The Secret Life of a Care Bear

I absolutely hate making phone calls, except to friends. Even then, I only like making calls when I have something specific to call about.

I’ve been meaning to make a doctor’s appointment for like two months, at least, but I REALLY hate calling to make appointments. So instead I’ve been putting it off. It doesn’t help that I hate going to the doctor’s, too. Half the time I only remember when it’s too late to call anyway. So today I found Carle’s online appointment request form and filled that out instead. Now I guess they’ll call me to make the appointment. At least this way I don’t have to psych myself up for the call.

I’m excited about the appointment anyway, because I want to get on Metformin again and see if that helps me lose weight and makes my hormones less wonky so I can finally get pregnant.
All the pregnant people and new babies around are driving me crazy!

Last time I tried Metformin it made me really sick and I hated it. Now I know that if I stick with it and eat better when I take it, it might not be as bad. *Might* not be as bad. But now I’ll have more motivation to sick with it. I wasn’t trying to get pregnant and I was still pretty skinny last time, so the motivation really wasn’t there. Now there are more obvious benefits, like weight loss, better chances for pregnancy and way lower chances of miscarriage. Hooray!
(If you’re a boy, you might want to stop reading here!)

I started charting again this week in anticipation of my appointment, because I finally had another period so I had a definite start date for my cycle. It’s so hard to chart when your cycles are stupidly long and inconsistent. Last time I tried, my temps were all over the place, too. Hopefully my body will be less whacko this time. I’m also trying to be more deliberate about taking my temp at exactly the same time each morning. I signed up for Fertility Friend, too, so that I only have to input the info and they’ll make the chart for me. Mostly I’m doing this because every time I have a period it’s sad, because it’s possibly another missed chance. Hopefully if my charts cooperate, I’ll have a better idea of what my crazy body is doing!

Don’t try to give me any of this June 21 or 22 or whatever. June = summer. So happy summer, everyone! Here is the list of things that I plan on doing this summer (with commentary, of course):

• Swim laps three days a week (or more, but 3 is already a stretch)
• Cook lots of yummy, summer dinners to eat on the patio (instead of eating McD’s on the porch…)
• Do laundry as soon as there is a full load (instead of 10 full loads!)
• Vacuum and dust at least once a week (by vacuum I really mean turn on the Roomba)
• Get my piano moved from my parents’ to the duplex so I can play!
• Read lots of books (this is probably the most likely to happen)
• Update my blog
• Get pregnant (no, really, not kidding!)
• Lose 30 lbs. (ideally this happens because of the swimming and cooking)
• Not kill the environment by running the a/c constantly
• Take lots of walks with Mark
• Hang out with Kirsten all the time
• Make fun youtube videos with Kirsten, my favorite internet celebrity
• Go to small group more often
• Go to bed at a reasonable time so I can wake up when Mark goes to work
• Go to the beach! (so unrealistic, but I love the beach!)

Well, we’ll see how that works out…
Leave a comment and tell me your summer goals, in honor of Sunday being the first day of (Kari) summer!