Chrissy Is In The Hot Seat

Hi Chrissy, we all know about your dog Pickles. As a dog lover myself, I'd like to know how many dogs you've had in your life and is the dachsund your favorite breed?

 

@Terry Page, I really don't know. It will come down to when I just can't take care of this house any longer by myself. But I'm feeling that maybe by next year, some changes will be made. I'm on a downward spiral in Fresno.

@Ruby Begonia , I've had a few dogs in my life but was more of a cat person til I got Pickles. Had a little poodle in the 80's named Benjy, he got hit by a motorcycle. Then we had a Hungarian Kuvasz in Hungary, but it was more my husband's dog. We took 2 cats with us to Hungary, what a hassle that was. When we left Hungary we gave Vickie to our vet. My older cat died in Hungary and the other one disappeared while I was visiting my daughter in CA. For a few months.
I think my husband had something to do with that because they didn't get along.

Then I had Pickles dropped in my lap by my SIL, I've told that story on here. Yes, dachshund is my favorite breed and that is the only type of dog I would ever consider getting again. Maybe because they have some cat like qualities, I don't know but he is my favorite dog so far.

 

@Terry Page , I feel as if I'm in therapy, lol. Are you trying to get me to face my demons?

 

Would I do that lol ..................yes I can't stop my old ways I am afraid just send me on my way

 

@Chrissy Page , tell us about your very first boyfriend, and why did you break up with him.

 

I won't mention your father at this stage or I will end up in the doghouse

 

@Ina I. Wonder , believe it or not, my husband was my first real boyfriend. My father was very strict and although I was pretty and popular with boys in High School I never accepted any dates. It was just easier that way.

So I was a virgin when I met my husband. but not for long...

 

@Terry Page , you can mention my father, I will decide if I want to answer. It's been so long that it doesn't really get to me anymore. It did shape me though and most of the negatives of my life I can blame on him.

 

OK but I wont go the therapy route ......what are your first memories of your father?

 

@Terry Page , my first memory is of him sitting in chair with my brother in his lap. I was probably about 3-4, we had just arrived from Argentina and I had just met the rest of my real family....my mother, my brother, and my father. I don't even think I grasped the idea that he was my father. At least I have no memory of it.

He was smoking a cigar and was joking around and trying to make my brother take a puff and when he didn't, my father got very angry. I have no more memories until we moved to Pittsburgh and I was about 5. Maybe I blocked them out.

I do have lots of fond memories of my life in Argentina with my grandparents and uncle though. Seems a year in my life is missing.

 

Which means you never bonded with him I would guess..the early years are important...

 

No, I never bonded with him, I know that, nor he with me. I did with my mother though.

 

It sounds like a pretty big upheaval in your life and I guess would have been a very confusing time for a young child, and your family in a different way. A lot of fathers find it difficult to bond with their child after time has past, my father did because I hadn't seen him for the first 4 years of my life.
It was good that you were close to your mother though.

 

Yes, yet you had a good bond with your dad, I didn't ....the flaw was in my father it seems.

 

Chrissy, This time I'll ask two questions.

1. What was your first rebellious act?

2. When did you decide you were grown?