CANCUN - Here we come!

Eric won the Jack trip and we are going to Cancun, Mexico! The trip is from June 24-27, but we are going to try to stay an extra day and leave on the 28th. This is so awesome!!

If you are interested in checking it out, we are staying at The Moon Palace Resort. It is an all inclusive resort right on the beach. Apparently there is a jacuzzi in every room. We aren't sure on the agenda that they've set, but Eric seems to think it's pretty open. There will probably be a couple rounds of golf in there. That should be interesting. I'm sure we'll do a lot of research this weekend and see what all we can do down there!

Friday Five - Lasts

1. What was the last TV show you watched?
Law & Order SVU (last night)

2. What was the last thing you complained about?
A certain person I work with gets away w/ anything yet, if I was to do something I would probably get in trouble

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say?
Eric, he is a great husband! (I tell him that all the time though)

4. What was the last thing you threw away?
My blueberry muffin wrapper, plate, and napkin from breakfast

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited?
Jennifer's blog.

Interesting Evening

Yesterday Eric found out that there is a potential liquor license open in WL. So, last night we went to DP's for dinner and got to talking to an asst manager who is a good friend of Eric's and is interested in changing jobs. Eric has been thinking for quite a while now that we would like to open a bar/restaurant in the area, so needless to say his wheels are spinning. We drove around WL last night checking out some potential sites, but didn't have much luck. I'm sure he'll do some more scouting of the area this week.

We had an overall lazy night besides that or should I say I had a lazy night. I fell asleep on the couch a little after 8 and Eric woke me up around 11 to go to bed. I had a bad night of sleep 2 nights ago and I can't seem to get caught back up. Ugh. I do feel better today though. We are going on a long walk this evening, so hopefully that will help my energy level. I was disappointed this morning b/c I got on the scale and have officially gained back all the weight I lost since January. Although a pound or two might be b/c of AF, but still. It still said that even number. I know a lot of it is we've been eating out more again and eating bad things. Heck, we went grocery shopping and we each ended up buying two things of ice cream last night.

Goal (Note to self)
I'm officially going to start eating better and do more exercises next week. I MUST get back down to where I was a while back at the very least. Approximately 9 pounds less than where I am now... Summer is here and I need to have that swimsuit figure (or close to it)!!

Eric's new "Full-time" Job

After many months of trying my way or any way that my friends and I read about on-line, I have decided to let my wonderful husband take the reins...

I will let Eric take the lead this month. It worked for Jennifer, so maybe it will work for us, too. So, honey, if you read this before I get home to explain, enjoy this month. I'm in your hands (or other bodily part) this month! ;) Remember that comment you made this weekend (jokingly) about "If I'd just get pregnant!" and my PMS-y response, "If you'd just get me pregnant!" Well, now's your chance! I'm going to put away the thermometer this time (not just keep it by my bed in case I got the urge one morning) and let him do his magic! (So to speak!!) The only thing I'm going to keep track of is BD times...

Here's what I've come up with for AF. I will (not) expect her around Day 29-31, which is June 21-23. I have it down to test on Day 32 or June 24. I figure if I haven't started by then, it would almost HAVE to be a positive.

Another good thing is that we are going to Detroit that weekend, so I could share the news w/ Jamie who supposedly has been putting my name in the prayer basket and that would be good for her to hear, too. Maintain her faith if you will! ha ha

Extended Weekend Update (long)

As you know I got off early on Thursday for Purdue's Employee Appreciation Spring Fling. I met Eric at home, then we went to Mt. Fuji for lunch. We ran a few errands then stopped at Blockbuster and got some movies. I took a nap when we got home and we spent Thursday evening watching a movie.

