It's All About Me

The last day

Today is the last day of NaBloPoMo. I actually missed one day sometime this month. Oh well. I tried and was mostly successful.

I am really tired today even though I went to bed at 8:30 and missed all the snow coming down last night. I did get to enjoy the snow this morning though when I had to get it all off my car.

I really want to take a nap right now.

The roads around my house are still icy. Hopefully, by the time I get home tonight, they will be a lot better. The roads around my office were a lot better this morning than they were yesterday morning.

Well, that's all for now. I don't really have anything else to say.

Just Rambling

Sitting here at work. I guess of the 8 people in my section of the Legal Dept., 3 showed up for work yesterday. Most everyone is here today - straggling in at whatever times. There is only 1 person not here today in our section. There are many kids here today though since so many school districts are closed.

I am ready to go home. I am so tired. I really don't like getting up at 5 a.m. after getting up like 3 times during the night - the last of which I couldn't get back to sleep for a while. The drive to Northgate this morning was not fun, but also not too bad since we took it so slowly. I-5 and I-90 were just fine until we got close to Issaquah, then it got pretty bad. The roads getting off the freeway weren't that fun either (though I heard it was much better than yesterday).

Hopefully, the roads are better by the time we leave here @ 3:30 (I don't think they are letting us leave early today like they let people do yesterday). It is supposed to snow again, but hopefully, not until after the heavy commuting times - as I'm sure many people do not want a recreation of Monday night. Have I mentioned that I'm glad I got to leave work early that day so I missed all that traffic (even though I did manage to get stuck in traffic for 40 minutes trying to go 2 miles from a friend's house to my house)?

I am so happy that I finished that "novel" yesterday. It was nice to get that finished so I can move onto other things - like filling out my pregnancy journal I got with my amazon gift cert. I know that I am pregnant, but sometimes I cannot believe that it is happening to me. My sister said something yesterday on IM that made me think - I was telling her about my novel and what it is about. Toward the end, I couldn't be creative so the story I told in the end basically is my story - maybe with some fictional parts mixed in there. However, what she said was something along the lines of "no wonder this feels so surreal to you since it may feel you are talking about your characters". Maybe she can say what she said if that is not quite right.

Well, that's all for now. I should get some work done before I go.

I'm a Winner!

Woo hoo. I'm a NaNoWriMo winner. I finished my novel this afternoon (thanks weather for giving me the day off). The final word count...50,454. Wooooooo! I accomplished this goal and the goal of getting pregnant, of course. I don't think I'll be finishing the 52 book goal this year though, but at least each year I keep getting closer!

Twins!!!

O...M...G!!!

They found two babies. I am carrying two babies. OMG!!!

Both babies are doing well. They are at the appropriate sizes they should be at right now. One's heartbeat was at 122 and the other was at 130 (they want it over 100). It was so incredibly amazing to see that little flutter of a heartbeat...then later, the other heartbeat. I seriously came so close to crying seeing that beautiful sight - thinking about it now makes me tear up. At first, they thought it was just one, but one of those babies was playing a bit of hide and seek with us! The nurse said to us, "I thought it couldn't be just one with those high betas!"

A friend of mine in the blog world (of whom we plan to get together at some point along with another blog buddy) also found out today she is having twins. I was hoping that was a sign for Jon and I. I was so incredibly happy with one baby, but when they found the second, I honestly felt relief as well as panic as well as extreme happiness.

I can't believe that this is finally happening. After nearly 5 years of trying, we look like we have finally succeeded...albeit with the help of the medical world. Thanks to everyone putting up with me as Jon and I went through this rollercoaster. It isn't quite over yet, but it looks like we may finally be getting off of the ride (and getting onto another one). :-)

48,485

Well, I wanted to get as close to 50,000 words as I could tonight, and I'm pretty close. I could probably keep on going, but I'm tired, and I still need to pay some bills and get some other stuff done before I fall asleep. I want to stay up and watch The Amazing Race - hopefully, I can.

Oh yeah - pretty snow. It started to snow when Jon's parents arrived to take us out to dinner. It was really pretty, but I really, really don't want to drive in it and since we have an appointment tomorrow, I have to drive in it on my way to and from work tomorrow.

If you would, hope and pray that we hear great news tomorrow. Our appointment is at 2 p.m. Thank you!

