WOW.

After the way the past few weeks have been, today is just amazing. 

First of all, I got and took the job that I posted about last time.  (Same company, different project.)  I consulted with all of my "working mom" gurus, and determined to take life (and work and pregnancy) as it comes and not worry so much about having it all planned out.  The new job is an amazing opportunity for me, plus has the added benefit of getting me out of this hellhole that I'm in at the moment.  I am going on vacation the week before Memorial Day, then I'll start the new job right after that, so June 1-ish.  that means that I have the rest of this week and all/most of next to get ready to transition out of here.  Phew.  I am SO excited!!!

In reproductive news, I had my annual gyno exam yesterday.  I've begun my care at the birth center, so I was examined by a midwife.  It was INCREDIBLE.  Best "girly" exam I've ever had, by far.  I was comfortable and relaxed.  She spent basically a full hour with me, chatting, getting to know me, answering my questions, discussing my concerns.  We chatted right through the exam part, and I barely even felt the swab in there!  Plus we talked about starting to TTC, and when I left she said she hoped to see me again real soon!!  Which brings me to the next piece of news...

WE'RE TTC!!!!  I have ovulated on our last TTA cycle, and am now in the good old LP.  And even after AF comes again... there will be no more condoms!  I am thrilled to my toes (both about the no condoms part and the TTC part.  Equally.)  I officially started the prenatal vitamins (that i've had for a month) yesterday.  :o)  I also picked up some fish oil, because the first bottle of prenatals I picked up doesn't have DHA, and the midwife really recommended that.  I hate the fish oil (with its fish burps - uck!), so my next bottle will have the stuff already in it.  :oP

So the ONLY thing right now (and this isn't really a bad thing), is that... we may have had an oops this month.  Well... not really an oops, since I knew I wasn't SURE and we went ahead and ML anyway, but we were technically supposed to be avoiding.  What happened was that I flew two redeyes within a week of each other, as I think I mentioned.  Crazy travel always messes up my cycle, and this basically dropped a bomb in it.  Delayed O and all that.  My temps took a nose dive, and only veeeeeeeery sloooooooowly recovered.  They kind of stair-stepped up toward normal.  When they got back to the normal range, Ovusoft and FF both detected enough of a jump to call it ovulation on CD19.  So on CD22, I was feeling frisky, and he was feeling frisky, and I didn't feel like having a condom.  I knew that I wasn't real real sure that I had actually o'd (my cervix was still pretty much open), but I figured, hey, we're TTC next month anyway - who cares!  And you know what happened then...

The midwife who did my exam told me my cervix was still open yesterday.  I'm pretty sure the temp jump on CD21 looks more like ovulation than the one on CD19.  Which would put our indiscretion at 1dpo (~9% chance of conception).  But... oh well!  :o)  DH shrugged and said, when will we know? 

Two weeks, baby.  And get used to it.  I see many (but hopefully not TOO many) Two Week Waits in our future.