Normally throughout the 2ww I start to have all kinds of phantom symptoms, and I start convincing myself that it means I am pregnant, not that AF is about to show. My boobs hurt, I get a headache, etc. This time around, I had something a little more obvious. My boobs started leaking! It's not much, just drops, but I have this creamy white milky stuff coming out. I hope that means something good. I had it at 4dpo, and then again today at 10dpo. I think I am going to test tomorrow, 11dpo is a possibility for a positive. It's all I can think about. I wanted to test today, but I knew that if it was positive and I came into work I would not be able to concentrate at all! Better to wait until a few days off.

I decided that even if it is positive this time around, instead of telling our families at Thanksgiving, I want to wait and tell them at Christmas. That would give us a few weeks to enjoy the news, and maybe even get a doctor appt in first. Hopefully my plan works out!

Our trip to Vegas was wonderful. It flew by, but we saw a bunch of cool stuff and had a great time. We ate some really good food. I had raspberry french toast one morning, drizzled with pecan butter and syrup. Duck for dinner one night, and it just fell off the bone and melted in my mouth. Soooo yummy! I wish I could be a professional chef! Seriously, I would love to spend the day in the kitchen, creating recipes, making yummy food. I would probably gain soooo much weight though, so it's a good thing I am a nurse instead!

That's about all I have time for right now, since I am at work. Hopefully I will have some wonderful and exciting news to share in the very near future!!!

Election Day

I told myself 4 years ago during the last election that I was going to vote in this one. I was going to apply for my citizenship in time, get registered to vote, and vote in what has turned out to be the most important election of our lifetimes. Then life happened. I waited until I finished college, so I would be making money to pay the fees. Then I moved over and over again. After talking to someone at church, I decided to wait until I knew I would be living in the same place for a year or so before I applied. (He had moved across the country and the government has lost his application, and he said it ended up taking over a year to get his citizenship.) Then, Stephen and I met and quickly got serious. By the time we got engaged, I figured I may as well wait until we were married, so I wouldn't have to change my name during the process. Of course, I didn't know when we got engaged that we would be moving shortly after the wedding to a new city...and that we would buy our first house les than 6 months after moving. So, life happened, and before I knew it, it was June of this year, which is when I finally submitted my $700 application (yeah I know, I could have paid about half that price if I had gotten my act together last year)...but who has an extra $700, or even $400 when they are planning a wedding?? Anyway, I didn't know if my citizenship would go through in time, but I held out hope. I got my interview letter, and was scheduled for September 15. The hurricane came through the weekend before I was supposed to have my interview...so the interview never happened and was rescheduled for 2 weeks ago. In Texas, the voter registration deadline was the beginning of October. If my interview had happened as scheduled, I may have gotten to take the oath in time. I know they held an "emergency" ceremony for people who didn't make their own ceremony because of the hurricane. Anyway, long story short, hearing about everyone voting, and seeing how excited Stephen is (he printed out a sample ballot and has been researching his choices all weekend) makes me a little bit unhappy that I don't get to participate today. My voice won't be heard in this election. But I will be there next time!

I'm obviously not good at updating this thing...probably because I don't actually have anything exciting to share. Hopefully once we get our BFP I will have more news and I will be updating more often!!

Anyway, here is some fairly big news - I am officially a US citizen! I passed the interview 2 weeks ago, and took the oath last Wednesday. It was at 7:00 am, which sucked. They told us to get there by 7, and that it would last until 11. Little did I know, the thing wouldn't actually start until just before 10. Which means...we sat in a high school gym waiting for something to happen fo 3 hours!!! Booooo! Anyway, finally about 1800 of us were pronounced citizens!

On Halloween we handed out candy, and decided to sit out on the driveway drinking wine and beer and playing with wesley. It cracked me up - all the little kids would come up and say, "Oh! You have a dog!" Haha, like we didn't know we have a dog. No, that's just our cat in a costume! Hehe. Wesley enjoyed all of the attention. He was not a fan of his costume, which is why he only tried it on a few days before and did not actually wear it for Halloween. We carved our pumpkins that afternoon which was fun. Stephen made a cyclops, I made a couple of fairly traditional jack o lanterns.

Something in this kitchen stinks and I cannot figure out what it is! It smells like rotten food. But I took the trash out yesterday, and threw out a couple of bad things then. And now, this smell. It is annoying me that I cannot figure it out! My house is clean, I do not have any rotten food, so I don't know why it should smell like I do! At least this is an excuse to light a few candles to make it smell better. Oh how I love to burn candles!!!