5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

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Hugs to Halleous and Muppet. Hang on in there!

Caterina

Ohboy what a day. Talk about having to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find at least five positives.

I shall not whinge about the difficulties because I no longer want to dwell on them. Here I go, see how far I can get:

1 - DH feels a bit better even if not recovered but also not a 100% wreck like the last 2 days.

2 - Managed to make it to the meeting in time, even if I had to cross London in the rainstorms.

3 - My colleague friend back from Ireland (Donegal) brought me the thick woolen socks I asked her for, three pairs but only wants money for two, one is a gift. They are wonderful!

4 - Because of challenging day I decided we are having Indian takeaway (but boiling my own rice to save money).

5 - A difficult day is nearly over and I still manage to come here and find a warm fuzzy feeling of support in this lovely OS community. Thank you all!

Have a great evening,

Caterina xxx

Come back to edit after reading the earlier posts better:

Muppet, all my crossed fingers and prayers are with you for a good result xxx
Halleous, I am delighted that your baby is well, congratulations on your "happy accident"!

Ok off to order my takeaway now...

SunnyGirl

to Halleous & glad that everything is alright with you & the baby. It can be such a worrying time so take care of yourselves.

Muppet

Ollie I was thinking about making the cake into a chocolate one & also making a coffee one for my Mum and sprinkling chocolate covered coffee beans on the top. You've started a trend here now I think!

My five for today are:

1. Lovely tea tonight a potato bake recipe from the Grocery Challenge thread. It used up all the gammon from yesterday's lunch too which was the plan :money:

2. I requested the book of Flash Forward, that's currently on Channel 5 even though the book was written in 1999, from the library and it came in today. I thought I'd get a sneak peak of what happens although I do believe that the programme makers will have taken some artistic licence

3. Chatting to my friend via email - we can say so much more than in a text.

4. I'm having a baking day tomorrow so have spent an hour looking through my recipes to see if there's any new ones I fancy trying. It was so much easier as I'd sorted the bulging file out a few weeks ago

5. Had a real chocolate craving today (pmt probably :rolleyes:) but was very good and didn't go to buy any I pinched 4 squares from the stash I keep in the baking box. It's from Netto, costs about 56p for a big bar and is equal to Cadbury's Dairy Milk - and I'm a BIG choccie fan!

I hope that everyone is ok and I hope that any of the poorlies get better very soon

Kittikins

Phew, it's Monday evening.......

1. DD appears to have gone to bed on time and without any scampering about, all is quiet up there for a change! She's been fed, bathed, cuddled, has read her book, done some home work and was happy to be tucked up with her teddies tonight.
2. Watching an interesting documentary about Berlin's architecture on iplay*r; I never read a tv guide so miss things when they're on so it was nice to watch this whilst
3. Roasting the scrumptious organic veg I bought yesterday in the Remo$ka, then taking them out and cooking the rice in the same pot, very garlicky and yum. There's enough for tomorrow as well
4. Being inspired by some of the diaries on here to up my game a bit in the OS/money saving and making fronts. So far I've done some online surveys and free b1ngo to try and get money towards Amaz*n vouchers today and have decided that I'm going to eat from the storecupboard as much as possible and plan ahead as I want to cut back on the spends more from now on.
5. Sitting in the lounge bathed in candlelight and realising that they are very OS as they were given to me by a fre*cycler, saving electricity and landfill

Hugs to all, especially Caterina after her hard day and sending prayers to Muppet for tomorrow and the days that come xx

ampersand

Just in - evening all - but 3 or 4 miles en route this a.m., found I'd left camera behind.
Wanted to do pix for mugs to OD colleagues[and while Mr T offers 200pts/£10 photo things spend, makes it worthwhile as well as fun]

1 - so, 3xcountry road stretch where roadside berries are still abounding, glowing, massed. Even better in that roadworks meant Red Light was not irksome, just more looking time.
2. - found 3 things all of a sudden just now, that I'd begun worriting about - camera case, tweezers[prickle], ebay sold item[concerning which, anything sold is always a bonus, continuing well at wk 3 since resumption after a year's absence.] I now invite entries for my Chequebook Whereabouts competition....can't be far, can't be far, had it in my hand[the old keys and glasses refrain] etc.etc.
3. - son of Ops Mgr has job! A terrific young chap, not conventional appearance, he'll be brilliant in the caring profession. So glad someone had the nous to see X for what he will be. They are the winners.
4. - return of stolen item to Charity, with Dad and apology. I worry for this young one, very bright, prob unchallenged at school and needing a sort of tough love prep.school r!gime...won't get it while the future's wasteland calls. I will call it a pleasure that he didn't swear at me/pull away when I took him, his hands and insisted also on his eyes being with mine. 'Explanations are not excuses' is in his anti-glib armoury now. Will he remember it in time, each and every time? I just hope and hope.
5.- a day at Charity which had a good glow all day long; we all felt it. Had a fine time when lady, hosting 60's dinner party on Sat, needed everything - clothes, table settings, recipes etc.etc. Found perfect things and will tonight fashion a rose hair thing for her from excess material in the purple velvet/white lace retro dress. Such fun we had - told her Mateus ros!, candles dripping down bottles, teak snackdishes, fondue set, much else, would be signatures...played Aladdin's cave and Treasure Hunt all in one. Will dig out 2 boxes of long-forgotten Safrron Hornsea dinnerware for her, whose whereabouts in my No. 1 shed I believe I know...will be very wary of venomous spiders.

