5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

CCP

Evening all.

Here's my five for today:

1) Held one of my twice-yearly training events at work - all went well but I now have a stiff neck from talking to one of the guests - he's 6'10 and I'm 5'5! :eek:

2) Rescued some of the leftover food to put in the freezer. (It would have been more but there's so little room in the my freezer at the moment I knew I wouldn't be able to squeeze it in anywhere, no matter how much I hate watching food go to waste.)

3) I'm too tired to feel like cooking tonight, so I'm very pleased I bought a RTC pizza a few weeks ago, which stops me getting a takeaway. I've got some nice ham to add to the topping, too, which my grandmother gave me yesterday as she wasn't going to eat it and she has a rather OS-style hatred of watching food go to waste.

4) Finding that one of the Wallace & Gromit films is available on iplayer, to watch while eating my pizza.

5) It's Friday, after a hectic couple of weeks - phew!

Have a lovely evening, all.

PetuliaGristle

Frith glad to hear the Child Psych and Paediatrician were nice guys and yesterday was better than you anticipated
Tealady sending you hugs for yesterday

Mine for today:
1) 25 minutes on the Wii this morning
2) breakfast in bed
3) cuddles from dd
4) receiving a text from my sister saying my mum is finally in sheltered housing/care home after more than eight months moving between hospitals and home
5) getting through this week's ups and downs, though nothing compared to Frith and Tealady

Gingerjar

Evening everyone

Had a horrible day yesterday as we had to have our lovely little cat put down. She was 14 and gone into total kidney failure. We all cried buckets. Really sad.

But in the name of counting blessings, here are today's 5:

1. Waitrose voucher for shortbread.
2. My great parents who came for egg and chips and who I love to bits.
3. My OH who was such a rock yesterday, he's so kind.
4. Teenagers! Took part in a team building day at a school today locally and feel reassured about the future of the world if today's lot are anything to go by.
5. The forthcoming weekend, time to recharge.

Toodle pip x

Ladyhawk

Hi everyone,

Ginger - I am so sorry to hear about your puddy tat. I had to made the same decision just over two months ago and i still get teary about it.

1) It's Friday... I was still last to leave the office at 7pm...

2) NSD... I did order my Kenwood Chef this morning but cancelled when I remembered that I hadn't gone through Nectar so will have to place the order again when I get a sec

3) Lunch with my colleague - we had a really nice chat and she reveal a couple of very surprising things about her past which I am sure she doesn't just share with anyone (particularly anyone she works with), so I feel honoured that she trusted me.

4) Exchanging a couple of emails with one of our suppliers who I have not met before. I managed to send out a stroppy email to about 150 of them berating them for not completing some information that I required. Unfortunately the link that I sent didn't work which kind of undermined my strop! Just typical really! Anyway we were both amused by it.

5) I "made" £9.50 tonight by returning a bottle of brandy to Mr A. I was going to make mince meat for mince pies with it but then found some dodgy calvados in the cupboard which would be more than suitable.

Anyway - got an early morning tomorrow as I have to take my car in for a service which I fear may be pricy.

