bed time.

I finished my homework last night but then I couldn’t sleep. I was still awake at 2 am and had to be at work at 7:30 as usual, which sucked. I went to darts with Firefly tonight, though, which was fun. They won 5 of the 7 which is very cool, and I did in fact get to watch most of the hockey game. We had to leave before it was over to hurry home so Firefly could get to work, but we listened to the end on the radio and got to hear them win.

I took my math quiz when I got home. I didn’t do quite as well as the last four, but still got 10 out of 12–and the class average was noticeably lower on this one as well, so I don’t feel too bad.

I got my computer back at work this morning. My boss made a bet with me yesterday that I wouldn’t get it back today but I had faith in my tech guys, so now he owes me a soda. He was shocked when I was back up and running at my own desk by 10 am. I was having some issues with the network disconnecting me this afternoon but I think they were working on the system. A little frustrating since pretty much all of my work is online, but I managed to finish everything and only stayed over an hour, which I’ll get at time and a half to use later. I’m hoping that I can get everything done quickly tomorrow, and I expect that I will barring any major catastrophes. If so I’ll be able to make it down to the school to meet with my old professor.

Also tomorrow: U/S.

Now: bed.

grrrr.

Today sucked. I got to work and suddenly a program that I need decided it didn’t want to run anymore. It was working fine when I left on Friday so I called in our tech, and it turns out they had tried to automatically update my system because they inexplicably had me grouped in with another department. For some reason, however, the update wasn’t working. So he worked on it for a while, then left and said he’d come back in the afternoon. He still couldn’t get it up and running and thought it was a problem with my hard drive, so he just took my entire computer.

That left me with a computer that hasn’t been used since my former office mate left over a year ago and the crappy computer that’s slow as hell and is only there for other staff to use if they don’t have access to a computer in their department. I tried to use my old office mate’s station, which of course had been working fine while the tech guy was in there earlier, but it kept freezing up so I tried the crappy computer. Same thing. So I didn’t get nearly what I wanted to finished and it really cut into the time I had today to work on things. I just want my computer back.

I’m now trying to finish up my homework for the week. It’s due by midnight tomorrow, but I really want to go with Firefly to her dart game so I wanted to get it done tonight. They’re playing against a friend of ours at our favorite local bar, so I’d get to hang out with friends and probably watch the hockey game since the owner is rather likely to tune in to the game for me. I’m really hoping I can at least get this one thing done today. I suppose I could still go even if I don’t finish since my lowest two quizzes and homework assignments are dropped, but I’d rather not do that.

I was also hoping to go meet up with an old professor of mine on Thursday to talk about my portfolio since I still don’t really have any idea what I’m doing for my presentation, but she only has office hours from 4:30-5:30, and since I’m so behind today I’m guessing I’ll get stuck over at work for the next two days–especially since I’ll be leaving for part of the day for the U/S on Thursday. She emailed me and told me to call her at home today to chat, but no one answered when I phoned.

Poo. Poo, I say.

back to it.

I’m leaving a trail of glitter everywhere I go.

It’s kind of fun, actually, even though it means a bit of extra mess. Firefly got me a team jersey for Chr.istmas that is, shall we say, a bit girly. Not pink (although not true team colors either), but definitely glittery. I wore it tonight while we watched the game, and walking through the house now it’s very clear where I’ve been.

I go back to work tomorrow, and although it’s been nice to have the extra day off the short work week means I’ll have a lot to do in fewer days. Not so bad when it’s an off week, but this is not one of those. Thursday we have the U/S so I’ll be cutting into my time a bit there as well–although by that point I should just be finishing things up, and Friday the system will be shut down so that should make for a pretty laid back day. Hopefully everything looks good at our appointment and we’ll be set for a Saturday insem.

But I’m trying not to think about that too much. I should get back to my homework.

all about babies.

We had a good time at the baby shower–or I did at least, I suppose I shouldn’t speak for Firefly where these things are concerned. We played a fun game that was basically a whi.te elep.hant exchange, where they dealt out a deck of cards to everyone and when one of your cards was drawn you either picked a wrapped gift from a basket or took someone else’s. I got a deck of cards and a turtle water temperature tester–which will come in handy once we have a baby of our own, and I collect turtles so in the meantime it’s being added to the mix.

I also won the baby food tasting contest, which was the only thing we played that was a normal shower game. I got two decks of cards for that one. Firefly game in second. She got a word game that we were told one of us should take because it was called something about beavers and was basically a generic Ma.dlibs.

Other than that it was a lot of hanging out and chatting with folks. I realized, though, that I should have taken Spider her birthday present since the party was at her house, and we forgot about it the last time she was over. Oh, well. It’s only a few weeks late.

I’m going to apologize in advance because I know mommy-to-be follows this blog, but I must admit that I was a bit jealous seeing all of the cute baby clothes and blankets and such. Don’t get me wrong, I’m thrilled for her and her husband, but I’m ready for the next step on our journey. Soon. Very, very soon.

good times

We had an awesome time at the game (we won!) and at the show. There was a party afterward to celebrate a birthday, so we decided to stick around for a while and didn’t end up leaving until around 2:30 in the morning, but we had a great time. Needless to say we slept in rather late, but when I got up I got this:

All dark chocolate. My wife knows me so well. She was a little worried because she dropped the box when she got it yesterday, but although a few of them are a little cracked they’re still beautiful and delicious. I gave Firefly a card and a new hat for our hockey team, which she loves–and if you know her and her hat collection you know it was the perfect gift. She loves the design, which of course makes me very happy.

weekend outlook.

I’m really looking forward to the weekend, starting tomorrow. I’m meeting a friend briefly after work to help her out with something, and then I’m heading home to get Firefly. We’re going to see a hockey game, then we’re planning to head over to the theatre for a late night show. It should be fun.

