OS Daily Thread - Tuesday 12th January 2010

rach

Hello all, hope you don't mind me popping in!

I'm new to the daily, though I have posted from time to time and I've been around old style for years so some of you might well recognise me! I hope everyone is ok, I'll have a look through the thread in a moment.

I've just had some lovely hm spicy parsnip, carrot and lentil soup for lunch plus 2 oatcakes and some leftover roast beef from the weekend I'm currently pretty much sofa bound as I fell on the ice on the way to the station this morning and ended up at the urgent care centre at the local hospital with suspected broken ankle. Thankfully it's just badly sprained, but obviously i'm not at work today. Thankfully I'd done most of my flylady list before work.

My plan for this afternoon is a couple of online jobs plus going through some of my recipe books looking for new inspiration for meals. I also need to update my ww online points (not looking forward to yesterday's total as I had my birthday fry up plus curry!).

taplady where did you get the boots? I have birthday money burning a hole in my pocket!

jc2703

Af'noon all

Just read the thread quickly while eating lunch :hello:to everyone - old or new

House is a bomb site and getting worse by all accounts (thankfully i'm hiding at work) only thing remotely OS that's gone on was having lleft over lentil soup for my supper last night...I actually wanted bread and butter and then thought I might as well warm some soup up to dip in - only problem was it didn't really sit well on the two glasses of red wine I had drank. lesson learnt!

I have just eaten so much for lunch that I took some of my rubbish out of my office bin and put it in the communal bin in the kitchen - just so I don't look like a greedy mare when my bin gets empties :rotfl:how bad's that?? I blame hormones naturally. To be fair it wasn't all bad - some cous-cous salad, fruit ......it just went downhill after that

Whenever I'm having hassle with the kids - my Mum always says that as a mother there comes a time when you wish you'd just kept dogs

We have a xbreed at the moment - she's long haired and quite frankly its a nightmare! My best dog ever was a great dane x mastiff - the most beautiful dog in looks and nature. She would know when a person was down or worried and just go and sit by them with her head on their knee - it was her doggy version of a hug!

Well better get back to work - apparantley thats what I get paid for :eek: and I thought it was my sparkling wit and personality..:rolleyes:

J x

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Hello chums, well after getting a helpful push to get me out of the pile of snow that my car was sitting in from my lovely neighbour and his son-in-law, I managed to get out onto the main road to go and get the boys. They were all fine apart from Mikey who said if I didn't mind could we drop his brothers off at school, and then come back home so we could play with his Lego together as school was too cold and frosty.
I explained that much as I would love to spend the morning building something huge with his lego his teacher might miss his smiley face and be sad.This seemed to convince him and we toddled off to school. Thank goodness he is such an amiable child.
Arrived back home full of good intentions for decluttering, but not long after I got home the power went off, and its only just come back on. Spare room was a bit cold, so I wrapped myself up in my dressing gown and my 'blankey' which I keep in the sitting room, and just sat and knitted for awhile to keep my hands warm. Heating is now on full blast to warm up the house.I am all-electric, plus gas central heating, so no cuppa's for me this morning .
Still I have had 2 since, and have filled my flask with hot water in case it goes off again. Lunch was shredded wheat and milk,instead of my sheps pie, but I will have that for dinner tonight instead,fingers crossed.
My DD's OH bought her a Jack Russell pup for her 40th last month, and its very cute, but rather lively,she also has a Heinz 57 dog thats about 8 years old and is a xbred alsatian.He's a lovely old boy, and looks very distainfully at this tiny little puppy, and when the pup gets too frisky will gently but firmly put a large paw on her and just lean a little.Puppy remembers who's top dog in the house then and behaves herself. Its a hoot as it looks as though Olly (big dog) is the grandpa and Lexie (puppy) in the baby and is being put in her place.
Well enough of my jabbering I have no excuse not to get on with the decluttering now.Lots of newbies on today, welcome one and all nice to have some new faces so to speak
maybe back later when I have decluttered
Cheers JackieO :D

RuthG

Hi again all,

Got back from meeting (very useful meeting too for a change) and brought post in. Binned most of it as mostly junk, but there were two books I had ordered from Amazon, which i am now looking forward to reading. One is the Tightwad gazette and the other 21st Century Smallholder.

