Yes, I *AM* a lemming!

Since everybody else in my blog reader is doing it, then shouldn't I? Here is mine:

Trish-ology

FOODOLOGY:

What is your salad dressing of choice? caesar or italian

What is your favorite sit-down restuarant? Logans Steakhouse

What is your favorite fast food restaurant? Chick-Fil-A or Arby's

What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of? cereal

What are your pizza toppings of choice? pepperoni and sausage

How many televisions are in your house? 3

What color cell phone do you have? silver

BIOLOGY:

Are you right-handed or left-handed? Right

Have you ever had anything removed from your body? wisdom teeth

Have you ever been knocked unconscious? No

Have you ever fainted? No

BULLCRAPOLOGY:

If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? probably not

If you could change your name, what would you change it to? it's fine as is

How many pairs of flip flops do you own? oh goodness! more than a dozen

Last person you talked to? Brad

FAVORITOLOGY:

Season? spring

Holiday? Christmas

Day of the week? Saturday

Month? May

Color? blue

Drink? raspberry lemonade

Alcoholic? Moscato

CURRENTOLOGY:

Missing someone? always

What are you listening to? random commercial on TV

What are you watching? Armageddon

Worrying about? not much right now

What's the last movie you saw? Gamer

Do you smile often? Yes

If you could change your eye color what would it be? make my hazel look more green

What's on your wish list for your birthday? still so far away, ask me in a few months!

Can you do a chin-up? yeah, i dont think so!!

Does the future make you more nervous or excited? Both

Have you been in a car wreck? Yes

Have you caused a car wreck? no

Do you have an accent? not that im aware of

Last time you cried? hmmm, been awhile, a sad movie i think

Plans tonight? veggin out with some Desparate Houswives =)

Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom? no, not yet at least

Name three things you bought yesterday? Zaxby's, ankle brace, bleach

Have you met someone who changed your life? of course, several!

For the better or worse? depends on which person we're talking about

How did you bring in the New Year? at a bar

Would you go back in time if you were given the chance? Yes

What songs do you sing in the shower? whatever is stuck in my head

Have you held hands with someone today? no

Who was the last person you took a picture of? Brad

Are most of the friends in your life new or old? Old

Do you like pulpy orange juice? yep

Last time you ate peanut butter and jelly? last week

What were you doing at 12 a.m. last night? playing "Fact or Crap" with Brad, Chris, Tom, Jon and Kim

What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up? wow, im really hungry already

Finally!

Some good news. Drs appt was good for once. I have a follie on the left measuring at 17mm, (they want it at 18+mm to trigger). So I had to do one more giant needle shot today, which, by the way are much less painful when Brad does them, go figure. Then I trigger tomorrow AM! I can't tell you how happy I am to finally get some good news from them! Course the *kinda* bad news is they wanted me to come in on the 5th for blood work to confirm ovulation, but we'll be in Vegas the 2nd-9th. Soooo, we wont be able to confirm anything. But I do still temp, so I should know if I do or not. Then I got in for a pg test on the 12th. So keep all your crossables crossed that this is the last cycle we do any of this BS. Im glad we'll be in Vegas for the 2ww, hopefully it will help time fly by, and I won't have the time or energy to stress about it!

Yikes!!

I went to the Dr's appt today. The drive up there was terrible it was raining super hard, and the interstate was crawling. But I did survive the drive. The actual appt was not so great either. Dr says things are not as far along as she wants. Now we will double the dose for the injections, no big deal right? Right, except, we need to give them in the muscle not sub q(just under the skin), which means not in the belly fat, but in the ass or thigh, again no big deal. But wait there's more, I also can no longer use the nice small 27g pin needle, nooo, i have to use the giant inch and a half long 23g needle, in the muscle, ALL the way in. Yikes! Needless to say I was NOT looking forward to that in any way shape or form. But I did it. Myself. In the front of my thigh. It hurt. A LOT. Two more of them, and i go back to the Dr on Thurs. At least the needles wont get bigger! But here's a pic for comparison, nice small 27g on left, and big painful 23g (which is three times longer by the way) on the right. Enjoy =)

Proud of myself!

