Tuesday, August 19, 2008
I hate my period!
And not for the obvious reasons. Sorry if this is TMI, but I need to vent. I'm practically hemorrhaging and twice today I've gotten to the restroom with only about 5 seconds to spare before ruining my pants and completely embarrassing myself! I could really stand to do without this for oh -- at least nine months! ;)
Cramps and the Dentist
Well, I got my period, which we are in the countdown to FET #1. It also means that I have cramps, bad cramps. They bad ones hit this morning while I was in the dentist's chair for what felt like an eternity. There I was getting 2 cavities filled and impressions for a new night guard, feeling like my insides were in a vise and wishing that I'd remembered to take my Ad.vil before I'd left the house.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Show and Tell #3
Yard work -- a before and after story.
I should preface my photos with a note that I do not like to do yardwork. I love flowers and I'm envious when I see other people's flower gardens, but I'll never have one because I just don't enjoy the work enough. And that's why after living in our house for 6 years the flower beds in the back the house were completely overgrown with random flowers and mostly weeds. My few attempts to spruce things up usually involved mums or petunias, many random flower pots, and a half refinished ice cream table and chair set. The result was that our yard look like it belonged on the set of the Bev.erly Hillbillies. My older sister (who now lives in an apartment in NYC) used to have the most beautiful yards. She never had tons of flowers, but always roses and great shrubs. So I recently asked her for some advice on something nice looking but low maintenance that I could do to spruce up our yard. She ended up giving me more than advice. She brought my nephew down and spent two days with me -- including 3 visits to the garden center and many, many hours of digging (thanks to the practically solid clay that is what passes for soil here and crazy BIG root systems in the flower beds right next to the house). The focus of our work was along the back of our house and our patio, but I got so excited we did a little sprucing up in the front too. She also convinced me to get rid of the old ice cream table and chair set and most of the pots -- my husband is eternally grateful! I actually have a few other projects planned for the fall (with specific instructions given by my sister!) and I'm so happy with the results of our recent efforts that I'm actually excited. The effort paid off in another unexpected way too. We have no real storage for things like bikes, lawn mowers, yard tools, etc, so our screened porch is unusable because it's where we put everything. Seeing the effort we put into the yard my mom decided to give us a rather large sum of money to be used for a shed. It arrives on Wednesday and we're so excited to get the use of our porch back. Anyway back to the recent project... Unfortunately, I don't have true "before" photos, because I forgot to pull out my camera until after I had dug up all the junk growing in the beds AND dug up the ugly railroad ties and many many ugly and crumbling bricks used as borders. and I'm actually , and Nevertheless, here's more of the story in pictures.
Behind the Patio
The Railroad Ties I Pulled Up
Next To The Front Stoop
Unused Flower Boxes
AFTER
My Nephew Helping With The Shovel
Had to add a photo of my favorite hydrangea -- one of the few things we planted after moving in.
I should preface my photos with a note that I do not like to do yardwork. I love flowers and I'm envious when I see other people's flower gardens, but I'll never have one because I just don't enjoy the work enough. And that's why after living in our house for 6 years the flower beds in the back the house were completely overgrown with random flowers and mostly weeds. My few attempts to spruce things up usually involved mums or petunias, many random flower pots, and a half refinished ice cream table and chair set. The result was that our yard look like it belonged on the set of the Bev.erly Hillbillies. My older sister (who now lives in an apartment in NYC) used to have the most beautiful yards. She never had tons of flowers, but always roses and great shrubs. So I recently asked her for some advice on something nice looking but low maintenance that I could do to spruce up our yard. She ended up giving me more than advice. She brought my nephew down and spent two days with me -- including 3 visits to the garden center and many, many hours of digging (thanks to the practically solid clay that is what passes for soil here and crazy BIG root systems in the flower beds right next to the house). The focus of our work was along the back of our house and our patio, but I got so excited we did a little sprucing up in the front too. She also convinced me to get rid of the old ice cream table and chair set and most of the pots -- my husband is eternally grateful! I actually have a few other projects planned for the fall (with specific instructions given by my sister!) and I'm so happy with the results of our recent efforts that I'm actually excited. The effort paid off in another unexpected way too. We have no real storage for things like bikes, lawn mowers, yard tools, etc, so our screened porch is unusable because it's where we put everything. Seeing the effort we put into the yard my mom decided to give us a rather large sum of money to be used for a shed. It arrives on Wednesday and we're so excited to get the use of our porch back. Anyway back to the recent project... Unfortunately, I don't have true "before" photos, because I forgot to pull out my camera until after I had dug up all the junk growing in the beds AND dug up the ugly railroad ties and many many ugly and crumbling bricks used as borders. and I'm actually , and Nevertheless, here's more of the story in pictures.
