I got nothing

This post is going to be random blabs. I have nothing really specific to talk about. But I feel like blogging...

Baby making: Is it ever going to happen again? I know the first time we were spoiled. Getting KU on the first try. That hardly ever happens but it did for us and so did a miscarriage. Well damn it, that was a long time ago. Isn't it time for us to be pregnant again? I'm saying yes. Yes it is. I'm getting tired of charting, and peeing on things, and stressing out, and waiting to ovulate and waiting to test and over analyzing symptoms that don't mean anything. Its getting old. I feel guilty that I feel this way. I feel like Nathan and I should be enjoying this phase of our lives. But I don't. At all. I want it to be over. I want to be pregnant, picking out nursery stuff and watching Nathan put together baby furniture. Instead I'm waiting to lay an egg.

Christmas: Bittersweet. My parents came to spend a couple days with us before the apartment packing begins. We had a good time. Slept in. Watched movies. The norm. On Friday, my Grandma calls as tells us that my Aunt's FIL had a heart attack and passed away. We were supposed to go to the big family get together today but we cancelled it.

Sad Movie: Okay so I knew Marley&Me was going to be a tear-jerker, but holy cow, seriously. I couldn't take it. I was doing the ugly cry for the last 40 minutes of the movie. All of this crying was taking place while sitting next to Loud Licorice Chewer Guy who felt in necessary to slurp every last drip of soda out of his cup. Rude. Do you really need to do that? When you get the liter of cola, don't you get free refills? Since it was Christmas I decided not to say anything to him. Tis the season and all...

Home Ownership: I'm getting nervous. We close on the 31st. I'm so excited but all I keep thinking about is if the sellers are going to change their mind. I know they can't. But what if there is some loophole that I don't know about. Nathan tells me that I need to relax. I won't be relaxed until I clean the stranger germs out of our house, our things are unpacked and our furniture is arranged. Then I think I'll be able to relax. We'll see.

One Christmas Down, One To Go.

Nathan and I got back from our first round of holiday goodness. It was so relaxing. We left last week and spent five days with his family. We baked, ate, drank and ate some more. I loved it. My parents are coming here on Christmas Eve and leaving sometime Christmas night. We are going to do the normal stuff - eat breakfast, open presents, and then we're going to see Marley and Me.

Baby News: I'm waiting to O. I should be laying an egg sometime this weekend. I hope.

House News: We are still scheduled to close on the 31st. The sellers want to move it up a day but we don't think that the underwriters will have everything done a day early. We'll see. I'm getting so excited. Everything is going as planned

Did she really just do that?

I got punched in the nose by a three year old today. WTF. She pinched a little boy and I was telling her that we don't pinch other people. I got down on my knees while I was talking to her and after I told her that she needed to go sit down for a little bit she punched me. And then called me stupid. Wonderful. I wanted to cry. It hurt.

Positive note: Inspections on our house are all set for tomorrow at 9am. One step closer to closing:)

I was tagged!

I just realized I was tagged by Our life in a nut shell... a month ago. I'm awful. Hopefully tags don't expire!

Rules:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Share 7 random and/or weird facts about you.
3. Tag 7 random people at the end, and include links to their blogs.
4. Let each person know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs.

1. My brother lives with Nathan and I. Some people think this is weird, I think its fabulous.
2. When Nathan and I first met we decided to be "boyfriend/girlfriend" right away. I freaked out and broke up with him at an IHOP. As a result he hasn't eaten in an IHOP since. Lucky for me I came to my senses.
3. My favorite way to relax is to groom my husband. Plucking his eyebrows, inspecting his biore nose strip and giving him a manicure. When I get really stressed he'll say, "Do we need to have torture time?"
4. When I drink beer I drink Blue Moon with an orange. If I don't have oranges then I can't drink it.
5. Before I can study, I have to make sure my bed is made and the dishes are done. I can't concentrate if I know there is a mess somewhere.
6. I'm really jumpy and easily scared. I watched Strangers a little while ago. The next morning I was taking a shower and Nathan came in the bathroom, flung open the shower curtain and did the "Psycho" reee, reee reee thing. He scared me so bad that I peed in the shower.
7. Most times when I make chocolate chip cookies, we end up eating lots of dough. By the time were finished we sometimes don't even have a dozen cookies in the jar.

I tag Mrs.Pinks Life, Baby makes 3!! , Lets make a mini Pingers (o, Whatever Happens, Happens , The Honey Pot , The Wait for Lil G , and speak of the indescribable

On to another cycle...

