5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

milasavesmoney

* The kitchen gut and remodel is coming along. All cabinets are in except the one my builder forgot to order. :wall:
Countertops measured. The guy had a laser machine that measured with points along the walls and front of cabinets. Not all walls are straight he said. My granite slab will be here in a week. Black leathered. It will look fine with my cream colored cabinets.
It looks so very different in that small narrow room. Before there was dark wood paneling for wall cover with almost the same color cabinets. It was like a dungeon! I lived with it for 32 years. All that came down and now it's light and I love it!

* a few nice days reprieve from the blasting wind.

* Bun Bun the rabbit got fixed. Now he and his mother can co-mingle again. He was a sweet rabbit until he hit his teenage self (4 months). Then he started scratching and kicking when held. DD1 is hoping he will settle down now. They are patient.

* Watching how upset my husband is because he lost his cell phone. The reason it's a pleasure is because he absolutely did not want a phone...would never use it...waste of money etc etc. It's fun to know I was right in getting him one anyway. He actually uses it a lot.

* Almost time to plant the veggie garden. I'm longing for homegrown tomatoes again!!

The day has just begun so....

VJsmum

Aaaaaaand I am back in the room :T

Mhags - hope you are ok.

so, where to start - with a moan if i may. Please feel free to skip

The MiL, the MiL, the MiL - :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:



Dear god, but she was sent to try me. Repetitive stupid bloody questions (and, yes, I know she is elderly but she asks things she clearly knows the answer to. For example "what's H doing now?" (friend's daughter. "oh", I say, "she is at uni still", MiL "Leicester, isn't it?" Not in an "oh yes, I remember" but in a "oh yes, I knew where she was all along".) Everything was a complaint, from "it's lovely to be with everyone until i go back to that place where i live and am stuck there by myself again" (she isn't stuck by herself, there are ample opportunities for her to mingle); to "Your dog's fat" to a friend who'd come for dinner :eek:; to "why do X and Y (grandson and fiance) want a big wedding anyway and why do we have to go so far". To "how are we getting to church" for the nth time. I know it would be easy to say "dementia" but i genuinely don't think it is.

The positives were that both SiL's and BiL were genuinely shocked at her behaviour because they don't see it. We shrugged it off with a "she is always like that here" - so it's us she is playing with :mad:

And ..... breathe.

the positives

1. the food was a success darlings. Quiches, salads, roast beef, gammon in coke, ice cream, pecan pie, chocolate mousse cake, banoffi pie, etc etc, all wolfed down and gratefully received. 12 on saturday night, 14 yesterday for lunch.
2. OH and I slept in the caravan for 2 nights. We really liked to do it, said a fond farewell as i doubt we will again. It is going really soon
3. Met our new great nephew. Lovely to have a gorgeous munchy baby to cuddle that could go back to mum and dad when he cried
4. Also got dog bothered, one for the weekend, one just for lunch yesterday. both good but the springer won the day - she is gorgeous
5. we did it :T From a tearful start to the day (MiL not me), i was as chirpy and cheery as i could be till i saw her onto the train with OH at 1.00.

Back to the marking.:(;)

Datchet

1. Refilled water Bottle for car
2. Pack up lunch – homemade bread, 16p tin sardines & used up salad
3. Recycled toilet roll middles for runner, broad and Borlotto bean pots ( the former of which we germinate and sell from drive!)
4. Re-sow lettuce that didn't take earlier
5. Audited freebie veg seeds

Purple_kitten

VJsmum, aw to your number 2. Nice that Sil and Bil got to see how Mil acts up, and breathe.
Mila, you are brave we need a kitchen overhaul, I love the idea, dread the building work though. Hope it is all going well.

• Watching a beautiful double rainbow come and go.
• Had to rationalise the fridge and freeze some bits and bobs.
• The interview came and went, I would really like the role but will not hear until Friday. More interviews to go this week at other places.
• Popped over the bridge to C0stco, picked up a few things and pizza for tonight before heading home in record time as neither of us feel like shopping at the mo.
• Captivating programme about storm chasers used in D Day on in the background.
• Animals literally grabbing me and dragging me outside to play.

caronc

Need to get back in the groove with this:
1. Elderly dog is well and happy though I shan't mention floor puddles!
2. Horrible vertigo attack yesterday has settled down
3. Managed to wash my hair
4. Relaxing massage from lovely physio
5. Comforting dinner of brisket, root veg mash, gravy and savoy cabbage fair hit the spot

Miss_Penelope

It was my day off today and spent zero money, just enjoyed...

1. Putting the bedding to dry on the washing line as we had a lovely windy and sunny day.

2. Dad came over to help me decorate my son's room.

3. Dad brought pastries with him for us to enjoy with a coffee.

4. Quick dinner of scampi chips and peas, all served up, eaten and cleared up by 5.45 p.m

5. DS has actually done his homework 2 days before it is to be handed in and not leaving it until the last minute with me nagging him. Need to work on DD.