Behind the Patio
The Railroad Ties I Pulled Up
Next To The Front Stoop
Unused Flower Boxes
AFTER
My Nephew Helping With The Shovel
Had to add a photo of my favorite hydrangea -- one of the few things we planted after moving in.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
I'm Pathetic
Do you think it would be cheating if I got myself a Fre.sca?
Also, how long do you think they'll leave the "Blogger Babies" post up on the Blogger site. I'm really enjoying seeing all those photos of new babies when I want to log onto my infertility website! ;)
Also, how long do you think they'll leave the "Blogger Babies" post up on the Blogger site. I'm really enjoying seeing all those photos of new babies when I want to log onto my infertility website! ;)
Monday, August 4, 2008
Goodbye Old Friend
I'd been planning to write this post two weeks ago! I'd planned to cut out my soda habit when I got my period; I figured that would give me a good 6 weeks caffeine and chemical free before my FET. Unforunately, I'm addicted. Yes you heard me, I am horribly addicted to the elixir pictured above. And the thing is, when I'm feeling stressed, as I have been lately, it's my comfort. Also helps when I'm tired and trying to get through the work day. Yesterday I realized that I'm probably only 4 weeks from the FET, as I slurped down my soda with all the nastiness that I KNOW is in there -- ooooh the guilt. So I decided that yesterday would be the last day I would indulge myself, and today would be my first DDP free day -- cold turkey! How has it gone? Well, despite almost falling asleep during some online training, it's been ok. I'm less than an hour away from leaving work and I've only had water and seltzer water to drink today! Though there are several hours left in the day, I really just need to get through the work hours because we don't keep any soda at our house, so once I'm on my way home I know that I'll have successfully made it through my first day soda free. Small steps, small steps.
Adoption Update
So our agency sent our dossier to China on July 10th and on the 28th we received an email with the following subject line.
"Congratulations! We received your Log-In Date!"
Our Log-In Date (LID) is July 18, 2008. Now we wait. And wait. And wait. And according to our agency and some random google research that wait could be anywhere from 2 1/2 to 6 years. I really don't know what to feel about that, but one thing is for sure. There won't be anymore adoption updates for a long long while.
"Congratulations! We received your Log-In Date!"
Our Log-In Date (LID) is July 18, 2008. Now we wait. And wait. And wait. And according to our agency and some random google research that wait could be anywhere from 2 1/2 to 6 years. I really don't know what to feel about that, but one thing is for sure. There won't be anymore adoption updates for a long long while.
Show and Tell #2
This week's show and tell is about a doll. Yes a doll. Many, many, many years ago I saw a picture in a toy catalog and I wrote this
(if you click on the photo you can actually read the letter I wrote for a 3rd grade english assignment)
For my birthday that year I got this.
After I got her, I found out that she is actually meant to be Cinderella. I recently dug the original box out from under a bed at my mom's house and gave the doll to my daughter. Though she seemed excited at first, she hasn't given the doll a second thought since. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that she's not all that interested in my 31-year-old dusty doll. I had hoped that she might get a bit of enjoyment out of a doll that brought me so much joy. Not only did I love her pink dress and the wreath of flowers on her head, but she was early proof that dreams can come true.
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(if you click on the photo you can actually read the letter I wrote for a 3rd grade english assignment)
For my birthday that year I got this.
After I got her, I found out that she is actually meant to be Cinderella. I recently dug the original box out from under a bed at my mom's house and gave the doll to my daughter. Though she seemed excited at first, she hasn't given the doll a second thought since. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that she's not all that interested in my 31-year-old dusty doll. I had hoped that she might get a bit of enjoyment out of a doll that brought me so much joy. Not only did I love her pink dress and the wreath of flowers on her head, but she was early proof that dreams can come true.
For more from Show and Tell click here ...
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