Day 3: my pets

Day three of the 30 days of thankfulness.
I am thankful that I have always had pets in my life. Each one has very special places in my heart and memories.

I love You

Dearest Vic

I love that you wait until I'm home with you to watch our favorite shows , recording them for later even thou you could have watched them earlier.

I love that we hit pause and talk for 20 minutes about Tamera and Vickie like we are actual friends of the Real Housewives of the OC.

I love the way the women flirt with you at the bank/pharmacy/doctors office and the way you act like you don't notice.

I love that you brought dachshunds into my life..I am furever smitten.

I love that you support me, no matter how crazy the idea is. 

I love that you let me be me. Sad me, happy me, silly me, cranky me...

Weekly Update 7-14-12

It's been over a week since I've done an update. I did however add a 4th of July video and  hoped that that would count :)

It's been a pretty stressful couple of weeks with family drama stuff..I may or may not write about it later but for now I'm just leaving it as family drama. It has really upset my world and has made me quite "off" for the past month. :(

Nothing new on the weight loss thing..I go in this next week and will hopefully have more to report on that later.

I had my annual doctors appointment this last week. Finished it off with a mammogram yesterday, just how I love to start my Fridays. 

Work has been pretty busy. Just the normal drama stuff there. Nothing too exciting. 

Wow this is not a very fun update...I'll leave you with some pictures I took during the week...:) They always make me smile.

My Instagram pictures from this week, Lots of the dachshunds..cause they are so damn cute!

Hunting lizards

My Boys are fashion hounds

Merry Christmas!

I don't know if I say this every Christmas or not, but I think this was one of the best Christmas's ever. Sure, there are sad things going on around us but as we get older I think that is just going to happen more and more. It makes us appreciate what we have (our health) so much more.

This year in following with the tradition of hope for the holidays that Vic's dear friend Sue started before she lost her battle with cancer, we helped one of my friends that I've had since grade school. Her husband has been in the hospital for the last 4 months and things have been a challenge for them. Hearing about all the people that joined us and sent her things/money/prayers was like opening a gift myself every day. Knowing that people care enough to stop what they are doing in their lives and reach out to someone else in this day and age gives me hope and not just for the holidays!

Vic and I have do not have many "traditions" for our holidays yet. The last few years we'd get something big for "us" and call it a Christmas. (D.J. was my most memorable US gift).This year there wasn't really anything we needed so we did little gifts everyday for the week  prior to Christmas saving one  last gift for this morning. We decided we love this tradition and will continue it because it stretches  Christmas out for us!  Over the week I got a tervis tumbler that I LOVE, a "my dachshund loves me" T-Shirt, a dachshund and a yellow lab ornament for the tree, bubble bath, lotto scratch offs that I won $47 on and a few more things!! Vic got some smell good stuff,a manicure set and a Kindle.

The one thing that is a tradition for us is to go to my sisters house Christmas eve and snack on food all day while playing silly games. This year it was name that tune with music from all eras. Brittany won by far. There was lots of laughing, sharing and loving.

As most years there was not a shortage of gifts under the tree. What made this year extra special was my mothers gifts to us. She gave us things from our childhood that brought back so many good memories. My sisters and I all got our silver baby cups that she had engraved             when we were born. I got my  grandmothers china that I had admired and commented on many times over the years. Steph got my grandmothers collection of toby mugs. We all got old cookbooks and childhood books that were passed down from grandparents, to parents and now to us, the one I got was dated back to the 40's and I think some of my nieces were from the 20's ! My brother in law and niece got several of my Grandfathers old pencil sharpeners. I remember he used to have those all over the place. You just never know when you'll need to sharpen a pencil!

My mom also gave my sisters and I three of the Lladros figurines that she got when she went to Spain back in the 70's . Mine is this one :http://www.lladro.com/figurines/01014665-GIRL_WITH_BASKET/  Since she couldn't remember which one was each of our favorites she put numbers on the ribbons on the box and we picked a ribbon, inside the box she numbered the position of each figure and the one that matched our ribbon was ours. As it worked out we all got the one that was our favorite when we were growing up! Something i was treasure for always and remind me of my mom.

