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Wednesday, November 26, 2003
 Look at the Calendar!
Wow! As of today there are only 36 days left till January!
I just had to say how excited I am. The day is quickly approaching. It's becoming more and more real to me as it gets closer.
This is just a short entry, but I just had to write it down.
I feel so happy and relaxed today. Maybe becuase we have a long weekend coming up and I get to sleep in tomorrow! Yippee!
posted at 9:33 am by Leila's Mommy Permalink
Monday, December 01, 2003
Back After a Nice LOOOONG Weekend!
Ah... what a nice weekend we had...
Well, it was REALLY nice to only have to go to work from Monday to Wednesday, and even while there I had nothing to do because my boss was out all three days.
On thursday monring I slept in. Daniel and I had a yummy pancake breakfast with this strawberry yogurt spread we bought. Then at 11pm, we had scheduled to go to a friend's house for an interview she wanted to give Daniel. She goes to school right now and she is currently doing English history and wanted to ask Daniel some questions about the differences between our culture and theirs. she had an aroable kitten and I was so in love with her that I wanted to bring her home as a little sister for Skittles. they are giving her away, but Daniel said not right now, that we can't and I totally undersand. I was just in love with her and stuck in the moment.
By 12:30 we were outta there because we had to be home at 1pm for our shepherding call. Brother Mandinin and Brother Walder came by and had a nice chat with us. We didn't have any specific problem, it was just time for them to make the rounds and it was our turn.
So after they left we took it easy at home, Daniel did some homework, I tidied up and watched TV. Then at 5pm Iwas going to the Mandingins because Sister Mandingin had invited a few of us girls to try out the Winsor Pilates with her and her daughters. They were killer exercises and even now my abs feel nice and sore. I had a hard time doing quite a few of them. Shows how weak I am, LOL.
At 7pm, our husbands were to come over for to eat and hang out. We played games and talked and before we knew it it was 12:30 am and we all decided to go home.
the next morning Daniel went to work and I had plans to go out in service with my friends, Shirley, Diana and Jennifer. It was pouring and miserable out, but we had plans to go to the cemetery with Diana because it was her mom's 2nd death anniversary and she wanted to go to the cemetery and find people alone to leave the appropriate tract with. Aftert a while with the rain and no territory to do and very few calls to go on, we went to Diana's, attempted letter writing, which went as far as Shirley starting on out and chaning her mind, and then we decided let's get back in the car. while in the car, we decided against going all the way to the cemetery Di's mom was in and went to a local one. No one was around, but we made the best of it by stopping the car every now and then to read some of the tombstones, wondering what sad stories went with them. We finally made our way out, and then 12pm was nearing and everyone was thinking about what to do for lunch. I had some lunch in the fridge at home, so I asked to be dropped off and that was the end of my morning out in service.
I sat alone eating in the kitchen and then I pulled out my drawing pad and pastels and drew a pic of a baby boy which I felt was missing from my Little Loves collection.
I spent the rest of the afternoon adding the drawign to the computer and uploading it to my site, then I got my things ready for the sleep over I was going to at a friend's house. I had to also get my Jafra stuff together, besides my sleeping bag and clothes because she wanted me to have a spa class sometime that evening.
So at 7pm, Daniel dropped me off at Jennifer's house. Jen and I got gas and picked up Arlene and the three of us rode together to Lilly's place. there waiting were Lilly, Shirley, Diana and Pam, and a sister named Hope who Lilly introduced us to. Shirley, Diana and Pam were not sleeping over, but they hung oout with us till after the spa class and then the rest of us watched Sweet Home Alabama and talked till 3pm and went to sleep. In the morning I made a mountain of pancakes and jennifer made scrambled eggs and baon. Shirley and Pam were to bring Chirstopher, Lilly's teenage son, back home and have breakfast with us. After breakfast we talked some more and then we got ready to go shopping in Marshall's. I bought $45 worth of things for the house, and then we all went home.
It was such a wonderful refreshing thing to get out like that with the girls. And I really appreciated Daniel for letting me do it. Arlene was the only other married sister that spent the night, and Lilly was so happy that our husbands didn't mind us staying.
On Saturday night Daniel and I had plans to take my nieces out to the movies, so they came over before Daniel came home form work, and I made dinner. he came before dinner was done and we all ate together. Then we left to go to the movies. We saw Cat in the Hat and the girls loved it. It was really cute and a cool adaptation of the children's book.
Afterwards, I felt in the mood to look at books and Barnes and Noble is on the smae lot as the theater, so I mentioned it to Dan and he couldn't refuse becuase he likes B&N too. So we went in with the girls and we all looked around. After a while we left and drove over to a supermarket on the same lot and bought some ice cream, cones and whipped cream. At home we all made our own cones and then we waited till 12am for my sister to pick up the girls. By htat time I was like a zombie half awake half asleep because I didn't really sleep at Lilly's and now it was 12am the next day. So, it was catching up with me. As soon as they left I got ready for bed and went to sleep.
