Dear readers,

I’m sorry that I haven’t updated this blog in a while.  I’ve been pretty busy with school and such.

A quick update:

I’m currently in the pre-Nursing program at CSU-Pueblo.  I am working on completing my prerequisites.  I’m enrolled in Stats, Chemistry, Spanish and Biology.  This semester is going really well.  I have a good chance of making straight A’s this term.  This is a feat that I have never been able to accomplish before.  I’ve made Dean’s list a couple of times while I was attending Metro, but was never able to make straight A’s!  I think my maturity is helping in this area.  Finals are over the last week of April.  WOOT!

Anyway, I go in for a laproscopy surgery on May 4.  I will have an ovarian cyst removed as well as a uterine polyp removed at the same time.  Hopefully, I’ll be all healed up just in time to start back to school for the Summer term.  I’ll be taking an Anatomy and Physiology class and a photography class.  I’ll be done with the Summer term the Thursday before the 4th and my husband and I are planning a 3 week vacation.  One week with Rob’s parents and 2 weeks on the British Ilse.  I’m so excited!  I can’t wait.

I got into a terrible car accident a couple of weeks ago and poor Bert-y Bert’s back end got pretty banged up.  I was hit @46 MPH by a stupid Toyota Prius.   He’s in the shop getting repaired.  I miss Bert.  What a good car he is!

Well, that’s all I’ve got for now.  I’ve gotta get running for now.  Hopefully, I can update this again fairly soon.

Until then, take care and thanks for reading! 😀

Well, last cycle, my RE started me on a 100mg clomid cycle.  She did an ultrasound on day 8 of the cycle and found a quite large ovarian cyst which caused her concern, but not too much.  What she was more concerned about was what she saw in my uterus.  I have a polyp or fibroid tumor.  Not sure which…well, because I have an ovarian cyst, she don’t want to do surgery on the polyp until she figures out whether or not she needs to operate on my ovary.  She doesn’t want to put me under the knife twice.  She can do everything in one shot.

So, we’re not sure exactly when, but in about 4 or 5 weeks, I’ll have to go in for a surgery.  Once that’s all done, I get to do a brand new clomid cycle and see how that goes.

Nothing much more to report on.  Just wanted to give a quick update…that and I’m really procrastinating on getting my Chemistry Lab homework done.  I’ve got a little bit of time.

Well, better run.

Thanks for reading!

I don’t know how far you’d go to say this, but since my mother has moved out, she has found both an apartment and a job!  The job is temporary–until April 15–it’s at a tax preparation center, but it’s a job!  I’m so proud of my mother for obtaining employment!  She’s living and working in Grand Junction!

As for me, I’m still waiting for THE “BIG FAT POSITIVE” AKA BFP.  I don’t want to psych myself out or think that I am having psychosomatic feelings, but I have been feeling very ill for a couple of days and this evening, I could smell my dog’s urine 3-5 minutes after he’s pee’d in the house.  Truth be told, I’ve never smelt his urine before.  I’ve also been having “hot flashes” the last couple of days.  The highest my temp that I got was 98.9, but that’s pretty high for me; my typical temperature is 97.5.

Anyway, I’m not trying to get my hopes up, but MAYBE this month my husband and I DID make a baby! I’d be thrilled if I did!  We’ve got three girl names picked out:  (normally, I wouldn’t share–but honestly, I don’t care— if you want my names, take em-cuz I’ll use em anyway!) Tori Nicole, Erin Renee (accent over the last e), Sabine Michelle.

No boy names picked out.  These are the girl names that have been approved!

Okay, enough.  TTFN!

I don’t know how far you’d go to say this, but since my mother has moved out, she has found both an apartment and a job!  The job is temporary–until April 15–it’s a tax preparation center, but it’s a job!  I’m so proud of my mother for obtaining employment!  She’s living and working in Grand Junction!

As for me, I’m still waiting for THE “BIG FAT POSITIVE” AKA BFP.  I don’t want to psych myself out or think that I am having psychosomatic feelings, but I have been feeling very ill for a couple of days and this evening, I could smell my dog’s urine 3-5 minutes after he’s pee’d in the house.  Truth be told, I’ve never smelt his urine before.  I’ve also been having “hot flashes” the last couple of days.  The highest my temp that I got was 98.9, but that’s pretty high for me; my typical temperature is 97.5.

Anyway, I’m not trying to get my hopes up, but MAYBE this month my husband and I DID make a baby! 😀  I’d be thrilled if I did!  We’ve got three girl names picked out:  (normally, I wouldn’t share–but honestly, if you want my names, take em-cuz I’ll use em anyway!) Tori Nicole, Erin Renee (accent over the last e), Sabine Michelle.

No boy names picked out.  These are the girl names that have been approved! 😀

Okay, enough.  TTFN!

Hi all! I have been very bad about updating my blog. I wanted to write today, but nothing interesting has been happening…other than the fact that I kicked my mother out on the 28th. I have felt a tiny bit guilty about it, but truth be told, I feel like I’m at home now! I feel like if I want to walk around in my underwear, that’s okay! I can do my own dishes now and feed my own dogs.

