Just a little update.

I have about 10 minutes before I gotta start getting ready for work. *le sigh* So I thought I'd take a few to update since it'd been a bit.

I added a link over there ----> that lets you "stalk my chart." Funny story about my adventures in temping... this morning, when the husband came to wake me up, I had already been somewhat awake for a few minutes. I had already rolled over and taken my temp... but was still holding onto the thermometer in my right hand. So in he strolls to get me up... and, as usual, I want no part of it. So he asks, "Are you going to get up now?" I mumbled out, "No." He asked again. I mumbled no again. So he proceeds to try and tickle me.

Little did he know I was wielding a secret weapon.

So I raise my right hand with my thermodagger ready to plunge. But instead of the threat I had hoped it would send, he only burst out in laughter.

Oh well.

In other news... today marks my "fertile window." So it's time to focus, troop!

Off to shower and get ready for my day...

Cycle day 1... again.

Well, my original plan of waiting to test until Saturday was a bust. I actually ended up testing from 8 dpo until this morning at 13 dpo... all being negative, of course, since Aunt Flo came to visit me at work today. Which I almost expected, really... I had seen a trace of blood yesterday, but I had hoped it was implantation bleeding. But when I started feeling really crampy around lunchtime today, I knew what to expect when I went to the restroom shortly after that.

So, in addition to the OPK's this month, I'm adding BBT charting as well. Also started taking baby aspirin (81 mg) and Vitamin B6 (50 mg). Even though I don't have a luteal phase defect (at least not to my knowledge) nor a clotting disorder, I figure it still can't hurt.

I have to admit, though, I'm bummed. Had I gotten pregnant with this past cycle, I would have been due on my birthday... which would have been neat. But, I am going to accept that it happens for a reason... and that everything has a time and place in the grand scheme of things. It's just tough waiting for it to tick around to that time occasionally.