Bah

~ Some of you girls suck! (meant with all the love possible, of course!).

Bubble bursting left and right! Sheesh! I said for no compliments, but you didn't have to go and tell me how it's just not going to last! Or that it was just cause I was sick (although I wasn't intensinally sick and I was still eating regular amounts.) Remember that whole "if you don't have anything nice to say" thing? ~wink~

Yeah, yeah, so it may not last. But right now, it's working so I'm proud of myself. You wouldn't tell someone who was simply on a diet because they were overweight that "it won't last" when they were happy they saw results. Nor would you tell a terminally ill person "it's not going to last" when they are happy they are feeling better.

So. I'm going to pretend I didn't read any of the negative~esque comments and I'm just going to be happy that I'm wearing my pre-pregnancy jeans and small t-shirts. So there! (nanny nanny boo boo!!) If I gain it back for some odd reason, you can all comment on how you told me so. Okay?

~ Margelina - you asked me about my tattoo process. Your comment was: "Doing it in stages would KILL me! That's why I get one complete image at a time, so I have something final to look at :)Just curious to compare...how much money is it costing you? Do you pay for each session, or one fee total? Since mine is so gradual, I pay per image/design...but I tip awesomely because I heart my guy!!"

Yes, doing it in stages does kill me, but when you get a tattoo that takes four 3 hour sessions, I can't really do anything about that. We usually do most of outline in first 3-4 hours and then take 3 hour coloring sessions. After 3-4 hours, my skin doesn't take the ink too well and will start to get hot, bleed and reject it, so that's about as long as my skin will allow in a sitting.

Cost. Due to it's not a friend doing our ink anymore and we're still pretty "new" as far as customers go, we were simply paying the shop rate of $120/hour. Then I tip another $100 for every session, making it $460/session. Now that we've gone quite a few times and my husband has 3 HUGE pieces going, we're getting small deals, down to $100/hour, but that's it for now. I paid $400 for Tuesday's appointment. For 13 hours, I'll be paying about $1780? Something like that?

My next appointment is the 28th with another artist there, who is doing my coverup above the one I'm getting now. I have at the most, maybe 6 hours left for that. Then I'll have my next lower arm appt 2 weeks after that. We're using our tax refund for our ink this year, after that money is gone, we're done for quite awhile. Well, until Sept when Ella goes into kindergarten so our daycare costs won't be as hefty.

~ I just got up, took a shower, got me and karl ready and headed out to our pediatrician appointment. Only to realize our appointment wasn't until next week. I'm awesome.

~ I did our bills, budgeted for the next month, balanced our checkbook, did our taxes and finished Ella's kindergarten enrollment packet yesterday. Today, I'm mailing out Jendeis's fucking fantastic prize, Pam's silly gift I've been meaning to send for months and Tori's cycling gift. Maybe tomorrow I'll get to our storage unit and get all the baby girl clothes I want to send Jenn. I also have some braces bunch mail to get out, but one step at a time, eh?

~ Give some love to Kymberli who is in beta hell right now. 11dp3dt beta = 13 & 13dp3dt beta = 25. If you remember, my 11dp3dt beta was 15, 3 days later it only being 43. So I am suddenly in the "low betas can still be good" world where I never was before. But I am a living, breathing testament to how a low beta can be okay when the numbers continue to double on time. Hell, I've got the proof sucking on my nipple right now as I type. (boppies rule). So I am wishing all the good luck possible for her (and Meg) right now.

~ My girl Chicklet could use some love too. Although she is probably right with her answer at 12dpIUI, I'm still hoping the pregnancy gods can do some magic.

~ Luck and good wishes to Emily, whom I'm addicted to reading right now. She got 14 follicles retreived, but in the 1st half, found most of them were NOT mature. So this time, they waited and let them hang out overnight, where many of the 2nd half matured still in their shells. They have ~6~ embryos growing now, waiting for transfer tomorrow. I'm hoping the immature issue ~was~ their issue and why they never got good numbers before. Now they have a handful of them and have way better chances. Transfer is tomorrow!

~ Congrats to Julie, who had a great u/s yesterday. She miscarried her last pregnancy, so this is a huge milestone to get to. Congrats Julie!!!