Busy week

D's birthday was yesterday. She's now 33! We celebrated on Saturday by going to Canyon Creek Chophouse and to AMC to see Slumdog Millionaire. What a great movie!!
On her actual birthday we ordered pizza and had cake - which I decorated. To pull this off I worked from home without her knowing. I even got dressed in the morning and left home only to turn around and go back! This worked out well since I was also able to watch the presidential inauguration live from the comfort of my couch!
Here is the treasure chest cake I made (no reason for making it a treasure chest other than I thought it looked cool when I saw it online):

FYI = candy covered in chocolate frosting tastes gross... Oh well, I know for next time!

Brown Eyed Girl or Boy

Our current donor has Brown eyes. Using this calculator I was able to key in my info and our donor's info to find out that our child will have a 72% chance of having Brown eyes!
I guess we knew picking a donor with brown eyes (he is the first of our 4) that we'd likely have a child with brown eyes. I think it's cool.
In general, when we were picking a donor we avoided blonde/blue eyed. We were worried that my fair skin, blonde hair and blue eyes combined with someone similar would cause our child to be too fair. I'm sure other sun sensitive people would understand my desire to NOT have a child like me. I can barely function in the sun and need to wear SPF 50 sunblock. I hate it. I would love a child who is not sickly in the sun.

Donor #4

Lesson learned!!!!!!

I'm working from home today because there is a power outage that is affecting most of the subway line I use to get to work. Normally I'd be thrilled to get away with a Friday "work from home" day however I LEFT MY LAPTOP AT WORK yesterday!!!! So yeah, I got a zipcar from 7:00 - 8:30am just to drive to work to retrieve my laptop (I also went to the grocery store). Only one person saw me and I told her to pretend I was a ghost! It's hard to explain being at work and then leaving to work from home because you can't get to work because there is no subway.... yet you're there anyway.
So now I'm at home with my freakin' laptop - which I am NEVER leaving at work overnight again!

I want these..

Aren't they cool? I think I've become a dorky cat person.

I need a dog!

Hump day, Slump day

No exclamation marks today! <- I lied, I guess just one! (Or two).
A non-TTC post:
My former BFF was married last week and I've been spending the last few days piecing together the details of her wedding on FACEBOOK.
We first met when we were 11 and were best friends until grade 11 when we had a falling out. We had patched things up by grade 12 but things were never the same. Ultimately we went our separate ways and although we had some contact in the years after graduating High School it wasn't enough, apparently, for her to tell me she was getting married. It's not like I'd expect an invite but I thought maybe she'd share the news.
So that's that. She got married. I'm looking at the pictures of my former best friend and I'm wondering where time goes and how people grow apart.
My heart is aching.

New Clinic!!!!!

Check out all of the exclamation marks lately!!! But everything is so....!!!!

Our appointment went really well today. I wasn't expecting a huge difference during the first appointment but I walked out very happy. The doctor was very nice and seemed like she really knew what she was talking about. Things I like about the clinic:

1) There are only 2 doctors. One handles the IUI patients and the other handles the IVF patients. There are approx. 25 women per day at Cycle monitoring.
2) There is a doctor in the room during your morning ultrasound and they will review your results with you on the spot. This is to ensure plenty of "face time" with the doctor so you can ask any questions.
3) The IUI is guided by ultrasound. They said this is to benefit the patient because you are able to watch the procedure.
4) You are able to e-mail the nurse if you have any questions during your cycle.
5) They monitor your progesterone 1 week after your IUI.
6) They do not ship your sperm back if you do not use it!!! This is great news because it means I can decide during the cycle if I want to do 2 IUI. If I've already ovulated I'm not going to use the second.

So far they seem so much more patient focused. I like that I will get to see a doctor each day during cycle monitoring. This should really ease my hysteria of not knowing what is going on. The doctor reviewed my chart from the old clinic. She said my last cycle was excellent and explained how on day 3 you can predict how fertile you will be for that cycle. She basically said it was the perfect cycle to get pregnant and the only thing she would have done differently was to perform the first IUI on the day of my surge. I think that someone had mentioned this was their RE's protocol as well (Stacey?). Since we had our first IUI the day after my LH surge I was always worried I'd miss ovulation.
I have another appointment at the end of February. Of course that means we're sitting out next month as well. Our first cycle at the new clinic will be in March. I'm staying on Metformin although our new doctor thinks it is not necessary (after reviewing my bloodwork results). She said that since I'm already on it and I have no side effects there was no harm in continuing. We are also considering Letrozole (Femera) as an alternative to Clomid. I mentioned IVF and she said that she didn't think that was necessary at this point but it was an option.
I feel really good about all of the above!!

New Job!!

Well I landed a new job... but NOT the one I had applied for. This one is even better and I'm so so so happy about it. More details to come... once I sign the contract!!

Also...tomorrow is the big day at the new clinic. I can't wait to see what the doctor says!