Oh well, I was Nearly Doing Well...so,
Next no. 5 - ISIHAC back AND with Mornington Crescent:j:j:j.
next next no. 5 - AR catchee uppee on iplayer awaits. Lovely.
Special last no. 5 - S, who came in mid-afternoon. I'd kept my thoughts for her very focussed last week. Young husband had major Papworth op. and progress has been mindboggling fast, has already utterly transformed his Life.

Warmest thoughts to all - a diamond sparkling moon if you can look out tonight.

-and a p.s.-y sort of 5.
Real start to day was being up early enough to allow a good hour of conditioner on long hair[tip from College Hair/Beauty students], thus looking out into gloamy half-morn, while Mrs Wifey and I both breakfasted. The rough wind tousled her bottie feathers from behind and turned her silhouette>turkey.

Kittikins

Ampersand - you've made my evening, will have to go and listen it ISIHAC now

HariboJunkie

Hope tommorrow is a better day Caterina. x
Welcome and congratulations to Halleous. :hello:
Will be thinking of you tommorrow Muppet. x

Mine for today

1. Getting on top of all the housework by lunchtime, leaving most of the rest of the week clear for office work.
2. Leftover roast for tea which tasted even better tonight.
3. DD seeing the menu plan on the kitchen blackboard and writing "you rock Mummy" across the bottom. (I think she approves)
4. DTwins bringing home HM cookies from brownies.
5. Getting to know our new kitten and watching the dog get used to sharing my attentions.

Haribo x

nuttybabe

Hi all

Mine for today are:

1 Reaching my target weight!!!!!!! 4 stone lost since January! :T:T

2 Managing to use my phone to put a piccy on facebook - quite an achievement for me and took me some time to do!! lol

3 All the nice comments I had from friends on facebook

4 Wearing my newly knitted scarf in the cold today (and being complimented on it!!!)

5 Ds1 doing so well with his reading in school that he has the role of narrator in the school xmas play

Now to read up on sock monkeys, started to yesterday but only got to page 20 so quite a bit to read - tarot course will have to wait, I think sock monkeys will be my next project - I cant wait to get started!

live_within_ma_means

loving this thread & thanks to everyone thats posted...


I have chestnuts roasting in the oven bought with oops sticker, made sure i cut crosses into them (didn't last year & had many explosions :rotfl:

made home made olive bread last week(1st time) and nearly passed out that it was almost perfect.:eek:..hope to make it again just used up the remaining black asdas own black olives (just removed an ickle teeny bit of blue mouldy from the liquid eekk) and washed out the jar to keep for storage (either craft or dried foods).

managed FINALLY to used up an ancient tin of flageolet beans that have been in the cupboard 4 ages ...with my batch tomato/sugoish sauce....result ....& tasty )remembered to rinse them just learned to do this!! Always wondered why tinned beans had a funny taste ?-Now i rinse:D

taking round home made cookies (a nigella recipe i doctored to use up dried dates, porridge oats, chopped basics peanuts & nr enough a pack of asda smart price jafa cakes) 2 my friends house to be swooped upon by her kids ...& as it makes 30 i had plenty left to keep in fridge although need to remember & freeze it either tonight or tomorrow as it won't keep 4 long...
thanks everyone ...

Primrose

I haven't posted for ages, so must catch up.
1. Lovely meeting last week with two former work friends I haven't seen for ages.
2. Going to a concert with another friend a few days ago.
3. Our electricity supplier writing to reduce our monthly direct debits because we appear to be overpaying (yippee - something actually going down for a change!).
4. More friends coming to lunch tomorrow so another pleasant day to look forward to. We seem to go for ages without catching up with some of our friends and then everything seems to happen together.
5. Waking up these past few mornings to the rain lashing on the windows, being thankful I don't have to go out to work any more but feeling desperately sorry for all the poor people up in Cumbia who've had their homes and businesses flooded.

(I loved Penelope's potato photo. Wonder if she's going to save and and gift wrap it for Valentine's Day ??) Such a shame the Common Market Food Directives have forbidden all those funky, naughty shaped carrots we used to be able to buy!