I'm Edumacated

I just took a test to determine what level of education is necessary to understand my blog and got this result. So either I'm very smart or my writing is so awful that it takes an advance college degree to understand me.

You Know What's Not Fun at 3:30am?

Finding out that your waterbed is leaking. The mattress is nearly 10 years old, and it's the second leak for no apparent reason in a few months. So I guess we'll be forking out the money for a new one. The good news was that Jeramy had cleared a big pile of crap off the bed so that the spare room could be inhabitable for any guests after our party. Any other night we would have been fighting over who got the couch.

I do have to admit that one of the bonuses of my birthday was that it made us clean up our house. We have a few rooms that get little usage and instead act as a magnet for junk we don't want to throw out but don't want to organize either. As a kid my parents would throw a party for their friends about once a year, and that was the only event that ever triggered our cleaning the house. When my sister and I were teenagers, they would go out of town and leave us a substantial sum of money for food. We'd buy beer with it, clean the house and throw a party. They knew what we were going to do, but we never articulated it in advance. They were always just happy that we cleaned up the house.

I swore that I'd never fall into such habits as an adult. But obviously I've failed.

Happy Birthday to Me

30. Wow. When I was 20, I imagined 30 very differently. I thought of 30 as old. Much older than I feel now. When I was a teenager I remember parents in their thirties as being very unhip, lacking style and out of touch. But those are not words I would use to describe the parents I know in their thirties now. At 30, I did not think people would still refer to me as the kid. I didn't think that I'd encounter situations where people doubted my capability or knowledge because I was so young. But then again I always thought I'd look 30 at 30, and that hasn't quite happened either (but that is not necessarily bad). At least I won't have to go on that Look 10 Years Younger show on TLC any time soon.

I thought that at 30, I would have 2 young kids, an amazing career, and a stay-at-home dad husband. But it took us longer than we expected to feel "ready" to have children. Then we put it off another couple of years so that I could get my master's degree. And then we spent the last year trying. Oh and the idea that Jeramy would be a stay at home dad was pure craziness. It turns out that construction workers can make as much or even more money than individuals with advanced college degrees. I do have a good career though. Amazing might be too extreme an adjective. But I've come to learn that I don't really want to be defined by my career, so perhaps this is less important to me now than it was even just a year ago.

It is just so interesting how our perspective changes so much with time. In so many ways life has gone exactly how I planned it. But then again in some ways it hasn't. But of course, if I've learned anything during my tenure as a 29 year-old it is that not everything in life goes as planned.

Definitely NOT a Lazy Saturday

Well if last Saturday was a lazy one, yesterday was anything but. It started off with dropping Cujo off at the vet for his semi-annual exam. Then I had to run back home so that Jeramy and I could go into Seattle for the IUI. It went well, and I had much less cramping this time than I did last time. Now its just back to waiting. After that it was time to watch the Seahawks game...we won despite some nail biting moments! Then we had about 40 people over for my birthday where I took my friends up on their advice about drinking and conceiving.

Anyhow if I can just come out of my post-party foggy state, I'll be in a much better place.

Primed and Ready to Go

My CD12 ultrasound was this afternoon, and apparently letrozole works faster than clomid for me. Here are the stats:

• Lining: 7.2mm (They told me this is on the lighter side but adequate. Any thoughts on this?)
• Right Side: a few follies with the largest being 21.5mm
• Left Side: one follie of 13mm

So they gave me the trigger shot, and we scheduled the IUI for late tomorrow morning. It's going to be a crazy 24 hours as I need to get home and clean the house tonight, get the IUI tomorrow morning, watch the Seahawks game tomorrow afternoon, and then have a bunch of friends tomorrow night over for my 30th birthday party. Phew!

Go Seahawks!

Just a quick post to say Go Seahawks! Playoffs start tomorrow and it is imperative (in my mind at least) that we clobber those Redskins! It's a home game so the 12th Man will be in the game although I'll be viewing from the comfort of my living room.

Oh and here is a pic of what I'll be wearing during the game. Our good friends gave me my birthday present early so I'd have it for the playoffs. I'm loving it as I am all about having the pink version of everything...I even have a pink fishing vest.

Flashback Wednesday

To kick off the new year, I thought I'd take us back nearly 10 years for a wedding photo. Yup, 10 years. I can hardly believe it myself. How is it that it seems like we met only yesterday but at the same time it feels like we've always been together.