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Post by meg12 »

That sounds fun, Angie. Except I'd really love it to be before September 20th! Just so everyone remembers, my actual due date is September 21st, but that has some controversy to it as it was originally September 13th but was pushed back a week due to the baby's size at 20 week ultrasound. Anyway, I don't know if I'm supposed to have a guess or not, but I'm taking one! My instinct says Sept. 15th. (That's just because I was born the day before my dad's birthday and my dh's birthday is the 16th, so I think it would be cool if she was born the day before his. What do you think the chances of it happening are?????)

My appt was fine today--nothing has changed, but the baby's head is really low in my pelvis. The doc could feel it when she was checking the cervix and was surprised that it was so far down there. I've been telling my dh that I feel like I'm sitting on the baby's head everytime I sit down, but he didn't believe me!

Oh, and I gained 4 pounds this week. Yep, you read that correctly. It's not a typo. 4 freakin' pounds in one week! Sort of embarrassing, but man I just can not stop eating!

How was your appt Sassy?
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Oooooo! I'm getting excited for you Meg - don't worry about 4 pounds - it's the little nogginette getting hungy and building up energy for her journey into the world!

Any more guesses girls ?
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Post by amy »

I am in for sure. I say the 16th. I just have a feeling about the 16th. Although now I am thinking 17 or 18... shoot. I hate when I second guess myself. This is why I am a horrible gambler. I am going to stick with my first instinct and say 16th.

Angie are you ready for your big trip? I would be SOOOO excited. We need an itinerary so we can virtually follow you on your vacation and make sure we know where you are at all times. I would hate to worry.

Sass - Are you back in California? Or still in Vegas? How was your appointment??

Meg- Sit lightly - she is going to be very smart. I can already tell. Have you been walking much?? Spicey foods? Chili?? Hold off until the 15th if you haven't started those yet... ;)

Jenn, Robbo, Mel?? You girls out there? Fee you in on the sweepstakes? Lets get this party started!
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Post by amy »

Angie - I would also like to dedicate a song to you today... Flight of the Conchords - Business Time. Since you ovulated and all.


For me the song today will be from Friends - it will be Smelly Cat since my brother is painting with laquer. I might be high right now.

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Ok, first things first. I am splitting the difference between the 13th and 21st... and going with the 17th. So don't listen to Amy, Meg... start all the spicy foods and bring-on-the-labor-sex on the 16th :lol:

Dr. D's look up my Neveryoumind went as well as could be expected. The cyst in my left ovary was large enough that he had me do an HCG injection (since it had been all of a few weeks since I had stuck myself in the a$$) hoping that I will "ovulate" it. Will check blood again when back in town next week, and then expecting AF in a few weeks, just in time to start #6. Rock on. BUT... the best part... was that I have 13 antrals on my right ovary. Dr. D seemed pleased... and for whatever reason (the emotional exhaustion, distraction by bil, sleep deprivation... I could go on), it didn't register until I was in line at the airport and got a goofy grin on my face. 13 in one ovary. Wow. Cool.

Oh, I almost forgot... the lastest installment of As The ******* Runs: he nearly got caught very early yesterday morning. He got into fil/mil's guard gated community by saying he was Mr. Sassy. The guard realized her mistake immediately (there was alert that The ******* would try this) and sent security after him. In the mean time, the guard called mil who said to call the police as there is a warrant out for The *******'s arrest. Security caught up with The ******* (of course, driving a black e.scalade :roll: ) and confronted him (big mistake... if they had waited for the cops this would have turned out differently). He became belligerent and combative when asked for ID and then took off in "his" car. They locked the steel exit gates so he would be trapped until the cops arrived. But then someone came in through the entrance gate. Seeing his out.... The ******* gunned it over a median, taking out bushes and was gone before the cops arrived. Bummer. So close and yet...
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Sassy - I am sorry you will lose, it will be the 16th. I am using the power of positive thought.

Secondly, your life is better than any reality tv show on right now and we should market this to abc or nbc. What we need to do in the mean time is start casting our characters. I see Blythe Danner as the MIL and potentially Sandra Bullock for you. Maybe I need to think of this more.. girls - lets cast Sassy's family for our made for TV series - As the ******* Runs...

