I love fall

The weather here is awesome in the morning and night right now.  I love it!  I'm excited about the holidays (except Halloween, bc let's get real I despise Halloween...jumping out in masks to scare people is NOT my idea of fun).  I'm excited to go do fall adventures with my friends.  We're planning a fun fall day with the blonde squad here shortly.  Pumpkins (picking, carving, cooking the seeds!), apple cider, hay rides, scarves, pictures with fall leaves...I sound like such a nerd but I'm so pumped!  Sometimes I have to sit back and take a look at the people in my life and realize how lucky I am.  I have the best friends in the world :)

So...yes, I got all sappy.  It's what I do lately apparently.  The Clomid hasn't made me crazy in the slightest (ok, except that one time asshat in my office pissed me off, but I don't care much for him in general so I'm going to blame that one on his general demeaner and annoying personality and not the drugs) but it has made me QUITE emotional.  Case in point: last night while watching Grey's Anatomy I literally couldn't breathe I was crying so hard.  (WHY MARK SLOAN, WHY???????) I'm unsure it's normal the amount I was crying over this.  Over a TV show.  I even had to text my mom about it:

Me: I already can't handle this
Mom: I know.  I don't like new people either
Me: I'm hysterical...damn show
Mom: I guess I'm hard core.  Ok, sad, but not as bad as Denny and George
Me: omg I can't breathe

She's probably right...in the grand scheme of Grey's, the deaths of Denny and George were more traumatic (007 anyone??) but I cried more at this one.  Because I cry lately.  A lot.  Yes, I just based my emotional unstability on Grey's Anatomy...just let me.  And it's not even that I'm THAT sad...I just can't control the tears :) I'll take it over being megabitch any day! I'm confident Josh agrees. 

just plain joy all around!

This past weekend my sister got married.  The wedding was absolutely stunning.  It was so perfect.  So very them.  It was romantic and hilarious all in one.  She looked freaking gorgeous.  Everyone had an amazing time.  The DJ was perfect (of course...go Derek!) and the party was epic.  Drinks were certainly flowing.  Just ask my husband ;) All in all it was her perfect day and here's a few pics from the evening

My sis and new brother!

 

siblings :)

 

drunk cohens

 

 

Also, my toast went off without a hitch...got some great laughs...until I was crying and snotted on myself...so hot...but I was really on my game and had lots of people in tears!  yay!

 

 

Now, onto more joy!  As we know, I started clomid again this month.  It has yet to make me crazy.  AWESOME!  Dr. M started me back at 50mg and I was like, um...50mg didn't work last time.  He's all...we like to start over because your body changes and we don't want to overstimulate too soon.  I was pissed, but obviously I do what he says...because I love him.  Wait, what?  Anyway...last night this happened...

 

 

Now, some might be wondering "what the hell is that?"  THAT, my friends, is a positive ovulation test!  HELL YES!  Note that the two lines are the same size and the test line is actually darker than the control line!  YAY!  On ovulation tests there are usually two lines always, but the only time you know it's positive is if they are the same color, or the test line is darker than the control line.  WELL HELLO TWO LINES!!  This is a big deal.  I haven't had a positive ovulation test in I couldn't tell you how long.  I jumped around in my living room for a solid 3 minutes.  Then went and did "other things"  TMI?  Whatevs.  I'M OVULATING! Now, I go next monday for the "real" results...blood work to for sure confirm that this test isn't lying but I'm feeling good!  Let's all think happy fertilization thoughts for the next 6 days.  I'm feeling good with my changed diet, blown open tubes, positive test, and the other signs of ovulation!  Hip Hip HOOORAY!!!



 

happy rosh hashanah to all and to all...

some nausea.  Clearly the last name "Cohen" is just for display...we don't celebrate Jewish holidays :) Day 3 of clomid and ah, yes, I remember this feeling...like I'm going to ralph at any moment.  The side effects of clomid mimic those of pregnancy...rad!  If my tummy gets empty I get nauseated.  And all I want to do is eat pizza, but instead I'm eating a mango...yummmm...or something. I'm really going to try to not gain weight this time around...until it's BABY WEIGHT!  YIPEE!!!!

fun fun fun

T - 2 days until I take the crazy pills. Watch out world! But more importantly, my big sis is getting married NEXT WEEKEND! So excited!! Next week something fun is happening almost every day. Wednesday, manis/pedis with the girls for Kelli's bday and pre-wedding nails, thursday is the spray tan par-tay! We know a pumpkin of a lady who does professional spray tanning. You know, so we don't end up looking like Ross Gellar...