In the morning I was so tired, I couldn't get out of bed and called out to Daniel who was alreadyup for a while. he came in from the kitchen and I asked him if he'd go to the meeting without me, that I just could not wake up and would be completely worthess at the hall in this condition.
So he went I literally slept till like 11:55am. I finally dragged myself out of the bed and had a bowl of cereal. I tried calling Daniel beause it was after 12pm and I knew the meeting was long over and was wondering where he was. I couldn't get in touch with him so I went into the living room to read a book and then my cell phone rang.
It was Jaclyn! She and Matt were on their way home from Pennsylvania and they passe my town on the highway and were wondering if they could stop by. I was like SURE! So I asked her where she was and guided ehr all the way to my street. while I was on the phone, Daniel came home and I told him they were right up the road and I was jumping in the shower so please let them in.
When I got out they were in our living room with Dan and I greeted them and we all chatted, then we decided to go get some lunch. We took them up to see the local castle at Garret Mountain and then we drove to Montclair to get some Indian food. We had a really nice time. We drove them back to their car and led them back to route 80 and then Dan and I went to see my mom for about 1 hour.
After that I was starting to feel the sleepiness again, but I wanted to read soem more of my book, so I sat in the living room and read. when it was getting to hard for me to concentrate on the book, I turned on the TV and watched the last half of Nutcracker and then Chitty Chitty Bang Bang came on next, and believe it or not, I had never seen it as a child.
when that was over, Daniel and I watched Enterprise, and then I went to bed to read some more until I couldn't stay awake any longer.
It was a good weekend and I just had to share it, even though it isn't related to our baby planning. How often do we have good times like this in this dreadful world? I will never forget this weekend...
posted at 10:53 am by Leila's Mommy Permalink
Tuesday, December 02, 2003
Tuesday and bored
Well, nothing much planned for today. Supposedly it'll snow today but who knows. It is kind of cold.
Last night after the book study Jen wanted me to come over and work out with her. It was too cold to go for a walk so we went down the road to her job where they have a free gym. We worked out all by oursleves to our heart's content and realized we can make this a reuglar thing without having to pay a dime to anyone! I used the treadmill and did some ab and chest exercises on some of the other machines. there was a radio plugged into an outlet and we listened to a radio station while we moved. It was cool.
Well I don't have anything special to do after work today. i think I will finish the book I'm reading, since there are only a few chapters left, then I'll watch Gilmore Girls at 8pm.
As for baby-making, MAN am I a slacker! I haven't been taking my temp or anything. I haven't gotten my period tho since the end of October I think, and even then I was worried stiff. The doctors said everything's OK with me so I'm not worried about my health anymore. Could be that since I started taking vitamins my body recognized a change and now my repro system is all confused. i dunno. Hopefully that won't effect things in January. I'm waiting for the next period to come so I can start charting myself again, but this time it will be SERIOUS business becuase I'll be using the next chart to calculate when's a good time for us to try for baby!
posted at 1:05 am by Leila's Mommy Permalink
Friday, December 05, 2003
Should I be Worried...Again?
Truthfully, I'm not really all that worried because I have changed my diet recently and have been taking vitamins, soooo, the fact that I have skipped my period in November doesn't worry me much.
I don't think I'm pregnant, and since I've been to the doctor recently, I don't have the fear of something being wrong with me anymore.
What DOES bother me is that this is such BAD timing for my body to decide to be irregular!
I mean, there's LESS than a month left till January and I feel it's going to be sooo hard now to take my temperature and chart myself so that I know when's a really good time to try. It's going to be next to impossible to figure out what my fertile days are if I don't have a regular period!
Anyway, that's all I have on my mind right now....
posted at 8:53 am by Leila's Mommy Permalink
Monday, December 08, 2003
Snowy Weekend!
Well, as some of you may know, we had a our first snowfall of the season this weekend.
The weather forecasters predicted that it was just going to be a few inches and that it would be slushy. Well, it quickly turned into a blizzard warning almost as soon as it started!
I left only a few minutes before my normal time, in order to beat the crowds of people at Port Authority who I knew would also be rushing home early. Well, although i arrived before the scehduled 3pm bus, it did not arrive till 3:35pm. The ride home was even LONGER. I didn't get to my stop till 6PM!
We were supposed to have friends over for pizza and a movie, but it was so bad out that they decided to stay home. Although I was dissappointed that the weather interfered with our plans, I was sort of relieved because I didn't have ANY time to straighten up the place, since they were supposed to be there around 6pm, and that's when I got home.
So, Daniel and I just took it easy all weekend. We were home all day Saturday and Sunday. We had a lot of down time to spend together and it was good because Daniel said he got to know me a lot better. he asked me to show him how one goes about animating a cartoon, and I brought out my old drawings and explained the whole process to him. he was impressed and said he felt it drew him closer to me. It felt good to reminisce about my cartooning days and finally be able to share it with him in detail.
We also talked abotu our baby plans and how we can decorate the room when the time draws nearer. We even discussed possible boy names, since our girl name is already picked out. 
