WTO Monday 9/16

bows22

**This is a thread that welcomes all regardless of where they are at in their TTC journeys. Please be mindful of topics that are discussed that could be hurtful to those going through tough times. Mention of children or pregnancies of others should have a TW (trigger warning) and be in a spoiler if possible, and only be mentioned if it is extremely pertinent to the conversation. Thanks for keeping this a safe place for us all to engage!** 

Month/Cycle:

CD:

WAYDTGKU:

R/R: 

CS/Q: 

gingermama29

Month/Cycle: 3/3

CD: 9

WAYDTGKU: BBT, tracking CF, using FF, OPKs, prenatals

R/R: weekends go by too quickly! It was nice to be a bit lazy though and do nothing. We were planning to visit the ILs next weekend but DH forgot he is scheduled to work on Saturday until 1. We were feeling guilty about having to cancel plans so we invited them out to see us instead and they're on board. I'm thrilled to not have to have to travel again next weekend but my house will need some serious cleaning this week.

CS/Q: what app(s) do you ladies use for your OPK test strips? I bought wondfos and am planning to start using them this week. 

bows22

@gingermama29 I’m glad you don’t have to travel! You usually O later right? So you won’t have to have ninja sex with them in the house?

Month/Cycle: 10/11

CD: 9

WAYDTGKU: BBT, OPKs, tracking CM

R/R: I went to a bridal shower on Saturday which was very nice but TW for pregnancy 

I was at a table with 3 pregnant ladies and everyone made a big deal about it being the pregnancy table. My empty uterus and I were like 😬. They were all on their 2nd or 3rd baby and it just bugged me. I’m trying to remind myself that I don’t know their situation but it’s hard. I felt “less” than them.
Luckily there was alcohol and also another non-pregnant person at the table and we had a really nice chat. 

The rest of the weekend was nice and relaxing though and I’m ready to start the week!

CS/Q: I honestly don’t know what time my temps were over the weekend but I put in late temps since they were high (for me at least)

gingermama29

@bows22 yes I do typically O later but they're only making a day trip so they won't spend the night and I won't have to worry about ninja sex (love that phrase!). They live an hour and a half away, so travel really isn't that big of a deal but I'm not disappointed to not spend 3 hours in the car next weekend. Sorry about the shower this weekend. That's so hard to be made to feel that way. Glad the rest of the weekend was good though!
Edited for autocorrect. Why does my phone think glad should be goat? 🙃

tyrion_

Month/Cycle: 4/5 AL

CD: 5

WAYDTGKU: PNV, EPO, CM, BBT, Preseed, OPKs, HIO 

 R/R: We had such a busy weekend that it went by too quickly. Nothing really out of the norm this week so hopefully it doesn’t drag on. 

CS/Q: just a few dots. 

I’ll be back later for tags! Hope everyone has a great day! 

Edit: left out a word

millpe

Month/Cycle: 8/6

CD: 13

WAYDTGKU: CM, OPK, BBT, PNV, CoQ10, drinking water, D3, sex EOD 

R/R: I'm going out of town tomorrow for 2 nights. I was hoping I would O before I left. At least this week should go fast. Only 1.5 days of work in the office. Although short weeks I just seem to go backwards on my to do list. 

CS/Q: I had a peak Saturday, but no temp jump so I'm still here. My EWCM has also dried up, so I'm not sure what's going on.

saladflambe

Month/Cycle: 2/2

CD: 4

WAYDTGKU: BBT, OPK

R/R: Waking to pee really mucks with temping. It doesn't matter right now while AF is still here, but it'll matter later!

CS/Q: won't share yet, but my temp was wayyy up today because of needing to pee at 1:30am and also lack of sleep. boo

saladflambe

@gingermama29 can you come clean my house while you're doing all that cleaning?  juuuust kidding. And, I'll just be putting my OPK results into fertility friend with my temps. Or did you mean an app that tells you if it's positive or not?

