Finished Month 3 of Trying

Well, we just finished up our 3rd month of trying. I guess we will now in about 2 weeks (Nov 8) if it worked or not. We sure hope it did. We were very active in trying and tried then entire time just like we were supposed to. I have stopped drinking caffeine now again since over the weekend and I'm not going to go back. (I do have to through out the "temptation" iced tea at home yet). BUT I WILL tonight.

Worked on the scrapbook the last couple of nights and had a blast doing it. I need to print some pics from the honeymoon for Eric & My scrapbook, too and for the last 2 GWOs, so I might just take them to Payless again. It's almost cheaper to let someone elses do it rather than going through another ink cartridge.

Boy those printer people really getcha there don't they? Why didn't I think of that? ;)

Thought you might get a little chuckle out of this, too... Do your men ask you that many questions when you get back from GWO? Eric was asking me all types of questions over the weekend. I thought it was pretty funny, b/c I kept telling him it wouldn't be a GWO if I told him EVERYTHING that went on... He was getting a little frustrated. tee hee

Trying....

So far, we've done 2 days of trying this week. (1 day was for fun, but we still consider it trying). ha ha Still haven't replaced the bullet, probably won't for this week of trying. Today has been really weird, so I'm going to get a little personal. Today, I've had this major discharge. Occassionally I get it anyway, but it seems like a lot today. Thankfully we tried last night! We might even try tonight, too. We are definitely trying longer this time (thru next Tuesday). I think that was our problem the last 2 months. We tried the first few times, then got busy and didn't try through the end of the possible ovulation. Jennifer has this feeling like it will be this month for us. We hope so. I hope it is easy for her again, too. It would be so fun for us to be pregnant together.

Another thing I was thinking about... During our move to the new house, I starting drinking caffeinated drinks again (especially coke). Not a ton, but just not as much water as I should. I've been working on changing that this week. It's just so much easier to order a "coke" than look through the menu to find something decaffeinated. ha ha I always feel guilty about getting a coke afterwards and it bothers my stomach anyway, but it tastes soooo good.... I better do it now b/c I never know when implantation can occur...

Cravings

Isn't it weird what a person craves on certain days? I crave Mexican almost daily. Now it doesn't always sit well on my stomach, but it sure tastes good going down! I was thinking though. I have really weird cravings now, what will it be like when I get pregnant? Will I crave anything at all? Will Mexican make me sick? Hopefully I get to find out soon! I eat mexican several times a week. I'd say 2 times for lunch and usually 2 times for dinner. Sometimes I eat it for both lunch and dinner in one day.

Hmmmmmmm...........

Phases of the Moon

I did some researching on our moon phase charms on the internet also and found this Moon Phase Calendar. I think it is very accurate. Something that truely fascinated me is that I was born 4 days after a half moon and was married 3 days after a half moon. Isn't that kinda weird? I wonder if my kids will be born 3-4 days after a half moon.... Ms. Ava Chu has really got me interested in the moons now. I've always been fascinated with astrology. To this day I can't really find anything in the sky, but still fascinated by it. Speaking of connecting the stars, you can see the big dipper from our front porch. Eric found it the other night and showed it to me.

Wednesday(tomorrow) starts our 3rd month of trying to conceive. Of course we practiced on Sunday and may try tonight, too for the fun of it. I really hope it happens this month. We want to get pregnant and are very anxious about it. We are trying to be patient though, too. Don't want to get myself stressed out over it.

I will am currently trying my hand at photoshop trying to cut and paste pics from GWO, so when I get that finished, I will post it and e-mail it to the girls, too. We'll see how good I am at it!

Traumatic Experience...

I had a very traumatic even last night. Remember when I said our batteries were dead? Well..... The whole thing is literally SHOT! Unfortunately, we found out in the "heat of the moment"... Needless to say after the experience, we did some shopping "on-line" w/ fast service...

On another note, I am wearing one of my new outfits today. I couldn't wear my new dress pants to work b/c they needed to be hemmed and I didn't quite get around to that yesterday. I thought my cords and my red sweater was pretty good for today though. I'm probably not as dressed up as I should be BUT the department head is not here, so it's not a huge deal!

Spaghetti Factory Train... I did find a pic on the internet of the train at the spaghetti factory, so I can't wait to insert our pics onto it. As soon as I do it I will send it to all of you!

I'm becoming more of a housewife these days. I'm actually cooking supper on a regular basis. Planning it out on Sunday really helps. I definitely feel more motivated when I already have everything and know what I'm going to fix. I'm actually doing other things, too (cleaning, laundry, etc) if Eric doesn't beat me to it, which he does usually. Aren't you proud of me?