Soup for lunch (left from yesterday and made with leftovers from Sunday), so very frugal and OS.

Now Im here instead of gettying on with other work; procrastinating something rotten. There are a couple of jobs I absolutely have to do today and I really dont have the energy or enthusiasm for them. And one is my tax returns. Never done those before and putting it off as dreading to discover all the work I have to do - which is counter productive really, as if I put it off too long, I will either miss the deadline, or be totally unable to get it all done in the time allotted.

The other is sorting out a written submission written by one of the people I mentor. He has left it till two days before the deadline to tell me he is struggling and I dont have the time to help really, as I have another meeting this evening and Im away in London from tomorrow - may well be up till quite late tonight I guess! <sigh>

Well, maybe another coffee before I get started then.

Now you see why I dont have time for another dog - much as I would love to have one. Besides, I still miss my Goldie. She had to be put to sleep a year ago last May after having a stroke

Ruth

Bitsy_Beans

Arrrrgh why can't I stop eating? :mad: Had a decent sized bowl of soup for lunch along with about 4 small cheese scones and I've just scoffed half a bar (as in 50g bar ) of chocolate. What the hell is wrong with me? I am not hungry, I was satisfied with what I'd eaten. I keep saying I am going to change my eating habits and just can't (or won't perhaps is better) make any headway. Feeling thoroughly p!ssed off with myself now - it's official I am my own worst enemy
Oh and just read this on BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8451674.stm

That's me b*ggered then being an apple shape

Cleaning done, house reasonably tidy. Offered a baby gym on freecycle for them to collect last night. Never showed (despite me giving my phone number). No email from them today. What's the etiquette in telling them to get stuffed if they are going to waste my time and offer it to someone else :rotfl:

Bargainbird - I didn't think kids could pass chickenpox along unless they were actually infected too - is your newphew poorly? I would do the glass test just in case <insert would rather be safe than sorry icon> If it is the pox then a bath (not too hot) in lots of bicarb can help dry out the spots and ease the itching.

Bitsy_Beans

BenW - I am about halfway through the Complete Tightwad Collection. I am enjoying reading it, very amercian of course and I am not sure I could be quite that tight. Still its food for thought at any rate

Kadeeae

Bitsy_Beans wrote: »

......Oh and just read this on BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8451674.stm

That's me b*ggered then being an apple shape ......

Funny how they never mention an 'orange shape'. Certainly an orange is rounder than an apple.

I'm a definite orange shape, and totally under represented. :rotfl:

Molly41

lowesy wrote: »

Am off downstairs now to see if I can commandeer the sick bay for half an hour without anyone noticing for a quick sleep xx

Hope you get your snooze. Have you told them at work yet? They should do a risk assessment to make sure you are safe and comfortable x

bargainbird

Bitsy - From one fellow apple shape to another , i am making a determined effort to stop eating :eek:, sick of hoisting my jeans over my muffin:o:D, Dnephew had chicken pox last week :rolleyes:, bicarb as in bicarb of soda for cooking (yes i know i'm thick)

Dustykitten

Bitzy - thanks for that link - I thought great most of my weight in on my thighs but the rest is round my tum not on my hips and butt. I think the chocolate could be habit making your body crave. I used to always have a packet of crisps with my lunch and it took about 3 weeks for my body to stop asking for the salt at lunchtime.

Been on the wiifit again
Made the bolog
cleaned the kitchen floor
cleaned DS3's old cricket pads to pass on to somebody sometime (actually might add to the huge pile of car boot stuff)

DS3 won't be happy that the cake is not made yet but I daren't leave it in the AGA whilst I go up to school in case he is late out.