I gave myself my own shot today! Brad is out shooting with a bunch of friends, so I figured rather than wait till he got home and do it with a bunch of people in the house, I would just do it myself. It wasn't bad at all, I thought I might psych myself out about it, but, nope! So, one more shot tomorrow and then back to the RE. Wish me luck =)

Just gets better

I guess now that I have managed to drag you all into the drama, I should at least keep u updated! This was the un-friends response to my awesome friend defending me:
Denise... not only was NOTHING i posted PERSONAL in any way... but i haven't been privy to those things since i wasn't head over heels for them to be leaving...infact, her being such a huge bitch as to say "there was nothing to be missed here" when i have been the only one to take up for her when everyone around her HATED her guts.it just... See More goes to show that I have always put more into our friendship than what i got out in the long run. so yea i think i can be a little negative... and it makes me feel better, to be a bitch once in a while....
The people she's referring to "hating my guts" do not in fact hate me at all. We had a misunderstanding and took some time off. We have worked it out and I hang with them regularly. However they TRULY dislike the un-friend, and even more so after all this. I also looking for the statement I made about "nothing to be missed here[in this town]", but strangely since I never said that I can't find it anywhere. Bluhhhggggg,I so want to be done with this. The super swesome friend doesn't know how or if she will repond to the latest, she's bit in shock.

Follow up to the last post...

I truly DO have some wonderful friends, one of them posted this in response the the un-friends last status:
Maybe not my business but since you're putting it on FB...major life changes such as uprooting your family and moving rarely come without negatives but why on earth would you want to focus on those negatives instead of the positives? The negative things that a friend may have told you in confidence to help ease tensions and unsurety are better left in confidence. Don't you think?
I sent her a message to tell her how much I love her, and appreciate her support. She made my day =)

WHY?

Why are some people just so damn negative? Why do they feel the need to point out all the flaws in something? You want to know why *I* think they do it? Because they are miserable in their own life and want to bring everybody down with them. What brings this on? Well I stopped talking to what WAS a really good friend, when we got our first set of orders to Alaska (which got cancelled a few months later). Why? Because when, as my good friend, she was supposed to be HAPPY for me, she had nothing but negative things to say. We have wanted to go to Alaska since before we got to SC (where I met her), and we've never been shy about disliking SC. So why did it come as a surprise that we were THRILLED to be going? It shouldn't have. So why were her first words "have you really thought about this?" followed by "it's gonna be really cold, and night time all the time". So I slowly distanced myself from all that negativity. And now we don't talk at all. But when i posted a link to weather.com about the weather in Guam she again had negative things to say, "it rains a lot". So because I don't want or need all that crap i deleted the messages from my facebook page. She figured it out. And posted this on HER status:
WOW. I am finding it hard to believe that some people can't tell the whole truth, and would simply prefer to delete my comments that tell the WHOLE truth about their situation. deleting comments that reflect the NEGATIVE is stupid and childish. I'd post this on their wall, but they'd probably just delete it anyways. i...'m sorry if you're regretting your choice, but that's not my fault
SOOO. i responded with this:
sorry to say it has nothing to do with regretting our choice, we're still thrilled. and i deleted the comments because everything u post is so negative, i don't need that. its not childish, childish is starting a fight on facebook and airing the whole thing to the world. i keep my mouth shut when u post things i could say negative things about. theres no need for it. if u have a problem with the things i say, feel free to unfriend me. i really don't understand why u care so much, if we're wrong and hate it, then i guess u win, right? cuz that seems to be what u want, for us to be unhappy.
She then replied with this:
you mean you're thrilled to be giving up one if your dogs(i thought they were like family)? thrilled to have given up your horse? thrilled with brown snakes and nothing to do...thrilled to death right?
i just like how you never mention anything that might suck. it's not just my comments that have been erased, it's anything that might be construde ... See Moreas "negative" (i caught the one about the dogs, a question i didn't ask). i'd just hate that you're sugar coating it to everyone else, it's not like they can't look up the damn rainfall on the weather channel.i'm not being negative, just honest.
Just so you all know, we're taking ALL 3 dogs to Guam with us. There is LOTS to do on the island. I can live with the rain. Snakes suck, but its a small price. I AM aware of the downfalls, by why focus on them? Guess I'm a bit more glass half full than she is. So, in the end I un-friended her and won't be seeing anymore of her BS. What do you think? Was she out of line? Was I? Despite what she said, I DO appreciate honesty, but I DON'T think that's what she was giving me. She's stuck in this $hithole town, so she's unhappy to see somebody get what they want, which in Brad's and my case is OUT of SC!! OK I think I'm done.

One down, how many to go?

We started the injections today. It wasn't so bad. I had myself worried. Brad stuck me. It didn't hurt like I thought. Those are the facts running through my head now. So, that's huge sigh of relief from me, I was nervous, and I don't really know why, it's just a shot, with a tiny needle. I do believe it was better to have Brad do it instead of me. I prepped the needle/meds and all he had to do was give the shot. One day down, 4 more to go, then I go in for a follow up on Monday. Not sure what happens then, I do know that i have a trigger shot of Ovidrel in the fridge waiting for them to say go. So lets keep it all crossed that they see what they want to see on Monday. Yay for getting the first one out of the way, should be downhill from here, right?

This is the bad news...