GWO is coming up this weekend. It starts early for Danialle and I b/c she is coming to my house on Thursday evening and we are going to eat Japanese and then make pumpkin rolls. Friday is the infamous Bridge Festival. Gotta get some fried veggies!! Yesterday, the weather said scattered showers for Friday, this morning it said sprinkles, and now it shows no rain! Yay! Gotta love that Indiana weather. With our luck it will snow! I am so ready for some girl time!! I know Eric is ready for some time to himself, too. Plus, I just love seeing my girls!

Did you know that October is National Orgasm Month according to Erotic University? Interesting!

Had an awesome weeking at Starved Rock for Amanda's wedding. Everything was very nice. They really needed a rehearsal, but as it was a Friday wedding already, it would have been even more difficult. I did post some pics for you all to check out when you get a chance.

Didn't conceive for the 2nd month of trying. I'm sure moving had something to do with that. We weren't too disappointed as at least now we can get a little more settled and moving was very stressful in itself. We'll see how next month goes. I should be ovulating somewhere between October 22-27. This month we will try "actively". ha ha

This week is going to be a crazy week. Tonight, Monday we are getting groceries and top soil (for around the pond). Tuesday we are going to get flat rock for around the pond. Wednesday, finish the pond. Thursday evening Danialle is coming over and we are going to eat Japanese and make pumpkin rolls. Then Friday starts the awesome GWO. Pics to come next Monday of that fun weekend.

Call my crazy, but I love my pond!!! We came home last night with 2 additions to my pond (at least my new pond). When Eric was cleaning the old pond out he found another baby fish that had been living in the top pond, which was neglected and fully of algae. I'm not sure how he made it, I guess it's a miracle. He was about 2 inches long and spotted. Not sure the mother and father, but hey! Another addition is a frog. We think it is from one of the tadpoles we got at the beginning of the Spring, so I'm kinda excited about that as well. I just hope he doesn't get scared and take off, but our new pond is just as nice if not nicer! I'm also excited b/c I think Eric has agreed to get some flatrock to put around it so it looks more "pond-like". I can't wait for everyone to see it. Although it's not finished yet, so really I can't wait until I get to see the finished product! ha ha I know you all think I'm crazy or maybe just a fish addict. I guess I could be addicted to worse things! No more fishies for me though. Having these 4 new additions has really made it crowded and the fact that they are growing so rapidly. I have 3 that are about a foot long or maybe a little longer. You'd think I was catching a whale when I caught them in the old pond to move them!

My favorite cousin-in-law is making this awesome DVD from our wedding video, which I am very excited about! No Pressure Chadd!

Eric's sister Amanda is getting married this weekend to her Erik. Should be a fun wedding. It is on a Friday, which I question, but whatever floats her boat! :) They are getting married at Starved Rock Lodge. Never been there, but it looks pretty nice. I'll post some pics next week. I guess the good thing about the Friday wedding is I get Friday off work. We are going up Thursday evening. What a month. I was off 3 days last week moving, 1 day this week for the wedding and 1 day next week for GWO. Speaking of... I'm VERY EXCITED about getting together with the girls and doing some shopping, eating, chatting, etc. I know we all need it!

BTW - as a side note my 15 year old sister is NOT, I repeat NOT pregnant!! Thank goodness! That really takes some weight off my shoulders. I think it opened her eyes up about responsibility and stuff, too. At least I hope!

Well, I got a few minutes from the busy-ness at work and thought I'd blog a little.

Tonight is our last official tie to 913 S 18th Street. Yay! I will be glad to be done with that house. I did enjoy it, don't get me wrong. Eric did propose to me in that house! I guess we came a long way in that house and have some very fond memories. Oh, and the work of putting the pond in last summer and now the work of transferring it to the new house. What a chore. So far though, no fish fatalities. I'll keep you posted of those though. tee hee

Work has been busy these days. Definitely makes the day go by faster though. I don't mind it.

Living in a subdivision has already been quite the experience...
1) Both of our neighbors have come over to meet us and all that, which was very nice. The neighbors on the right side keep coming over though. They just knock on the door and when we answer we invite them in and it's like they just come over to be nosey b/c they don't even have anything important to say or whatever. Hmmm...

2) As you may know we got our pond dug last Saturday. We notified the neighbor on the left and she said it was fine if they got in her yard, etc. We let her know if there was any tearing up that we would get it fixed (grass, dirt). She was fine with it. It rained Friday night so the guy made a dirty mess in our yard and what we later found out was more hers than ours. Needless to say, we HAVE to get a whatever it is that shows all our property lines and stuff. Anyway, early afternoon she, of course, came over to visit and said several people in the neighborhood had called her to tell her we were messing up her yard. Needless to say she brought us a large bag of birdseed... We didn't and still don't know how to take that...

