5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

CCP

Evening all.

Sorry I didn't post yesterday - I wasn't poisoned by Monday's sausage supper (they were fine, of course) but just ran out of time before going to the pub quiz.

Pleasures for today:

1) Finally got round to booking a hotel for a long-planned trip to London next month, and used various offers / vouchers to knock off about 45% of the cost. :money: The saving is slightly undermined by my decision to treat myself to a rather nicer hotel than I would usually go for, but I'm looking forward to it so much I can't really be annoyed with myself!

2) My nice tutor agreed an extension to the deadline for my next essay, which is a good thing as it's due at lunchtime on Thursday and I haven't even started it yet.

3) Madame Super-Purr greeting me when I got home, in contrast to yesterday when she spent the evening sitting staring at the wall to demonstrate just how much she was ignoring me. Madame Diva is probably more like it! :undecided

4) Felt unusually hungry today so I treated myself to a pudding after dinner - a mini, RM fruit crumble (bought on SO, of course) with ice cream. :drool: I rarely eat dessert so it felt like a real treat.

5) Madame Diva, upside down in the middle of the floor with her ball. Sorry, must go - I'm on ball retrieval duties!

Purple_kitten

Sparrer: It sounds like a lovely place.
1.Feeling lighter and brighter when I eventually got in to DH and animal greetings.:)
2.Got out of work clothes, into normal gear for pilates then fell asleep and missed the class:o:rotfl:
3. DH picked up my prescriptions for me as I couldn’t get to the doctors when it was open for the past 2 weeks.
I think I will save the other 2

Kittikins

No "outstanding" observation for me - more a "you've got a long way to go to get 'good' (sharp intake of breath) and time is passing swiftly by..."


Pants day, feel pants, want to run away and not go back tomorrow. But I will.

VJsmum

Evening all

Kittikins so sorry you've had a rubbish day. We all have them, it will get better
DD - !!!!!! moment was funny
VickyA hope you have enjoyed your birthday meal
Frith - you are going great guns on the allotment
Mhagster, hooray for the train. I have been rather naughty lately and driving:o
Ampersand - old Charlie is a clever boy isn't he
BoP tried celery and marmite? I hate celery but love that combination
Sparrer, cottage sounds idyllic
Skint, whispers... Good
CCP I am getting to the age when a nice hotel is worth the money.
PK sounds like you needed the sleep

So, showed OH the Aspergers print out. He thinks I am over reacting. I knew he would. He agrees that some of it fits, but not as much as I do as he thinks she is a drama queen. I think it might be the reason she's a drama queen. Anyhow, we have agreed to leave it while she does her exams but keep an eye.

Anyhow, n to pleasures. Was going to have a moan, but people have far worse issues than I


1 nice meeting with masters student, who is getting on we'll with her dissertation
2 applicant visit day went well, two prospective decent students. I think they are both going to come :T
3 got away early and have tomorrow off
4 OH came home after being away
5 colleague gave me two bananas he was going to chuck as they are past their best. I will turn them into banana bread

I am going to tidy bedroom then have earlyish night

Sleep well all

Frith

Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Chatted with smaller son's TA who took him to ThinkTank yesterday and she said he was very anxious about going (to the point that they said they would phone me) but was then fine and practically dragging her round!


3) Went into town to have a cup of tea with a friend from sixth form college.


4) Picked smaller son up and (bribery) took him out for lunch at Sainsburys.


5) Took smaller son to the doctors. (He has to go for 10 minutes each week in the hope he will be able to get through the door and eventually talk). The treatment so far (2 lots of antibiotics) has done some good. Anyway, we went into the room and smaller son suggested I go and wait in the waiting room! Good old Dr C spoke to him for 10 minutes, mainly about trains, talked about his treatment and problem (including making a model out of rubber gloves!) then I was allowed back in. :-D Back again next week and Dr C wants to see a couple of Hornby trains.


6) Too early to pick up bigger son so we went to the steam railway station. No trains running but a young man was preparing to do some painting. I realised I was stood between 2 Aspergers gentlemen - one very friendly but looking into the distance telling us all about trains and the forthcoming steam gala and smaller son making interested noises from behind an advert board so he didn't have to look at him! Turns out the young man used to be in the Junior Club for the railway - smaller son is on the waiting list.


Anyway, for VJsmum and other train people - this weekend is the steam gala with other engines visiting/stalls etc. Smaller son read about past galas and it seems 2 years ago Mallard visited!


7) Picked bigger son up and went to the allotment so they could see the improvements. Smaller son made the 5 metre edge for a 2nd bed and bigger son carved me some markers with veg names written on to go at the end of rows when we start planting.