Night night

L

zarazara

I'm going to appologise in advance here ,but I have to say I just cannot find anything at all to be cheerful about. My life is one long list of misery. I can remember being younger than 8 and it was ok then, but since then there has been next to nothing thats been good. I've been bullied and abused,escaped that, married, too quickly by far, I was "escaping". Some 20 odd years later I sit here completely fed up and miserable, I want to leave, but my divorced friend lives in misery too. She phones me every week with a tirade of how hard it all is. I've jumped once out of the frying pan into the fire and dont want to do so again. I cannot get over the fact that my M-I-L ,who was a farmer,kept my husband at home with her after he left school and didnt pay him. He worked for donkeys years for her, £20 a week pocket money and was told it was because the profit had to be invested into the farm which he would one day inherit. When she died she left him NOTHING not even a photo of his dad. All because he married me. She wanted him to stay at home with her always, and me and our children "cost money". She left to farm to his younger brother. Her daughter was also cut out as she "wasnt interested in farming". To this day his brother has never been in contact,but now has a wife and child. So, lost out on a £1m ish inheritance.
The farm was also our pension. Now we have nothing much.no pensions except the state pension, when we get it, age 66 at present . We are aged 50. DH works shifts driving a lorry, I spend most evenings and nights alone,have done for last 8 years now. I hate it. All our future down the pan, its not the money we want,its the way of life,farmings in the blood. DH cannot get a decent farming job, no academic qualifications. Lorry driving keeps the wolf from the door,--just. Theres never anything for the nice things. There wasnt when he was working at the family farm,but we put up with it then,our kids missed out on stuff big time but we looked forward to being our own bosses one day and expanding and hopefully doing alright. Now theres nothing at all to look forward too.I cannot do much,having raised a family when he was farming,there were no set hours,it was 7 days a week and M-I-L wouldnt mind the kids so I couldnt work to contribute. I can,and have done shop work, but I find it so soul destroying to be doing what I was dong as a 15 yr old saturday girl. I could really realy just give up, the futures a total black hole of misery . It all just goes from bad to worse.
Sorry to unload but i dont know what else to do. No one can help me.

laloopi

Gingerjar, really sorry to hear about your cat.

Here's mine for today

1) Cooked pita bread from scratch (though I forgot about the second batch and burned them so they came out rock hard)
2) Went for a long walk with my chicken pox-infested baby in the sling, keeping well away from other people
3) Enjoyed some chocolate my lovely friend posted through the letter box for me
4) Planned my husband's Tesco trip in advance using the iPhone app to save time and cash (then talked to him as he was going round telling him which shelf things were on!)
5) Made a lovely cous cous meal for dinner

Ladyhawk

zarazara wrote: »

Sorry to unload but i dont know what else to do. No one can help me.

Zara - there is nothing I can say that will make you feel better or change anything. I am so sorry you have found yourself in the position you are in. Big hugs and I hope something comes along soon that will lead to the life you deserve. If you want to get out of your marriage, please don't listen to your friend about it being hard. It is hard now anyway and if it offers you a glimpse of happiness that you can't see by staying then go for it. You deserve to be happy. And please feel free to rant and unload on here if it makes you feel better.

sparrer

Thank you marmite, re the jar labels I don't feel such an odd'un now. Hope you enjoyed your run
Bless you Tealady, I can't say that losing a sibling gets any easier but gradually the pain becomes less intense. So pleased you can think your brother would prefer the laughter
Frith good for you helping out at school, and then looking after all the boys. You must have the patience of a saint!:A
parsonswife a static is a really good idea, as you say you have the advantage of just walking in and being able to put the kettle on, rather than stabilising, water rolls, awnings etc etc...though it was fun when we were younger and had the stamina
CCP well done on the training events, sorry you got a crick in the neck though . My DSinL and his 2 sons are all over 6 feet, I'm just 5 feet and feel like a mushroom in a pine forest among them so I can really empathise.Good for your grandmother not liking waste, they can certtainly teach us a thing or two about being frugal
Excellent news about your Mum GirlySquare , and a weight of everyones mind, especially hers.She'll settle quickly now she's got a permanent place to stay, and good that she'll have someone to call on if need be. I'm really pleased for you all that things have worked out well
Oh Ginger, my heart goes out to you all. It's little consolation now but she'll be waiting at Rainbow Bridge for you. I do agree about teenagers, they're not so bad, just boisterous. And the majority of we adults forget that we were teens once, too :eek:
Oh dear Ladyhawk, what a let down. Rather like blowing up a balloon, knowing one last puff will make it bigger than you've every blown one before, and the blessed thing bursts :rotfl:. Do you have the Nectar tool bar? It was on the freebie board a while back and lets you know if a site you're on gives points. It also pays one point for every 2 searches to a max of 50 a month. Every little helps!
http://www.nectar.com/collect/toolbar/home.points
zara warmest thoughts and (((hugs))) to you. It's impossible to say what might or might not be by looking at someone elses situation. It won't mean anything now but as far as your in laws inheritance is concerned, you can look around you and say that everything you have you've acquired by your own hard work. I know it's difficult to face, I'm in a similar situation myself right now, but you could turn your situation around with only a little effort. If you want to stay and try together you have to believe there's no shame in working in a shop or driving a lorry. Perhaps you could go along to see what the job centre or Learn Direct have to offer, and/or get an allotment where you can start again on a very small scale - mighty oaks from little acorns grow (I'm not suggesting you grow an oak forest!). If you're determined to go it alone it doesn't have to be tough. My last 10 years as a single have been super but then I'm a positive thinker and believe each day gets better. It might be worth getting an appt with Relate,( they see individuals, not just couples) to give you a broader view. Whatever you decide I wish you well, keep coming back for the amazing amount of support you'll get here, and as Ladyhawk said you know you can rant here whenever you like
laloopi so sorry to hear the little one has chicken pox , hope he/she gets better sooner than soon