Novel Writing Update

Just in case my power goes out as it seems to be threatening to do, I want to make sure I have today's blog post posted. When we left to go to our early dinner with Jon's parents, I was at 45,869. I'm going to try to write some more, and make sure I save it more often than I have been. Off to write now, and hopefully, write quite a bit so I don't have much to do during the week.

Word Count & More

44, 187: That's the word count from last night and tonight. I'm not sure where I stopped yesterday, so I don't know how much I did yesterday and how much I did today.

I'm not sure how much I'll get to do tomorrow. Jon's parents and, I think, Tanya, are coming up tomorrow around 2. I'll try to get some done in the morning, but I really should try to clean up my house a little bit before we have company over. I would really like to get as close to 50,000 words tomorrow, as I don't know how much time I'll have to write during the week. I might be busy on Monday night and Tuesday night, I'm definitely busy. I'd rather not wait until the last day to finish it. We'll see what happens.

In other news, I almost didn't start writing on my novel today because I had a scare this morning, and well, I'm still really nervous about it. If you want to know the details, you'll have to go to my other blog. Let's just say I had a bit of spotting this morning that freaked me out. I just wish it was Monday so I could go to the ultrasound. I don't care anymore about wishing my weekend away; I need to know that things are alright in there. I hope and pray that everything works out; I don't want to start this whole process over again.

The Day After...

Here at work...blech.

Yesterday's Thanksgiving was a good one, I thought, except for the drive to our destination. It was POURING the whole way to Renton (we went over to Adam & Kendra's this year). Thankfully, the way back home was much nicer weather-wise.

This year, the men were outside frying a turkey (which was quite tasty, I thought) while the women were inside doing other things. We had quite a bit of food (we even brought some home with us). It was quite good, but, unfortunately, I was starting to feel a little queasy while eating so I didn't get to eat too much (which I guess is a good thing). After eating, we played a quick game of Apples to Apples before Jon and I headed back home.

This morning, starting at a little before 1 a.m., I was really feeling nauseous. I slept on and off throughout the morning until the alarm went off at 6. Each time feeling worse nausea-wise. I really should have gone to get some crackers or something in my tummy, but I didn't. When the alarm went off, I told Jon how I was feeling and he was a nice husband and got me some crackers. I ate a couple until I felt o.k. enough for the PIO shot.

Then after a while, I got up to get ready to go to work...taking my time since I knew traffic wouldn't be too bad. It turns out, I could have stayed at home another 10 minutes or so as I got to work early despite leaving much later than I normally do. I get into work still feeling kinda blech, but much better than earlier in the day. Then a coworker of mine says that she has a google blog alert set up to show whenever someone blogs about our employer, and guess what, she found this blog. She told me she didn't read it, and I told her that I didn't say anything bad about the company. I was just complaining about the traffic situation on Wednesday. I was just a tad embarrassed.

Anyway, at lunch today, we are having a little potluck that a couple of us thought of doing. Everyone said that they thought this was a good idea, so maybe we'll do this again next year when we all have to come into work the day after Thanksgiving. However, once again, after eating just a little bit, my tummy got really upset with me. I just cannot win - it's either I've eaten too much (which I don't think I've done) or not enough. I guess this comes with the territory.

Only 3 more days until the ultrasound. I cannot wait! I don't want to wish my weekend away, but I really want to know how many are in there and if we hear a heartbeat (or two).

Turkey Day

Just got back from our yummy Thanksgiving dinner - more on this when I am more awake. Just wanted to get today's blog entry done.

I did get a little bit of writing done today - I am now at 35,170. Not much difference from yesterday, but it's something. Maybe I can work on it at work when I am completely bored tomorrow.

Well, I'm tired and need to get up at 6 to go to work, so good night. I hope everyone had a wondeful Thanksgiving.

34,623

I'm finishing tonight at 34,623. I actually wasn't planning on writing tonight. I was just going to eat my dinner, watch a couple shows, then go to bed since I've been daydreaming of that all day long, but Jon wanted to watch this Gonzaga v. UNC basketball game (the Zags won despite Jon cheering for UNC because that is who his boss is cheering for).

I got to leave a whole 20 minutes early from work today - woo! It took me a little over an hour to get to Northgate tonight and that is just too long for someone who needs to go to the bathroom a lot (at least, it seems like that).