6. Clean sheets on bed and a good book waiting for me...:T

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1) Am totally zapped but totally happy.....grandsons!!!

2) Lovely hour when Sue came with her little grandson to play with Zebra, they got on like a house on fire and had so much fun.

3) Wonderful Mimosa Tree in the middle of the village, blazing with bright yellow globes and smelling wonderfully exotic, they always seem so incongruous in March in the UK when we are shivering but oh my word it IS beautiful.

4) So many spring bulbs, primroses, camellias of all colours, single and double in bloom they make such a brave and bold show.

5) Being taken up our garden path by a confused grandson and asked where the strawberries were???

ampersand

A-A-A-A-A-A-ANNNND, TO-NIGHT Our Heroine is.....DRRRRummmm-rolllll

:T:j:TVJsmum:j:T:j
for whom & pours,
[comme ici promis depuis des milliers de secondes trop nombreuses]

cette bonne verre

de sa bonne amie, cette bonne bouteille

She did it. Well done, our vjm:-)
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1...and & has just put down the phone from X. Missed* an earlier mob. one. Will now book train to somewhere:-)))))) Let Oz famberley of x know shortly....

2....while yet more marmalade does the Gentle Simmer, having mulched o/n, after :mad: fiddly-diddling kumquats at last used up. Well, they were rtc 19p, emporium bien sûr, within living memory, but distant. V. perfumey right now though.

3. That* was & in Plod Hall, collecting things. Frontdesk face was uppity same as statement day, 6 months ago. Told 'closed Monday' with a shoved bit of paper and turning away. ''No, you are NOT closed Monday.'[&SMILE} ''Refer to blahblah.'' & in forensic reader old lady pedant mode removes fountain pen, removes cap of fountain pen, proceeds to correct spelling of 'Tuesday' on rough-cut paper, 2.5"x1.75", on which Property Open days/times are listed for hoi polloi , as which & will not self-classify. Stand-off. & immovable, courteous. smiles to all queuing behind, many students of Foreign Climes.
Frontman cannot be as frontman would wish to be to &, in front of Great British, and Other, Public.
'Orroight, follow me, through them grey doors. You can stand outside all y'like, see if anyone hears'', with fat Chance snigger. & re-caps fountain pen with care, replaces fountain pen in bag, processes through door. 'Out there, between them two buildings.' Gentle reader, you are saved from & enjoying herself here and then and there. Mr Plainclothes Nice, new arrival, intercedes. Eventually down a long ramp we go, amid much laden coming and empty going. Putahs appear to have been seized in great number as evidence. Mr PN introduces & to Mr Nice no.2, who eventually finds everything. & signs. & leaves for Bank. Some way down the road & is chased and caught up by Z, out of breath. 'You shouldn't have ~~~ that. That's part of Crown evidence!'
MsP: the aforegoing is decent example of pleasurable rant.:D

4. Banked Spits leftovers, then Grand Arcade for free cake+drink offered by kind Mr JL, emporium grandpa. It's always lovely to scan out over old & College roofs. Nah, not saying 'rooves'.

5. Downstairs, last village bus to catch [car left under hedge at edge of village] On way out, 4 staff eventually made &'s £5 Merci voucher for a big spend work. & did not whisper last week that she'd gone mad and re-Chanel'd to the count of 5. oh soddit, 100ml then - twice as much for half as much extra.
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All Hail &? Well, it hailed ON &, during all outdoors walking today:D
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Night all.

bagpuss38

Vjs mum you have my sympathies, my ex mil was and still is subtly evil. "As in you look lovely, shame about your hair, face, dress" " your sciantica is caused by your huge weight gain dear, slim down you'll be fine" "you shouldn't spend so much to come and see me" yet if we didn't visit "oh I don't suppose you bother with me"

Some pleasures.

Sunday

1. A pleasant wander round local pet superstore and met some lovely four legged loves.
2. Homemade fish pie
3. Watching my fishy discovering green beans
4. A short stint at work to earn a few pennies
5. Home to my jammies and a cuppa.

Monday
1. A very productive day atwork and feel happy I'm finally finding my groove there.
2. Pate and toast nom
3. The declutter commences of dd3's room in preparation for painting.
4. Yummy ginger cheesecake made by my chef son, perfect with a huge mug of tea ( given up coffee for lent, strangely not missing it)
5. The knowledge of a day off tomorrow.
Take care all xx

kboss2010

1) Hugging my cat
2) A lovely cup of loose leaf tea
3) an aestethically pleasing house (tidy, organised & getting there with the decoration!)
4) "me" time (people stress me out lol)
5) a cosy duvet!