I'm Coming Out of the Closet!

I finally put a link (a very *small* link) to my blog under my siggy picture on The Nest. I had been debating about it for a while, but I've made some pretty cool friends on that site, and everyone seems nice, so I figured: why not?

I can't decide if I like this template or not. The Fleur-de-Lis has long been one of my favorite symbols... but I think it takes away from the brown, pink and blue color scheme I had going for a while. Oh well, I never keep the same template for long anyway.

So, I was reading an article about Nadya Suleman (the octuplet mom) and it made me so incredibly angry. I am very live-and-let-live, I have absolutely no issue with people having more children than what is considered normal. But this lady has blown the concept of having a child WAY out of proportion. First of all, she's living with her mother, so she can't even afford her own place to live. Second, she already had a whole freaking tribe of kids before the eight that she just gave birth to. Third, she just received (according to the article) $400,000 to $500,000 worth of donations from people who are sympathetic to her. Um, hello?! What the hell is there to be sympathetic about? This lady is freaking insane. I do not want my tax dollars going to her... I'm really feeling like the only reason she had those kids was for publicity and funding. It's disgusting... and knowing how many wonderful women there are out there, who are having issues getting pregnant, who are dealing with infertility and with the difficulties of adoption, it just really makes my stomach turn. And another thing, if she is getting so much money from donations and the government, what the hell is she doing living with her mother and using food stamps? Just another case of a complete moron who'se learned to abuse the system.

Makes me f*cking SICK.

AW: My husband is the shit, yo.

Russell got me an iPod! Score!!!!

I've wanted one of these for a long time... and now I finally have one, in pink, which makes it that much more awesome!

I got this one!:

He bought it for me for our anniversary, which is coming up in 8 days. I seriously can't believe it's almost been 2 years since our wedding. It really doesn't feel that long.

I can't wait to start downloading music... I'm going to use it while busting my ass on the treadmill.

Hooray!

Lucky me!

My brother in law, Jeremy, came in on the 11th to live with us for a few months while he gets himself straightened out.

And I think, perhaps, that this will not be as stressful as I originally feared.

We picked him up on Wednesday about an hour and a half after his plane landed. Rush hour traffic near the airport is a bitch. We shot the shit in the car while we drove to Angela's (only the best pizza place EVER), and when we got to Angela's we laid down the rules and regulations without any complaints or issues. He offered to foot some of the bill for dinner but we were treating him. It was a really sweet offer, since he only had $20 on him. After showing him around town, we all went home and he helped Russell put some boxes into the attic. Not a totally eventful night, but it was a good start.

Well, Thursday night after I got off of work, I come home and he's cooking dinner, he's done the dishes, taken care of the trash and recycling, gone to search for jobs around town, gone jogging, taken the dogs out for us, and helped Russell figure out an electrical issue with some of the wiring in our house.

Fast forward to today, and he is raking the leaves in our front yard for us... which needed to be done about a month ago.

So I'm really enjoying his company and I'm REALLY enjoying all the extra help around the house (especially with the dogs!).

I hope that this positive streak continues. :)

Breakdown...

Well, I had somewhat of a break-down today. Luckily, I have my awesome friend, Drea, to be there for me. She seriously sat there and listened to me bitch and complain and cry hysterically for like an hour and said absolutely nothing... just listened. It was so sweet and I'm so lucky to have a friend like her.

She is the best friend EVER.

I'm just feeling so hopeless lately. I know it has a lot to do with my brother in law moving in with us, and the stress that I feel in regards to that. But it's also the feeling that internally, there is something wrong with me.

I'm sure there are plenty of people out there with irregular periods... but this whole "not ovulating" situation is really starting to weigh heavily on my shoulders.

As if that wasn't enough, I'm also stressed out about money. I have such a headache.

On a more positive note, today I received some of the birthday gifts I ordered for Russell. I'm pretty excited, they actually looked really nice. There are still many more to come, but just getting these was kind of refreshing. Getting stuff in the mail is always fun! Plus, I love when our UPS guy delivers... he wears the craziest things. It's about 30 degrees outside, so it's definitely cold, but I'm wearing a long sleeve t-shirt, thick black sweat pants, and a heavy jacket and I'm fine. The UPS guy that delivers here came in wearing a beanie with a hat over it, a neck warmer/guard, two jackets over his UPS shirt, and a thick pair of pants with what I can only assume were at least two pairs of socks under his boots. He's also not very nice... he is the least sociable person I've come into contact with up here... so that kind of makes it even more funny.

As far as TTC goes, I really have nothing interesting to report. But then again, I usually don't... I'm wondering if I should just make my blog a daily journal type adventure as opposed to the chronicle of me attempting to get pregnant. I think it might be a bit more amusing that way.

If I decide to do that, I can regal my readers (well, *reader* for now) with awesome stories of my day as opposed to just "I'm not pregnant / I am pregnant / I haven't ovulated," etc.

I think I'll do it!