5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

shopndrop

Just caught up with all the posts from the weekend. Hugs to Frith and sounds like you had a lovely day with your boys.

1. Had a lovely weekend with DS and his GF.
2. Saturday was spent shopping for part of DS birthday present, then we took a HM picnic out, but it rained very heavily so we sat in the car and ate instead.
3. Had planned to go out Sat evening with them, but they asked could we stay in and enjoy each other's company so we has a lovely OS meal and then played card and board games, which the 2 of us never do.
4. Mum and dad came over yesterday so the 6 of us shared a leg of lamb from the Tesco DTD days. Didn't realise this was going on until almost the end but more than happy with my very cheap meat and tasty too.
5. As we saw DS and GF back onto the train to go home, GF said we must arrange our next weekend. Just lovely to have such a wonderful girl in our son's life, who also realises that we love to see him as much as she does.

mhagster

hello! All wrapped up with a throw on my knee & the heating on, curtains shut & doors all closed trying to contain heat in each room!
It's been dry today but with a wind that would cut you in 2!

1. walked to school , stayed for assembly then walked home......shock to system!
2. Got my washing dry & ironed.
3. went to library & watched most of Casualty on Youtube for free.....but was a terrible time downloading, wa so slow, so watched last 12 minutes when I came home .
4. Got 3 lovely magazines for 50 cents each in the Salvos. I've got my eye on a gorgeous blue/white large canister.....but will only get it if it goes half price! Came home & had a nice flick through magazines. 2 are fairly recent American craft ones and the other a 'housey ' one!
5. made a big pan of veg/lentil soup with remaining veg from reduced pack. Was so yummy & just what I needed to warm me up, after walking home with DD2.
6. DS is making hot chocolates for him & his sisters!

Tealady_2

Morning

Haven't posted for ages but have been reading all your posts. Decided it's time I stop feeling sorry for myself and just get on with things and look for the small pleasures again in life so here goes. Pleasures for the last couple of days:
1. DD enjoying her trip to Morocco and coming back safe and happy
2. Feeling comfortable with the progress of my moonwalk training.Did 21 miles last week so now feel can do the full 26.2 miles on Saturday night :eek:
3. Close friend has been unexpectedly very ill but looks like he should be ok with a few minor changes to his lifestyle.
4. Lovely dinner last night of an indoor bbq type theme which everyone really enjoyed
5. Shopping coming in on budget again this week
6. Bacon sandwiches at work on Friday morning bought by a notoriously mean director

Hugs to all who need them or just want one

CCP

Evening all.

Tealady - it's lovely to 'see' you again.

Kittikins - you're the second person today to ask me for the olive roll recipe - am I the only one who gets mildly excited when someone asks for a recipe? To quote from the other thread (I'm being lazy and copying rather than re-typing :

CCP wrote: »

I haven't posted it on here before, largely because there isn't really a recipe: it's just normal bread dough (made in my beloved bread maker ), rolled out and spread with olive paste (£2.50ish a jar from Lidl, which contained enough for one and a half batches of rolls); I then rolled the dough up swiss roll-style and sliced it into roll-sized slices (so they look like little pinwheels); proved then baked. My first batch was made with all white flour, my second with half brown and half white, and both are good.

I made the other half batch yesterday with red pesto in place of the olive paste and they're quite nice, too.

I hope you enjoy them!

Pleasures for today:

1) A nice sunny Monday after a miserable weekend (although the other way round might have been preferable for me ).

2) Crab and avocado sarnie for lunch. :drool:

3) Got the new mat to put the mog's food and water bowls on: it would probably be more OS if I was a crafty person and made my own, but I'm happy with this one as I used various amounts left over from survey gift vouchers so I only had to pay the (very low) postage rate.

4) I've managed to rescue a very sorry-for-itself-looking lettuce by soaking the leaves in iced water; it's still not that crunchy but at least it's returned to edibility.

5) Getting my big salad bowl out of the cupboard for the first time this year (and it was a freebie last year, which makes it doubly satisfying ).

