OS daily threads October 2006

catznine

Happy Birthday MATH!
_party_ _party_ _party_ _party_ _party_ _party_ _party_ _party_ _party_ _party_ _party_ _party_ _party_ _party_ _party_ _party_ _party_ _party_ :bdaycake: :hello: Morning!

Big (((((Hugs)))) to Penny pincher sorry to hear you are having such a rotten time.

((((hugs)))) to all others that need them too!

Made a lovely Chocolate loaf of bread yesterday in the breadmaker! Really good with black cherry jam spread on it! (like a black forest gateaux sandwich!:D )

We are off to watch "The Queen" Helen Mirrens new film today so I need to get lunch organised pdq! and get the washing out.

Breakfast -was toasted choc bread and cherry jam
Lunch hm - chicken soup (using leftovers from yesterdays roast)
Dinner - Moussaka (gotta use up that aubergine from the veg box)

VickyA - Loved the wedding photos, looked like you had a wonderful and happy day.

Have a lovely day everyone!

Catz x

[Deleted User]

morning all

I`ve prepared some baking ie a batch of parkin and bread and butter pudding. The pud will be nice after our evening meal of hm veg and lentil soup. I`ve been shimmying my way through all the kitchen chores listening to a shadows cd, amazingly uplifting tunes in spite of the grey day and its got my energy levels right up. It`s amazing what the right music can do for the spirits

I have a stack of washing in the basket but have to dry it all indoors so I`ve ordered a very big airer from lakeland. That will be airer number 3 in this house and I`m going to try and do all the washing so it`s going to be drying and also ironed at the same time. One neat airer in the kitchen and two in the lounge upstairs, both face south so `i`ll pick my washing day in advance and get it drying just before bed. It`s certainly getting harder to get the cotton sheets dry and there is no way I`ll be turning the heating on just to dry washing

I have treated myself today:

to a


kipper

well it`s a tesco finest after all and it cost enough and it`s a bony one but I LOVE kippers but will not buy artificially flavoured or dyed fish

next cd will be the `housework songs` stupid title but the tunes are also very uplifting

gingin_2

Afternoon Everyone.

Happy Birthday to MATH

Penny Pincher, I know I don't know you but I have read some of your posts and you come across as such a positive and emotionally strong person normally, so I hope you can get back to feeling like your usual self at least on the inside.

I am currently dealing with a 2 year old monster but standing my ground. DD 2 year old is having a testing time at the moment so I am having to remain firm and consistent at the moment and thankfully it is working. She slept all night in her own bed last night which embarrasingly is the first time in a loooooong time, I love watching Supernanny and her techniques - touch wood- seem to be working.

I bought 3 kilo's of cheap tomatoes at the weekend which currently are being turned into soup. I have also finally got to grips with some knitting and am just using a ball of wool as a practice piece before I attemp to knit a scarf for dd - it just looks really messy. I also managed to pick up some real bargains for the children for christmas on Ebay and received them this morning so am thrilled. I still have to make Spag bol for dinner and have a hoover, otherwise it's the school run and practising my messy knitting.

Folio

catznine wrote:

Happy Birthday MATH!
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Made a lovely Chocolate loaf of bread yesterday in the breadmaker! Really good with black cherry jam spread on it! (like a black forest gateaux sandwich!:D )

Catz x

Ooooooh that chocolate bread sounds lovely - could you post the recipe please? :j

Bargain_Rzl

Afternoon all! :hello:

Happy birthday to MATH - many happy returns!

Welcome back from hols, Roz_V - you reminded me of the time I flew back from a beautiful sunset of around 19/20 degrees in Copenhagen, into a sub-zero blizzard in Manchester :rolleyes: - British weather eh!?

VickyA, I must have a look later at your wedding pics, hven't had time over the weekend!

catowen, thanks for noticing I wasn't here - I've been very very busy over the weekend and I haven't posted since, um, Wednesday I think! Here is why:

Wednesday eve: went out to the opera with my cousin, on freebie tickets. It was, um, a bit rubbish but it was lovely to see my cousin again - she was my closest cousin growing up and I've barely seen her over the last few years as she's been overseas in the army. She's now about to come out of the army and is looking for a job in London :j :j

Thursday: very very very busy at work. We've been so busy with immediate deadline for the last couple of months that we now have to catch up on all the OTHER important stuff. This week's going to be hectic too! Then in the evening my team had a night out at a bowling alley in North London, which was a brilliant laugh! (even though I'm rubbish at it!!! )

Friday: took a much-needed day off. Went to the hairdressers and spent... well, quite a lot :eek: :eek: on a cut, semi-permanent colour and some v. v. funky subtle blonde highlights in the second layer. Was worth every penny, not just for the end result but for the pampering!

Saturday: got up early and left the house at 7am to go to, and sing at, the wedding of two of my good friends It was in Peterborough Cathedral and I had a bit of a panic cos although I knew the bride had told me that choir practice was at 10:30 and I should be on a train at King's Cross by 9:00, I couldn't find any evidence of this, and all I had was her original letter saying it would all be earlier and I should be on the 8am train. Anyway, of course it WAS the 9am train I had to be on, so no need to panic. Wedding was lovely, and the weather (despite threatening to be horrible) was gorgeous apart from a torrential rainstorm once everybody was safely indoors tucking into their dinner. At the reception I found myself sitting next to somebody who turned out to have been at primary school with me :eek: and although I didn't remember him, we seem to have taken part in some school productions together - plus his mum phoned at one point, and says she vaguely remembers babysitting me :eek:! Lots of lovely things happened besides the wedding itself - one of my friends got a call to announce the birth of her first niece, and I found out that some lovely gay friends of mine have decided on a civil partnership next year Token Old Style stuff: the bride made her own hand-embroidered dress and her mum made the cake Anyway, I finally got home at 1am with my feet in agony from 18 hours wearing a pair of new shoes! Bride and groom are off on honeymoon today, touring New Zealand.