AF came yesterday so its onto another cycle. I was bummed out at first but I didn't let it bother me too much. I think I'm settling down about TTC. I know it's going to happen when its supposed to. Nathan and I are going to keep doing what we're doing - I'm okay with that.

Rollercoaster

So I thought that we had the house deal all said and done. Turns out I was wrong! My agent calls me and leaves a message while I was at work, driving a school bus! So it wasn't like I could check my messages right away. As it turned out another couple put a bid in on the house after we had a verbal agreement established. Iowa law says that the agent has to show the seller all offers until an offer has been signed and agreed upon. WTH. All the offer needed was my effing initials. I was hauling kids around. I didn't have time to initial anything until 5pm. Geesh. As it all turned out, we did get the house! The other offer wasn't as fabulous as ours. Now the papers are all initialed and signed and I can rest easy. Holy cow. What a day.

Woop! Woop!

OH MY GOODNESS! I AM SO EXCITED! We are under contract! Our agent called this morning. Literally as I was walking in to take one of my finals. I had to take the call because I knew I would be thinking about the voicemail sitting in my inbox instead of concentrating on my exam. So the sellers countered again but they finally went down a little bit. Thank God. Nathan (that's my DH) and I said we wouldn't go over a certain price and the counter was 500 under what we didn't want to go over! We close December 31st. I'm so excited. I have to call my Mom.

Almost Finished

So next Monday is my last day of class for the semester. Thank God. I need a break. I think I subconsciously love to stress myself out. This past week has been loaded.

Baby News: 11 dpo, I started testing yesterday. Bad I know. I can't help it. On Monday, BFN. This morning, BFN i think. It was a dollar tree test so I don't know what to think. I should have taken a pic of it but I didn't. The test area had a blob of pink. It wasn't a line. And the control showed up fine. I'm thinking it was just a bad test. I peed on it, took a shower, then read it. It was probably longer than ten minutes so yeah. I'll keep testing until AF shows up because I'm a spaz, a little

House News: We found another house and put in an offer. Our agent negotiated tonight. They countered, we countered they countered again, we countered again. Then they told our agent that they had to go to their kids Christmas show. Their agent is calling ours in the morning with the news. We'll see how it goes.

Weight loss News: Herbalife shakes make me gag. I've decided that I'm not going to drink them until I find out if I'm KU this cycle. If I'm not, then I won't have an excuse not to finish out the container. Once the mix is all gone, I'm not ordering anymore. There I said it. That feels good.

Work News: My manager is still a moron however I was impressed with her a little yesterday. We have this horrid teacher who is like a drill sargent with the kids. The only reason they listen to her is because they're afraid of her. Well I don't know all the details but she was fired. Finally. Everyone is pretty shocked but it was a long time coming. Props to my boss for finally growing a pair.

A fantastic women I know from back home has an Etsy shop that I found today. She makes funky artsy jewelry and I love it. Her shop is called VernonBea ( VernonBea.etsy.com) if anyone is interested.

Must get in shape!

Today I started Herbalife. I used this method of weight loss before and had great results. Unfortunately I wasn't committed and went back to my bad habits after I lost what I thought was enough weight. Of course I gained all the weight back and then some. After looking at the pictures that were taken of me this weekend at Thanksgiving, I realized that I had to do something. I hardly recognized myself. I look so puffy and I hate it.

I did really well today. I had my shakes, took my vitamins, had a satisfying dinner, did my workout and drank all my water. I don't feel hungry. Overall it was a really good day.

Here's hoping that tomorrow matches up!

Thought of the day:
People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. They therefore remain bound.
James Allen

I refuse to remain bound!

Lovely

::::::::Heavy Sigh::::::::::

So the past week hasn't really been the greatest.

Baby Update: I'm not growing a baby yet. BFN last week followed by my fabulous AF on Friday. Just in time to accompany me on my 8 hour car ride to MI to visit the ILs. Wonderful. Positive note: I get to use my free CBEFM that I got from a lady at work this cycle. So far I've peed on two sticks. I'm on CD7.

House Update: What the F. I hate waiting. This whole short sale business is like the biggest joke in the whole world. Short for who? Well we finally found out, at 10:17am this morning to be exact, that the bank accepted the offer but they aren't willing to pay 3% at closing. So, now we have to decide if we are willing to fork out all that money ourselves. Hmmm. They made us wait 2 weeks, we only have 2 days to make our decision.

