Valentine's Day, money spending, and JM meet up...

Chris and I had a great Valentine's Day this year! He bought me some roses, heart candy, a very very sweet card, and a new spice rack for our kitchen! Yes, a spice rack...I actually prefer to get present for our house instead of for me. I don't really need anything for me. I bought him another hard drive for his computer, so now he has over 1 terabyte of storage space! OMG! That's awesome! He's so excited! Can you tell he's just a big 'ol computer geek? lol I had to work on Valentine's Day, but only until 7, so after I got home, we went out to eat at our favorite Mexican restaraunt, Mexican Inn. It was so good! I had chicken quesadillas and he had enchilladas. We also each had a frozen margarita. They were yummy. I didn't figure it would hurt to have one drink even though we're ttc. I don't think I've even O'ed yet anyways. So, it was a pretty good day overall. We got our tax return on Friday! We decided that we are buying furniture for the living room. We bought a few things for the house as well. We bought a new, really pretty bedding set, a really nice red knife set, and a steam cleaner!!! I'm so excited about the steam cleaner! Now, hopefully I'll be able to keep the awful stains our dogs like to leave everywhere out!

Lauren and I finally got the chance to meet in person last weekend! We hung out at her house and then went and watched Twilight! It was my first time seeing it in the theater! It was great! I could actually see when Edward sparkled! lol We had a great time! I got to meet Clint too. They were both so nice! Hopefully we'll be able to meet up again soon, and they can meet Chris this time. Here is like the only pic that we took...

Rambling...

We just got back from getting groceries, and it wore me out. lol I don't know why, I'm just so tired now. We got lots of good stuff. I bought a George Foreman grill too! I've been wanting one for awhile, and finally decided to get one. I'm excited to try it out. I bought some chicken to grill, so we'll have that one night. I need to look up some new recipes to try. It should be fun to try some new things and its supposed to be healthier for you too.

We're working on getting the house looking good now. We had a long talk the other night about Chris helping me out more around the house because I'm the one that does everything right now. So, he agreed that he would help out more. Hopefully he keeps his word on that. So far, he's been doing good. We've gotten a few things done. We finally put my X-mas decorations back in the storage room. We had lots of other junk that was just laying around like extra computer parts that Chris wasn't using and things like that, so he took all that stuff to the storage room too. When we get our taxes back, we're either going to buy new appliances for the kitchen since we didn't get to last year, or we'll buy new living room furniture. We'll see. We're finishing up a couple of painting jobs we never finished. I'm horrible about that. Starting some home improvement project and never getting around to finishing them. So, we're trying to finish all those little projects up, organize and de-clutter, and just give the whole house a good cleaning. We're just doing a little each day so that it's not so overwhelming. We should have the whole house looking good pretty soon. It's just the challenge of keeping it that way.

It looks like me and Lauren will finally get to meet on Saturday as long as nothing happens before then. I'm excited to finally meet her! She actually only lives about 30 minutes from my hometown. I will try to take some pics to share the experience. I'm a little nervous because I'm kind of a quiet person, so I don't want her to think I'm boring. hahaha I'm sure she wouldn't think that. lol

Next week, we plan on going to visit my family. We try to go up there once a month at least. We always have fun visiting with everyone. I wish we could see them more. Maybe someday we'll get to live closer to them.

I'm pretty much over my cold now. If AF would hurry up and leave then I'd be good. She is definitely kicking my butt this month! I've had really bad cramps the last 2 days and it's been heavy. I haven't had cramps that bad since I took provera to make AF start, and that was over a year ago. I wonder if I actually O'ed this past month and so this was a real AF instead of just breakthrough bleeding like when I don't O, and that's why I've had cramps and it's been heavier like they used to be. It would be nice to think that I actually did O. That's why I'm gonna try charting again. I hate not knowing if I O'ed or not. I think I'm gonna do vaginal temping this time though because it seems more accurate. Maybe this will be our month. The other night I showed Chris' Mom and Granny our baby stash, and the bedding set that I bought. They both LOVED the bee bedding set! They know we've been ttc and can't wait for me to get pg. His mom keeps saying she wants us to have her a grandson. I love it when they actually talk about it and are excited about it.

Ok, I'm tired now, so I think that I'll stop rambling and go to bed. Night.

I've neglected you again...

