NST September - A Simple September

XSpender

Thank you for the anniversary wishes

thriftylass wrote: »

Happy anniversary for Sunday! It's ours two days later. Our first date was Sunday 15 years ago!

P.S. and no we didn't get married two days after our first date, rather 10 years and 2 days later, lol.

Happy anniversary for Tuesday, our first date was 9th September, moved in together 3 months later but took 4 years to get married.

apple_muncher wrote: »

XSpender - snap! to the wedding anniversary! We'll be at 18 years, and are always surprised at how many years it has been!

Happy anniversary! We are at 12 years on Sunday, feels like 2 at the most


I’ve managed a NSD (4/15) as DH was so late back from work he couldn’t be bothered to go get the new game he has been waiting ages to be released

misstara

A spend day today as I walked to the next village to get a couple of items from the shop (no shops in the village where my parents live) and then caught the bus back.

mothernerd

Congratulations to all those with anniversaries. I would have been married for 32 years this week but fortunately have been happily divorced for 26 of them. My marriage was such a disaster that my anniversary is now an international day of mourning.

Hope you het to talk to DD dolly. We were discussing how much easier mum of twins life will be now that her twin's little boy is at preschool. I said it doesn't work like that, the problems change but I always felt that i was running to try to catch up and at 61 it still feels like that a lot of the time.

I can now stand on two legs rather than leaning so my weight is all on the right side. When your body is compensating to help an injury it can soon lead to other problems (knee taking the strain from an injured ankle, then your hip takes the strain from the knee and your spine starts to twist).

Stairs are okay but not planning to start running up and down them. Will continue cautiously. To take advantage of the weather i have painted 5 chimney pots today, 3 large old fashioned ones and 2 modern much smaller ones and planted many plants (chrysanthemums, pansies, geraniums). Not sure they are all where mum wants them but they are all in soil and have been watered in. Did nearly all of it sitting down.

Despite having a shower, washing my hair and washing my hands and scrubbing my nails several times I still have some blue paint on me and some dirt under my fingernails (tops are clean but there are intractable bits at the base). I should sleep well tonight.

Mum had mentioned having a bag of breaded mushrooms in so I cooked those and made a large salad to go with them. Mum did not have much of an appetite so I only did a small salad for her. She felt okay this morning but faded a bit as the afternoon wore on. Maybe she's had too many visitors (nails done Wednesday, cleaner there yesterday, mum of twins in the evening and hairdresser this morning). She ate nearly all of the food I gave her. Brought a lot of salady bits back.

Came back home to drama. Told the driver to stop behind the car that was already parked, then realised it was a police car. Was hoping the man next door was okay but then saw the action was around number 4. We have a new young man in the rented house (spoke to his dad when he first moved in) and i think there has been some partying going on. I think things got out of hand and he's so young he doesn't know what to do.

Neighbours from 2 and 6 were with him and a few young people milling about. Since i hadn't seen anything and had nothing to contribute I came straight into the house. DS3 only knows that it involved breaking glass. I could hear someone in the backs for a while, sounding upset but someone was talking to them so stayed out of it.

Today i am grateful for getting a couple of biggish jobs ticked off my list, for a delicious meal and for finding my old glasses (left at mum's specifically for painting).

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for a walk in the woods with dh, for it still being shorts weather, for stripping a couple of strips of once-mouldy-wallpaper (tho dh did most of it!), for writing a letter and posting it, for dd being back home having had a wonderful week of activities in Devon, for a much quieter day after a week of manicness.

sashanut

Hi all:j

Definitely trying for simple September - another NSD today making 6/15 NSDs to date.

Sorry to hear about your work problems dolly84, it doesn't sound like a very pleasant place at all. I hope you can get to talk to DD & that she will confide in you.


Lovely Autumn day today, outside doing some gardening & helping DH to put screens up attached to big shed. Picked more crab apples & yet more blackberries.

All food from stores. Quiet day & very glad of it. Relatives visiting on Sunday so will need to be domesticated tomorrow. Always rather be out than in, but it will be nice to see them. Will make a cake, flavour to be decided.

Found out some items to sell, will list tomorrow.

Checking in to say hi: Hello Turtles!!

f0xh0les

Good morning lovely Turtles.
In an amazing mood this morning- I was in the kitchen sweeping and hoovering broken glass at 10pm, it annoys me when glasses jump off the draining board when nobody is near them. It just seems rude and attention seeking, somehow.
Anyway, the house is even tidier - the kitchen drawers of doom are clear. All of them, and they will be winging their way to the tip once I clear it with DH (they came in from the shed when we moved in -the bottoms are rotten and it was only a stop gap anyway. They will look much better as recycled wood chip. It was all his tat in there anyway. I call it tat, it is his crafting supplies - easily mistaken! So nothing has been thrown away, just similar things put together, 3/4 empty boxes of the same thing, combined into one box, type stuff. Anyway, more nasty things to leave the house. My recycling pile is getting very large.

