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.

OPK Adventures

Lately, I've peed on a lot of sticks.

(In all honesty, that's a lie. I don't actually pee on the stick. I pee in a cup... one very special cup used only for this purpose. Then I dip said stick into said cup... well, it's actually a mug. But whatev. I digress.)

So yeah. A lot. At least one OPK a day since basically CD 5 (which was March 18th, 2010). Most days, two tests even... because I worry about missing the LH surge.

But each day that passed, I kept getting negative results. Very negative results. The test line barely registered, in fact (see photo below for CD 13).

Then on CD 14, the test registered darker than it had so far this cycle. I got excited. It was still a negative, but it was starting to get darker. Maybe I was one of the women that had the lead in to a positive OPK.

So, Sunday morning while getting ready for work, I decided to test for my surge. I peed, dipped and continued to flat iron my hair as the test "developed." Without much thought (almost forgetting about it, in fact), I glanced down a couple minutes later to see a positive OPK! I grabbed it, ran into the bedroom (where Husband was still sleeping) and shouted for victory!

See?

(Sorry about the yellow on the positive OPK test tip... but, you know, it is what it is.)

SO.

Yeah. We took care of bizness. Now I just wait. I'm going to try and force myself to not take a HPT until at least April 10th... which will be approximately 12 DPO (since I figure I ovulated yesterday). I'd even like to wait until about April 13th, if I can, in case I didn't actually ovulate until today or even tomorrow... or later. But, if any of you have been or are TTC, you know just how impossible it is to wait to test. So, we'll see.

Anyways... here's spreading baby dust... .·:*¨¨*:·.