Joys In My Life

I went in for my first acupuncture session this morning. I really liked it. It was very relaxing, just as everyone says. Some of the needles being put in I noticed a twinge, others I never noticed they were being put in. The wierdest part was the one spot on my outer right calf seemed really sensitive. I noticed that needle being there even while I was lying back and relaxing. It wasn't painful. It was just a tingling sensation that it was there. Very strange. I'll have to see if that point is in The Infertility Cure and what it might mean. I'll be going back a week from today for follow up acupuncture. I'm really glad I'm going this route. Yesterday, Tom and I were doing some gardening, and I noticed his allergies were really acting up. I didn't have a problem at all. It was really nice considering I'm usually the queen of seasonal allergies around here. I'm going out to lunch tomorrow with Julie and Al from work. They are all moving to an...

I got my questions from Sara a day or two ago. I haven't had time to work on my answers, so here they are now: 1. How would you spend your ideal evening? Other than of course having a candlelight dinner with Sting, I'd have to say having a dinner party at home with our good friends with lots of wine, anything my DH would cook for dinner, and creme brulee for dessert. 2. Do you believe that money, in any way, can buy happiness? I don't believe it can buy happiness. Lord knows I've been dirt poor and I've always been extremely happy. I do admit though to becoming a little spoiled of late, and I like how it makes up for the stresses in my life. 3. Name something you wished you could do in your life that you have not had time to do yet. Travel around the world, and not the touristy kind of travel. I like to travel in ways that you do what the locals would do. There are a lot of sights around the world I would like to see: the Golden Gate bridge, the Eiffel ...

Found a great link while on lunch break. It's a story of Bridget and Mark's wedding. http://www.geocities.com/ljhfanfic/venez1.html I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Good dinner tonight. Since Tom's out of town, I'm trying some new recipes. He gets to be a pain sometimes when I make something new. Most of the new recipes I've been trying are from Saving Dinner the Low Carb Way . Tonight we had Bistro Salmon, roasted rosemary potatoes, sauteed green beans with slivered almonds. Yummy! I'll make Tom try this next week when he's back in town. I can't wait to get back to reading The Baby Trail (see prior posts for link on Amazon). I'm really enjoying this book. It is hilarious. I thought the part where she sets her friend up on a blind date with a rugby player friend of her husband, the blind date acts like a jerk, and then he shows up at her office to apologize wearing a Neanderthal-man outfit was too funny. I can't wait to see how it works out. I also have to admit I spend an inordinate amount of time online these days trying to search infertility bulletin boards for women who've had good luck with TC...

I had an overall good weekend. Got the beginnings of AF on Friday. She officially arrived on Saturday. Not to get to personal, but I think the TCM herbs may be working. Things were a lot less clotty than they usually are. AF is usually not painful for me, but lots of clots and very heavy. It really hasn't been very heavy, and I've only seen a few small clots, but nothing as bad as it usually is. Went to nephew's birthday party Saturday afternoon. Went out with DH to a friends on Saturday night. I think I had too much to drink. I felt very off all day Sunday. Sunday we went to the new house to pick out selections on tile, cabinets, etc. It was exhausting. I think one of the best things was that I cleaned up a bunch of Hot Spots on Saturday morning, including lots of receipts and stuff to update the checkbook. And Sunday night, Phoebe got a bath, washed her hair, watched Charmed Season finale, cleaned my upstairs rooms, and exercised on the elliptical machine for ...

I'm so ready for the weekend! It's Friday afternoon. I'm here at work. Lots of things are at a standstill. I started getting AF this morning. It's 3-4 days early. That means this was a 23 - 24 day cycle. Hopefully my herbs will start kicking in the next few months and straighten that out. I've been eating lots of healthy foods: oatmeal at breakfast (no sugar with raisins), lentil and rice soup for lunch, and trying to make nice dinners at night. Other than the ice cream I've been allowing myself at night for family dessert and the 1-2 cups of coffee a day I'm still needing. I've been OK. I need to cut those out though. Tom will be in NYC overnight for work. They're doing some kind of power thing out there. So it's just Phoebe and I tonight. I've planned for us to go grocery shopping tonight and then get lots of cleaning and clean up some papers at home. Hopefully it will be a productive evening. We're picking up Tom at th...

It's amazing how TV (even the cheesiest of shows) can make you think about your life. The premise of the season finale of Gilmore Girls is that the daughter (sorry I haven't memorized their names yet, even though I'm loving this show) wants to quit Yale as a prominent publisher who she interned with for two weeks tells her she'd make a great assistant for someone, but that she wouldn't make it as a journalist. He also told her that he's really good at sensing these things. I also had a moment like this when I was in college, but it did the opposite. It was my Engineering Advisor. He was also the head of the Electrical Engineering Dept, which was my specific major. I had to tell him that I had to work around 30 hours a week in order to support myself financially. He told me to quit school, work full-time, and go to night school to finish my engineering degree, because there is no way I wouldn't flunk out if I had to work. I ignored everything he said, ...