Peanuts Moment

Happiness is…
… packing for a weekend trip to squish your best friend’s new baby for the first time.
Bumming out is…
…stumbling across several expired Ovulation Predictor pee sticks while packing.

Hypochondriac Moment and a Spermy Question

I woke up this morning with a sore finger.  It is sore and it has a lump in it.  I couldn’t figure out what happened.  Then half-way through the day I remembered that I’m on birth control and I decided that it is a blood clot and I’m going to die when it reaches my [...]

Silver Lining to Birth Control?

So, Doc… if I forget to take one of these, will I get pregnant???
The very very good thing about BCPs is that they make your period go away. I knew it would happen, but it is still very enjoyable and surprising to have a 2.5 day period. I have a two-week extension on [...]

I Ummm Errr… & Reason # 167 Why I’m Glad I’m Not a Straight Chick

That magazine wants to publish my letter.  Good.  I had a good point.  But I asked them to edit out the curses.
Reason #167
I’m glad I’m not a straight chick because this birth control business makes me cranky.  God forbid you forget your lunch upstairs when we go down for recess. Heaven help you if you [...]

Silver Linings

I always manage to find them.
Silver Lining #1
Ok. According to my friends — not Dr. Otherguy who was too busy in his swamped, post-Yom Kippur office to explain things to me thoroughly– after I go off the pill in two weeks, I will get my period again and be at day one of a [...]

Two Letters

Letter #1
To editors of all women’s magazines with a demographic over 21 years old:
You know the article?  The one in which you talk about how working women should not put off baby-making until it is too late?  For example, in “Pink” magazine, the one in my reproductive endocrinologist’s office, the article was entitled, “Should Businesswomen [...]

B00beelicious

Why did they hurt?
That’s my big question of the day.  During my first TWW I was nauseated the whole month.  I was sure it was because I was pregnant.  A week later, I learned that I had an ear infection.
I have a few theories on the b00by pain, none of which have any basis in [...]

Blessed Star

My best friend , A always said I was born under a blessed star.  It has some truth to it.  Most things in my life have come to me fairly easily.  When I want something, I get it.  It still takes the usual amount of work and sacrifice, but I do eventually get what I [...]

My Invisible Friends

A calls you guys my invisible friends.
When I was taking the childbirth class with A, our educator asked each of us to describe how we deal with pain.  Some people said they keep it pent up, or want to be alone.  Some people said they scream. Some said they laugh.  I said, and realized as [...]

Speaking of Pink…

I did get to sleep early.
Then I woke up at 2 am, terrified that it was time to wake up and test.
I forced myself back to sleep.  I proceeded to have three dreams in a row in which I already took the test and it was positive.  Shiny, neon, glowing fat-ass pink lines.  By the [...]