OS Daily Sunday 18th Nov 07

lilmisskitkat

Morning all oops no its afternoon, sorry!

I'm am sooooooooo tired! I've never been this tired in my life apart from during the worst flare-ups of my FM. I mean, Jellybean is tiny, how can it be making me feel so urrgh?! Also i haven't eaten anything hot since Tues apart from fish and chips on Thurs night, i'm living on sandwiches and cereal because the smell of anything cooked makes me feel sick _pale_

We've got to go to OH's cousin's later to take her DD a birthday pressie but hopefully wont be there too long. I've bathed DD and washed her hair this morning so i dont have to bother tonight and OH is apparantly supposed to be helping with the housework but he's laid in bed reading. Lol, hes going to have the shock of his life when we've got a screaming baby

Have a good day all

kate xxx

ellie2912

N9EAV,YELLOWMONKEY, LEARNINGTO SAVE, SMASHINGBLOUSE, JOHANNASMUM, PENGUIN83, JAMIEDODGER, REDRUBY,PENPIN, CRAZYCHIK, ELONA, WHATATWIT,JAZZYJUSTLAW, LILMISKITKAT ~ hello to you all !
AUSSIE~ glad you are feeling better x
TWINK~ glad the family day went well
BLAIRWEECH~ hope you feel better soon and the cramps go. (go to the docs and check its nothing serious though)
AMIE~ im hooked on celeb too. Cant stick that Lynne. Love Rodney.
KYLE ~ hope you sleep better tonight
DLB~ hope you don’t get blown away at footie (and you won!)
MRSMIX~ didn’t hug you yesterday (sorry hun was bit wrapped up in myself ) so sending you A BIG HUG today instead to make amends!
CHURCHMOUSE~ my garden needs more than a tidy! Last year it was lovely then with the puppy and my back going it now looks like the celeb jungle!
CHEERFULLNESS4~ hope your DS gets better soon.
ESSEXGIRL~ know what you mean about Kate and Kenny. Do you want to come and clean my house if yours is done!
HARIBO~ hope you get everything done you have planned.
ANNIEBOOKLOVER~ poor you. It gets you down when you feel like everything that can go against you does. sending you a bug hug to cheer you up x
HARDUPHESTER~ how do you put up with the lodger????
CATOWEN ~ sssshhh i'll let you into a secret ~i love Christmas too!
TAPLADY ~ :hello:
Well BM has finished. Done 2 loads of washing which is airing on radiators. Got to make TWINKS hobnobs as OH is breaking into a sweat cos he can see the bottom of the biscuit tub! (he told me off the other night because he thought i had given the dog a hobnob~ then he realised it was a ginger nut and he said that was fine!)
OH is converting to OS ways. He’s cooking a chicken and said he would do a stock with the bones! Love it!
Well must crack on and [STRIKE]watch darts [/STRIKE]tidy up and sort washing.
TTFN
Ellie

Bargain_Rzl

Good afternoon everybody :hello:

I am in a reflective mood today, thinking about all the things that were going on this time last year. This morning at church my grandma was mentioned in the prayers, as she died a year ago this week (by sheer coincidence we also happened to sing the hymn I picked out for her funeral, which was nice and brought back some memories). That'll be a year on Wednesday. Then on Friday it's a year since I moved into this place - where has the time gone?

Talking of moving, my mum has moved house this week (she relocated earlier in the year, however at the time she needed somewhere cheap and urgently, so she and her 3 pets had been living in a tiny house that was smaller than my 1-bed flat. She's now found a 2-bed house which is near work and would take her with the pets, so she moved there on Thursday. The best bit is it means I can have Christmas dinner with her this year :j :j :j I haven't had Christmas with any of my family for so many years, as Mum and my bro and sis were always 300 miles away and I was tied to London by my church choir. This year my bro and sis are both spending Christmas with their partners, and it will be lovely to have Christmas dinner with mum and the dog and cats It will take a bit of logistical organisation as I still need to be in London until lunchtime on Christmas Day, and I don't drive and there won't be any transport, so Mum will have to drive in from Reading to pick me up... but I am really really looking forward to it.

I have been out every night this week except Wednesday (when I made a massive batch of Thai green chicken curry for the freezer) and am out every night next week except Friday. So today I need to do another big batch of something to keep myself fed with some degree of variety for the next few lunches and dinners.

Yesterday I dropped in briefly on the MSE Property Board meet and met 3 of the regulars (most had left by the time I got there ) I was specially pleased to meet Lynzpower who I've wanted to meet for ages.

I hope most of you are well, there are a lot of bugs going round at the moment. Our church choir was down to 3 this morning and I spent half the week praying for an opera singer of my acquaintance to get over her stomach bug in time to be well enough to sing in the thing I was going to see on Friday night. She did :j

I've got to pop out with the wally trolley to take my recycling down to the local bins, and pick up a few items from the supermarket, so better be off to do that before it gets dark.