Anyway, after dropping off a DVD at the library and picking up a couple things - I thought it was kinda funny that one of the books that they had on hold for me was a children's book about volcanoes. Hmm, that's interesting - I don't remember putting a hold on that. I get home and I have an e-mail saying I had 1 other book on hold for me "An Inconvienent Truth" - they couldn't have possibly mixed up those two books, could they? Is the library trying to tell me that's the way we're going to go? ;-D

After leaving the library, I head off to the store to pick up a dessert item for tomorrow. I really wanted a pie consisting of chocolate, so that's what I got. Going to the store the night before Thanksgiving is a big pain in the ass. People are so rude. I had to get rude myself in order to actually exit the parking lot of the store. No one was letting me leave my aisle to head toward the exit. That just irritated me. I was being nice to all sorts of people driving home, you think I would have some sort of good karma with me.

Speaking of other things that are irritating, I'm leaving work and well, since I work next to one of the busiest locations that Costco has, they have police directing traffic and orange cones making it so those leaving the Costco can exit to one lane and those leaving work can be in the other. Well, that doesn't work so well as the ones leaving the Costco want to be in the far right lane to turn right and those leaving work want to be in either the far left lane or the middle lane to turn left. The cones and the police presence only seem to add to more headaches than they actually prevent. And just like last year, I'm sure the cones and police presence are here to stay for a while - UGH! Just getting from work to the freeway took me 15 minutes when normally, it could be done in less than 5.

Alright, time for bed. Gotta wake up at 7 for a PIO shot and hopefully, fall back asleep. Then when I get up, hopefully, I'll be able to write a big bunch of words on my novel before heading out to our Thanksgiving dinner destination.

The Day Before Turkey Day

Well, no novel writing was done last night either. Oliver wanted to play, so we played for a bit. Then Sophie was intrigued by the playing and wanted to play too, so I played with her. And by this time, there was no way I was going to work on my novel.

The department across the way from my own is constantly playing Christmas music. Every once in a while wouldn't be too bad, but all the time just drives me crazy. I can't listen to my iPod that loud to drown it out or I won't have any hearing left to listen to the stuff I want to listen to. I doubt these people have any idea how annoying they are.

Don't get me wrong, I like Christmas music, but not all the time and certainly, it doesn't feel right to be playing it before Thanksgiving. They've been playing this stuff for the past few weeks!

Still no word on leaving early, which is unfortunate because I'm tired...tired enough that I asked my coworkers if they thought it would be alright if I got underneath my desk and took a nap. I feel like I just took Valium, and my nausea isn't helping matters. Not that I'm complaining - I'm a happy pregnant person - I just want to lay down is all.

Nothing

I don't really have anything to write about today, but since I'm trying to write a post every day for NaBloPoMo, I'm going to write something down.

I was thinking of trying to work on my novel, but I feel so freaking tired. Maybe I'll work on it for a bit before going to bed. Oh, but I think Oliver wants to play. He's circling the desk right now wanting some attention from me.

I just finished watching Heroes from last night. I really enjoy that show. I cannot wait for the next episode. I'm finding I enjoy this show more than I enjoy Lost these days.

I also watched The Bachelor: The Women Tell All - I don't know why I watch this show, but I do...sometimes. All I have to say about that is - is that Erica girl for real? It amazes me that there are people out there in the world like her - she is such a bitch!

Well, that is all. I must give attention to my kitty.

Pride & Prejudice, Books & More

Well, instead of writing on my novel tonight, I watched Pride & Prejudice (the version with Keira Knightley) since I borrowed it from the library and it was due on Wednesday, and I have no time to watch it tomorrow (my last night with my support group as I'm being graduated).

Anyway, it was a good version. I enjoyed it, but not nearly as much as the BBC version with Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy. I doubt any version could replace that one. However, the guy that played Mr. Darcy in this newer version was quite cute, I think. At least in the movie he was.

In other news, I came across this from someone's blog that I read - it seems so wrong. So very wrong (but could be a funny gag gift, I suppose). :-D

Speaking of things that are so very wrong, the publishers have decided not to print that awful O.J. book and Fox won't air the special on tv. Thank goodness.

