In-laws

While we were seeing Jamie this weekend the in-laws come over and dog/house sit for us. Now I love them to death and I know they mean well, but sometimes they make me feel very inadequate. Since they were coming over, we cleaned the house on Friday and washed the sheets on Saturday before they got there. (Especially since it was ovulation week). Well, apparently she thought our house needed cleaned, b/c not only did she sweep the entire house, but she also cleaned our bathtubs. (They weren't bad). And I'm not sure what wood they cleaned, but there was a bottle of old english wood stuff under my sink. Oh, she also cleaned my sink, but I will admit it needs it, but it always needs it. Unfortunately the people who lived there before trashed it and its all scratched up and looks bad. I have to clean it a LOT!

Not sure if you remember, but at one time were going to change all of our outlets in the house to white ones b/c they look better than the almond ones in our house. Well we decided to just change the ones in the kitchen b/c our kitchen is bright white (for now) including cabinets. The rest of the house was fine with the almond ones. Well, apparently they got bored over the weekend. They changed EVERY OUTLET COVER. Yes, I said cover, ONLY the cover. They look ridiculous b/c they have a white cover and almond switch part. Now we have to go through and chang everyone of them back. Ugh. That was definitely not in my schedule this week.

Well, readers! Had to get that off my chest! Thanks for listening!!

It's snowing!

Yay! We got up this morning and it was snowing! Unfortunately I don't think it will stick. Good thing I bought some new snow boots over the weekend!

Jamie....

Well, we visited Jamie over the weekend. She is very happy and looks very well. It was very weird listening to her talk about god so much and how she's been delivered from heroin, smoking, cussing, etc. We took some pics and instead of saying "Cheese" she said "Jesus". We all just kinda laughed. It seems like a very nice place. The live in a house 10 girls total right now and 3 staff. Then down the street is their school and a dorm like area where the men stay. Unfortunately it is in a very bad area. Jamie said their have been several drive-bys and the director was almost shot, but it hit his car door instead of him. She also said its pretty common to hear gunshots. Can you imagine.

Eric & I are realists, so we can't help but wonder what will happen when her year is up. She was talking about becoming an intern for the actual teenage part of it. I think she would be good at it. Honestly, I think she can never come back to this area (Indiana) and stay clean. I guess we'll just hope and pray (litteraly) that this sticks!

It's Friday....

The weekend is almost here. Yay!

First let me say, I'm saddened by the fact that Rupert got voted off Survivor last night. He was my favorite player, so I'm not sure who my favorite is now. I will have to do some research on it...

We are going to see Jamie this weekend and Danialle & Chadd will be joining us, so we are anxious about that. Apparently she is doing very good, so we'll see. It will be a nice weekend getaway since we are going on Saturday to do some outlet shopping before visitation

Lower-Abdominal Discomfort

Good morning readers. You are probably wondering about the title of my blog today. No, Aunt Flow didn't visit me. I am just having some crampy, upset stomach feelings. According to some of the articles I've read, this is common during ovulation. Maybe I'm releasing my egg. I'm not worried if I am, b/c we've been together every other day, so I know it will be fertilized if that's the case. I'm drinking a sprite right now (no Siera Mist available), but it doesn't seem to be helping too much. I do have some tylenol, but I don't think it's that bad. Just noticable. ha ha

Keep your fingers crossed and I'll keep you posted! I really hope this is the month for us (and Jennifer & Eric, too). PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! If the Fertility God is listening! Let this be the month for us!

Susie Homemaker

Last night Eric had a kick-off party in Indy, so I decided to be susie homemaker. I made some chocolate chip cookies. Now, mind you it's been a long time since I made homemade cookies. My first batch didn't turn out too well. I made my cookie dough drops too big and I ended up with a cookie sheet sided cookie. Oops. After that I made smaller scoops. Oh, I just thought of something, Jennifer got me a cookie scoop for my bridal shower that I could have used. OK, mental note to use that next time. Duh!

Ovulation, "Toys", Weekend, Calendar?, etc. etc. etc.

Eric & I officially starting trying this past Friday for month 4 of trying (as you can see at the side). According to the ovulation calculator we shouldn't start until Tuesday, but another couple of days on either end of the timeline can't hurt. Especially when you don't know when exactly you ovulate. I'm definitely keeping my fingers crossed and I'm sure my friends are too. And we are also hoping for Jennifer!