In spite of all the crappiness that has consumed my past couple of days, I have to say that my Hubs has done his best to make me not so blah. He gave me a hand massage last night while we chatted about everything not baby or house related. I love him.

Funniest thing happened at work today

So there is this little girl at my center who is too cute. She is always in a sunny mood and talks nonstop. I love her. Everyday she wears her hair in two pigtail style french braids. Then on Fridays she likes to let loose and just wear regular pigtails. The pigtails are always all crimpy from the braids. I'll call her Lisa. Lisa is friends with this other little girl who is also a cutie but has a huge attitude. She throws fits and ya know regular 5 year old stuff. I'll call her Sarah. Well this morning, Lisa walks in to the center with her face all scrunched up not wearing her usual Friday fun pigtail hairdo. I tell her good morning and she responds with a short "hi". She hung up all of her things and without eating breakfast first, walked right over to Sara.

Lisa says in the most somber voice you can imagine coming out of a kindergartner "Sara, I have something to tell you.

Sara: What?

Lisa: I do not want to be friends with you anymore.

Sara: But Lisa we pinkie swore.... (sticks lip out and starts to pout)

Lisa: I am taking that pinkie sware back and I'm giving it to someone else.

Lisa flicked her braid off of her shoulder and went and ate breakfast. Sara ran over to her cubby and started bawling.

I looked at Lisa and she looked and me and says, "Sorry, I don't know what else to tell her. Maybe she'll be nicer to other people now."

It took everything I had not to roll on the floor laughing! It was too funny. After she had her confrontation she was back to her regular old self.

Here is an update I have on our house: No new news. Ugh. Stupid short sale. Stupid bank making up there own timeline. Annoying realtor for not telling us that this could happen. I know we'll find out but its just another waiting game that I have to deal with.

TTC Update: Still in the 'effing TWW. Boobs are sore. I had faucet ass throughout the day. That was a treat. Oh the joys of phantom symptoms.

So Anxious!

Tomorrow we are supposed to hear back from the seller about our house. Not exactly ours yet but I have faith that everything is going to work out.

So my pets this week are really stressing me out! First it was Lucy and her gross ear. Then last night, I was petting my cat and I found an effing flea! Where there is one there is a ton right!? He is an inside cat so that means that Lucy brought them in. I'm sure that she has them too. Damn it. I had to give the cat a bath. That was a treat. DH bathed Lucy. At least I didn't have to do them both.

On a positive note, my jeans came today in the mail. Oh how I love Gap Long and Lean. Totally hilarious though. I not lean and I'm far from long. Whatever they fit like a glove and I love them so that's all that matters.

I'm excited for the weekend. I'm not really doing much. DH has to work. I'll have the place to myself. I'm thinking I'm going to have a girlie night and give myself a mani-pedi and a facial. Maybe even get some wine too. I have some havarti and some pears that are begging for some wine. Anything to keep my mind off of the tww.

Yay for Hump Day!

I took Lucy to the vet this morning. And like I thought, she has a yeast infection in her left ear and a bonus, mixed with a bacterial infection too:( Poor girl. We have to put this goop in her ear twice a day and she hates it. The vet also suggested we put her on a benadryl regimen to help with her foot chewing. Hopefully it helps.

I am so glad that the election is over but now I'm depressed. I'm a republican and my man didn't win. My only positive thought about the whole thing is - can it really get any worse than it already is? I don't think so but we'll have to wait and see. I send my congrats to Pres elect Obama and to his family. Do us well Obama.

By 9:00am, two minutes ago. The seller received our offer. I hope they except. My stomach is going to be in knots until we hear something.

Here is a little tid bit I got in my inbox this morning.
You were born to win,
but to be a winner you must plan to win,
prepare to win,
and expect to win.
Zig Ziglar

I want a blog too!

So after many months of reading/stalking numerous GPer blogs, I decided that I want one too! I need an outlet other than DH and my mom that doesn't judge me for what I'm thinking or feeling. Okay so readers of my blog may judge but at least I won't hear them.

It's election day today. Thank God! I am going to be so happy when all of the candidate's ads stop. I can't take it. I think what bothers me the most is that the ads are what some people base their votes on! Anyway, I sent in my ballot last week. I did my part. May the best man win.

On a more personal note. DH and I are putting in an offer on what I hope to be our very first home. I'm so excited! The house is perfect for us. Its a bi-level straight out of the 70's but I love it:) I already have all of the decorating planned out in my head. I so hope that we get it.