...so, not pregnant, woooohooo...

...never thought those words would ever come out of me in any format,
but as far as my master plan goes i guess that's what i wanted. the scary thing
is, is that there was a very slight chance that i was, talk about russian rolette,
i knew i shouldn't and technically it was a day too late but you just can never
know how fast those little buggers (pg13) can swim. not that i was secretly kind of
hoping or anything!!! but alas that crimson bitch reared her ugly head.

 so my blog heading should've have read
...guess what chantelle found in her knickers this morning...

ha ha, not a kitty! that was my kitty sushi by the way, nestled in jp's
undies while he was sitting on the thrown. I rescued her from an spca
type place. since i grew up with cats and have been catless for the past
4 years, i desperately longed to be love/hated by a kitty once more.
so after a lot of negotiating with jp, and him saying no! i emailed EVERY
shelter and breeder of siamese kitties in the western cape, and then politely
phoned jp to tell him my kitty was ready and waiting for me, and then i still
had the cheek to get him to pick me up from work and drive me to bellville
to fetch her. needless to say, karma's a bitch, sushi loves him/hates me!!!
not even a f!@#$king siamese anyway!!!

so i have officially given her to siena who adores her and carries her around like
a broken rag doll - sushi seems to love it! so be it!...

...!@#$%^, but on the bright side....

...so, impatient as i am, after my last blog entry, i went and bought a pregnancy test, i wasn't going to, i was gonna wait til monday, but then i stopped at this budget centre looking for things for a friends stork party invite, and there was this crappy pharmacy and the next thing i know, i'm buying a crappy pregnancy test in really badly designed packaging. so usually with these tests you gotta use your first morning weeeeeeee, so i happen to wake up at 3am desperate for a weeeeeeee, so not wanting to waste the good stuff, i do the test with one eye open at 3am, and nothing!!! not even the test strip that shows that the test is working??? wtf! so now i'm pissed! so in the morning i scratch through the bin to double check and there is the one line, wtf, so i assume i'm not pregnant, !@#$%^ that crappy test.

now in my misery yesterday, my parents and brother and his wife, jp and i go out for dinner to nonna lina's,(the best italian restaurant in ct) and i decide, !@#$%^ the diet i WANT pasta and tiramisu, DIVINE! so i get on the scale this morning dreading the outcome, and hey! beyond belief i'm down! think maybe i should eat pasta and tiramisu everyday.

so, there it is , or isn't (that crappy test may have been faulty, but i doubt it). so sex will just have to be sex, no counting days, no propping myself up with pillows, no getting my hopes up, two whole months!!! on the even brighter side, it seems i'll be ovulating in bali! woohooooooo a bali baby sounds very exotic and romantic. mmmmmmm does that mean i'll have to think of a balinese name not an italian name...

...life's a bitch and so is my uterus...

...so got my period on thursday, which means i'm most probably not pregnant! so my uterus and i are not on speaking terms, well, unless you call swearing and cursing, speaking terms, cause then i'm speaking, my uterus hasn't dared reply. i feel like boycotting the entire reproductive system from my ovaries all the way down to my, for lack of a better word, vaJJ. guess that would be like cutting off your nose to spite your face. just don't think she should be rewarded for non performance and a substandard attitude, i'm a designer for god's sakes i work to deadlines!!!

so i'll do a pregnancy test on monday, just in case it's the same situation as siena, the 'psuedo period', but alas i've decided that if i am not pregnant, we're gonna wait until april to try again, why you may ask, two reasons, firstly i would prefer to not have a child in nov/dec as children born in the later half of the year statistically struggle emotionally and academically in school, now there's a 50/50 chance they'd get my amazing genes in the brains department, which would render the entire subject mute, but not willing to risk it! secondly then we can live it up in bali, eat drink and be merry, and not have to worry about passing out on the plane either. then the third reason, something to consider if you're thinking of trying for a baby soon, check your medical aid and how much they cover, you can take gap cover for the difference or a hospital insurance policy that pays out cash when you're in hospital, BUT both have a 12 month waiting period til birth!

so, watch this space, maybe it'll be happy unexpected news, in which case i'll spoil my vaJJ for job well done, and to apologise for the swearing, or it'll be the expected one stripe/negative and i may be miserable and sulky for a while.

have an amazing nutella fudge recipe, so if it's negative, a condolence chocolate fudge for my aching heart! maybe a congratulatory chocolate fudge...mmm...either way i eat fudge, i like this plan...

say aaaaaaaaaah!

so 2011 is finally here and i start this year on a very exciting note. jp and i have finally agreed on the fact that it is time to make a big sister out of siena. she's 3 and a half now and has started to realise that all her cousins and school friends have got little brothers or sisters, and she tells me daily that she wants a pink girl, not a blue boy, but definitely a pink girl. daddy on the other hand tells me he definitely wants a blue boy, which secretly i want too. but due to the age gap, a girl may be best for my little monkey, so either way i'll be thrilled.

so on thursday i had my first gynae appointment (3 years overdue, but life happens in between) i really love my gynae, she is awesome. after a chat, an internal scan, a pap smear and some blood tests, this body is ready for action. a bit anaemic but nothing an iron sup can't sort out. (note iron can wreak havoc on your regular twice a day routine, so i drink half a tablet daily instead)

it also just happens that i started ovulating on this day so gynae told me to go home and get busy! smsed jp the second i left her office. something along the lines of 'be ready, i'm on my way'.

conveniently jp and i have decided to start eating healthier this year and due to a holiday planned with friends, kelly and nick, in bali in april, we need to get our old beach bodies back! (don't know if i ever had one of those, but having a baby is a really good excuse to why i'm a bit outta shape, nevermind that it has been over 3 years)

jp, has decided to stop drinking and smoking hubblies for 'beach body' reasons but this is great news for baby making reasons too, need those swimmers to be able to swim in a straight line afterall.

so thursday night was fun, spent some time propped up on a pillow, and gynae reckoned to wait a day and then 'get busy' on the saturday too. which was going really well until siena woke up and came through to the bedroom to ask for a milky bottle, jp made it by seconds. 'dad will get it my angel, mommy needs to lie down cause her back is really sore', (couldn't risk gravity robbing me of my chances) jp is also under a strict 'no touching yourself' rule before ovulation week, need those swimmers to be strong and plentiful.

now we wait... i don't do well with waiting! patience and i are barely on speaking terms...