5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mummysaver

Morning all!

Happy birthday mhagster!

My blessings for the weekend, yesterday and so far today:

1. The glorious sunshine over the weekend!

2. ds mowing the front and back lawns and it all looking so much tidier, then he even cleaned the patio, so that we could have a bbq on Saturday evening, thankfully the rain held off till after it was all cooked

3. Lovely lovely sales assistant in Boots, who helped put through all my pregnancy vouchers and other assorted offers, ensuring I came home with three large bags stuffed full of baby things and other bits, and reducing the bill from £170 to £40 (and £20 of that was some shaving stuff I'd picked up for my best friend, so I got my money back, and as it was Clinique stuff I also got a free gift, which will go to dd1 as a little extra to unwrap on her birthday in a couple of weeks).

4. Feeling nice and organised, for once, as I have got most of the baby bits! And thanks to this site and assorted vouchers and codes have actually spent very little compared to what I expected to pay! Girls chose some baby clothes, and were so excited it was lovely, bless them.

5. Cinema with best friend last night using 40% off Odeon voucher, film wasn't that good, but it was a cheap night out! And more good news is that he's finally got together properly with another friend of ours, I'm so pleased as he seems much more settled and happy, and also as she's already a friend there's no need to explain that we are just good friends!

6. Getting all three dds new school skirts, not really very money saving, but was done with minimum fuss or pain!

7. Friend who has moved to Cornwall has a very supportive new doctor, and her pain is now under control a little more, and hopefully an operation will soon be sorted out so that she will be in no pain.

8. ds cooked me dinner last night, he is most concerned to make sure that I'm eating properly!

9. dd2 curling dd1's hair last night so that she could have waves for school today, she was a very happy girly as she skipped off to school today!

10. Lovely customers at work, despite it being a day of disasters, everyone retained their good humour!

11. Spudette kicking away all night, not exactly a pleasure to be kept awake, but so lovely to feel her dancing!

12. ds bathing smelly dog, he looks much cleaner and smells much less now, though he does look like one of those "I washed it last night and can't do a thing with it" cartoons as he's now all fluffy!

13. Getting some lovely carnations reduced yesterday as I finished work, and dd1 arranging them for me.

14. dd1 beginning the painting of her room, looking much brighter already! Also means she tidied it!

15. Not being at work today, so I can mooch about and do things at my own pace!

Have a lovely day all xx

mhagster

Ladyhawk! just me in the bath with my book......husband taking dd2 to school! Honestly!!

Thank you for all birthday wishes! Heading to bed .....with my book !
Night x

shopndrop

Happy birthday mhagster - hope you have enjoyed your day.

Struggling a bit today but here goes:
1. Been out since early this morning at my elderly aunt's. She has tree roots under her lawn and patio but the tree is on council owned land the other side of her garden. Men came to do job, started then realised they were not on council land, so technically not insured so left after starting to dig up the lawn. I couldn't believe it. They have now phoned to say coming back tomorrow to leave it safe for her to go outside.
2. Called to see mum and dad and got some more HM scones that dad had made. Really do need to ask him to stop making them as we just eat them, doesn't help with weight control.
3. A very helpful MSE'er has sent me some details to help with my family history. Hopefully, I will now be able to move on again.
4. Pizza dough in BM ready for tea tonight.
5. Looking forward to a phonecall this evening from DS and GF to tell me how good their holiday was and have a good old catch up.
Just wish my dreadful headache would disappear.

CCP

Evening all.

mhagster - sorry it's a bit late, but I hope you had a fantastic birthday.

Carolyntia - it's lovely to hear from you - welcome back! :wave:

Mine for today (after a great deal of thought, I must confess! ):

1) Woke up this morning to the sound of rain - a pleasure as the garden needed watering and now I don't have to do it.

2) I made a loaf of bread last night that was shaping up to be a disaster - the dough was far too dry and needed loads of extra water to stop the bread machine grinding to a halt. Of course, it's turned out to be one of the nicest loaves I've made in a long time - I bet I can't do it again, though!

3) Took a packed lunch to work, which I don't always get around to.

4) Coming home to a nice, warm flat - it was decidedly chilly at work today.

5) Easy dinner of spicy bean casserole with garlic toast topping - it sounds complicated but is basically beans on toast turned upside-down!

As always, have a lovely evening, all.

Kitchenbunny

Happy Birthday, Mhagster! Hope you're having a great day

Here's my pleasures for today:

1. Someone had bought in some homemade cake pops at work and left a sign saying "help yourselves" I had a lovely plain sponge cake ball dipped in milk chocolate and covered in funky purple sprinkles - ace!
2. The sunshine.
3. Pretty much stuck to what was on my shopping list.
4. Had put a gammon shank in the slow cooker overnight and was pleased to wake up to cooked meat. That's now prepped and in a chicken & bacon pie
5. Finally getting around to watch the recorded Waking the Dead episodes from aaages ago. Yes!

Have a nice evening, everyone. CCP your dinner sounds lovely! I'll give that one a go, if that's OK.

KB xx

marmiterulesok

Evening.For today my pleasures are:

1 Got 10% off my shopping with a voucher.

2 Had a good run in the park.

3 A beautiful,sunny day.I was really aware of all the budding bushes,scrubs and flowers in the park.

4 Had the washing on the line outside for the first time this year.

Can't think of a fifth one.

Mhagster belated Happy Birthday!

Carolyntia hi and dare I say 'Fit like?'!Well done with stopping the fags.

Wishing you all a relaxing evening x

Tealady_2

Evening

Mhagster - Happy Birthday, hope you had a fab day

Pleasures for today:
1. Up early this morning and lunches made even though I left much earlier than usual as I was working in our Portsmouth office today (CCP I did wave to you, hope you saw it)
2. Successful hand over of a project that I had set up and my instruction manual proved to be easy to follow
3. All trains connecting coming home so wasn't as late back as orginally thought
4. Chilli beef tortillas for dinner using up some mince that was desperate to be used. Everyone really enjoyed
5. DD helping with some jobs as she wants to earn a bit if extra pocket money. To have her do the ironing is worth every penny it costs me:D


Hugs to all who need them

Kittikins

1. The sun came out after a slow start
2. Spent part of the day with a man-flu suffering MrA over at his house, and am blissfully happy even though he's not well enough to come over for a day or so whilst he fights it off *swoon*
3. Easy working day, all my bosses were in a meeting til 30 mins before I finished for the day!
4. DD made me a surprise for mother's day, I can't wait to open it on Sunday
5. MrA and I texting each other during Hairy Bikers, darned shame it's the last of the series, but sure we'll find something else to occupy our Tuesday evenings, lol

Carolyntia

Evening all and thank you for the lovely welcome back! Seem to have lost my smilies somewhere...oh well I'll track them down at some point

1) Day 4 without nictotine...not so grumpy and getting a little easier...no one warned me about the insomnia though!
2) Nice day at work....managed to get some work done for a change
3) Duvet, pillows and mattress topper collected from the cleaners...looking forward to putting them back on the bed!
4) Very chilled out evening reading the forum....takes my mind off the fags
5) Lovely warm bath....hopefully it'll help me sleep a bit better tonight

Hope you all had a good day....hugs to all those that need them

C x

villagelife

My five for yesterday are

1. Washing drying on the line.

2. HM pizza for tea and made enough tomato sauce (with veg in) to freeze for next time we have pizza.

3. Finished my book.

4. Seeing a couple of jays when out walking.

5. Sold some items on ebay.