my 5 -
1. Postie brought me an invitation to have an eye sight test as it's 3 years since my last. It's free for me now so I'll pop along and have one. The same letter tells me I can get a hearing aid from the opticians too....I'm just waiting til they do dentures so I can go along for the hat trick :rotfl:
2. Hm bread with Ladyhawks plum jam for breakfast, wasn't sure if it was as :drool: as I thought, so I had to have another slice - and it was
3. nsd
4. Watched 'Peggys' last appearance in East Enders. At 73 Barbara Windsor is still amazing
5. Thanks to the cheap phone service I was able to call a friend in Greece to wish her a happy birthday, and my lovely friend in China, for 17 pence

Night night (((everybody)))
S x

Primrose

How come that another week has passed so quickly?
1. Celebrated our wedding anniversary this week. OH cooked a delicious meal and gave me a mostpractical wedding anniversary gift. He put on an apron and gave our oven a thorough cleaning. It's a job I loathe. Who says love and romance is dead ???
2. Picked another large batch of ripe tomatoes. Have given lots away and they still keep coming!
3. We've just done a storecupboard inventory. We have enough staples to live through a siege soI expect future shopping bills to be greatly reduced.
4. Looking forward to visiting a local Fruit & Veg show tomorrow. It will be fun to see what the competition is like.

CCP

Evening all.

Primrose - what a lovely idea for an anniversary present - your OH sounds like a star.

laloopi - hope your babby gets better soon - chicken pox is a miserable illness, I know.

zara - hugs to you - it sounds like you're having a really rough time. I hope something turns up really soon that gets you in a better place than you are at the moment. As everyone else has said, please do come on here and vent whenever you feel the need.

Gingerjar - I'm so sorry to hear about your puddy tat. Hugs to you, too.

GirlySquare - that's great news about your mum. I hope she feels a bit better now she's settled in one place again.

Tealady - a bit late, I know, but I'm glad eveything went OK on Thursday, and that you found some things to laugh about.

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My pleasures for today:

1) Received a new book I ordered over the internet on Thursday afternoon, which was pretty impressive. I paid for it using a voucher from doing surveys, so it didn't cost me a penny. :money:

2) I had some problems with my finances last month and ended up a bit overdrawn (actually quite a lot overdrawn ). This morning I got a letter from my bank telling me how much it was going to cost me - a grand total of 17p. I can live with that!

3) Made some damson gin, which is now sitting in the kicthen cupboard maturing. My dad's made blackberry rum, and we're going to meet up at Christmas and do a taste test. :beer:

4) Made a batch of chilli jam, and it's pretty scrummy if I do say so myself.

5) Phoned up my hairdresser to let them know there was a problem with what the haircut they did the other day (it's not level at the front :doh:), and they've promised to fix it for nothing on Monday. (It's the least I'd expect, to be honest, but it's nice to know they feel the same way).

Have a pleasant evening, all.