Yearly Heart Checkup

Well, today I was s'posed to see my cardiologist and have the yearly echo done to make sure the membrane that was in my heart stays gone. I panicked yesterday for a bit because Chrysler's auto strike meant the parts for my PT Cruiser got stuck in Denver, and we couldn't drive it. The parts got there this morning and they hustled and got it done just in time for us to go to the appointment (although it's still making noises ... just not the really bad ones). The Exploder is just not a happy car and we didn't want to take it to SLC. Hubby was s'posed to go with me, but something happened at work this morning with some other Tongans being horrible to him (he doesn't speak Tongan but he understands it, but they figured it was okay to bad mouth him and call him horrible names in Tongan because he wouldn't understand). It caused a bipolar crash of course, so he wasn't sure he could go but in the end, he went with me, even if he was a Grumpy Wumpuss the whole time.

Took Munchkin to my SIL's and then hubby and I grabbed sandwiches at Arby's and headed for the hills ... er, Sandy to the heart doc. Their Sandy office is sooooooo much closer than the one at LDS Hospital, and it wasn't nearly as busy, so we got done a LOT faster. I think we were there for 3 or 4 hours last year, but we were done in about 1-1/2 hours this year.

My heart is fine. Everything is good except my lipids, which they told me not to be on the meds last year since they can cause birth defects and we're hopeful we might get pregnant some time this milennium. They haven't checked them since then, but whatever. They just encouraged lifestyle modification, and the doctor (who is so cute my mom has a crush on him) said he hopes next time he sees me I'm holding a little baby. lol.

So, I brought hubby home and, well, he was still being a stinker, so I left and picked up Munchkin. On my way over to SIL's, I called the dealership again and the guy said, "bring it in and we'll do a test drive so we can hear what you're hearing." And then my PEPSI (which I wasn't s'posed to be drinking, but only had a few hours of sleep last night) exploded all over me and the car, so I called him back and said I'd come another time and then went to my SIL's. Cleaned up the car and myself a bit, and then every time I tried to leave, she brought up something we needed to talk about. So I was there for a couple hours. I love her, don't mind spending time with her, and I was hoping it would give hubby a chance to get some good sleep before we got home. Not the case. Took Munchkin to Wienerschnitzel for chili cheese fries (wasn't s'posed to eat them either -- NOT a good day), and when I got home hubby was still watching anime instead of sleeping. Mind you, he didn't sleep much yesterday and he didn't sleep at all today, and he had less than 5 hours before he was s'posed to leave for work. We sort of got into a tiff but he did go to bed. I'm gonna go snuggle up to him in a minute.

BEFORE the car and the heart doctor, I had my auntie do a foot treatment on me. It's like reflexology, only different. And it hurts like mad, not soothing like a foot rub. I don't think I've had one done since before Munchkin was born. After Munchkin was born, she was having problems with constipation and her meconium never really came all out, and she was really jaundiced. Had auntie do a treatment on her when she was a month or so old, and her next poop was the rest of the meconium. She still had some constipation, but she was a lot better after that. So on me today, basically, if you believe all that stuff, most of my organs are not functioning right, and my fallopian tubes aren't normal -- one was blocked and the other was "mushy" and sort of flat, so even though sperm can get through them, the fertilized eggs are having a hard time getting back down, especially in time to implant. She's very surprised I haven't had an ectopic pregnancy yet, and it explains why nothing is implanting. My thyroid is basically inactive ... my digestive system is sluggish ... lotsa stuff. So she said with the antiestrogenic diet I'm working on, and exericising, and getting a foot treatment every week, in about 3 months I should be functioning a lot better and can then try for pregnancy. I've been really emotional all day and obviously turned to comfort foods, but it could have been much worse. So yeah. There's my day.

