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[AmandaMom]

I love it Jenne!

[orandalady]

Good one Jenne!

[Jenne]

Thanks for the love y'all! I *so* don't deserve it for that one but I'll take it none-the-less!

So, last night...that cake I made...DISASTER! I have never had a cake ruin before. Instead of making 2 cakes into 4 layers I made 3 cakes into 6. I wanted the cake layers to be thin. My frosting was thick and delicious. When I put the 6th layer on and began to frost the cake all of a sudden I realized the cake was way wonky and had not been before. Then I realized as I tilted it back into place that it was actually coming apart. There was cake and frosting EVERYWHERE! Dh saved the day by putting cake chunks into bowls. He's a sweetie!

Seriously though...where is everyone? Leading amazingly rich and fun lives but not telling the rest of us about it...right??? Anyone, news??? Of any kind???

Jenne

[~Adorkable~]

boy if i didn't know better i would think i have recently become a lady with PMS

8DPO been feeling so moody and down the last 36 hours, here I am supposed to be getting ready and getting excited for this Metalsmith's Conference i leave for tomorrow and i'm just blah. yuck

i really didn't used to be like this. and its not even the TWW stress, since i dont put much weight in this cycle i kinda wrote it off before it started. So im not testing or anything. i dont know just feel yucky

Jenne i like the cake story, yeah layer cakes can go south pretty fast, sounds like your DH made the best of it, good guy!

[Jenne]

Adorkable- I think progesterone is the worst thing ever! Especially when it is naturally occurring. Yuck! I don't want to wish you to feel better soon because I'm hoping, hoping for you for this month! Have a great time at your conference!

Newbian Mama- Are you okay? We miss you!

iheartmyfamily- That's a purty chart!

Amandamom- How's life in your neck of the woods?

Tear78- Are you waiting to O?

QOTD- What do you eat in the spring? For me it is BLTs. Awwww. Yum! For some reason that just screams spring to me! What about you? I need some cooking inspiration...


Jenne

[iheartmyfamily]

jenne - first you have me craving cake chunks in a bowl, and now i NEED a BLT.... i was at the deli this morning ordering two boring healthy hard boiled eggs and i watched about 3 ppl order bacon egg and cheese sandwiches on a toasted croissant YUMMY!!!! lol!!

girl scouts delivered my cookie order yesterday morning. i was soooo good and did not even think twice about them until 5pm when i was still at work and pissed off at FF bc i disagree with the cd15 crosshairs (which apparantely only give me a good chance at conceiving this month bc i didnt bd the day before O) AND my cbfm cought me off guard and only gave me 3 H readings and jumped to a Peak (i usually get 5 Hs). I really think i o'd on cd 16 when i had ovulation pain but my temps don't agree. then there are all these little circles on my chart, i guess bc i temped over an hour later on those dates. how is it that i had a +opk on cd15/16 and my monitor did not peek until cd16/17. wouldn't cbfm have peaked at cd15 if i was ovulating that day?

Hmmm. i think that a couple days ago i was saying that i was completely at peace with this cycle and in a good place and someone was going to have to remind me of that post when i start obsessing... well, i'm obsessing! go figure!

[Newbian Mama]

I'm baaaaaack lol. I haven't posted in a few days but it feels like forever since I talked to my girls (that's y'all!). Last time I posted it was to proclaim my happiness that I had the sperm sitting in a tank in my bedroom checking me out and giving me the eye. I was so excited that I missed my ovulation date! Yep, all dressed for the ball and missed my ride. I think I relied too heavily on the OPKs instead of my own fertile cues like a high cervix and fertile CM. I was more than a little mad at myself, I mean at least if I had inseminated on time and then got a BFN, I would've known I did everything I could.

After moping for two days and then getting the flu for three days I'm better and back to my old positive self. I feel the Universe was whispering to me to use two vials instead of one and I will get that opportunity next cycle.

Jenne - thanks for asking about me. Sorry about your sinus infection. I loved your poem and I hope your fallen cake was delicious. Some of the best tasting foods my mom ever made were the ones that didn't look so hot

iheartmyfamily - Ok, now I want some GS cookies! It seems like I have to hunt them down every year. I *need* my Tagalongs!

