Investing in Us: Holidays, Health, and the Road to £150k

Watty1

I'm glad you found two options for the dresses that met your criteria - and - simply dress sizes change a lot - I used to be able to fit one size now I have gone up 5 sizes but honestly I've not actually gone up that much (yes I have put on weight but not like that much).

Big river site has some nice hair pieces - I wanted to know what I'd look like with long curly hair so I bought one for around £30 - I looked like Miss Piggy so that was a no no and sent back - but it was fun and I wear hair a lot now anyway so if you wanted long hair it is doable.

My cleaner finding out I wear hair pieces bought herself one because she was worried about her hair falling out - turned up to do the cleaning with the most fabulous updo achieved by a £10 hair piece - I would never have know if she had not told me (she only came to work with her hair up to show me because she was so pleased).

beanielou

Glad you got a couple of things you liked. Don’t let size define you. Why do we do this to ourselves 🤷‍♀️

Baldybear

I feel for you on the dress size and boobs, tried a lovely dress on the other day and it wouldnt fit over my chest, hmm! Mine used to be quite good proud of which felt was a fantastic size, then had a baby and boom didnt breastfeed as in nicu but expressed for 9 weeks and one day it was like someone popped a balloon and they are flat, so a much bigger size but thats only because i have to fold them in half to fit them in, if i go braless can nearly tuck them in my trousers 🤣🤣🤣 that and the "baby weight" that i keep saying going to lose, ahem child is nearly 5, so that would be the crap that I need to cut down on ☺️

Baldybear

On a more serious note have you had your thyroid checked among other things, i have underactive and take thyroxine and really notice difference in energy etc if I miss a day.

Glad you have a gp appt and seeing a different gp, can your dp go and stand your corner, my dh did that luckily when a few yrs ago was so ill and dr at utc said go back to gp for bloods, i walked out in tears as so fed up, dh stayed in room and had massive arguement but they referred me to xray and a&e and they found really bad pneumonia, so grateful for having someone to be with me that day x

debtfreewannabe321

Thanks for the comments all. I can't believe people pay for boobs like mine. If only we could do a swap. @Baldybear everything was checked on the last round of blood tests but unless they're so low you're about to die they don't seem bothered at my surgery?! The thyroid and liver came back as not great, as did vit d and b12 and something else and they said nothing needed doing....it's like they don't seem concerned about all the symptoms you have and how much you struggle unless a bit of paper tells them to act on it. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I will try again with it though. My energy is awful. I think I'll ask for the tilt table test thing too even if just to rule it out for POTS.

And the amount of dresses I tried on that the zip went up over the hips. Then the waist, nice and easy and comfortable and then the lower back...then stop. You hear the fabric stretching and creaking and nope wouldn't go any further. Had to say no to lots of pretty dresses which I felt was so unfair. I would love to be taller, longer body, small boobs. I could have got into everything she picked out then 😆.

Our new freezer is here! It's smaller than what I thought it would be 😒. I am hoping it's bigger on the inside than it looks on the outside.

I bought some very cheap bedding plants from Mr L and am having a break at the moment but I'm putting those into gaps around the raised beds. They were super cheap so although I only went in for coffee and a couple of other bits I filled the trolley with these 😆 (bout 15 quid for about 40 small plants though.) right think I'll crack on, then carry on reading my book I started earlier 😊.

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I've had a productive day in the garden 😀. I've filled all the gaps in the main beds, pinched out the flowers as they were honestly so dry and looking sorry for themselves these plants that I felt I needed to give them half a chance. How is they look perky under shop lights and the second you put them outside they wilt and look half dead 😆😆🙈. Anyhow that was a lot of plants to put in. I also moved around five wheelbarrows full of compost to top up five or six raised beds. And filled some pots too. Straw is under the strawberry plants 🍓🍓🍓 it would be lovely if we got a good crop of these as we all love berries. And the garden is all watered. I'm resting now. I made sure to have lots of rest breaks which seems to be the key to not doing my back in.

I had a cute little robin follow me around as I worked and hopped up several times within a couple of feet of me to see what I was doing. He was trying to steal all the worms I dug over.

DP is outside doing the patio foundation still... lifting the grass and then needs to stomp it down with his stomper he bought. He has a blackbird that watches him work and every time he leaves the area the blackbird is straight down to steal the worms and bugs 😆. The naughty squirrel hasn't returned. … Yet.

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I've had a busy morning trying on more dresses, although I've got two 🫣 I felt I could have chosen something a little more bridal-like so I purchased a load yesterday for next day delivery and they had arrived by 12pm 😀! However, none were right, the one or two that fitted just weren't very good quality and so they have already been sent back. I might continue searching but I'm not in a panic because I do have two that I really like. And I suppose, do I need to look like a bride? Just because that's what we expect? I've two very lovely dresses, and both actually look nice on, fit nicely... I just am struggling with the stereotypical picture in my head of what I *should* look like.

We've had rain on and off all day so didn't need to water my plants and DP is outside now laying foundation for the patio (still) promise we don't have a huge patio but the ground work is the hardest part I suppose when it's being done in dribs and drabs around work. We popped out only briefly to take the huge parcel back 😆 it was super heavy...20+ dresses 🫣🙈!

Next month I am doing a specific budget to help pay for wedding costs 💍👗👠 so I hope to not have a great big cc debt going into summer (at the moment it is maxed out because I just put all those dresses on that now need to be refunded 🤣😆).

beanielou

What month is the wedding? Wear what you feel happy in 🤗

debtfreewannabe321

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It's the last week of May! So not long to go...xx

Jessy103

I hope you find the perfect wedding dress, DFW! When me and DH got married I got an amazon special, less than £60 and it fitted my larger lady lumps in nicely 🤣