OS daily threads September 2006

scottishspendaholic

Hey everyone,

I usually lurk as I don't feel Old Style enough to properley post everyday - but Penny Pincher's birthday has prompted me to post so I can say - HAPPY BIRTHDAY PP! I hope you have a lovely, lovely day and are very spoilt - you deserve it.

I am up very late as I had a very lazy Saturday, knitting and watching telly and slept from 3pm to 7pm so I've not been tired until now. I had grand plans to do a big tidy/clean but that didn't happen! This evening though, I did make green thai curry for the freezer and chicken stock - both with leftovers from yesterday's roast chicken. The curry smells lovely but the stock burnt so thats not too good - the house stinks as well so I can't wait to throw open the doors and windows tomorrow! I also made up a recipe for cauliflower and almond soup too - I went to a cafe this week where that was on the menu and it smelt so lovely that I had a bash and it tastes great!

Plans for tomorrow are to do that big tidy/clean, change the bed linen, do a couple of loads of washing and hang it outside, make some carrot and coriander soup for lunches this week, make some ciabatta rolls and also prepare for my job interview on Wednesday and make a start on another job application which is due in this week.

Anyway - I hope you all have a lovely Sunday.

Love

scottishspendaholic x

Amanda666

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PENNY PINCHER :bdaycake: :bdaycake:

Hope you all managed to get some sleep.
Snowy - good luck with the blackberry picking!!!
Calley - maybe you could virtually join Snowy - 2 heads better than 1
Squishy - hope everything is alright with the car

Well up early as have my treat of the week, off to watch the last international of the summer

Need to get a wriggle on as I promised myself that I would do the ironing before I leave. OH thinks I am mad as although play doesn't start till 10.30 I will be at the ground by 8am :j :j

Well no OS for me today other than making my pack up.

Have a wonderful day
:grouphug: to everyone

:wave:
:j :j

Penelope_Penguin

Morning all! Up early for another busy day.

Happy birthday PP!

I've put a candle in a blackberry muffin for you! :beer:

Calley and Snowy, can recommend puting the berries into muffins!

Catowen, thanks for the chocolate!

Squishy, think you're wise not to use your car today.

FS, have a great day! You sound very organised! :T

Snowy, good luck with the application. :j

Scotspen, what are you knitting? My knitting will be coming out of hibernation soon, and I'll be finishing a chunky red jumper.

Amanda, have a lovely day!

Tootles, your garden looks idylic!

BM is on, pastry resting in the fridge to make chicken pie and another plum tart for the freezer. Out digging in the garden today (was lovely yesterday). We're doing a bit of restructuring so I need to clear space to plant bulbs, then a trellis, over the autums, and new plants in the spring.

Penny. x

PoshPaws_3

Morning all :wave: I'm fuming! :mad: I've come down this morning and had to spend my first twenty minutes clearing up after my not-so-dear partner. When I went to bed at 11pm, I left him integrating a new computer (which had been donated by a friend) into our three-way network, which meant swapping lots of hardwear around and then getting DS's programs installed on the new Tower unit. Of course, he's knocking back the booze at the same time, needless to say. GRRR!! So the obsolete base unit was thrown in on top of DS's toybox, the obsolete scanner (a huge dinosaur of a thing) was chucked on top of that - and under it all was the keyboard and mouse, half hanging out of a cardboard box. The vac was still out, a microfibre cloth was languishing on the floor ... GRRRR!!! I HATE the way he never properly finishes anything, but waits for the staff (me) to do it. :wall: :mad:

So sorry to vent all over you - but it was either that or break things - and I can't afford to break things!

Churchmouse: since my DP complained about my ironing, he now does his own. Inevitably, like you, he always finds that stubborn stain when he's just ironed the rest of the shirt - and he always hurls it back in the washbox whilst muttering at me like as though I've done it on purpose. Pretty soon, he's going to find himself doing his own washing, too!!
Tootles and ajr: good luck at the boot sale this morning! Congrats on the earnings from yesterday, ajr! That's amazing!
Squishy: don't blame you for leaving the car at home, I get totally freaked out when the car is misbehaving!
SnowyOwl: good luck with the jobhunting - I'll keep my fingers crossed for you (well, mentally anyway, or I won't be able to type! lol). We blackberried yesterday and DS has announced that he wants to do that every Saturday, in future. :laugh: He was most disappointed when I told him they were seasonal!
ScottishSpendaholic: more good luck jobhunting wishes heading your way!
PenPen: another knitter! I'm just about finished doing a patchwork blanket for chilly sofa mornings. I've got two more pieces of border to do and then sew the border on - just in time for the weather to change, I think!
The best of it is, that is been made entirely from donated/freecycled wool.