Ok, it's official! I am the worlds worst blogger! haha I haven't been on here since before I went to Michigan over 2 months ago! I've been so busy with holidays, birthdays, work, and other things that I haven't had too much extra time to update. Alright, I'll admit it, reading the whole Twilight Saga had me pretty busy too! lol I'm so totally obsessed with all things Twilight now. Chris hates it, but he's learned to deal with his Twilight loving wife. The holidays were awesome! We spent time with both our familys. Not too much drama that I recall, so that's always good. Since Christmas, we've had 5 birthdays, so we've been broke and busy! Things are going ok at work now. For awhile there, we weren't getting very many hours and I was thinking about finding another job. But it looks like things are picking up now, so as long as I keep getting my normal 30 hrs, I'll stay. TTC is...TTC. Just started AF again a couple days ago. Mother Nature is so cruel sometimes. I got as far as CD35 with no spotting, which is not normal for me, so I was getting a little hopeful. I decided to tell one of my friends at work about it, and not even 5 minutes later, I went to the restroom, and SURPRISE! There she was...no warning at all! Grrrr! It made me so mad. I told my friend that a sure fire way of making her come was to talk about being hopeful or POAS. lol After AF is gone, I think I'll temp again. It's been awhile since I stopped, and since my cycles seem to be regulating, I figure it's worth another shot. Hmmm...anything else going on? Not that I can think of. Oh, I'm sick with a cold. Have been since last Friday. It sucks, but doesn't being sick always suck? I just want to feel good again. Ugh. Oh yeah, and I'm planning on meeting up with one of my JM friends, Lauren one day hopefully this next week! I'm excited to meet her! She rocks and she loves Twilight too! She even went on a trip to Forks! It was awesome seeing all the pics! And Shannon is gonna come down so we can all go see New Moon together in November too! So excited! Well. I'll try to start updating this again now that I'm not so busy.

Had a little extra time...

So, it's now 3:20 a.m. I'm planning on heading to bed at 4, and waking up at 12. That will give me 2 & 1/2 hours to get around before heading up to my parents. Nothing went as planned today, but I survived. The house didn't exactly get cleaned as well as I would have liked. I ended up just barely having enough time to straighten up a few things, wipe down the bathroom, do a few dishes, and that's about all. Chris is responsible for getting the rest clean before Thanksgiving. We'll see how that goes. Anyways. I did get everything packed, and we went and got Chris some food. Something happened that we didn't plan though. Our toilet broke and started leaking all over the floor! We had to shut the water off and go to Home Depot to get the parts we needed. This was after water shot up in my face. lol It was straight out of a movie, I swear! I was messing around trying to get a part inside the tank fixed. No, I didn't turn the water off before! lol And the part that the water runs through popped off and water shot up and got me right between the eyes. LMAO! I'm glad Chris didn't see! He would have made fun of me so bad. We did get it fixed though. We also ended up having to run over to Chris' mom's house unexpectedly to take her something she needed. Well, I have about 30 more minutes before heading to bed. I think I'll go eat a little snack. I'll be back in a week!

Lots to do...

I'm so excited! Only 2 more days before we leave for Michigan! I just have to get through 5 and a half hours of work tonight, and then I'll be free for 10 days!!! I'm a little nervous about the drive up. We're not used to snow and ice down here in Texas, and with that being the reason my brother's wreck happened, we're all a little nervous. Anyways. I thought I'd go ahead and write in this now because I don't know if I'll have time to get on the computer much until I get back. We have so much to do tomorrow and Thursday before we leave. I have to finish straightening up the house, do laundry, and pack. We also have to go get Chris some groceries for while I'm gone. I'm gonna try to sleep pretty late Thursday so I won't be so tired since we aren't leaving until about 5:30 or so in the evening. We have to go get my check at 3:00 Thursday, then swing by and pick up Chris' sister, and then we'll head up to my parents house. Chris decided he didn't wanna have to drive 2 hours back by himself after we leave, so he invited his sis to go. I'll probably get a few snacks for the drive. I plan on putting all my new favorite songs on my mp3 player. The only thing that sucks is that I have this stupid cold! I hope it will go away soon. I've been sneezing like crazy the last 2 days. Oh yeah, we are definitely having Thanksgiving at our house with Chris' family. I told Chris he is responsible for keeping the house clean since I won't be home until the night before Thanksgiving. I'm glad I'm not the one that has to cook everything! And then after all the Thanksgiving stuff, hopefully I'll have time to put up the Christmas decorations. I'm gonna try for either Sat. or Sunday, but I don't know if I have to work those days, so I'll just have to wait and see. So, this will probably be my last blog until I return. When I get back, I'll hopefully have some pics to share.

What a day!

Ugh! What a day! I feel like poo! I have a sore throat, cough, and congestion in my chest. It was a long day at work. Not to mention AF showed. And I found out another co-worker is pregnant! She had been TTC with her BF of a couple months, who she left her girlfriend for, and then ended up going back to her GF only a day before finding out she was pregnant! WHAT!? Yet I can't have a baby!!! I also got to see an ex co-workers newborn baby girl. She was so precious! That's about the only good thing that happened today. It was also our dating anniversary, which we celebrated for 6 years before finally getting married and having a real anniversary, but Chris didn't remember! I even told him about a week ago that it was coming up and he still didn't remember. I didn't expect him to get me a present or anything, but he could have at least wrote me a sweet letter or gave me a card or something, you know? So, today has just not been a very good day all around. I'll probably go to bed here in a little while. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Life...