We got up early Friday morning to head to Indianapolis. Eric had a quick meeting that turned into a long one, so I read my book while waiting for him in the car. We then went to Costco, which is like Sam's Club, didn't spend much time in there b/c they were cycling BO through their ventilation system and it was yucky. We had lunch (mexican) then headed to the Fashion Mall to shop for clothes for weddings this summer. I HATE SHOPPING!
1) Shopping makes you feel very FAT
2) Whenever I did find something I liked it was WAY to expensive. I refuse to pay $275 for a skirt that I probably could have made for $20...
Needless to say I didn't find a single item at this mall.

On to Round 2 Castleton Square Mall
Eric was getting pretty burnt out on shopping by this point, so he sent me in to Von Maur and made some lady cater to me (sorta). I found a nice summer dress to wear to both weddings and it fit me really good. I also got a pair of pants and two shirts. Yay! That is done. Now we just have to find something for Eric, but that shouldn't be too difficult. He already knows what he wants.

We also went to Tire Barn on Friday morning and ordered tires that were supposed to be in between 3-4 on Friday. So after our shopping, we headed back to Tire Barn, where they told us that they probably wouldn't be in until 5-6. We decided it wasn't worth the wait so we headed home.

Saturday Eric got up and filled his pool up. It's about the size of a very large whirlpool. I can probably fit 4 adults in it sitting down. We got it cheap at Target and I'm sure it will be nice when it gots hot out. I got a nice sunburn and we did some landscaping. I'm starting to get it to where I want it.

Sunday, yesterday, we went down to Dad & Peg's for a little bit and gave them the scrubs we pulled out of our landscape. They had an open-house to go to so we didn't stay long. On our way back through town (after stopping at Dari-licious) we saw Nanny & Papaw so we followed them back to their house and stopped and talked to them. When we got home I planted the few plants I got from Peg's house then relaxed for the rest of the evening.

I also finished a book that I borrowed from Mistress, "It's my F---ing Birthday" It was okay, but a lot like Bridgett Jones Diary in that it was mostly just a diary and not an actual story type book. I guess I like those better... Now, I'm starting the "Left Behind" Series #1.

Month 11, CD 1

Yep, another month bites the dust. I'm not surprised. I can't believe we are on our 11th month of trying! Thankfully last month was sort of a break, so I feel better about this month. I don't want to go over 1 year of trying.

CD 29, 11 DPO

Well, my temp was 98.1 today. Not as high as I would have liked, but then again, I wasnt' expecting it to be either. I guess there's always that little bit of hope we hold way down. We'll see what tomorrow brings...

On another note, I won't be at work today as I took a personal day. Eric & I are going to Indy today to do some shopping for some clothes to wear to the couple of wedding we have to attend this summer. I'll try to get on later today. Something is wrong with my checking my work e-mail at home, so if it's anything important send it to my yahoo account.

End of Cycle Temping

Just a reminder (not that it's needed) that tomorrow, Friday, starts my end of the cycle temping... I'm kinda anxious now that I know it's tomorrow...

Keep you fingers crossed!!!

1/2 Day Thursday

Yay! I get a 1/2 day off on Thursday (tomorrow) paid. Purdue has their annual Faculty/Staff Appreciation day tomorrow and, as I did last year, I let me appreciate me from the comfort of my couch at home. I'm ready to take a sick day, too... At least I won't have to take sick time for a while now.

Another For Sale Sign

Yep, that's right, now there three houses next to the molester's house are up for sale and one across the street. One of which is already empty. This really gives me an eery feeling. Next time I see one of them outside I'm going to nonchalantly ask them why everyone is moving.

Could be some freak thing OR.......

Could be that they found out about the molester.

He (Molester) and his "significant other" walked their dog down around our cul-de-sac last night too, where all the kids play. I watched him very close, needless to say.

Update

Friday
We went straight to C'ville after work and headed to my parents. We visited with them for a bit, got a redbud tree and some flowers and then headed toward my cousin Reasley's college graduation openhouse. It was nice there although it was raining and cool. We stayed for a little while then made our way back home.

