OS Daily Tuesday 10th January

Hardup_Hester

Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Monday 9th January. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome, please do come in, put your feet up (although check the fence hasn’t just been painted first!) and join us for an Old Style natter. The more the merrier!

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Morning all
Hubby's 1st day at his new job seems to have gone OK, he's working a 3 shift system & this week he is all 3 shifts in one week just so he can learn how it works, next week he's on early's & will start at 6:45.
I have a couple of achey muscles today, but only minor, so it's back to the fray, let's see what the little bu**ers can throw at me today.
I ordered a BT Big Button phone that arrived yesterday, so now I can make & receive phone calls, mind you most of the calls I get are from callcenters, despite being registered with the Telephone Preference Service.
The kettle is calling, time for another cuppa.
Have a good day everyone.
Hugs Hester
Have a

VfM4meplse

Morning Hester! Your title (July) made me instantly happier - roll on summer! Have you just booked a summer holiday, perchance?

Hardup_Hester

VfM, no I'm just stupid, I'm having problems with my PC & it keeps turning on Autofill, amongst other things.
I'll change it now.
Hester

VfM4meplse

Well, you have inspired me to book a summer break anyway! :beer:

Islandmaid

Morning all,

Ohhh a summer break - lush!!!! Not for us this year though, we,re getting a new bathroom instead .... Hmmmm - Hester glad DH,s job going well, shifts are tough to get used to, but when your sorted its all good x

Hope your all well and the poorlies and sad,s arn,t having such a tough time today xx

I,ve been up since 4 - made the lunches, sorted some computer stuff, WM on, showered, now time for coffee before work

DS1 has his parents evening tonight, booked ages ago - DD decides to tell us last night that her college enrollment evening is the same night, and we obviously don,t care, because we,re already going to her brothers thing and not hers - GRRRR!!!!!! Blomin flipping teenage madam from the swamp.....:mad::mad:

Have a great day all xx

findingmyway_2

Morning All,

I have been MIA the last few days, but I am back. I realised im spending far too much going out for coffee with friends, doing neither my waist line or my wallet any good, so I have convinced my knitting friends to come round to mine for tea today instead of going out, hopefully that will save a few pennies.

I am not on a very tight budget for the rest of the month, so tonight I am going to try cooking a vegetable soup, but I dont have any stock, they dont sell stock in Korea except at a foreign food store which is about 2 hours away from me. Lets hope that I can make it semi decent with a lot of salt, pepper and herbs.

I am also trying to save a bit of money as I'm off to Japan for my vacation in about 10 days and that is renowned for being expensive so trying to be as frugal as possible until then.

Bramble- I hope yesterday went as well as can be expected.
BethBee - good to see you posting, take it easy for a little bit
LameWolf - reading your post makes my heart ache, I have a friend with Lupus and so am only too aware of how debilitating it can be. She has also been struggling with her meds recently.
JG - any sign of roo yet?

Have a good day everyone, sending hugs to all that need/want one.

Moorhen

Morning everyone,

Slept like a log last night and feel refreshed this morning.

Hugs to Bramble, Beth, LW, Uolypool and Lou and apologies if I have missed anyone.

Hope you have a better day at work today Hester.

JG, are you still here?

My ballet class starts again tonight, will be fun but hard work after all that slobbing around over Christmas.

Lots of my classes and DS have exams coming up in the next couple of weeks so lots of hard work there hopefully. There are quite a few nervous ones though, spent quite a while yesterday calming down one very worried girl.

Tea tonight is spaghetti bolognese.

Have a lovely day everyone.:)

esmf73

Hi all.
Any news from JG? Getting excited now! Boys woke me up at crack of dawn with the noise they were making. House looks like a nightmare - can't imagine anyone coming to have a look at it, so am going to start this afternoon making the house blander and less cluttered. Starting with DS1s room. Dinner tonight will be ???? but something from the fridge I think.

Not 100% with it at the moment - must try harder!

tru

Morning :hello:

I spent most of yesterday wandering around the house picking things up, examining them then throwing them in various bins There's quite a pile of rubbish near the front door, I'll throw it out/recycle it today.

I have various bits and pieces that might sell on e-bay, I'll drag them out and sort through. Then put them in a pile in a corner somewhere, where they'll stay until I can be bothered to take photos

I cut up loads of twigs/thin branches with new secateurs. They're slightly larger than my old ones, they've left me with blisters all over my hand, it's really sore

I didn't get round to jiggling the spreadsheets. I MUST do that this week. I cleaned up the laptop though, and got rid of all bookmarks for survey sites, deleting accounts as I went. The surveys have got longer and the rewards for doing them has gone down, also when you get close to the payout amount the surveys dwindle to almost never. I can think of more productive and money-saving ways to spend my time.

forever_saving

Good morning everyone.
It's a bit chilly here today. Washing will have to go on the airer.
DS and his GF are getting the keys to their flat next week. We went with them last night to order a fridge freezer and a microwave for them. They paid for a washing machine. They have been buying everything else too. I had to smile, they wanted delivery for the day they get the keys. The store couldn't say when in the day it would be but for £5 extra they could do afternoon delivery. They both said no, they would wait until the next day when it was free and they were available all day. Maybe some of my ways have rubbed off on them. They are taking us to see it tonight.
Dinner tonight is cottage pie with roast potatoes.
Hope everyone has a good day and hugs to those who need them.
FS x

JulieGeorgiana

Roo and I are still here!

Been having a few aches and pains (since Sunday) so we are hopeful (HAH!) but I am feeling very positive about the sweep on Thursday...

It kind of hit me last night... I'm going to have a baby! :cool:

OS I have to make 2 loaves of bread... and collect DS from school this afternoon!

Oh, I am so proud of myslef last night... I have been so poorly I haven't been able to cook without getting dizzy in the kitchen, but the Low BP has slowely been easing... so last night I cooked chilli for the boys, they were over the moon as it's been 8 months since I cooked a 'proper' meal (DH has been doing the cooking) and it went down really well! And I realised how much I missed cooking... can't wait until Roo is here and i can start doing it all again

Hope everyone has a good day x