NaNoWriMo, TV, and Insurance

Well, I'm finishing the day at 31,901 - just above where I needed to be for Day 19 of this lovely NaNoWriMo. I'm going to do my best to keep the writing going during the week, so I don't have to do massive writing again next weekend.

I didn't go over to vanpool girl's house today. I just had too much I wanted to get done at home, including balancing the checkbook (done), paying bills (still need to do the bill part), writing on my novel (done), switching over my insurance and signing up for FSA (will do once blog post written - more on this below), and getting caught up on tv (more below). Plus, I just didn't want to leave the house today and have to get into outside clothes.

I just got through watching the last two episodes of Desperate Housewives. The one from 2 weeks ago - did that make anyone else emotional or was that just me? That's about all I watched today.

On the insurance and FSA thing, I'm going to switch over to the "better" insurance offered by company. It does actually look better. Also, we've decided to go ahead with a FSA, but not too high of one. We'll just save money for anything over what we are sitting up the FSA for. Though if things go as planned with this pregnancy, I'm sure we will use it all up. I don't want to think about if things don't go as planned.

We thought about having Jon set himself up with dual coverage by adding him to his work insurance, but we are going to wait to decide on that until after the ultrasound on the 27th. We'd wait to decide on the FSA until then too if my work would actually let us have until the end of the month - but no, we have until the 21st, which is just annoying.

Well, that's all for today.

Weird Al Video

If you like Weird Al and JibJab, they have put together this video mocking the American Idol guy's song called "Do I make you proud?" Weird Al's song is called "Do I creep you out?".

26,673 - Today's NaNoWriMo word count

I got quite a bit of writing on my novel done today. Thankfully, I'm over the halfway point and my story is not over yet (which is what I thought would happen). I'm still behind - I'm barely over what I needed to be for Day 16.

I wrote off and on during the day starting at 7:30 this morning when I couldn't get back to sleep after the PIO shot. I wrote for a while, then I went to go have breakfast and I finally got around to watching The Office. After that, I got ready to go run some errands after dropping Jon off at the school for his study group. I came back home and came upstairs to write some more until my mom called, and we chatted for a bit. Around this time, Apple Cup was starting, so I went downstairs to watch the game until it was time to pick up Jon.

We came back home and we watched the game, then I came upstairs again to write some more while the game was in the 4th quarter. I'm happy that I got to 26,673. I wrote just under 7500 words today. I just need to write 5000 words tomorrow in order to be where I need to be for tomorrow. I hope that I can get this done, but I may or may not be visiting vanpool girl tomorrow, so we'll see. And I really need to sit down and balance my checkbook.

I really need to try to write more during the week - it's just so hard because I come home all ready to go to bed. I'll try to write though. I feel like I need to finish for some reason.

Oh, and in case you don't know and even though you might not care, I still feel the need to share this news - the Huskies won! Woo! or should that be Woof!

Dentists

I've determined that if anyone ever wanted to get any information out of me, all they would have to do is perform dental work on me. I think I would crack under the pain of dental work.

They always seems so surprised when your gums start bleeding after they've poked you with the sharp metal stick. And this new water scraper thingy that they have does not make things better than if they just used the scraper thingy.

I think I gagged about 10 times...maybe that's an exaggeration, but barely. And what happened to my regular hygienist? I want her back! She may be a bubbly chatterbox, which usually I can't stand, but I like her! I was kinda excited to tell her about the pregnancy as I told her about the infertility.

She wasn't there today, so when they asked if anything was new, I just calmly said I was pregnant. The dentist seemed excited for me though and told me I'd be a great mom and that having kids was worth it. He said that even though you may not know what you are doing, there are always people there to help you out. That was kinda sweet. That doesn't make up for the torture though.

Friday's Ramblings

Once again, I didn't write anything on my "novel". I'm not sure if I even care about it anymore. I have other things on my mind right now.

Last night, I ran into Ally at the transit center. I told her I was going to Arby's because a roast beef sandwich sounded really good (and it does now too), so she decided to join me. That was a nice surprise - I was expecting to go home to eat my grub. I probably should have ate something at home, but I was seriously wanting that Arby's sandwich.

I got home, watched tv for a little over an hour, then felt it was time for bed. I tried to stay awake to watch The Office, but I was losing that battle once again. I went to bed at 8:30 (Jon decided that he would take the bus home so I didn't need to get up to go get him).