There's good news... and bad news...

The good news is, today is CD1! So that means we'll have enough time before the Vegas trip to get all the ultrasounds and meds in. So we'll be in the 2ww when we get there, i think. The bad news is, I totally sprained my ankle last night. Bad. Yeah, I'm a klutz, this is not a first, I was walking on slightly uneven ground and it just twisted sideways and popped. Not. Fun. At. All. The good news about that is, at least I still have 2 weeks to recoup before the trip. But going to my Drs appt tomorrow or tuesday is NOT sounding fun, it's on the third floor all the way at the end of the hall, so thats a lot of walking, even using the elevator. Would i look like a total douche using one of the wheelchairs on the 1st floor? I think so. I wish I owned crutches, sure would make getting around right now a lot easier.

Snow in SC

Yep, we're finally getting the snow that everybody else had been getting. I will say this is only the third time I've seen it snow in the 7yrs we've lived here. And already more has stuck than the other 2 times. Of course being from Montana, I'm not really that impressed with what would be called a dusting of snow. But here in good ole SC, these southerners don't know what to do. Likely the grocery stores are out of milk, bread and water, and people are rushing to fill their cars with gas. I'm just enjoying the pretty, white, clean blanket covering everything. Snapping pictures and staying in the house, away from the crazies. This is home...

From my front porch looking out...

The puppies like the snow too!
Our old man, Chancy, he's not impressed, having lived in Montana and Italy.

Sable, she knows snow, born in Budapest, lived in Italy too.

The baby of the house, Chevy, he's a true southerner, born and raised here, this is his first REAL snow!

Hmmm, take it or not?

So I'm having an internal dilemma here. I have an awesome Nikon D60 camera,and and extra zoom lense but i rarely travel with it, because I'm so afraid of something happening to it (the camera plus the extra lenses are a BIT pricey). SOOO, do i take it to Vegas and get awesome pics? Or take the stupid point and shoot (that i HATE), but is much cheaper and MUCH smaller? The Nikon with the lenses is quite large and heavy(the ONE zoom lense is nearly a pound alone!), not great for packing around all day, but takes FAR superior pictures. Every time I pick up a point and shoot camera I'm so frustrated with the shutter lag time, and ability for ME to choose what is in focus. I know I can pack it in my carry on, but I'm just not sure about packing it all around!! Brad will say, he bought me this nice, fancy, expensive camera for a reason, use it!! Is he right?

Vegas Baby!

Yep, we finally booked our trip! I'm super excited to not be a Vegas virgin anymore! We'll be going the first week of March, so less than a month, wow! There are some really cool thing i wanna do, but cash flow and time will determine how much we do. I for sure want to see the Phantom show, i adore the movie, this version. I'd also like to see a Cirque Du Soleil show. Another somewhat silly idea I thought would be fun... going to one of the chapels and getting re-hitched! Just for fun, since this is a 10th anniversary trip, seems appropiate, no? There is SO much to do there that I'm not even aware of, I'm a bit lost! Since Brad has been TDY there several times, he'll be a bit of the tour guide I'm sure. I'm not big into gambling, so that will be more his past time, not mine. I want to see the shows, and do some shopping. As far as baby making goes, if all my plans pan out (and the injections do the job), then we'll actually be in the waiting to test stage! So I guess Brad will get to be the designated drunk for the week! Anywho, that is all for now, it's bed time, night night.

By name

So I know it's bad enough that the cashiers and cosmetics ladies at Walgreens know me by name. But today the pharmacy girl knew me by (last) name!! I hadn't even stepped up to the counter yet and she called my name. Its been a couple weeks since i was in last, so its not like i was just in yesterday. Granted it seems I'm always picking something up, vitamins, clomid, metformin, provera, etc, etc. But to know I'm a "regular" of the Walgreens pharmacy is still kinda surprising. I wonder if they put 2 and 2 together. If they actually pay attention to what it is I'm getting, do they know whats going on? Sorry, I just find it amusing =)

Another one bites the dust...

Yep, yet another failed cycle. Meds didn't work this time either, so for those of u keeping score its meds-1, Trisha's stubborn ovaries-3. Course the stubborn ovaries win a lot more then just the medicated cycles. So we're doing injectable meds. Oh goody! No, not really. But if that's what its gonna take, then so be it. My only real concern at this moment is the timing required for this ultra-monitored cycle, they need me to be available to go to the clinic for the first 15 days of my cycle. Problem is, we're going to Vegas first week of March. Also did I mention that the Dr's office is 100 miles round trip?? Yep, sure it. And I'll be making that drive at least 3-4 times in those 15 days. Yay me! No, not really. Feeling very frustrated right now, but all good things come to those who wait, right? RIGHT??????