Adorkable - Are you at your conference today? I hope you have a fabulous time and thoroughly enjoy yourself.

What's everyone else been up too?

ETA: IIRC, April is going to be quite a busy month for a lot of us. Only a couple more weeks!

[iheartmyfamily]

newbian - i find that the more i obsess, the more sidetracked i get by all the possible o signs that i miss o day!! so frustrating. as someone else said in another thread, maybe our chances will be better if we don't try so hard... ya know like all those chicks who get wasted and have one night stands and then end up with beautiful babies... sigh... i should join the bitter sushi thread bc i'm feeling really really bitter today.....

[orandalady]

Newbian Mama- I'm sorry you missed your O I was really hoping for it for you this cycle. Maybe your future LO just wanted to be a Christmas baby.

Jenne- Now I must have a BLT too! My mouth is watering now. Oddly enough, this will be the first spring where GS cookies might not even tempt me...unless they start making some kind of chocolate-covered meat cookies.

Adorkable- hope you have fun with the metalsmiths!

iheartmyfamily- I heard that "just stop trying and it will happen" line so many times. If anyone has any kind of belief in science, though, they know that is absolutely ridiculous and your chances would be significantly smaller if you were just willy-nilly about it. Besides, once you have the knowledge of your cycle and how YOUR body works, I don't know how you could ever go back to ignoring it.

[Tear78]

Originally Posted by Jenne

Tear78- Are you waiting to O?

yeah. PBLBLBLBLLT! (yeah that's me making an immature tongue raspberry noise because I'm sick of this whole darn thing. anybody watch King of Queens? That was Doug Heffernan's noise. ) Annnnyway, thanks for asking. I've decided to take a new tactic and see if I can stick with it. Here it is: this cycle will probably not work (i know it sounds negative, but somehow it's not feeling that way...stick with me) It probably won't work, so I'm going to live like it didn't and try to enjoy my life and relax like I did when we took a break. PLENTY of women get pregnant accidentally and don't change their habits until after their period is late. Anyway, that's my plan.

I loved your cute little poem, btw. And I agree, progesterone makes me crazy. It's a necessary thing, but it makes me feel really not myself. Adorkable, I hope this PMS is really PPS (pre-pregnancy syndrom)

[iheartmyfamily]

where's everyone at? hoping ur all off bding!

[Blanca78]

Originally Posted by iheartmyfamily

where's everyone at? hoping ur all off bding!

I've been buried in end-of-term madness--my school is on the quarter system and I haven't had a moment to myself, plus sick (allergies) on top of that.
Good news is, AF came today which means I had a--ta dah--13 day LP! That's a big improvement over my previous 10 days. Although my temps were weird this cycle and didn't follow the usual pattern. Usually I get a temp rise about two days after CM dries up, and for some reason FF will only pin O to the temp rise, not CM. So I think this cycle, because my temps were lower than usual at first, it counted the temp rise earlier. At any rate, I think I actually may typically O a day or two earlier than FF thinks, so my LP isn't actually so short.

That was a lot of rambling about nothing. Thinking of you all! I'll go back to lurking now.

[AmandaMom]

iheartmyfamily - DP and I stocked up on GS cookies last week; we bought ten boxes! We missed out last year and definitely went overboard this year. I think there are five boxes left...

Blanca - Congrats on your 13-day LP! That's a very healthy length (in my nonprofessional opinion)!

Newbian Mama - So what did you end up doing with the tank? Did you have to send it back?

Adorkable - Fingers still crossed for you! How was your conference? I agree with Tear78, hopefully you were experiencing PPS!

AFM, big let down today. I finally got registered at the sperm bank, got all the needed signatures and forms faxed in, only to find out our #1 choice has met his family limit. Our first choice right down the crapper! Excuse my language, but I was very upset... almost to tears. Ok, definitely to tears. It's probably PMS, though. AF is due Saturday. Well, we got to looking closer at our #2 choice, and he isn't so bad. Not as good, but still good. I was able to acquire three vials and had them sent to my RE. Now we just wait for O.

[somegirl99]

I've been traveling and out of touch for a while. Anyway, just wanted to drop in and say congrats to Teetina!!!!

