We're not obsessing, we're Just Shagging! Part III

Welcome back brassica and nervous. Nothing much to report except I'm on CD41 and don't think I've ovulated. Which is extremely annoying given that I thought I had pant snot a while back (although I did think there wasn't that much of it, and wondered why my temps hadn't risen - doh!) and then put myself on a 2ww which didn't even exist.

No sign of ovulation yet, so I reckon I'm on for at least a 60 day cycle. Still annoyed at my mum who doesn't see why this is a problem and thinks I'm being dramatic for seeing a doctor, and makes comments like, 'oh goodness, you really do want a baby don't you?' in a voice I would have found patronising when I was 7. Grrr. Tempted to say 'well if you'd bothered listening to me when I was a teenager I'd have got it sorted out years ago' but restraining myself...

Hope everyone is okay. Fresher's week over here. Trying not to catch the flu, or to be jealous of all the carefree drinking I can see being done

Oh NervousNelly I'm with you on getting through a mountain of washing. I've only been away for 5 nights, but have to do parents laundry as well as mine and DS's. DH gets home tomorrow and I can bet he hasn't done any while he's been at his parents place!!!

No idea if I'm in with a chance this month as not sure if ov'd or not yet and my pant snot has been all over the place (is usually a very reliable indicator). Actually just feel to tired to care. Have had a brilliant week travelling around Scotland, but now just want to sleep and not have another CP and not have to spend all day in the car or sleep in a lumpy bed...

Have mostly caught up on the week, but it's just to much for my tired little brain. Waves Hello to Chocoflakes and SpareRoom. Boo for all the upset-edness of last week (also much Hugs and wine for those in need) and heres to a better week this week.

It wasn't quite as bad as it sounds, don't worry. There were plusses to offset the washing I had to do ;)

Had a very busy day today, not overly enthusiastic about going back to work tomorrow, but that that's the downside of holidays I suppose! srs yes somewhere very lovely but have decided to not say where. Given some of the information I share on here, I'd hate if anyone I knew "outed" me .

Thanks miffles. Yep true true! I can also buy clothes without worrying about them becoming too tight too soon !

nelly ..... Cant believe they lived in your house AND didnt clean up after themselves. I would have been livid! Welcome home anyway, did you go anywhere nice?

Sorry to hear about ERTD SRS. That does suck indeedeth. Going with our theme of looking at the positives - it means you can hang out with us for another month!! :)

Welcome home Nelly. Not impressed with the people who were staying in your house. Surely they should have washed their own linen (and made up your bed again for you).

The new choco-weetabix are amazing. Love them - but DH and I end up eating them for a late night snack as well as breakfast, so the box only lasts 2 days!

Obviously oneid translates as one is. My phone is too smart for it's own good

Oh I wish- having been away for 2 weeks, the first 3 were sheets and towels from the people who stayed whilst we were away and oneid beach towels. My problem is not too many clothes but a too small washing machine :( ;)

Nelly - wow, fifth load of washing??? You must have a giant sized wardrobe!

ERTD has arrived in full flow. I found out in the morning when was shifting DD into bed with us. I then got immediate, nasty cramps, made worse by DD turning sideways in our King bed and literally booting me in the stomach and out of bed. So eyemask in hand, I fled to The Spare Room. If I'm honest, I went because I was upset about you know what. WHy am I so hung up on this already? DD is only 18 months, but I really want another baby now. I lay there listening to DH soothing DD (who wanted mummy) back to sleep, feeling mean and ungrateful and greedy.

takethat - thanks for the explanation. I might try that. I'll definitely be checking the, umm, elasticity of pant snot as its alot easier to do...maybe not try the joys of furkling just yet miffles. By the way, well done on all that painting!

josie - glad you've got your medication now - hoepfully you'll be on the mend in no time.

Hello everyone, just a quick check back in from the frozen north - brrrrr it's cold!

Eskarina I use the iphone app called period tracker to - ummm - track my periods . Saves me having to write it down and as you always have your phone near you somewhere, it's easy to do. Not much use if you don't have an iphone though?!

Cereal - currently Special K red berries. I'm partial to weetabix too, but only if so drowned in milk and sugar I can see my teeth fall out . Porridge if it's cold (does that count) and cinammon grahams or rice krispies if I'm feeling nostalgic and only need it to fill me up till 9.30

I don't feel so bad about the green painted patch in our lounge, that is supposed to be behind a painting, but we made the test patch too big - about a year ago I think? We've painted the dining room since we moved in, and I did the spare room but haven't quite finished as the door still needs done . And as for our kitchen, there is not a single drawer in it so we have to keep our cutlery on a tray on a shelf. The wall tiles were nicotine brown - now painted a slightly better blue. And the floor was also creamy brown tiles, these have been covered temporarily with slate effect vinyl. Temporarily, 2.5 years ago . Glad we are all a bit the same .

