September 2010 Weddings
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mid afternoon pick me up (this board is too slow!)
Name 5 things you would like to accomplish and set a date of when you would like to accomplish them by. Are they life long goals? By the end of the year? by the time you turn a certain age (30 by 30 for example)? Are you on the way to getting any of these items checked off your list?
My list is to be completed by the end of 2011
1) Run the half marathon (will complete on 10/9)
2) lose 20-30 more pounds (lost 13 already, I think 20 more is realistic by the new year)
3) make pasta from scratch
4) make homemade bread
5) pay off all of our debt/cc bills (not including student loans!) for a total of $1300. (with the payments we already make, i think we might barely be able to do this!)
Re: mid afternoon pick me up (this board is too slow!)
hmm....I'll narrow it to short term goals too. Otherwise, it gets tricky.
1. Get knocked up again - specifically sept 2011
2. Hire some bicthes and legitimately start our consulting agency and stop talking about it - early 2012
3. Go home. As in Tobago. I haven't been in years
It's a great source of sadness - CHRISTMAS
4. Stop procrastinating and buy a house - 2012
5. Get my porsche back on the road - like yesterday?
Shauni - I tried making bread the other day and failed miserably. It was still winter and the yeast was like f-off dude.
TTC since 2010
Me: 36, slightly elevated FSH. Everything else (hysterescopy, HSG, b/w) normal.
DH:30, with super sperm? >200mil post wash
BFP #1 - May 2011 - m/c @ 8weeks
IUI #1 - July 26 2012 - Femara = BFN
Suprise BFP Jan 15 2013. Hope this one sticks!
My afternoon ramble: I just gym'd it, then tapped MAC, then went to B&BW for handsoap and my free signature lotion, then to Rite Aid. I was looking for the Itch Stick, but came across Monkey Butt powder (see my FB) so I stood in the aisle like a deranged sweating loon laughing and laughing. I also got a handy bag cooler which was $10 off.
Numbers 1, 2, 3 are plucked right from my life list.
1. Niagara Falls and drive PCH will both be done next year
2. Do the polar bear plunge (will be done in February 2012)
3. Swim with dolphins and take MFD to Disney and stay in the park (both this September)
4. Curb spending on unnecessary items for the next year - I struggle with this one a lot so it's ongoing but really trying to lock this down in the next year.
5. Continue exercise regimen and making conscious food choices.
Shauni - let's pick a Saturday or Sunday in October and make pasta from scratch on the same day. We can document the process for each other. Am I weird? Sorry, I love doing that shiz.
I should add launch blog to my list since that would be the perfect forum for us to do it on. You yours and me mine.
Alicia - go home for Christmas. Please! And if you need a realtor in PA or NJ but don't know one, my husband is one. I'd be glad to give you his info if you want it. He's based out of Center City and also out of Haddonfield.
Did I miss something or are you planning the next??
1. Get as much debt (minus student loans) paid off as possible before little one comes in January. (Made a monthly schedule for myself from now till january outlining each paycheck and payments. Now must follow it.) - January 2012
2. Have a total of 3 children by the time I'm 38
3. Make a completely homemade apple pie. Did it once many moons ago and thought "why would I do this when i can just buy already made crust?!?!" Want to do it again though- November 2011
4. Go to a Packer game- Obviously not this season, maybe 2012/2013 season???
5. Get new job or reclassification in current position- July 2013
steph....ooOOoo..thanks, very much for the offer, but we have a close family friend who helped us find our current place, and most likely our future house. I WILL keep you guys in mind though.
moleson...the doctor said I'd have to wait till at least one cycle (maybe 2) past my D&C to start trying again. So many of my friends got pregnant when I did. Four of them actually, and I don't want to miss the bus. I was so excited to have kids at the same time they were.
TTC since 2010
Me: 36, slightly elevated FSH. Everything else (hysterescopy, HSG, b/w) normal.
DH:30, with super sperm? >200mil post wash
BFP #1 - May 2011 - m/c @ 8weeks
IUI #1 - July 26 2012 - Femara = BFN
Suprise BFP Jan 15 2013. Hope this one sticks!