The tear jerker item was when my older sister Stephanie opened a box with a pair of her baby shoes and a little while purse she wore one Easter. We all commented that we remembered it having tiny white gloves with it...she opened the tiny purse and it still had the tiny white gloves! Thank you mom for keeping such precious mementos.

Happy Birthday D.J.!

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"D"

A few of my favorite D things

Blog:


Youtube Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/depfox
A look at a gay family.

Dogs:
Dachshunds of course!

Dexter and his son DJ

and our little girl (not a dachshund but a D) Dakota

People:

TV Shows

Dance Lesson:

Wiener Dog Races

Today we went to Ft Myers to watch the weiner dog races! We didn't take our two babies but as soon as we got there we wished that we would have! Next year for sure they will be going with us and will be racing too!
Here are some photos from todays event..enjoy!

2010 Year in review

Ok can you even believe that we are nearing the end of 2010!? I think this year has been the fastest year to pass me by yet.
Some things that happened this year in my life..

• Best Friend Steph came to visit with her boys in July
• Vics son, Victor and his girlfriend Hilary came to visit
• Found out Gin had cancer and three months later lost him
• Got a new treadmill in Oct. (so far it's been used three times, one of those times is when it tossed Vic off)
• Friends Deb and Linda visited once and then moved here from Oregon
• took a road trip with my sister (Brittany) and visited our dad in TN
• Had several family get togethers (Crab Boil, My B'day party, Moms b'day party, 4th of July)
• Saw RENT at the Venice Little Theater..awesome!
• Volunteered at Sarasota Pride
• Worked for several weeks for the Census Bureau
• Parasailed for the first (and probably last) time
• Started a blog!
• Celebrated more b'days..me 43, Vic 57, DJ 1, Dexter 2, Dakota 5,Scout 7
• Celebrated one year with my new hip, found out it was recalled but so far so good with that

Friday Flip Off 8-20-10

Yay! It’s time for the Friday Flip Offs!!

It’s not like I wait all week for these or anything but I do find myself keeping track during the week of things to post on Fridays. I’m thankful that my lists are generally short. That either means I have a very short memory or that my week has been good!



Ok…since Blogging is taking over my life these days a few of my flip offs are dedicated to blogging.



I’m flipping off the blogs that I want to comment on but make it a pain to do so. Why do I have to sign in and then try and figure out the captcha thingy? It really isn’t fair to put letters/numbers that look alike in those things. If I mess it up more than once I usually give up so Flip Off!



I’m also flipping off the blogs that no matter how many times I close they pop back up. Is anyone else having this problem or can you tell me why it’s happening? It is so annoying. I try to go on to read another blog and the last one just keeps opening, over and over. Grrrrr Flip Off and go away!



I’m flipping off my 11 year old air conditioner and the repair guy that came out yesterday only to tell me that the average life of an AC in Florida is 8-10 years so mine is beyond it’s life span. Flip Off!

I hate to do this, it really pains me to flip off my perfect angel fur child DJ but I must. I have to flip him off for eating poop! The other dogs don’t do this, so why must my favored child DJ do it? Flip Off! And..no more kisses on the mouth for you little boy!



No more flip offs this week for Big Brother..I LOVED having a Rachael free week and even when she came back it was entertaining as hell to see her and ragan fight..I feel sorry for Kathy having to go live with her in the jury house. I was glad that matt didn’t go because that would have just given her one more chance to screetch “Ain’t no body comin between me and my man”



What do you want to flip off this week? Link up over on http://pumpkinandpiglet.blogspot.com/2010/08/friday-flip-offs_20.html who is hosting this week for Gigi at http://www.kludgymom.com/!

TGIF!

Pups at Work

My babies back in Dec 2009. Wow has the puppy grown now..he's longer and bigger than his dad Dexter! Fun looking back on this..I love my dachshunds!