Judecorp.

We have been on a cleaning rampage for most of the day in preparation for a little birthday party that my smoochie is throwing, ostensibly for me but I maintain that it is for us. While it's nice to have something totally planned for me, to sort of... leave out her birthday entirely doesn't sit well with me. I am making her add her name to the cake. Hey, it's her birthday, too! (Or was. You know.) I just want someone to take over the planning sometimes!

Anyway, the cleaning. I did the bathroom, kitchen, and bedroom all before 11am. Because I am a cleaning god. We got the 80 tons of cat fur off the floors and Jen even did some cursory dusting of the tv/components. Jen even vacuumed the couch and the papa-san. The cats settled on both /immediately/. Those little ingrates. They also love to christen newly-cleaned litter boxes.

This week we find out whether we were successful in our baby-making endeavors or whether a conversation about IVF is in our future. I'd really prefer the former, truth be told. I think I have the stamina to pull off an IVF journey but I'd really need Jen to be on-board and actively involved way more than ever before. And if that's not something she thinks she can do... well, that's cool. But I won't do it even largely on my own. The IUIs, sure, but not the Big Guns. Too much rollercoaster. Too many medications. Too long a process.

Of course, if we ARE unsuccessful this time around, I will gorge myself silly on expensive sushi of the deliciously raw variety and lift a lot of heavy boxes in the name of moving. And drink diet soda with reckless abandon for the duration of any break we may take.

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Holy crap, we're having a house inspection on Monday. If all goes well, we might have to actually *gulp* give notice to our sweetheart landlords.

On Saturday, I bought a slush puppie at the convenience store. Blue raspberry flavor. I love anything blue flavored. Well, it was a LOT sweeter than what I am used to these days (since I gave up soda and then artificial sweeteners, all I drink is water and seltzer) and I can only handle a little bit at a time. So I've been enjoying my slush puppie every day since! And there's still more delicious slush puppie in the freezer for probably the next two days. YUMMMMMM.

Also at the convenience store, we bought $4 in scratch tickets. Jen won $5 on hers. (I never win.) So we brought them back for $5 in scratch tickets. I won $1. And Jen won $30 on one ticket and like $5 on the others! She is a scratch ticket stud! I wish I could be lucky like that.

calledmara was in my dream last night. We were all gussied up cute and were walking through a neighborhood hopping fences and stuff. But then I was supposed to meet Former Coworker Gina (who moved to Kentucky) to discuss an internship she was supposed to be setting up for me. And I called her to see where she wanted to meet exactly and she told me she wasn't coming and didn't think she wanted to find me an internship. When the alarm went off, I woke up in the middle of screaming at her on the cell phone about how she was going to make me fail out of school!

Welcome to the luteal phase. The ridiculous dreams have begun.