@bows22 omgggg I'm so sorry about the table situation - that hurts my heart, honestly. I admit that before TTC & getting into the communities, etc., I was pretty oblivious to how hard it can be & all of the emotions it can stir up, but I'd think people on their 2nd or 3rd would know better!

bows22

@tyrion_ I hate how fast the weekend goes! But sometimes having an uneventful week is nice. 

@millpe ugh I’m sorry you didn’t get a temp jump today. Maybe O was super early this morning and your basal body temp just hadn’t responded yet. Hopefully you see the jump tomorrow!

@saladflambe yep the waking up to pee sucks! And trying to do the mental calc at 3:30 am to figure out if I should temp then pee or pee then wait until the normal time to temp 

millpe

@gingermama29 I'm glad you dont have to travel next weekend! And I always use visitors as a good excuse to get my house cleaning done! 

@bows22 Oh I'm sorry about the other ladies at the table making a big deal about being KU. 

@tyrion_ weekends always go by too quickly! Hope your week goes fast and doesnt drag on. 

@saladflambe Sorry middle of the night wake ups are messing with your temps!

begging4abump

@gingermama29 I’ve been using premom for opk sticks, but I don’t know how great it is for giving super accurate numbers to provide a ratio between test line and control line. It’s nice though to have somewhere to store pictures to see and compare, and overall it’s helpful to see on graphs what’s happening to compare cycles and understand a little better what to expect from my body around then. I think I just have to keep taking pictures of a stick until I get numbers that make sense. So, better than nothing, but other people may have a better option. Anyway, glad to hear you get to skip the drive. Cleaning is a pain, but then you can enjoy that for the next week or so. Driving is just a waste altogether!

@millpe I got my + yesterday (and a nearly + on Saturday) so maybe we’re o buddies?! I’ve read that many women have delayed temp rises after o, so I’d guess you’d get your high temps tomorrow or soon after, especially if cm has dried up.

@bows22 Sorry for the insensitivity of others. Those moments are hard. ❤️ I’m glad you had a good chat with someone at the table. If it had been a couples shower, I would have thought you and b_1029 were hanging out! Ha, is it just the season for wedding showers?

@tyrion_ Weekends do seem to go by too fast! But hopefully busy meant that you enjoyed it it were productive!

@saladflambe yes, bladders and ttc don’t seem to be buds. I really had trouble this month trying to hold it for 4 hours to use the opk. It’s eitger dehydration or needing to pee every hour. Choose wisely. 😂

Month/Cycle:17/1 after bench 

CD: 16

WAYDTGKU: prenatals, only decaf, opk, smep-ish, bbt, cm

R/R: I really enjoyed my h’s company bbq yesterday! He has some nice coworkers and they also have some nice spouses, so I was able to socialize like a champ. Ha, mh is so excited that I liked people and even want to set up future hang outs with some who actually live decently close by. It’s so nice to click easily with people. 🙂 plus, the food was delicious!

CS/Q: I’m thinking today is o day?

photographerwife

Month/Cycle: 3/3

CD: 7

WAYDTGKU: BBT, OPK, maca, prenatals, SMEP. 

R/R: This weekend was so busy. I worked and then had that appointment for my friend to find her wedding dress. It was a little overwhelming, her family kept adding accessories to all of the dresses and just being very long winded in general about everything. It took us 7 hours to do that and eat dinner. 

TW: LC and pregnancy mentioned

I also saw one of my best friends and her newborn baby yesterday. He was precious and it was so nice to finally see them. It makes me excited and nervous for one. One of her good friends started trying around the time when we did and her husband told me yesterday that they were expecting after trying for a whole month. They’re sweet people and I’m happy for them but I just felt like he rubbed it in a bit. They know we’ve been trying, and I was feeling like “damn okay.”

