5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

judi24

Mhags - hope you are hanging in there! Its strange for me to hear what it's like to be on the receiving end of the MDT! I guess we get so used to it all being in a days work that we forget the impact of our words and actions! Will certainly consider the impact from your perspective next time!


Great news on the rugby tickets &!


So pleasures today - may be a little more practical than yesterdays self reflective guff!


1. Had a great sleep - can't remember the last time I slept so well!
2. Productive day in work after a challenging staff with staff sickness - got lots done that was well overdue - feeling a lot more focused
3. Had great feedback on last assignment - not able to give me a mark as not moderated but feedback needed as assignment was research proposal - seems I am on the right track!
4. Managed to get around Al*di in 30 mins flat and didn't overspend too much despite not having a list! (must get more organised again!)
5. Made a batch of cupcakes with name toppers for DD2's friend - DD2 was very impressed! and gladly cleaned the kitchen afterwards!


and a cheeky number 6!


Colleagues son had a serious accident at the weekend involving neck fracture, other spinal fractures and leg fracture! - seems like he has no brain damage and no damage to spinal cord and was able to move arms and legs yesterday! Needed spinal surgery today but prognosis has changed from life threatening to serious which must be a good thing!! Miracle maybe - but much relief all round!

sparrer

A stressful few days in our small, very quiet town where nothing ever happens. A tiny girl in hospital after being very badly beaten, a young girl assaulted by a stranger in broad daylight, and third and hopefully last a poor elderly soul trying to cross at the crossing when a car came racing down the road, swerved to miss him and demolished the front wall of a house. He tried to avoid the car and tripped but pleased to hear he was only kept in overnight for obs. We're rocking a bit with these awful events but can only thank God that they all survived.

mhags, Mr mhags and family are in my prayers as always and on the prayer list at church.

1. The garden is looking very pretty and country cottage-y
2. Found the perfect sandals for the holiday so bought them is green and yellow to match my new dresses.
3. Made a big pot of soup from ys veg, enough for 5 days
4. It rained this evening so I didn't have to water
5. My ISA has matured so I've re-invested it at a healthy rate.

Sweet dreams

mhagster

Thursday Schmursday! Day off work and quite a bit accomplished.

Main news.....no spread of cancer shown on scans, more tears!

Got up early, a relief to get up after a poor nights sleep.
Chat with friend from home.
Took DD2 to school.....and then had to pick her up at 1pm ...felt unwell after getting jags at school!

"Mum, can you take me to uni?" asked DD1... So I sent my friend who works there a text to see if she was free to catch up over coffee in half an hour.....DD, hold the phone incase D calls me. Drop off.....drop phone down inside the bowels of my car! I was not impressed! She was very upset!
Anyway , after I'd tried to take my car to bits from the inside , OH suggested another way, which worked. Phone returned and car bits put back where they go!

Dog walk, much sobbing! Just because I could! It was such a beautiful morning, after a very chilly 5o start to the day, the sky was a bright blue and gently warm sun was out. A tree full of beautiful lorikeets. A few galahs for Haggis to chase...they always fly away! Friend sent me a text to say her phone had been on silent but she'd been free....wouldn't have made a difference , I couldn't get to my phone at that point! Will catch up some other time.


Popped into salon and luckily they could fit me in there and then ....eyebrows waxed , ouch! It is a pleasure really as they look so much better.

Fruit and veg bought and the most lovely fresh bread from the bakers.

Home and I may have been having a snoozette when our specialist nurse phoned me to go over yesterday's meeting and to tell us the news of scans. More sobs!

Dog walk with DD1.

Macaroni cheese for tea.

Optician appointment for contact lense check for DD2... Let's just order them , shall we, said optician.."er, how much?" OH pays the same for 3 months supply online as they wanted for one month! Can I have prescription please? We will price match....now she tells me! Anyway, we came home with the prescription!

Last night I made pumpkin soup from our own pumpkins and an apple and pear cake. Tonight I had the last of the cake for pudding and it was lovely

Do have a lovely day....off to bed soon as back to work tomorrow !

sparrer

mhagster wrote: »

Main news.....no spread of cancer shown on scans, more tears!

Dog walk, much sobbing! Just because I could!

Home and I may have been having a snoozette when our specialist nurse phoned me to go over yesterday's meeting and to tell us the news of scans. More sobs!

The news has unleashed the floodgates of relief, you carry on and sob all you want. Just keep the cucumber beside you to put on your eyes, if you're anything like me when I cry my puffy eyes look like poached eggs on pools of blood - gross! God bless x

DigForVictory

dundeedoll - welcome back! (Absolutely agree on the *vital* shopping.) Dined aboard Discovery? <swoons>
kittkins - happy birthday!
VJsmum - happy anniversary!
Purple Kitten - all the best with new job!
mhagster - just so glad the fearsome expensive school will be there. Abslutely right to cover all bases that bring reassurance & oooh Haggis! Family bathing sounds splendid!
Broomstick - allotments are good places, well done DS1.
Skint - having had cameras, I prefer scans. Best of luck!