Gonna go snuggle and have a nap or something, then either take hubby to work and get to work myself, or let him go to work and then work myself. *mwah*

Antiestrogenic Diet

Okay, this wasn't my idea. It was cc's. But I figured it can't hurt. I'm going to probably buy the book this weekend, but the gist is to go organic, avoid sugar and caffeine (although that is a little tricky since I sometimes need caffeine to get me through my shift), load up on fruits and veggies throughout the day with organic yogurt and eggs for protein, eat beans and whole grains and only fish for meat at night for the first two weeks, then add in other proteins gradually.

I started Monday, but I started my period Sunday, so I'm not sure where my weight is, but Sunday I was 247.6 and today I am 244.6, so whether that's from period bloat going away or the diet or both, that's better than I was. I'm not perfect at this, but I *am* eating better than I was.

Since I'm so darn sensitive to hormones, it occurred to me that the hormones in the food I eat could be negatively affecting my fertility. I'm talking to my homeopathic auntie about the diet tomorrow. She mentioned to me that my hormones may be out of whack, and if I don't have enough progesterone I won't be able to carry a pregnancy. She'll do a foot zone treatment and hopefully trigger some more of this stuff to release. I have an appointment with my midwife for next week to get my hormones checked and stuff, so hopefully something will help me release some of this baggage and get pregnant sometime soon!

Cars and Work and Kids, Oh My!

Hubby took the Cruiser in this morning and they dropped him off just as I was hanging up from my conference call. They need to keep it overnight because they need parts and it's not entirely safe to drive -- wheel bearings going bad in both front wheels.

Thank heaven I got the extended warranty on that thing. Bad wheel bearings in both front wheels can be very expensive to replace due to the labor costs -- having to remove brakes, rotors, drums, whatever, just to get to the bearing. So yeah. Happy dance, prayer of thanks, etc.

But the Exploder has a tire leaking air and hubby still needs to go to work tonight. We haven't driven it since my brother brought it back in August ... which is just over two months (although my math in my head just a minute ago said three ...). So I took it to the gas station and put more air in it (bro had done the same while he'd had it for the weeks they were here). We'll have to deal with it more permanently later -- still wanting to sell it, but right now, I guess I'm glad we didn't yet.

Other than that, the conference call went well this morning -- nothing bad dropped on us, at any rate. Not really any good news, like closing down India, came in, but that's okay. I didn't really expect it to.

Munchkin went on a field trip to the Timp Cave a few weeks ago. It was a pretty big deal and turned out well. Today, they took a field trip to a grocery store and a library and a park. They ate lunch while they were out. She has gotten so grown up about some stuff, like when they asked who wanted school lunch the week before the field trip, she stood up so she got counted. Before this year, she would have panicked and not known what to say. lol. But she's good. Happy.

I'm sleepy, but need to get a bit more work done before she gets home from activity day. then i'll make dinner and have a nappy. yay.

Happy Houey

Made an appointment a couple weeks ago for our poor car to get checked out at the dealer since it's making not-good noises. Boss lady called a mandatory conference call for tomorrow. At the exact same time I'm s'posed to be at the dealership. Hopefully hubby really takes the car in.

Conference was good -- not that I remember much of it now. My niece and nephew slept over Saturday night, and they were pretty good, but about an hour after hubby went to bed Sunday, their parents came over and everyone started yelling and my brother-in-law POUNDED on our bedroom door. I was upset, but BIL is hubby's friend, and I just figured he wanted to see him. Hubby didn't come out, but I sure heard about it that night. They finally left. After I put kiddo to bed, he got all snuggly with me, but something happened that set off an argument, and we were up until 5 a.m. arguing. GAH. I hate nights like that, but y'know, now I know why I don't remember much of conference this time.

It's like as soon as I start to feel the Spirit more and start to get more determined to live the way the Lord has told us to, Satan sticks his big fat nose into my life and marriage and, well ... tries to destroy us. He's so annoying.

Let's break his kneecaps.