Well done on the production. Ovaries might be getting the hint!
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Dream on, Amy, dream on. You are going DOWN. 17th or bust :lol:

I am all about Sandra Bullock playing me... we have the same coloring and she plays a d*mn good nice-but-scrappy-to-the-point-of-tearing-your-balls-off sort of a character. Nice choice. Blythe Danner is also a good choice for mil... well meaning yet misled and in denial. bravo. Now as for dh... if he was younger... Harrison Ford would be a good choice. You know, good heart, but becomes the unwitting victim and then comes out ahead in the end. but since he is old enough to be my dad...

We also need a good villain for The *******.

Today's episode of As The ******* Runs: dh received a phone call today from a detective in a neighboring jurisdiction. He arrested someone (a stranger to us that I will name Dirtbag) and found on his person a photocopy of a fraudulent ID in dh's name. The ID had Dirtbags picture on it. So Detective "Do-right" called to notify dh that his identity appears to have been compromised (ummmm....). Do-right, not being in our town, of course had no idea of the drama unfolding recently in the Sassy household, nor of the filed police reports. He said that most likely since The ******* is on drugs, he has sold dh's personal info including driver's license #, address and SS# to others. Beautiful. Just what we need... multiple people masquerading as dh... and knowing where we live. Do-right can't charge Dirtbag with anything as he only had a photocopy of the ID, not the ID itself on him. But he gets a gold star from me anyway today for confirming the ID was false, and then actually tracking dh down to notify him. Bravo, Do-right, for being the single and only law enforcement officer that has so far done a d*mn thing to help us. Bravo.

Where the hell is everyone else????
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I like the way this movie is unfolding - trying to think of who to play BIL - Sean Penn perhaps?

Actually I had drama of my own this morning - came in to work to find my office cordoned off as a crime scene. Actually they broke into next doors rooms not mine but there is glass and wood splinters everywhere.

Anyway back to serious business - Sassy what is the difference between a cyst and a follicle? I am interested to know that they are trying to "ovulate " your cyst - what was mine last week I wonder ?- it was described as 15 mm follicle. I didn't get HCG from Dr D - just Ovulation detector tests - which may or may not have said I O'd. Anyone used them by the way? It was a first for me - hence why I am not really sure of the result.

Anyway I hope your cyst does what it is supposed to do. I think we are heading for some fun times again on the sistahood thread in the next few weeks when we are all in action again - not to mention a couple of sista babies entering the world.

How exciting.


Hello other sistas. BTW Amy when is Conchords on and what Channel - may be I will be able to catch them when I am over your way as, like I said, despite them being from the S Hemisphere they are unknow entities here!
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I like the way this movie is unfolding - trying to think of who to play BIL - Sean Penn perhaps?

Actually I had drama of my own this morning - came in to work to find my office cordoned off as a crime scene. Actually they broke into next doors rooms not mine but there is glass and wood splinters everywhere.

Anyway back to serious business - Sassy what is the difference between a cyst and a follicle? I am interested to know that they are trying to "ovulate " your cyst - what was mine last week I wonder ?- it was described as 15 mm follicle. I didn't get HCG from Dr D - just Ovulation detector tests - which may or may not have said I O'd. Anyone used them by the way? It was a first for me - hence why I am not really sure of the result.

Anyway I hope your cyst does what it is supposed to do. I think we are heading for some fun times again on the sistahood thread in the next few weeks when we are all in action again - not to mention a couple of sista babies entering the world.

How exciting.


Hello other sistas. BTW Amy when is Conchords on and what Channel - may be I will be able to catch them when I am over your way as, like I said, despite them being from the S Hemisphere they are unknow entities here!
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I'm here!!!

OK I'm loving the unfolding soap that is As the ******* Runs. I was thinking about poor old Owen Wilson for BIL but I find him a bit too endearing... I will keep thinking. How about Nicholas Cage for BIL?? I think Dirtbag should be played by Mickey Rourke.

I think we need some one earnest and yet firey for DH. Any takers for George Clooney, just a tad younger than Harrison but a tad older than real life DH...

