tablets and plenty of cuddles from Ms BoPsie. I have given him his tablet (2 a day) and no marks!
Oh, and he was not pregnant.

Chickenopolis

good evening all !

VJsmum loved the tower - how fantastic ! Take your red shoes off , there is no place like home !

Bop -poor tigger

CCP - well done you

5 for today

1. Work ok

2. Not getting a pay cut , been re graded to a higher salary scale on the lowest point of the new scale .As I am at the top of my current scale this makes me better off by £16 per year . Still its not a pay cut ! Longer term I will be better off .Some others in my team did not fare so well though

3. Nice email from ex colleague

4. Broccoli, cauli cheese and macaroni for tea.

5. Finally sat down 5 minutes ago . A long day as covering managers who are on leave

Have a good evening all !

Skint_yet_Again

Recent pleasures

1. DS drove his car to work and got there in one piece... eventually!

This will be a pleasure as Monday is my day off so I intend to stay in bed in future, however the blooming car battery was flat so I ended up in my dressing gown and slippers jump starting his car

2. shopping done and on budget

3. had my 3 year lady cancer test done (if you know what I mean) .... most uncomfortable and embarrassing but good to get it done

4. appointment for flu jab came through

5. hair done, no longer worried about being mistaken by badger cull

6. freezer turned itself off. Checked plug fuse and socket. DS came home and managed to sort circuit board again so its back on. Only Yorkshire puds and bread rolls defrosted so all is not lost

DundeeDoll

Wow a tiger that eats vet's pills!
chicken well done on the potential payrise. I too will move to the lowest rung of the next ladder
1) last of the external examiner lunch chicken with salad for my lunch
2) almost a nsd but got delayed at work so ended up getting bus home. Very kind bus driver stopped short of the stop when he saw me running
3) ds still here but currently going through maths problem with xoh
4) sound of laughter of small children next door. Totally priceless
5) taking tights off. I do not like tights. I have very long legs and they are always so feely. But the joy of taking them off in the evening makes them almost worthwhile!

lovefullshelves

DigForVictory wrote: »

(Most of my pleasures appear to be food related. Ah well.)

DFV no wonder they think we're the same person! I don't know how many times I've said exactly the same thing!!!
1. 8 more pints of grape juice on the FULL shelves
2. Grape jelly (not wibble wobble jelly but smear it on toast jelly) drip drip dripping through the muslin ready for finishing tomorrow
3. More bloomin tomatoes..this is why every other year I don't grow as many!
4. Mommy phoned and is buying me Books for christmas...I love books:D especially cookery books:D
5. Rice-a-Roni thanks to mommys last parcel for tea..with ratty tool on the side...nomnomnom! Its rice and tiny pasta like orzo in a cheesy brocolli sauce:p
Big hugs and tomatoes to all xx

VJsmum

lovefullshelves wrote: »

DFV no wonder they think we're the same person! I don't know how many times I've said exactly the same thing!!!
xx

I think that's only me. I used to be the same with Kittikins and purple kitten, but I've got them sussed now.

Chicken - well done on the pay rise
And DD on the promotion



I had to turn it sideways to get it all in

Today's pleasures

1 despite waking at 4.00am :eek: I seem to have coped with the day. I am now on a mission to stay awake just a short time longer to try and get a proper nights sleep
2 teaching went well
3 bangers and mash for tea
4 fairly useful meetings at DS school re his GCSE core subjects
5 going to bed very shortly

DigForVictory

Purple kitten - waves to fellow Simpsons fan!
sparrer - sleep *isn't* an OS pleasure? but an aromatic brassiere certainly is!
Chickenopolis - owch indeed. Mostly to the ego. Top negotiations on the pay!
VJsmum - your watchtower has ears! Awww! and welcome home! "had to turn it sideways" - I needed the neck exercise, anyway. (My brain is struggling to process it as upright & I'm supposedly running GMT)
DD - a good rocky road recipe is a real & enduring treat... Children laughing is just the best sound in the world!
mhagster - sounds like the best way of taking family to a funeral without having to travel - big hugs all round!
Frith - delighted to hear both sons industrious & that elder son is cooking marrow soup.
BoP - delighted to hear you triumph at University Challenge too!
CCP - still curious as BoP's cat as to this legal matter that brings in such money!
Skint - jump starting a car, clad in dressijng gown & slippers? While warm bed cools? Better luck next Monday! (Practice nurse has funny poster pinned to her ceiling for such tests, along with small note "trust me". All helps!)
lovefullshelves - the baffling American food parcel sounds delicious!

Most of my OS pleasures today have been unexpected phrases.

"Pass me the tin of wax and a clean pair of underpants please."
<beat>
"From the Rag Drawer!" (If a voice can flounce...)

"He can't come to the phone. He's watching a really interesting program on embroidery." Thank Heavens Grannie 'gets' historians.

"Oh his foot's lots better. He's wearing slippers." Grannie asked...

Driving in the rain in the dark - the road gleams, glossy & patched with carnival lights from street lamps, shop signs & the occasional domestic light.

Tidying up (held at it by the beadily unforgiving eyes of offspring), I found last year's birthday cards - from the team I was training with. The signed mousemat carries the in-jokes of that week together as well as names. And I did Some Tidying.

Big Hugs to all who need them!

Chickenopolis

DD- well done to you too!

DfV- lovely post . Every Saturday my DM used to say "if you don't tidy move your stuff it will end up at the end of the garden!" . It often did....

VJsmum - Spaghetti junction ??:p

Have a lovely day all !

mhagster

Ahhhhh....it's nearly Friday isn't it?

Interesting shift again....many changes at work but I still have a job....quite a few don't! Tense atmosphere !

Anyway did a wee short shift, didn't get a parking ticket and didn't get wet in the showers of rain!

Home to my girls, we popped into next town had some lunch at McD's and then bought a tub of thorntons fudge and that was it....had a mooch around the shops but don't need/ nothing jumped out and said buy me.

Home to my sofa ....my new favourite place in the house and sat for an hour and read my book.

Had a bath and watched Holby...how's that for multitasking?

Chats with OH and friend from home before going to work this morning.

Saw in my garden for the first time ever, a pair of starlings ...oohed and ached over them and then they were chased away by a big , bad minah bird ,who are very territorial .

Have a lovely day