5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Kittikins

Hugs to you all, mhagster xx

1. The offer on the flat has been accepted


2. I handed in my dreadful essays - dreadful, but, they're off my desk at last! Just the big scary horrible one to do!


3. Dull afternoon doing some extra training but at least we were given goodies to soften the blow of being the only students around on a Wednesday afternoon.


4. Had my haircut by my lovely hairdresser, who will nearly be our neighbour when we move! (and DD is going to be able to take her little dog who comes to the salon every day, out for walks )


5. DD, daddykins and I went to look at the flat again - and we all love it

mcculloch29

Pleased that you have help in place KK, hugs in memory of your lovely dog, Mhags. Get well soon PK, and anyone else feeling under the weather.

1. I have been so enjoying my recorded viewing of More Creatures Great and Small - the vet series filmed fairly locally. My former colleague Pat is in the online version of the Radio Times.

2. Cooked yet another old favourite tonight, sweet and sour pork with a Katie Stewart recipe from the 70s. No fancy spices in this one, it was nice to make it again, as I first made it when Dr C was in nursery school...

3. Friend has given me a pair of elastic waisted trousers that were too long for her, won't be too long for me though.

4. My memory foam mattress topper has disintegrated inside the cover, a new one is needed. Pleasure: I found a half-price offer in @rgos; with vouchers and gift cards paid £4.99 for a £49.99 RRP topper.

5. Chat with friend and catching up on news - a lot of very black humour as she related her mother's latest escapades. Her Mum is in a home and has Alzheimer's. Laughter on the edge of tears.

Frith

So sorry to hear about your dog, MHags. :-(


Good news re the flat, Kittikins!


VickyA - good to outstanding, eh?


Here are my pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Had my hair cut at college. £3! They did a particularly good job today. As well as the cowlick in the fringe and about 3 crowns, I have nape whorls so they have a job cutting it short at the back without it sticking out at all angles.


3) Sneaky cup of hot chocolate in Caf! Nero afterwards.


4) Went round town looking for wedding shoes for me and shirts and ties for sons. Each shop suggested I go to their bigger branches! So that's a job for Sunday.


5) Picked smaller son up and had lunch in Sainsburys.


6) Seeing Dr C did not go well today with smaller son wrapping himself up in the curtain (that you would pull around the bed in the doctor's office) most of the time. I think Dr C is getting a bit impatient with the lack of cooperation. But at least we got there.


7) Went to look at a potential new kitten. :-)


8) Both sons have been telling me tales of school. At bigger son's school someone tried to jump over the tennis net but caught his foot and his teeth had to be picked up from the tarmac (yuck!) He also broke his jaw so an ambulance came. Then this afternoon, someone got clobbered with a lacrosse net and the ambulance had to come back again!


Smaller son was making me laugh just now because he's been confusing everyone! He was talking to the deputy head about "blimps" (as in airships) and she had no idea what he was talking about. Then he said last week he told his teacher about "bucks" and she didn't know what one was (we live next to a forest). Today they were talking about what might be seen in their forest school area and he said "a buzzard" and ended up almost having to mime a buzzard to all his town dwelling classmates!


9) About to have an early night. The dust/pollution is having quite an effect here.

sparrer

mhags my sincerest condolences on the loss of you girl. It's so hard to come to terms with, but it sounds like she had a very happy life and was loved by everyone who looked after her for you.
Congratulations Kittikins, everything crossed that the purchase goes through smoothly and it's not long until you're in your new home
Loved the Smartie slogan Vicky, very, umm...smart :cool:. Okay, I'm out the door too :doh:
Frith, ooh, your No 7 sounds exciting! Do let us know what you decide to do

1. Shopping day with DD, usually on Mondays but she was working in the afternoon.
2. Did the cs's, I bought myself nothing! The mantras are getting to me
3. Bought DD a beautiful dress, not cs but very inexpensive, to wear to her pub's 'Oscar's Night' at their beer festival in three weeks time.
4. Thanks to the Saharan wind my metallic black car had ginger spots on it for a couple of days but thanks to the hand car wash it's now all shiny again
5. Shopped in Mr M on my way out this evening, got YS 4 pints of milk, 1/2 rack of ribs, a salmon fillet and two cream doughnuts for £1.43p.