Josie glad you got drugs! Hope you feel better soon, labour must surely seem easy now (oh if only we could get pg first, even though we aren't trying, but just shagging, etc etc )

Now, where is brassica .

Off to go and put on the 5th load of washing, then off to put the empties in the recycling. That might take a while :)

Oh, and I have a love/hate relationship with breakfast in general, and cereals in particular. However current breakfast of choice is Special K Chocolate & strawberry

It's miserable here - cold, grey, and raining a lot.

Josie I hope you feel better soon.

Miffles Good plan with keeping a diary of the exploits of my AF. I just hope I can remember to do it. If I'd just come off the pill the buggering about would be more understandable, but I've been off it since feb/march and had relatively well behaved cycles. The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that I didn't ovulate either last month. No pant snot, no sore breasts or stabbing pains in side (alternating each month!) not even my normal explosion of spots.

We did meet the previous occupants of the house. They seemed normal enough, no green hair or orange clothes! But they painted every single room in the house a different colour: lounge dark purple and beige, bathroom pale blue, hall& stairs green, then the 3 bedrooms were orange, blue and purple.
I was unfair to DH yesterday. We made huge changes to the lounge/diner when we first moved in, and I love it now. I've also painted the two smaller bedrooms.

I'm having a grey and grumpy day. Came home from church and burst into tears. DH came home and wondered what on earth had happened to me. I had no answer other than no-one really talked to me at church and the parents of creche children were useless at tidying up. Think I must be hormonal.

josie - really glad you've got the antibiotics now, and a meal at your fave restaurant into the bargain. Hope it all starts to feel better soon. It sounds bloody miserable but you're going to enjoy that meal SOOO much more than usual. You'll have room for two puddings and a starter I reckon!

I don't have to furkle for pant snot. Sometimes I have so much I reckon it has to furkle for me And my favourite cereal is the oh-so-healthy option of Weetos. I'm very interested in the new choco-Weetabix, but until they invent nutella-filled cereal hoops I'm always going to feel there's something missing in the mornings

Afternoon everyone

Just a quick post - phoned dentist on friday but they just said to keep the tooth clean and use corsodyl mouthwash and after the hung up I cried my eyes out! Attempted to eat egg foo yung friday night but have had nothing solid since then so I'm starving, there's only so much scrambled egg I can eat! Anyway, phoned dentist again saturday and got an appt at 7.30pm and she said I'd cleaned it enough but gave me some antibiotics too so hopefully soon I'll be able to eat again and DH said he'll take me out to our fave restaurant once I can eat. Woke up this morning and the wisdom tooth on the opposite side and top is coming through again and I have DH's cold! Feelin rather sorry for myself right now!

Gonna jump on the JS bandwagon to cheer myself up!

Sorry for the essay, and sorry I haven't caught up properly, back at work tomorrow so will do then, hope everyone is ok though

Bother - forgot to comment on Eskarina's bizarre AF. I don't think it's that uncommon to get spotting for a few days before proper AF. Have seen it on a few other threads. Although 2 weeks of spotting (from CD20 to 33) is maybe a bt much. You're right to call CD1 when the proper bleeding starts. Fresh blood. It may be that your cervix is responding to the SJing going on - that can happen too. Or just your body playing silly buggers exactly when you don't want it to. The number of people that say that once they start TTC their periods go haywire.
Keep a check of it and write it all down, in case you do need to see the doc.
For me - CD1 yesterday, after a flipping 13 day cycle. Grumup grump grump. 13!!! That is my personal worst. Sigh - this consultant better be good!

Good description, takethat. The only thing I'd add to it is about pant snot. SRS - it seems you have to furkle to find the mucus. At least, it never ends up in my pants! (or maybe that's cos I never ovulate ). Anyway, Brassica (where is she, btw?) is our furkling queen. You may have to stick your fingers up your fanjo to find the mucus. Whilst you're there, you may also investigate the level of your cervix apparently!! Not that many of us are any good at that one, including the midwife amoungst us!

Right - today is a day of proper relaxation. I realised I had 2 weeks off and never had a single proper lie in! This is due to all the decorating going on. So, today, woke up at 11.10, just made myself a cuppa and am going to climb back into bed with a bowl of cereal and my book. Then have a hot bath (sore muscles from aforementioned decorating) and decide what next. May go for a walk if the weather holds.

Eskarina - your kitchen sounds delightful! Esp the artex walls painted orange!! Laughing at your opinion of the previous owners. Wouldn't it be funny if you met them once and they had spiky orange hair or wore orange and green clothes!
We have been here 18 months and have had a patch work of colours painted onto the walls for about 15 months. Trying to decide colours! But had to have the walls stripped and plastered as the previous owners had wallpapered over and over again and then painted.

Right - enough for now, I'm heading back to bed with a 2nd cuppa and my bowl of fruit and fibre. Random question of the day: Favourite breakfast cereal?