I started seeing a fertility specialist in November and had an initial evaluation, pelvic exam, HSG xray done, and was put on Clomid for this month. After I finished my Clomid, my doctor put me on an estrogen supplement that I’m still taking and will until tomorrow. Then, we wait. Sort of. I had an ultrasound done last week and she found that on the 8th day of my cycle, I had a 5 cm follicle and she said that it was too early in the cycle for me to have had a follicle that large. She also found something in my uterus, but wasn’t really sure what it was, so…if I’m not pregnant this month, I won’t be taking medication next cycle. She will want to go in for surgery and more evaluation. She said that the chance that I will ovulate might be slim, but still wants me to proceed as planned this month. I will go in on the 13th to have my blood drawn to see if I’ve ovulated. I’ve been doing the home ovulation kits…so far nothing…so, we’ll see.

Anyway, I’m feeling like going out for breakfast and going to a movie, but I’ve gotta get my husband out of bed first. Maybe I’ll go take a shower and THEN wake him up!

That’s all I’ve got for now. Chat with you again soon! Thanks for reading!

Today is Wednesday and tonight I get to go to work for a few hours!  I’m off for the next three days (which I’m quite happy about…the amount of money I earn working doesn’t cover much of anything!)  My friends Crys and Charlene are coming down tomorrow to help me fix the electrical outlets in the basement…reverse polarity and the fact that it’s not grounded spells a lot of trouble…plus, I’m worried that when we do set up a washer/dryer in the basement, we’ll end up with some electrical fire that quite frankly, worries me to no end!

On Friday, my love comes home and I am more than ecstatic about having him home.  It will be interesting because my mother now lives with us…a fact that I am NOT happy about.  She’s been here about 10 days and she is driving me up a wall.  As my old roommate used to say, “Short trip…hardly worth starting the car for…” and it’s true!  I’m already crazy! 😉

I just hope she finds a job.  Today is the first day that she’s actually gone out looking for a job in earnest.  I hope that she finds one sooner rather than later.  I want my home back!  She and I have different ways of doing stuff and I don’t like the way she does it.  I remember as a kid, I wanted to mimic everything she did…but those days are long gone!  Admittedly, she’s made a few things a little bit easier…such as she keeps my dishes done and she has helped me unpack a few boxes.  However, whenever I try to throw something away, she tells me to keep it–who knows when I’ll be able to use it?  But, I just want to get rid of a bunch of stuff.  When we moved back, we moved about 13,000 pounds of crap…it’s JUST us two!  How in the world did we accumulate so much junk in 5 years, I’ll never know.  I’m already a packrat, I don’t need my mother encouraging me to keep MORE stuff I know needs to go away!

I worry that she won’t be able to find work because of her illness and the thought of her continuing to live here makes me shudder!  I tried to kick her out already and many, many people  (including my father–my mother’s ex-husband) have said, “Tell her to go.  If that doesn’t work, you may have to call the police to have her evicted.”  And on the other side of the coin, many, many other people think that what we’re doing for her is noble and that family is the most important thing in the world.  I’m here to tell you, I do love my family!  I love them more from a distance!  And having said that, just because I love my family does not mean that I have to LIKE them.  As a matter of fact, I do love my mother.  I just don’t like her very well.  She is not a nice person.  Not even a little bit.  She’s a bitter woman and if she were not my mother, I would not be friends with her.  I don’t even think I’d be nice to her.  And, I’m not exactly nice to her now!  She irritates me to absolutely no end.  I hate her defeatist attitude and her cynicism…

I am not the woman I used to be–since she’s been living here.  I’m the angry neurotic teenager I remember being all those years ago.  I feel angry and frustrated all the time.  I don’t like being in the same room as she is in and I hate the way that she smells (that of nasty cigarettes!)  She throws her ashtray in my trash and my whole kitchen smells of stale cigarettes.   I used to roll my eyes when my step mother and father told me not to throw my butts in their trashcan because it made it smell bad.  Now, I understand.  At least it was only their pantry…not their entire kitchen.  Blech!  Oh well.

I guess I can only complain so much before it gets old.  I better get running.  I have to be to work at 5 and it is 3:20–means I need to jump in the shower and feed the dogs before I get going for my oh, so wonderful 3 hours of work!  Blah.  If you made it this far, congratulations! :0)

TTFN

Hi all!  Sorry that I haven’t been around much!  I’m working again and my husband is gone right at the moment.  Don’t worry.   Not deployed, just in training and he’s been gone for sometime now!  Kind of looking forward to having him home for a while! 🙂

As for me, nothing much is new.  We bought a new house in C. Springs.  It doesn’t really have any of the things that we were looking for in a house, except that it does actually have a fireplace, that’s the only thing about this house that had anything we ACTUALLY wanted!  I think we just got wrapped up in the whole thing.  Ah, well, we’ll know for next time!  I can’t even take a bath in this house cuz the tub is shallow and the hot water heater doesn’t produce enough hot water to fill the entire tub (yeah, shallow tub that can’t be filled with hot water–tells you how big my water heater is!)