8) Casserole for tea made with smaller son's bingo winnings - beef, parsnips, carrots and a turnip. Plenty left so I'll put puff pastry on top tomorrow and we can have a pie. :-)

DundeeDoll

& lol re woman learning french
bop so wil ltfc muff up again?
Aw frith i is defo a train person. Enjoy
1) almost forgot to take lunch in but did remember phew
2) afternoon session finished early so treated colleague to a coffee in fave coffee shop.
3) knitted during afternoon session so nearly finished square #22
4) then to lecture by old creative writing teacher. Was very good and followed by free wine and nibbles
5) offereed left overs. Had tupperware from packed lunch so took cherry toms and jaffa cakes
Gosh the wind is getting up. Tucked up in beddy byes with 2 cats. No more near !!!!!! incidents today. Sleep well ddx

DigForVictory

mhagster - what *are* you doing getting up at dark, cold & windy o'clock? That was what *we* were doing just a couple of weeks back. [D'oh - Aus... sorry!] Peaframe of canes, string, love & ingenuity - thank you! <happy flashbacks to gardening family members> You *like* ironing? Esh, it's the differences that make us unique & fascinating. Start of day, fresh, new, who knows - yes - it's worth being awake at oh God hundreds for that! Fingers crossed for the lemon tree transition. Being able to work on body clock time rather than alarm clock time - wonderful!
kboss - good on you repurposing old fabrics into new loveable things. Love the thought of dolphins in Aberdeen harbour - I'd associated them with warm waters!
Tealady - thank you for explaining the parakeets! I keep meaning to sign up to the mailing lists for studio audience tickets - it sounds so much fun!
BoP - waitrose chews? Lucky Raffles - he's not just an M&S cat! An hour to get the wire reference? Yep, that's a man thing. You cherry tree spot too? Seen three pinkly blossoming on edges of Manchester but the 2 in deep just big plump promising buds. UC habit forming... Family recipe for toddy includes a bowler hat - you put it on end of bed & drink todies til you see 2 bowlers.
ampersand - you're a southpaw? But oh yes, watching knitting "wronghanded" is like fingernails on the blackboard! Bless you taking a neighbours rammel to the dump too. Hurrah for all at Adbkes & delighted to hear you enjoying France-Inter. Sounds like they do a good job - I shall prowl LW with curiosity. (Les gars will freak if they find me listening to Foreign Tongues but if the music is good, they'll stay!) 5000 posts? Hurrah! Keys back And bag with all the paperwork & library books & pens gone? *Owch*.
mcculloch - you're surprised at the buried Action man bidder? We were stunned! With you Jamie's food is a bit more spiced than Jack's - and as a low-Scoville tolerance soul, I have to be mindful of that! Right with you on CDW. Characters like hers are forged & somehow, we're not doing that as much. JI's onion, bacon and potato hotpot sounds heavenly - shall use a child's card to register an interest with the library forthwith.
kittikins - attagirl dying but staying upright. Stubbornness is an underrated force. Best of luck to Mr & Mrs Duck! Has sleep helped? Blast the observation "feedback" - whatever happened to *constructive* criticism? This is where that stubbornness is good for you.
CCP - good to hear you're not freezing & uh oh on the lock. Hurrah you survived sausage & have a treat to look forward to, as well as Madame Diva purring & demanding you be her retreiver!
Lovefullshelves - loving the image of you dancing around the farm with your MP3 player! Hurrah for broadband & music downloads! (Films & ebooks too, but one step at a time.)
DD - glad you recovered the Dalek & wow 21/36! So looking forward to seeing the pics! Early night an underrated pleasure. Blimey your lectures sound fun - if not in the second by second planned out way but in the "ah & moving on, as you see," way! Now nearly 22/36?! Hurrah for well timed tupperware!
VickyA - delighted to hear you have heeded sartorial suggestions & that DH getting a healthy cardiovasular & respiritory work-out in consequence. Happy Birthday! Canada is not going anywahere - if you want to visit, you save up. Or comp strategically?! Please - amaze & delight your pupils at school - laughter is good for people! Hoping the observation passed as painlessly as possible. Birthday present & class cards & DH flowers?! Splendid!
Patchwork - are you another sufferer still standing? The slow cooker thing sounds wonderful & alas the bookclub draining the house dry! "Spare books"... I have duplicates, but "spare"?!
sparrer - oh it's good to have you back even if you type with a stick - bet that blue silk top looks sensational! Hoping you have a smashing time in the Lancashire hotspots! You've the yellow stuff in Yorkshire? There's a novelty. Eat drink & be merry - you;ve a holiday with Schnauzers!
VJsmum - invigilating can be a splendid chance to catch up on reading? Aspergers, whilst a tough call, is still loads better than bafflingly "weird" & if you can't talk properly to OH yet, we are here for you! You all survived DD's driving & What fun DS & LS at indoor ski centre. Chuckling over roast cockney. Autocorrect causes all sorts of fascinating glitches! Delighted a student has had the grace to thank you! To make best of day off, have an early night.
Frith - source of knowledge & support, devourer of pancakes! Smaller son went to Birmingham without you & enjoyed it? Bark chippings a wonderful way to avoid endless weeding. Good luck with parsnips! Delighted to hear desensitisation to doctors is working - hurrah Dr.C, and well done sons doing their bit for the allotment!
Purple kitten - so good to hear the plan will be no mere Highland Fling but a properly thought out invasion! Anti mosquito stuff, "tablet" & the local brews all recommended. Glad your meds have been picked up for you - I have an understanding with our pharmacist from before the rolling repeat schemes were introduced...
Skint yet again - good to see you back here, hurrah the device which shall not be named is cooperating & brilliant you sorting DP's utilities!

