TGIF

Oh, happiest of Happy Fridays!  It's been a hell of a long week and I'm so looking forward to this weekend.  Our original plans to leave town and head off to the desert (Palm Springs) have changed due to the weather, but K and I will still make this a great birthday weekend for her!  She assures me she wants nothing more than to get take-out and hunker down at home, but I'm hoping I can get her out to do a little shopping. ;)

And on the TTC front...
While I was absolutely sure I would put off taking any form of medication for as long as possible, I have decided to take the plunge and go for it.  Not only did most of my family and friends suggest it, but the girls I've come to know and love in my Lesbian TTC Group really encouraged me to do it.  Many of them told me they wished they'd done it sooner to save themselves all the heartache, not to mention money spent.  Several of them had experience with injections and told me not to worry.  If done properly, with the correct monitoring, there shouldn't be any concern that I will be the next Kate Plus 8.  Thank Gawd for that.
So last night, I started my first round of Estrace (estrogen) and we have our baseline sonogram for Monday morning.  We will get our How-To Injection lesson and will start shooting up after I start my period.  If the cyst doesn't grow (please put good thoughts out there that it won't!) we should be able to inseminate sometime mid-March.  Believe it or not, I'm actually looking forward to the Two Week Wait!  Remind me of that when I'm tearing my hair out later...

And it just wouldn't be ME if I didn't have to make things difficult.  We fell in love with a new donor and were fully prepared to go with our new guy.  He is a dark-haired soccer star with a voice that melts your heart.  He was good, except we really started nit-picking everything.  We found things about him that we didn't LOVE.  Oh, what to do...  
So after some soul-searching (and more Internet searching) we have another donor we're considering.  The good news is that we found another couple who are also using Guy #2 and they seem to be pretty fantastic.  They live on the east coast, but would be up for keeping in touch if we want.  Might be kinda cool to know some half-sibs out there in the future.
The whole process is still really mind-boggling to me.  I mean, who gets to "shop" for sperm on their lunch break???  Crazy.