3) Our neighbors on the right came over again last night and saw our fish and visited for what seemed like forever since we had so much to do. I suppose it was only like 30-40 minutes. Don't get me wrong. I think both neighbors are nice and probably just trying to befriend us and get to know us as we are neighbors. Sometimes it's a little annoying though. Gotta get used to many neighbors.

4) Since we have SOOOOO MUCH trash we put it out on Sunday evening even though our trash doesn't come until Tuesday. We had to get it out of the garage. Anyway, this morning we got up and noticed that it had been gone through. Nothing major, but it had definitely been gone through. It gets better though. When Eric was getting ready this morning, he noticed this guy loading a few things in his truck and take off. When Eric went out there, several bags had been opened and gone through. He hadn't made a mess, just gone through it. People amaze me. We never had that in town, which would seem more prevalant than out in a neighborhood. Who knows?! I guess people think we are getting rid of good stuff or something. Makes me wonder if they are scoping our place out though or just dumpster divers... I guess the moral is "If your trash doesn't come til Tuesday, don't put it out until Tuesday morning!"

It's Monday... The weekend ended up being really long as well. The pond didn't go as expected. We exchanged two pond liners and ended up with a preformed pond (which I don't mind). I had a minor miscalculation, well, okay I guess it was a little major. I wasn't really thinking as straight as usual. Yesterday alone after we finally got the pond in, we put about 55 (40 lb) bags of topsoil in and we still need at least that much more, but at least it is at a point where we can move the fish. All we have to do is wait until Eric gets paid and get a ton more dirt to fill in around it. That to me was the most major project of them all. I'm sure Eric might disagree, but then again, he might not...

Fortunately my husband is very anal and obsessed, so the house is basically finished! It definately doesn't look like we've only lived there a week. Unfortunately we've had some MAJOR situations that neither of us were very fond of. I stressed to him that we NEVER move again or at least next time I think I will leave for 2 weeks and then come home. Anyway, I think the worst is over. Now we can enjoy our new house (and pond).

Work has been a little more busy, too. Thank goodness. It actually was nice coming back to work after my moving vacation. I think we both needed a break from the house. We hope to be out of the old house completely Tuesday night and turn the keys in on Wednesday.

After a VERY long week, I am finally able to blog a little. We are pretty much moved in now. All we have left at the other house is mostly outside stuff (ie. plants, pond, mower, gardening supplies) and a few other things from the garage. We are also pretty much unpacked from our house. The only major mess we have at the moment is the living room and that is just b/c our entertainment center hasn't come, but it is going to be here today, so that will be cleaned up today, too. As you may or may not have noticed it's only like 8:00 am. I've been up since 6:30 this morning. I had to move a punch of landscape pavers from an area where our pond is going. The guy is supposed to come shortly to dig our pond for me. Unfortunately it rained yesterday evening, so I'm hoping its not too wet. Just my luck. My grandparents are coming over today to help Eric hang blinds and Peg is coming later to help me move rocks from the old pond and eventually the fish. Then tomorrow Eric's parents and sister, Amanda are coming over to see the house. I'll be glad when November gets here so I can just relax or at least kick back and enjoy our new house. Next weekend (10th) is Amanda's wedding, so we will be traveling to Illinois. Then the 17th, is GWO, which I might add I'm looking VERY forward to. I suppose that will be pretty relaxing. Then a week off, then Halloween, then a few weeks then Thanksgiving, etc. etc. etc. What a busy next couple of months!

About trying to conceive.... We did try a little this week at least before we moved. Once we hit the moving process, we were too exhausted to even think, let alone do the other... :) We are going to try a little this weekend, just in case I ovulated REALLY late and well, just do it in our new house. Sorry for the graphic details. I will say this... If I am pregnant, I feel awfully darn good. Besides being exhausted, but I blame that on the actual moving. Something is telling me that this month is not a keeper either.... I guess we'll see next week as I'm supposed to have Aunt Flow over on Saturday the 11th. :)

Also, I wanted to say that Jennifer & Eric are in our thoughts every day. I hope everything went well yesterday!

That's all for now. I have to figure out if the pond man is coming or not. Oh, a quick note.... Isn't it funny how you talk to people on the phone you get this "impression" or "picture" of what they might look like in person and then when you meet them, it's total opposite. How deceiving! Our pond guy has this really deep, husky voice and I was expecting him to be a big burly man, well, it turns out he's this little scranny guy. Anyway, kinda funny!