There is a nice view with this house, it’s what I refer to as the $20,000 view cuz that’s how much more we paid for this house than the house that had ALL of the things we wanted–like a two car garage and a fenced yard!  Anyway, I’m not complaining…it’s mine anyway.

Dogs and cat are doing well here!  Gizmo doesn’t really try to get out and when he does leave, I don’t think he leaves the yard.  Codi and Casey are learning to get along and play better with each other.  Since I work now, they have been spending quite a lot of time outside alone–left to their own devices which sometimes spells trouble–especially since Codi’s a lab and if you’re at all familiar with how labs can get when they’re bored…well, let’s just say, he’s decided to chew on my vinyl siding and other interesting things!

I quit smoking a month ago.  After the 2 week mark, I almost started smoking again, but decided to find out about acupuncture and I have been doing that for almost 3 weeks now.  Interestingly enough, I used to have pretty severe headaches…but ever since I started acupuncture, my headaches have almost completely gone away!  It’s really amazing!

Well, that’s all I’ve got for right now!  Thanks for reading! 🙂

Hi all!  I know that it’s been quite a while for me and I hope that you weren’t waiting too anxiously for me to come back.  I do apologize for the update.  My husband and I moved successfully from Germany to Colorado Springs.  My family lives in Denver, so it’s just about a 75 mile drive to see them on occasion.

Since the last time I updated you, we moved, my mother was evicted.  She is currently living in her car and without a job in sight.  I think I have a better chance of getting a job than she does at this point.  Granted, it’s only been 2 year for me 3.5-4 for her…

Anyway, not much else to report.  Will get to see my husband over Columbus day weekend  and he should be home for good by Thanksgiving, so here’s hoping! =)

Despite having gone out to eat for three meals this week, my weight-loss seems to be on track. I started at at 170 on Wednesday and have nearly hit the 165 mark. Granted, most of the weightloss that I’ve seen this week is probably due to losing some water (more like retention), but it’s a start.

I’ve started eating AT least two fruits a day and increased my water consumption by nearly 200%. Everyday this week, except for yesterday, I’ve made my two lap trek up and down the infamous hill. Today, I managed to do three laps, which I thought I could go another lap, but my knee was bothering me, so opted to just go home. Codi was done, too. He was ready to call it a day.

Tomorrow, I’ll keep it up at 3 laps until I feel comfortable and confident in those and increase it from there. Starting Monday, I’m going to have Rob help with some strength training–that is sit-ups, push-ups and dips.

It’s been 3 weeks PAST the date that we were told that we would be getting orders and nothing!  Rob’s tried to call several times, to no avail.  He’s also sent several emails that haven’t been responded to.

So, what’s the #1 question we get asked?  Where are you going?

What’s the #2 question?  When are you going?

I can not answer them because I do not know.  I ALWAYS qualify my answers with:  We still don’t have orders yet, so nothing is set in stone.  The only question I can answer with confidence is (and I qualify this with: I have only KNOWN this for less than 1 week!):  When is the Change of Command?  11 Jun at 10 am.

Anyway, tomorrow night is the BN CDRs farewell dinner.  It promises to be fun.  I have to get some stuff done for his wife that I promised to do…why am I such a lazy slacker?  Meh, I thrive on deadlines and it’ll get done…if at the very last second!

Monday, Rob and I are going to take the battery on a trip to Europa park.  Tomorrow, Rob and his 1SG will have to do vehicle inspections and I NEED to get that permission slip typed.  Man, I’m glad I KNOW how to write one of those!  All those years teaching gave me one good skill…lol!

Friday is the BN Org day (friendly competition between the batteries–good food, good friends–lotsa girl talk! 🙂

Then, the week after we land right on the changes of command.  3 of them that day.  Starting at 8 am.  I am video tapping the ceremonies for posterity.  I figure it’s a nice bookend to the command.  That reminds me, I’m going to need to get that bad-boy charged…3 hours worth of battery time…might not make it!  I’ll have to see if I can get another battery this weekend…not that I’ll necessarily need another battery in the future…it’s just something else to buy and clutter up my already cluttered house!  How do two people, two dogs and a cat accumulate so much CRAP!?

I found out yesterday that a friend that I went to high school with committed suicide on Saturday.  He had a wife and an adorable little girl.  I feel so sorry for that family.  In 8th grade, one of the girls I went to school with committed suicide and that same year, another friend of mine’s dad committed suicide.  What a sad situation.  The Army is trying to stop people from committing suicide and they require all Soldiers regardless of rank to attend a Suicide prevention class.  I’ve attended many of these briefings because I am the FRG leader and I invite the Soldier’s family members to attend as well.  That’s just one of the differences between being married to the military and civilian life!

Anywho, I need to get busy.  I woke up nearly 2 hours late this morning–the dogs didn’t even try to wake me up, either (strange!) and so they had a late breakfast.  It’s after 2pm and I haven’t eaten anything yet, either.  Need to get it into gear because I still need to go for a walk and find a way to replace those calories that I’m missing for today.  I just don’t feel up to it…maybe because it’s overcast here, today.  It’s not as warm today as it has been in the recent past.  Okay, so…buuub-bye!