5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

milasavesmoney

Milk in my tea is essential. Plus a bit of sweetener

* no new leaks or water overflow from any direction

* pinto beans and green chile cheese cornbread (Texas parents and a New Mexico girl combo) :cool:

* new video of darling babygirl DGD finger painting (another Frida?)

* house cleaned :heart2::heart2::heart2::heart2:

* only needed three things at the grocery store :T

mhagster

I'm knee deep in photos, albums, bibles. ( we have so many bibles, I don't know what to do with them all! ) have been trying to find some particular paperwork and I think it's in the garage , as it's not in the house. We still have boxes from moving almost 6 years ago that we've never even opened.
There were cobwebs and a scary , big spider ( though not poisonous just big)

Nice dog walk.

It actually stayed dry , though looks like rains coming. Actually put towels out on the line which is just damp so will dry on clothes horses.

Bought my weekly flowers....you look tired , said florist ( gee , thanks! ) told her about OH. Better out than in.

Have laughed and smiled and cried today ...but the laughing and smiling part is better . I've had so many kind messages and told one friend, it's hard being a miserable cow when you're usually a happy soul!

Trying to get affairs in order. Appointment at solicitor on Monday....just before the Palliative care team come ...reality check!

Hospital most of Tuesday

GP Wednesday ....but before all that we have a weekend together, we have friends coming for dinner tomorrow , which was already planned and I said cooking for them would be a salve to me so no problems with that. Will be nice to see them.
Then we have our Sydney friends flying down for the day on Sunday to see us. Which will be lovely. So I really do need to get all these photo albums put away.

DD1 is about to make banana bread , as soon as I get off the iPad and give her the recipe!
DD2 is doing holiday homework before back to school on Monday
DS is just in from work, so all my babies are in. Which I like . ( love it when they're all out too, though )

Have a fabulous Friday

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Mhags, my GP daughter had a 6 month placement in palliative care during her training in a Hospice. She absolutely enjoyed every second of it and has done some specialist training since in the hope that she will in the fullness of time be able to be the surgery link to the local Hospice where the practise is located. As a GP she could actually DO the job she needed to do to keep people under her care as comfortable and as buoyant as it was possible to be. This made it a place of light, love and laughter, it helped the 'patient' friends she dealt with, it helped their families and friends and it helped the entire team of Medical staff who could actually do what was necessary without the constraints that are in a big hospital situation. She helped very many people and surprisingly has only happy memories of her time there. Palliative care is a wonderful thing and not at all the dark and sad place I always imagined it would be. We are ALL with you for your entire journey love, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, love you all to bits, Lyn xxx.

1) I actually slept right through the night to 7 this morning, gracious there IS still a world out there!

2) A cup of tea in bed from my dear old He Who Knows.

3) My Zebra is coming to stay for the weekend, his Mum and Dad and little yet to be hatched Pingu are coming as well and we are going tomorrow to find him a steam train to play with, oh he loves steamy trains so very much!

4) There are still strawberries that are edible in the garden, and some lovely ripe tomatoes in the greenhouse. He had such fun last summer picking his own breakfast!

5) All the cooking was done yesterday, I made chocolate cake, blueberry and raspberry muffins for breakfast and a quiche for Zebra so today I can just concentrate on tidying up here and go and do a shop for fresh things, much better than my usual mad dash to do it all last minute!

Cappella

Today's pleasures:
1. New library books
2. A clove scented bunch of sweet williams from a friends garden.
3. 10 beautiful deep purple and dark blue iris flowering in the pots on my yard. Lovely strong flower spikes. Cost £1 for two bags of bulbs at the £1 shop, and I'd forgotten I'd bought and then pushed them into the pots in a rush one day.
4. Made a 1940s retro style frilly apron for a friend birthday from one of mum's 1943 patterns and some of my fabric stash,and she's asked if I'll make another so she must like it.
5. Sitting in a park listening to the wind in the trees.

DundeeDoll

Sitting in Belfast international airport waiting for 5:10 flight (I like to arrive early!)
1) found my jacket I 'lost' at the conference - I'd left it at a friend's stand!
2) presented PhD student's work which had been voted conference 'hot topic' (proud supervisor!)
3) lovely conference meal at the Harbour Commissioners Office. There is the titanic captain's table and chairs - production was delayed and it never made it to the maiden voyage so now sits as a salutary reminder at the HCO.
4) there is free wifi and leccie at the airport
5) i'll soon be home. nice to be away, but after a long weekend in york followed by 2 days in edinburgh and 3 days in belfast i will be pleased to be home.
love and hugs to all xoxox

DigForVictory

mhags!
late in and what Bop said. Loudly.
Also Mrs LW is spot on, but How I wish you didn't have to do this yet.

Dead right to get the photo albums sorted, but have him start taping video messages? I don't know if you or he could face the idea of weddings time future without him yet, but I've been to one where the father of the bride's speech was posthumous & we had to stop to wash & restore faces - but he was glorious - warm, loving, supportive, generous.
Right now, just keep putting one foot in front of another, and know that we're here. Wishing we could do something constructive & knowing that in the end, all we can flat guarantee is love.

The bibles? Go on the bottom shelves, so in the event of unexpected flooding, you know what's drenched. Photo albums are stored in safer locations!

Smiley87

A really nice Friday to start my weekend:
1. Went to visit my new place of work today - lovely atmosphere
2. Lovely people at new place of work
3. Early Friday finish
4. A nice afternoon watching terrible tv shows with a cuppa and the dog
5. No massive drive home

Purple_kitten

Smiley: Your new job sounds good.
McHags: Glad you are talking about it, capture and create those memories, and a good legal person is well worth their weight.

1. Work is done. They and I have agreed to renew for a while. It’s nice to feel I will be going on holiday and have an income when we get back, it also means some home improvements.
2. Lunch was a hot dog:o
3. Planted and watered any plants that where still looking for a spot, that’s them all done they take their chances now.:rotfl:
4. We’ve just placed our “usual” Chinese order to pick up, we have the menu and a little post it with the usual order.:o:o
5. I am about to order DH and I new mobile phones:eek:, we have put it off for 2 years so far, and have used various hand me downs, but now we have saved to buy the handsets outright as our monthly plans are £12 per month. I keep hesitating as it is still a very large sum to spend.:eek::eek: I kind of want to keep the savings.... doh.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

BoP is currently enjoying the waters Inn town, and sharing his love for the world.

Normal service will resume tomorrow with the snorkers and poached eggs.

In the meantime :heartpuls

Frith

Writing post raspberry cane whipping across eyeball accident. Quite the most painful thing to happen to me in some years (I didn't blink so full force!)


Anyway, pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Work went OK, everyone chatty.


3) Went to see my mum who had eye operation 1 today (she needs cataracts x 2 first, then corneal transplant x 2). One cataract done today, took ages as they can't do their normal op as they need everything right for the transplant later on.


4) Went swimming with sons and my brother.


5) One of smaller son's favourites for tea - salmon (baked then flaked) mixed with pasta, peas and mayo.


6) Enjoyed watching the Last Leg.


7) Been practising French and German online in bed but about to put Dead Ringers on.