A day (or two or three) in the life of...

 My Dearest Coffee, I miss you. I've been thinking about you for about 3 days now (3 days and 2 hours to be exact).  I can't even focus on work as well as I used to. I'm a mess. I miss jumping around with my exuberant coffee high. Your cozy smoothness, sweet awakening powers, yet a nice little nibble to remind me 'who's the man'. You're the man, Coffee! You're the man! I ... I've been trying to console the ache that I have for you with... tea. I'm sorry.  If it's any consolation, it's not even close to comparing our relationships! Tea is lovely and cozy and all but, it's not  you... I miss the way you'd flirt w/me by slithering up streams of your steam and I'd breathe your essence in.  ((sigh)) I had to cut you off and I'm sorry. It's not you, it's... well, it's LulaMae and JoonBug. See, it's not good for their development. I'm still in negotiations for them to hang out for a while and throwing you...

 Yesterday was the big day.  2 of my embababies (the strongest, most perfect blastocyst ones, actually, those very 2 in the picture above, which I've already named) where strategically placed in the perfect spot in me uterus.  Nevermind that they had me way over-exposed for this process (even Cowboy was wondering why they got rid of the 'humility cover up' that was small and paper but served it's purpose for me) and that took away from my feeling completely excited the whole time, as I felt breezes hit ever inch of my lower body from belly button down. Ok, moving past their refusal at letting me keep shreds of humility, the magic happened and as far as we're concerned. We'll be finding out today if we have any embabies to freeze but last time we didn't so I'm not holding out my breath too hard on this one. As long as the ones in me cozy up and get settled, I'm happy. On a different happy note, I've been able to reconnect with an o...

So, before I get into the fluff, I'll just report that all 12 embababies are coming along quite nicely . All 12 are still kicking in their lil incubator dishes. Gooooooooo babies!   I'm feeling quite happy about this report. I'm feeling like my ovaries did me proud and I want to buy them something nice. Any suggestions of gifts for my ovaries? Ok, a quick 'yo quiero' because I was emailed by my girlfriend, Sephora.com, and the colors that stared back at me w/this season's newest OPI's nail colors just made me get all googley eyed and I felt a few drops of saliva puddled under me on my desk. soooo pretty. Yo quiero! I need at least 5 of these. Not that I paint my nails that often but my toes would benefit from some funky color! I think I'm going to splurge on the purple one this weekend. look_how_pretty! I went to a girly happy hour last night and it was beyond fantastic. I talked some majah trash because the estrogen was flowing, the silly was in hi...

 So, yesterday was the eggie hunt and it went quite well. We got to clinic, made ourselves comfy in the recovery room that was assigned to us and both just chilled and read our books till they were ready to fish some eggies out of me. They hunted out 17 total so that's good stuff. On the way home, Cowboy stopped at a store and got me a couple dozen roses and some wine (since I'm allowed to have some in the next couple of days till they put the embies back in me). Good man, good man. As soon as we got home, I got meself tucked into our bed and slept all freaking day. When I woke up, I saw that roses had been strategically placed around the house so that I could have them make 'a me smile wherever I was. When he's good, he's pretty freaking great. Anywho, I got the call this morning that of the 17 eggies, 12 of them fertilized normally (as opposed to abnormal fertilization which happened to a few of them, imbalance of egg and sperm pronuclei). So, 12 magical embr...

Wow, blog neglect in full effect here. My bad! On the baby-making front, tomorrow is the egg hunt. The procedure is at 9AM and I'm really looking forward to it. I get anesthesia and that feels niiiice. Ok, I'm also looking forward to seeing how my body responded to the stimulation drugs this cycle and feeling pretty good about things in general. I'm ready to move forward and either get great news and get big and fat for the next few months or move forward and keep on keeping on. Not that it's that easy, I know. If I don't get good news in early/mid September, I'm going to be devastated again but I think I'm a pinch more prepared for the possibilities now. Anywho, bring on the anesthesia and magical egg hunt! I also dyed my hair back to uber dark brown after having tried out highlights for a couple of months. I'm just not meant to have lighter hair. My Mom treated me to a salon trip. Makes me feel like a kid when my Mom treats me to nice spoiling sess...

So, I kept my word. I'm much much better today. I'm in good spirits, feeling positive about good things to come and not even complaining about the splitting Lupron headache that I have. Why? Because my ovaries are awesome! It's been scientifically proven even.  I got a call yesterday afternoon, from nurse Marsha, that everything checked out marvelously in my baseline scans (vampire draw and uterine scan drive in show) and that they found that my ovaries are revving to get going already. I have almost 3 times the amount of starting follicles that I did last time, which is a good sign that I could be quite the positive responder this time around. Who wants frozen embryos for stocking stuffers? HOLLA! So, here's to good things to come.  Or at least to keeping a positive outlook on good things to come and keeping my sanity throughout the cocktail of hormones which will be pumped into me like a roast chicken marinade. Speaking of cocktails, I'll be replacing my dear ...

Today was my 'baseline scan' appointment which means they take me blood and scan my lady bits to make sure all looks well to get this show on the road. I got there at 7:30 for my appointment which was to be at 7:30 but didn't get called back till 25 minutes later. ((sigh)) First I'm taken to a vampire phlebotomist to draw my blood. Usually, blood draws are not a big deal at all for me. This morning, apparently my veins were playing a coy game of hide and seek w/phlebotomist which made things more fun for all parties involved. She had to snap at my vein in left arm like I've only seen done before in movies about heroine junkies. %$#@&%*@! Seriously, she kept on un-apologetically snapping away at my flesh. I looked up at her face to see if I could catch a thrill in her eye or something. nothing. She had no emotions. Most vampires don't (contrary to trendy vampire movies where they'll have you believe that they fall in love or have friendships). Onc...

I'm working from home today because none of work peeps who actually go into the office on a regular basis were going in.  I found out 'after' I got ready for a day at the office, which is probably good because usually on days that I work from home, I skip my morning shower, work in my PJ's and catch glimpses of myself in the mirror when I walk by and just shake my head in disapproval.  Anyways, so while working from home, I usually turn the TV on to play music in the background for me to listen to while working.  I don't know why I chose to torture myself today by having TLC on in the background, which is playing a mini-marathon of 'A Baby Story' when I'm trying to actually keep my mind off 'things'. Kinda same theory as my watching Food Channel incessantly when I was fasting/cleansing a few years back. Apparently I'm a glutton for this kinda thing. I keep catching myself  mumbling "show-off" under my breathe. Nothin...