Sunday: Got up in slightly hung-over zombie mode with feet still feeling like they'd been bashed several times with a sledgehammer, went into London for church, took HOURS to get home because of engineering works on the railway (the replacement buses took ages to turn up, AND got stuck in diverted traffic, AND it was absolutely bucketing down with rain) so when I got home I peeled off all my rain-sodden clothes and went for a lie down (about 4:30pm). And though I didn't actually sleep the whole time, I didn't have the energy to get up again after that! So I stayed curled up in bed, watched the X Factor (which I'd recorded the previous day), started watching the 100 Greatest Cartoons show, and the next thing I knew, it was 7 o'clock this morning

Have been in a VERY dull meeting all morning, and have also realised that today marks the 6th anniversary of me joining the company I work for - SCARY!

Anyway, thanks for putting up with my "not very old style at all" ramblings! I shall be very very OS this evening as there is lots of tidying and cleaning to be done!

Love Rzl xx :wave:

taplady

Hello to Hgbels !!!:D welcome to the OS daily thread!

MimiF hope your father is on the mend:grouphug:

Shez good luck with the diet! did ok myself till lunchtime when I had a packet of crisps with my sandwich!:o have absolutely no willpower at all!

a lovely sunny day here, lots of washing blowing on the line and more in the machine to go out. Just about to start my lasagnes for the freezer. ironing to do later as am working long shifts on Tues and Weds and nothing will get done then.

Finished watching Cracker over lunch - very good! lots of good dramas on at the moment.

Back later x

mrsmortenharket

Hello all!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATH!

(((PennyPincher))) xxx

Well today I have embraced FlyLady, pmsl!!!!!! I need a miracle actually considering the state of my house, but I have been at it for a while & downstairs is def looking better.

Had to go & have a filling at the dentist this morning. UUUG! The right side of my face is still numb. I had some fillings done by a dopey dentsit whenI was 16 (16 years ago now, :eek: ) & I have had no end of repaurs to all the fillings he did. Todays filling was massive. So dentist told me not to eat on that side & when I do only to have soft things. I am not good with eating at the best of times, I either binge or starve. What a fab excuse he's given me to starve I just had a ski yogurt though so am improving a wee bit.

You must all think I am a total nutter :rolleyes:

Off to swish around my bathroom now.

Take care all

Lisa xxx

Pooky

Afternoon All

:bdaycake: Happy Bidet Math - How's the CD - you just reminded me to order that for DH's birthday.

Hope the rest of you are well. It's been raining cats, dogs, chicken and ducks here today - it's foul --- get it??

TD is on it's second load, don't have enough room to get an airer up at the moment - all the living room furniture is around the house so the builders have room to do their thing....it's feeling a little cramped in here at the moment but hey ho.

After a lazy weekend, I've not really got into the swing of it yet today - no point washing the floor, got afterschoolers coming home so it will just be caked in muddy,sandy,cementy footprints soon, same reason behind not hoovering - will do it tomorrow morning as I've got a friend due for coffee. Been doing some work with DD1 - still off with her broken foot and the school haven't sent any work home - typical.

Tea tonight will be toad in the hole, roast pots, roast sweet pots, onion gravy and veg, will try and make a double batter and freeze some giant yorkies down for later in the week to have filled with beef stew (I use the lids of pyrex dishes to make big yorkies).

Had a good few weeks money wise and have managed to collect in lots of bits of money that people owed us - managed to pay £1480 off a credit card, it's now clear and the only one I was paying interest on, it's our everyday use card though so it won't be closed - just used sparingly. The CSA managed to chase ExH for the arrears he owes and have sorted out an extra payment of £10 a week....just in time for christmas!

Started our christmas crafty projects at the weekend, 6 layers of paper mache on balloons already - going to turn them into sweetie bowls for grandparents from DD's, did get all the stuff out to make some cards but didn't quite get that far.

Hope you all have a great afternoon.

MrsTinks

Well I am having a totally horrid week... again...
Work is so getting me down at the moment, but the problem is I don't know what to do. Should I look for a new job - if so what, I don't know what I want to do
Should I stay here and try to move away from my currect role. Again to do what? I have no idea what to move on to...
Should I stay and try to study? I would love to but I can't afford to and I have a serious lack of energy and hours as it is.
I feel trapped and each week I feel more and more depressed about my job. I love my team, I love my job, but I HATE having to lie to my company's client because the people higher up the chain than me use my resources elsewhere, we're struggling with replacing staff that have left and I get over ruled on holiday and staff "borrowing" issues. Then I get the flack from the client when we're not meeting service levels but I can't tell them why we're doing crap because it's my company's fault. I'm absolutely terrible at lying at the best of times, bending the truth I can do, but this is outright telling fibs...
Money is tight so OS'ing lots at the moment - struggling with this too as when I get down I really struggle with sticking to meal plans and being good... I want to buy things to cheer myself up but I know if I do I'll hate myself afterwards!

Can't afford to quit work sadly not even for a short while So will probably be cheering myself up making origami stars (hey maybe I can sell some!) and coming on here to lurk and be cheered up a lot... I tell you - my OS holiday cannot come quick enough!

nicki_2

Not read the thread through but I noticed something so before I go off to wash dishes and sort out washing I thought I'd just pop in to say :

Happy Birthday MATH!!!!!!!! :D:D