CS/Q: not a whole lot to see! 

bows22

@begging4abump you have been a social butterfly lately! I know what you mean about clicking with people, that’s how I felt about the girl at the shower. That doesn’t usually happen for me so it was a little bit of a confidence booster that I can actually socialize like a normal person haha

@photographerwife oh my gosh that is the longest day ever. Did she find a dress at least? People who are a little braggy about being 1/1 rub me the wrong way too. They probably are just surprised/relieved it was easy but it’s still annoying when you don’t fall into the 1/1 category. 

photographerwife

@gingermama29 I’m glad you had a good weekend! I’ve used wondfo and pregmate. And they’re all good! 

@tyrion_ glad you had a good weekend! 

@millpe I hope you O now or after 2 days from now! That sounds confusing. 

@saladflambe hopefully it won’t mess you up too bad! My temp doesn’t get super affected by night wakings. And I always Temp at 5! 

photographerwife

@bows22 sorry I missed you! That sounds super frustrating about the shower. Even though I haven’t been doing this long at all - I know that it’s hard to keep those feelings in check.

kpearse99

Month/Cycle: 12/9 (AL)

CD: 43 - womp!

WAYDTGKU: Preseed, CM, OPK, PNV, EOD-ish and Letrozole.

R/R: Grrrrr... still nothing! And I feel like my AF like symptoms are even fading lol.. so wtf?!  I go to my RE tomorrow morning for blood work so I'll know more tomorrow afternoon once the results come in. All is good though!

Had a lazy Sunday yesterday, which was needed! I was exhausted this weekend for some reason, so there were lots of naps and snuggles!

CS/Q: 

I'll be back for tags after my morning meeting at work.

begging4abump

@photographerwife You sounds like a good friend. Seven hours! Geez! I just went shopping with my mom (and did a pretend shopping with my gmom so she could say she was part of it too), but I can’t imagine subjecting anyone else to the...pleasure of the process. Ha. I hope she bought one!

@bows22 Yep, lots of socializing lately! Whew! When it rains, it pours I guess. Look at us being normal. 😂 Ha, I’m just really picky about people, so I do get pretty excited about the clicks (not cliques). 

saladflambe

@photographerwife I'm temping at 3am. Yes, 3am. But, I almost always have to get up to pee by 3am if not earlier, so it's the most logical time (bc I'm up for the day at 5am, so if I get up to pee at 3am, I've only had maybe 90 min of rough sleep before 5am, and that'll throw temps off). But, last night, I had to pee at 1:30am...arghhh... anyways, 7 hours is a verrrry long dress shopping day omg...

@begging4abump today looks like it might be O day...but I suck at charts still. I'm glad you had a good time at the bbq  

begging4abump

@kpearse99 I’m glad that you’ll be seeing the re tomorrow!! I’m dying to know what’s going on, so I can’t imagine how YOU feel! I’m really hoping that no symptoms is a good sign. ❤️

whitealbum29

@gingermama29 - I've used Pre-mom to take a photo of my easy @ home OPK's. Agree with @begging4abump that it's most useful to compare tests throughout the cycle.

@bows22 - I'm glad there was someone for you to talk to at the bridal shower! The "KU table" thing sounds rough.

@begging4abump - yay for O! Glad you had fun at H's work event!

@photographerwife - I'm sorry you had to deal with that. Why say that to someone who you know is trying?! I feel like it was a clueless guy thing but of course sometimes women say stuff like that too even when they know someone is TTC.

Ugh I never got back to do tags Friday! I hate that. Hope everyone had a good weekend!

Month/Cycle: 13/13

CD: 6

WAYDTGKU: CM, prenatals, evening primrose oil, shatavari supplements, SA within a month.