Sweet dreams

ampersand

1. Sahara signs here too and & woken for 2nd night with tear-making salt'n'razor throat/ears out of nowhere, so pleasure is in putting putah on now[have just missed someone at NZ work annoyingly. Finished at 2] and more book to follow. For same reason[threat to others]missed compline last night, will miss prayer brekkie this a.m.

2. Total waste of time, money, 150+ miles' petrol yesterday. Petrol total since Friday now £130. Scrapyard 1 DID have &'s car window after all, Estate version having arrived Tues. After much grilling, interrogation, as this once happened with a wrong exhaust bit, off trundled &. Who wants to guess what happened next?.... Nowt to be done, but rtn, thump keyboard and phone again. relating fiasco as 'Deffo right one?' insurance. Dear Fen boy J says 'Call when you're leaving scrappy 2 and T will be here to fit it.' 120 miles later, T[long-time same car brand as &]says 'WRONG ONE' and shows how. Nonetheless does a système D+masking tape on it, leaving door panel off for now. Use after-hours mob. to ring scrappyman 2, who was decent chap. T. is firm and clear. &will have full refund as and when, plus goodwill petrol. Agreed. Fenboy J refuses to charge 'and we won't when you come back with the right one either'.
So many £hits atm.

3. Tues for x went well, much accomplished, inc. i.d. pics and optician, & paying for speccie frames, if Budget. Lots of non-standard outlay atm. Another 5 boxes unloaded.
Residual concerns surfacing, natural in circs but with some foundation.

4. rtc[30p and 15p, from £10 and £8] flowers for dear neighbour, sent via another I saw heading there. Just don't want anyone afflicted with this which has come from nowhere to me.

5. Tues crowned by long-awaited reunion between x and L, driving another 40 miles in other direction, but it was good. More home set-up bits bought. Will use buspass later for further link-up journeys, to take tent, backpack, other to x in time for Men's Crossing the River Fellowship w/e in forest. Occupation, no slack hours, must predominate, dictate pattern, set template this month.

Think I might phone NZ famberley now. Feeling foul. Ring and rant[not much though, too sore!] - what joyous company that will make me:-)

Wishing all unwellies well, kk and broomstick under respective new roofs, new jobs offered, and dd's found £50 note soon re-rendered.
old tractor and chicken - always in mind, caring for real, thanks to Martin's virtual community.
ditto kiwi blue, through treatment which WILL be successful.
#
-a worse outcome. which puts our ills in perspective. Just hearing that Yashika Bageerathi has now been deported, 6 weeks before her A-levels.
#
6. Just phoned NZ. msg says 'The W's are out, probably gallivanting, at the moment. Please try later.'...total age=172 of your Earth years.

CCP

Kittikins - yay for the flat! Best of luck with it all.

PK - glad you're feeling better enough to fancy some chocolate: hope this means you'll be completely better very soon.

mhagster - so sorry to hear about your dog.


Some pleasures for yesterday (not involving sand / pollution, which are a problem here, too - my sinuses are so painful ):

1) Packed up a load of jars (left over from an abandoned intention to make chutney last autumn ) and took them to the bottle bank, as they were blocking access to the boiler which was due for its annual safety check. (The engineer then failed to turn up - :mad: - but at least the jars were gone!)

2) Another very quiet day at work so I caught up on some non-work related things in the name of looking busy.

3) Made a decent enough curry for dinner, using various odds and ends.

4) The posh soap I ordered last weekend has now arrived and is in the soap dish: it's not cheap - you could get half a dozen bars at the supermarket for what I've paid for one bar - but it smells lovely, lathers wonderfully, and doesn't turn to sludge the moment it gets wet, so I think it's worth it.

5) Sitting reading, with Isis curling up to doze on the other end of the sofa: she doesn't do that often, so it's a treat to see her trusting me enough to shut her eyes when I'm so close.