Hey SRS sorry for offering you drinks when you don't drink. What a useless suggestion . But thanks for the return offer of a cupcake! I do indeed eat cake .

I've been charting my cycles quite simply by taking my temperature using a basal body temperature thermometer every morning. It has to be a BBT thermometer because the shifts in temps you're looking for are very small and these thermometers will give you your temp to a hundredth of a degree. Do it at exactly the same time before you even get out of bed every day. After you've ovulated, it will rise by about half a degree. It only tells you when you've already ovulated though, so when the temperature goes up it's too late to conceive. So you need to combine it with all that knicker-checking you've already been doing , and look for egg white cervical mucus, better known as pant snot. You should get a few days of clear, slippery stretchy mucus which you can stretch between your thumb and your forefinger. It's easily recognisable once you know what you're looking for. When you have this, shag shag shag as you're fertile! The month I conceived was textbook: 5 days of ever-increasing pant snot, followed by a dry day and a temperature shift. Hope that helps!

And sorry for grossing you out miffles. I figured TMI is one of the new rules of this thread

eskarina I've never experienced that. I'd say CD1 from the full-on bleeding but I don't really know. If it happens again I'd recommend a trip to the doctors.

Hope everyone else is well. Over your hangover baby2b?

Wow Miffles - hats off to you and your repainting. We've been in our house just over 3 years now and I'm still trying to get DH to agree a plan of action for the kitchen. It has hideous spiky plaster on the walls, painted a dingy teracotta, and teracotta and bottle green tiles which clash nicely with aforementioned horrible walls.
I have a fairly low opinion of the people who lived here before us based on their interior decorating. Love what they did with the garden though

Right. ERTD/AF got me good and proper today. So is today CD1?? It would mean last cycle was 34 days (33 if you make yesterday CD1), not great but not horrendous, and at the longer end of usual for me. But I had little bits of bleeding from CD 20 onwards - most days, only enough to show up when I wiped. What was that all about then? Never had that before, so was convinved for a while it was implantation. Is it a freak occurrence? Is it my body saying Gnurrr to the idea of TTC? Or is it that we had ahem rather more JS from days 12-19 than we would normally (wayyy TMI, sorry) and my cervix can't cope.

Oops. Tried to do the whispering thing but failed. Ah well. I was never known for being subtle.

Ahh, thanks all. virtual hugs . Nothing like abit of good ol' sympathy, which of course, was what I as after .

baby2b, you're right. I did get a late positive last time. But Im not going to put my hopes up..

Hmmmmm. So must have knicker-checked about......11 times today, after the BFN. No sign of The Evil.

takethat - how do I the charting the cycle thingy? and p.s : I dont drink remember! I did however bake a dozen and a half of cupcakes, for the kiddies that were over (yeah yeah), and that helped lots

Cupcake anyone?

Evening all.

Sounds like good weekends are being had by all (except Nelly, sorry, but you have just had a lovely holiday )

We repainted the lounge Egyptian Cotton - fawny colour. SO much better! Very pleased. Bloody hard work though - started last night, knocked off at 11.30pm, then started again about 10am and finished mid afternoon. Then had to shop as had friends over. I have therefore decided to have a "me" morning tomorrow. DH will be going to church and I will have a proper lie in. Will go in the evening instead.

Oh - yuk and double yuk, takethat to puking stringy prawn. . I'll happily hear all about ppls pant snot, cervix position and exact colour of AF, but that really was TMI!!!!

Sorry to hear about your BFN, SRS. Hope you were able to enjoy your evening regardless, and it may well be that you get that postive soon.

Sleep well, one and all.

In gatwick, in transit, so not in chatty mood! But just wondering where brassica is? She's gone very quiet???

spareroom I suggest copious wine drinking. It will make you feel better and then baby2b and I can laugh at you tomorrow when we're no longer guzzling Alka Seltzer and you are . baby2b you are making me hungry. I'm making a crap dinner of leftover stuff from my fridge and boring old brown pasta. It will taste like crap and will not help my hangover. for your curry!

spareroom I also suggest charting your cycles (shhhh) You probably ovulated late. If you knew when you ovulated you would know better when to test--. In my defence, knowing this information has saved me lots of money on pee sticks and ramekins, and saved me from lunacy at least once. The other thousand times are just my own fault

I am sooo hungover today...but it was worth it for a fab night of cocktails. Waiting for it to be 6pm so I can go for a curry with DH. My hangover wants tikka massala, rice and nan...oh and poppadoms...and onion bhaji. Yum! Was too drunk last night for contemplating action, but managed to get in some jsing this avo.

Spareroomsleeper it's not over until the 'bitch' arrives and didn't you say you didn't get a positive until late last time? Fingers crossed for you.

There are a few of us having a tough time on here at the moment...lets hope next week brings far more helpful gps, consultants etc and plenty more opportunity for wine, jsing, orios or whatever makes us happy.