Saturday
I had to get up early and pick up a cake and be at work my 9:30 for our graduation reception. I stayed there until 11:00. Eric's parents arrived shortly after I got home from work and we spent a few hours with them having lunch at Don Pablo's and shopping. After they left we worked around the house and then settled in for the evening watching "Cheaper by the Dozen". It was a pretty funny movie.

Sunday
This was our date day. We slept in a little and got up and got ready for our date. We went to the movie and watch "Van Helsing". I was not into it as much as Eric. It was okay though. After the movie we headed to the mall to try to find outfits for a wedding we have in June and July. NO LUCK. We decided we are going to Indy next Saturday. After a quick late lunch/early dinner at Fazoli's we headed home to relax. We went for a long walk and played some street hockey finishing up the evening.

Friday Five - Hair

1. Is your hair naturally curly, wavy, or straight? Long or short?
My hair has a little wave to it. I blow dry it to get it completely straight.

2. How has your hair changed over your lifetime?
Gosh, in many ways. I've had a mullet, spike, curly, really long, really short, in between. Guess that's what happens when you have a beautician for a step-mom.

3. How do your normally wear your hair?
My current hair style is all one length at shoulder level w/ the ends curled out.

4. If you could change your hair this minute, what would it look like?
I wouldn't mind changing the color, but I'm always leery about that. I actually like my hair right now, for once!

5. Ever had a hair disaster? What happened?
Several disasters.... To name a few...
1) Accidentally cut about 6 inches off my hair when it was REALLY long.
2) Perm that turned out horribly. We straightened it w/in a week's time.

Do I Look Like a People Person?

Yes, some of you know that I'm not a people person on occasion. In fact Eric bought me a shirt that even says that on it and I wear on certain days. Yesterday was one of them. I guess more than anything I have "No Empathy for Stupidity." Let me tell you about the 2 I encountered yesterday.

Stupid Person #1
Blonde Waitress at Pub
As you read yesterday Eric took me to lunch, which is out of the ordinary for a Wednesday. We of course went to one of his accounts, which is a bar, but serves lunch. The service there is normally slow, but I love their taco salads. Anyway, when we sit down we immediately get carded. So, we knew right off the bat we had a "stupid person". Eric asked her if she knew who he was. She replied, "Yeah, you are like in here every other day." My thought: then why would you card him? Anyway, we ordered our drinks and after she waited on 3 other tables that came in after us she took our order. We had moz sticks as an appetizer. Note we already had silverware. When she came out carrying just a basket of moz sticks she made it very clear that they were very hot. This was a small basket, so it wasn't like we could cut them up in it or anything. Here's my obvious reply w/ quite a tone, "could you bring us some plates so we could eat them on then?" According to Eric, I had a tone. I imagine I did! ;)

Stupid Person #2
Subway Sandwich Artist
As you may remember I spent about a year working at Subway in High School. Now we have some really winners that work at our Subway on the west side. Yesterday happened to be Grumpy, Dopey & Deaf. What really makes me mad is when they put all your veggies on and then when they fold it over all the veggies squish out and I have to end up re-making the sandwich when I get home. Needless to say, I told Eric about this stupidity and I'm sure Miss Grumpy Sandwich Artist heard me.

Poor Eric, I'm sure he gets a little embarrassed, when I voice my opinion about these things....

If you have any recent encounters w/ stupidity that you'd like to share, please tell me all about it in the comment section.

New Template

As you can see, I've changed my template several times. I like this current one (green), but green is not one of my favorite colors. I have a test one that I am working on changing the colors and stuff, so one day I might change it again. Please bare with me. I'm still learning html and all that other stuff...

Lunch

Today Eric called me and asked me to go to lunch w/ him. This is out of the ordinary b/c we normally have lunch on Thursdays. And as far as I knew/know we are still having lunch tomorrow. Anway, when he showed up he had a bouquet of flowers. So sweet. Unfortunately I don't have a vase at work, so he improvised for the time being and cut the top off my water bottle. Then while at lunch we stopped at University Bookstore and bought a neat Purdue pilsner glass, which I might add works great as a vase!

