I cleaned the carpets and rearranged the living room last night. I thought I deserved wine after all that work and ended up staying up to late! So tired!
I just got to work and I can tell that it's one of those days where I'm just not going to accomplish a lot. Maybe I can just sit here, looking important and my work will do itself.
We bought new a washer and dryer set that arrive Friday. I put our old, still working set, on Offer Up for $100 and sold them in about 2 hrs, but even though I made a note of that in the listing people keep messaging me. Clearly I under priced them. The first person who inquired better show up today so I can mark it as sold!
Me: 31 Wife: 30. Legally married 2008, thanks CA! TTC #1 since 11/14 using donor sperm. IUIs Jan-Aug 2015 BFN Sept & OCT 2015 added Femara. BFN Saw RE December 2015. IUI with Clomid & Trigger Jan 2016 BFN IUI #13 with Follistim April 2016 BFFN IVF #1 July 2016. 14R, 10F, 6 Day 5 embryos. 4 PGS normal embabies!
My mother is buying a new car by herself for the first time in her entire life. Up until this point in her 60 yrs on earth either her father or her husband basically picked out her car for her and bought it. She is like a kid in a candy store and keeps texting me photos and questions from dealerships. Today is supposed to be day 3 of test drives. She wants to drive ALL the cars before she decides.
This also means that she is trading in her van (it is a wheel chair van that she has had for the last 9 yrs to accommodate my brother). It will be very emotional for her to trade that van in. She doesn't need it anymore.
We had our last growth ultrasound yesterday for CMV monitoring. The results were fine, but the experience sucked. We didn't get our usual ultrasound tech, and the one we did get referred to S as "He." Seriously? First of all, read the chart before you come in the room. Second, open your effing eyes. It's pretty obvious. Also, we had to wait absolutely forever. We waited so long that S actually had to leave before the consulting Perinatologist came in to see us. I was PISSED. The only thing that made it better was that our normal ultrasound tech stopped in the room, while I was waiting by myself, to say hi and that she missed us. That helped.
****loss and living child discussed***** We're queer. I'm 34, have severe stage 4 endo, and both fallopian tubes are gone. My love ("Manada" 33) was diagnosed with diminished ovarian reserve. We did Partner IVF (my eggs, her uterus). We lost our twins Tav.in and Ca.sey at 21 weeks gestation.
My allergies have been acting up a lot so I took a benadryl about half an hour ago. Now I'm at risk of falling asleep at my desk, but at least I'm not constantly blowing my nose ...
****loss and living child discussed***** We're queer. I'm 34, have severe stage 4 endo, and both fallopian tubes are gone. My love ("Manada" 33) was diagnosed with diminished ovarian reserve. We did Partner IVF (my eggs, her uterus). We lost our twins Tav.in and Ca.sey at 21 weeks gestation.
Post by crazyaunt84 on Jul 23, 2015 9:05:35 GMT -5
kh826 - hugs for your mom. Exciting! But totally understandably difficult. jgy - I sometimes consider carrying around a pie in my purse for when people do this. I think it totally deserves a pie in the face. Sorry
healz413 - I did not take a Benadryl, but I might fall asleep at my desk anyway!
My office is always cold, so I dress accordingly. Well, today I am HOT for unknown reasons, and the cardigan that I am wearing feels like it is suffocating me. If I had Michelle Obama arms, I would just take the darn cardigan off (I am wearing a sleeveless dress). But I do not. I have Michelin man arms. So I will keep my cardigan on and be hot.
Here's a really random one for you... do any of you feel like you have the potential to invent/create/start something (in an entrepreneurial sense) that would be huge, but you just don't have the idea or the time or maybe enough of a drive to make it happen? In a vague sort of way, I feel this about myself. I feel like I have untapped potential, and I feel the desire to do something "really cool," but I don't know where to start and I don't have time. But sometimes, when I am having a particularly frustrating day at work, my mind drifts to this thought that I am somehow wasting my potential to "do big things." Is that weird? Can anyone relate?
This isn't a random, this deserves its own thread. My son slept from 7:30-4:45am!!! This has NEVER happened before. We got about 7 hours of straight sleep.
****loss and living child discussed***** We're queer. I'm 34, have severe stage 4 endo, and both fallopian tubes are gone. My love ("Manada" 33) was diagnosed with diminished ovarian reserve. We did Partner IVF (my eggs, her uterus). We lost our twins Tav.in and Ca.sey at 21 weeks gestation.
kh826, I do know how you feel. S and I are a really good combination for an entrepreneurial adventure; she's pretty brilliant and well-respected in her field, and I have good business and organizational skills/experience. I feel like we could really do something amazing. BUT, we are both so damned practical and safe that we'll never take the chance to make it happen. We need the safety of our incomes, and the knowledge that we can take care of our kids and our pets and our home. It's kinda sad.
Another random (I am full of thses today!)... how soon can you reasonably experience round ligament pain in a second pregnancy? I think I have had some yesterday and today (I will be 14 weeks on Saturday). It seems early, but perhaps not for a second timer... I experienced round ligament pain for the first time with my last pregnancy at about 17-18 weeks ... thoughts?
