Week of 2/12

[katespade]

What's up?

Randoms/vents/AWs/plans/etc.

[bk1]

DH planned a fishing day with his mom this week. He picked the best weather day - Wednesday. Lol. I laugh every time I think of him spending Valentine's with his mom. We don't really do anything so no biggie to me. I think if my Grandma is up to it I will make a big cookie in the heart shaped pan I have, pick up a pizza, and take the girls over to see her for lunch on Valentine's.

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The "return queen" is at again, I'll be doing a return and bugging retailers online to fix things for me. (My Mom calls me that because I impulse buy then return)

Other than that, we have a Shrove Tuesday pancake supper and a play date on Wednesday.

[katespade]

I don't think I have anything going on this week.

Working Mon-Thu, of course.
No plans that I know of for Valentine's Day.
We're planning to start working on the dining room portion of the renovation this weekend, since we both have Sat/Sun off.

I have a therapy appointment scheduled today, but I didn't sleep at all last night and I feel absolutely awful. I'm thinking that I might have to call and cancel, because the idea of getting up, putting on clothes, and leaving the house sounds impossible right now. Ugh.

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I'm weirdly obsessed with my avatar/display pic lately. I case you're wondering why it keeps changing.

[bk1]

katespade What are you doing in the dining room?

[HoneySpider]

Pretty normal week for me, no big plans for Valentine's Day, we're just going to order some food for delivery.

[katespade]

Feb 12, 2018 9:50:19 GMT -5 bk1 said:

katespade What are you doing in the dining room?

We're removing the popcorn ceiling, re-texturing it, painting walls and ceiling, putting in recessed lighting, adding crown molding and baseboards, and replacing all of the outlets and light switches. We're doing the same thing in the living room, too, along with painting the fireplace. 

[bk1]

katespade removing popcorn ceiling sucks. So messy. Sounds like it will be awesome though! Our crown molding and whatnot we added made a huge difference. Can't wait to see pics!


I just remembered! This week is the last week DH will be home. He starts his new job on Monday. So tomorrow I have a long, boozy lunch planned with my mom. So looking forward to hanging out and taking our time. Woot!

[katespade]

bk1 - Yeah, I'm definitely not looking forward to removing the popcorn! Luckily, we ran some tests on it while we were working on the kitchen, and so far it seems to scrape off in pretty clean strips. Hopefully, that means it will be mostly just time consuming and not too messy. Fingers crossed!

[pooh8402]

Popcorn ceiling is the actual worst.


AFM, I'm over here quietly freaking out until Friday. I have a bunch of laundry to do today, and I have to work on E's Valentine stuff, but that's not really going to occupy my mind.

Working Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Hoping they're busier than this weekend was. I literally didn't have a patient from 2300 to 0700 Friday night, and none at all on Saturday night.

Eye appointment Thursday.

Beta Friday!

[wineandcheese]

Nothing really going on besides getting back to reality. Currently doing laundry then food shopping since we have nothing in our fridge. I have lots of unpacking to do and cleaning today.

No plans for valentine’s day. I work and he probably does too.

[estrellita]

No Valentine's plans, but I need to go to the store tomorrow and get something for H. I'm too lazy to go today, lol. It'll just be something small.

Other than that, I should really be cleaning! Our parents and siblings are coming Sat to celebrate E's birthday, then his kids party is Sun, so I need to get ready for both! But instead of cleaning I'm finishing up the rest of The Magicians I haven't seen yet.. I'm almost up to the one H hasn't watched yet!

[ewall]

Good luck this week pooh8402!

@opal, I am a return queen, too.

Our biggest event this week is Fish Fry at church on Friday. Maybe we can convince my mom to babysit on Saturday for a date night. It will be our 10 year dating anniversary!

This is totally random, but in an effort to get DS to eat the bottoms of the boxes (cereal, crackers, etc) in the pantry, I dumped them all into see thru plastic containers. Except now DH and I are eating them...I guess we needed to be "tricked" into thinking they were new as well, lol. Whatever, eliminating food waste and saving me money in the grocery budget

[pooh8402]

Welp, my nurse just called me with the results of this morning's progesterone check--12. Fuck. So we're increasing the dose of my PIO shots and I have to give myself another shot now since I already gave myself my daily dose.

[amaranth]

No official valentine's plans. We had the entire weekend to ourselves and went on a few dates I will probably make a dorky love-themed meal with heart shaped pasta, red sauce, and a giant heart cookie.

I've been trying to find a winter coat I like that will keep me warmer. My $20 costco one just isn't doing the job in this zero degree weather. Can't decide if it's worth paying full North Face prices or not.


@opal I do that all the time. Right now I have 5 winter coats in my cart because I can't decide. I may order them all. LOL. I like your current pic!

ewall I keep wanting to put all my pantry food into containers because it's prettier, but I haven't felt like paying for that many nice ones yet.

bk1 Your H fishing with his mom is oddly adorable. My husband doesn't do anything with his mom and has nothing in common he could even try with her, but I love the idea of M still hanging out with me when he's an adult <3

pooh8402, Not sure what that means overall, but I am still praying for success!