Right then, I hear the kettle calling, so that leaves me time in which to say

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PENNY-PINCHER!!
:dance: :bdaycake: :bdaycake: :dance:
Hope its the best yet!!

Penny-Pincher!!

Morning Guys

I'm 32.....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: .....i am getting too old:rotfl: Thanks for the birthday wishes:D DD has done me a card with a picture of me in a wheelchair on the front....saying "Happy Birthday Hot Wheels":T ....i laughed at that....mad child!

Going back to bed in a minute so that OH & DD can do my birthday breakfast for me in bed....well they insisted:o

WM is on, DW half full and toilet cleaned.

Having a dossy morning, then we have friends around for dinner later. We're doing Roast Beef with all the trimmings, but the joint of beef was reduced from £12.44 to £3.02 a few weeks back;) I think we will do self serve as I have some lovely serving dishes I havent used in ages, well since the last dinner party which was a long time ago. Friends we have known for years and they will help with cleaning away after which is great and makes it easier for OH. They have a lovely DD who's 3 and I always get a huge cuddle from her and am labled "Auntie A...manda":rotfl: It will be a nice laid back evening. Friends eat alot of ready meals and for some reason she always serves frozen yorkies on the side with every meal-im hopinh she will like my HM yorkies:D

Will catch up later, am off to get me birthday breakie!

Breakie: Croissants, butter, HM Jam and a cafeterire of fresh coffee & cream
Lunch: Soup & Roll or Sarnie
Dinner: Roast Beef, HM Yorkies, Roasties, New potatoes, carrots, green beans, cabbage, horseradish and stock gravy

Hugs to all and thanks again.

PP
xx

dlb

Morning all!!!
Penny Pincher Happy birthday!! Have a great day.
Latest iv been up all week! Got quite a bit of tidying up to do and get the uniforms ready.But got to do ds no 3 footy match this morning, first match of the season!!
Not doing a roast today, we are going to have shep`s pie and yorkshires+ veg later instead.And i will have to do some baking for pack ups, got one extra to pack up from now on, as will have to pack up dh aswell.New job tommorow !!!

Have a great day everyone!!xxx

twink

happy birthday penny-pincher, have a great day

i went blackberry picking yesterday and the berries are huge so did the first stage of apple and blackberry jam, cooked and sieved, will finish off today
going to tesco later for a replacement micro, might try making flapjacks later for dgs school trip to aberdeen

squishy - hope the car is okay and you manage in to work
snowy - good luck with the sainsburys application
hope everyone gets plenty of blackberrys today, we have loads to ripen yet

hugs to all xx back later

Kazonline

Happy Birthday Penny Pincher!

Hope you have the fabulous day you deserve. (I love your daughters card - you've one amazing kid there, a credit to you and your DH)


Oops, I've forgotten everything else I've read again!!! (watch out Penny pincher, I'm only 33 and senile dementia seems to have set in allready!)
Today I need to do more on the fence and get the uniforms ready (I bet you lot are as sick of reading aboout this pesky fence as I am of putting it up!!) I'd like to visit a particular bootsale today as I think it's the last in the year for that one, and I've yet to go there. On the way back I'll collect my new compost bin, YAY!!!
Luckily tomorrow we start college at 1, just for this week. That will give me the opportunity to have a quick tidy around before the week starts. Currently the l'room floor is covered in lavender 'seeds' from where I was sorting it last night into manageable batches to hang. On the plus side of that is that the whole house smells wonderfull!
Good morning and hello to everyone who's allready posted and about to, and to those having a lovely lie in - or already busy bees and out and about Wishing you all a lovely Sunday,
Kaz x

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ajr

Good morning all and HAPPY BIRTHDAY PENNY PINCHER!
Poshpaws - know exactly how you feel,have similar OH and drives me mad too.
Am having half hour peace before off to car boot. Not so enthusiastic today but will be once there. Got to sort PE kits,bags etc later too as at work all day tomorrow. Going to throw some beef etc in newly rescued form cupboard slow cooker before I go and hope it turns out ok. Have good Sunday,back later.

comping_cat

Good morning everyone,

:bdaycake: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PENNY PINCHER:bdaycake: :beer:

Just a quick one from me today as DS has a football tournement, and i have to make a picnic to take with us. I made some lovely rolls last night, and the kitchen still smells of them so that was nice to wake up to!!! The weather is meant to be nice as well, so hoping for a nice day. Also have a mystery shop to do later, which means i dont have to cook today, so even better!!!!
Right better get moving, we have to be off soon, and both DD and DS are still in bed, now where did i put that rocket!!!!

Hope everyone has a lovely sunday,
Take care xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Forgot to say, was woken up at 4 this morning by my smoke alarm beeping every couple of minutes!!!! Its lucky its still with us, although the battery isnt anymore!!!!!