Throwback Thursday

I decided to start this after reading about it on the Pink & Blues blog so here is my first submission for the Throwback Thursday -



If you look in the lower righthand corner you'll spot my sister Karolina holding me.

Now I bet you are wondering what the hell this is a picture of. Unless you happened to attend PS 186 - then you obviously know its from the dance festival. I'm estimating this to be circa 1986 or 1987. Now wtf is a dance festival?

Basically each grade k-3 would do these big circle dances in the school yard wearing coordinating outfits while all the parents came and watched. I remember doing it to such gems as - East Side West Side and of course, C&C Music Factory - Everybody Dance Now! Ahhh, the memories.

I swear, I'm alive

So, there once was this girl who had very, very good intentions of starting a blog and keeping it updated. Then for some reason she decided to make 3 cross country trips in 2 weeks followed by a weekend with her nieces and realized her blog sucks now because of it.

Quite honestly since we left for Mississippi on June 26 my life has been a whirlwind. I've spent more time in a car, airport or plane than any person should ever have to. Since I know that no one wants a big drawn out entry to read through I will shoot you the highlights.

The Keys were hands down the best part of our summer. Joey and I were desperate for a vacation and this surpassed our expectations. We got to snorkel above a coral reef, Joey caught Blue Crabs with his hands, we canoed through the canals, spent time with family. Every moment was memorable and we definitely plan on returning. I'll upload the good pictures after I pull them off Joey's camera. My camera drowned while we were at Bahia Honda so....I'll be getting a new camera this weekend!

This is me getting licked by a Key Deer. They are tiny and oh so adorable!

Our gorgeous view!

The Monday after the Keys I had an appointment with my new Ob/Gyn and what an amazing difference it was from my previous Dr. He spent about 20 minutes talking to me initially. Got my whole history, asked a ton of questions and really got to know everything that was going on with me. Some of the reassuring things he told me were - technically it hasn't been a year we have been trying to conceive with no results.

It's actually 12 cycles without a result that they start to get concerned and due to my longer cycles I actually have another 6 months before they would start to worry. He said to continue with the OPK's and really pay attention to any changes with my body around that time. Since I had already scheduled an RE appointment he is not going to do any bloodwork. He saw no reason to run all of the same tests twice and said the RE I chose was really good. He thinks that she will probably just place me on some Clomid, if she'll do anything to just push my ovulation up earlier rather than CD 24. I was so happy with how thorough he was.

I was also there due to the cyst followup. He scheduled another ultrasound which I will do Saturday but he also did a pelvic exam - which my previous gyn did not do. He felt another cyst (or possibly the same one?) on my right ovary. Only about 2cm and he felt it was benign. I went ahead and asked him if he felt I could be polycystic since I still have the cyst or another cyst and he didn't think so. I don't exhibit any of the symptoms of insulin resistance. I weigh 98 lbs at 5' tall and my cycles are regular just longer. He said the cyst is probably just a byproduct of the longer cycles. Then he asked me if I had any other questions or if he needed to explain anything else. He must have spent an hour with me in total!

So the next day I flew out to Houston after a 3 HOUR delay at the airport for a food show. I finally made it to my hotel at 8pm. The next two days flew by as we were setting up for the show, attending the dinner, working the show (a 10 hour day!!) and then finally break down and a well deserved dinner out at Flemings. Friday saw me with more delays at the airport and an Olympic sprint through the Atlanta airport to make my connection. I finally got in and picked my nieces up to take them home with me for the weekend since I had been promising it for ages. My house was a complete and total disaster after leaving Joey there alone for 4 days. I wanted to cry when I saw it!

I had my Ultrasound Saturday morning which did show a cyst about the size of a grape. I haven't heard anything else from the Dr's office so we'll see what they say about it. I started the Fertility Blend and Dong Quai again in hopes that this gets rid of the cyst like it did last time. I went back to sleep when I got back home since the girls were still sleeping and then it was off to my mom and dad's for some pool and beach time. Once we got back home the girls and I did some crazy Libby Lou hair dos and rented a movie.

On Sunday we headed over to the Springs to celebrate my hubby's 31st birthday. Karolina and Shane joined us and we all had a blast. I had woken up early to bake him a cake and then picked up all the snacks and drinks for the cookout. Once we got to the springs Karolina and I realized the water was way too cold so I rented inner tubes and we floated on those so we wouldn't have to touch the water. Joey declared it was too cold to even get near and decided to man the grill instead. After that we went home, ate some cake, everyone left and Joey and I spent a few hours talking and really planning things out. Its taken Joey a long time to get comfortable with opening up to me and knowing he can count on me so each time we have these moments they are really special to me.