Have a lovely evening, all.

Ladyhawk

Hello Ladies,

Hope your Monday has treated you well.

Tealady - Welcome back! I might see you at the Moonwalk - I'll be volunteering during the evening and may even serve you your meal! I'm doing the Walk in Edinburgh next month though unlike you I am wimping out by only doing the half marathon. I am so impressed with you doing the full one!

1) Have achieved my target of raising £100 for the Moonwalk by selling some cupcakes at work today. Any more money I raise will now go to the Race for Life that I am doing 2 weeks after the Moonwalk.

2) Lovey fresh salad and cold roast lamb for lunch.

3) Posted off my seeds to the SeedSwapper website... Looking forward to receiving whatever I get back (I can't remember what I asked for now!)

4) Walk down to MrA at lunch time in the beautiful sunshine - its only 5 minutes each way but lovely none the less.

5) Load of washing done and hung up this evening.

6) Had a missed call from my cousin who I never speak to (we grew up on different sides of the world so aren't close, though get on well enough) so I thought the worst (her parents are very elderly)... anyway she had called me by mistake but arranged to meet up when my mum visits next month.

Night all - have a great day tomorrow!

L

mcculloch29

1. My lovely cleaner came. She is also a qualified counsellor and NLP practitioner and we were talking about this. She would like to try a pain-management programme with me that she is learning to do. Worth a go.
2. Good friend and colleague is out of hospital, having been rushed in on the way back from holiday. (Severe cellulitis).
3. I've got a memory foam mattress that has a zip off cover that, according to the manufacturers, shouldn't be removed. I can now report that not only can it be removed, it is also machine - washable and didn't shrink. Of course, if the manufacturers did say it was washable they would be liable if it did shrink. I was so upset when it got marked, only had it a few months.
4. Son made me a cup of tea. That never happens.
5. Got hold of 2 learners on the phone so earning money!

Carolyntia

Evening all :wave:

Tealady - Good to 'see' you again

1) Collecting more books from the library that I ordered
2) Seeing a note in the local dentists window say they're taking on more patients - I'll be on the phone in the morning
3) Good day at work
4) Lots more pansies coming out :j
5) Chatting to an old friend in Canada on MSN
6) Got some yellow sticky chocolate mini rolls for 12p.....reduced from £1.25

Hope you all had a good day

C x

Tealady_2

Evening

Carolyntia, CCP & Ladyhawk thank you for the welcome back. Ladyhawk I think you are much more sensible for doing the half marathon plus well done for volunteering and the fund raising.

Pleasures for today:
1. Breakfast today was a cereal sample I was given and yummy it was too. Do things taste better when they are free
2. Lovely work friend bought me a tuna sandwich for lunch, I did have a tin of soup with me but enjoyed the sandwich more as was quite warm
3. Getting in one of our last 3 training walks before Saturday. Did a quick 3 miles at lunchtime plus walked home from work.
4. More washing line dried plus a big pile of ironing done before work
5. NSD which is long overdue as have been a bit naughty recently

Hugs to all who need them

shopndrop

Welcome back Tealady. Nice to "see" another old name, think you used to post on here a while ago when I did, but I also stopped posting for a while and then like you decided to stop feeling sorry for myself and think of the positive things that are happening. Feel so much better now that I think about my pleasures each day.

Frith

5 for today.

1) Boys to school in plenty of time and happy to be there!

2) Had a really good tidy upstairs - changed the bunk beds, put all toys in the right boxes, dusted, hoovered...

3) Popped to our local town (big village, really) and managed to get all sorts of odd things my Good Housekeeping recipe needed, inc quinoa. But nowhere could run to Greek yoghurt. Also got a spade handle and resisted the urge to ask for four candles!

4) Saw my brother very briefly as I want him to put the spade bit on the spade handle for me. His barn conversion project is looking good.

5) Made a tea that I liked. Aubergine and quinoa bake. Added a layer of sweet potatoes on the top. 3 out of 6 boys liked it. :-(

That's about it. Not feeling at my best at the moment.