This weekend, I need to figure out what to do about FSAs and insurance coverage and what not since the deadline to change things, at least at my work, is the 21st. I asked for advice on the subject - I got some good advice, but I'm still unsure what to do.

I have to go to the dentist @ 3 today for a cleaning. I'm not looking forward to that. I really don't like going to the dentist, but I suppose it is for the best that I do.

Well, that's all I'm going to write about now. I should probably eat some lunch soon even though I have the least bit of interest in eating anything at the moment - well, except for that Arby's sandwich I mentioned above.

Oh, one last thing - my "baby" brother turns 18 today. Happy birthday, Ryan!!!

I told him he must go register to vote - I'm not sure if he will or not. I'm to look for books involving time travel or zombies for a birthday present for him - if anyone has any good ideas, let me know.

DVR, Weather & More

My DVR is seriously pissing me off. It turns off at random times, then comes back on 2 minutes later. So whatever I am recording at the time isn’t being recorded for those 2 minutes it is off. This happened 3 times last night. If it only happened last night (when we had a bit of rain and wind), then I would blame it on the weather, but it’s happened when it’s been a sunny day (like today is…at the moment). Stupid Comcast! Does this happen to anyone else? I'm annoyed that I may need to get yet another DVR.

Speaking of the crappy weather yesterday, it took my vanpool 1 hour and 15 minutes to get to the transit center and it took me another 15 minutes to get home from there.

So, once again, I didn't do anything with my "novel" - I just am too tired and lack any energy. I managed to stay awake to watch Tuesday night's The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. The Word on The Colbert Report was funny - it was about womb transplants. That's not the funny part. The funny part is if Republicans are so against stem cells and want "snowflake" babies to have a chance to be born, then perhaps, as some scientists have said is a possibility, those men should have womb transplants and carry those snowflake babies themselves. It was funny -funnier than I am making it here.

Another thing that a couple coworkers and I were just talking about - WTH is up with O.J. Simpson? "If" he had killed his wife and her friend, this is how he would have done it? What kind of sick mind does he have? This only makes me think even more that he did commit those murders (yes, I know, he was found innocent in a criminal trial). I feel bad for his children that they have a father like that. I'm still baffled that there are women out there willing to date him.

Oops

I forgot to blog yesterday. I had time to do so at work, but I forgot. I could have blogged last night after my support group meeting, but I forgot. I guess this means I don't win the prize. Oh well.

On a side note, I'm looking forward to the day (Dec. 18th - last day) I don't need to have the PIO shots. That is all.

Another Day

Well, another 2 weeks and I have my first ultrasound. I'm trying my best to be patient - really, I am. I'm also trying to be patient for some books I ordered from Amazon with my gift cert and some books I put on hold at the library. It keeps saying "in transit". Maybe something will come tomorrow.

What else to talk about? I probably won't write anything tonight for my novel. The vanpool girl cancelled on me tonight, which is just fine, since I needed to clean up the house a bit for my support group tonight and well, I'm so freaking tired. I really wish there was somewhere I could take a nap during lunch. I might get together with vanpool girl this weekend.

Jon didn't go to class tonight, which is nice since he's helping me clean up a bit.

Well, I think that's all I'm going to write about tonight. I need to find something to eat that sounds appetizing. I learned today that a chicken quesadilla make me feel nauseous and something someone was making in the break room really made me feel queasy. I need to find out what that thing is and try to avoid it.

Novel, Movie & New Blogs

Current word count for NaNoWriMo - 19,220. I think that will be it for the night even though I'm so close to where I should be for day 12. I may be able to catch up tomorrow. I'm supposed to be going over to vanpool girl's house to meet her baby for the first time, so I may not be able to, but who knows.

This afternoon, I went to go see Stranger than Fiction - it was a good movie. I really enjoyed it. Will Ferrell didn't play his normal character, which is cool. I did have a moment of a scare though toward the end of the movie - I started to cramp and I thought for sure this pregnancy was at its end. I went into the restroom, and everything was fine, but it scared me to think that something had happened. I guess it's just hard for me to let go of the feeling that something bad could happen at any moment - even though there are times that I feel extremely hopeful that I will be a mother soon.