And as far as Mego's baby sweep goes, I'm sorry to have to tell you that you are all wrong. Mego, make sure your bags are packed buddy cos Noglette is coming on September 14. I have never been more certain of anything in my life.

Sass congrats on the antrals, sounds like you have an armada of follicles in the making...well done.

Angie, I agree we need an itinerary so that we can live vicariously though you. I can't believe your trip is almost here, so jealous.

Nogs is still OK I think. I think these iron tabs are working now, I am feeling pretty damned good!.

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Ooops missed Angie's post, I like Sean Penn for BIL I think he has the capacity to look well dodgy and has an air of danger about him. Nice work.

As far as the Ovulation Predicotr tests go, I can't be much help because they never really worked for me....from my distant memories wasn't it the case that if you got two lines, you were expected to ovulate soon? Either I hope that you and DH got down to business just in case your body was behaving itself... maybe those herbs did work???

If so, I may look into that after Nogs comes.

So what has happened with the crime scene, any good looking detectives??

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Fee - I love where your head is at. Sass, are there any good looking detectives out there? I mean it is always fun to have some eye candy.

Sean Penn does seem like a good BIL to me. The other thought was Johnny Depp as he kind of has a drug induced look about him - and I don't find him endearing. I am thinking Tom Skerrit for FIL - that is the guy that played the dad "Drum" in Steel Magnolias. He and Blythe Danner have that loving and protective parent vibe going. I also feel that that combination could produce a Mr Sassy and an Evil BIL.

Meg - The 16th - it is on like Donkey Kong - you girls can have your hunches and sure things, but you are all wrong. 1 6

Angie - Flight of the Conchords is on HBO. Now ladies - I have EVERY episode saved to our TIVO - a TIVO that I can make DVDs on. I would be more than happy to burn a copy for those interested and mail them out. I would love to be able to drop some lines and songs from the show on you ladies. Its a good time.

Sass - Enjoy the coast. It is hotter than H#%% here. I think 104, but who is counting.
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You have a resounding YESSS from me on Johnny Depp for BIL. I used to loove him in high school. I will need to be given a job on set, perhaps Mr Depp's personal assistant?

As far as Tom Skerrit goes, another thumbs up here. He has just the right concerned parent quality that we are looking for. Plus I think Tom needs to have a block buster on his resume and this WILL be a block buster.

Does BIL have any friends, because if so I think Woody Harrelson would be one of them.

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I STILL LOVE Johnny - he is my favourite ever film star - I thought of him for BIL but as BIL sounds so awful I didn't want JD to be such an unsavoury character with no saving graces.

No good looking coppers I'm afraid - they were so slack they didn't even turn up to finger print until lunch time - I had to take my student meetings in the cafe!
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Hellooo

Welll I'm just about to roll into the weekend. I was looking forward to it becuse it is my birthday on Sunday, and the weather is good, and we don't have too much on, and DH's mother is supposed to be in her "good" week for chemo.

Yup was really looking forward to this weekend. As is usual with me I shouldn't have thought good things abotu the weekend because now I've jinxed everyting...MIL is now very sick with an infection and back in hospital. Poor DH is beside himself with worry and I am very worried too. I really hope that all the antibiotics they are giving her kill whatever this latest bug is. Man this chemo thing sucks. On the bright side, if MIL is OK she will be on her last round soon. I can't wait.

Well I have to say I'm hanging for the next episode of As the ******* Runs...Sass what has our lovable larrikin been up to of late?

Amy, thanks for the offer of the DVD thingo. First of all I'm going to see if this Conchords thing is on our version of cable, I will let you know...

Angie sorry to hear the cops were not of the eye candy variety....better stick with one Johnny Depp for now.

Mego how is Noglette, that whole head in the pelvis thing doesn't sound too flash....mind you the whole head bursting out of the pelvis thing (Labour) doesn't sound great either...

I wa reading the Awaiting Treatment thread and noticed that Aunty Pebbles has been diagnosed with the big "C". Just thought I would let you all know because she has been such a nice lady to a lot of us...bloody hell life sucks sometimes...

Other ladies where are we all??

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