Same subject... Different Chapter... Another present I got on Friday was "The Ladybug". I liked it, but it wasn't what we were hoping for. It was a little larger than I anticipated and therefore covered a larger area, which inturn inhibited us from intercourse at the same time. I think we are going to end up going back to the bullet and sticking with that. However, if any of you have something that can do what I'm talking about, please share the name.

I got my hair highlighted and trimmed on Saturday and then we went to Home Depot and spent almost our entire gift certificate. It was a lot of fun though! Yesterday Eric did a little Plumbing 101 and installed our new faucet and the guard on our garbage disposal. So far no leaks! Other than that yesterday was pretty boring, I didn't even come out of my pajamas. It was nice though since the next few weeks are going to be crazy! Let's see....
- This weekend Nov 22-23 - Detroit to see Jamie (and Danialle & Chadd)
- Thanksgiving Nov 27-30
- A wedding the first weekend in December (6)
- Dec 13 - We are taking my sisters to Chicago to see Danialle & Chadd and just simply Chicago
- Dec 19-21 - I think Eric's parents are doing Christmas at our house
- Finally Christmas
- Then New Year's!
Wow! I guess you all didn't need my schedule through the end of the year, huh? ha ha

I'm sitting here waiting on Eric to get ready and thought I'd blog a bit. We are getting ready to head back to C'ville to get my hair highlighted and trimmed. Yay! It needs it. Then on to Home Depot to spend some gift cards!

Eric bought me some presents yesterday. First he got me some new glasses from Pier 1 Blue Drop Stemware and Cobalt Branded Glasses. We got these canisters earlier this week, too. I'm really excited about all of those since we are doing some more blue accents in our kitchen. He also got me this floral stem set from Bed, Bath and Beyond. You've probably seen them before, too. If you hadn't noticed we are doing somewhat of a wine theme in our kitchen now. ha ha

Well, we had a boring evening last night. Eric has Bacardi Red Hot Road Trip Thurs-Sat night, so he left last night right after Survivor. Speaking of Survivor, did you notice? First, they didn't even ask Rupert if he wanted to give immunity to someone else. Also, Eric thinks Rupert is going to be voted off next week. His reasoning is because on the previews for next week they said something about imutiny, which I guess means the ship over-throws the captain. Hmmm... I guess we'll have to wait until next week to see if Eric is right. ha ha

The weekend should be good. Tonight we probably won't be doing much since Eric has to go out again. Tomorrow I'm supposed to go to my parents house to see them and get my hair trimmed and highlighted. I'm kinda excited about that. I need something exciting for winter. Then we are going to head up to Home Depot in Indy and use our gift cards we got from Lendingtree.com. In case you didn't know, with using the real estate agent that lendingtree.com gave us $600 worth of Home Depot gift cards. No catch! We got them this week.

Re-organization

I decided to work and re-organize my blog since my boss is out for today and tomorrow. I added a new sidebar as you can see with some abbreviations. They are as follows: (although most of you already know)

LMP - Last Menstral Period
EDO - Estimated Day of Ovulation
ENP - Estimated Next Period
DOC - Days of cycle

I mostly did it for myself and the GWO girls since both Jennifer and I are trying and b/c the other 2 like to keep up with the happenings, too.

Speaking of happenings, nothing much is going on. We are going to starting trying this weekend and continue for about a week and a half to two weeks. So we'll see what happens. I'm a quater of the way through my year of trying before the doc looks into other measures... I try not to think about those though. Ugh. I guess when it's my time it will happen, but sometimes I wonder why we can't determine that. I mean it's our lives and we should know if we are ready or not. Kinda weird to think for so many years you TRY NOT to get pregnant, then it's so difficult when you actually TRY. Wonder if it's b/c of those people who don't try. The ones like so many I know that it happens accidentally. I know I was an accident. I was in my mother's womb during my mom and dad's wedding. Kinda makes me mad b/c Eric & I have tried to do everything right (besides the premarital sex) and then it seems to be sorta difficult. I guess I shouldn't complain too much though. We are only on our 4th month of trying (see to the right) and I'm sure there are many people that have tried many more months or maybe years and still haven't conceived. I guess there is always a positive to everything. Hmmm... I need to start remembering that... :)

Update

As you probably already know Aunt Flow visited me on Friday and it was horrible. For one thing she of course meant no baby this month and unfortunately she brought along some horrible cramps. I decided staying home was a good option for Friday. Mostly just b/c my cramps were so bad, but to be honest I was also a little disappointed. My body/mind played some tricks on me as you know. It turned out to be a really good thing to stay home. I got caught up on some much needed rest and just got to relax.