Tealady_2

Morning

McCulloch - your comment on downtown N.A made me smile fond memories of the concrete walkways
Kittikins - Lots of fab news yay to the helpful tutor and double yay on the flat
PK - Glad you are starting to feel better
Sparrer - I hope you are taking care while all this sand is in the air
Mhagster - Hugs to you and your family, you are right you are never to big to get a cuddle off your mum.
Ampersand - Please have a bit of a rest at some point this week, I do worry about you
Frith - Glad you have booked a holiday for you and the boys, I hope you all have a great time
CCP - Thought of you and Isis at the weekend in Oxford when we saw on the map the River Isis
VickyA - Well done you and am sure very well deserved
LFS - I am with you on the wine glasses. I'm not allowed to have expensive ones anymore and hate it when we go to MIL's and she gets the really posh ones out :eek:
Supersaver - How do you get DD to cook and not make too much mess. Mine needs to be bribed to cook and then leaves the kitchen like a bomb site.

Pleasures for yesterday
1. Managed to get some free tickets to take DD to the Grand Designs Live show next month. She loves going to these things and didn't think we would get there this year as the last weekend falls on the weekend of the Moonwalk when I will be volunteering but after a bit of a search managed to get some for the first weekend.
2. Feeling much better after a decent nights sleep think I am now recovered from my night in the cells (even if they were posh cells)
3. Haircut and coloured and while not really money saving is the one thing that I refuse to compromise on. Plus I will get a free treatment next time
4. Reading a book on the kindle that made me laugh out loud. My mum was reading the same book and we were laughing at the same things.
5. Meatballs and pasta for dinner with enough left for lunch today. Did not give in to the temptation to get take away after hairdressers.

Hugs to all who need them

mhagster

So my day started with me sitting on the loo first thing and wheech....across the floor, under my feet , as fast as a fast thing ....a tiny mouse, followed by a big scream from me! I'm not scared of mice but not what I was expecting whilst still half asleep! Unfortunaly my DD1 is terrified of mice so I'm glad it wasn't her that had the surprise!

Nice chat with friend from home on the phone.

Work....ahhhh finished for the week. Had a good but busy day.

Attended an opening do with my boss.

Grabbed pizza on the way home, DD2 met me and carried them home.
Had suggested going out for dinner with OH so money saving in a way!

Went grocery shopping. Met one of the girls I worked with the first year I was here nice to catch up with her and her boyfriend, who was one of our customers. My son is currently putting the shopping all away:)

I sent my aunt and uncle an email last night thanking them for their care of our dog , received a beautiful email back this morning. More tears.

Just had a bowl of chopped up pineapple, melon and grapes.....I kindly shared it with my boy. I've been without sugar for about 11 days...sugar in the form of sweets,cakes and biscuits etc . I know there is fructose , which is a sugar in fruit but I'm going on the premise that it also has lots of vitamins and tastes good

Have a lovely day poorly people get better soon.

supersaver1000

Teadlady not sure how mess not so messy - more luck than judgement I think. But DD is taking Food tech GCSE next year so am looking forward to more cookery.

Couldn't get motivated last night, but feeling slightly more up today (and this thread is such a help - thanks):

1. Reading your posts and cheering me up - rainy here in more ways than one.
2. Had a salady mix for dinner and feeling a little slimmer
3. Three no spend days in a row.
4. Just paid £65 off my car loan - paid with Tesco credit card but have the cash in my Santander account that I'm locked out of until new pin arrives (will pay card as soon as get pin but bonus is I will earn clubcard points - excited to see how much interest and cashback on 123 this month - saddo :-)).
5. Finished earlyish today (just after 4) so nice to get home in daylight - mustn't waste it.
6. Budget on target this month (hopes - yikes Easter!)

LOL mhagster - that must have been a wake up!

Kittikins

1. Took some good books out of the library at uni, just have to read them now....!


2. Found out I probably don't need to have a survey done on the flat as it's only just been converted, so will have the building regs signoff (?)


3. I've arranged a meeting with my course leader for after Easter. He has said he will try and help me sort out my planning problems and was very nice about my woes


4. DD's excitement about the flat is catching If she had her way, we'd be there tonight!!


5. My bed - where I'll be heading very shortly!