navi sorry hon, life's shit at times. Ah well, i'll raise a glass to your shiny new cycle, full of possibilities!
Sidney - my doc recommended temping for 2 reasons - because its the only way (except for blood tests) you can confirm ovulation for certain (OPK's won't do this) and so that you can prove you are ovulating prior to seeing a doc with potential TTC issues.
Here's what i've learnt in a nutshell. Sign up for fertility friend, you can put your temps in each day and it will build your chart. Buy a basal thermometer (they're more accurate than a normal thermometer). Set your alarm each morning for a time before the earliest you ever wake up/get up (Eg if you get up normally at 6am set it for 5.30am). When the alarm goes off, take your temp (do NOTHING before this, eg. don't get up, don't go to the loo, don't wriggle around). Record your temp in fertility friend. Simples.
Fertility friend will do the rest (and there's plenty of stuff to read on there for more info). But essentially you stick your temps, all other symptoms (including CM/OPKs etc) in there and it will predict your ovulation date. A temp drop and then rise confirms ovulation (whereas a positive OPK can potentially indicate a surge but not ovulation). Temps post O that stay high are a good indicator of pregnancy.
With a cycle where you have taken temps you can confirm you have O'd, when you O'd (again OPK's won't always help with this) and whether you therefore DTD at the right time. With a few cycles like that (and no BFP) you have some ammunition to say to the doc, I am O-ing, I am DTD at the right time and still nada. Which is what me and OH are trying to do (if we don't get pregnant before then that it) however I keep managing dodgy temps and not enough DTD lately