R/R: Rave...had a nice weekend! We had a nice Sunday apple picking and making apple loaf, apple brandy (honestly just for the activity as far as I'm concerned, I can't see myself drinking it!), and apple butter which is still in progress. Rant...Just thinking today about how we'll have to be benched/TTA until end of March 2020 unless I'm KU by December, because of a trip we're taking to Costa Rica (where there's still a Zika warning from the CDC.) I think I've mentioned before. Ugghh. I assume "three months to get KU or else" is probably not going to be a helpful mindset.

CS/Q: nope

swizzlemalarkey

Month/Cycle: 1/1

CD: 15

WAYDTGKU: PNV, BBT, CM, charting, I would say EOD but failing at that 

R/R: Rave: I got to temp this morning! Also got to go back to bed after temping because I don't have to be at work until 11 today.

Rant: We didn't get to hio yesterday like I wanted to. I had a raging headache and was super tired and he just didn't really seem interested. Disappointing but it is what it is. however, I just finally got some good ewcm this am so maybe our timing won't suck as much as I thought!! definitely going to try tonight if we both aren't dead after work.

Also i'm scheduled for another 50 hour week that will definitely turn into more and i'm not happy about it. trying to figure out how to talk to my manager about it without coming off as complaining.

CS/Q: my temp this morning was 97.93 and it was pretty chilly in my room. All of my post-o temps from the past have been over 98 so I will see what it is tomorrow. does room temp affect anyone significantly? 

@gingermama29 i'm happy you won't have to travel again! hope the visit goes well

@bows22 i'm sorry you had to be in that situation the nerve of some people to not think twice before saying certain things!

@millpe hoping you still O'd even without the temp rise! like others have said maybe it will be a late rise?

@saladflambe sorry that you had to wake up to pee  

@tyrion_ I feel you on the weekend going by too fast, hope the week does too!

@begging4abump that's awesome that you enjoyed the bbq! it's always nice when the people at a function are easy to get along with

@photographerwife oh gosh that sounds like such a long day! 

I'm sorry you had that experience and that you felt like he wa rubbing it in, people will really never understand what it's like unless they have to go through it themselves, hugs

kpearse99

@gingermama29 I have the SmileReader strips, from Amazon, and it has it's own app that you can take pictures of the test strips and it lets you know where you're at. I like them!

@bows22 sorry about the pregnancy table at the bridal shower... ugh! Those things really do seem to happen more and more frequently when you're trying harder and harder, right?

@tyrion_ busy weekends are great, but you're right - they do fly by way too quickly.

@millpe are you going anywhere fun?!

@saladflambe I did not sleep well last night either - ugh! hopefully tonight will be better for both of us!

@begging4abump FX today is O day for you!! Also, that's great to hear about the BBQ yesterday! I can fully agree that it's so nice when you naturally click with people - I hope you guys get to set up some more hang outs! 

@photographerwife holy crap - 7 hours?! Did she end up finding her dress at least?!

@whitealbum29 is it hard to make apple butter?! I've always wanted to try that - excuse me while I run to Pinterest! 

@konoha sometimes it's not worth forcing the HIO session! I'm sorry you have to work that much again - I hope it at least flies by for you!

mvt2003

Going to go through and do tags separately!  

Month/Cycle: 13/13

CD:8

WAYDTGKU: Everything.  

R/R: Doing the post-long weekend work digging out, which is always fun! I've got lots of stuff to get done today, but will go through and catch up with everyone! 

My weekend was nice - I dropped off a box to ship to ThredUp of my "nice" fat clothes that weighed 23 lbs. I also dropped 3 bags of clothes and 1 bag of shoes off at the thrift store. My drawers actually close right now, and I can pretty much see all of my shoes on the closet floor. I feel so much better! I also found my favorite running shorts that I've been looking for all freaking summer long! Just in time for it to be too cold to use them, but oh well. I also went through my husband's side of the closet, and we got rid of some clothes he doesn't wear anymore. Lots of prep for winter! 

We did find that we have paper wasps in our siding this weekend, so we had to spend a decent amount of time getting spray and spraying them. Hopefully we caught it early and it works so we don't have to call an exterminator!!! The joys of home ownership!

