5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VickyA_2

Good evening :hello:

I hope that those celebrating have had a fantastic time.

My pleasures:

1) Caught up with a friend on the phone.

2) More book reading.

3) NSD! :j :j

4) Salad already made for school tomorrow.

5) Spoken to my mum too. A night of phone calls.

Night everyone.

VJsmum

Evening - has anyone found my motivation? I seem to have lost it.

Thanks for the anniversary wishes - he is out with DD tonight,so the celebration was at the weekend.

The day has been remarkably pleasure - less as have not done much but worked. Anyways here goes

1. A bath with Poldark, last week's not this. But i know what happens thanks to social meedja
2. Got through the particular batch of marking
3. knitted a few rows of my kindle cover - only about 10 left and a flap
4. delish salad for lunch and chicken for tea and made a lemon and lime drizzle
5. OH and DD had a nice meal, paid for with Mr T vouchers in the main.

Given up on the lecture - so a 3 hour revision session it is. Last one till October..

2 key emails to do then i am off to beddy bo boes

Nighty night.

topsyturphy

My pleasures for today

1. Day off from work

2. Playing games with my lovely dsgs.

3. Got bids on several of my items listed on eBay.

4.bargain buys at CS - new dress £2 & boots £2.50.

5. Delicious lamb Tagine cooked by dh for dinner.

Kittikins - happy birthday, hope you had a lovely day.
Vjsmum - happy anniversary

DundeeDoll

oo vjsmum poldark in the bath. guess you were both topless then :rotfl:
1) managed to get through most of meeting with visitors from pondicherry without coughing
2) lunch with visitors at tay park house which is now a restaurant / hotel but used to be where i worked
3) came home early for a nap then long soak in bath which both helped the cold then
4) off to Discovery in my new red dress for posh evening with the visitors and some of home team. we were piped on then champagne and canapes then more piping then a tour of the boat - not my first time round the boat but defo first in heels! then
5) dinner in the officers' mess. so have eaten where scott and shackleton ate. and not a weevil in sight!

ampersand

1. Weather man utterly wrong, wrong,wrong. Yellow thing, remember that? - well, it did, all day. On the other hand, heard white stuffforecast in non-sassenach regions, called dd-land.

2. Goodness knows what over 4hrs of pavement-pounding would have been like otherwise.
& played postie with '00s of candidate bumf requests, around [at least 10,000]sneaky little foot-only impossible mazes of hidden Cambridge. Total foot-shred and total address/numbering cauchemar[AWOL all logic/counting/street patterns] but DID THEM, then 2 hrs' postal voting phone Bank.

3. All &'s apple blossom is out and little robin continues to fly in and out to her 5-egg nest. Cannot over-emphasise that & has to physically brush by shelf she's using - shoulder and nest+eggs less than a foot apart. On verra:-)

4. Long-running gate latch repair saga continues. Final[should be] inner-blokey session[love my Brico symposia when mood is right] with M's meant a dark and handsome man in metal shop honed an mtm spindle for &'s Feb. replacement which was butchered 'cos of dodgy measurement instructions leading to wrong sums.. NOT 48mm. Should be 71mm. All of which is most riveting and meaningful to no-one but &[she knows what she means].

I did have a lovely time:-)

5. Full Spookymen's 6th UK Tour itinerary released:

http://www.spookymen.com/gigs.php

Raffles has already booked:
Friday September 4
STROUD
The Subscription Rooms, George Street, Stroud, Glos., GL5 1AE
www.subscriptionrooms.org.uk 01453 760999 £18/£15 7.30pm
Saturday September 5
SPOOKYFEST
Details TBA
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pk - apologies for sending you back to work too soon. Find vjm's honey ice-cream before you rtn - her motivation will be there too.
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This is the tao S. transcribed in her lovely aquarelle>&

Twenty Six

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tsu
- a message of Peace, of Simplicity, of Humility


The heavy is the root of the light.
The still is the master of unrest.

Therefore the sage, traveling all day,
Does not lose sight of his baggage.
Though there are beautiful things to be seen,
He remains unattached and calm.

Tealady_2

Just catching up on posts but wanted to send Mhags lots of healing hugs and will keep you all in my thoughts and prayers

mhagster

Thankstealady and thanks everybody , it really does help. As I've said before we don't 'know each other'.....or maybe we are just friends who haven't met yet. Yet, each day ,we come here and share our days, our pleasures, our dissapoinments ...the occasional rant! So thank you!