 

I'm an EIGHT????
 

 

 A bunch of us (including my father...that's right) are getting spray tanned so we can look bronzed in Jenn's pics instead of looking like Casper.  Then Friday is the rehearsal and the BIG DAY on saturday!!!  I've been working on my toast (MOH here!) because I have some seriously big shoes to fill, as Jenn's toast at my wedding was something fierce.  Aaaaaand...turns out I can't stop crying about this wedding!  I'm just so happy for them. 

Other fun and exciting things...my desk at work is FINALLY clear.  I am caught up on my filing since *ahem* April, and am up to date on everything else.  Thank god for KC our lovely new admin!  She has saved my life! Yay life!!

Veganpluseggs

I'm about to be real honest with myself...I know that I always have to be "doing" something.  Whether it's stressing about getting knocked up, training for another half marathon (which, oops, the training isn't going so well..heh), figuring out how to become a Zumba instructor, blah blah blah...if I have nothing "to do" I get bored and can't handle myself.  Ha!  So while I'm waiting to start my crazy pills again I decided to give being a vegan a shot...ok, ok, I'm still eating eggs, but I've been pretty damn close this week! I wanted to try for just a week to see if it's something I/We could actually do. It's something that I have been researching for quite a while and something I wanted to see how it fit into our lifestyle, etc.  Much to my surprise, Josh hasn't completely resisted this idea.  Perhaps it's because this was how the conversation went:

Jill - "Hey, do you want sloppy joes this week?"
Josh - "Um, yeah!"
Jill - "Ok, what about a sheperd's pie?"
Josh - "I would love that."
Jill - "Ok, how about spinach and mushroom sandwiches?"
Josh - "This all sounds awesome!"
Jill - "Ok, I'm going to the store."

What he didn't know was that I was on the computer searching vegan recipes and looked LONG and HARD (that's what she said) to find things he would eat.  I found these amazing recipes and hit the store.  Everything I bought was vegan & gluten free (because I'm insane and do that too most of the time) except coffee creamer for Josh, and much to my surprise, it wasn't that expensive. 

Things that I had never bought before:
-gluten free English muffins (they're freaking delish...and also $6...uh...)
-tempeh (used this to make the sloppy joes and my goodness it was awesome)
-portobello mushroom tops (in all honesty, giant mushrooms kinda freak me out)

So far I've made an amazing giant salad with mixed greens, tomatoes, artichokes, mushrooms, chick peas, with fresh lemon and olive oil dressing (shout out to Val for this one), portobello tops in balsamic vinegar and garlic (they did not creep me out when they were deliciously swirling around in my mouth), which we ate with salad and a sweet potato, and last night I made the sloppy joes on GF english muffins.  I'm not about to lie about it...they ruled.  I even took a picture to remember them by :) Don't mind my janky place mat...that's what happens on a random wednesday night...

 

 

 

Josh even liked them!  SWEET SUCCESS!!  Whatever, I'm a loser, and this excites me.  Tonight I'm making the sheperd's pie...which I've never made a non-vegan sheperd's pie, so needless to say this will be an adventure.  Oh, also...I'm not doing this to "save the animals".  I think it's very admirable for people who are vegan to do that, but this is about 99% to do with the fact that I recognize what foods make me feel good and what foods don't and about 1% because I think baby pigs are cute.  

bachelorette debauchery at its finest

 

Heh. So, my sis had her bachelorette party this past weekend and we went down to Tybee Island and the entire weekend was a shit show. It was amazing! Girlfriends together, beaching, drinking, playing at dueling piano bars, wearing penis veils, wearing light up penis earrings, wearing crowns, eating seafood, eating way too many chips and dip, watching a fight break out in the parking lot of our condo, almost calling the police, laying in the pool, drinking in the pool, drinking on the beach, drinking in the condo (are you noticing a trend??), driving 5 hours each way with the "best car ever", jamming out to Mr. Big, watching two very different groups of friends mingling and co-habitating and becoming besties, etc. It was one of the most fun weekends of my life. Can't wait for the wedding! Here's a few pics from the weekend :)

 

 

 

 

Adorning her in her lovely penis attired

 

Meet the blonde squad.  This is what we like people to think we look like

 

At deeeeeelish dinner

 

Me & D

 

There's that fanastic veil

 

The morning after...this is what we all actually look like