I googled PCT & got a few different reasons. One said a few hours after BD, another said it depends on when the clinic does the testing. If the testing is done first thing in the am, then you BD the night before. If the testing is done in the afternoon, then you BD in the morning. Well at least I have something to wonder about now, if I don't have something then I'll start going crazy! I need something since I can't stalk my chart anymore!

Yuck to the mouse hunt. I HATE MICE!! One time DH & I saw one in the kitchen and I was up on the counter in 1 second! That night I bleached the entire kitchen! Mice are so dirty to me, so I freak when I see one. It's inevitable out here, as soon as they are done in the fields, here come the mice! My mom told me that peppermint keeps them away. Maybe in the spring I will plant it around the house! When we first moved in, we didn't have the vent covers on yet (we did a lot of remodeling) and as I'm sitting on the couch, a head pops up from the vent! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

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Karyn, I'm sorry about the mice! Horrible! The worst for me isn't actually the mice, but the poop. When I worked at the state capitol in Boston, we would work a lot of late nights, and there were mice EVERYWHERE. They would scurry across your desk while you were typing, or dig their little claws in and climb up the cubicle partitions. We would find mounds of poop on our desks when we came in the next day too. SO GROSS. I hope you can get rid of them.

Steph - congrats on the weight loss!

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Thanks for all the encouragement, guys. Im gonna try to psyche myself up to go walk tonight, just the short one, 1 mile. And stretch. I want to be able to do splits and high kicks again. I used to do ballet too...which I think would be great for me right now. Being at the barre is a very 'zen'-like experience. It totally brings your focus to breathing and balance and controlled relaxation. It's the closest thing I know how to do that looks like relaxing is barre exercises. I used to kick a$$ at all this stuff.

Karyn ~ I was on dance team in high school...I used to be able to do all that stuff. Pink gold is something that is gaining popularity -- most of the time right now, they are using it as an accent on white gold, but you can find earrings, bracelets and stuff like that. Tri-color gold jewelry, with or without diamonds, is gaining popularity too. Some rose gold is really pink, some of it is more copper-y colored, like a penny. Depends...

I just realized I forgot to do the quarterly taxes (they were due postmarked on October 31st)...did I ever mention that in my spare time ( ) after the jewelry appraisals, I do the bookkeeping too? Dammit...now we're going to have to pay a penalty.

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OMG Emily I got goosebumps when I read crawling across your desks! I don't find poop very often. The only spot I have seen it is in the cabinet under the kitchen sink but it was only a few pieces. Now I vacuum out my cabinets once a month and wipe them down. I know it sounds crazy but once I see a mouse or poo in a certain area, then it drives me crazy. I think I would freak if I found a mound of poop. I would probably rip everything out of my house and scour every inch of it. DH of course finds it hilarious that these mice freak the sh*t out of me and turn me into anal bleach lady.

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There's actually a funny story about this lawyer who was eating a chocolate chip cookie at his desk while some of us were talking to him. He noticed some crumbs and started to pick them up and pop them into his mouth. He said "crumb. crumb. crumb" with each piece he ate. Finally he was silent, looked up at us, and said "NOT a crumb". He ate mouse poop!!

And the Senator wouldn't let us use traps. He would try to catch them in the recycling bins and "release" them into the hallway. Like those mice were never going to come back!

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OMG! I am LMAO! That is SO gross!

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Euuuuuuuwgh!


"CRUMB!"

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I loved that dude. He was hysterical. He's got some super high level position now and could probably give me a kick-ass job. Sometimes I miss Boston a lot. I sorta wish Juan would be willing to move there, but he's got such a good job here and it's hard to work in masonry in a place where it snows and is freezing for a good chunk of the year.

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Emily, I knew that story wasn't going to end good!

(I wonder if Steph's next "blinkie of the day" will have a mouse in it?)

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Ask and ye shall receive...

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ewwwwwwwwww

Ya'll are making me laugh today!

I want pizza. I think I am going to eat pizza for dinner.

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Steph you always have things to crack me up!

Lauren - Pizza sounds good! We had pizza Friday night, and I had parmesean garlic breadsticks. I'm making meatloaf tonight, which hopefully by the time we eat, I will actually have a taste for it. I want something on the grill but it's so windy outside, the grill would not stay lit. I could barely get the door to our house open! mmm now I want pizza.

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I want anything I don't have to make! I'm hoping DH gets home first so he has to cook

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We had chicken rancher pizza tonight YUM!

Lauren - Those aren't Christmas decorations already are they??

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Hello all! In reference to your post coital question...yes, I had it done and I was swabbed roughly 3 hours after BD. Funny story with this that I don't think that I shared. It wasn't funny at the time, in fact I was in tears from embarrassment, but looking back on it is funny.

I got to the doctor's office within two hours of BD, right on time for my appointment. The nurse has me unrobe and put on the gown tied in the front. She then instructs me to wait and the doctor will be in. Well, I wait and wait and wait and wait. Meanwhile, DH's boys are starting to slip out. I am trying to clamp my whoha tightly closed (ala Kegels), but it's useless. The boys slip out. I am embarrassed b/c this makes a large wet spot on the white tissue that you sit on. I have to get up and get a kleenex to wipe, but am afraid that if I get up, more will come flying out. I also have this fear that as soon as I do get up, the door will come flying open and everyone will see me. I finally get my courage up and take care of business. The longer I wait, the sadder I get. I am sad that I even have to be there, naked, waiting for a doctor to swab me within hours of BD. I start to cry. I get worried that they forgot about me. I creep to the door, open it and feebly call out, "is anyone there?". The nurse comes and tells me that the doctor has just returned from delivering a baby and will be in in a moment. The whole time I'm sitting there naked as a jay-bird the doctor's not even in the office!!!

Not funny at the time, but pretty silly now....

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Jo~ HA! That is so funny, but so true!

Bec~ YES! They are!!! I am so excited!!!

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DH and I went for pizza! It was so good. We have the best little pizza place down the road. It is my weakness!

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