Post by crazyaunt84 on Jul 23, 2015 10:55:54 GMT -5
YESS!! Lets go start ALL the businesses! It's super scary, and its risky, and its crazy. AND IT IS AWESOME!!! You will never feel so stressed, so uncertain, and so damn fulfilled. You work at it and work at it and then all of a sudden its a reality with a life of its own. When a business grows its wings and flies, it's seriously the best.
2brides - HAHAHA! This is fantastic! I am just picturing you and L sitting your boys down and saying "Boys, Moms have some questions about puberty..." LOL
kh826, My mom feels that way all the time. I think one of her greatest regrets is not trying to actually turn some of her ideas into realities. jgy, J and I totally empathize with you. When we first got together she had super short hair and, even to this day, she's a shirt and men's shorts type of dresser. She used to get asked all the time did she know she was in the woman's restroom. How the size DDD breasts weren't an obvious clue that she was in the right place was always mind boggling.
Me: 31 Wife: 30. Legally married 2008, thanks CA! TTC #1 since 11/14 using donor sperm. IUIs Jan-Aug 2015 BFN Sept & OCT 2015 added Femara. BFN Saw RE December 2015. IUI with Clomid & Trigger Jan 2016 BFN IUI #13 with Follistim April 2016 BFFN IVF #1 July 2016. 14R, 10F, 6 Day 5 embryos. 4 PGS normal embabies!
JustJudy, I hesitated to even mention this because, in my opinion, it's just not important. (People should be treated as individuals, especially in healthcare) But ... S is definitely not a classic butch. She has long hair and pretty feminine features. Sure, she often wears sweat pants and t-shirts, but she's in a freakin' weight room all day long.
The confusion was made because of the hetero-normative assumptions that people make about who should be where and when and what a "Typical" relationship structure is supposed to be. Drives me crazy. This technician should have been able to walk in, address her by name, and treat her as the individual person that she is.
At our NT scan a couple of weeks ago a med student (our OB is affiliated with a teaching hospital, so there is often a med student in the room) asked if J was my sister. I was SOOOO impressed because immediately the doctor who had come in to talk to us about the results of the scan (not my dr an MFM in the practice that reviews all NT scans) said "No, that is her wife. Her name is Jennifer. It's in her chart. You should read it." ... I felt badly for the med student she kept apologizing, but I was very impressed by the doctor.
Here's a really random one for you... do any of you feel like you have the potential to invent/create/start something (in an entrepreneurial sense) that would be huge, but you just don't have the idea or the time or maybe enough of a drive to make it happen? In a vague sort of way, I feel this about myself. I feel like I have untapped potential, and I feel the desire to do something "really cool," but I don't know where to start and I don't have time. But sometimes, when I am having a particularly frustrating day at work, my mind drifts to this thought that I am somehow wasting my potential to "do big things." Is that weird? Can anyone relate?
At our NT scan a couple of weeks ago a med student (our OB is affiliated with a teaching hospital, so there is often a med student in the room) asked if J was my sister. I was SOOOO impressed because immediately the doctor who had come in to talk to us about the results of the scan (not my dr an MFM in the practice that reviews all NT scans) said "No, that is her wife. Her name is Jennifer. It's in her chart. You should read it." ... I felt badly for the med student she kept apologizing, but I was very impressed by the doctor.
I love this.
The super-sensitive caretaker in me shies away from that kind of thing because I think "Well I'm sure they didn't MEAN to make us feel bad ..." but the fact of the matter is that they did something inconsiderate, careless, and avoidable, that made us uncomfortable. And what better way to learn that lesson and make it stick than to be made to feel uncomfortable themselves?
I need to write that down and carry it with me to remind myself to SAY SOMETHING in the future.
JustJudy, I hesitated to even mention this because, in my opinion, it's just not important. (People should be treated as individuals, especially in healthcare) But ... S is definitely not a classic butch. She has long hair and pretty feminine features. Sure, she often wears sweat pants and t-shirts, but she's in a freakin' weight room all day long.
The confusion was made because of the hetero-normative assumptions that people make about who should be where and when and what a "Typical" relationship structure is supposed to be. Drives me crazy. This technician should have been able to walk in, address her by name, and treat her as the individual person that she is.
That's even more frustrating. I understand people are busy, but each couple needs to be treated individually and the technician should have taken a moment to actually look at you both first before assuming anything.
On a similar note whenever I go somewhere without J and people notice my wedding ring they, without fail, ask about my husband.
My friend gave me three huge yellow squash from her amazing vegetable garden, if anyone has favorite recipes please share!
Me: 31 Wife: 30. Legally married 2008, thanks CA! TTC #1 since 11/14 using donor sperm. IUIs Jan-Aug 2015 BFN Sept & OCT 2015 added Femara. BFN Saw RE December 2015. IUI with Clomid & Trigger Jan 2016 BFN IUI #13 with Follistim April 2016 BFFN IVF #1 July 2016. 14R, 10F, 6 Day 5 embryos. 4 PGS normal embabies!
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