5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Caterina

Hi all

Blimus, sorry about the awful work situation for your DH, I hope he gets new contracts soon. I understand the stress of being self-employed. I am sure you will manage to cope, with your amazing OS skills, and will eventually turn the corner (I hope soon!) (((HUGS)))

Tealady, thank you, it was lovely, but I really went to town to spoil him this time, see my pleasures below!

Here are my pleasures for yesterday:

1 - Glorious sunshine

2 - 3 lots of laundry done, including bedding.

3 - Mixed pleasure: found some insect eggs (Horrid! Yucky!) in the fluffy dust under our mattress (this is not the pleasure!) so I was spurred into a cleaning and disinfecting frenzy, I removed, hoovered and beat that mattress to an inch of its life, then hoovered all the nooks and crannies in the bed frame, then sprayed the anti-moth poison (luckily it is "natural" so it should not poison us, too!). Luckily we had such glorious weather so I left the windows open for ages and cleaned the rest of the bedroom as if it depended on my life! Then I remade the bed with fresh linen etc. In the end, our room now is doubly spring-cleaned and fresh, sweet smelling (This is the pleasure!).

4 - Found a fantastic offer online for a dinner for 2 in a restaurant where the waiters are opera singers and they sing to customers. Took DH as a surprise and we had the most magnificent dinner and entertainment ever, it was a perfect evening and he was thrilled by this surprise treat.

5 - Getting back late home and entering my freshly cleaned room and bed, it felt better than any posh hotel!

Off now, will post later or tomorrow for today's pleasures, have a good day everybody x

Primrose

1. Another dry day for getting laundry washed.
2. Managed to finish digging & weeding all the borders in the back garden.
3. Finally getting the bags of composted manure off our patio and spread around on the soil.
4. Snowdrops seem to have grown two inches in the past couple of days and ready to burst into bloom.
5. Catching the first early perfume from our Daphne flowers.
6. And the first one I've seen this year - a very brave bumble bee who has obviously just emerged from hibernation.

ampersand

It's been a day or two, but they have come and I am still here, however wracked.

1. Unusually for me, slept deep and long hier soir, after dragged-out feeling day[we both felt it, despite doing v. well] at Charity Showroom, following night with no sleep at all. QED.
2. First Amazon book sale for many weeks, posted, which may help madness of self, who....
3. ......after dithering for some days, actually bought ticket for May>Glasgow>Armadillo>glorious and superb Tim Minchin[who shares Old School with s/o, which is a path I must not tread too nearly, dearly atm.] I did not realise his 'Matilda' was on for only a short run, when the plaudits rained down, almost in critical disbelief. I hope it will tfr>West End at some point. TM is a very, very clever and funny and grounded fella. Amazon sale covers barely a qtr of tkt, but in a so-wot defiance, I have done it.
4. Mr T vouchers arrived, will use some to cover Glasgow SYHA stay. It's a marvellous building, former mansion of shipping family and well-sited up on Park Terrace.
5. Dreams may have helped last night, but there is much I am far from able to re-visit atm.
6. Worser and worser, considering content of no.3, also bought 2 books on Amazon.
7. I've noted others' pleasures re: snowdrops and spring flowers, but today saw some for myself, around Surgery. Amidst them stood a great bunch of daffodils, in full bloom.
8. NZ Bush Shirt is having gentlest wash and will be set to blow dry overnight. The bittersweet which overwhelms just now is present here, too, but I must visualise that diluting, departing with the gusting night air.
9. Earliest ever schoolfriend D has found me via the f/b thing I have been very wary of....am venturing in tentatively.
10. A 'Goody goody' poss. mtg to anticipate with pleasure and empathy with an mser - lovely pm. Thankyou.

zarazara

1. being able to help DS1 with a problem he had.
2. buying seed potatoes and seed trays
3, roast dinner tonight and rice pudding to follow
4. knowing how much I love DH
5. the woodburner is lit and its nice and warm

Purple_kitten

At the risk of sounding cliche:-The first buds of spring, nearly longer days

Working from home yeah – but mainly as i’m feeling poorly – it’ll pass thou.
Sorted 2 crates of clothes for the charity shop.
Made banana cupcakes with butter chocolate icing, err not very weight watching but very Moorish.
Cleaned out all of the animals.
Relaxing tonight reading a great book I bought from a charity shop at the weekend.

CCP

Evening all.

I'm afraid it's another hurried post from me tonight, before the football starts.

For yesterday:

1) The security light didn't come on as I left for work - it's definitely getting lighter in the mornings!

2) A glorious, warm, sunny day, which felt decidedly spring-like at lunchtime.

3) LOs for lunch - much cheaper than buying something.

4) An email received by a colleague threatening dire consequences to his immortal soul for rejecting a client's case. The whole thing was so ridiculously over-the-top it had us in fits of laughter - probably not what the writer intended!

5) Lots of cuddles from my puddy tat. I don't know what's making him so clingly at the moment, but it's rather cute.

And for today:

1) More LO pie for lunch.

2) Many apologies from a very senior colleague for dropping a nasty bit of work on me at the last minute, and I know he'll remember it next time I need a favour.

3) HM chicken and lentil curry for dinner (well, HM from a jar as my attempts at totally-made-from-scratch curry have never been remotely successful ) - it's cooking now and smells delicious. :drool:

4) Football to watch very soon (I'd better get a move on...)

No five today, sadly - I've been feeling really tired and run-down recently and am scratching around for pleasures rather more than I'd like.

ampersand - sending you big hugs through the ether - you're obviously having a really rough time at the moment.

wogglemaker - it's great to see you posting again - I hope you manage to stay out of hospital for a while now.

Blimus - that's dreadful news about your OH - I hope something turns up right NOW!

Have a great evening, all - I'm going :footie:wards now.

whizzer01

hi all

a quick 5 for me

1-my book arriving at the library - i love the library free books and no clutter when you are done
2 - yummy stir fry and choc muffins for tea
3 - a snuggle and i love you mummy moment from my little man earlier
4 - a charity bag filled and collected so more clutter out of the house
5 - overcharged at the supermarket yesterday so went back after school run and claimed the money back

lavandula good find on the agatha christie book - i always keep an eye out for them at the charity shops etc as read them time and time again

gratefulforhelp_2

Shared lifts with DH
Picallili with bread and cheese for dinner
Amazon order arrived
Managed to do complicated computer thingy quickly and easily - a miracle
Lovely person at work flew through her GCSE Eng and Maths, with kind help from my colleagues, makes me feel proud to work with such good people.

xxx

wogglemaker

Think I'll easily manage five today.

1 dad has the date for his knee op.
2 Two lovely quick motorway joureys today to specalist asthma unit
3. when weight and lung function checked at clinic I'd lost 10 kg since last apt.
4. easy teas today, better next day stew re-heated for me OH wanted nowt, DD sorted her self, DS had what didn't eat yesterday.
5 Approved food order arrived and the cherry jam is delish on fresh white bread (i feel another order being made soon).

gratefulforhelp_2

10kg :T:T:T:T:T