Keeping up appearances.......

Dolphin1

So sorry to hear about your cat HappyNow, I was hoping that you would have a bit longer with her but it wasn't to be. I am glad though that the decision to have her PTS was taken out of your hands because that would have been so much worse (if that's possible).

What a rather rubbish year you are having so far! Thank goodness you have some positives to focus on such as how well the debt-busting is going and Miss HappyNow's job success and lovelife . I'm sending positive vibes in the hope that everything in your life will be more positive from now onwards!

I'm not sure that my updates are appropriate at the moment so I'll skip them for now. They are of no great interest anyway.

HappyNow

FlacosFloozie wrote: »

hopefully you might be able to do some balance shuffles and lower interest. Will look forward to your post on the roll of honour

Hello FF, lovely to see you. I checked in on your diary a month or so back and it looked like you'd gone AWOL, I'm pleased you haven't.
Funny you should mention the interest, I was just adding it up on the CC statements. For my debt of £27300 I will pay just £43 interest in July which I'm really pleased with. Most of it is on either 0% until Nov 16 or 4.9% for life. When I started this diary I paid around £500 each month!!

Dolphin1 wrote: »

Ambitious targets especially the step count, very good luck!

My Fitbit step counter cheats. It's really sensitive - by the time I've brushed my hair, put face cream/make-up on and driven to work it's credited me with about 1000 steps. And I had to disable the cycling auto-count because every time I drove up our bumpy farm track it congratulated me on my great bike ride! So I've set the target at 11000, but I disregard 1000 per day, so the real aim is 10000. I know it will mess up my calorie count a bit, but it'll be near enough.

HappyNow

Honey_Bear wrote: »

I'm so, so sorry to hear about your cat, Happy. We always think we're prepared for the inevitable, just not yet, and as it turns out we never are. For her, what a lovely way to go - no need to go back to go back in the basket in the car, no vet's surgery, no more jabs or pills having to be swallowed, nothing scary happening to her in an unfamiliar place, she was where everything was just so, had a full tummy, surrounded by people she loved and just went to sleep. When my time comes, can I go exactly the same way, please? (I promise I won't expect to be buried in one of your fields.)

joeyjimbles wrote: »

So very sorry to hear about your cat, Happy, but I do agree with Honey that it was a very kind way for her to go. And after a long happy life too. I know that you'll miss her dreadfully.

Dolphin1 wrote: »

So sorry to hear about your cat HappyNow, I was hoping that you would have a bit longer with her but it wasn't to be. I am glad though that the decision to have her PTS was taken out of your hands because that would have been so much worse (if that's possible).

What a rather rubbish year you are having so far! Thank goodness you have some positives to focus on such as how well the debt-busting is going and Miss HappyNow's job success and lovelife . I'm sending positive vibes in the hope that everything in your life will be more positive from now onwards!

I'm not sure that my updates are appropriate at the moment so I'll skip them for now. They are of no great interest anyway.

Thank you all for the kind thoughts, and we have indeed been focusing on what a lovely life she had and what a great way to go. So, no regrets and no more mourning - other than for my three new, best, towels, which for some reason I chose to wrap her in to be buried! I have no idea why I used the good ones when we have a drawer full of ancient raggedy things. Gotta source some cheap new towels now, while my lovely ones rot away six foot under!

Dolphin - your updates ARE appropriate and they definitely ARE of great interest. I will be putting mine up asap, but I'm supposed to be working right now. Back soon

Dolphin1

HappyNow wrote: »

Dolphin - your updates ARE appropriate and they definitely ARE of great interest. I will be putting mine up asap, but I'm supposed to be working right now. Back soon

No really, they are of no great interest because I seem to have failed on all fronts for most of the first 6 days as you are about to see . I really need to get back on track.

So update for the first 6 days of July...

1) To have 14 NCDs - No NCDs whatsoever . I am determined not to eat any rubbish today!
2) To walk an average of 10,000 steps per day over each week (so 70,000 total for each week) - Last week I ended up doing 67,309 for the week (9,615 per day average) which I was quite pleased with as I had to use the car more than usual. This week I have managed just over 31,000 for the first three days so I'm on track if I can keep it up.
3) To put my light out by 11pm every night including weekends (I am still struggling to nail this target) - I have managed to switch the light off before 11pm for the last 3 nights in a row so that's good but I still feel tired. I think I'm still catching up from having visitors. They are rather exhausting and not just because of the late nights.

Dolphin1

Update for yesterday...

