5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Tealady_2

Evening everyone,

Acey - Good luck for tomorrow
Jexy - I miss your posts, they make me smile

Mine for today:
1. Buying a dress and shoes for a wedding I'm going to in a couple of weeks and for both cost less than £30.
2. Managing to get a good hotel deal for the wedding, then my dad saying he was paying for my room as well. I love my dad (i am a daddy's princess)
3. Getting a really good deal on the train tickets to take us to the wedding as well. There is a company called Grand Central that runs trains from london to the North East which are always cheaper than the other companies and you get a much better service.
4. Lovely dinner of pasta and sausage soup with fresh bread. Very filling, tasty and warming.
5. We get the boiler fixed tomorrow :j:j:j

Even though I have spent money today it has all been with good deals. I love this site:money:

Hugs to all who need them

Carolyntia

Evening all :wave:

ACEY - Good luck tomorrow. I'll be thinking of you
Sparrer - I know what you mean. Living out in the sticks does have it's disadvantages at times. I'm so sorry to hear your children forgot Mother Day. I think a phone call to them to tell them how upset you are is in order.
Ollie - They know I'm capable of doing the job. I stand in for the Supervisors when they go on holiday. Apparently the 'boy' was requested by the platform manager so I didn't stand a chance. I've heard today that the offshore team are now calling him 'lap dog' (this is the only name for him that I can put on this website ) He's not very popular. However my platform manager won't even let him on my platform as he thinks he's dangerous.
Caterina - Glad to hear you had a better day yesterday. Congratulations on handing in your notice. The sense of relief must be enormous :T
CCP - Thanks I spotted her just after I posted :doh:
Nuttybabe - You didn't sound ungrateful. I just wanted you to take advantage of the one day you'll get to put your feet up.

My latest ones:

1) Lovely sunny morning
2) My step dad locked himself out of the house so I had a lovely drive down to Lowestoft at lunch time
3) When I got there the next door neighbours cat came to greet me. He knows the sound of my car and always comes for an ear scratch. He actually spends more time at my mums house. His family have even had to come and pick him up for a vets appointment :rotfl:
4) NSD - I resisted the enamel roasting tin - I don't need it and after having to find a space for the last tin I realised I didn't have room for it.
5) My colleagues being so helpful today

Hope you all had a good day. Take care.

C x

Ladyhawk

Evening All,

Hope you are all well.

Acey - Best of luck for tomorrow... hope it all goes your way
Caterina - well done in handing in your notice. It's such a scary thing to do, but the sense of relief is always so wonderful!

So... day 1 back in the zoo and it was a 12 hour day... I had an email from our Head of HR saying that they are not going to change my working hours. My director has been particularly unsupportive by saying that it was rediculous but not worth fighting... I happened to get chatting to our logisitics director this evening and he agreed with me that I should fight for it. I am getting some legal advice on Wednesday which will help me decide.

1) Was given a bottle of champagne by the wine buyer at work... cos I deserve it!

2) Tidy flat even though my cleaner didn't turn up today...

3) Chatted to KiwiBoy on the way home from work. Still not sure about him but I really should make the effort for a change.

4) Chatting to the Logisitics Director who I get on well with. He doesn't really play politics which is always nice. I just hope that he doesn't repeat some of what we discussed. Not that it really matters, I'd just prefer he didn't.

5) Only spent 65p today for my salad at lunch.

Sleep well.

L

Kittikins

Acey - will be keeping my fingers crossed that people see sense tomorrow at court.

Must be quickish as I've not yet wrapped DD's presents!!

1. The sun

2. YS bread for DD's sandwiches tomorrow at Mr W

3. Good physio session this morning, my penultimate one

4. Have tentatively moved some money into my holiday savings fund so that I'm less tempted to spend it from the current account

5. Nice dry washing on the line, just need to iron *shudder*

sparrer

Thank you all for your kind words. Kittikins you're lovely, I'd have you as a daughter any day
Ollie ooh I remember that rhyme! Thank you, daffys are my favourite flowers
CCP I'm pleased someone has daffys in bloom, mine have very solid stems 12" high but not a sign of of a flower on all but the one, and that one is struggling.They're a strain called Sir Winston Churchill, which might suggest why they're so stubborn!
Carolyntia I love living in the country so perhaps its advantages outweigh the down sides but sometimes it would be nice not to have to take a car trip to go shopping. Re Mothering Sunday, all is well as you'll see below. See also my No's 3 and 4, can't win 'em all
You're very brave Caterina. It's quite scary stepping into the unknown but if its because something isn't right it usually turns out to be to ones advantage. With the support of those around you you're going to be fine
ACEY good luck tomorrow (today), will say one for you tonight that it all works in your (and the boys) favour :A

