moving

I'm moving to LiveJournal. I've had a personal LJ account for like 7 years and have decided to join myself there. lol.

I've had some issues with blogger and I'm done messing with it, plus, well, I love LJ so follow me to:

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two years

Two years ago this month I went off birth control.

We have a dog now.

Shaklee

Shaklee rocks. I've always loved their products and decided that since I was already always telling the world about it, I might as well join the business, so check it: www.shaklee.net/carriebarta

;)

movie quotes meme results

I posted the results from the movie quote meme that I did a couple of weeks ago in the comments section of the post. So scroll on down and read away.

oh wait, this is supposed to be funny!

Jezebel James

Not so sure how I'm feeling about this. Why must the media/entertainment industry continue to make those who can't have children out to be obsessed and neurotic?

While they're at it, why don't they just go ahead and do a sitcom about someone who needs a heart transplant or is dying from cancer, because there's tons of comedy in those situations, too.

breeana

So I've been chatting online with my nieces more often lately. I was talking with Breeana, who just turned 12, and we had this conversation tonight:

(I was telling her about how our neighbor is possibly coming over tomorrow to talk about buying our house so we can move back to Ohio.)

Breeana: i hope they do cause u need to get back down here cause i miss u really bad cause u'r the best ever and i <3 u alot
Carrie: lol - yes, we hope so too. we can't wait to be nearby so we can hang out with you guys, go to bday parties, etc.
Breeana: kkkkkkkkoooooooooooolllllllllllllllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiooooooooo
Breeana: what u doin now?
Carrie: reading some blogs
Breeana: what blogs u readin
Breeana: ?????????????
Carrie: blogs by other people who can't get pregnant. lots of advice in them.
Breeana: oh like what
Carrie: about the different treatments there are, what happens in them, how you feel on the drugs, the risks from them, that kind of stuff. kind of scary actually.
Breeana: yea id say
Carrie: yeah. i'm kind of scared about the treatments we are going to try this summer. i apologize in advance if I become a crazy lady or cry for no reason... it's all a side effect of the medicines I'll be on.
Breeana: its ok don't be that scared u'r brave enough to get thourgh all of the medisines that u have to take but i know u and u'r brave enough to do all of that stuff so if u get scared then idk u then cause i knw u'r brave and don't ever change all of that in u ok cause then ill be scaered to
Breeana: thats was a lot
Carrie: aw... thanks, bree. it is scary but this is part of the reason i want to move back to ohio, too. i'll have you guys around us to support us through it all. this past summer was really hard because we were alone through all of it.

Bree's the oldest of my nieces and nephews and she was always my buddy. I've basically missed the last four years of her life because I moved out of state, but apparently, she is growing into a sensitive and caring teenager. This makes me happy.

adorable kitten picture

This is the litter that we are currently fostering. That's Neeko, Gato and Mao, which are all words for "cat" in Japanese, Spanish and Chinese. Cute, eh????

stupid country song making me cry

Okay, so I have yet to hear this verse of Jason Aldean's song, "Laughed Until We Cried," without bawling my eyes out. I share it here because, well, misery loves company.

Just the other night the baby was cryin'
So I got out of bed rocked her awhile and I held her tight
And I told her it would be all right

My mind went back to a few years ago
We tried so long, we almost gave up hope
And I remember you comin' in and tellin me the news

Oh man we were livin, goin crazy in the kitchen
We danced and screamed and held each other tight
We laughed until we cried.

i have no catchy title.

Info on male factor that I didn't realize:

"Sperm may lack the ability to fertilize an egg for one of a number of reasons:

Count: Contrary to what you were told at school, it actually takes a minimum of between half and one million healthy, rapidly-motile sperm to fertilise a single egg. This equates roughly to a post-wash count of five to seven million sperm per ml. This is because sperm work together to navigate their way through the inhospitable environment of the female reproductive tract. It's physcially impossible for a single sperm to make a successful journey all by itself. So much for "it only takes one"."

Ain't that lovely??? :/

I had my second acupuncture appointment today. I've been sick the past couple of days (either the flu or food poisoning...) so I was afraid I wouldn't get to go but I made it. I had a hard time actually relaxing throughout it but it was still good and I came home with some herbs to start taking.

Oddly enough, my acupuncturist shares an office with a branch of the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine (who had the first IVF program in the US and who did our sperm washes for our IUIs). Today while I was waiting, I noticed a flier letting people know that if you are considering IVF, the Jones Institute is holding clinical trials to try a new drug. You get all study medications, study-related visits/exams and partial reimbursement for the IVF procedure. Hmm...