1) To have 14 NCDs - None eaten so my first NCD of July :j!
2) To walk an average of 10,000 steps per day over each week (so 70,000 total for each week) - Just under 9,000 yesterday so I am up to 40,000 for the first 4 days but the weekend is coming.
3) To put my light out by 11pm every night including weekends (I am still struggling to nail this target) - Light out at 10.50pm.

joeyjimbles

Congrats on the NCD Dolphin, in fact, congratulations on all your achievements you really seem to be doing well.
I'm doing the new job of doom - very like the old job of doom but with less paperwork but more items to categorise - its historically been 30-50, and this time its 132 with no extra time to get it done, though more money which is a good thing. So I comforted myself with cheese and biscuits and a couple of glasses of wine last night when I was doing the start of the surveys. It helped.

Honey_Bear

HappyNow wrote: »

I was just adding it up on the CC statements. For my debt of £27300 I will pay just £43 interest in July which I'm really pleased with. Most of it is on either 0% until Nov 16 or 4.9% for life. When I started this diary I paid around £500 each month!!

Result! Funny how easy it is to forget the things we've done and what we've achieved while on the long and winding road of debt-busting.

My Fitbit step counter cheats. It's really sensitive - by the time I've brushed my hair, put face cream/make-up on and driven to work it's credited me with about 1000 steps. And I had to disable the cycling auto-count because every time I drove up our bumpy farm track it congratulated me on my great bike ride! So I've set the target at 11000, but I disregard 1000 per day, so the real aim is 10000. I know it will mess up my calorie count a bit, but it'll be near enough.

I bet they're all as sensitive as that, to make everyone think they've done masses of virtuous exercise.

Honey_Bear

Dolphin1 wrote: »

No really, they are of no great interest because I seem to have failed on all fronts for most of the first 6 days as you are about to see . I really need to get back on track.

But that's what makes them interesting, Dolphin. Anyone can set goal things, targetty things and new year's resolutions, and they could be things that are just easy to do, but it takes a different kind of self-disclipine to set targets that we aspire to and check in daily to report progress, or in my case, total lack of it. Eventually, though, the persistence pays off and we end up making lots of little changes that add up to an amazing amount. And hearing about other people's struggle makes me feel less like a failure when I don't measure up to what it is I'm trying to do.

So update for the first 6 days of July...

1) To have 14 NCDs - No NCDs whatsoever . I am determined not to eat any rubbish today!
2) To walk an average of 10,000 steps per day over each week (so 70,000 total for each week) - Last week I ended up doing 67,309 for the week (9,615 per day average) which I was quite pleased with as I had to use the car more than usual. This week I have managed just over 31,000 for the first three days so I'm on track if I can keep it up.

So, to be honest, I think most of us would regard achieving 96.35% of a target pretty successful, don't you?

3) To put my light out by 11pm every night including weekends (I am still struggling to nail this target) - I have managed to switch the light off before 11pm for the last 3 nights in a row so that's good but I still feel tired. I think I'm still catching up from having visitors. They are rather exhausting and not just because of the late nights.

Imagine how stuffed you'd be if you'd not managed those three nights!

Dolphin1 wrote: »

Update for yesterday...

1) To have 14 NCDs - None eaten so my first NCD of July :j!

Yay!

2) To walk an average of 10,000 steps per day over each week (so 70,000 total for each week) - Just under 9,000 yesterday so I am up to 40,000 for the first 4 days but the weekend is coming.

But you're on track, so well done. Yay!

3) To put my light out by 11pm every night including weekends (I am still struggling to nail this target) - Light out at 10.50pm.

Yay!

joeyjimbles wrote: »

Congrats on the NCD Dolphin, in fact, congratulations on all your achievements you really seem to be doing well.
I'm doing the new job of doom - very like the old job of doom but with less paperwork but more items to categorise - its historically been 30-50, and this time its 132 with no extra time to get it done, though more money which is a good thing. So I comforted myself with cheese and biscuits and a couple of glasses of wine last night when I was doing the start of the surveys. It helped.

Well done for cheering Dolphin on while I'm being so tardy. I hope the Job of Doom is over really soon and the money arrives quickly.

Honey_Bear

Three bits of good news.

Kelpie's coping much better with being confined to barracks now that I've realised that I was seriously underfeeding him! He's got to lose a lot of weight as quickly as possible, and because he had such a depressed appetite after the general anaesthetic I hadn't upped the amount he was getting. He's so chuffed he doesn't feel starving all the time he's calmed right down.

His referral for hydrotherapy has been made.

The pet insurance company appears to be willing to cough up for the x-rays and hydrotherapy. Result!

joeyjimbles

Yay for insurance worth having Honey, and so glad to hear that he's improving. Our doglet is in a sulk as he detests walking in the rain and he's had to do that for that past week - even today when it looks sunny when we set out, we came home soaked. I wouldn't mind his mood so much if it weren't for his double-standard, he is happy to swim in the river every walk - insists upon it even in the snow and depths of winter - but doesn't like walking in the wet.
He may also be sulking because the cat is lying stretched out in his bed.