OS Pleasures recently:
Great suds of pink cherry blossom floating in the air!

Yellow stuff - so much, my raincoat is at home. (Can this be wise?!)

Knife & axe work with Scouts - splendid fun, no blood spilt & several smaller souls picking up confidence as they learn to heft intelligence!

Stark lines of lollipopped trees beginning for blur with young bright greenery.

Listening to a partially sighted colleague letting off a bit of steam. Her vocabulary is impressive, her clarity of view merciless and her expertise unanswerable. I really do hope she doesn't Bowdlerise her email too much. The Powers That Be need a bit of clear talking.

The expression on a presume-little-brother's face as sis strides towards meeting with like-minded Olly Murs fans...

"Knit me an extra extra large sweater!" "You mean super medium..." Sizeist bickering, again.

Made mother-in-law laugh aloud - once with son's knitting [well, it *started* as a scarf], & again with the Ovaltinies song, played on a phone in a mug to improve the acoustics...

Very touching memorial card - got a bit moist-eyed reading it & asked where from? "The funeral directors - with the bill." Leaked big time, but with laughter. Bless her, mother-in-law coping splendidly.

Son startled, intrigued, flattered as the man's role (or at least it's shaving accoutrements) are piled upon him. Clearing things, as she puts it, amused at him peacocking with aftershave.

Horsey type spotted in very fetching hoody: "Dressage girls are easy to love. Just hard to afford." Hm. The teenage boy variant needs some work, perhaps in a menage?!

Delighted to read a lass on an MSE thread isn't going down for clobbering her abusive husband. Really hope she can sort a clean break divorce & move forward with her life now.

Hearing neighbouring children thwack at sticks together & recognising one hooting the Game of Thrones soundtrack - very appropriate for "sword play"!

There's something about a defrosted, washed, dried, loaded and purring freezer. I'm a bit tired, but very satisfied!

Being half an hour early for a scout parade & so having time to enjoy sunshine, the park, greet familiar faces, welcome familiar neckers & just enjoy things rather than be in a stressed hustle. Then enjoying icecreams afterwards with the family.

Son touchingly thorough with Consultant over possibility of brain surgery for his epilepsy. Prepared to renounce Prom (and alcohol) rather than risk unwanted seizure. Consultant delightfully straight faced & informative. Just so proud of all involved!

Sunshine filtered through pink cherry blossom - the most lovely decorations I know.

Cheerfully chivvying a colleague into submitting a properly thought out (and planned for) Travel & Subsistence claim. (Some blokes flinch from the mundane boring things & thus miss out appallingly. Not this one this time!)

Little nasturtium plants still alive despite sleet & snow! (So far.)

Three different hedge plants neatly clipped to show to their best advantage in the urban setting & one blackbird announcing himself therein - amplified by the buildings. So glad it's not just concrete!

Seems GCSEs & 6th form colleges fuel & recruit candidates with pizza. Eldest has strolled home, studiously uninterested in home cooking as he has been bribed (& seized the opportunity to thoroughly fill himself to kneecaps & beyond!)

I am to be exiled to a call centre for a spell, again. The pleasure is in the communal grumbling and in the out-planning the inconveniences. Sharing tips remembered, like Lucozade or Vimto, & a really easy to digest packed lunch & rewriting the domestic contract to ensure the evening meal is *always* someone else's problem, even if it's soup & a roll.

Raffles! Have you overdone it a bit? Are you sprawled somewhere recovering from your Yellow Stuff exertions, as it's gone chilly again. Rest up, ingest another newt or four & see how you feel, eh?!

Mhagster's "no spread" - I can yell Huzzah! into cyberspace, & go light more candles. Still not all clear again yet, but dear girl, never doubt we're with you & your family. Warm sweaters, with clean handkerchiefs in sleeves, curl around you!


Great big hugs to all who need them, umbrellas parasols hot water bottles & someone to lug watering cans to such as care for same and health & strength & courage & devotion to all our fourpaws & similarly supportive friends!

ampersand

dfv - that Thread's 'removed' after abusive, intrusive oick posters wrecked it, not the sort from chez nous. But, as we both know, the main thing is that she's free and he remains inside on remand.
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mhags - as sparrer says. I've just shouted an 'invountary 'Oh, wonderful!' when I read that special news.
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vicky - I have just printed out my free ticket!!! Yippeeeeeee!!!
Yurpean times samedi. All rouge et noir & will be!
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'Just in' is amost right, if we remove the fafffing about trying to follow instructions for preceding goody.