OS Peasures recently
A warm morning? As in don't need raincoat, thermals, hat scarf gloves etc but not quite ready to plant onions...

Car park guy smoothing a lump with a pickaxe. Initially I wondered whose grave he was digging.

Warm air gentle on runny nose & raspy throat. The career workshop this afternoon will need to be pretty special - I gave several minutes thought to calling in ropey.

Son on being asked why his toenails were dirty managed the undulating grunt that translates to "I don't know"....

Chuckling with other mums over "getting your money's worth" child raising tales. We agreed the clear pitch of innocence carries in direct proportion to the depth you want to sink into the ground.

Cherry blossom buds swelling beautifully!

Still upright, still moving despite this snuffling, wheezing pest of a cold. (Husband in post-antibiotic tristesse & deeply sorry for himself.) Sons all recovered & vigorous....

Then day off getting in extra sleep. Being up at this time Probably a Bad Idea.

Got several seeds planted in the peat pellet things. (Make me chuckle the way they 'expand' but then, mildly filthy mind.)


Big hugs to all who need them, hurrah for all healing sleep, and blinking well done all those who are staying upright.

Patchwork_Quilt

Evening all. Back in the land of the living, thanks to going to bed early last night and having an enormous amount of sleep.

Sparrer, hope you have a lovely time in Yorkshire. I've never been to Haworth but the countryside around there is beautiful.

1. Sleep. Wonderful stuff.
2. Had a random item from the freezer for lunch and it turned out to be lentil and sausage casserole. Yum.
3. Lovely day at work with a former colleague who had come in to lend a hand while everyone else was ill. He has an inexhaustible fund of interesting anecdotes.
4. Chat on the phone with DM about life in general. She sounds very chirpy.
5. Made a friend's secret recipe for salmon and roasted veg this evening and it was delicious.

Kittikins

Sadly, today's observation was done by a uni tutor......she nearly made me cry with her comments, but then, not that it helps much, she did the same to my co-student. We were both feeling pretty wretched when we left school today


Anyway, my lovely parents listened to me curse and swear at how rubbish I feel and how I am seriously considering giving up as I feel like if I can't do a reasonable job by now, then I'm probably not cut out for it.


Then I came upstairs and started planning tomorrow's lessons - not planned earlier due to my busy weekend with DD's birthday, being ill and just I guess, not being a superstar student!


I realised at about 10:30pm that I needed help with fabrics for my science lesson tomorrow and so mummykins and daddykins both came to my rescue. I have nearly all I need and have just got to cut the fabrics into the right size (whatever that might be!) for tomorrow's experiment.


*sigh* I wish I could be observed teaching music, art, science....... not just literacy and numeracy. I like teaching everything, but maybe I seem to do better at the first three lessons as I'm not in fear of being chucked off the course when I teach them!


Ho hum, anyway, my 3 (forgot about phonics!) lessons are planned, I'm cream-crackered and am away to bed.


Night all!

mcculloch29

Kittikins, I told you the story and I'm sure it's as true for child as adult education, that I went from Outstanding to Barely Acceptable and back to Outstanding again with three different OTL's.

Unfortunately you have hit the ones who don't appreciate you fully in a run. Your turn will come, meanwhile you add to experience and improve.

BoP, the bacon, onion and apple fry-up is every bit as nice as it sounds, and so simple.

Not sure if my late night brain will allow me to put together five pleasures but one must be Jamie's delicious salmon filo pie. Three little frozen salmon fillets from Aldi, a couple of wilty leeks, red onions to replace the courgettes we didn't have, Wensleydale to replace the feta we didn't have, parmesan nearing its BB date and a pack of reduced filo pastry turned what sounds a luxury meal into an economical one.

It was gorgeous - another pleasure has to be using the new super non-stick pan with a removeable handle as a pie dish. It slid out in one piece like something in a magazine.

VJsmum - I'm with you, two and two do make four sometimes, and not six.