Today was Tuesday , the day before results ! The day before we find out if cancer has spread, if it has, where , how much. The thought frightens me so much but once we know, we know and a plan can be made. The MDT ( multi disciplinary team ) appointments are full on. There will be at least 3 teams of surgeons of different departments working on OH, so they will all come in with consultants, registrars, junior doctors, from each team, they will poke, prod, shine lights, take photos, nutritionists, speech pathologists, pharmacists, cancer care nurse will come in .
Then they all go and catch up and then someone will come and tell us what's what. There will be other patients at the same time. It's really full on , fast ,fast ,fast and then slooooow whilst you wait for some one to come back in.

Yesterday, whilst waiting for OH when he was in for his MRI, the familiarity of it all just rushed back , quite overwhelmingly. We've been there and done it all before, which whilst it's seems a while ago, feels like just last week!

I sleep, I wake up and boof! It hits you , right in the chest, sucks the air from my lungs, and my heart pumps so strongly and loudly .

However, what will be , will be and no matter how loud my heart beats won't change what's going to happen, so I just have to wait until tomorrow .

Some pleasures? Well , work salves the mind, something else to think of ( briefly)
My Haggis boy! Head on my shoulders. Just having a cuddle. Only fed once tonight

I had a bath, I snoozed ( then woke up , with thumping heart!) ....last night I fell asleep with wet hair....this morning I was sporting a horrendous toilet brush look! Hair washed again and dried! Toilet brush look is not my best look!

Payday! Money transferred into savings accounts.

Spag Bol for tea, easy peasy teasy!

RTC brownie or RTC caramel slice for pud.

Have a lovely day x

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Ok so in the Mist of SparraShire, BoP gets control of the YELLOW THING Enjoy!

And Mhags. The Journey. Jenny, due her annual check soon, beeps a :heartpuls


News of Keith Harris' death has left Orville speechless!

Skint_yet_Again

Mhags ... had to laugh at the bog brush hair ... thinking of you all and praying the news is good tomorrow x

Makes my woes pale into insignificance ....

1. team moves and I still have nasty colleague on my team but at least she will not be sat next to me any more

2. trip to hospital and whilst failed to swallow camera stuck up nose I now have an appointment for scan

3. sat in the sun waiting for taxi back to work

4. chocolate brownies brought in by another colleague

5. piri piri roast chicken "in a tray/bag" in oven for tea which we are gonna have with roasted veg & halloumi .... nom nom and no washing up as tray/bag is disposable & will use tin foil over an oven tray for roasted veggies

judi24

Just catching up after a few days away - Mhags - you are in my thoughts and prayers. What you are going through and a few other thought provoking situations over the last few day (some work some not!) have really focused my thoughts on the SIMPLE bit of pleasures today! So with that in mind:


1. Family - the ones that drive you mad as well as the ones that make you glad!!! the smiles, the laughter, the tears and the shouting are all pleasures - and they are all mine!!! (please feel free to remind me of this when I am tearing my hair out with them!)
2. More about family - my mum - the Reverend Mother! I worked out today that she has been supporting me with my family for 20 years (since I started my nurse training with 2 small babies) - today she has run round picking up prescriptions for DS so he doesn't end up in a state tomorrow and stayed with DD3 and DS til late as I had a late meeting in work! - what would I do without her?
3. My home - again a pleasure that doesn't always feel like one (cleaning, repairing and paying for it!) but it is a pleasure as it Is fit for purpose and can accommodate all of my lot and some - so I could help a little one in trouble (long story but I could end up having the daughter of a friend with her 2 little ones to stay - as she is struggling and splitting up with partner)
4. My work - I talk a lot about my work - but it is a real pleasure - I work with some crazy and creative people and at the moment the emotional effect of what we do is being challenged to the nth degree - but we are supporting each other by crying together, laughing together and eating cake together! - I am very proud of working there!
5. My strength - something happened this week that reminded me of how far I have come and that I have the strength to keep going! I am not going back to being the person I once was who wasn't able to stand up to people who hurt me and mine- well that person has well and truly gone! But it has been a pleasure (and pain) to remember what has been and think about what is still to come!