Mama Mia

I got to see Mama Mia last night. That show was incredible! I LOVED every minute of it. It was so much better than the movie. I am so glad I got to go. It is also a big plus getting to go with family.

Yesterday started out with me at work at 6 am... which means I was up at 5:30 am in the morning. Mike dropped me off at work and then went home, changed my oil, rotated my tires and then dropped my car off for emissions and inspections. He then spent the morning working on my '67 with his dad.

Anyways I only stayed at work till 12:30 (I was working overtime so I was not obligated to a full day). Mike came and picked me up and we did some Fathers Day shopping and got lunch before heading home. It doesn't seem like we were really home very much yesterday between picking up my car and then meeting for dinner with Linda, Dave, and my Dad. It is always fun to go out to dinner with them all.

After dinner Linda, Dave, Mike and I headed to the Capital Theater to see the play. We have front row balcony seats so I didn't have issues with someones big head in my way. It worked out well. The play really was incredible. Afterwards... we spent a good 10 minutes searching for the car in the parking garage. Luckily we were not the only ones who were totally lost in there. Finally we found it and headed home. We didn't end up getting in bed till about midnight.

It was such a busy day, but such a fun day! The only down side is I think the lack of sleep has gotten to me and my cough turned into a full blown head cold. So I feel like crap and really dont feel like doing much of anything. Oh well... it was worth it for all the fun I had last night.

My love of ABBA

I have a confession to make.... I am totally in love with ABBA. I have fond memories growing up listening to them because my mom also loved ABBA. In fact, I have a decent collection of ABBA music on my Ipod, which I have been listening to a lot lately.

So I am very excited to get to go see Mama Mia at the Capitol Theater on Saturday. I have wanted to see that play for awhile and was very disappointed to find out it was no longer playing in Vegas when I went for my birthday. I was very excited when my sister called me up to let me know it was coming to Salt Lake and asked if I wanted tickets. I jumped on the opportunity. It is going to be amazing!

In order to prepare for it, I have been listening to lots of ABBA on my Ipod. I also watched part of Mama Mia the movie. I still have a hard time with that one simply because Meryl Streep singing kinda sounds like fingers nails on a chalkboard to me. She really doesn't belong in a musical. Although I really do love Amanda Seyfried. Even though I didn't finish the entire movie... I figured I watched enough of it.

I actually just finished watching Muriel's Wedding. I had actually never seen that movie before and had forgotten it until my friend mentioned it the other day. Honestly, it was an ok movie...although a little weird. I rather enjoyed it though.

Anyways I figure surrounding myself with everything ABBA lately is great preparation for this play. Now I just have to wait for a couple more days to pass and I will be there! Oh and everyone cross their fingers that my cold will get better or go away completely before the play. I don't want such a great experience to be overshadowed by a horrible cough and cold!

P.S. there is tons of progress being made on my '67. Check out the progress at www.melissasmustang.blogspot.com

One Good Looking Mailbox!

I love when we do little weekend projects. Sunday we decided to tackle the mailbox. Our mailbox is boring grey. The numbers were starting to peel off so I decided it was time to fix it up. So we spray painted it a pretty metallic blue. Because Mike is a big mustang fan, we figured it would only be appropriate to put racing stripes down the top. We also bought new numbers and even put Epperson on the front.

Before

After
This is the mailbox on the post. Its hard to see but on the very front it says Epperson. I was so excited to get it all done. It looks awesome. I was sad to find that Monday during the rain and dust storm, it got very dirty. So it doesn't look as good... but it still looks better than plain grey.

Such an Inspiration

I found out that a previous coworker of mine in his early 20's is battling cancer. He is such an inspiration. He is so positive in everything and thankful to God for letting him know he is not alone as he goes through this. He also believes everything happens for a reason.

I am so inspired by him and how positive he is. I wish I was more positive but I am not sure how to be at this point. My first thought when finding out what he is going through, is that it seems so cruel of God to put such a young person through that, that still has their whole life ahead of them. I find myself getting angry about all the cruel things in the world. I know I need to try to be more positive about it all. I need to be to a point where I can look at all my troubles in a different light and come to accept them as a trial, not cruelty on God's part.

I still have a lot of anger I am working through. I want to get past it so it doesn't control my whole life. My coworker gives me inspiration that it is possible to be handed something horrible and come to accept it and use it to strengthen yourself. Someday I hope to be in that position where I can be more positive. I think I still have some anger issues to work through, but I have hope this anger wont last forever. Someday I will be in the acceptance stage and be able to embrace my trials and find the good in it all.

A Master Plan

Mike and I went and had a consultation with a doctor at the University of Utah Reproductive Center this morning. It is nice to finally have a plan of action and to know how to proceed from here. So we went over our tests results with the doctor and have decided that we will try at least one round of IUI. The chances of that working for us is really only like a 10% chance, but I figure it wouldn't hurt to try it before we rush into In-Vitro (which we really would not be rushing into that anyways since we aren't rich).

So Mike is going to go see a Urologist. We found something out that we never even thought about with him. He has had two hernia surgeries. The Doctor was saying that sometimes after the surgeries it can restrict or block tubes. I honestly never even though that his hernia surgeries may have been the culprit. So I guess he will find out for sure what his situation is once he sees the Urologist, but there is no way to correct it if it is blockage from the hernia surgeries.

In the meantime, I will just relax this round since I had already taken the Femara for this cycle. So I am not going to stress about it or try to stick to any particular schedule. The chances of Mike and I getting pregnant on our own is pretty much non-existent. So this will be my calm before the storm. Next month the testing will start. I will keep up the Femara and go in for a sonohysterogram (I think that's what it's called) towards the beginning of my cycle to make sure there are no problems with cysts or anything like that. Then will come more testing to make sure everything is working how it should. If everything comes out ok in the testing… then the IUI will begin. At this time I am not sure what all they will need to do on testing and how that will all play out. All I know is my first step of the sonohysterogram… and then they will figure things out from there.

As I mentioned, we were told we probably have about a 10% chance of getting pregnant with IUI. We have a 65-70% chance of getting pregnant with In-vitro. The doctor stressed the importance of age and how the success rate is higher in the 20's or early 30's. Since 30 is creeping up on me, we will try to go in for In-Vitro before I hit that magical age. So that will probably be in the next year or two. So Mike and I will hopefully be able to figure out funding and set aside some money for that. So really I guess we wont be doing extravagant trips or anything fun like that for awhile since we really will need to focus on saving money and getting ready for In-Vitro since it sounds like that is what we will probably be doing.

It is hard to accept that we are going to be getting into the expensive stuff like In-Vitro. The money aspect really scares me. I guess it is slowly starting to sink in that it is going to have to happen. Luckily I still have at least a year to really accept it before we will even be remotely close to the point of actually doing it. So, I just have to take a deep breath, and jump in with both feet, and pray that something good will come out of this.