Busy Nothings

We sometimes catch the late night CBS news after hubby gets home from work. Last night we only had it on for about 5 minutes and caught two sentences badly edited and, of course, immediately wrote them down:

“Nancy Reagan fell in her home and landed in the hospital.” (Wow! That’s quite the fall!)

“Memorial services were held for the 5 victims shot in 5 local churches.” (They were shot in the churches, apparently, not on campus in Illinois)

Tonight my heart is lighter than it has been in months. Our tests came back favorable for Clomid! I start tomorrow, take it for 5 days, and go back for tests again on March 3. Hopefully the progesterone level will show I’ve ovulated! But it’s taken us almost a year with this doctor to finally get to this point. She explained to me that each step has tweaked hormones and Clomid will be the final tweaking. We appreciate your continued prayers, and hope that soon we’ll be able to report that we’re pregnant!

What a weird morning. We had to get to the hospital lab across town for yet another fertility test and it was snowing with enough snow on the ground already to cover our feet. With our remote starter, we have about 20 seconds after unlocking the doors to get the key in the ignition and push the break to disable the alarm. Hubby did that, then closed the door to start brushing off the snow on the truck. As he was closing the truck door, the truck locked itself, keys inside. The house was locked as well. We have a pass code to get into the electronic lock on the garage door, but the house door was still locked. After panicking and trying to figure our how to get back in the house, my strong manly man of a hubby took a rubber mallet and started pounding on the locked door knob. Thankfully it was a steel fire door because about 4 swings later the knob was demolished but the door was just fine. I went in, grabbed my keys, and off we went.
When we got to the hospital, we got out of the truck and the alarm went off again! By the time we were done with lab work and back out to the truck, the psycho suburban seemed to have settled down and we didn’t have any more weird locking or alarms. We did laugh all the way to Lowe’s though to buy a new door knob–with an extra key!

No, I’m not early. My hubby surprised me this week with my valentine–tickets to last night’s opera to see Verdi’s Il Trovotore. He won a choice of three different packages in a drawing at the blood bank and chose opera tickets to take his voice teaching wife to the opera! The seats were second row mezzanine, regular price $95!! We both enjoyed the opera immensely. The main cast was superb, but especially Victoria Livengood, the Mezzo-Soprano who sang the role of Azucena. I know being a Mezzo myself I’m more partial to these “supporting” roles, but Livengood was amazing! Such a strong, incredibly beautiful voice. I’ve seen and heard other Mezzos from the Met, but she is by far my favorite among them! Absolutely brilliant!
I told my hubby that it was the most romantic Valentine’s Day gift ever, and was second only to our wedding!

If the Chargers couldn’t do it, so glad the Giants did! What an exciting fourth quarter. One of my students even called when the game ended shouting “Giants won! Giants won!” So much for the perfect season!

To my darling hubby. 33 years ago a little boy was born. I’ll let you know when he grows up!