5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

CCP

Evening everyone.

I'm afraid I'm back to struggling with pleasures today, as my grandmother's had another fall and is back in hospital after less than a week at home. The gloomy weather doesn't help my mood, either.

Anyway, let's see what I can think of:

1) Had a nice telephone conversation with a colleague today - his soft Scottish accent has no bearing on my enjoyment of speaking to him, obviously.

2) My OU assignment is off on its merry way, and good riddance to it.

3) Got a voucher for a free tester pot of paint - that's nice timing now I've got permission to re-decorate.

4) My letting agent is hoping to persuade my landlord to find the money to replace the lino in my kitchen, even if he can't afford to do anything else, as it's got so many holes in it that it's really unhygienic.

5) LO mixed fruit crumble for pudding tonight. :drool:

:j I managed 5!

Hope everyone's doing OK, at least OKish.

wogglemaker

Catrina I remember mums horror when the kids came home from school with the dreadded (along the line of my grandchildren DO NOT GET NITS) to whic I replied and they have given them to me, you should have seen her face - it was priceless.

Sparrer - well done on Pulmonary Rehab, life seems to be contriving aga\inst me finishing things off. Mom passed away during my first course, I've been in admitted twice during the re-run and unwell in between.

here is a few from over the last few days.

1. DD has agreed to do most of the housework for a consideration as I have not got the umpfh to start the whole shebang let alone finish. Also help with things like cleaning the windows.

2. Hubby & I will be able to think of going out and doing some of the more pleasurable jobs when I'm well enough now rather than doing things in the house that desperately need doing.

3. Tea was home grown salad leaves cucumber and toms with a jacket and half price tongue. Very OS and yummy.

4. woke at very silly o'clock this am throwing another sweat and clammy, so hubby did the ironing while I had a rest.

5. First load of runners blanched and in the freezer.

6. Delivery of goodies ordered at the weekend arrived today, the in car tea maker is currently being eyed up by DS who thinks it's cool.

sleep tight all

Luv Woggl;e

Wee_Jo

Hi everyone :hello:


Late post tonight - had such a busy day but think I managed a few small pleasures:

1. Enjoyed yummy breakfast (sausage sandwich) with hubby before we left for work this morning
2. (Re)read some of my favourite book on the bus
3. Satisfied feeling when I finished the report I had to complete
4. Feeling of fresh air when I finally got out of the office this evening!
5. Coming in under budget on the grocery shopping :money:
6. Running for the bus AND MAKING IT with all the shopping bags (nice bus driver!)
7. Hubby making dinner for me
8. Chicken drumsticks cooked (homemade KFC style prob not very OS!) so they weren't wasted
9. All washing up done and kitchen cleaned and tidied

Phew!! That was loads! I didn't realise until I started writing! This is such a nice way to end my day!

Woggle - an "in car tea maker"...I have never heard of this! I would be eyeing it too, it sounds brill!

Tealady - hope you and your friend are okay. It must be a terrible time.

I think I am going to head to bed now. I hope everyone has a good night's sleep and is rested for Wednesday "Hump Day" tomorrow

Jo

Patchwork_Quilt

Sorry to hear your awful news Tealady. I know you will be there for your friend.

Seems almost wrong to think of 5 blessings in the next breath.

1) Coffee at the local cafe with a friend. Not only did we have a good chat, which is amazing since she was extremely down in the dumps last week and actually living under her duvet but a) they have agreed to save their tiny jam jars for me again this year and b) I didn't have a piece of cake. I realised that the cake at home was just as nice but it was free, so I made myself wait for it.
2) Getting the washing dry for free outside. All the better because it was a huge heap of Ds's Youth Hostelling washing.
3) Friend gave me a box of jam labels as she has no time to use them this year.
4) Worked until quite late but managed to raid the fridge and provide a salad, followed by chocolate and walnut fudge pud from the microwave.
5) Have discovered a large stack of last year's magazines in the living room basket so can work my way through them some time soon.