Love Rzl xx :wave:

twink

a big hug to you Bargain Rzl and christmas with your Mum sounds lovely, glad she has got settled somewhere better

this_is_it

Hi everyone ,

Spent the morning helping dd and ds with their home work and reading and writing pratice , then i got a few bags of veg peeled and cut for the freezer.
Having a late lunch roast beef, have made some pastry its in the fridge for later making jam tarts and cheese pasties oh is off all week so these will do for when he gets the munchies.
It was snowing here for a bit so the kids spent 10mins glued to the windows lol.

Hester your lodger is acting more like shes your teenage daughter then your lodger lol.

Hugs to everyone who needs one ,net x x x

Essex-girl_2

Afternoon All

Ellie - thanks for the offer but am just sitting here enjoying my clean (at the mo) house & defrosting after getting freezing cold at football. Must admit though I would rather clean someone elses house than my own.

Whatatwit - I love that joint of Pork - havnt had it for ages though - loads of crackling.

Must go now and out the veg on for tea.

Hardup_Hester

Hi All
I did wonder about the lodger being a 'working girl' but don't think it's likely as she never brings anyone home (thank heavens).
She managed to pay the rest of her rent by yesterday morning, so it's taken her 2 weeks to catch up from the half term when she didn't get paid, I can see Christmas being a problem as she doesn't get paid for 2 weeks & she's not arranged to go away as yet, though she is trying to.
I don't worry much about what she eats as she doesn't eat with us & the rent is supposed to include breakfast & evening meal, so although she helps her self I think I'm still ahead financially.
One of the reasons I put up with her is because she works at the same school I work at & if I throw her out we'd lose an IT teacher, which we can't afford to do. She cannot afford to rent a bedsit round here & she came here expecting to share a flat with friends, but the agency didn't warn her that she wouldn't be able to commute from Croydon to Reading.
So I feel she has been badly treated by the agency & while I know that isn't my responsibility it means I do have some sympathy with her.

Penny-Pincher!!

Bargain_Rzl wrote: »

I have been out every night this week except Wednesday (when I made a massive batch of Thai green chicken curry for the freezer)

Hi Hun

Just wanted you to have a big hug and wondered if you had a recipe for the Green Thai Curry?

PP
xx

kunekune

Hi everyone, thought I'd pop on. It's dark already - I'm not used to these UK winters, after my years in New Zealand, so it's quite a shock to the system.

We've had a stay-at-home day, though I've been busy. I did some cleaning this morning, am getting used to dealing with a four storey house with two bathrooms plus an extra toilet. Because of the children, we can't leave cleaning things in the toilets, so I have it all in a bucket and carry it with me. I put some shelf units up for toys yesterday and DH did the new tv thingie today. It isn't quite right but it looks alright as long as you don't investigate too closely. It'll have to do. I've also emptied four more boxes in the garage, so we are gradually getting there.

We had some yummy thai pumpkin soup for lunch (butternut pumpkin and onion, cooked in a mix of stock and coconut milk, flavoured with thai red curry paste). Then a bit later we had my banana and peanut butter muffins. I've made a batch of watercress, leek & potato soup for tomorrow's tea - we are having soup as a first course, so that we get more veges in and to fill us up and keep the meat costs down. And I have learned a new trick from you OS experts: I chose what to make today by looking at what food wasn't going to last much longer. If I hadn't done the muffins or soup, the bananas and watercress would have been chucked. I spend a lot on food, and have often wasted it, so I'm feeling good about that (the soup tastes great too).

dlb

Afternoon everyone.

Well we had snow at ds1 footy match!!!! It was flipping freezing which lead to dd moaning alot dispite all the goodies she ate!! But ds1 team won 3-1 and ds1 scored the first goal, so was worth getting wet through for.:rolleyes:
Ds1 also won their cup match 5-0 !! Which means hes in the quarter finals:j :j , hes so pleased he hasnt stopped smiling.:D

Since we got back kids have been great, they have been playing monopoly (Chelsea fc version!!) for the last few hours in the dinning room, so iv sat and wrote my xmas cards, watched some rubbish on tv, and am now waiting for the sunday roast to be ready. We are all so hungry, i think being outside in the cold all morning makes you like that, we are all ready for full tummys and big bubble baths then settling down to celeb jungle.:p
Hope your all having great sundays
Off for a look around the boards
Donna
xx

PS- Thank you to Crazychick for the fake parking ticket!!!!!!:mad: I nearly died!!!:D But it made ds1 nearly wet hiself!!!!:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: What are you like!!!!LOL LOL LOL