Well, today is the big day for the closing on our house. We are so excited. We close today at 2:00, but we are doing a final walk-thru at 1:00. I will be so glad when we can just start moving and unpacking. No more worm tunnels.

F-1 race yesterday was okay. Not as fun as the first year. This time it rained, hailed, then rained some more. Yuck. Thankfully, Eric though it was necessary to buy this expensive Mercedes umbrella when we first got there, that I sorta fought him over. I mean, we had plenty of umbrellas, but it ended up I was glad we bought it! And of course he let me know how great he was b/c he bought it! Well, I suppose he is anyway! ha ha

Have thought of Jennifer & Eric numerous times this weekend. My heart breaks for them. I know it must be hard. They have a ton of support and I'm sure that helps, too. You are in our thoughts!

Well, we will be leaving shortly. I probably won't blog again until Thursday when I get back to work, so enjoy the week!!

I've been at work for a while now. Faculty members aka Professors never cease to amaze me. Some of them are the greatest people. Then you have those who think they are better than everyone and have the "World owes me" type mentallity... Sometimes I just want to tell them to "Kiss it", but I don't. I'm too nice and I just suck it up and smile. Inside I'm telling them though.

Eric & I are now going to the F-1 race. Don't get me wrong. It is special between us. It was our first date 2 years ago, but call me whiny! It's going to be like 50 degrees on Sunday and on top of that we have a TON of packing still left to do. Oh well. I'm sure we need a break away from the house.

Survivor Fans.... What about this Osten guy? What a whiny butt! I mean talk about everyone feeling sorry for him. Skinny Ryan may not have looked like he had the strength, but I think he had a better game attitude. And can I just say, give it up for Blackbeard, from my home state Indiana! GO RUPERT! Drake would not be as far if it weren't for him! Survivor is one of the few reality shows I watch. If I get time I watch Fear Factor, but ONLY for the middle stunt where they have to usually eat something or do something really disgusting. I don't get into the physical stunts.

Well, I'm going to play around with my site again. Hope I don't mess anything up again. Maybe more after lunch!

Well, I'm sitting here playing with my blog (doesn't that sound funny) this morning. I'm working on changing it. Still learning though! Been up for a while as Eric had a meeting, so he had to get up early and of course once the alarm has sound, there is no returning to sleep for me. I don't mind though. I've been feeling kinda yucky all week. I suppose its nerves. I hope I'm not getting sick. We have to do some major packing this weekend to get everything ready for Monday. I can't believe we are finally getting our own home. We are both so excited. Unfortunately neither one of us has been overly motivated to pack more stuff up, but at least know we don't have a choice. As I look back, we probably should have done some this week. Eric has breakfast club tomorrow morning and I have Ashlee's soccer game to go to. We were going to go to the F-1 race on Sunday (our first date 2 years ago), but decided we better stay home and pack instead.

More later. I have to go to work now....

What a morning.... It's raining and has been all morning since before I got out of bed this morning. I guess I shouldn't have even got out of bed.... I just got some news that there is a good possibility that my youngest sister is pregnant. I don't know anymore of the details, but can I just say STUPID! Ever seen that show on lifetime "Fifteen & Pregnant"? Well, she is right on! Now, I haven't heard the words directly from her mouth, but I'm sure she is ashamed to tell me. I'm buying her prenatal pills and giving them to her, b/c I'm sure no one is guiding her in the right direction through this ordeal.

Anyway, why is it that I only have motivation to exercise when I'm at work? Is it b/c I really can't? For some reason have this motivation to NEVER use elevators during the times of 8:00 am - 5:00 pm. Needless to say, today I climbed 5 flights of stairs and it is just lunch time. What will this afternoon bring? Hopefully no more stairs. And on my way across campus numerous elderly men were standing around passing out new testaments. Of course I picked myself up one. But many people were not. It amazes me that people are so rude. I mean seriously, just take it and if you don't want it, throw it away. I'm not doing that with mine, but well..... Nevermind...

Still packing everything up. Nothing new in that area. Eric, however, has agreed to let me hire someone to dig a hole for my pond, so I am EXSTATIC about that. Now all we have to do is put a liner in and move all the rocks, which isn't as bad as the manual labor of digging. Ugh.

Worms.... My life/house has become very similar to that of a worm. As we pack more of our belongings up, more of these tunnels form throughout our house leading us from room to room. I will be so glad when all this is behind us and we can enjoy our new home.

