Dastardly Dachshunds-another DFW Diary

Lemon_Tree

we were married at the end of Sept last year and had the most wonderful day.
been out in the garden all day, saw some people walking their dogs and nearly mugged them they had 2 dachy's and lots of other dogs! how gready is that 2 of the little darlings! and very mean not to give me one of them!!!!

cydney65

Awww, how lovely, a September wedding. I love that time of year all very Keats and ode to autumn. Belated congratulations Lemon Tree. It would have been nice if those people with lots of doggies could have given you a small wedding gift

As I'm feeling a bit better we went to the beach today which is only 10 minutes away. It was lovely to drive through the lanes around our village. All the daffodils are out on the verges, which is very apt as we are near Cockermouth, Wordsworth's home town. The lambs are all in the fields and in the village next to ours all the chickens were running up and down the road, chasing the cockerel!

I took the dogs for a short walk and was stopped by a family asking if those were dachshunds and could they stroke them. Lucy was doing her rottweiller impression at this point so I said that it was best not to touch as they are snappy. They then asked how I managed to get the puppy to walk so well to heel, meaning Onyx. When I told them that she was nearly 13years old mouths dropped open :rotfl:

A little poem about our little friends:

The Dachshund's affectionate,
He wants to wed with you:
Lie down to sleep,
And he's in bed with you.
Sit in a chair,
He's there.
Depart,
You break his heart.

E.B. White

CydneyX

Lemon_Tree

love the poem.
Our wedding felt like a pure country wedding complete with amazing horse and carriage ride along country lanes with trees forming arches over the top. It was just fab. Didn't get the photo's sorted. photographer thought it was tomorrow, and we didn't find out she wanted us there early last night until the time we were suposed to arrive. Booked for Monday but OH has just said he's working so won't be until Thurs or friday

cydney65

How magical. It sounds like you had a glorious day.

When DD2 got married there was snow on the Cumbrian fells. It was pretty cool. The hotel she was married in is quite remote and the view was lovely. A lot of the guests travelled up from the Kent and Essex, nearly 400 miles, so it was nice for them to have some picturesque scenery.

When me and OH had our civil partnership it rained. We were due to have a blessing under a rose covered gazebo-so romantic. Thank goodness I ordered a marquee or we'd still be getting the mud out of our clothes 2 years later.

I love reliving these occasions all over again through the photos though. Hopefully you and OH can get it all sorted this week.

CydneyX

Lemon_Tree

we've had the photo's on a disc (or 7) for some time. I made a deal that we could have all the photo's so that i could scrapbook them but haven't gotten around to it yet. doesn't that sound terrible? we've been sorting out this place since the wedding and now we've done that i can try and start on the scrapbooking.

cydney65

Have just looked at my Halifax statement and they have repayed my PPI plus interest of £7580.65 :j:j:j

I feel like I have won the lottery:D. Only two days ago I BT £5000 to OH Barclaycard on a life of balance deal of 6.8% so I now owe Halifax £354.48 :j:j:j DFD is now down by 23 months :j

I will clear the evil :mad: card next month and then concentrate on OHs card.

May have to hit the prescription medication tonight

CydneyX

Lemon_Tree

well done on such a good payout especially if it's more than you expected. wish i could reduce my dfd by 23 months.

Lemon_Tree

hope all is OK with yourselfs and the doggies.

cydney65

Haven’t updated for ages as it’s been quite a year !!!

Debt wise it has been very up and down. I won all of my Halifax PPI back after it was miss-sold back in 1991, thanks to MSE. I still smile about almost a year later. I transferred £5000 to my OH’s credit card at 6.9%, a drop of just over 8.5%. She has been helping out with some of the repayments to the tune of £200 a month, while I’ve been chipping in what I can. The M&S card has been put onto minimum payments as this is at 3.9% for LOB.

Until a couple of months ago this was ticking along nicely, then xmas shopping kinda got in the way and now I’m struggling to get the payments for the Barclaycard together and the OD has gone haywire. So, two weeks ago I decided that enough was enough. I’m too old to be scared of the internet banking button. I have to get a wiggle on and sort out the mess before it gets out of control. I think I am now on top of it. All the xmas shopping is pretty much done (I’m also making sock monkeys like they’ve gone out of fashion to save some money), so December will be a tight month. This should bring me back from the brink even though the DWP pay out twice because of Christmas, throwing all the benefit payments out of sync.

I have decided to address the savings issue, or lack of it, so have just joined the sealed pot challenge for 2010 after mangling a coffee pot to my requirements . I also put away £50 a month into a Halifax regular saver. This will help pay off the M&S card next year so I will hopefully be free of debt and able to save in an ISA for the first time like a proper grown up person .

I spent the first four months of the year feeling very, very ill and hogging the doctor’s surgery. I was diagnosed with candida overgrowth in my lungs and throat and given anti-fungals. I was allergic to those and my face swelled up something terrible _pale_. I decided to swear off doctors for a while and put myself on a special diet to try and get rid of the damn thrush. This entailed cutting out ALL sugar, including fruit, all refined flours, mushrooms, lactose and everything brewed or fermented (sniff all the good stuff). I also have to take caprylic acid, which is the size of horse pills, along with a multitude of vitamins, minerals and probiotics. This has, fortunately, brought the thrush under control, made me feel more human and helped me to lose three and a half stone in weight! Unfortunately, I have had to buy a whole new wardrobe after going down FOUR dress sizes, which isn’t very MSE, but neckedness isn’t really an option oop ere :rotfl:

I still couldn’t work out, though, why I felt utterly exhausted, had so much pain all over and why I had this weird rash on my face and neck. One day I just decided to go to the GP. He took one look at me and said ‘I think you have lupus’. After several blood tests, urine tests and the such, my rheumatologist agreed with the GP, so I can now add SLE to my RA and fibromyalgia. It’s probably the best thing that has ever happened to me in a way. I have a new attitude to life now; in fact my counsellor said that it would have saved her a lot of work if she had just said to me in our first session that I had lupus!

We still have the dastardly dachshunds and Onnie and Cydney da kitty (actually we don’t have them, they own us-we’re outnumbered argggh) and I still take the doggies to the beach most days, although Onnie is getting very old and silly now and doesn’t like to walk every day; mind you I feel the same!!!

Will try and update more regularly from now on so I can get my bottom in gear.

CydneyX

cydney65

Right ho, list for today:

Sort out refunds for neighbours

Check online banking and get head around small amount of available balance

Start packing up crimbo pressies to send off

Let one of our neighbours know that our printer has packed up so can't do that little printing job for them

Ring podiatrist to get new insoles (what an exciting life I lead)

By the end of the week list:

Finish off sock monkeys for nephews

Send off all pressies

Check meds to see if I need to order more before xmas and new year

Get decorations and tree out of garage-subject to all pressies being sent off

Keep checking online banking

Do snowman soup and poop for all nephews and neices

Phew, better get on...

CydneyX