New Kids On the Block Ornament Bundle
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Blogging for the last few months has been difficult, to say the least. I don't want to be a negative nanny so I just don't blog. I try to think of something I could blog about that would be interesting but I just can't. Things are nutso right now and hopefully they'll calm down soon. I just don't want to blog daily about things that have gone wrong ya know? So I just keep it off of here then it kinda looks like I've disappeared when I haven't. I'm just choosing not to throw it out there and have people think I'm a pessimist when I most definitely am not. In this case not sharing is caring :)
On another note I started reading again, I had about a month or 2 lag where I just didn't want to read anything. I do that sometimes but this was a tad longer than norm but onto the books!
Such a great book! I can't wait til the 3rd one comes out. It left you on a cliffhanger which I figured was going to happen however I loved it. This is a series that sucks you in from the first page and just won't let you go. The characters are amazing and you can't help but love them.
This is the 3rd book in the series and I just skimmed it to be honest. I was still getting out of my non reading phase and I've found myself over historical romances for the time being. I think I've just read so many of them they all seem about the same now. However with that said I love this series (LOL). The Hatahaway's crack me up. They're a family that's real & you can relate with them because they're not perfect. They're not a everyone is sunshine and roses family which I love. Each one of them have their problems and they love each other unconditionally. Definitely a good series to read!
Ah the Bride Quartet. Nora & I have been hit and miss lately so I was hoping this book was a good as the first one and it was. Four women who are best friends started a wedding planning business and each one manages something different in the business. The first book was about Mac who is the photographer of the group. This book is about Emma who is the florist find her true love.
I accidentally read this book first & it's actually book 2 of a series. Don't you hate when you do that but it seems like any book now a days is a series & I hated it until I went back and read the first book. Ha. Shame on me. tsk tsk.
I'm a huge JR Ward fan, I loved the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, however this book was just too long. It felt drawn out and I couldn't get into it at all. I skimmed through it and got the gist of the book but it just didn't grab my attention :(
This is the book before Hunting Ground & I loved it! I love Patricia Briggs's ability to make the characters seem everyday and amazing at the same time. Charles and Anna are another couple who you just want to stand up and cheer for. Can I have the 3rd one yet please? Kthksbye!
Ciao!
Ciao!
We had our IVF consultation yesterday. I can't believe how fast the time has gone. It feels like just last week we were making the decision to put things on hold, and here we are, moving forward with what has the potential to be a life changing decision. The consult was overwhelming but fantastic. I love the IVF nurse we met with and I discovered its one thing to read books about things you will be doing in the far off future. Its completely different to be sitting in a room with the nurse showing you a calendar saying "ok, you will take this shot on these days, and this med on these days, and come in for ultrasounds on these days, and if everything goes right, you come in for a blood test on this day and do an ultrasound to confirm the pregnancy on this day." By the end I was very excited and very nervous. They called in the meds to the pharmacy and I ended up with over 10 prescriptions, and over half of those are injections. Some of them are intramuscular, meaning that Rudy has to learn to give them to me because they are given in the butt. The nurse described what each of the meds do and what cycle days I will need to take them. She said the biggest fear every IVF patient has is that she will mess up her medications and I can see why. When I did IUI it was just one med, one injection each night and a final shot to trigger ovulation. With this its multiple injections, some at night, some in the morning, plus a bunch of other stuff and its all balanced on a very particular timing scheem.
The other thing that made me a little nervous is that they don't put you completely out for the egg retrieval. Its a conscious sedation. She assured me that its like when you get a colonoscopy or get your wisdom teeth pulled, your awake, but you just don't care. And Rudy can be in the room with me, so thats kind of cool. And I get to take a valum the night before and the morning of, so I'm sure that will help the nerves.
So now we have a few weeks to wait. If I get a period the end of December or the beginning of January, then I'm all good. If I don't get one by the first week in January, then I have to call the office and they will start me on Provera to trigger a cycle. I go in for a blood test on day 1, 2 or 3 of my cycle. Then have a mock embryo transfer to determine the depth of my uterus sometime between days 5 and 15. I'll be doing a long protocol which means I start Lupron around day 21 to shut down my ovaries. About a week after that I should get another period and then the real fun begins.
Right now we are deciding between Folistim and GonalF to trigger egg growth. According to the pharmacy they are both basically the same thing, just made by different companies. When we did IUI, we used Follistim and I know I respond really well to it. I've read some women's blogs that say they responded better to one over the other, so that worries me. GonalF is substantially cheeper (out of pocket one 900IU pen of GonalF is $717 verses $1210 for the same amount of Follistim). I am also having someone in the HR department at my company check to see if any of this will be covered by insurance. Its unlikely, but it never hurts to ask. She had told me before that since our insurance is a PPOM and company funded, they might be able to turn on specific medications and get some of it covered.