I tried to dye my hair today. Yeah, didn't work so well -- I thought the black dye from before had faded and gone away enough to try something lighter, but I was oh so sadly mistaken. So, my roots are the shade I wanted to about 2 or 3 inches, and then the hair is still dark and not anywhere close to the other. BUT I found my hairdresser's phone number (in my cell phone of all places) so I'm calling her tomorrow.

I'm also calling the midwife tomorrow as I am NOT pregnant and she said to come in if we were having problems getting that way. Well. We are. And not because of fighting most of the time ... That's probably the worst fight we've had in a really long time. *sigh*

I sure love him though. And he loves me, so I think we're a happy family ...

PS, I forgot! We watched Blades of Glory with Jon Heder and Will ... *blank out* from Elf ... and Bewitched ... Anyway, we watched that Saturday night. It was HILARIOUS, but had a lot of inappropriate humor (jokes about sex addiction, gays "they're making ice skating even gayer than it already is", incest, etc.). If you're sensitive to that stuff, I wouldn't recommend it. But Jon Heder was very good and even though he did have a scene in blue briefs (*snort*), he didn't swear, he did speak Japanese (he went to Japan on his mission), and he wasn't the one feeling someone up. AND they were totally making fun of that movie about the hockey player becoming a figure skater starring DB Sweeney. Not that I can remember the name of THAT movie, but I remember having a huge crush on DB. LOL. That's all I'm gonna say on the matter.

I gotta get to work.

Parent Teacher Conference

Had PTC with Munchkin's teacher last night. I was in a bad mood when I left, an even worse mood when I walked up to the table and another mom RAN to get there first, swiped the sign-in paper, then slapped the table and sat down hard in the chair saying, "We have a LOT to talk about," and when I was finally able to yank the paper away from her and sign it then take a vacant chair in the waiting area, a couple came and sat next to/on me and the husband kept getting up and down and every time he did, the wife hip-checked me to make room for her toothpick of a husband. Yeah, not conducive to a good PTC, right?

Well, Munchkin is a little angel this year apparently. Of course, her teacher being one of my high school friends and me being volunteered to be head room mom might have something to do with that -- Lark behaving better and the teacher viewing her through rose-colored glasses so she won't have to call me for any bad behavior ... hahaha. Munchkin is polite, settles down when the teacher asks her to, hasn't beat up any kids (whew), and is doing VERY well in school. She is missing 3 or 4 rather large assignments and still has an A and two A-'s (reading/english/written is the A, and spelling and math are the A-'s). With this being the first year for letter grades, she's rather pleased with herself. Her teacher was pleased as well and assured me that if math is where Munchkin struggles (and it is), then we have nothing to worry about since she's one of the top students in the class.

Now that's a PTC I would go to again, and I left in a much better mood than the one I was in when I arrived.

And yeah, I'll be calling THAT mom to take care of some stuff I don't want to do. hahahahah.

Geek Stewie Strikes Again!

For some reason, I can't post pictures of my toon's new pets. BUT, rest assured, I am still quite the geek.

I had to level my toon to 40 tonight so I could buy a mount to ride so I can move faster. I bought a blue ostrich. Yay me!

Then, it's Brewfest in WoW land, which means lots and lots of "beer". My toon got drunk (do I need to 'fess to the bishop for that?) and caught 5 Wolpertingers, which could only be seen while intoxicated (and the screen moves around weird and in and out and the toons don't run where you tell them -- much like *you're* drunk). My reward was one to live in an ale tankard to be a pet I can summon at will. A Wolpertinger is sort of like a jackelope, only it also has wings. Hilariousness. And then I thought, hubby has a toon here, too. So I pulled up his (which he's since given to me) and got her drunk too (he said at least I didn't get any of them pregnant), and got her a Wolpertinger as well. hahahaha ... The whole thing just makes me laugh.

Only, now I keep expecting this monitor to go all wonky, too. *snort*

Happy Dance!

Guess what hubby did while I was running little errands this morning? He put my office back in my office (except the computer -- he let me do that, hahaha). I'm so flipping happy. The Monkeys are just going to have to get along next time Small Fry visits.