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October 29, 2003
Wow, October is almost over! It's so weird to think that we're almost done with this year. Who's started with their Christmas shopping? I have. I'm actually almost done. Sad, I know, but I bought the family's presents before we moved so we didn't have to ship them and the rest of Jeff's presents I have bought online so they are mostly here. I guess I traded one shipping cost for another but it’s just so easy to buy the presents on the computer when he’s not around. Besides, we only have one car and that makes shopping difficult. I am looking forward to Christmas this year! It will be our first Christmas alone and that means we can sit around watching movies and not have to go rushing off to any parties. Not that I won't miss those parties, but it will be nice to have a quiet day at home. AND, we both have jobs that won't require us to work on Christmas, which is a first since we've been married.
Since Friday is Halloween, my work is having a pumpkin carving contest. I just spent 2 hours or so with my boss carving out our pumpkin of a bat on a telephone. It's very cute and I'm going to take home the seeds to roast them. Yum!
On the ttc front (knew I'd get to it sometime) AF finally decided to show, and she's still here almost a week later. It's making me very nervous that my slow bleeding is going to come back. Especially since this is not normal flow for me. It's very light but not stopping or slowing down at all. I am so scared that if the bleeding doesn't stop, that I'll just keep bleeding again for a long time. I guess what makes me the most nervous about it is that I don't have a gyn. to go to out here yet so if the bleeding does continue, I wouldn’t have someone to go to for help. I was waiting till my insurance kicked in to find a doctor. I guess what I can do is request my medical history from my last doctor (the idiot, as I like to call him) so I can be prepared to go to a doctor. Let's hope that the bleeding stops!
Another thing I'm a little nervous about is going to the RE. Yeah, I know it's just like going to any other doctor, but I'm still pretty nervous about it. I guess I'm nervous of it not working. I always had the thought that if we don't get pg naturally, then we can always go to the RE. Well, if the RE can't do anything for me, then that safety net is gone. Jeff and I have been talking about it and are willing to go as far as we feel we need to with treatment. His brother had to do ISCI with his wife and it took them over 8 years to have a baby. I think that having his brother as an example of what could happen has really helped him be okay with going that far in treatments. We've also talked about what we would do if we needed donor eggs or sperm or embryos. We probably would go that far, but it's still up in the air. I'm up for donor embryos, but I'm not sure how I feel about donor egg or donor sperm yet. We may not have to go that far but I'm a planner and like to think about these things in advance.
Speaking of planning, Jeff promised me a dog when we reached the 2 year ttc mark. We're coming up on it and I'm thinking about all the stuff we have to get for a dog and the poor thing would be locked up in our apartment all day by itself. I wouldn't want that at all. Especially for a puppy. So we'll probably wait on that promise until we either have a yard or I can stay at home with the puppy. I know we want a Cairn Terrier (think Toto from the Wizard of Oz), now all we have to do is find a reputable breeder.
Jeff and I went to see Radio at the movies last weekend. It was great! A really feel good movie. I was a little amazed that the theater was practically empty on a Saturday afternoon. I'm guessing that movie going is not as much as a passion here as it was in Utah? Or maybe we just went to a terrible theater? The theaters in Utah are almost all stadium seating (if they're not, they are second run movies costing a dollar or less, are there dollar theaters out here?) and they are almost always packed. The theater we used to go to (Jordan Commons) was huge with 15 screens, and about 10 restaurants in the surrounding area. It's a fantastic place to see a movie. You could even get a slice of pizza or a sandwich to take into the movie with you, instead of popcorn. Anyone heard of something like that out here? We love to go see movies and I can't bring myself to pay the 8 bucks to sit in a regular theater. (Read: I miss my stadium seating.)
I also was able to go out and buy some new clothes with my first paycheck. It was so much fun for me, but I dragged poor Jeff around all these girly shops! He just brought a book and studied while I looked around. What a trooper. Anyway, I got a few pairs of slacks and about 7 new shirts. I didn't find myself a pair of jeans like I wanted to but maybe next time.
I also had to get my wedding ring re-sized because my fingers are so swollen being in lower altitude (even now, months later) that I can barely get it off and on anymore. It got to the point where my finger was hurting and tingling. So it was time to resize it. Besides, one of the prongs on my diamond was off and it had to go in to be fixed. So now I'm without my ring for a week and I keep thinking I lost it! I can’t wait to get it back.
Boy, sorry this is so long. I’m a talker sometimes. Okay, all the time. :) Until next week!
~Always, Cat
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