Five OS Pleasures in your day today

Louba

For today: -

1) A cup of fresh coffee made for me by a colleague this morning
2) My peace lily is flowering for the first time in about a year - I'm not great at remembering to water my plants!
3) More file sorting today and I now have almost a full cupboard of organised files with clear labels and dividers, only three more cupboards to do, hee hee. A small achievement none the less and it makes the files look less intimidating!
4) Home-made soup for lunch, last batch out of the freezer
5) Getting the stain out of my caridgan, didn't think it would shift but it has.

SunnyGirl

Good evening everyone I hope that you've all had good days? My five for today are:

1. I've ordered a couple more thrifty cookery books from the library

2. Lovely fruit salad after tea made from the remains of the fruit bowl, frozen smoothie mix & a tin of pears in juice :money:

3. Spent a lovely half hour talking to DS2

4. I've just got out of a hot bubble bath & am in my jammies already

5. I'm seeing my parents tomorrow

Louba

Ooh and I've got my first star! :j

Kittikins

Today

1. My 'Friday' only work 4 days a week so it's always good
2. DD and her friend getting all excited at the thought of their sleepover at our house tomorrow night
3. Great swim at lunchtime
4. Losing another lb this morning
5. DD and I having lots of cuddles in my bed and reading stories this evening

Irritating stuff
1. Email from head office at work to say that they're no longer going to pay for my second phone line and internet at home, so I have to get my own broadband access
2. Having to take BT broadband at a huge cost as no other providers do 'cheap' internet in my area...
3. My back deciding to hurt again, I can't afford to go to the osteopath so will have to take painkillers and wait for it to ease off...(and then possibly come back next week, seems to be on a weekly cycle, or do I just start doing too much when it stops aching?!?)

Oooh that's it, the good things definitely outweigh the bad by a long stretch

Hugs to all

[Deleted User]

HI everyone

1. Oh is home today, so we can spend the whole day together.

2. Just been down the beach, saw a couple of Royal spoonbills and a grey heron as well as the usual assortment of birdlife.

3. Hm Cornish pasties with hm pastry for dinner last night (OH's favourite so lots of compliments)

4. Oh won 5kg of chicken pieces in a raffle.

5. Friend dropped in some blue marlin and some striped marlin so that we could compare the different tastes, so kind of him.

Thats about it

Blessings be

Jennie

elf06

Not done this before but heres mine for yesterday
1) getting washing out on line
2) doing some gardening
3) making a chrismas pud :rotfl:
4) doing some baking for charity do on Sunday
5) catch up with friend good and found out she expecting her first baby
:j:T:j

mineallmine

Morning all and welcome newbies and lurkers,

1. A really bright morning here. The blue sky is completely cloud free.
2. Feeding the animals early - like to vary the routine a bit. But the little sausages are pestering for their meal (again) already. I think they bodyclocks are saying its meal o'clock
3. Clearing/sorting the understairs cupboard.
4. Picking up some cheap CDs and books at the local charity shops. They seemed very grateful for donations.
5. Getting the India Knight thrift book from the library.

Hope everyone is well. Always love to read about bella's card making, caterina's exercise stuff, kiwi's talk of kiwiland and a deep frost brrrh, reverbe's freebies, ampersand's gardening, sunny girl's closeness with her parents, blimis's cooking, sparrer's meals out of a few bits, patchwork's dyeing clothes for work (brilliant idea) and everyone's pleasures. Plus its great to read the newbies too.

:A:T:T:T:A

Louba

Kittikins wrote: »

Today

3. My back deciding to hurt again, I can't afford to go to the osteopath so will have to take painkillers and wait for it to ease off...(and then possibly come back next week, seems to be on a weekly cycle, or do I just start doing too much when it stops aching?!?)

Kittikins I also have problems with my back and have to go to the osteopath quite regularly but I bought a massager from Homedics over the internet for about £24 and it really makes a difference. I got one for my dad too (he also has back problems) and he loves it! I'm not sure an electric massager is very OS but it is cheaper than lots of visits to the osteopath. Hope you feel much better soon!

My five for today:
1 It's a sunny day!
2 The sea at the bottom of the road from my office looks beautiful this morning - I'll need to keep looking out of the window
3 I get to see my partner tonight
4 A colleague has just bought me a bacon roll, yum
5 Reading some of the other posts on here always makes me smile

Have a good day everyone

Lx

Reverbe

Louba wrote: »

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4 - I changed jobs and moved cities in March and have been commuting most weekends to see my partner but he has found a job where I now live and is moving at the end of the month:smileyhea

Well done Louba. I know what it is like to live a long way from your partner. All of my relationships have been LDRS.One even lived in USA.I haven't seen my partner now for over a year. They live a few hours away - half way up the country. :mad: So glad that things are going so well with yours.:j

Shazzadouglas

Hi i,ve been following this thread for ages now and for years i have always been grateful for what i do have in my life rather than focusing on what i don,t have. (Spent too many years focusing on the dark side of life) Anyway, a few years back i was talking to a psychologist guy i had started chatting to on msn and he sent me this article. It has been changed a few times since the actual original one but the gist is still the same.....it really changed my outlook on life and definately for the better....

Please pass it on and share it too, it is so important
A friend of mine opened his wife’s underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:
‘This, – he said – isn’t any ordinary package.’
He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.
‘She got this the first time we went to New York , 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on , was saving it for a special occasion.
Well, I guess this is it.
He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothing he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died.
He turned to me and said:
‘Never save something for a special occasion.
Every day in your life is a special occasion’.
I still think those words changed my life.
Now I read more and clean less.
I sit on the porch without worrying about anything.
I spend more time with my family, and less at work.
I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through.
I no longer keep anything.
I use crystal glasses every day…
I’ll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if I feel like it.
I don’t save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to.
The words ‘Someday…’ and ’ One Day…’ are fading away from my dictionary.
;
If it’s worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now…
I don’t know what my friend’s wife would have done if she knew she wouldn’t be there the next morning, this nobody can tell.
I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends.
She might call old friends to make peace over past quarrels.
I’d like to think she would go ou t for Chinese, her favourite food.
It’s these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come..
Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.
Live for today, for tomorrow is promised to no-one.
If you got this, it’s because someone cares for you and because, probably, there’s someone you care about.
If you’re too busy to send this out to other people and you say to yourself that you will send it ‘One of these days’ , remember that ‘One day’ is far away… or might never come… No matter if you’re superstitious or not, spend some time reading it.
It holds useful messages for the soul.


I like to read this every now and again to keep me grounded and get things in perspective and to remind me whats really important in my life.

Love to everyone,
Shaz x