1. Done. 'Tis mine - and, of course, end of May Aviva Final to come.

2. & has done 3,752 envelopes, inserting differing content from checklist, sorting the lot by addy, by number, by Ward[did 5], More tomorrow+phones+other. Sounds boring and repetitive sans doute but isn't, Have to stay super alert, check with constantly updating hustings and soundings[several incredibly sophisticated progs. feeding vox pop info in all the time]. We can quickly write/adjust responsive extras, colour print and fold them[37,000 yesterday]and people are in and out on the run constantly, taking street/neighbourhood/workplace honed specifics out - all requested! FelI I'd been useful for 10 hrs today:-)

3. My free Persephone bookmark marks the page - good new library book any moment now. hwb maybe - darned cold wind today and big hail storm+sun yesterday[about which & wrote before it disappeared, gnash gnash]. Hares were out at play. It was good.

4. Beautiful colour sunset tonight,

5. GATE LATCH FIXED!!! - after yet more fiddling early this a.m. Another screw sheered off. Made of what these days? Gimcrack? & said something & doesn't say. Unlocking and unlatching on rtn ce soir was Good. Cheeky other party's mailshot in &'s letterbox, despite &'s grand statement on a stake out front.
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Hungry, tired, cold right now, so off I go.
Bonne nuit and thanks given at large tonight.
Everyone take care, please.

VickyA_2

mhagster - you sob all you like. We're here for you. Good news that it hasn't spread.

I officially have the lurgy. Urgh!!! I think the lurgy is very OS, isn't it? Trouble is, I can't quite work out which one of my class has given it to me.

Bit narked at work as I seem to be missed out of the loop with regards to communication. It's always 100 times worse when I'm feeling ill too.

Anyway, I mustn't really complain. Sorry.

Pleasures today:

1) More money payable through PayPal from my eBay sales. Duly put into my savings spreadsheet.

2) Went to the hairdresser. Not OS, but he's lovely.

3) Sausages for supper. Yum.

4) Friend has had a baby boy! This friend has 2 girls already, but lost a baby 2 years ago and earlier this year lost her mother.

5) Time for bed.

Night all xxx

judi24

Good news indeed Mhags - hoping it gives you and yours a little lift! & you sound so busy - you make me dizzy!!! You need to look after yourself in all this activity!


Today has been a busy one here too so pleasures a plenty along with a few dramas!


1. Good news from colleague with injured son - still not managed to bring him round from sedation but all indications are good - Rev Mum on the case to him upstairs now! (well she's visiting colleague tomorrow to support anyway!)
2. New PA is a star - been working her hard (maybe a little too hard!) this week as having a catch up week - cancelled all non urgent/important meetings to clear desk and head! - feels good!
3. DD2's friends cupcakes went down a treat
4. Got a round of applause in my big meeting today - it was very weird! But I'm obviously doing ok!
5. Not sure how this is a pleasure but it is!!! DS got a letter about a ski holiday - its rather expensive given my desire to get debt free - I am reluctant to say no - cos he is actually doing really well in school, cadets, home etc after a very rough few years! - so DS has decided to ask his dad to help - I know he won't but it was nice to hear my DS defending me and saying his dad should help and according to him 'will' help! and also happy to help towards it through birthday, Christmas and pocket money! - proud mummy moment!!

DundeeDoll

hooray for mhags and her lovely family
just lost long post so am shortening to hello to all i have read your posts and, although very intrigued by her wot's free and him wot's not shall without further ado move to my 5 for today
1) cold but sunny
2) colleague got a full time permanent job. sad she's going but thrilled for her
3) after work tea at friend's. had a good catchup. she has a 15 month old grandson and now works 4 days a week so she can see more of him. he's soooo sweet (though only saw photos)
4) when i got home son was home. he's got exams and had been in the library 11 hours and needed a break so came home to see the dawgs. i walked him half way back to his flat and had a nice chat
5) and now in bed. friday is so close i can almost touch it

Frith

Good news, MHags :-)


Ampersand - good to have an update about THAT thread and glad he's on remand


Pleasures for last few days:


1) Not bad sleeps!


2) Funny incident at work. 3 small boys squashed onto one big chair in the library. Much giggling and peering into a large, glossy picture book. :-/ I crept over and asked what they were reading. "We're farmer's boys", they said. Looked at the book and it was a guide to tractors and they showed me which ones they had on their farms! They were quite chuffed when I said my dad has one too.


3) A kind offer from someone on this thread. ;-)


4) Son has decided he will have his operation. He's on his 15th course of antibiotics. Pleasure is emailing the doctor to get some of son's questions answered and getting an email back within hours, answering the questions and saying he has been referred to his surgeon again.


5) Chinese takeaway for tea. Ate too much though, and am suffering for it now!


6) Enjoyed watching the Island and The Last Leg.


7) Got my pass at work and look ghastly on the photo!