Never be left alone with Clomid

If any husbands of infertile women read this, here is a piece of advice, NEVER leave your wife home alone for a week while on Clomid...NEVER!

And not for the reasons you think. I imagine you are all picturing me being a weepy mess of hormones and every time Keith calls, or calls late I burst out into an emotional break down. Ok yes this is happening, but this is not the true danger of being left alone.

I don't like being bored. And when I'm alone, that can happen quickly. So I stay busy, with projects and with the increased hormone levels, I may become a tad bit more controlled by these emotions.

The projects I decided to embark upon are the following...

With this whole soon to be adopting thing, Keith and I have been trying to plan the development of our basement, so that the children will have a place to play, cause they can't spend all winter outside! We have been S.L.O.W.L.Y making these plans, and really not much has happened. So to surprise Keith I thought I would do all the research and get some contractors to come and look at the place. I was given one quote of $27 000!!! For drywall, carpet and ceiling tiles. Yaaa right. My dear friend Nate came over to give me a better quote and some much needed advice. The quote is still high. Much higher then I was expecting, cause freak people I did all the renos and bought all new furniture for $23 000! THE WHOLE HOUSE, 23 grand, so why would a basement cost almost the same price! AHHH. Nate is going to talk to his people and get a real estimate put together for me. Presenting this amazing bill to Keith, will be a fun experience in deed.

Because the idea of spending 427 000 on a basement wasn't enough money wasting for me, I went mattress shopping. We DESPERATELY need a new mattress, all this timed baby making has taken a toll on our poor old mattress. We both sleep terribly, wake up tired and are grumpy. You spend 1/3 of your life sleeping, I think we deserve to sleep on something comfortable. I know Keith hates shopping so I went with the sole purpose of research. I had one on one attention from the sales guy. He filled my head with so much info on sleeping. I tried TONS of beds, and then he showed me the one. It is even beautiful to look at, with black piping and black threaded appliqués on the quilted top. I lied upon the heavenly surface and all the tension, stress and awakeness left. It stroked me with its amazingness and I was in love. The sales man quickly noticed my love affair with the mattress and went on a 10 minute speal about how FREAKIN PERFECT THIS BED IS. And it is only the small price of $4000! Then I passed out on the heavenly bed. When I awoke sales dude asked how much was I planning on spending, I thought a max of $2000, this doubles the already high budget that I had not convinced Keith of at all. He did some research. A new store was opening up at our neighbor province, they were having a sale on all mattresses. They had just received the same bed in but the factory made a mistake and the black beautiful piping is a wrong color, but who gives a crap when SHEETS will be covering it. The price for this beauty......$2400! Holy crap that is almost half off, so I put a totally refundable 10% down payment on the sucker. Won't Keith be thrilled!

AND seriously cause that was NOT ENOUGH MONEY.....our window was keyed. The punk kids that hang out at the bus stop across the street from us, have recently silly stringed our car, shot fire works at our house and have smashed the glass bus stop up so many times we can't even count. But they went to far this time. They took some kind of sharp instrument to my passenger side, front window. There is a massive zig zag across it which, terribly impairs visibility. There is no special glass scratch remover product that will take this off. I did the research, on normal glass there is some products, but on tempered, car, window glass, you are hooped. This is a leased car, it has to be returned in pristine condition, this has to be fixed. Which means replacing the window, cheapest quote.....$279. Ohhh I can feel the love Keith is going to be giving.

I also want to buy some new plants for the front garden, and strip the paint off our porch and re paint it annnd paint that refrigerator storage unit thing red already, cause freak I have been meaning to do that for so long. So there’s another couple hundred, not to mention the amount of money I have spend on my ridiculous Clomid induced food cravings. I rock at being single!

So the grand total of this week that Keith has been away will probably be something like....$31 000! That is not to excessive right?? RIGHT? It’s sooo the clomids fault honey, so clomid, not me.

Comments

[Jaime]

HAHAHAHAAA!! Oh Keith is in for a treat! Hey they all warned us, fertility treatments hit the pocketbook hard! HAHA! I'm mattress shopping to, but going from a queen to a king so I need the bed too, ouch!

[SAHW]

Lol!! IF is expensive...in more ways than we can imagine. I don't know why basements are so expensive, I hope you get a better quote. And I wish you could do something about those kids!!

[Mel]

Wow, money hell that you are in.
If it makes you feel any better, my baby cost me $23,000. For real. Sometimes, I have to throw up in my mouth when I realize that.
At the least, it sounds like you are keeping busy, and that is wonderful. I am dying for a new mattress myself, ours isn't even that old, but it sucks. I really want a tempurpedic but it costs like more than ever considered reasonable!
*hugs*

[Mrs. Spit]

Sounds totally sensible to me. I don't have a problem with it. (But, I"m not handing my paycheque to you,either.)

Besides, you could have spent that money on shoes, and then what would he do?

[Jen]

No, that seems like a decent amount for being left alone all week!

Get the new bed! A good bed is so worth it. It's the best thing we ever bought!

[erin]

new beds rock.....i love sleeping on a new mattress.....we have about another two years with ours then it is new mattress time!!

[Danielle Melnyczenko]

lol I hear you. We bought a latex mattress for $2000 reduced from $3500 and it's heaven. Totally an investment. You spend half your life on it after all. We also bought latex pillows which are devine. Loving all the projects you have on the go. Can't wait to see a result. Oh and it's totally clomid's fault. I'll back you up.

[Brandygirl]

First up, wow, $31K and I fell off my chair.

And who is this Nate guy? Is he that HOT cute gay guy from Oprah...what's his name?? hmmmm...NATE BERKUS!!!!! :)

Oh, and if one day, my kid turned out to be a punk kid like that, i'm locking him/her in a dungeon!

Me think buy the mattress...this is just me ok - if i can't have fun having sex during timed intercourse, a good bed to rest thereafter is worth it!!!! :) hehe

[Melba]

You crack me up! I love the sense of humor you bring to all of this!! I DO think you rock at being a single chick, I just think you're going to be rocking in a cardboard box before too much longer if you don't watch it! But hey...at least you'll have a great mattress to sleep on in that case. :)

Good luck with the Clomid!!