The thing that I found out yesterday that was really exciting was that when I do get pregnant I'll have 2 early ultrasounds before they transfer me to my OBGYN. No waiting until week 20 for us :-)
Some of the other decisions we had to think about yesterday were if we would fertilize all of the eggs and freeze the extras or if we would just fertilize a few. Apparently some people have moral issues about making to many embryos and think destroying an embryo is murder. We are not those people (pro-choice and all), and since the expensive part is having the egg retrieval done, we will definitely have all eggs fertilized using ICSI (sperm injection), even if we end up with a really hight number. That way, if we want more kids down the road, we can do frozen embryo transfers, and once we are done making our family, we will donate the extra embryos to research. Another thing was discussed is who will get custody of the embryos if Rudy and I split up. That gave us a chuckle, and we decided that since I'm the one who is pushing for the kids, I would get custody. Also, we had to decide who will be the guardian of our embryos if something were to happen to us. I think that will be my Mom, since she knows our wish to donate them to research and she would respect that decision.
The next few weeks are going to go by incredibly fast!
Could NOT get myself out of bed this morning, so i showed up 45 minutes late, called my boss and was like yeah, ill be in late...
Got home around 11:40 maybe, finally fell asleep about 12:15, im still exhausted and that was only day 1. At least saturday i'll get to sleep in some. yay.
I havent even put my makeup on yet might just wait till this evening, way too much effort.
Sold my old TV to lisa & nick last night, yay for $40 and more space in my living room!
I think a lunch time nap is in order, we're supposed to have our 'official function' at work today, which means theyre buying us lunch, and i THINK they took my advice and got jimmy johns, we'll see!
- 09:25 Nothing suitable for breakfast... #
- 21:52 @elisha330 those are so good! #
- 21:54 In bed, and going to bed early for once. Goodnight #
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(Almost. I have 40 minutes to go.)
This has been a batshit insane week at work. The verdict in our mayor's trial came in yesterday and it was probably one of the five worst working days of my life. (The other four, all in no particular order: Virginia Tech shooting, police-involved shooting that happened on the weekend, faux-hurricane also on the weekend and one night where there was a tornado in one of the western counties and we were on the air for an extra hour, making it four straight hours o' fun. Presidential elections are also always fun.)
So I am more than ready for my weekend.
I don't have much planned. I have to do laundry (of course and always). But beyond that? I want to finish the new Sue Grafton mystery, which I'm really enjoying. I bought myself Terminator: Salvation on Blu-Ray, and I hope to watch that tomorrow night, while eating the Grotto's Pizza that my mom thoughtfully bought me the last time she was in Rehoboth.
Also, tomorrow features a two-hour Private Practice special (although I'll probably be watching that Friday, as tomorrow ALSO has new episodes of The Office and 30 Rock).
Speaking of The Office, I'm really close to breaking up with that show. It hasn't been funny in a really long time.
I might also make my return to reading actual books, because I have some review copies I want to get through. AND I learned today that I'm getting a review copy of the new Joe Hill book! I'm really excited for that, because I loved his debut novel, Heart Shaped Box. (He's also Stephen King's son, but that's not why I like his books.)
I also got a copy of The Phantom Tollbooth today. I've never read it before, and I won it in a contest. :) One of my really good friends absolutely loves that book and every time she remembers I've never read it, she gets really sad. (And also sort of horrified.) So I'm excited to read that, too.
One of the cool things about the Kindle is that they offer a lot of classic books for free. I'm hoping to become a more well-read person next year, so here's hoping. :) I did download a slew of classics (Anne of Green Gables and most of the rest of that series, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, My Man Jeeves--I blame you, Cori!--Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Treasure Island, Black Beauty, A Christmas Carol, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Little Men, Vanity Fear, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Madame Bovary, The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, The Count of Monte Cristo, Pollyanna and its sequel, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Pollyanna Grows Up, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, and Anna Karenina). So yay! :)
- 20:15 Ugh, My next day off from both jobs, Sunday the 13th. Thats a long ways away. #
- 20:58 @mdcurry really?! what kind?! #
- 21:02 I ♥ Forgetting Sarah Marshall - effing hilarious EVERY TIME. #
- 21:10 @mdcurry what do u mean u have no idea, does it spin, twist, light up, plug in, battery operated? #
- 21:38 @mdcurry sigh, you are not helpful LoL. #
- 21:41 @mdcurry then why buy it tard?! Send it to me I'll use it! #
- 14:59 My afternoon Pick me up! tweetphoto.com/5720847 #
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This is a cute little gift or a stocking stuffer.
I have made a bunch of these for a Christmas craft show this weekend.
