5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DigForVictory

Frith - a shelf of duct tape - huge respect for the pragmatic engineering!
Mrs M - pace yourselves wedding dress shopping. Build in sit & brew moments out of fantasy world. It’s *weird* - they ask your shoe size so they can lend you suitable footwear for trying on. (I wore mountain boots & red wooly socks that shed - my Matron of Honour still has the greatness of heart to roar with laughter at the memory & she broke me of several Unhelpful habits before mum took me shopping.
LaineyT - have I said how wonderful, restful, communion-without-words grazing in hand sounds?
Mhagster - huge thanks for being the breathing example we can go on & we can find 5OSPs.

“Should you be here?” Well, there are quite a lot of possible replies. Meant kindly. Better to tell folk on a staggering back, in not really laser focussed on the office work just yet day. [Well, so I thought.] News duly broken, some pragmatic logistics advice given, HR support phone number in hand. These are good.

Met by a colleague who had set an alarm, got up early, got in as soon as the building was unlocked & took down the Christmas lights around my monitors (knowing I have the “down by twelfth night” superstition), moved the little trees to one side, laid down. Then when I arrived, met me with a huge hug. He’d be the first to say he’s no angel but Ye gods, he was wonderful.

Waved to the tailor! Ah, daylight, amazing stuff.

Walked to my car by another colleague who has the gift of listening. She let me babble, crooned over photos, held my hand when my voice shook & walked me to the car for an early finish so I could check up on my menfolk.

Who are all upright, largely tranquil & getting on with things. A joy to me as this cold tightens it’s grip & decants my brain out of my right nostril. Husband, eyeing news, suggests we terrace the back garden ready to grow rice. We’ve a tree to plant first.

Nargleblast

DigforVictory, when I went back to work four weeks after OH died, people commented it seemed a bit soon (out of concern for me). I told them that me sitting around at home wasn't going to change the fact that he was now dead, and I needed to start finding my new "normal." It sounds like you and the gang are holding each other up nicely. Yes, there will be wobbly times, they'll come, go and come back again. That's life. Please continue to use this thread as a place to unload and work things out. We are all with you.

Suffolksue

Narglleblast your “new normal” resonates with me on a daily basis ,
I say it to myself frequently.Ive lost the word but it helps so much .thank you

Not sure the above makes sense but it does to me !

VJsmum

DforV not the same scale, I know, but people said the same to me after mum died and after I'd had a miscarriage and I agree with Nargle, I just couldn't hang around the house being miserable. If it's right for you it's right

Greetings from the airport, boarding soon en route to some sunshine

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Finished 3 chapters, got them edited and sent to London. Now I can forget about it for a week
2. Cauliflower cheese for tea, emphasis on the cheese
3. Low carb pancake for lunch
4. DD had a good day at work
5. DS handed in the assignment I put quite a lot of effort into (not the basic content, but editing and printing)

Have a good day all

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

I see that some of the parishioners has wandered out of the parish. Yous knows who yous are! I don’t go around testing foods, doing the hard work, sorting out the quacks and the larks, for yous to go off on yous own!

Welcome to the newbies and all. Good to see DfV popping inn! :heartpuls

Rite, now on with your version of the Life of BoP! My version is a bit longer and a lot harder!

Watched the gooners last evening. BoPsie was getting a tad lively about them, but I muttered the Leeds would be worn out at half time and it will be one nil to the Arsenal! There, that proves just what BoP is saying about leaving the parish and looking elsewhere!

Now on abouts decent foods! This helps BoP when he has the stingy eye drops! Hence BoP still is inn control! Last nite BoP has he decent stir of fry! Chicken, peppers, nicely chopped onions, corn of sweet, all chillied off and tossed with sauce of soy. Nice and tasty and good for you.

This nite BoP is back in the gym keep inn his beached ready body looks good!

That is all for yous Lunch Bites today!

Take that as read!

balabooberlies

Thanks for the food tasting Bop.........

