jaysaint Getting it all down on paper…

Oh my LJ Friends, you have no idea how hard it has been for me not to tell you that I am pregnant.

Here’s what happened:

As we got closer to logging in our dossier with China, it became obvious that the increasing popularity of the program meant that we’d likely wait a minimum of two years for our baby.

So I suggested to Damon that we might take one more crack at getting pregnant. If it happened quickly enough it wouldn’t interfere with the adoption timeline. Damon said he was all for it, provided nothing jeopardized us going to China on schedule. While the bio baby was theoretical at this point, the Chinese baby is concrete to us and neither one of us was willing to do anything to fool with that.

The next part of the plan was fertility testing. We still didn’t want any treatments, but thought it would be good to know if there was any point in trying again. One of those tests for me was called hysterosalpingogram. A doctor injected dye through my reproductive system and then watched on a monitor to see if there were any blockages. We got the all clear, and the information that the test tended to enhance fertility for a few months. And that was all it took. About a week after the test I was pregnant, although I wouldn’t know it for a few weeks.

This all went on in early January. I’ll be 13 weeks tomorrow and am due 10/7. It’s been a little bit of a bumpy ride, complete with miscarriage scares, which has made it a little easier to keep the secret. But now I’ve seen fetus gymnastics on the sonogram and am starting to feel like we’re in business.

All of this also explains why I’ve been so absent from LJ. On one hand, I haven’t been feeling so perky. On the other hand, it’s hard to skirt the subject entirely and still post anything authentic.

I will warn you, it’s my first time being pregnant. I’m pretty sure I invented the condition and everything about it is fascinating. Feel free to skip my posts if you find this annoying.
My feelings won’t be hurt.

Damon and I are over the moon. Two kids in two years is a kind of insanity, but we’re up for it. And after that, I will be closing up shop. Because two… is my absolute limit.

Who likes the idea of a “Where the Wild Things Are” bedroom for two little kids?

Thanks to all who sent me lovely birthday wishes.

The story of my birthday won’t impress anyone, in that there’s pretty much no story to tell. But it was exactly what I wanted. I spent a lot of time lying on the couch. part of my wish was dominion over the television, and I ruled with an iron fist. Many cheeseball movies were watched. And somewhere in there I napped.

It was particularly a pleasure in that I have so much going on right now, which is reflected in the drop in my posting frequency. Work is nutty. We’re launching in just under a month. Heaven help me because I am tired and not nearly done.

I love the guy who delivers my mail at work. He’s so friendly that I believe we’re becoming pals. Our new game is when I get something weird in the mail I try to convince him that he would like to have it. This week it was one bottle of Diet Pepsi Caramel Cream soda. I gather this is a new product. Some PR person sent me the one plastic bottle wrapped in some sort of space-age chilling material that would allow me to drink the soda without delay (and possibly also to glow in the dark). It also came in enough packaging to make me write an apology to the polar bears. I declined to sample the drink, as did the mail guy. Someone bit, though. I stuck it in the kitchen and it was gone a few minutes later.

I do see why I wound up on that PR list. It makes sense. I’m less clear on why I’m getting repeated invitations to attend the screening of the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.

I was feeling a little bit under the weather this week, which probably accounts for why I’ve reached Saturday afternoon with not a plan on the schedule.

Damon’s off running errands. I think right now he’s at Borders spending a gift card he got for his birthday. I’m curious to see what he buys for himself. After that I hope he remembers to buy milk.

And that’s it, that’s the excitement so far. I’m watching an old season of The X-Files courtesy of Netflix.

Anyone got any low-impact suggestions for how to spend some free time? Any good movies out this weekend?

We got good news today. We’re logged in with the Chinese authorities, which means we have a date. We can put our stake in the ground for 2/25/07. Now we sit and wait, probably for around two years. But maybe less. But maybe more. So far China has matched people logged in through 10/13/05. They don’t do one month per month, so it’s not as simple as comparing the two dates.

I wonder how we shall pass the time.