Two quick things:
No!
THREE, three quick things.
And I’m working on the latest installment of Meet The Crazy Healer Guy/I Will Get You For This, Mom which I will post soon. With photographic evidence, thanks to Reality, who is just sick enough to ask for photos of my bruises. God love her!
#1: BeBop was freaking finally offered a permanent position at Super Dream Company! They made him the offer last week and now he’s just waiting for the official paperwork. Said paperwork comes with…drum roll please…insurance with some IF coverage! Amazing, really.
#2: I went shopping for my IVF outfit. Am I the only person who has done this? Can’t be. I used my upcoming procedures as an excuse to go here and buy a kicky pants/jacket matching ensemble and some cute t-shirts. Some t-shirts with inspiring messages scrawled across the front (like ‘breathe’) because Lord knows I will need all the help I can get when it comes to the retrieval and transfer.
#3: I am proud to announce the winner of the Name That Category Contest. But before I do, let me say AGAIN you people are frackin HI-larious! Your suggestions had me cracking up, and it’s hard to bring levity to the subject of IVF but you all managed to do it, so thank you. It was a difficult decision, but the winner is…
the lovely and talented SERENITY!
Her entry: Leggo My Embryo just had me cracking up. It’s clever and kitschy and I’m totally stealing it, unless of course she’s decided that holy crap, it IS clever and kitschy and she wants it back.
Serenity, as the grand prize winner, you have your choice of the following:
* The half-used box of OPKs I promised. (And by this I don’t mean half-peed- on, I mean I have 3-4 unused OPKs left over, just to be clear. Since even between us bloggers, sharing bodily fluids is a little weird.) Although since I cannot imagine you needing these, I am generous enough to offer you two alternatives.
[I know! Sit down, my friend, or you may get dizzy from excitement.]
* The super secret upside down Martini glass thingey I wrote about here. It is a small, laminated card with this crazy symbol on it (courtesy of my MOTHER, of course!) that is supposed to increase your fertility. Please note it has not worked for me, obvi, but maybe it will do the trick for you!
* A surprise gift of my choice (choose this one. Definitely this one).
Now, winning this contest comes with a challenge, which is that if you decide to claim your prize, it means I will be sending you said prize, provided you feel comfortable sharing your mailing address with me.
Granted, this is risky. (But often high risk brings with it big reward, my young Padawan.) I will know where you live or work (unless, of course, you determine this might be a good time to get yourself a P.O. box which is not a bad idea) but I promise you that I will not 1) share your address with anyone, especially my creepy neighbor who I suspect is just looking for someone to stalk; 2) sell it to some mail order company who will deluge you with Land’s End catalogs for the next seventeen years; or 3) show up unannounced at your home or place of business screaming "cyclesistah I AM HERE…let us embrace!"
(Although I would do this last one if invited and if you had wine.)
Okaaayyyy, moving on…either comment or e-mail me directly with your decision, I know it’s a toughie.
And to everyone else, again, thank you thank you thank you — you people ROCK.
Wow – maybe I am a stalker because I am the first one commenting???? Not really, i am just bored OD-ing on pineapple juice for my upcoming transfer…
CONGRATS on the job at BeBop’s dream job! That is so exciting!!
Oooooohhhhh, an IVF outfit…? I didn’t realise I could do that! Yay, I’m definitely going shopping now!
Congrats on Bebop’s dream job too!!
Congrats on Bebop’s job, the IVF outfit (who knew?) and to Serenity.
That is right, I am sick enough to ask for pictures of your bruises! I will be refreshing like a mad woman until I see them posted!
Huge congrats to Serenity!! I hope that this made her crappy Monday better.
Way to go BeBop! And to have some fertility drug coverage is amazing! Will you be able to use any of it with this cycle? If you can’t, I hope you never have to use it. Because that would mean this cycle worked. I am sure you were able to figure that out!
Oh, if you do show up and harass Serenity, stop by here on the way. It is headed in the right direction and I will bake you all kinds of great things!
Yay for the dream job. And YAY for IF coverage!!!
I forgot – an IVF outfit is part of the rules. You must have one for retrieval day.
Do you have your new monitoring appointment outfits? Because you have to have those. They are casual, but not quite as casual as the retrieval day outfit, but they are necessary. I have 3 pairs of cycling pants from my cycle in October. And no, they have nothing to do with cycling the sport!
Start shopping now! You will be thanking me when you are the envy of all the ladies in the waiting room!
We do get to hear what the surprise gift is/was, don’t we?
You know Mr Bea gets most of your posts sent to him via email. Just. Too. Funny.
Bea
Hubs and I have not started treatment yet, but I will be the first to remind him that this weekend, we will be SHOPPING for OUTFITS! Yip, most important!
Thanks for the first-thing-in-the-morning giggle!
And many, many congratulations to BeBop. Excellent news.
I snorted coffee out my nose reading this. I’ll send you my dry cleaning bill, k?
Dammit I should have read this last night! What a way to start my Tuesday morning.
First off, I LOVE the idea of a IVF outfit. I’m totally stealing this idea and getting something for IVF #2. In fact, I’ve already added a couple of items to my cart. 🙂
YAY TO BeBop about the Dream Job!!!!
And woo hoo I won!!! 🙂
Ok. So. I think I’ll pass up on #1. I like peeing on things (sometime I’ll tell you about the time I threatened to pee on a certain someone’s pillow if he didn’t see things my way), but I sadly lack in the “getting a positive” in the OPK department. (And HPT department too, come to think of it.)
And though prize number #2 sounds awesome too…
I’m in a risk-taking kind of mood. I’ll choose door number three please – the surprise gift of your choice. And, so as not to disappoint our readers, I promise FULL disclosure, with pictures, of said suprise gift when I receive it.
So. My email address is serenitynowinfertile at gmail dot com. Email me and I shall share with you my home address.
And of COURSE My Dear Watson there is always an open invitation to visit. Have I mentioned that one of J’s hobbies is wine making? 🙂
Congrats to Bebop on the job!! That is awesome news!!!
Well, now, Watson, had I known there was some special secret surprise award, I totally would have tried harder! Congrats to BeBop.
Lots of good news!
Congrats to Serenity!
Yay on BeBop’s job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#1 Frickin’ A! Congrats on that one. (I can’t believe I just said “frickin’ A” – that’s so, like, 80s talk, ya know?)
#2 Okay, did I really need another place to indulge my internets shopoholism? But of course I did!
#3 Congratulations Serenity!
go bebop.
well, i hope you ovary lets go of your eggo which then becomes your embryo.
i feel like we should all put our hands in a circle and shout “GO TEAM!”
who’s with me?
((SILENCE)))
as usual….no one ; (
Oh man! I missed out. I thought of one the other day….
IVF#1 You’re the one that we want!
Congrats to both Serenity and BeBop!
K
Congratulations to Serenity and BeBop!
And thanks for the much needed laugh today.
OMG, I thought that I was the only one who bought IVF outfits. Sean thought that I had lost my mind (well, what else is new?) when I told him that I needed to shop for a new outfit. That link has some cute shit-now, where is my credit card???
Congrats Serentity-pick the surprise gift!!
And kudos to BeBop on getting the job with Dream Company-can you give any specifics as to which company it is?
Oh! I’m glad I didn’t win because I thought it was a half-used box of OPKS–as in half-peed on. And I was just looking to collect some of Watson’s pee. For a healing. That I’m doing. With a healer.
Can’t wait to hear the story–and see photographic evidence!