Off to WI!

We are heading up north this weekend to meet our new nephew and celebrate our older nephew's third birthday on Sunday, and my eldest sister's 40th today, and my niece who just turned one! These kids are too cute!

Where I'd rather be...

Something fun, going from queen to king...

I'm so very tired of all the IF drama, so it's time to focus on something else. How about a new bed? I just ordered this (mattress and boxsprings only).



We had been waiting... S and I each bought new queen beds just before we met each other, so it seemed silly to get a new one, though it is a little tight. And our MB is only ~14x14. And we bought a queen bed frame a few years ago, and a chaise (that will have to go). But it was time.

Now I just need to decide on bedding... It seems I always come back to PB, hopefully not for complete lack of imagination. I just usually seem to find what I like (though I don't like everything they do). Now I just need to choose, hmmmm....

Pearl Embroidered in powder blue...



Or, Grand Embroidered in porcelain blue...



To match our PB Jordan rug in slate blue...


I'm looking at the duvet and possibly shams (why no king?) and boudoir (w/monogram, of course ;)). I've already bought white damask striped sheets, and an absolutely amazing mattress pad, and four king pillows. Bed skirt and down comforter still to come, so stay tuned... :)

Good/bad/crazy morning...

I think nothing good can come when the work day for me starts at 7am... Another call with Switzerland this morning (these are sadly going to become all too common), and found out that the trip is off. Good, so we can focus on getting pg this month. So with CD1, I called my RE this morning to schedule my u/s for next week as instructed when I was in last Friday for my bloodwork, and find out she is on vacation ALL NEXT WEEK. You've got to be kidding, they couldn't have told me this when I was in the office? Ok, so I wait to hear back on what to do... Nurse calls back and they either want to put me on BCP until the 9th (when she gets back) or wait until next month. Are they crazy? I've been waiting a year and half and she wants me to throw away a month (either way), and my first month post-op? Her partner doctor can't do it? No she wants to do it herself... To the detriment of me, the patient. Lovely... So I've just booked a ticket to join S in Utah (yay for skiing and sex!) during my fertile window and we are winging it on our own. I am so praying that we get KU and then I can just skip the RE, the u/s, the whole thing. Pray for us!

She's here, finally...

I started spotting yesterday and last night I felt so sick and tired, I just knew that she was finally coming. So CD1 now, I'm not sure why this feels like such an accomplishment, baby steps... So the funny thing is that S will be OOT days 11-15 and I'll be OOT 11-17. Hmmm... So we likely won't be doing an IUI (the plan) or anything constructive for that matter. We'll have to see. I fired up the ole CBEFM this morning, but given the testing window and my movement across eight time zones, this will be interesting (test at lunch?). Or maybe try just a regular old OPK. I will need to go in next week for my saline u/s to make sure that all is clear, which again is an accomplishment in itself. I completely misunderestimated (one of my fave non-words that I heard used just last night) the toll of the post-op meds, so I'm so glad to just be getting that all out of my system. Yay to drug free living! :)

Liberty at Target, I can't wait!

Just found out that Liberty of London is coming out with a line at Target (but, of course!). It launches on March 14th, but I find the special collections are sometimes released early.

For a preview... Liberty for Target site/video

It's been quite a week...

So after the pain and misery of Sunday and Monday, I spoke with my RE's nurse about the stomach pain I was having and after telling me she thought is was heartburn (which it wasn't), she wanted to know everything I was taking (which of course I've already told her). So on top of the Premarin (4/day) and Provera (2/day), I also have always taken a PNV (w/DHA), extra Omega (1/3 daily dose), baby aspirin, and cranberry extract (1/3 daily dose). She seemed annoyed that I was taking the cranberry and I reminded her that it is to help prevent UTI's (which I'm prone to, and c-berry juice is rough on my stomach). So she talked to my RE and told me that I should stop taking the cranberry. BTW, I've been taking it for three years w/o issue.

Since she was so helpful, I decided to stop taking everything except the Premarin/Provera which I finally finish tomorrow (thank God!) and now feel better. No more pain (aka stomach bleeding, or the associated black poo, yay!). I now see that Omegas aren't recommended w/aspirin, but of course no health professional (including my RE, nurse or mom) has ever bothered to mention this to me.

After I'm done w/my Rx protocol which has been SO much worse than the actual procedure, I will have to see if everything I was taking goes back to working for me w/o any stomach bleed or not as I wasn't able to manage a trial and error experiment this week.

It's been an insane week at work, 14 hr. days, on top of all of this stomach crap. My boss doesn't know what I'm going through (I'm new and now he's moving to another group), which makes it all that much more difficult. He also likes to drop random comments about how working late keeps him from seeing his kids. Ugh! If he only had a clue, and his wife stays home for crying out loud. Almost done with changes for our project to go up to the CEO. I guess he's waiting for it...
I finally got word about the Switzerland trip... It will overlap with S's trip to Utah (which I'm so lucky I hadn't yet bought a ticket for) and also likely for my entire fertile window. One of us will be gone for a good week, so unless he has super swimmers and we get REALLY lucky, March will be a bust. :(

I found a new discount home decor shopping site, One Kings Lane.
One Kings Lane


Let me know if you want a referral to join. It's like a Gilt Groupe for home, and this picture from their website made me happy...