The weekend wasn't too bad otherwise. Saturday I went to see my grandparents while Eric was working at breakfast club. My cousin and parents ended up coming over, too, so it was a nice visit. Eric was dissappointed he wasn't able to come, then! Yesterday we went to the movies and saw "Elf". It was hilarious. I can't wait til it comes out on DVD and we buy it and watch it again! Definitely a must see in my opinion!!! After the movie I made some cinnamon raisin bread, then we went rollerblading and I did TaeBo. I didn't fall. I'm still not very good at it, but it's fun. At least since it's cold out I have to get all bundled up, so if I did fall, I'd have some padding. After that we did some work in the garage. Put all the halloween stuff back up in the attic, brought some of the x-mas stuff down. Now we aren't putting it up until after Thanksgiving, but since we were up there it was nice to get them down now.

I feel much better today after the long weekend. Refreshed and ready to get some stuff accomplished! After yesterday's exercising, Eric & I have decided to get back into doing some exercising. We hope to either walk or rollerblade until the snow comes. I am going to try to do TaeBo 3-4 times a week. And hopefully my stepper 3 times a week. I'm pretty dissappointed at the weight I've put on and we both need to get some motivation and do something besides sit on the couch.

On a side note, I organized all my scrapbooks. I also finished my GWO one this weekend, so I'm pretty excited about that, too! I might add a few small details later, but so far I feel pretty finished. How is everyone else doing on theirs?

Yesterday we went to see Matrix Revolutions. It was pretty good. Still not sure about the whole thought process behind it. Maybe it is b/c I have only seen parts of the first one. I may just watch that this weekend, so I can figure out the other two! ha ha

I've decided that Sierra Mist helps sickly stomachs. Yesterday after lunch (chick salad sand & broc cheese soup) my stomach was very upset and I was very gaseous! I drank a little sprite to no avail. However during I drank a Sierra Mist a little while later and my stomach felt much better. Hmmm.... And I can drink it while I'm pregnant!

Can't wait for the weekend. I finally get to do some relaxing, which I am very excited about. As of now, we have absolutely nothing planned. Yay! There is a home football game on Saturday, so the alarm will go off at 6:30 for Eric to go to breakfast club, but I can stay in bed!

So far no new symptoms today, but I'll keep you posted if anything new happens. Actually I feel pretty good today.

Fear Factor Symptoms...

Well, as you may or may not know I watch Fear Factor pretty regularly. There are usually 3 "stunts", first and last and usually just physical and the second one is usually the "gross" one. Last night's wasn't even that gross. Here's what it consisted of: Find 5 hissing roaches in this table full of dirty dishes and put them in this box, then drink a glass of lard and animal parts blended together, and then drink a glass of fear factor (aka rotten) milk. Well the first person who did it made me a little nauseous. As the second person did it, I decided I better go to the bathroom. I didn't end up puking, but I did have the #2s and was dry heaving (kinda), too... Eric's suspisions were confirmed last night. He's pretty sure I'm pregnant now. Isn't that weird though???

Too Early

Well, I broke down and took the test this morning against by usually better judgement. Of course it was negative, but it is still very early! And I was thinking I didn't start having these supposed "symptoms" until late last week, so if implantation occurred, it probably happened late last week... I'm not going to test again until Sunday for sure unless Aunt Flow visits on Saturday, which I really hope doesn't happen. Then I will totally freaked about these "symptoms"....

It's Monday. Had a horrible night of sleeping. In fact the whole weekend wasn't good for sleeping. Not sure why... Hmmm... Went to my grandparents house on Saturday and played some cards. I hadn't seen them in a while, so that is always nice. Yesterday we did a little shopping, boy that 50% off Halloween candy really got us! And it's not like we had a ton left over from Halloween. Just what we need, more candy! We did get a few things for Halloween next year so that was a plus! Speaking of... Did you all have very many ghosts & ghoblins? We had around 30. I was a little disappointed, but we had 3 times more than last year, so I was excited!

I still don't really have any pregnancy symptoms yet, but I have noticed a TRAUMATIC increase in my body temperature. I hope that means something. I haven't had much of an appetite either. We went to our usual Mexican yesterday and it just wasn't as good as I remembered it being a few weeks ago. Let me just say I am really anxious to test, but Eric is making me wait until probably next Sunday (when I would be late) before I test. I hope I get some more symptoms this week. :) I'll keep you posted on any other possible symptoms this week. Keep your fingers crossed!

I got some more pics for the scrapbook printed yesterday so I can work on finishing my scrapbook. Yay!