Monday saw me back in the office (Boo). Joey and I went out to dinner to celebrate his birthday that evening and then we crashed - hard. Yesterday was the hubby's 31st so we celebrated by... going grocery shopping and cleaning the house. Lol. There was Steak for dinner and all Joey did was mop and that was by his choice.

Today I will tackle a mountain of laundry and hopefully go to bed earlier.

Less than 2 weeks to our RE appointment! Woo Hoo!

KEYS bound

I'll be MIA for the weekend since we are heading down to Marathon Key tonight to spend the 4th with my family at a friends house down there. Go ahead, be jealous - I would be! I promise lots of pics and funny stories upon my return!

Wordless Wednesday

Home Sweet Home...or else

So as I mention in our description - we would like to buy a house this year. I don't know how it happened but somehow half the year had passed and still no house.

All the money I had been saving for that down payment....the Chevy dealership now has it since we had to get Joey a new vehicle back in April. (I still don't understand why he couldn't keep driving the Saturn - it was just missing a window, had no AC or radio, and overheated after backing out of the driveway) Don't even get me started on his "project Jeep" that was supposed to replace the Saturn. After pouring somewhere around $2500 into the money pit, it blew a rod through the engine on the first test drive and is now once again sitting in our driveway - immobile.

So as I said before - I have to buy a house this year and it is almost July already. I've made it my mission to save up enough for a down payment and closing costs by the end of September - its going to be tough and all my luxuries will be out the window but so worth it in the end. The two huge reasons I want to do this now are A) The government is going to rape us on our taxes if we don't buy a house since we make too much (according to them - I beg to differ) and we don't have anything to write off and B) I don't want to miss out on that $8,000 credit for first time homebuyers.

I'm somewhat obsessed with the idea now. I peruse realtor.com and zillow. I take winding drives home from work so I can scope out the for sale signs. I've held off on using up the rest of my Pier 1 gift card since I want to use it for the new house. Did I mention yet I don't have the down payment saved up? That I haven't even gotten preapproved for a mortgage yet. I figure these are all minor details. We all know the important factors here are window shopping homes, decorating and the dreaming stage. I figure once I buy a house its going to be a long time before I can even consider getting into another one so I may as well enjoy the process.

Anyone have a nice 4/2 in the historic section of Deland for around $100,000 they'd like to sell me with no down payment? :)

Till next time,

The Revolt began...

Anyone who has a cat as a pet knows that the sayings "Dogs have owners. Cats have staff" or " You don't own your cat. The cat owns you. And the cat owns the house. You just pay the mortgage" knows that both statements are unequivocally true.

Well the revolt began in my house this morning. It came on out of nowhere. Meet your opponents:

Joey
vs.


Cadillac

Now - I don't have all of the details as the fight went down around 5am and I woke up around 6ish to cleanup the aftermath. I don't know what Joey did to provoke the revolt but.....it must have been a huge transgression like disrupting Cadillac's 23.5 hours of sleep per day or heaven forbid - not letting him into the garage.

All I do know is I was woken up at 5:30am to the sound of my house falling down around me. It literally sounded as if someone had dropped every kitchen plate, glass, bowl etc onto our tile floor. I decided I didn't want to deal with it yet and rolled over to snag another half hour of sleep. I vaguely remember Joey saying something like our animals re going insane as he kissed me and left for work.

I walked into the living room around 6 and realized that everything that is usually stacked on top of our tv - cable box, dvd player, photos, knick knacks etc was gone. My first thought was "Were we robbed?" Then I realized that maybe they would have taken something more valuable than the cable box and $20 dvd player so I peeked behind the tv.... and saw all 8,478 things from the top of the tv piled down there.

"Hmm...so that explains the noise..."

At this point Cadillac wanders out to watch me pick up each and every knick knack, electronic device, and on and on while licking himself and looking oh so innocent. After surveying the damage and noticing limited breakage I decided to let this one go...

but if it happens again I'm following through with my threat to bring a cute cuddly kitten into the house and making him compete for attention!

I can't believe the nerve....

So remember that Dr appt with the ob/gyn that I had been looking forward to since May? The one that was already rescheduled once and was supposed to happen today? The appointment that was super important to me since this makes a year I'm off bcp and I wanted to know what steps we need to take next in order to get moving on the baby making business? Well guess who calls me this morning to reschedule again?

Needless to say I was very upset since I rearranged work and other appointments to squeeze this into my schedule. They then had the audacity to suggest they could send me somewhere else for my ultrasound and then I could come back to meet with the doctor once the results were in. Pay my copay twice because of their errors? No thanks! I informed them I was just going to find a different provider instead.

Searched around, read some reviews, and I have an appt scheduled for 7/9 with a new Dr. who will hopefully be more professional and will get the ball rolling for us since I am more than ready for some babies.

Wish me luck!