Well, I’ve taken pregnancy tests steadily for the last four
days, all with clearly negative results. And I still feel no symptoms. I’m
pretty certain that this round is a bust, but I have to continue to take the
progesterone until my doctor does a blood test. According to FertilityFriend,
today is the recommended test date… so I’ll take another test when I get home
from work, but I’m not holding my breath. Statistically about 80% of women get
a pregnancy test by 13DPI, so there’s only about a 20% likelihood that I’m
pregnant at this point.
Sigh.
However, this weekend we took the first steps in getting
Kaitlin’s computer moved from the basement up to the office. First, we had to
go through the boxes and boxes of stuff we have up there… we took a bunch of stuff
to Goodwill, threw away a ton more, and made an Ebay/Craigslist box of things
we need to sell. Kaitlin moved her art supplies to the basement, too. But it
became painfully obvious that there is just too much stuff and nowhere to gracefully store it. So we spent the rest of the day
coming up with a plan to redesign the closet with shelves that will accommodate things like unused product boxes we want to keep, copy
paper and other office supplies, old photos and sentimental memorabilia,
Kaitlin’s comic books, cleaning supplies, cat food and litter, and bins for Kaitlin’s toys and knickknacks. Then we
went to Home Depot and priced the materials we’re going to need – looks like we
can do it for about $100.
The plan for this coming weekend is to tear out the
shelf and hanging bar that are currently in the closet, go to Home Depot and buy
the materials, then paint and assemble the shelving (and staple plastic over
the hole in the drywall in back, as we need it to work on our bathroom
later but don’t want the cats or random items falling into it.) When it’s
done we should have a LOT more useable space, as we’re putting in shelves that
are two feet deep. I’ll have to make another trip to the store to buy plastic
and fabric bins and tubs to plop in there, and then it will be another day of
putting stuff into bins and getting it stashed away. Then we can pull all her
books out of the two bookshelves, move the bookshelves to the opposite wall,
put the books back and add a third bookshelf… and then, finally, we can move
her desk and computer stuff up. Then, we can install more shelving above her
desk so she can display her knickknacks, and hang her artwork around it. Eventually
we need to get her another office desk, probably off of Craigslist. And I want
to clean off my desk and maybe buy a new computer monitor and move around some
of my cords and other items and make my desk look pretty and neat again.
Then Kaitlin will have more work to do in the basement to organize
her art supplies into her space down there.
Funny how such a small thing turns out to be SO MUCH work – but then, I’ve
always found that my desk/office space requires the most effort to organize.
But with any luck, all the new storage we’re creating will come in very handy
for making that room (and the rest of the house) more useable and livable. This
closet is also the first really major project that we’ve done together since
Kaitlin moved in, so I’m kind of looking forward to having a part of the house
that we created together. We might install a new window shade in there… and
maybe I’ll make a new valance and curtain for the cat boxes. We might put a cat
door in the door too.
Anyway, the point is, it’s nice to have a big project to
focus on while all of this TTC stuff is ongoing. I know this is only our second
IUI so I shouldn’t be that disappointed or worried… but it feels like we’ve
been waiting FOREVER for that BFP. :P
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