Have gone back to digestives because of you and my cup of tea has never tasted better. Especially in the wee hours of the morning when tea is my secret friend.

Horrid day yesterday, family stuff, and the worry still continues. And the silence is too long. But cannot keep phoning as that only adds pressure.

Had to cancel my Tiggy's eye appointment yesterday due to logistics, not family. Rescheduled for Friday. It is to see a specialist eye vet that isn't close and my transport cancelled due to their own problems and all the vet cabs were booked.

But wouldn't you know it.............her eye has started to look better. She is not keeping it closed, the redness is diminishing and nothing weaping. I will still take her to appointment on Friday to make sure.

So Tiggy's recovery, all food advice from Bop, and my tea and biscuits......... all my pleasures !

Have a wonderful day

X

DundeeDoll

Posting 'early' cos it's 11pm here. Thanks for the recommendations vjsmum i had a gentle morning then china town for a wander and the Singapore Chinese Culture Centre which was great. I've been twice before, both work with limited sight-seeing, but have done the bus rides, the Botanics, a lovely boat trip down the river, the gardens by the bay, the Ferris wheel, and now the SCCC. work tomorrow then hoping for a bit more sight seeing Thursday then busy busy busy till Saturday lunch time and fly home early hours of Sunday.
Huge hugs out to dfv, Suffolksue and all others who need them. Again not on the same scale, but when xoh finished our 29 year relationship I went straight back to work. my boss asked if i needed compassionate leave - i said no but could people keep an eye out for me cos if i did spiral i might not be able to ask for help.
for today
1) ruddy new fitbit watch kindly woke me at 4:30am to say a meeting had been cancelled. Will not be wearing it tonight! but did get to finish 'this is going to hurt' (very good) and have a cuppa and get back to sleep after an hour or so for another 2 1/2 hours
2) lovely breakfast and packed myself a little lunch. i know here i am in singapore and could eat on expenses but mse habits die hard
3) finished writing talk for friday and did some urgent work emails. well i am technically at work after all.
4) lovely explore of chinatown including fascinating trip to SCCC. ticket included free curry pasty next door. very yummy.
5) then had a yam ice-cream (one of my 2020 lists is 20 icecream flavours - i'm not entirely sorry they'd run out of sweetcorn, and i am NOT trying durian)
6) got back in time for my boss arriving, went for a dip while she freshened up, then we went to chinatown for supper and a nice chat.

VJsmum

Gwan DD try durian. I DARE you. Im sure ive had it... but you'd think I'd remember

CRANKY40

Good evening all

My first pleasure today was that it was my second day off which then led to the second pleasure which was sneaking back to bed for an hour after the school run to read with my electric blanket switched on. I don't normally go back to bed but I had a cold all over Christmas and I still feel a bit tired. I'm also fairly sure it's more MSE to put the blanket on rather than the heating.

I did some cleaning which is my third thing. The good thing is that it's done, not actually doing the cleaning The House Troll said he'd do his own room at the weekend but he did pick up all his dirty clothes when I asked him to (without moaning) and he put them in the laundry basket which is surely pleasure number four. He's not highly trained but he's coming along nicely.

Fifth pleasure was having some time to sit and crochet. I did think about doing a bit of weeding in the front but I don't work well in the cold and damp and it's both of those things outside just now.

DfV sometimes when the future as you thought you knew it would happen has ceased to be, it's the ordinary stuff and decent people that really help you to hold things together.

Thank you for the suggestion BoP. The stir of fry with chicken will be my dinner tomorrow.

Frith I am trying hard to picture a shelf made of duct tape and failing. I'm impressed though

Good luck with the grandpickle wrangling MrsLW

DigForVictory

I'm told it tastes Lovely, just the smell is the challenge.
Double Dare you! (Go on, no Other ice cream will have the same bragging rights!)

Not at work today as stinking cold & for some reason my work colleagues approve.