CS/Q: Meh, not really. 

kpearse99

@mvt2003 I LOVE cleaning out my closets and drawers like that!! You're right, you do feel so much better after it! So much lighter too LOL! What are paper wasps?!?!  We had a bee hive in our our siding a few weeks ago too - it was getting pretty bad too, and we sprayed it with 3 different cans of bee spray over the course of 2 weeks with NO luck.  We had to call an exterminator out, but they were able to take care of it with one visit!

mvt2003

@gingermama29 Ha there is nothing quite like the cleaning we do for our mothers-in-law!! I use my Femometer app to read my OPK strips - it has an intelligent read function that feels like it does a pretty decent job. I do still use my judgement on the levels though. 

@bows22 I'm so sorry, friend. I hate loathe and despise that feeling, less than and left out. I'm glad you found someone to chat to, and alcohol always always helps in that situation.  

@tyrion_ how was your 5k this weekend? Mine was disgustingly hot, and the last mile of the route is an incline in full sun, so my time tanked.  

@millpe FX you O before you leave!!!

@saladflambe I hate the middle-of-the-night wakeups when I'm temping. So annoying!!

@begging4abump Hooray for O day!!!! Glad you met nice people at the party! 

@photographerwife Ooof wedding dress shopping is HARD work!!! Hopefully she found her dress!

@kpearse99 FX for your bloodwork!!!! Hoping you can finally get over to TWW!!!!!!

@whitealbum29 Loving your apple projects!!! Also, I totally understand the nerves, and deadlines make me crazy. I'm feeling like maybe 2019 just isn't my year and 2020 would be better anyway? I might be there with you in March the way I'm going. 

mvt2003

@kpearse99 They're basically wasps with a very distinctive nest. We had them last year, so it was familiar, although last year they nested in a trash barrel we have for yard waste. We've used 3 cans of spray so far, but MH remembered AFTER I bought the spray that only 1 brand really worked last year, and of course the other brand is what I had bought. I got the better brand yesterday, and that seems to have gotten most of them, will probably have to do one more spray tonight. 

ETA: One got into the house on Saturday night though, which was TERRIFYING. MH killed it with AquaNet and a baseball bat.  

kpearse99

@mvt2003 DUDE hairspray works sooooo good on bees 

mvt2003

@kpearse99 Yes, but it has to be extra firm hold, not the "soft hold" nice stuff I use to keep beachy waves I keep a can of extra hold AquaNet exactly for this purpose!  

kpearse99

@mvt2003

mvt2003

@kpearse99

chaos-and-coffee

Jumping on in! 

@gingermama29 I also use the Premom app for OPK tracking. I O late and it helps me to see things line up. 

@saladflambe I hate peeing at night! So disruptive. 

@kpearse99 so sorry your cycle has been long and frustrating, but I hope your RE can give you some positive answers! 

@mvt2003 I’m in a major purge mood too. So cathartic. Good for you! 

Month/Cycle: 4/3

CD: 14

WAYDTGKU: OPKs, HIO, debating temping 

R/R: this weekend was beautiful weather wise! Trying to cram in all the fall activities before Midwest winter hits and we are stuck inside for 5 months. 

CS/Q: nothing to see - I’ve never temped before but am debating it! My sleep schedule is whack, but my cycles have been long (38-40 days) and I’m assuming I am O’ing late, if at all, so it would be nice to confirm.

bows22

@kpearse99 I can’t wait for your RE appointment tomorrow! For some reason I thought the bloodwork was today and am now bummed I have to wait another day haha

@whitealbum29 ugh I would feel the same about the “deadline” the whole Zika thing makes me so mad. Don’t take away our Caribbean vacations, universe!

@konoha Those conversations with managers are not easy but I hope you can find a way to stand up for yourself!

