Happy New Year to everyone! It's hard to believe that we are already starting a new decade. Time has gone by so fast, but I'm definitely looking forward to what this year will bring!
Since most people usually reflect on the past year, I thought I'd do something different. I'm going to write a list of a few things that I'm looking forward to this year.
1. Moving into a new house.
2. Getting away from the stinky neighbors. (okay 1 & 2 kinda go together)
3. Practicing my motorcycle riding skills this summer.
4. Celebrating with friends as they bring new babies into the world.
5. Hiking to Pikes Peak (hopefully!)
6. Congratulating a former co-worker on her retirement.
7. Planting flowers in the Spring.
8. Finally starting IVF in August.
9. Working on getting my 6-pack abs back.
10. Snuggling on the couch with a cup of hot chocolate.
11. Sending care packages to my husband while he's deployed.
12. Building the relationships and friendships I have with people.
13. Taking cake decorating classes with a friend.
14. White water rafting!
15. Watching the sun set over the mountains.
There's so much more that I could write, but for now, it's a good start for me. The only bummer part of 2010 that I can think of is that Hubby will be deploying for a majority of the year...hence why we won't be starting IVF until August. But heck, that's only 8 months away!
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Years Eve! Cheers to what the next 12 months holds for us!
Friday, January 1, 2010
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Neighbor Update (and other stuff)
Monday I went in to our friendly housing office to once again complain about the cigarette smoke from the neighbors. For awhile, it was actually getting better, but lately it has escalated once again. I blame the cold weather and the fact that our neighbors don't like to go outside and smoke when it's cold (okay...just to clarify, Colorado's version of cold is nowhere near what we had in NoDak.) And I was thoroughly upset when we came home from a Bible study on Sunday night and found our entire house smelling as though someone was in there smoking while we were away. So Monday I met with the lady again to find out what could be done.
In a nutshell, here's what we were told: They called the neighbors and asked what their timeline was for getting a house off-base. Apparently they told the housing office that they'd be out in 3 months (yeah right. They've already had 4 months and haven't moved an inch.) Well, the housing office (HO from now on) told them they could move into a different house here on base. They refused. So the HO called us. They told us about the 3 month timeline from the neighbors and said that we had 2 choices: we could either stick it out in our current house for the 3 months until the neighbors move, or we could move into a different house here on base. The only catch is that our 1-year lease would restart.
Yesterday, Hubby and I went to check out the new house. It's slightly bigger than the one we have now, and all on one level. The backyard is all jacked up and does need some work (typical for us it seems), but we don't have any wall-sharing neighbors. From the sound of things, we can either take the house now or wait almost a year for another house to open up and have the military move us. AKA I'd have to move all by myself again. We'll be taking the house now and moving shortly (very shortly) after the holidays. So, unlike Christina, who's neighbors are getting evicted, we're actually moving to escape our all-ready evicted, but can't find a place to live neighbors.
As for other news...I didn't realize it would be such a pain in the tushy to get my medical records for Dr. K!! I didn't get complete records from Dr. M's office, so I visited them today. I got a couple more things from them, but still isn't everything I need. So I've received my records from my HSG, and my stuff from Dr. M. The only thing I'm missing right now are my surgery pictures which Dr. M's office isn't allowed to give me (yeah...tell me how that works.) So I've contacted the facility where I had the surgery and am waiting on a call from them. Pretty sure I'm going to send the papers to Dr. K's office overnight. I've already waited too long for this stuff.
As far as Christmas goes, I'm completely done shopping (I think). Wait...nope. I have one friend to buy for, then I'll be done. The Christmas cards are in the mail; our one package has been shipped, and our baking list is done and the ingredients are bought. Christmas dinner's menu is still up in the air, but I really should work on that some since we're having a few people over for that night. Oh the joys (and stresses) of this time of year!
Oh yeah, and I found out yesterday that I didn't get the job I had the 3 interviews for. Guess it's back to the job boards once again for me (but maybe I'll wait until after this move).
In a nutshell, here's what we were told: They called the neighbors and asked what their timeline was for getting a house off-base. Apparently they told the housing office that they'd be out in 3 months (yeah right. They've already had 4 months and haven't moved an inch.) Well, the housing office (HO from now on) told them they could move into a different house here on base. They refused. So the HO called us. They told us about the 3 month timeline from the neighbors and said that we had 2 choices: we could either stick it out in our current house for the 3 months until the neighbors move, or we could move into a different house here on base. The only catch is that our 1-year lease would restart.
Yesterday, Hubby and I went to check out the new house. It's slightly bigger than the one we have now, and all on one level. The backyard is all jacked up and does need some work (typical for us it seems), but we don't have any wall-sharing neighbors. From the sound of things, we can either take the house now or wait almost a year for another house to open up and have the military move us. AKA I'd have to move all by myself again. We'll be taking the house now and moving shortly (very shortly) after the holidays. So, unlike Christina, who's neighbors are getting evicted, we're actually moving to escape our all-ready evicted, but can't find a place to live neighbors.