The weekend was good. My parents came up on Friday and helped us move a load from our current house to Eric's promotion storage. Then we took them to peek in the windows of our new house and finally got some Penn Station before parting ways. Saturday, we did some packing in the morning and then had a wedding to go to. I actually went to both IBC & Northwood with Lindsey. We don't really know Nathan very well. Very nice wedding though. Yesterday was major packing. We almost cleared the entire basement. All we have left is the liquor and some glasses to finish wrapping in paper. Unfortunately we ran out of boxes though, so we had to stop.

can see that this week is going to be quite hectic already. Tuesday and Friday I have receptions for school. Tonight we have errrands to run. Thursday is Survivor. Fortunately it doesn't start until 8. Besides the home football game this weekend (promotion Friday night, Saturday morning and night), we should get it knocked out pretty easily. On top of that, I'm ovulating late this week into the weekend, so in between loading boxes, we have to try making a baby. I'm exhausted just thinking about it.....

Well, the week is almost over.... My cousin Jamie leaves today to go to a place in Michigan to hopefully straighten herself out. I have some mixed feelings about it. I'm really glad she is going and I hope it knocks some sense into her. I guess it really hasn't set in with me or something. I mean I haven't really even talked to her many years anyway, so I guess it won't really affect my seeing or talking to her. I know Danialle and several people on "that side" are pretty upset about it. Don't get me wrong I understand. I mean they see her more than I do and they really won't get to see her for a year. They can visit her, but Michigan is quite a long haul to visit someone for an hour or so. I actually really enjoyed being around Jamie when we got together for Danialle's birthday. She seemed better. I think. I just hope she isn't pulling the wool over everyone's eyes again. I guess I've become pretty hard towards her. She has hurt me quite a bit. I mean we used to be best friends and it's upsetting to see what she has turned herself into. I hope she is going to Michigan for personal reasons and not just b/c she HAS TO. Jamie and I used to be best friends. Drugs ruined that. I hope when she gets back/better, we can be friends again. Although I am pretty sure they can NEVER be like we used to be. Sad to say.

Ok. Enough about sad stuff. It's happy days. I just keep saying that Jamie is going there for the right reasons and they will help her get better and more she wants to get better. Let's just hope I'm not lying to myself. ha ha

House---The packing is progressing. Decided to get a storage unit, which Eric got today, for all of his promo stuff. That will save us some room in the garage AND its a tax write-off, so we aren't really spending much. It's also close to our new house. We got our home insurance taken care of today, too. So far everything is running VERY smoothly. I have actually been very calm during this ordeal. I was REALLY stressed at first and Eric & I fought some, so I relaxed and now it's going smoothly. It's amazing how stressfull house hunting can be. Ugh. I'm so calm now Eric is almost worried... Hmmm.....

We found out today that we officially close on our house September 29 at 3:00 pm. Yay! I just hope everything goes smoothly.

Check out the pictures link (on the right) periodically. I think I figured out how to get some pics on here. We'll see if it works... I copied the idea from Jennifer. (Thanks!) Good idea though. Why not take advantage of EVERYTHING that is free!

Well, it's short today. I gotta finish up stuff from work. More later!

WE FINALLY GOT APPROVED FROM THE LOCAL BANK!!! (Huntington Mortgage)

The weekend...
All in all it was good. I think we both finally got a little sleep. We found out on Friday that the sellers made a counter offer, but it was still an awesome deal, so we accepted it. Now is the fun part.... The closing. And better yet, the moving... We are pre-approved with one place, but we were talking to a local bank that has better everything. We are already pre-qualified with the local one and should have been pre-approved on Friday. Now, here it is Tuesday morning and we still don't know anything. The guy says there won't be any problems, but what the heck is taking so long? We are supposed to close on September 29, so keep your fingers crossed. I hope its not as messy as the first part... Ugh... Last night we went to HH Gregg and ordered all of our appliances for our new house and of course the much needed 57" big screen projection TV and then of course the new entertainment center... Boys and their toys?!?! Although secretly I will enjoy it, too.

In-Laws....
Eric's parents came over this weekend and purchased several things for us for our new house. Much thanks to them!! We very much appreciate it!!

On the baby subject....
Well, you may or may not know, I did start my period this month as I suspected I would. So, here's the good and the bad of trying this month. We are going to try by all means. The bad part is that I should be ovulating somewhere between the 24th-29th, right in the begining of the moving process. So during breaks, we have to attempt to conceive. The good part is that besides building a pond, I won't be doing a whole lot of moving (ie, lifting heavy things, etc.) I should and I do mean should know the results by GWO October 17-19. Unless my body is like Jennifer's and won't tell me until several weeks later.

Nothing more to report... More later!