One last thing I'd like to mention, My mom and my sister have both started blogs on blogger. My sister has a bit of a scare that is requiring a mammogram on the 27th (the same day as our ultrasound), but I'm sure everything will be fine. My mom, so far, has written about the bone scan she had the other day, her work, and housework that apparently no one can help her with - plus, some other stuff, including becoming a grandmother again (I hope).

Now, time for some dinner.

Nothing really

I didn't do any writing on my novel today. Perhaps tomorrow. I'm just not finding any motivation to write anything.

After Jon gave me the PIO shot this morning, we got up and went to go help a support group friend move a couch out of her house. I didn't really do much other than supervise and bring out a couple of the cushions. After that, we came home, ate breakfast, and I watched Grey's Anatomy from a couple weeks ago. Then I went with Paul & Ally to Urban Outfitters so they can get their Christmas tree, then we went to IKEA (I haven't been there since they expanded it and OMG - that thing is huge and tiring to walk around even more so than it was before). After that, we went over to Adam & Kendra's for dinner. I hope they don't think I was being anti-social. I just wanted to read this pregnancy book that Kendra had and then I was so freaking tired and starting to cramp a bit that I just wanted to lay down.

Anyway, we just got back and I need to go to bed. I just wanted to make sure I had one post done today for NaBloPoMo.

1898!!!

1898!!!

That's today's beta! OMG! So it appears that I am really pregnant! This is still so surreal for me. Is this really happening? It's funny in that the nurse was trying to be really nice and making small talk, and I just wanted the number! She was really nice about me being so anxious!

I was on the phone with a coworker up in Canada when my cell phone rang and I had to put him on hold so I could answer my cell phone since I knew it would be the clinic. I couldn't miss that phone call since I wanted to ask the nurse questions too. He was also very understanding.

Our first ultrasound is on November 27 @ 2 p.m. We will find out then if we have just one or two growing in there!

13,145 - NaNoWriMo Total for Day 9

I am a bit behind, but I did manage to write some words last night before deciding that IMing with my mom was more enjoyable. I didn't feel all too good last night. I'm not sure what's going on, but hopefully, it isn't anything bad. I was really tired last night, but I managed to stay awake to watch some tv before heading upstairs to write.

I'm completely anxious today waiting for the beta #s. The number should have at least doubled since Tuesday, if not more. I'm still feeling a bit nauseous, so I'll take that as a good sign that things are going o.k. They are supposed to call between 1 and 4. This day is not going fast enough.

Day 9

I did no writing yesterday either. I came home, ate some dinner, felt nauseous after eating dinner, fell asleep on couch for almost 1 1/2 hours, woke up to Tyra being annoying on America's Next Top Model, wanted to sleep some more, but I knew I needed to pick up Jon so I stayed awake. Luckily, he called at 8:45, so we got home early for a Wednesday - though I wanted to tell him about my day, so I didn't actually go to sleep until after 10.

Maybe I'll write something on my novel tonight if I can stay awake.

Nothing else to report. Not sure if I mentioned before, I don't feel like checking, I go to the RE's office again tomorrow morning for a follow-up blood test. Let's hope and pray that the HCG levels doubled like they are supposed to. I should know by tomorrow afternoon. I'll be at work too, so I really hope it's good news. I think it will be.

Well, anyway, it already feels like it is time to go to bed. How pathetic am I? And I asked if the [venus] girls wanted to hang out tomorrow night since Jon is having the guys over for some DND. Hopefully, I'll stay awake for that get-together. If I fall asleep, it has nothing to do with the [venus] girls ability to entertain me. Just wanted to warn them.

The Day After Election Day

Hopefully, I'll get around to writing on my novel tonight, but we'll see. I'm really tired right now. I don't know if I have the energy to write my novel, but maybe I'll be awake when I get home. I have other things I need to do tonight too.

My coworkers decorated my cube after I told them the news yesterday. They wanted me to call them with the news since they've heard me talk about this a lot lately. It was really surprising to see this, but I'm not sure if I wanted every employee at this company to know just yet!

So not only was yesterday the best election day for me personally, it was also a good election day for the Democrats. That's good. I'm glad that Santorum is out of the Senate - he really is insane. That just reminded me of all those ballot measures in differing states to ban same-sex marriage. Arizona is really close with 51% voting no and 49 % voting yes (so that one is still up in the air). South Dakota was close too with "yes" leading with 52% of the vote. Some states overwhelmingly voted to ban same-sex marriage. Something I just don't understand.