As for other news...I didn't realize it would be such a pain in the tushy to get my medical records for Dr. K!! I didn't get complete records from Dr. M's office, so I visited them today. I got a couple more things from them, but still isn't everything I need. So I've received my records from my HSG, and my stuff from Dr. M. The only thing I'm missing right now are my surgery pictures which Dr. M's office isn't allowed to give me (yeah...tell me how that works.) So I've contacted the facility where I had the surgery and am waiting on a call from them. Pretty sure I'm going to send the papers to Dr. K's office overnight. I've already waited too long for this stuff.
As far as Christmas goes, I'm completely done shopping (I think). Wait...nope. I have one friend to buy for, then I'll be done. The Christmas cards are in the mail; our one package has been shipped, and our baking list is done and the ingredients are bought. Christmas dinner's menu is still up in the air, but I really should work on that some since we're having a few people over for that night. Oh the joys (and stresses) of this time of year!
Oh yeah, and I found out yesterday that I didn't get the job I had the 3 interviews for. Guess it's back to the job boards once again for me (but maybe I'll wait until after this move).
Friday, December 11, 2009
Catch-Up
So I'll try to make this short and sweet. Key word - try. No guarantees though.
Thanksgiving was fun. We went to my parents and spent the weekend there. My best friend from high school also got married during that time, so we celebrated with them too. Amazingly, we decided to do Black Friday shopping and it was completely manageable! I was shocked! Not to mention we got almost all of our shopping done that day. In fact as of now, I think we're completely done with Christmas shopping! It's odd...I've never been done this early before.
So for Thanksgiving, my brother drove to Texas to bring his ex-fiance back to SoDak. She's actually a lot nicer than my brother depicted her back when they were dating/engaged. We got some quality bonding time in while we scrubbed the walls at my brother's new place (which is a complete dump).
So the job that I had a phone interview and real interview for, I ended up having a third interview last week. This time I met with the recruiter who actually makes the decision for the office I think. At the end of that interview, I was told they'd have an answer in the next couple of days. That was last Wednesday. Here it is over a week later, and I still haven't heard anything from them. *sigh* I'm beginning to really dislike job hunting.
This past week, Hubby and I traveled to Texas for our Orientation meeting to start IVF. Aside from crappy weather, our GPS taking us to the completely wrong area, and an extra couple of hours of driving time, we made it there safely. I was pretty excited for the orientation because I thought that meant we'd really get the ball rolling and be well on our way to starting IVF soon. Yeah, that so wasn't the case.
One of the doctors did the meeting and basically went over everything that I already knew when pertaining to IF. I was a little bored, but then I realized that not everyone in that room was to the point that we are. A lot of couples were, but not everyone. I did learn that they are not able to do FET or PGD screening. I also learned that the meeting was basically an introduction to their abilities and limits as a facility. Then we got the wonderful news - we'd have to do an initial consult with a doctor before they'd even put us on the waiting list for IVF. Say what!?!?!!? Hubby and I weren't pleased. Here we had traveled over 15 hours to find out that the 20 minute meeting was nothing. And we were told we had to attend before we'd even get on the waiting list. During Q&A time, I asked Dr. K. if there was a possibility that we could do monitoring closer to home or if we had to stay there. Yeah, that was a big fat no. However, that did help.
As most of the couples were filling out the questionaires to get started with the whole initial appointment stuff, Hubby and I discussed what doing things there really meant. Basically it meant we'd have to make another piddly trip down there to meet with an RE just to see if we could do IVF. Then, we'd have to wait another 6-8 months before we could start any treatments. So we'd probably be twiddling our thumbs for a year before anything would get done. We debated if we just wanted to spend the extra money (okay, it's like 5x higher) to see an RE closer to home. We also discussed trying to meet with a co-worker of Hubby's and his wife to see how their IF treatments are and if they like the facility/doctor where they go. Meanwhile, Dr. K. came over to us and asked where we lived. We told him Col.o.ra.do and he seemed pretty surprised that we'd drive that far. He was super nice though. He stood and talked to us for awhile and, come to find out, he actually knows my doctor that referred me to him - they applied for residencies together.
But anyways...Dr. K asked us if we had come all the way down there just for the meeting and we replied "Yeah." He then asked if we had anything planned for the rest of the day, which we didn't. Then, to our shock and surprise, he asked us if we wanted to do our initial consultation that afternoon so we didn't have to come all the way back down for another short trip - we'd be all set and ready for IVF. I looked at Hubby and we instantly agreed - heck yeah!!
I didn't have any med records with me, so we basically went off the questionaire and the discussion with Dr. K. He did an ultrasound and everything looked good. (What's funny about that is the other RE walked in while Dr. K. was doing the scan. Great way to meet a doctor while your naked as a jay-bird and laying on a table with your legs spread and the love wand shoved up your hoo-ha. haha!)