My 5 -
1. DD was in bed with a lupus flare yesterday so was going to send her DH over with a card and flowers, but I had a Chubb lock put on since the recent spate of local burglaries so he wouldn't have been able to get in as I'd forgotten to give them a spare. DD was on the phone first thing this morning to apologise...
2. DS learned yesterday that he has been moved to Birmingham for a few months so was busy getting packed and saying goodbye to his OH and the children. He did phone me when I got back from DM in the evening but I was a bit curt with him so he didn't really think it was the time for lengthy explanations. He's been on the phone 4 times today though!
(All in all I feel very selfish for thinking badly of them both, and putting it in print so to speak, when one is so poorly and the other had a lot of arrangements to make for his move).
3. Postie brought me a wee sample of tinted moisturiser (and a letter telling my rent is going up :mad:)
4. Got notification that my pension is going up, (but the above cancels it out :rotfl:)
5. The weather, light evening, sunset, what more can I say? Just beautiful

Night night (((everybody))) sweet dreams
S x

Frith

It never rains but it pours!

It is 3.37am and I've spent the best part of an hour standing on the pavement outside with my neighbours. Someone dumped a truck on our (shared) carpark and set it on fire. My car was *just* far enough away not to be damaged (will check better in the morning).

2 neighbours' cars have melted :-( including the tyres on the one car.

It took 2 fire engines to cool the cars down and put the truck fire out. Also 3 police cars arrived.

It can be another "pleasure" for today that it took less than 15 minutes for the fire brigade to get here. And another that I have the sort of neighbours who would go to the effort to wake me up, firstly to let me know my car was possibly being damaged and also to make sure no-one was by the front windows. (Tyres were bursting and we thought the petrol tanks of the cars would blow).

L

house_elf

Morning!

I was just about to wish you good luck for today ACEY, when I read yor post.:eek: Thank goodness you are all OK. Well done to the Fire Bobbies and your neighbours. Hope you can get out of the car park to get to court, and good luck with the hearing.

Caterina - wd on your big decision. Been there, done that! Gave me the space to decide what to do next, and here I am finally doing the job that I should have done 25 years ago!

5 for today

1. Getting lighter when we get up for swimming.
2. My tutor group starting to go on college tasters. My babes are all growed up! What will I do when they leave?
3. My 6th form group actually doing some work! mainly 'cos it involved drawing on the tables. They like that!:rotfl:
4. made some more Weetabix cake.
5. New recipe for Sausage and Cabbage bake. Sounds weird, but really nice! Mmmmmmmmm.

Have a lovely day All! HE x

savingforoz

Acey, good luck for today, sorry to hear about the fire incident x

My 5 for yesterday:

1. A yummy and cheap curry at a local curry house with a friend. Sure was a hot one, though, and the restaurant was aptly named "Inner Fire"!

2. Realising that there is yet more work to do in getting my short story perfect, and making good progress towards that. So I guess it's not finished after all!

3. My delicious homemade hummus for lunch - every batch varies so much and this one is probably the best that I've done.

4. Coming off the dating website and realising that maybe I'm just not cut out for a relationship. I feel a sense of relief; I'm just going to leave things for now and concentrate on me for a while.

5. Getting an early night for once.

Have a good day, everyone.

Kittikins

OMG Acey, so sorry to read about the horrible fire, thank goodness for the firemen and lovely caring neighbours!

SFO - well done on making the dating decision, I keep on thinking dating again, but on looking around, have realised that apart from a few lonely days a month, it's rather lovely being on my own You've got your trip to look forward to anyway, you wouldn't want a man hanging around possibly draining your energy and enthusiasm for it (or maybe I just attracted loser men who would try and make me feel guilty about having a fabulous life, lol)

Megs_mum_2

Just spent a great 10 mins catching up with everyones news. Thanks everyone. Love the inner Samuel L Jackson link (dont really understand most of the original blog - makes this forum seem like the Queens english!) but it really feeds into my general head place-ness.
Acey - thinking of you today.
Here are some of my OS pleasures from yesterday ...
1. Sowing more seeds and looking at the ones that have already germinated. Magic no wonder how many times I see it
2. Seeing a weasel running across the lane and disappearing into a hole in the bank.
3. Sunshine on hen's feathers.
4. Making a pattern for my nightie sewing project (from my favourite but worn out old one), cutting out and making up last night. Should be finished tonight.
5. Great mixed salad for dinner - kept finding bits to add from store cupboard - dried cherries and flaked almonds are our current favourites.
Enjoy the sunshine, daffs, birdsong, buds (should have said my gooseberry bush has broken its buds and the new leaves area delicious lime green and so neatly folded)
XX MM
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