Glad to see the AZ $1 million dollar thing didn't pass. Do you really want people to vote just so they can win money? Most people who would vote to win money probably aren't educating themselves about the issue before they vote.

Also glad to see that South Dakota voted to not ban abortion and Missouri will allow stem cell research (though barely with Missouri).

Well, it is only 3:30 and it is time to go to bed. If only I didn't have to stay here until 4:30. I hope traffic is good today.

The Best Election Day EVER!!!

We got the results of our first beta this morning and it came back positive - REALLY positive. The nurse said it had to be above 50 and mine was at 476. I'm in complete shock right now.

I don't know if I'm going to be writing my novel today - I'm a bit distracted as you can imagine.

I need to go back in a couple days or so for another beta to make sure the number is doubling like it's supposed to.

Is this really happening?

NaNoWriMo Total for Day 6 is...

12,181. I'm above where I need to be for Day 6 and even above where I need to be for Day 7, so that's good as I don't know when I'm going to get around to writing again.

I am so tired right now. I went to bed at 8:15 last night, got up at 6, and I'm ready to go to sleep again. I've been ready for a while now, but I need to wait until after I bring Jon home from class.

Day 6

Nothing new to report on NaNoWriMo quite yet. Perhaps I'll write more a bit later. I just want to post something as I'm still doing that blog posting thing this month.

Oh, and it turns out the Blog thing for November is NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) not NaBloWriMo as I've been saying.

I voted yesterday and sent it off this morning. I'm curious to see how the election turns out - more in other states than my own. Though I am curious to see how much of the vote Linnea Noreen gets. I doubt there will be an upset over McDermott, but I hope she gets a good chunk of the vote tomorrow.

I also voted from Maria Cantwell. I can't stand Mike! McGavick. Speaking of, what is the deal with a couple Republicans using an exclamation point after their first name on their signs? Do they think that exclamation point will get them more voters? Wow, they used an exclamation point - that is amazing!

So tomorrow is the day that will either be good or bad - not because of the election - but because it is time to know if the IVF cycle worked this time or not. I really hope it did. I really don't want to do any more shots in my tummy. However, if the cycle did work and we are pregnant, we will need to continue with the progesterone in oil (PIO) shots until they tell us to stop, but those are done on the backside/hip area. Ugh - is it tomorrow already? I need it to be tomorrow.

Day 5

For NaNoWriMo, my word count is currently 10,292 words. I may or may not come back to it later. I'm trying to get a bit ahead because I won't be able to write anything on Tuesday because of my support group meeting that night. I plan to go no matter what the IVF results are. Either way, it's a good place to be. Jon will be in class that night, and I'd want to be around people.

A little later, I need to sit down with my absentee ballot and vote - because we get the IVF results on Tuesday afternoon, I am glad that I have the absentee ballot for this election. The last thing I would want to go do that day, especially if we get negative results, is to go vote. So, in this instance, yay for absentee ballots! I just hope my vote will be counted (in the last presidential election, I'm not sure if my vote was ever counted by King County).

Well, that's all I have for now. My tummy is really upset right now. I think I need to go lay down for a while.

NaNoWriMo Day 4 Word Count

Alright, I think I'm done for the day. I managed to get quite a bit of writing done today. Today's total is...7,389!!! That's above where I should be on Day 4. I hope to have another productive day tomorrow as I don't know how this week is going to go.

Another Day

Today is Day 4 of those Writing things I signed up for. I didn't write anything yesterday on my "novel", and I don't know when I'm going to be able to do today. I've got quite a few errands to run, and Jon tells me we're invited over to a friend's house tonight too.

I'll try to crank out a bunch of words tomorrow. With this novel writing thing, there is definitely no way I'm finishing 52 books this year. Oh well, I tried my best. Maybe I'll make it next year.

There's a book waiting for me at the library that I've been wanting to read - Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston. I read her other book, and this one looks interesting as it seems to be about a couple facing infertility and the problems infertility poses to their marriage.

