CD1

Well, here we are at CD1.  Instead of reacting with tears and frustration, I’m enjoying an afternoon iced coffee, fully caffeinated. I’ll also be enjoying a cool glass of wine from one of the three bottles I bought over the weekend.  I’m also looking forward to a nice getaway this weekend with my husband in which I will enjoy more coffee and more wine.  

I’m not sure if weekly acupuncture (which I am seriously missing this week since my acupuncturist doesn’t see me during AF) that is contributing to a more positive attitude, but whatever it is, I will take it.  It is much preferred over the misery that CD1 brought in the past.  I could also be the lack of PMS and cramps that acupuncture has gotten rid of which helps me avoid the symptom spotting game.  I do think it is an evil trick of nature that there’s an overlap in symptoms.  

Here’s to a positive outlook continuing for the rest of the month and beyond!   

Ugh, family

Nothing like coming home from a long day of work to find out that your aunt has posted photos of your ex and his new wife on Facebook.  I appreciate that my dad forgot that I had her hidden and decided to warn me so I wouldn’t accidentally stumble on them.  I also appreciate that my husband decided to email her and tell her it was hurtful for a variety of reasons to see him included like he’s just another member of our family.  Our divorce was the right thing to occur, but he was a giant prick in the process.  I don’t air all of my business to certain family members, but they know enough that they shouldn’t even want to be friends with him, much less post photos for us to see.  

She he did remove the photos and said she’s defriended him, which I was whatever about as long as she stopped swiping our photos.  She has a bad habit of reposting people’s photos without asking.  I should add that she swiped all my NIAW photos and put them in an album labeled “my niece H”.  No notes about what the photos mean or support, they’re just regular photos to her, I guess.  The silver lining is she agreed for now to stop reposting our photos.  This isn’t our first issue with her and Facebook.  We’d kept a low profile on there and didn’t change our status to engaged until the day before our wedding.  Her comment under that was “Is the wedding still on?????????????” The wedding had never been off and the eleventy billion question marks really read like we had a tumulus relationship.  We don’t and we haven’t.  I deleted the comment and sent her a nicely worded WTF message and she skipped our reception.  So I’m not sure what the fall out from this will be, but I think it’s worth it.  

I’m glad we’ve already decided to go away again for Christmas.  No excuses to invent to skip that land mine of a party! 

Tempting Murphy’s Law

I’m taking a cue from some of the other bloggers I read.  My period is due on Monday so I bought three bottles of wine and a bottle of pumpkin cider.  I’m either going to be aging these bottles or drinking them all within the week.  (Well, probably not the week as that’s totally contrary to my attempt to form better habits since starting acupuncture. More on that later.)

We also hit Target earlier in the day and I swear there was a hugely pregnant woman in every aisle.   I’m getting better about not openly sneering, but after the third one, I was questioning the universe as to what I had done to royally piss it off.  This followed a lunch that ended with me left hungry after a burnt appetitizer and a hair in my wrap.  I hate having to complain in a restaurant, but that was unavoidable today.

At least these crappy events were bookended by good ones: a second viewing of Guardians of the Galaxy which is my new favorite Marvel movie and a trip to a new to us beer and wine shop.  Merlot cheese tonight!