To maybe be able to be pregnant while we finish a house remodel, put it on the market, and move two hours away?  Keep in mind, I get soooooo sick the first trimester, or more. 

We really may be putting this house on the market in the next 2 months.  Suddenly, I’m a bit freaked.  I need to be able to do stuff.  Stuff.  And more stuff.  If we move.

 

Nothing.  Just saying the stats.  Have a good day.

I shot that stupid rabbit.  Here’s my next ticker attempt.  Why does trying to get pregnant mean everything has to be pastel, butterflies and assanine twinkly baby dust stars?

I got another BFN this morning, at somewhere between 4:30 and 5:00 am, because having to pee woke me up, and you’d better believe I wasn’t wasting that pee.  Let’s play a multiple choice as to why, yet again, there is a negative.

A.  I have a defective batch of pee strips.

B.  The company intentionally sells defective batches of pee strips, under the evil motivation of more and more profits from women desperately wanting to see that second stripe.

C.  I have bad mojo for HPTs, no matter the advertised HCG sensitivity level, or…

D.  Upon waking at 8:30 am, I had started my period.

If you guessed D, you’d be right.  And, maybe a little bit of C.  But definitely D.

So this is how I feel:

A.  Pretty good about the evidence of what seem to be good, regular cycles, with as far as I can tell, definite ovulation.

B.  Crampy.

C.  Relieved to have the correct info.

D.  The need to get some supers, not just these wimpy light day tampons.

E.  Sluggish.

F.  A bit paranoid that now 2 cycles have gone by, and we may be irreparably infertile in our old age of mid-30s.

G.  Somewhat freaked that we’re even thinking about this in the first place.

H.  A wee bit bummed, and…

I.  A wee bit relieved that in about 3 weeks, I’m not about to start my around the clock vigil over the toilet, gagging and yarfing incessantly.  And oh,

J.  A vague, mostly likely paranoid, sense of maybe this is a sign that we shouldn’t do this.  I mean after all, didn’t the other three come immediately?  I know, I know, don’t yell at me, remember, I’m hormonal on a period.

SO there you have it.  The intimate details of my menstrual life as of the 26th of May, 2006.  Oh, freak!  It’s my sister’s birthday!  Gotto go figure that out… 

No period.

No period yet.  Just start, dammit.  Or some strip say something positive!

 

Morning Pee Results in.  Negative.  Now, I’ll just see when I start.  Which, really really, I’m OK with.  I’m back to being optimistic about the chances of conception soon, it just makes me nuts to not know. 

So.  That wait should be over soon.  If you’re bored enough to follow along (Ang!), then stay tuned for our regularly scheduled program, The Period. 

Negative.  Tomorrow, I should start.  I should have bought 100 of those silly strips, not 10.

 

No, not because I stupid enough to test again this morning, you know, for that early morning pee (negative, of course), but because no matter what is going on in my nether regions, it is giving me bad mojo.  I am coming out of my skin by the mere sound of my dear children’s voices.  I mean it.  Like nails on a chalkboard.  Sandpaper in my eyeballs.  Just go ahead and back the car over me.  Now.

So I suppose, I’m either about to have the mother of all periods, or am expecting quadruplets.  Something is feeling all out of whack.  That, or my antidepressants just up and decided to quit.

Oh…the noise in this house is about to be the end of me.  THE. END. 

I wrote the company.  Amazingly, they wrote right back.  And said:

Hi Allison,

Thanks for your note. Human variation is considerable, and it is always possible that hcg levels have not hit the typical levels. If you doubt the result of your test, I’d recommend continuing to re-test.

Thanks,

Pat Phillips 

Now what should I make of that?  That they just want me to keep retesting for the profit?  Or that truly, since I am someone who doesn’t get a positive 3 days after being late, and am pregnant (at those times), that just maybe I’m one of the lucky few that really doesn’t get a rise in HCG for a little bit? 

I’m now more confused.