5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Minette23

Hello everyone! I'm new here but I have been reading this thread for a while and I love all your posts about your OS pleasures. They always make me remember to be grateful for the little things in life. After uni I found 'real life' quite hard to accept as I was used to going out all the time and never being bored or on my own, and then all of a suddenly I was flung into a 'real' job and had to pay bills/taxes etc. But I have come to terms with the fact that life does have its boring moments, all the more reason to cherish the fun ones, and I have learnt to accept my own company and even enjoy it! So all's well that ends well....

My 5 pleasures:
1: Joining this forum after nearly a year lurking!
2: Going to bed early, leaving OH to his tv program, and snuggling with an amazing book in bed
3: An egg from my silkie hen who hasn't laid in months as she became a mum in the summer and her chick hasn't left her side since he was born, but he has now discovered the joys of scratching for worms in the garden and leaves her in peace
4: OH fixed the computer while i was at work, he's amazing and can fix anything despite being a PE teacher (who seem to have a reputation of being hotties but dimmies) and having no electronic training at all! He's very money saving!
5: My 'easy and fun' lesson went well (i'm an english teacher in france), these sorts of lessons don't always go how they're supposed to and often end up with the kids getting over-excited. They are used to alot more boundaries and rules! But for once they all enjoyed having a bit more space to be creative (a more english style of learning).

Voili voilou

Hope you're all snug away from the snow!

Frith

Sorry to hear you aren't feeling so good, Broomstick.

Here's my 5 for yesterday...

1) Went to town and had my hair cut at the college - £4.75! Not a bad job either, the lecturer always finishes it off though as I have dead straight and very fine hair.

2) Went to Sainsburys afterwards and got some stocking fillers and the Giles Coren/Sue Perkins book about self sufficiency for my Dad (haven't watched the show myself but I did catch some of their shows about eating in the 1970's etc and they were good).

3) Picked MrN's son 3 up from school on the way home from Sainsburys as he is not very well and felt glad I found the car park/reception/didn't fall over in the snow and ice!

4) Made a reasonable tea.

5) MrN came round later. :-) By the time he left it was -10!

Getting rather stressed here as I am going to court tomorrow. The ex is after more access including overnight stays (at weekends) and half holidays with the boys. He hasn't had them overnight for just over 2 years. His statement is not the usual rubbish though - it just asks for what he wants. I don't know what his sentence will be (for his fraud case). That is happening on the 17th.

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Hi ya chums
1. buying a huge chunk of best sirloin steak reduced to just over £4.00( dinner tonight will be a bit of said steak,mushrooms,charlotte potato's salad,with fresh fruit salad to follow)
2. watching the little lasses at the local centre singing carols this morning.They were really lovely bless them.
3. getting our room vouchers for the hotel in Liverpool which I am off to visit with DD and tribe a week on Saturday
4 seeing the red disappearing from my bad arm as the anti-bios kick in
5.Not having to buy anymore shopping this week as I'm all stocked up with essentials which include two large bars of milk chocolate
P.S.Caterina you have a great treat in store if you've never read Ruth rendell she write extremely 'readable' books and I love every one of hers .

sparrer

Just popping in briefly to say thank you all so very much my dear friends for your messages, pm's, emails and phone calls. I don't cope with illness too well and get very cross with myself, try to work through it and end up worse than when I started!

All sorts of meds, some to 'cure' this or that, some to counteract the side effects of the 'cure-alls'! Will someone will invent a pill that does what it's supposed to without the extra aggravations?

Hoping you're all well, (((hugs))) to you all and will catch up with all your mails and phone calls, promise . Thank you again for your very kind thoughts - to the newbies this is what you can expect on this forum, everyone is amazing

With love, Sparrer x

marmiterulesok

sparrer wrote: »

Just popping in briefly to say thank you all so very much my dear friends for your messages, pm's, emails and phone calls. I don't cope with illness too well and get very cross with myself, try to work through it and end up worse than when I started!

All sorts of meds, some to 'cure' this or that, some to counteract the side effects of the 'cure-alls'! Will someone will invent a pill that does what it's supposed to without the extra aggravations?

Hoping you're all well, (((hugs))) to you all and will catch up with all your mails and phone calls, promise . Thank you again for your very kind thoughts - to the newbies this is what you can expect on this forum, everyone is amazing

With love, Sparrer x

Thanks for letting us know how you are.I'd love to be able to say 'Get Well Now' and know that that could happen.Wishing you a speedy recovery and sending you a ((((hug)))).
I suppose the trick is to take things one day at a time,and try not to look at the bigger picture IYSWIM.It's easy to say that I know.A whole different matter if you're living it.

Take care x

niksyg

Evening all!

(((hugs)) to all those who are in need - especially sparrer.

Well I haven't been in for a few days, but had some fantastic news today - our mortgage application has gon through fine and the money is in place so just waiting for solicitors and surveyors and all that jazz!

So, that was pleasure number 1...the others are:

- Having delicious croissants for breakfast
- Arriving at work with all my lesson resources and plan ready to go -no mad morning photocopying to do!
- Another lecturer whose desk is near mine in the staff room made me a cup of green tea as he said I was looking tired and not too well!
- Have got a cold at the moment so my boss let me go home early to try and recover
- LO jam roly poly for pud tonight
- Snuggled up with pooch infront of the fire
- Having a chat with an ex colleague online which has made me definitely see that my move away from that company was a very good idea

Take care all x

Primrose

Just looking at the TV pictures of the snow in Scotland and feeling sorry for all our friends on here who are suffering up there. I suspect the novelty has long since worn off.

Mine for the last couple of days:

1. Nice e-mail from somebody I don't hear from very often.
2. Good news that an acquaintance who was anticipating a serious medical diagnosis has discovered her problem is less serious than expected.
3. Pleasant community night out with people from around our village.
4. Enjoying a session at our new outdoor gym this morning. Boy, it was cold, but the sky was blue and the sun was shining which made it feel almost pleasant. And now my nose feels far less "bunged up" than it did previously.
5. Another community Christmas "do" tomorrow evening. Not sure my constitution is up to all this partying.

newlywed

Hi all,

Not been a great few days workwise, so struggling at the moment....

1. The post arrived with my beads I ordered.
2. My panini rolls I took to work were very nice zapped to melt the cheese - saving me buying lunch.
3. I went for a walk round lots of old jewellery shops and enjoyed just looking.
4. I popped into Jones shoe shop.... and the only boots I liked were so far out of my price range I didn't even want them - quite an achievement on previous years.
5. Dinner was nice - chicken casserole.

Kittikins

Hello Minette, nice to *meet* you

Hello Sparrer, sending get well soon vibes your way xx

Tealady_2

Evening

Sparrer - Good to hear from you and continue to get better and take things easy.
Niksyg - Congratulations on the mortgage
Frith - Hope everything goes well in court for you and hugs to you

Pleasures for yesterday / today:
1. Plumber came round and now have working taps. They do leak a little bit so he will have to come back but at least we can have a shower
2. Had a meeting in another office today and one of my lovely collegues picked me up from home so didn't have to get the train. The drive was lovely as well through lots of frosty countryside that looked so christmasy
3. View over Portsmouth Harbour from the meeting room window, it is such an amazing site. I was too busy looking out of the window to take too much notice of the meeting
4. Free lunch in meeting with a bottle of water and some crisps to bring home
5. Tasty dinner of HM curry for dinner and used up some wilty veg as well to make a small amount of chicken stretch to the 3 of us.

Hugs to all who need them