[pooh8402]

amaranth, it means my body is not responding to the progesterone, or is processing it quickly. Progesterone is the "pregnancy hormone" and is needed to support a pregnancy until the placenta is developed enough to take over (about 10-12 weeks). Progesterone is normal produced by the ovaries. However, since I did a frozen transfer, we shut my ovaries completely down and they are not producing much of anything. All of my hormones are external right now. Basically, if it stays low, then even if this embryo is sticking, I could have a chemical pregnancy or miscarriage.

I need my level to be 20+.

Oh, look at LL Bean for a coat. I love mine, and with sales and coupons, I got it for like $110 shipped. It's rated to like -20 Fahrenheit I think, so plenty warm.

[estrellita]

Thinking of you pooh8402, I hope it goes up! I feel very over invested in someone else's hormones right now, lol.

[pooh8402]

Feb 12, 2018 13:46:53 GMT -5 estrellita said:

Thinking of you pooh8402, I hope it goes up! I feel very over invested in someone else's hormones right now, lol.

Haha! Yep, that's basically how I feel with all the TTTC ladies over the years. We keep each other very closely updated on that board, ha.

[MrsMB]

pooh8402 Rise progesterone, rise!!! Keep us updated! I feel like Friday can't get here quickly enough. I'm excited for you to get some good news!

We don't have Valentine's day plans. I'll try to pick out a few snacks for DH. I feel like I totally slacked and this is my favorite holiday! LOL I did ask DH to up his retirement account contributions as his Valentine's day gift to me. He did....so he's good there. He'll do flowers and a card though still

I'm going on my first girl's night since before I got pregnant with L on Saturday! Crazy. I'm looking forward to it DH will get home and take care of the kids and I'll leave then.

[luv2rn4fun]

Feb 12, 2018 13:46:53 GMT -5 estrellita said:

Thinking of you pooh8402, I hope it goes up! I feel very over invested in someone else's hormones right now, lol.

pooh8402- ditto all of this plus lots of prayers!

MrsMB- enjoy your girls night!

No real plans this week.

DH took us all out for Valentine’s Day Sat (to our favorite pizza and beer place) and I bought him some beer to take home while there. I might see if my step mom is willing to come over for a bit one night so we can go out but I feel uncomfortable asking right now after they just gifted us a suite for vacation and helped me out on friday for my appointment. I am planning to make valentines cupcakes for dessert and will likely make DHs favorite food for dinner (chicken parmesean).

I had planned to go to Disneyland on Friday (assuming we are all healthy) but found out we are blocked for the holiday weekend.

Need to run at least 4 days and normal chores.

My vent is that I had an ultrasound done Friday, which was part of my annual from last May and supposed to be billed as such. It was an ultrasound instead of a mammogram because of nursing. Mammogram would be covered but I got billed a $150 copay because someone put it in as a diagnostic test. I think they resolved it before the test was done but I haven’t been reimbursed the copay yet so I am having to follow up with my doctor to get this resolved. Oh, and everyone at the imaging center said it was basically a waste of time since not everything can be seen on an ultrasound (yet they are the ones who won’t do a mammogram and advised to do this test instead).

[christy082]

Fingers crossed pooh8402 💜

[grover]

No V-day plans here. We usually go for dinner the week of, but no plans to do so. This upcoming weekend we're traveling to MIL's bnb and we will probably go for dinner once by ourselves then hopefully they'll cover the other two dinners out.

[christy082]

We usually don't do much for Valentine's day but I happen to be off tomorrow so I had H take off too. ILs are babysitting and we're going to a matinee of Star Wars then a late lunch. We're in desperate need of a date.

Thurs evening after work my parents are coming to celebrate C's birthday. Friday is her actual birthday. I'm working a half day then going to Costco and the dollar store to get balloons. ILs are bringing great grandma for dinner to celebrate.

Saturday we have music class then I will be getting stuff ready for C's party on Sunday.

[ewall]

Our local Starbucks is the literal Worst. I tried to order something through the app (blonde espresso because I have a Star offer for it, plus a Star streak offer) and they were out of stock. How can you be out of stock of your main promo item right now?

Anyway, it worked out because I tried a new to me local shop. Got a delicious latte and they had mini king cakes! Looking forward to celebrating with cake after dinner tonight.

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amaranth: Online I hesitate a ton. I was going to order a new bra when I discovered a 32G for under $30 but I gave myself a day to think on it and SOLD OUT.

[katespade]

My dear, sweet, wonderful husband just brought home coffee and donuts. He had no other reason to leave the house, except knowing that I'm currently in a miserable amount of pain (thanks, CD2) and coffee and donuts would make me happy. He's the best.

[travelbug]

No Valentine’s Day plans for us. We both work, which is fine with me as I don’t love this holiday lol plus my birthday was last week so that’s my holiday haha!

My husband started his new job yesterday, and we are getting our taxes done tonight, wahhoooo! Hoping for a good refund!

I love 2018 so far!

[estrellita]

Does anyone else use tapatalk and keep getting a pop up wanting you to upgrade? I hit back every time and it keeps going to the next screen to pick an option, none of which I want so I have to hit back again. It's annoying the crap out of me!

[bk1]

Feb 13, 2018 14:30:52 GMT -5 estrellita said:

Does anyone else use tapatalk and keep getting a pop up wanting you to upgrade? I hit back every time and it keeps going to the next screen to pick an option, none of which I want so I have to hit back again. It's annoying the crap out of me!

Yes! Agreed, annoying.