I still have the major dilemma of what to do with all these bicycles. I fear I will have to brave the shed after I clear the rest of the kitchen/laundry/downstairs bathroom. I could do with a couple of those bicycle posts they stick in the high street. How much????? good lord.

I have one large crate left in the kitchen to clear. I am making progress.
This morning, after 1 goes to ping pong, we are heading into town. DS1 needs to open a bank account and buy graph paper (not an easy thing to find anymore) and DS2 needs trainers (it got put off as he did not have PE this week) DS3 wants to buy a doughnut, and DS4 will no doubt have a tantrum. I have a £1.50 H&B voucher to use, and a £3 S&M voucher.

New recipe to try for lunch - baked lentil balls (think falafel with lentils instead of chickpeas), salad, pittas, and a garlic yogurt dressing I made that I want to use up - it is lush. Honestly, the kids would have it on cornflakes if I let them!

Also it is DHs birthday coming up and we want to check out the new monthly 100% vegan market in town. Then football this afternoon. I have a plan. What could possibly go wrong???:rotfl:

So I will remain on NSD6 but tomorrow will be filled with free park run, blackberrying, and scrumping apples.
Hugs to dolly and dollydd

Congratulations to all those celebrating anniversaries, be that wedding, or freedom ones.

Karmacat

All go on here ... I keep reading and not posting, and I really notice that life isn't "simple" - more or less what John Lennon said, life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans! But our attitudes and our own activities can focus on simple, all the same. Mine has been, this week: get more sleep, and do the garden as much as I can. Not bad results, actually. More simplicity today: the horticultural show and a walk round the village if I can get that far (half an hour each way to where I'm thinking of). Hope everyone has a good'un.

crazy_cat_lady

Hello :wave:
I seem to have blinked and lost 5 days of my life this week. I don't know if it's as I'm getting older but it seems to have taken a while to get into the swing of being back at school this year. Plus I've been battling the hormone fairy and two very anxious kids this week. So I've just kept going as much as I possibly could and suddenly it's the weekend.
Chalked up another 3 nsd's during the week and was in bed and asleep very early last night so I'm almost raring to go today. I've put the Christmas gin on - doing blackberry and pear this year. Toni'sfriend - I got my recipe from foxgloves. It's about 300g of sugar per 750ml of gin, plus 300g ish of fruit. You put it all together in a big kilner style jar and give it a good shake every day - takes about 3 months to properly be ready but worth the wait...
Hoping to be a bit more productive and a bit more positive generally today - my secret is not making too many plans and then whatever I get done is a bonus. :rotfl::rotfl:

Toni'sfriend

Thank you, CCL. That sounds fantastic. I think I'll give it a go and try it out on the gin loving
lovely cousin.

Dolly - That sounds really awful. I hate swearing but sadly it seems to be the norm these days.

Today was weekly shopping day. Not too bad considering I bought a joint of roast beef for Sunday dinner. Still have almost half the budget for this week left. Would have been more but Himself's been at the chocolate counter again.

Other than that I made a supply of various kinds of soup for the Boy's lunches and made a kind of flexible meal plan for next week. Really need to try and run down the freezers again.

The Boy was going to join us for part of our holiday in the Lake District in December and drive us back home but he's been called for jury duty two weeks before we go. We already have train tickets for the journey down but it might be prudent to buy them for the return just in case whilst we can still get them at a cheap rate. Train travel is so expensive here. Anyway we'll see. Still got a little bit of time to decide.

Another early night for me.

lcc86

Afternoon all, what a glorious day outside! Yesterday was definitely not a NSD, I got an old tattoo covered up, I've had it planned for months and the money came from savings so I'm not going to beat myself up for spending money. I did also buy extra food yesterday at work. Today I've been for a really long walk with a friend early this morning, it was really nice to just catch up and enjoy the scenery. Put the slow cooker on to make a sweet potato and coconut curry, almost finished and once cool it'll go in the freezer. Watched some TV this afternoon and about to go out for dinner tonight. It's within the entertainment budget. Tomorrow it's an early start for horse riding and then volunteering, we're having a 50th anniversary party where I volunteer so we'll be rewarded with cake at some point!