[Jenne]

Hey could y'all peep at my chart and tell me why *you* think it is strange. I thihnk it is strange and I have no idea what would cause it to look like that...
ideas???

Thanks!
Jenne

[~Adorkable~]

Jenne are you talking about the big spike the first post o day? Or the rather low but stable post o temps? Looks pretty ok to me, I'm figureing the hig temp was an error


As for me heading home from my conference. Still feeling emotionally under the weather big time. Might just be cause this trip is costing more than it should and that's going to make the end of my month hard. Maybe it's cause when I go home it's to af being due on Tuesday I think. Maybe its cause I'm fnding more and I'm not the outgoing person that most folks always think I am

either way Im glad I'll be in my bed with my dh and cranky fuzzy old kitty tonight.

[Newbian Mama]

Hey ladies. It's midterm time around here so I've been a little quiet. Hope you all are doing well.

iheartmyfamily - How are you feeling today? I understand the bitter days, believe me, I do. I was just telling someone the other day that in health ed class the teachers made it seem like if you even looked at a penis you'd get pregnant. Fast forward 20 years and most of us wish it were that easy.

orandalady - Thank you for thinking of me. I am remaining positive about the whole thing (now that I've thrown all the shoes I'm going to throw) so I am thinking like you are... maybe this kid wants to be a Christmas baby instead of a Thanksgiving one. November is becoming a crowded birthday month in our family and there has been no one born late December/early January. How have you been? I'll have to go to your DDC and check on you and Teetina and Monarchgrrl.

Tear78 - I saw your sister's siggy a few days ago. I think it's so sweet that she's rooting for you The raspberries are a sign of maturity as are the temper tantrums and the throwing of the shoes. All women who are TTC do those things at least one time, right? I like your relaxation advice, too. Relax, have a beer, or a iced quad white mocha

Blanca78 - Congrats on your longer LP. I've had to tweak FF once or twice when I knew I O'd sooner than it thought. Sometimes my mantra is FF is not god, FF is not god and sometimes it's FF is my BFF, FF is my BFF. I guess it depends on if I like what I see

AmandaMom - Everyone seems to have found these elusive Girl Scouts but me. I'll be out and about tomorrow looking for them.

Thanks for asking about me Yes, I ended up returning the tank. I actually just drove it back but I will definitely pay the cost for shipment next time. Parking in San Francisco is like that Olympic biathalon where they ski and then shoot the rifle... ok, maybe it's not, but it is not for the faint of heart, the hurried, or the impatient.

I am so so sorry your #1 is no longer available. That sucks that he was still listed as being available I think the sperm bank employees sometimes forget that choosing a donor is such a big deal for us. I hope your #2 choice has high motility and gets you knocked up on the first try How are you going to schedule your IUI? Two on one day, one on another?

Jenne - I don't think your chart is strange, except for that big ol' rise after O. Could be a fluke or it could be just one of those crazy temp things. Your other post O temps are remarkably stable.

I saw your other post about joining FB. Have you contacted anyone? Have they contacted you? It really is like a class reunion without having to get dressed up!

•Adorkable• - Glad you're on your way home to the safety and comfort of DH and your bed. Screw the people who expect you to be "on" all the time! Give 'em the finger (well, you get my drift)!

[Tear78]

NewbianMom, I meant to say before. I LOVE the shocked rabbit avatar!

[Jenne]

Yeah, the ultrahigh temp came about because I was up most of the night with a cold. My concern is that my temps are usually higher and more erratic. This steady 97.4-97.5 range is different. I'm worried my thermometer may be on the fritz but later in the day when I temp it is 98.6 or so--then I don't know what to think about it...sigh...

Anyway...life is good.

I hope everyone is having a good weekend!

Jenne

[Newbian Mama]

Tear78 - Thank you! Everytime I see her, I assign a new emotion/characteristic to her. One day she's singing for ovulation, the next she's the evil rabbit of the golden gate. Yes, I'm bored

Jenne - I have a cheapie Wal-Mart thermometer and it's supposed to beep rapidly when the battery is dying. Does yours have a similar alert? Is it colder in your house or are you kicking off the covers more than usual?