Words of a Life

Still Consumed

An update, bullet-style:

• Saw Becoming Jane on Saturday night with a couple of girlfriends.  LOVED it.  But then, I'm a literary geek.  Honestly, I don't care if it's true or not; it's just nice to think that my beloved Jane Austen had a little love in her life. 
• Had a great time with the girlfriends.  Stopped at Maggie Moo's - if you have one near you, try the better batter with anything! YUM!  So busted the crap out of my carb limits!
• Had Dr. appts on Friday.  The endo went great (regular endo, not RE); he is super happy with my weight loss and numbers and I don't have to see him again for 4-6 months.  Yeah!
• Appointment with ob/gyn was OK too.  Got the general female stuff done.  Then talked for a while about the next steps.  I go in for the HSG test next month, then if that is OK, I start low doses of clomid.  Dr. L said it has worked great for his PCOS patients, of which I am one.  We talked about more options but these sounded good for now.
• I did OK with all of this info until Sunday afternoon.  In the back of my head, I guess I've still believed that we will be able to get pregnant without much intervention.  And my discussion with Dr. L dispelled that belief.  And it broadsided me on Sunday afternoon.  Broadsided me and kicked me in the teeth.  I got emotional and started crying and didn't stop for quite a while.  Chris did good - he just hugged me and said it would still all be OK.  And I like being able to still believe him when he says that.
• Went with a friend here on Monday night.  It was pretty awesome.  I'm processing a lot of stuff in regards to what I heard.  And it was so good to spend time with my friend.  She gets me, and that is very cool.
• Very excited about our friends coming to visit this weekend.  They're the ones who moved away in July.  I'm so, so happy to get to see them - and see my little twinks.  We're having a cookout on Saturday night, kind of in their honor, and then they will be staying with us that night.  Yeah!
• So not excited about working on the thesis - but still plugging away.  It has consumed nearly every free moment.  I think I'm going to take either Thursday or Friday afternoon off, or maybe all day Friday, if my boss will let me, to work on it and get the darn thing done.  I need a little more uninterupted time to work on it than I get in the evenings.  I have to ship it back out on Saturday to my committee.  Then they have 2 more weeks to review and get it back to me.  Hopefully this 2 week cycle isn't repeated more than once or twice more.
• I made a decision about something in regard to finishing my MA and walking through graduation ceremonies and I know some people will probably judge me harshly for it.  But I've received a blessing to do what I need to do from the other person involved.  I'll explain it  all later, but for now just need to shut up.
• Good guess by Cori - the Haiku series was about corn.  Major crop here in Iowa - corn and soybeans.  That it all I see when I look out my window, oh, and soybeans.  Cause, you know, that's all we freaking grow here.  I actually spent this afternoon at a field day, riding around on a hay rack, talking about corn and soybeans.  You will not believe the number of conversations I've had centered around corn.  Seriously.  I've even been to a corn palace.  Again, seriously.
• I leave you with another poem.  This one is a true story - believe it or not.  No, husband's name is not Brad; it's Chris.  And yes, Chris knows the story.  :)

Kissing Brad at Chevy's Bar & Grille

Needing to be swept away by passion

What I really feel are your hands on my ass,

Your fingers digging into the flesh

Of my ass, not a caress

More a grope, as your lips settle on mine,

Sweeping this way, then that before finding

The perfect spot and pressing home, shifting

Again, pressing lip to lip, now pulling away, giving

Me a chance to catch the breath I've been holding,

As I run my hands up your back, tugging at the folds

Of your collar and pull you back to me

Ready to make this the kiss just the beginning.

Yep, Still Here

Yes, I'm still here, just busier than all get out.  But busy with stuff I want to be doing and busy spending time with my favorite person!  Chris and I have been home together almost every night this week - an abolutely unprecedented feat!  Yeah! 

So here's a photo of one of the things I've been busy doing lately.  We took a whole bunch of high school seniors out water sampling on the Upper Mosquito Creek.  It was a gorgeous day, the kids were phenomenally well-behaved, and the entire day was a blast.  Plus we got some fantastic data to use as a baseline for my watershed project.  My co-workers are really good people but tend to complain especially about teenagers.  I think the coolest part of the entire day was that I didn't hear a single negative comment about the students ALL day from any of them.  These were really the best kids.  It was such a positive experience that our whole staff is already looking forward to next year.  Yeah!

Tomorrow night Chris and I and several of our friends are meeting for dinner and then are going to go see this in our little hometown theater; the little hometown theater that lacks surround sound, etc.  The guys are already complaining.  They'd much rather drive to the city (about an hour away) to see it in the big fancy theater, but at this point they are happy to be getting out of the house.  A couple of months ago, the guys started going to see movies together, movies that none of the women wanted to see.  First they saw this and then they saw this.  And they are already making plans to see this despite the fact that it doesn't even come out until July 4th.  But smart men that they are, they wisely decided to include the women on one of their outings and they're treating us to dinner to butter us up.  Aren't they cute?!  We're all actually looking forward to it.  There just doesn't ever seem to be enough time to spend time with good friends.

In other news, we joined a volleyball team tonight.  My friend D is a great volleyball player and, though I've never personally seen him play, I believe her husband J is too.  We, on the other hand, are not great, and I'm not even sure I'd give us a "good" label.  But we were assured that it's all about fun and not so much about fierce competition, which is very good for us.  :)  Rest assured I will be posting photos of our fun!

And I leave with you with one of my favorite photos of my darling husband.

I'll try to be back soon with some witty reparte'.

Have a great weekend!