She has to work on Saturday night, which puts a bit of a damper on the day, but I think she’ll really like the gift I have for her even though it’s small. I hope she really likes it. I would tell you what it is, but she reads this here blog and, well, I’d like it to be a surprise. I think it’s the perfect thing for her, though.

Sunday I’ll be sleeping in with her, and then we have a baby shower for my ex to attend in the afternoon. It’s a party for everyone with some fun people, so Firefly shouldn’t be bored with all the overly girly stuff that sometimes goes with these events. That’s one thing she definitely won’t be looking forward to when we’re finally expecting our own little one. I’m not sure what plans we have for the rest of the day, but there’s a sale on paint at the hardware store so we may be attempting to make a decision on color and picking that up. We’ll see. We need to pull the tile out and look at it with the chips we got.

Monday is a holiday, so I’ll be off work. Another day of sleeping in with my wife, and I’ll probably spend some time doing homework. Not the most exciting day, but it’ll be nice to spend it at home.

hello, wind.

We’re having some crazy weather here tonight. I’m sitting in my living room on my laptop, but it sounds like I’m in the middle of a wind tunnel. Crazy, and I’m not sure I’ll be able to sleep. I keep hearing things outside, and I’ve already had to go out and rescue our trash bin from running away into the neighbor’s yard–which is saying a lot since it’s one of those big ones on wheels that’s nearly as tall as I am. Which, now that I think about it, doesn’t sound like a lot seeing as how I’m…well, a bit on the short side. But trust me on this one.

I’m also the psycho wife that makes her wife let her know when she gets to work in bad weather. She arrived safe and sound, just in case you were worried.

I went to darts with Firefly tonight, where they played the slowest team in the league apparently. They were taking forever between turns and didn’t seem anxious to start the next match, which was frustrating since they play seven and we had to rush out as soon as it was over to get Firefly home in time to head out to work. Firefly’s team won, though, which is great.

My mom was feeling much better today,  and it was nice enough at lunch time that we were able to walk outside. During the nicer months we walk outside every day, but it’s been a while since we’ve been able to. I caught her up yesterday on where we are in this whole process and what the plan is, but we talked about it a bit more so that was good.

And that’s about it for today. I suppose I should go see about getting some sleep…

nice.

I had a pretty good day today. The weather was much warmer than it’s been and I’m definitely feeling better; just a bit of a cough and some minor stuffiness left, but nothing like before. Of course now my mom has it and was feeling pretty miserable today, which is no fun. I’m feeling a bit guilty that I might have passed it on to her since I have lunch with her every day. Hopefully she gets over it quickly.

We had tickets to the hockey game tonight, but Firefly couldn’t go. It’s hard for her to go on weeknights because we rarely have time to get out of there and get her home with enough of a cushion to get to work, so Bean went with me instead. I haven’t really seen her much lately so it was fun hanging out, and it was a great game. It would have been nice if Firefly could have gone with me, but we have tickets for another game on Friday that we’ll be going to and I’m really looking forward to it.

I also realized today that I have a long weekend coming up because of the holiday on Monday, which is fabulous. I’m sure I’ll spend a good part of the day doing schoolwork, but it will be so nice to be able to sleep in and be home in bed when Firefly gets home from work.

I’m feeling really good about my math class. I got 11/12 on the quiz this week, and 4/4 on the homework. All of my grades so far have been well above the class average, which is great. I really want to keep it up so I can get a good grade overall. My last few math classes have really affected my overall G.PA, so it would be nice to finally have one that isn’t such a struggle. I’ve still maintained an honors-level G.PA overall, and this will help to keep it that way!

plans.

Well, we have a plan and that’s something. The doc is switching Firefly to tamo.xifen for one cycle. He said there’s no reason she shouldn’t be pregnant at this point since everything so far looks great in terms of numbers and tests, and he doesn’t want to keep her on the Clo.mid any longer. He could have sent her for a lapar.oscopy to check for endom.etriosis, but she’s had quite a few tests done and he hasn’t seen any signs of anything at all so he doesn’t think the expense is warranted at this point. If we have a few more tries with no luck then we’ll consider it.

If this try doesn’t work he’s moving her directly to Foll.istim injectables. We’ve got the pen starter kit and I’ve already read the instructions. The nurse also gave us contact info for a couple of direct order companies that will work with her insurance to check for coverage and such, will ship overnight directly to the house so we don’t have to buy it ahead of time and can wait to make sure that we need it, and will be cheaper than going to the neighborhood chain if it isn’t covered–which is good because this stuff is not cheap. We’ve been really lucky that a lot of what we thought wouldn’t be covered has been so far, but this will likely not be one of those things. Statistically our chances are greater with Foll.istim, but then again so are the incidences of multiples (which we’d like to avoid if at all possible), and it means more blood tests and more frequent trips to the office for U/Ss to try and regulate everything to reduce that risk. We and the doc are hoping that her full coverage will kick in if we get to that point, although we might still have one more cycle to go depending on how they count everything.

I’m feeling hopeful again. This is going to be The One.

Right?

bits and pieces.

I am really, really bummed and anxious to see what the doc has to say tomorrow. It’s likely he’ll switch Firefly to another med and with any luck it will work right away with minimal side effects. It’s the nature of the beast, I suppose.

I did get my math homework done for the week and will probably go take my quiz in a little bit.

Firefly finished some stuff in the bathroom today, and we went and got some paint samples so we can decide on a color. We’re leaning toward blue. I really like some of the colors we got, but I’ll probably defer to her for the final decision. She did an amazing job with the other bathroom, and everything looks so good together. That’s definitely not one of my strong suits.

I’m trying really hard not to cry.

But my cold is definitely getting better. At least there’s that.