@mvt2003 so jealous of your closet purge!! I need to make time to do that when I switch the summer/winter clothes around. 

whitealbum29

@konoha - that's good about ewcm, it sounds like missing last night won't be a deal breaker!

@kpearse99 - it's not super hard, we're using our crockpot! You just need to set aside a lot of time...we started later in the day than we should have so we had to put a pause on it, hopefully that won't ruin it! It's basically just sliced apples, sugar and brown sugar and spices.

@mvt2003 - you must feel so great having all that stuff gone so you can actually get to the stuff you want to wear! That's the best feeling!

kpearse99

@bows22 sorry, girlie haha - I wish it were today too - but I was directed to call today, if AF didn't arrive, to set up the appointment. They said I could come in any day this week... naturally I picked tomorrow  I NEED to know where I am at in this never ending cycle. The longer it drags on the more "over it" I am of this whole TTC process. I really am super curious to see what the results show tomorrow afternoon.

saladflambe

@kpearse99 dang... how frustrating... I feel bad for complaining for my longer-but-not-THAT-long cycle last month! I hope the RE can give you answers/get things started (I've had to take meds in the past to restore my cycle, so I do know they exist, but I don't know how they impact TTC).

saladflambe

@mvt2003 thanks for reminding me I also have a bag to ship out to ThredUp! ...I wish they paid better, but I just need the stuff out of my house now.

gingermama29

@tyrion_ glad you had a good weekend!

@millpe sorry you didn't get your temp jump. Hopefully timing and everything works out though!

@saladflambe I hate cleaning! There are so many things I'd rather be doing! I'm planning to input temps to FF but yes, I was looking for an app that analyzes them. Middle of the night pee wake ups are the worst!

@begging4abump thanks for the app recommendation. I will definitely check it out. Glad you enjoyed the BBQ yesterday! Love when new social situations end up being fun!

@photographerwife so exciting about your friend but also so frustrating about the "trying a whole month." The dress shopping sounds like such a long day. Hopefully it wasn't too bad.

@kpearse99 I hope you get some answers at the RE tomorrow. Such a frustrating cycle for you!! Thanks for the recommendation too!

@whitealbum29 thanks for the recommendation! Sorry for the added pressure to get KU before your trip. FX that your timing works out and you don't have to be benched.

@konoha FX for good timing. Ugh that work week sounds miserable and long.

@mvt2003 I bet it feels so good to get rid of those clothes!! I have 4 bags that I need to get rid of too. They currently sitting in one of my spare bedrooms. And omg about the wasps! Glad you caught it early!! My parents had that issue a few years back. It took me getting stung whole I was sleeping they're for them to realize there was a problem but they had almost eaten all the way through the ceiling in the living room. Thanks for the app recommendation. I will have to check it out.

@chaos-and-coffee welcome!! Thanks for the app recommendation! The late O makes it so hard to know when to start testing too! Glad your fall weather is here! It's supposed to be 80 again here this weekend and I am so not okay with it. Bring on the fall temps and weather!

Phew, I think I'm caught up now!

mvt2003

@saladflambe Same - I sent a bag a couple of months ago and my items only sold for $14 in total. This bag will get more $$ though because I have dresses in there. 

bows22

@kpearse99 oh I guess I did know you were just supposed to call today. How dare they not bring you in for bloodwork the same day haha. I’m glad you will have some kind of answer tomorrow even if it’s still not the whole picture!

tyrion_

@gingermama29 I’m glad they were flexible and you’ll still get to visit with them. And I agree that weekends go by too quickly. Blah.

@bows22 Ugh, sorry about the bridal shower. I can’t stand when people act crazy over pregnant people. It’s awkward and weird. I’m happy the rest of your weekend was relaxing at least. 

@millpe Did you keep dipping OPKs? Have you ever had a delayed rise before? Hopefully it’ll be up tomorrow and it’s like @bows22 said with ovulating super early morning. 