I love my husband!

I've Ovulated!

I temped this morning and got a high 98.1, which confirms that I have ovulated. I overrode FF and said I O'd on Monday, but I have a feeling it could have even been Sunday. We tried every other day this time and I feel pretty confident we hit the window. Now to see if we actual get fertilization. We have not been obsessing this month by all means. We've had so much going on that are minds haven't always been on that. They still are on "babies" pretty regularaly, but you get the point! According to FF, I should be expecting AF around 5/22-5/24 and it suggests testing on 5/23. I haven't decided yet when I'm going to test. I definately have to buy tests before I can do that.

I Hate Breakouts

I am so sick of breaking out everywhere. Every since I got off BC I have been breaking out all over horribly. My chest has little (or big) pimples on them constantly. I've tried a few rememdies and will probably try some more next time I go shopping. I get a boil on my chin about once or twice a month and now that I think about it, it's always around O time and sometimes around the time I get my period. They just make me feel so gross. I know it also has to do with the weather changing, too. It's been sorta muggy lately and that makes my skin oily, too. I seem to have a few small ones on my back, too. Of course I can't really reach them to pick at them, so they aren't nearly as gross & sore as the other ones. ha ha ha

Does anyone else have any rememdies they'd like to share? If so, e-mail me and let me know or comment here!

Life in General.

Decided to wait on the fence for a while. Eric promised me that we'd get it first thing next spring (March) if not before and I'm holding him to it. We need to do a few things around the house first and get a few bills squared away. We are going to do a few things to the landscaping, so I'm excited about that and I get to paint another room in the house (assuming I'm not pregnant when I figure out what we are painting). However, since we aren't getting the fence right now, we did order our new dishwasher last night and it will be installed this morning. I'm REALLY excited about that. Ours is just the standard builder one and it's a POS. To give you an example... Our glasses, which we normally drink water or pop out of, come out dirtier then when they went in. We usually have to run the cycles 2-3 (or more) times just to get stuff clean. Obviously our current one isn't as heavy duty as the one at our old house, but I expect it to work the first time and not make things dirtier.

Nothing too exciting happening on that end by the way (TTC). I did temp on Sunday and my temp was still down. I assume I'll have a spike in the next couple of days. I might temp again Wednesday or Thursday. I really haven't been too concerned with trying this month as I have in the previous months. I guess that's a good thing, right? Or I suppose it could be a bad thing. I guess we'll find out.

Friday Five (on Monday)

Ok, so the site that used to give Friday Five questions is gone. So, I've been scrambling to find another site, so far with no luck. I did find a site w/ some old archives, so for the time being I will use those. So, here you go.

1. Would you consider yourself an organized person? Why or why not?
Yes, I'm definitely an organized person. I hate clutter, so much I'm anal about it.

2. Do you keep some type of planner, organizer, calendar, etc. with you, and do you use it regularly?
I keep a calendar on my desk and write everything down in it!

3. Would you say that your desk is organized right now?
My desk is pretty organized right now. I will be cleaned up by the end of the day as it is every day before I go home.

4. Do you alphabetize CDs, books, and DVDs, or does it not matter?
Oh, it matters! I alphabetize everything!

5. What's the hardest thing you've ever had to organize?
Probably our CD collection, but honestly Eric did the majority of it.

Weekend

Friday
After work a guy from Blue's Fence came by to give us an estimate for fencing in our back yard. It is going to be pricey, but at least we won't have to deal w/ the neighbors as much. It's worth it in my book. And it's not like we won't get it back when we sell the house. At least some of it. Anway, after that my grandparents stopped by. The had initially came to help Eric fix our garbage disposal, but it miraculously it started working again.

Saturday
We were lazy most of the morning. We ran some errands in C'ville and then headed to the Beef House for Mother's day & grandpa's birthday. We had such a good time and the food was pretty good, too. I was STUFFED though.