1. Celebrate Christmas in Disney World (not this year, but some year, because I think that Main Street decorated for Christmas is one of the most beautiful things ever)
2. Get knocked up a couple times, hopefully to all be done by age 30 (I'm 25 now...we better get crackin lol)
3. Be a SAHM
4. Travel all over Europe, like for a year. Even with kids I think this would be awesome. If we do it with kids though we have to wait until they're older and do it as a partially educational thing. Home school for a year and tie in the places we are visiting to the lessons we are learning.
5. Visit all 50 states. Same as above re: kids.
TTC since 08/2010
Anovulatory since at least 12/2010 (probably longer, unDx)
Dx PCOS 3/2012
SA 5/25/12--normal
June 2012--50mg clomid+TI--BFN
July 2012--50mg clomid+Ovidrel+TI--BFN, lining at 5mm
August 2012--5mg femara+Ovidrel+TI
I have become really anti timeline goals like this because when I was younger I had timelines and I have followed none of them. Really because some of them are just out of your control time wise but I will play. (ie. I wanted to be done having my children by the time I was 30. If we only have Brooke I will accomplish this goal. I will turn 30 a month after she is born.)
1. Not be sucked into the sink hole that has started on our street right in front of our driveway.- Till said sink hole is fixed
2. Buy a house either in Florida or back home and buy one.- The next 2 years.
3. Own a restaurant. Greg's new thing is he wants to buy a franchise of the one we work at. - Probably not for many years,
I will think some more but I can't think of any right now.
ohhhhhhhh, sorry hun. You just get to it girl!!! Any time you need to vent you can message me on FB.
No problem Alicia, I always throw it out there when people in the area are looking.
I hope you can get on the baby train with your friends, I always think it's nice when friends have babies around the same time and they grow up to be friends.
1. Lose my 15 lbs that Im still hanging on from E and keep it off by Sept 15.
2. Run at least 2 more 5ks and maybe throw in a 10k by end of 2011. This might be difficult depending on how many more are near me that I could sign up for.
3. Go back to Nashville (at least have it planned by end of year).
4. Take E to Disney in 2012 and hopefully run 1/2 marathon while there!
5. Adopt a dog by spring 2012.
1) YES lets DO this. Better yet, maybe we can plan a trip to get together (I'm not a creep, I swear, ask Lia or Al!) and make pasta together for MFD and Mr. G!
2) LAUNCH BLOG. Do this immediately, as you are my favorite person ever of life.
Blog
hahahah don't worry I don't think you are a creep. I might be able to swing a trip, I have to see how funds are after Disney in September.
Blog blog blog. I know. Damn. Do you blog from your phone ever, or just your computer only?
1. Bring home and raise our puppy - litter will be born any day now; puppy will be brought home end of September / early October
2. Have two children and be done before I'm 30. Ideally, H and I will start TTC late next year. I will be 27 when the first is born and 29 with the second.
3. Go on a trip to Europe for just H and I before kids - planned for Spring 2012!
4. Move to New York - within the next 2-3 years.
5. Get a new job - happening now! My last day in my current position is August 12, and I have a second interview for a much better job next week. I am 95% confident I will get this position, but if it does not pan out I will continue to search for something possibly part time and go back to school for my Masters.
I'll play, but I am bad with following the timeline, mostly b/c some of the goals depend on more than just me. It would be nice if it were ONLY my decision, but... nope.
1) Get pregnant before I am 30. (27.5 now. I would like to get started, but H isn't there yet... setting this realistically)
2) Build a dream house hopefully before kids are teens. (so ideally within 10 or so years)
3) Actually make money with my little crafty "business". (not sure when, but soon would be nice)
4) Get a regular, full-time, halfway enjoyable JOB! (anytime would be great)
5) have a beautiful flower/veggie garden free of weeds and to can my own produce... (this is my new goal every year, and it just hasn't seemed to happen)
1. Run a half marathon - ideally next spring, but by Oct 2012
2. Apply to graduate programs - this fall 2011/spring 2012
3. Pay off all debt excluding student loans - Oct 2011
4. Finish house remodel and redecorate - July 2012 (hopefully sooner - depending on funds)
5. Pay off student loans - July 2014 (hopefully faster)
6. Buy a house - July 2013