We tried building a fort on Sunday, but it was too cold so we only got about half way done . In the evening, Wizard of Oz was on TV, so we watched that together.  It was really nice to stay home and do nothing and not have to rush oout anywhere for once. It felt really good.
posted at 12:58 pm by Leila's Mommy Permalink
Thursday, December 11, 2003
Still NOTHING
Still no period... I skipped November, and December is nearly halfway through and I still don't have my period. All the symptoms of pregnanct I've heard and read about, I don't feel, so I don't think that I am. I know that's not proof enough, but I don't want to take a test until I have skipped December all the way through.
I don't know what to do or think or feel. I can't be excited because I'm tired of this happening to me and then taking a test to find out it's not so. THEN I don't think I should be worried because I've been to the doctor recently and everything seems to be fine. So it's one of those thing that only time will tell.
Oh well...
posted at 9:28 am by Leila's Mommy Permalink
Friday, December 12, 2003
The Weekend has Arrived!
Well, it's Friday! 
Well there's nothing new since yhesterday except that I wen to see my niece at her school's talent show last night. Click here to see the online album I made of it.
We dont' really have anything else planned for the weekend. I hear it's supposed to snow again though.
Have a good one everybody!
posted at 1:35 am by Leila's Mommy Permalink
Monday, December 15, 2003
What should I do?
Feeling a little confused here...
On Firday afternoon I decided to go out and get a HPT. LOL, I only bought a cheapy 99 cent-store one, since I was in the store anyway. The box said it was 99% accurate so I figured, "what's the difference?". I took it when I got home and it came up negative.
At night I watched my sister's kids. Later my bro-in-law came to pick them up. The next morning, I staed home in bed because I didn't feel good, but while I was there alone and Daniel was at work, I felt really depressed. I went online to do a few things and Jaclyn logged on, so we chatted for a little bit and she cheered me up. With her help I decided maybe I should talk to my gyn again.
So anyway, on Saturday evening my sister called me about something else entirely, but before we hung up, I decided to ask her a quick question. I asked her if she ever took a pregnancy test that came up negative, even tho she was pregnant. she said yes, with her first son. When i explained why I askeds that, she said "You know, Martin asked me if you were pregnant because he said he noticed a little belly when he went to pick up the kids". So we got into chatting about the possibility of me being pregnant. I was picking her brain about what I should be feeling now, and I don't seem to have any symptoms.
Despite that she still got excited and so did I, a little. the next morning she called me to tell me she was thinking about it all night and that she was actually praying that I was pregnant! she said that she would buy me a good HPT, a brand name so we can find out for sure. but, I told her I was planning on calling my gyn first and if they have me come in then they'll probably take a test for me anyway.
Wel, anyway, still no period and no signs of ANYTHING. So I don't know what to do or think anymore. I'm just going to call my gyn today and see what she says.
posted at 9:46 am by Leila's Mommy Permalink
Friday, December 19, 2003
I Took Another HPT
Hello all...
Well, yesterday while at the supermarket, Daniel decided to get us another test. I guess he just couldn't wait any longer to see if I were pregnant or not or to see if the other test might've been wrong.
Well, I held on to the test until this morning, becuase I heard from my sister and other sources that the morning is the best time to take it because the hormone that the test picks up is more concentrated when you've held your fluids longer.
Well, it came up negative. 
I am dissappointed, of course, but I'm not letting myself get down abotu it since we were not planning it for this month anyway. And I know that I said before that I should be worried about missing my period if I'm not pregnant, but I'm not gonna let that get to me anymore either.
I'm just gonna go with the flow and we're just going to go ahead and try next month anyway. If by February I haven't gotten my period again and haven't gotten pregnant, THEN I'll talk to my GYN. That's when I'll be really worried and upset.
I just want to also take this moment to thank those of you who come to read my blog regularly. It's good to have someone to vent to who WANTS to listen. I mean, when you talk about things to someone in person, it's not necessarily guaranteed that they WANt to hear you whine. But when someone like yourself actually goes out of their way to sit here and read about what's on my mind, it really means a lot to me. It means you want to listen because you have CHOSEN to.
Thanks again for coming!
posted at 6:59 am by Leila's Mommy Permalink
How's This Different from Blogger?
In case you're wondering WHY I switched over to this site, take a look around and you m,ight notice some of the extras... Unlike Blogger, Blogdrive comes with a comments section, a calendar and a tagboard, all included with your free online journal. It also has a form where people can send you and email (which you will note on the right under my tagboard). The other thing that's cool is that it has the option to have your visitors subscribe. Meaning, anytime I make an update to my journal, if you subscribe, you will get a notification of my new entry. this is pretty convenient for those of you who want to follow up on me. I know some of you do regularly. The other thing I liked is that you can have MORE THAN ONE journal in your free account. Blogger will only allow you one free journal, if you want an extra one you have to upgrade to premium, which means you gotta pay up. I liek the extra journal because I also have a little business site that I wanted to add a news & updates section to, and an extra blog was perfect for that. So, rather than haveing to separate journal accounts with to separate servers, I decided to have them both in one place. Makes sense to me! Anyway, just wanted you all to know why I switched.... 
posted at 7:52 am by Leila's Mommy Permalink
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