Hello blog, it's me again! I decided a few days ago that I wanted to start blogging more often, and since you can only talk about TTC so much, I figured I'd make this a blog about my whole life, actually our life, not just the TTC part of it. I worked on my blog layout for a few days, and even made the background image myself in photoshop! I'm very proud of it! I think it's pretty cool! So, I guess I'll just give a whole life update since it's been a few months, and then we'll just go from there, so where do I start?

Chris and I are doing great! Of course no marriage is perfect, but I couldn't ask for a better man to be married to! I feel very lucky to have someone who I truely enjoy spending time with and still miss whenever we're apart. Not to mention someone who my family adores! Sunday will be the 8 year anniversary of the day we met, which we always celebrated as our anniversary before we got married. We don't really have any plans to celebrate. I have to work. I'll make dinner and then we plan on watching the Christmas special on Comedy Central by Jeff Dunham. He is hillarious! My friend Chelsea from work got us hooked on him!

TTC is going, but not going at the same time. Chris isn't really the type of person to "plan" sex, so we pretty much just DTD whenever we want and hope that maybe we got lucky. Still don't think I'm ovulating though. I should know within the next week if we "got lucky" this month or not. Today is CD30 and I've been spotting all day, which is the norm for me around this time of the month, so I'm thinking AF will be here in a few days. I've been thinking about maybe getting some progesterone cream and using it to see if it might help jumpstart my body into O'ing. I've been doing some research on it the last couple days. I'm still trying to decide if I wanna do that or not. But we're pretty much at a stand still, until I decide to quit being lazy and find another Dr.

We've been spending lots of time with both our families lately. Well, not really LOTS of time with my family, but we've seen them a few more times than we usually do because of birthdays. Plus, I will get to spend a whole week with them starting next Thursday, although it's not really a good reason why.

We found out a few weeks ago that my Grandma has stage 4 terminal lung cancer. She lives in Michigan, so we're going to spend some time with her before she gets too sick. It might be the last time we get to see her, so I hope we will get to make some good memories. I haven't seen her in about 10 years, so I'm excited to see her, and the rest of my family members. We're driving up. It should take about a full day because we're driving straight through. There will be 5 of us going, so we're going to take turns driving. Chris isn't going though, so that will suck to be away from him for so long. I've got to make sure he has supplies aka food to last him while I'm gone. lol

On a side note. We just got through watching The Bucket List. Them showing what you go through when you have cancer, like the chemo, throwing up, etc. just made me so sad and scared. Sad that my Granny is/was going through all that right now. Scared to know that one day my parents, or even I might have to go through that. I guess since I'm getting older now, I'm getting scared about losing my parents more than anything. After almost losing my brother in March, the fear of losing anyone in my family has gotten so much worse. I can't imagine what it will be like when they are gone. I don't ever want them to have to go through something horrible like cancer! It's just so scarey to know that death is something that is going to happen whether we like it or not, and we have no choice as of when, where, how. I try not to think about it too much, and I hope it doesn't happen for a very long time!

Other than my Granny Esther, both our families are doing good. My brother is doing great! Planning on getting married pretty soon. All our nieces and nephews are getting so big! Zayne is such a big boy! He's in the process of potty training. The twins, Zarah and Zayden, just turned 1 on Nov. 2nd and they're starting to walk! Skylar has been learning how to write! We're getting to spend alot more time with Syndi, and she's talking so much more now. The other day Granny told us that Skylar told her that I was gonna have a little boy. lol She said that he would really be her cousin, but he'd be more like a brother to her. She's such a character. She talks like she's 25 instead of 5! lol

Work has been kinda bad lately. With the economy and everything, they cut our hours horribly! I only got 17 hours this week, and 19 hours this next week. I usually get about 30-35 hours per week, so it's a big cut! It's a good thing all I have to pay for is our groceries and gas for the cars! I don't know what we'd do if we had real bills! As it is, I don't know how we'll afford any Christmas presents. We'll work that out when it gets closer to that time though. I did get some good news though! When I first put in for next week off to go to Michigan, I was told I could have the time off, but I wouldn't be able to use my ETO to cover it, so I was going to have to go without pay. But this morning, as I was walking in, the manager was asking about my Grandma and asked if I wanted to use some of my ETO time afterall, because he could probably give me about 20 hours if I wanted it. I said that would be great with Christmas coming up and everything! So that made me very happy! The new store manager came a couple weeks ago, right before they started cutting hours. He's really strict, and not many people like him so far. He seems ok to me, just not very friendly. Our old boss was such a people person! He was crazy, funny, and loud. I miss him so much! He was my favorite boss ever! Maybe once the new boss starts getting to know us all better, he'll open up more. We're also doing very poorly on our G-sat. scores (Guest satisfaction), which isn't surprising considering they only have 4-5 people in the store to cover all the departments, run cash registers, and service guests! Come on people! But enough venting about that!

I think I covered pretty much everything. Overall, life is pretty good, a few things could be better, but I'm just counting my blessings! I'm excited about the holidays coming up! I can't wait to spend time with our families, and just enjoy it. I'm off to bed now. Goodnight.