Chocolate, walnut and fudge pud

1 tin condensed milk 'fudge'
1 oz Green and Black's cocoa powder
3 oz SR flour
3 oz sugar
2 very small eggs from allotment friend
3 oz butter, softened
handful of Christmas walnuts

Put as much 'fudge' as you like in the bottom of a microwaveable dish.
Blitz the sponge ingredients together with a hand mixer.
Stir in the walnuts. Spoon sponge/walnut mix over fudge.
Cover with cling film and microwave on high for 4 mins 30 seconds.

Why not?

wogglemaker

Jo it's an insulated mug that plugs in to the ciggie lighter socket. The Adaptor casn charge phones and other bits as well so DS tells me

Frith

5 for Tuesday!

1) Cleaned my bedroom including all the drawers and the boxes of paperwork under my bed.

2) Have been very worried about my mum recently. She found a few lumps but first went into denial then refused to go to the doctors because she was "scared in case it was something serious". Her mum died of breast cancer aged 66 and mum is 65... It ended up with me being extremely bossy with her on the phone yesterday then again this morning, basically telling her that I would inform her sister/my sister/anyone else I could think of if she didn't get on and make a Dr's appointment. She went this afternoon and her lumps are "fatty lumps" and nothing to worry about.

3) Went to a NT place at Brockhampton this afternoon with the boys. We saw one of the supply teachers from sons' school and bigger son was very embarrassed to have had his hair cut so kept hiding from her then walking around with his hood up! They did pond dipping in the moat and the weather was lovely.

4) Made one of their favourite teas - chicken and brocolli pie.

5) Neighbour and his sons took smaller son off to play football with them. Bigger son and I went for a walk and watched Holby City.

6) Ordered smaller son's Beavers sweatshirt so I can have 5 weeks to sew the badges on it before Beavers starts again.

7) My sister asked if she could come on our forthcoming London trip.

sparrer

well done on the continued weight loss mollie, what an incentive to keep going. I'll have to knuckle down when I get back from my hols with the DGC
oh ampersand, I did laugh at all the !!!!!'s. Fancy this site banning the furry purry moggie word :rotfl:
parsonswife I love toasted cheese and ham sandwiches, or croque monsieur as I know them. I tried those pockets once, the bread burnt and set fire to the toaster :eek:! But they did come from a £1 shop so perhaps that's why
I know what you mean by the notes Ladyhawk, it's great fun when something so silly turns into an afternoons entertainment
woggle sorry to hear about you failed attempts at pul rehab..I had to turn down my first invitation last year due to a previous commitment but started in September. I've been going to the classes ever since and love it. We laugh a lot, it makes for a happy Monday morning and the perfect way to start the week. I sincerely hope you can do the course soon, it's so worth while
Well done Jo for being under budget, a good feeling. I shan't this month but only a little over, nothing too drastic. The drumsticks probably cost less that a real KFC so not too non-OS
The recipe sounds yummy Patchwork, lots of goodies in there that my DGC would like so we might experiment when we're on holiday as there's a mw in the caravan
So pleased about your Mums good news ACEY :T we needed to hear something positive after so many sad happenings lately.

1. A lie-in til 9.15am
2 nsd
3. Postie brought me the power socket thingy for my laptop - we're back in business!:j
4. Beautiful, soft, sweet rain this morning, sounds poetic but really the only way I can describe it
5. A lazy day with few chores to do and enjoying reading and watching television. Lazy hussey!:o

Night night, sweet dreams
S x

ampersand

I have 5 pleasures to share, the most recent from as many seconds ago:

1. Just saw this article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/28/france-boules-petanques-got-cool?CMP=AFCYAH about a game I love, in a place I love.