@saladflambe I have found 5 am to be the perfect time for me to temp. I usually wake up around 2-3am to pee. And that gives me 2-3 hours of sleep before my 5am temp alarm goes off. I’ve been able to have noticeable shifts with that method. And if I sleep longer and wake up around 4am I just temp then and live with the triangle of shame. 

@begging4abump I’m glad the bbq was fun. It is so bad when people don’t jive and you have to try and force conversation. Glad it went well! 

@photographerwife 7 hours?! Sheesh. I’m glad it at least included dinner. 

@kpearse99 I am so sorry about this cycle from hell. I hope the bloodwork results bring some answers and easy solutions. Like, you’re pregnant (I hope!). Good luck! 

@whitealbum29 Oh, man, I’m sorry about the 3 month deadline/potential Zika benching. I really really hope you’re just KU before then. 

@konoha what do you do for a living? They have crazy expectations! I’m exhausted for you. 

@mvt2003 I thought of you this weekend! I ran a 5k Saturday (hungover) and thought that if this had been your trail race my only hope of survival would be you running by me and dragging me out. I do not recommend hungover races, ugh. 

@chaos-and-coffee Temping gives me peace of mind. Even when I’m not TTC I temp to keep track of my cycles. It’s so helpful if you have any variation in cycles. 

bluetickgal

I’m so late posting today!! I had half of this typed out at lunch, but then didn’t have time to finish!! Hope you all had a great day! 

Month/Cycle: 16/11/1 AL#2 

CD: 43

WAYDTGTKU: Benched...SHG next cycle and will restart Letrozole & add in progesterone. 

R/R: Had a wonderful weekend! It’s been a busy Monday so far, which has made it go by fast (update, it did go by fast)! Still no AF! I mentioned yesterday, but I feel like I may be ovulating now...so who knows what the heck is going on with my body! I’m probably going to call the RE later this week if no signs of AF by then. 

CS/Q: None.

@gingermama29 yes, the weekends are always too quick...even the ones where you don’t have lots of things to do! That’s nice your IL’s are coming to visit next weekend and you won’t have to travel! Hopefully cleaning for them won’t be too bad though!

@bows22 ugh, so sorry for that experience at the shower! People really don’t think about what they are saying and how it can affect others! It’s sucks though!! Glad you had a good rest of your weekend!! 

@tyrion_ sorry your weekend was so busy it went by too fast!! Hope your Monday goes by fast too at least!

@millpe hope you have either already O’d, or your body waits until you are back home again! 

@saladflambe hope you can get some consistent temps leading up to O! It is tough if you get up at night, but I think if you get at least 3-4 hours before you have to get up, it should be ok. 

@begging4abump glad you had a good time at the company BBQ...sounds like you have an A+ social game!! DH and I are both major introverts, so those types of social gatherings are not our cup of tea! Yay for O day...your timing looks awesome too!! 

@photographerwife sorry for the busy weekend!! 7 hours sounds like such a long time...did she at least find “the dress”?! 

@kpearse99 ugh, sorry you are still in limbo! Glad you were able to rest this weekend since you were so tired! And hopefully you’ll get some clarity after going to the RE tomorrow! 

@whitealbum29 your weekend sounds wonderful! So many apple things made, so cool!! Probably easier said than done, but hopefully you don’t let the pressure of getting KU by December get to you too much! 

@konoha yay for temping...hopefully O is right around the corner and you can get some good timing! Ugh, your work hours  sound so tiring...hope the week goes by fast for you at least! 

@mvt2003 your weekend sounds wonderful and so productive!! It’s such a good feeling purging your closet...and making room for new clothes! ☺️ Or maybe that’s just me...at least I have room for a while! 

@chaos-and-coffee welcome!! That’s great you are enjoying Fall...it’s still warm here, but I think it’s right around the corner and I’m so excited!! I definitely recommend temping, it is nice seeing the progression through your cycle!