Call me a crazy lady....

I posted this afternoon about a positive digital OPK. I was so excited because I was unsure of the results from last night.


And because I am a crazy lady, I tested again with the Answer Brand and the cheapie internets ones when I got home......


......and this is what I got. Totally positve on both tests!

Digital is the way to go : )

Someone suggested to me to use a digital OPK - they could not have been more right. I still can't believe how EXPENSIVE they are.



But......
this is what you call a positive digital OPK. I used the Clearblue Easy Digital OPKs. They were $26.99 (YIKES) for 7. I am hoping that I will have 6 left over and not have to use any next month.

Why I hate OPKs

This is why I hate OPKs. I really think the top one is a negative - I have gotten the same results a few days in a row. The lines are SOOOO close in color that it is really hard to tell if it is positive. Since the one on the bottom is negative (same sample used); I really think the top one is also negative.

Last month when I got a very strong positve, it was VERY obvious (second picture). I know I should just give in a use digital, but they are so damn expensive.


Today - CD 16





































Last Month - a VERY positve result. After 5 minutes (the end of the test time) the result was the same; but the picture came out crappy.

No big win for me :(

I lost all but $4 that I broght with me to Atlantic City. I know you have to think that you are coming home with no money, but most people are hopeful that they will gome home winning SOMETHING.

On another note, last week I posted that my AC trip would fall on CD 13, 14, & 15. Last month I got a postive OPK on day 19 and 20, so if I ovulated it was propably on CD 19. I was hoping that it would be the same this month......especially since I would not be around on CD 13,14 & 15.

So, I took a OPK on the 11th and 12th....maybe it is the brand, because it seems like it is possibly positive most of the time. I am using the Answer Strip OPKs. I am actually using the answer and a cheapie internet one. Well, on CD 12 I got what looked like a possible positive OPK (lines looked to be the same color) on the Answer and a clearly negative on the internet cheapie (used the same "sample") - so to be on the safe side, we DTD on Thursday (CD12).

I got the same results on CD13, 14, & 15 - so either the Answer brand is just really sensitive and has hard to tell negatives or the cheapies ones are crappy.

Last month when I got the very positive OPK on the answer.....it was a very obvious positive. So, I will still do OPKs until both the Answer Brand and the Internet Cheapie are both the same result.

If you don't hear from me again......

It is because I hit it big in Atlantic City!!!! Just kidding, I mean how much could I really win playing $0.05 slots.

Every year my sisters and I take my mom "away" for the weekend. In previous years, it has been to CT and the casinos there. One of my sisters used to live there so it made sense.

That sister has moved back home and now we are doing the casinos in AC instead. It works out really well because my parents have a house less than 30 minutes from AC.

So, we are going down today after work and coming home on Sunday sometime. It will be nice to have a girls weekend! :)

Note to self......

Note to self.......fall down a flight of stairs, get an x-ray.

Colin broke his arm........a week ago.

Colin goes sees his father twice a year (yup, I said twice, but that is another story). We meet in Scranton, PA (he lives upstate, NY). This is about 1 hr 15 minutes from me and about 2 hours from him.

As we were getting ready to leave last week (day after Christmas), Colin fell down the entire flight of stairs. All 14 of them. He cried and cried and I put some ice on it and gave him some tylenol. He father does not have a cell phone so I could not call him to let me know that I might have to bring him to the drs. Colin is the biggest drama queen, so I just though he was being overly dramatic. So, we went to drop him off. I told his father what happen, and told him that if it still bothered him that he should bring him to the dr. Well, he comes home yesterday and still says his arm hurts.

So, last night I bring him to an urgent care place - mainly just to shut him up....totally thinking is was just bruised. Well, they take the x-ray and it is a complete break right through the bone AND the bone is shifted a little so we need to go to an orthopedic asap. It is the bone between the elbow and shoulder and the break is about 1-2 inches from the shoulder. Apparently a very bad place to break.

So, today we bring him to the orthopedic. Yup - broken. But not as bad as they made it sound yesterday. The doctor called it a buckle fracture. There is a little bubble at the crack site, but he does not think it is shifted.

Since it is in a bad spot, they can not cast it. So, he is just in a shoulder sling for the next 3 weeks and then we have to another x-ray. In the meantime, no sports. OH Boy is he pissed.

Sad Day

A woman that I know lost her son today. He was one of her triplets. He was taken too soon. He only lived a few short months.

But, in those short months, he was one of the most loved baby boys in the whole wide world.

I will pray for her and her family every day.