5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

katholicos

Carolyntia wrote: »

Thanks Broomstick but any tips would be warmly welcome as I'm struggling a little at the moment

Welcome to/back to the thread by the way

C x

Hope you won't mind my responding. I quit smoking over a decade ago due to having a sudden serious illness which left me with a chronic lung condition. One of the things i found helpful was to write down a list of pro's and con's as to why i should or shouldn't quit smoking. I then stuck the list somewhere highly visible and made sure i read it every time I wanted a smoke. It wasn't easy giving up smoking, but it was certainly worth the effort.

I never realised until i quit, just how horrible the smell of cigarette smoke is. Years ago my son would come home from his Dad's (a very heavy smoker) after spending a day with him and he would stink of cigarette smoke, even when he was as young as 4 years old. When I smoked myself i didn't notice it.

Now i hate breathing in peoples second hand smoke and it makes me wheezy and my chest tightens (asthmatic reaction).

Keep plugging away at it. Just think, if you give in now you would have to go through this all over again when you want to quit next time....you're already doing so well, don't squander all your efforts thus far, to quit.

Kitchenbunny

Morning all, here's my pleasures for today:

1. Sewing a seam by hand. I'm turning something into something else, and it makes me feel good to sew a seam by hand. It's pretty straight too.
2. Salad for tea tonight. I roasted a pork shoulder yesterday to have as cold cuts, so minimal work involved for tea tonight. Just got to make a small bacon and mushroom pasta salad (with some for lunch tomorrow).
3. The woodpecker was back in the garden. Haven't seen him since his brief flit in this morning, but I'm sure he's about.
4. I think we're having a lazy day today. I'll be doing a load of planning for my spare time next week (basically so I don't snack) and will hopefully get a lot done!
5. Went to 2 lovely barbecues yesterday (if a bit windy) and had a lovely time.

Well, I've started a fitness programme to try and get back into my jeans for summer. I've done half an hour of flexibility this morning, and will try to get DH to go for a bit of a walk. Have a nice bank holiday everyone.

KB xx

mhagster

No bank holidays for us! Just an ordinary day! Rained all last night & showers on & off through day. We've had our monthly rainfall in one night!

1.Went to school to do PTA mothers day stall......some very polite little children & we raised a good deal of money which is great!.....I try very hard not to get caught in the politics of it all!

2. Went to Salvos....had a good mooch & a nice chat with one of the volunteers but only got a lovely anorak for my DD2 for $5.

3.Went to library & watched Casualty!

4.Came home & didn't do much! Cleaned bathrooms & that was about it!

5.Made a lovely lasagne & roast potatoes for tea ,followed by rhubarb crumble.....I'm absolutely stuffed!

Hope you all have a good Bank Holiday Monday

sparrer

Carolyntia sorry to butt in but had to add my two penn'orth re your giving up smoking. Like katholicos I was forced to give up. 4 years ago after 40 years because a) I got pneumonia in my left lung and b) they discovered at that time I have COPD. It was hard, of course, after all that time but the alternative didn't bear thinking about. Four years on and I can walk maybe 20 yards before I struggle for breath, when I cough I can't stop and I fight to catch my breath, I have to sleep semi-sitting as the fluid builds up in my lungs otherwise, I've had 14 chest infections in the four years, the only remedy for which is anti biotics and steroids. So many that my body is becoming immune to them.

If you can beg, borrow or steal Allen Carr's book 'Easyway to stop smoking', or a similar one, it might give you a bit more insight to the cause and effect, it helped me a lot.

The last thing I am is a self-righteous ex-smoker, I very ocasionally get a pang of wanting a cigarette, particularly if I smell one that's just lit, but then I think of the disgusting ashtrays I used to leave by the sink, which greeted me when I came down in the mornings.

Like thousands of others I thought I'd be okay, the 'it won't happen to me' fairytale. it did, and I truly wouldn't wish any of this on my worst enemy. Stay strong, and more importantly stay healthy. You've got us all behind you. S x

VJsmum

Haven't been on for a bit, so here's the last few days

1. the continuing sunshine
2. DD having a lovely time at her friends birthday(she has often struggled to make friends so it's lovely that she now has a smashing group around her)
3. OH taking MIL out for the day (she is here for the weekend and won't leave me alone - litterally follows me around, it is worse than having a child)
4. Going out to Pizza Express last night and paying for most of it with Tesco vouchers !
5. Losing another 1lb on my diet, slowly slowly catchee monkey.