Novel Writing & Ranting

Well, last night I really sat down to get to work on that novel of mine. My total number of words is now 2,481. Woo! I'm well on my way. Though I feel like my story is already about 1/3 over, so I'm not sure what to do about that. I'll probably add more later once I get the initial story out, I guess. Or maybe tell the story from another's point of view. Hmm, maybe I could do that.

My novel, so far, sounds horrible. I realize that NaNoWriMo is all about word count and not about writing the best novel there ever was, but I also realized yesterday that I am not a writer.

Hey, but I have no problem with finding random things to talk about on my blog for NaBloWriMo.

So someone at work asked me yesterday if I would be sad if this IVF cycle didn't work. What kind of question is that? Of course, I'd be sad! I'd be devastated. Even though we have 2 more fresh cycles we can do under the shared risk program, it is not something I really want to have to do again. I will though if I this cycle doesn't work.

One fellow blogger (in London) I've been chatting with over e-mail said her fertile friends said she had it easy resting during the 2ww (2 week wait for those not in the know). Yes, because everyone would like to go through fertility treatments to get pregnant because it is such fun. I'd much rather be oblivious to the possibility of pregnancy, rather than wondering during that wait if I am. Oh, and if you don't read my other blog, a coworker said to me yesterday to relax. Just so you know, us infertiles HATE that. Don't ever say that to someone who is going through infertility...EVER. Relaxing isn't going to change the problems that I have.

Anywho, enough ranting. Looking forward to this weekend even if I only get to sleep in an extra hour, but I will try to go back to sleep after the shot...though I wasn't that successful last week. Of course, last Saturday was the transfer.

NIAW & Resolve

Cindy Margolis, spokesperson for Resolve, is posing for Playboy. A portion of the proceeds is going to Resolve.

This week is also National Infertility Awareness Week. Although I'm not the best place to learn all about the feelings involved with infertility and the process involved with going through all the procedures, if you would like to learn more (at least about my own experience), feel free to read my other blog (which those of you reading this blog already do).

Day 2

Well, today is day 2 of NaBloWriMo, so here's my 2nd post of the month...

Last night, I went to go see Talladega Nights with a friend of mine from my support group. I was so happy she was willing to go with me to provide me a distraction before the big day of Tuesday (the day we find out if this IVF cycle worked or not). The movie was funny, especially the outtakes at the end during the credits. It was a welcome distraction. I appreciate distractions.

Tonight, I'm hoping my participation in NaNoWriMo will provide me some distraction. I wrote 70 words last night (I wrote a bit when I came back home before Jon called for a ride home from class). On the ride into work this morning, I wrote down some thoughts on how I'd like this story to go. I'm finding that I'm forgetting the dialogue between my characters and tend to just write a narration from the perspective from my main character. My hope tonight is that I can add some dialogue to make this more of a novel than a James Frey-type memoir where some things are true, but other things are made up. I want it to seem all made up - though that's hard since I'm writing on a topic that's on the top of my mind - infertility.

Oh, at the movie last night, we saw a preview for Borat. It looks hysterical. I may have to go see it for a distraction this weekend...unless I'm too wrapped in my future award-winning novel. ;-D

Another movie that looks good is Stranger than Fiction, but I think that comes out on the 10th.

NaBloWriMo Day 1

Today is Day of NaNoWriMo and NaBloWriMo! Here is my Day 1 post for NaBloWriMo!

So in an effort to keep myself occupied and keep my mind off the whole - "will it be positive and thus, we will be so incredibly happy, or will it be negative and thus, we will be so incredibly devasatated?" question - I'm going to go see a movie tonight at the Crest with a support group buddy. I am so happy she said she would go see the movie with me because, like I said, I need to keep myself occupied and distracted. We're going to see Talladega Nights. She is the one that actually found a comedy at a theatre to go see - and it's at the "cheap" theatre!

Today is also my dad's birthday and even though I don't think he reads my
blog(s) - Happy Birthday, Dad!!! He's 54 today! I just got off the phone with him and he says he is taking some card dealing class so he can be a card dealer at the bowling alley he works at. Oh, and guess what else, he still is working at Hooters - in their casino, so don't get the wrong idea! But I guess I can still crack that joke about him wearing the skimpy clothing! Hee!

Well, anywho, that's all I have for today. Be sure to come back tomorrow for another exciting post! :-D