2. Phone msg from Bank, while I was at Gym. . . .about some txns 'showing up this morning'[there shouldn't be any!]so called straight back, several times. Person wasn't available and was to call me again. By late afternoon, it still hadn't happened, so I took last sensible bus[thankyou Bus Pass] into Newmarket, raced to Bank, only to discover they shut at 16.30h, not 17h as I thought. Therefore raced back for final bus[grrrr! to ludicrous service cuts. Nothing after 17.14h now] Just as well, every clich! in the book rained down in 2 almighty bursts- Heavens opened/stair rods/ made perspex roofing collapse /torrential cascades / traffic stopped etc.etc. - take your pick. Out of fiasco journey trotted a bedraggled fox, in broad daylight, just past the turning for Tesco. Still need to find out what call is about though, if genuine...nothing amiss online.

3. Bought 4 decent spades and forks from Mr T, REDUCED TO £1.25 EACH, FROM £10....labelled 'for digging boarders'....love that 'a'.

4. Rain made morning watering redundant.

5. Feeling proud[however ridiculous and inappropriate]of something mot's twin son has done.

A day of bold happinesses to all - let's decide and make them happen.

funkymonkey849

Morning all! Having another travesty day in work so I'm here again to remind myself that life aint so bad!!

1. Stuffed peppers with leftover jacket potato in my packed lunch box - hardly anything in the house so had to do some serious improvising!

2. Homemade cake and a cup of tea

3. Waiting for ebay bargains to come in the post woohooo

4. Pumpkin plants in the garden are going MENTAL, they're absolutely huge, one of them has grown a metre long arm which it's using to try and attack as many other plants in the garden as it can. Haven't seen much pumpkin action yet though...

5. My birthday tomorrow Gonna be 25 but I wrote in in the calander at work '21' for a joke and someone believed me

Caterina

Hi all

Tealady my condolences to your friend, how sad for all the family.

CCP sorry to hear you are not feeling happy, I hope your gran gets better soon.

Ladyhawk, I thought what you said in an earlier post to me re. getting used to my job - I might stay after all, see my pleasures below!

Acey, glad to hear that your mum's scary lumps were nothing to worry about after all!

Patchwork Quilt, great recipe, thanks! Might give it a go in the future (when I am feeling less frumpy and lumpy!)

Here are my pleasures, no. 1 was quite unexpected but still good!:

1 - Yesterday morning I woke up really miserable thinking that I had to go into work, planning to walk in, resign and walk out. Wept and wailed (literally) all the way during my journey, to the point that DH (traveling with me to central London) offered to call them and tell them I would not go in. However I had a feeling that I had to give it a further try even if I felt so down. Once I got in - new building, much more airy and with natural light, in a lovely suburban street with trees and gardens, I already felt a little better. I had a meeting with my line manager to catch up and told her that I could no longer do all the copy and paste that I had been doing for the last few weeks and she was horrified that I nearly damaged my arm (she suffers from RSI and knows the feeling well!). She agreed with me that I need to do other things - like there is a million things to do. Later we had a meeting with the programme manager and there is so much to do, so much to be excited with, but what is more amazing is how they really want me to feel at home and settled. So I felt much much better about staying. I think I am addicted to family life and homemaking and need to re-learn to take risks and relate to people out of the familiar environment of my home and immediate neighbourhood. Also, I managed to negotiate to do longer days but go in less frequently, probably an average of 8 to 9 days every 4 weeks - in fact today I am working from home investigating venues for an event! What a change! I am not entirely out of the hot waters though and will take it a day at a time, however I am much more hopeful that there is a future for me there.

2 - After work, met with DH and had a lovely dim-sum meal.

3 - After the meal we went to see a show, one of the actors is a friend and neighbour of ours so we were invited backstage and she introduced us to the other actors. We traveled back home together and had a nice laugh and a catch up.

4 - Today I am working from home and managing to get quite a lot done!

5 - DD made me a lovely lunch of salad and toasted bread, cherries for pudding, I am now finishing my lunch and back to work!

Love to all xxx