Sunday
We lounged around for most of the morning. We had to run a few errands and head to the grocery store. When we got home, I repotted 2 of my pond plants and then we went for a walk w/ the dogs. After cleaning up, we relaxed and watch Survivor All-Stars finale.

Monday/Today
I didn't sleep well last night for some reason and didn't even go to bed until 11:00, so I'm a bit tired today. Eric & I are starting our "Healthy Lifestyle" today, so maybe that will help me feel a little better. We are going to start eating better and walking/rollerblading so we can get into shape. At least feel better about our selves.

Not too much going on this week. Busy weekend ahead of us, but it's that time. Seems like our summer weekends get filled up pretty fast. Better get used to it now!

Bridget Jone's Diary

Finished this book last night. Good thing b/c M & I are trading books this weekend and she is taking that one. Anyway, it was a good book except for it was like reading a diary, thus the title. That was the only thing I found hard to read about it. Anyway, pick it up sometime for a short read. I will be reading the second volume of her's soon and will give a review on that, too.

Started reading "Unmade Bed" last night, which I got off the clearance shelf at Half-Price Books. It's supposed to be on the "Erotica" side, but I haven't got to that part yet...

TTC

Just realized that today is Day 13 of my cycle. I knew it was getting close, but I guess we are starting tonight. I've just had so many other things going on that I hadn't thought about trying very much. Don't really have much more of anything to update on.

Thinking about looking for a new job. I am going to wait a little while to see what comes about for Eric since he is actively looking right now. It's better that way in case we do have to move. I don't want to start a new job then have to move right away. We are not trying to move, but we aren't tied to Lafayette, either.

Long, bad weekend update

Saturday
Well, well, well... I got up that morning and got ready to head to my parents. On the way there I thought I'd be nice and call Kisha to see if she wanted me to pick her up to go to her shower b/c she didn't know how to get to the place. She said fine. I'd pick her up later. I got to Dad & Peg's and hung out with them for a while. She made spaghetti w/ meat sauce for lunch which was delicious. After lunch Peg and I were talking and she said she wished Kisha & I could have a relationship. I told her that honestly I do, too, but I can only tolerate her for a short time b/c she always has to compete and tell stories. Peg understood or said she did. I just can't stand this competition. Ugh. Anway, I was trying to be the good person and though yeah, maybe I can make that step. Ended up being a HUGE mistake. I picked her up and we headed to my aunt's for her shower. It was fine. Kisha was actually tolerable for a while. At the shower someone (our cousin) won the gift prize of the game we were playing AND KEPT IT. I had to laugh under my breathe b/c of the huge deal she made at my shower. Anway on the way home she informed me that my cousin Nicole, who is miss hoytie toytie herself told her mom (my aunt) that she would go kicking and screaming to my wedding and if Chery made her go she would stand up and object. She hasn't even been around Eric, but a few times and we supplied quite a few bottles of alcohol for her graduation party, which she didn't OBJECT to. Then Kisha informed me that she herself was going to stand up an object, but Peg threatened her, so she didn't. This coming from the person who was SO DEVASTED that she wasn't in my wedding, but objected to the whole thing... I'm furious and haven't decided what I'm going to do totally, but I am planning on talking to Peg about it. Eric isn't very happy either. Any suggestions???

Sunday
We went to see my uncle John in the hospital. He had a stroke on Tuesday. He seems to be doing much better now. He was cracking jokes so that is a good sign. After that we headed to TJ Maxx and the mall. Eric got a new pair of shoes and we found another picture by the same person as the one we already had in our living room. When we got home I sprayed some roundup in various areas while Eric trimmed. He was going to mow, but it was still a little wet out, so he's doing that tonight. Oh, our neighbors mowed their yard, so now Eric knows where to mow tonight. We also saw their son out picking up a pile or two of dog doo, so I'm sure we'll hear about that. I'm spending today calling places to get estimates on getting a fence put in...

That about sums up my weekend. Not the best in the world.... I guess it could have been worse though. I could have decked Kisha...