So now the ball's in my court. I have to get all my records, surgery pictures, and HSG films and send them to them. I'm hoping that I'll be able to scan everything and e-mail it to Dr. K. He said once they get all the records, the team will review them and see if opening my tubes would be a possibility or if there was another treatment plan they could do before they jump straight to IVF. However, he was also going to put us on the IVF list for August 2010. (Hubby is supposed to be deploying for most of 2010 once again. Hence the long wait. Otherwise, it would have been in March or April when we could have started.) He said that most of our stuff should be able to be taken care of via e-mail and then the next time we go down there, we'll be all set to start IVF. I'm so excited!!
So that's been the majority of what I haven't blogged about lately. It seems like I've been running all over the place and not getting too much accomplished. This time of year always seems to make me feel that way.
Until next time...
Thanksgiving was fun. We went to my parents and spent the weekend there. My best friend from high school also got married during that time, so we celebrated with them too. Amazingly, we decided to do Black Friday shopping and it was completely manageable! I was shocked! Not to mention we got almost all of our shopping done that day. In fact as of now, I think we're completely done with Christmas shopping! It's odd...I've never been done this early before.
So for Thanksgiving, my brother drove to Texas to bring his ex-fiance back to SoDak. She's actually a lot nicer than my brother depicted her back when they were dating/engaged. We got some quality bonding time in while we scrubbed the walls at my brother's new place (which is a complete dump).
So the job that I had a phone interview and real interview for, I ended up having a third interview last week. This time I met with the recruiter who actually makes the decision for the office I think. At the end of that interview, I was told they'd have an answer in the next couple of days. That was last Wednesday. Here it is over a week later, and I still haven't heard anything from them. *sigh* I'm beginning to really dislike job hunting.
This past week, Hubby and I traveled to Texas for our Orientation meeting to start IVF. Aside from crappy weather, our GPS taking us to the completely wrong area, and an extra couple of hours of driving time, we made it there safely. I was pretty excited for the orientation because I thought that meant we'd really get the ball rolling and be well on our way to starting IVF soon. Yeah, that so wasn't the case.
One of the doctors did the meeting and basically went over everything that I already knew when pertaining to IF. I was a little bored, but then I realized that not everyone in that room was to the point that we are. A lot of couples were, but not everyone. I did learn that they are not able to do FET or PGD screening. I also learned that the meeting was basically an introduction to their abilities and limits as a facility. Then we got the wonderful news - we'd have to do an initial consult with a doctor before they'd even put us on the waiting list for IVF. Say what!?!?!!? Hubby and I weren't pleased. Here we had traveled over 15 hours to find out that the 20 minute meeting was nothing. And we were told we had to attend before we'd even get on the waiting list. During Q&A time, I asked Dr. K. if there was a possibility that we could do monitoring closer to home or if we had to stay there. Yeah, that was a big fat no. However, that did help.
As most of the couples were filling out the questionaires to get started with the whole initial appointment stuff, Hubby and I discussed what doing things there really meant. Basically it meant we'd have to make another piddly trip down there to meet with an RE just to see if we could do IVF. Then, we'd have to wait another 6-8 months before we could start any treatments. So we'd probably be twiddling our thumbs for a year before anything would get done. We debated if we just wanted to spend the extra money (okay, it's like 5x higher) to see an RE closer to home. We also discussed trying to meet with a co-worker of Hubby's and his wife to see how their IF treatments are and if they like the facility/doctor where they go. Meanwhile, Dr. K. came over to us and asked where we lived. We told him Col.o.ra.do and he seemed pretty surprised that we'd drive that far. He was super nice though. He stood and talked to us for awhile and, come to find out, he actually knows my doctor that referred me to him - they applied for residencies together.
But anyways...Dr. K asked us if we had come all the way down there just for the meeting and we replied "Yeah." He then asked if we had anything planned for the rest of the day, which we didn't. Then, to our shock and surprise, he asked us if we wanted to do our initial consultation that afternoon so we didn't have to come all the way back down for another short trip - we'd be all set and ready for IVF. I looked at Hubby and we instantly agreed - heck yeah!!
I didn't have any med records with me, so we basically went off the questionaire and the discussion with Dr. K. He did an ultrasound and everything looked good. (What's funny about that is the other RE walked in while Dr. K. was doing the scan. Great way to meet a doctor while your naked as a jay-bird and laying on a table with your legs spread and the love wand shoved up your hoo-ha. haha!)
So now the ball's in my court. I have to get all my records, surgery pictures, and HSG films and send them to them. I'm hoping that I'll be able to scan everything and e-mail it to Dr. K. He said once they get all the records, the team will review them and see if opening my tubes would be a possibility or if there was another treatment plan they could do before they jump straight to IVF. However, he was also going to put us on the IVF list for August 2010. (Hubby is supposed to be deploying for most of 2010 once again. Hence the long wait. Otherwise, it would have been in March or April when we could have started.) He said that most of our stuff should be able to be taken care of via e-mail and then the next time we go down there, we'll be all set to start IVF. I'm so excited!!
So that's been the majority of what I haven't blogged about lately. It seems like I've been running all over the place and not getting too much accomplished. This time of year always seems to make me feel that way.
Until next time...
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