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Out of the closet

Posted by joyfulintent , 14 September 2010 · 627 views

I've been a little worried about how I'm going to combine ET, probably next Monday or Tuesday with the major 2-day meeting I'm running next Tuesday and Wednesday for the CEO and senior leadership team to develop our detailed plan for 2011. I have a great team who will in fact be doing most of the work to lead the meeting over the 2 days but I...

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Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

Posted by joyfulintent , 26 August 2010 · 477 views

So here we are in Australia! I started writing this entry from my hotel room bed where I had a stunning view of Sydney Opera House and the harbour. We went at short notice, just for a week, because one of my oldest friends has had a recurrence of her breast cancer and I really wanted to visit her and support her through a round of chemo. It was a g...

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I am a verb

Posted by joyfulintent , 31 July 2010 · 1000 views

I read an interview with Stephen Fry recently where he said:"We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a person who does things – I write, I act – and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun."And I realized how relevant that is to my world view, my...

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Distractions

Posted by joyfulintent , 25 July 2010 · 607 views

For the first time ever since we started TTC in April 2008, it is not the center of my universe. Our next go on the merry go round will be a FET in September and in the meantime there's nothing to do but stay healthy and wait. Luckily, we are getting married in October (10-10-10, chosen a couple of years ago as a lucky date) and since until a few we...

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The First Cut is the Deepest

Posted by joyfulintent , 19 June 2010 · 699 views

Week 1 of stims down, just waiting to hear from the clinic if I stay on the same dosage or increase it. It's been an incredibly productive week and things are on an even keel at work and at home. Good times!I'm hopeful about this cycle, but realistic, too. We were lucky with our first fresh cycle and maybe will be again but you never know a...

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Cycling again, tra la la

Posted by joyfulintent , 11 June 2010 · 683 views

Spotting! Yay! Who'd have thought I'd ever have that reaction to AF arriving? Last night DH had to be the one to say oh, what a shame it didn't work out this month. Whatever . LOL.I on the other hand am in a fantastic mood because now we can do this thing: big guns, nuclear option, obliteration of the enemy, no prisoners, march to v...

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Reality check

Posted by joyfulintent , 28 May 2010 · 716 views

Warning: contains disturbing storyI follow quite a few different blogs covering IF, TTC and pregnancy but I vary them over time, adding subtracting and re-ordering them as the blog - and my own TTC journey - develops. Before I was successful getting pregnant I found it heartening to follow others as their quest to conceive became a pregnancy - which was n...

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I have seen inside my uterus....and it was good

Posted by joyfulintent , 22 May 2010 · 572 views

And weird. I felt like we were miniaturized people on a spaceship journey inside my body. All was pink and cavelike and smooth with nothing particularly odd to see. We could see the entrance to both tubes and also got to see my cervix which looked exactly like the diagrams in the books. So an office laproscopy turns out to not be too bad at all, at...

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Thanks, Nia!

Posted by joyfulintent , 08 May 2010 · 864 views

Nia Vardalos, wonderful Canadian Actress/Writer/Director (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) says it all about what Mother's Day can be like when you're struggling to become one:http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/07/if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say-on-mothers-day/http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/08/if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say-on-mothers-day/

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Everything I ever needed to know about TTC I learned in Business School

Posted by joyfulintent , 03 May 2010 · 611 views

DH is away this weekend. So I am completely caught up on laundry, the house is clean, I've finished my book, paid the bills, visited with family and been to the gym twice this weekend. Where my thoughts wandered to come up with this:Everything I ever needed to know about TTC I learned in Business School 1. Have a plan. The existence of a plan is t...

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