Sparrer - you have my sympathies, it is an awful illness that I have witnessed first hand, with my mum, anyone trying to give up, please take heart that it gets easier. I gave up 20 odd years ago and it was one day at a time and not easy, but i wouldn't wish mum's illness on anyone.

mummysaver

Morning all!

Been missing the past few days, internet down, work and general pootling has been the cause, will attempt to catch up in a mo, as this thread always makes me smile! Anyhoo, my pleasures:

1. Finally making it up with a friend after almost two years of not talking - we are both very stubborn! Anyway we both decided it was time to grow up and life is too short for being so silly, so we had coffee on Thurs and are off out for lunch on Weds

2. Spudette is jiggling and kicking about a lot, as space gets tighter for her, and watching and feeling her makes me and the kids all giggle!

3. Weather is lovely again, and I have finally bought a new strimmer, so hopefully garden should be looking a lot better once I've persauded ds that he really wants to spend today out there!

4. Veggies all growing well, and lettuce seedling coming through, courgettes galore, so will no doubt be looking for more recipes come fruiting time, and flower seeds seem to be doing well too

5. Day off work today - though with all that dd3 has planned for me I'm not sure how relaxing it will be lol!

Kittikins

Congratulatory hugs Carolyntia and all ex-smokers. I used to smoke too but not "properly" as it always hurt my lungs, so stupidly I kept smoking but didn't do it deeply.

1. Another NSD (my brother bought me some shopping before he left but I "forgot" to pay him for it, lol. He's loaded, he can afford a fiver or whatever it was, not a huge amount).
2. Another No Petrol Day
3. Lovely windy and sunny day so the washing has been done
4. Good chat with my parents on the phone
5. Bro 'persuaded' DD to tidy her bedroom properly for once and it looks lovely. Shame my room now looks even more of a tip in comparison lol
6. Have been feeling much better so have done lots around the house, probably a bit too much as I'm now very tired and very sore, so I'm lying on the sofa watching TV
7. The house is looking vaguely tidy
8. Going to see my beloved OH tomorrow, yippee!!

DitaBombita

Super end to a lovely few days off. Mine for today -

1. Car washed & filled up for week ahead
2. Visit to Farm shop for lunch - amazing!
3. Trip to Yorkshire Sculpture park (fab & free except car parking)
4. Emailed the council at last about going on allotment waiting list
5. Just did cupboard & freezer inventory (have lots for week ahead...just need some veg really)
6. Sneaky extra one - Making wild garlic pesto for tea. Will likely be sick of it by tommorrow.

CCP

Evening all. Hope you've all had a lovely bank holiday (sorry, mhagster, but I hope you've had a nice day anyway ).

1) Watched the annual heavy horse parade - the horses always look so lovely with all their brasses shining.

2) Decided to throw the diet to the wind just for one day and treated myself to a club sarnie and chips for lunch at a local pub. Twas very nice, though!

3) Had a chat on the phone to my sister who's house-sitting for our parents at the moment.

4) Made a batch of olive rolls using some cheapie olive paste I picked up in Lidl. (I've discovered that the heated drying rack I bought to try and cut my heating bills doubles as a great place for bread dough to rise, which makes me mildly happy. )

5) Changed the bead so I've got nice clean bedclothes to sleep on tonight.

Have a nice evening, all.

Ladyhawk

Evening Ladies,

Hope you are all well and are ready to go back to work tomorrow (I'm certainly not!)

I am feeling a little sorry for myself - I think I am coming down with tonsilitis again... feeling very lethargic, sore throat... yuck

1) Did a little bit of gardening and moved my compost bin to another corner of my garden. It was falling over where it was so it had to be done. I also cleared a patch of weeds and watered my parched seedlings. Chatted briefly to one of the passers by who was interested in my progress.

2) Started making myself a long skirt. I am completely rubbish at sewing and don't understand most of the terms they use but it seems to be coming out ok. Not good enough to wear out but not a bad attempt if I do say so myself. Everyone has to start somewhere!

3) Cooked myself a gorgeous roast beef for lunch. It was a silverside so I browned it and threw it on top of some root veg, added a glug of red wine and left it to cook. It turned out much better than I expected and the gravy was divine!

4) I needed to make space in the freezer for some of the roast beef in gravy... so I just had to finish the B&J Fairly Nuts ice cream...

5) Lovely relaxing hot bath this evening... complete with bubbles.

It's going to be an early night for me... I have a long day ahead of me tomorrow which will include some uncomfortable work conversations... yuck

Enjoy your evening!

L