No nail pics today. I'm tired and don't feel so great...

No nail pics today.  I'm tired and don't feel so great, so I am calling it a night soon.

Today at work I started having some serious pain in my guts.  If I sat up too straight my uterus and all the way down through my vag would just have these awful shooting, stabby pains.  Same when I had to pee - I just felt like crying.  I still haven't gotten my period, either, and if I had to describe it I'd say that I feel as though I have constipation of the uterus.  It just feels so tender and it was so bad earlier that it hurt to have any pressure on the front of my pelvis.  So I decided I had to go and see my coochie doctor, like, right then.  Thank goodness he was up for working me in.

He did a blood pregnancy test on me and it was negative, so no worries about an ectopic pregnancy, thank goodness.  He didn't say anything about my period being late - except that it's not THAT late and I guess he's probably seen worse so I am going to try not to worry about it.  My schedule WAS wayyy off for two weeks, so it's not like there is no reason at all it could be late.  He wanted to test my blood for diseases and even though I'm sure I'm clean I told him to go ahead - just to rule it out.

What he DID find, which I found to be completely bizarre, is yeast.  YEAST.  I have had exactly ZERO symptoms of having a yeast infection.  I think that usually a girl knows when she's got a yeastie because it's hell in her pants.  So yeah.  I have no idea how long that's been going on.  I don't know how long you have to have one or how bad it has to get to start causing pain like that.  I think I'd rather have the itchy / burn-y so I know to do something about it right away.  This one was sneaky.  🙁

Anyway, I have some pills to take and I took one around 5 and can already sit up straight and pee without being sad, so that's improvement.  I'm still really tired and nauseated, though - probably because my body is fighting off stuff.  I imagine that I'll be feeling a lot better tomorrow after a good night's sleep.  I am so thankful that it was something simple and easy to treat.  With the pain I was in earlier I was getting scared.

Has anyone else ever experienced a stealth yeastie?  If so, how did you find out you had it?

Someone pranked us at work today.

Someone pranked us at work today. That was pretty good. We don't have a clue who did it. LOL

Today was my first day back at work...

Today was my first day back at work after doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for two weeks.  I have felt pretty crappy the last few days, but I think work was a nice distraction.  Also I was productive, so that's cool.

I had a thousand things I was gonna do this evening, but I'm wayyy too tired.  I'm gonna cut that list down to about 3 and then call it a night.  I feel like I need to rest.

I have some new nails to post, but I'll save them for tomorrow.  Also, I have some jewelry made... not a LOT, but some things.  Neither the nails or the jewelry are super spectacular, but they're cute.  It'll probably be the weekend before I get any jewelry pics up.

Later, peeps.  I hope your Monday didn't suck.  ❤

Official story. 🙁 I hear that her dog Katie is safe with family now. ❤

Official story.  🙁  I hear that her dog Katie is safe with family now.  ❤

This is so sad.  Margie will be missed within the animal rescue community.

Vacation is over.

Vacation is over. Heading to work. Making money is good. I just wish I didn't feel like crap. No period yet, but plenty is going on in there. Blegh. 

It's definitely a Monday.

Birth Control post. Look away if it offends!

Birth Control post.  Look away if it offends!

So... yesterday for the first time in about 15 years I took a pregnancy test.

My period was due Thursday and it still hasn't come.  I was pretty regular before I had my IUD and the patterns looked as though I was going to be regular again since its removal, so, you know.  I got sort of worried.

We've been using the Caya diaphragm (the purple shape-y one) regularly for months.  I wasn't a huge fan of the round one... it made this popping feeling and it was a little harder to remove.  But looking back, it might have been the better choice.  I love a lot of things about the Caya (the texture, the ease of removal), but I noticed sometimes that it would rotate a little to the left or the right.  Not a lot, though.  Say that my pubic bone where the narrow end of the Caya is supposed to lock in is 12... well, sometimes it would rotate to around 11 or 1.  Didn't seem to be a big deal or uncommon from my research, though.

Well, we've been using it for months without any significant problems, but Wednesday it somehow managed to turn COMPLETELY backwards.  So the little nubby part was back where my cervix is - therefore leaving me wide open for babies.  NOT COOL.

So we went and got a generic Plan B pill and a pregnancy test from Wal-Mart.  I'd read that it wasn't likely I would get knocked up the day before my period, so I thought if it was late I should take a test to make sure I wasn't like, pregnant already.  It came back negative.  Since I JUST got worked out from the Mirena hormone hell I waited until the absolute last minute to take my back-up pill because I was really hoping my period would just show up.  But it hasn't.  😕

I am not super sure what's going on with me right now, but I read that drastic schedule changes can affect your period, so I guess I'm hoping that is what's going on.  Since I've been on vacation for two weeks I've stayed up until the wee morning hours and slept all day.  It has definitely been a drastic change.  And now since I took that pill that could throw me even farther off which SUCKS, but it was a the right thing to do.

I have to say with all of this pregnancy business coming up in my brain I'm almost kind of disappointed that I'm not.  It's so weird.  Logically, I know it's not a great idea and I would DEFINITELY NOT get laid unprotected or attempt to make a baby, but I feel like I'm having to battle biology right now.  I guess that's a whole 'nother post, but it's the weirdest feeling to be conflicted about something like that.

For anyone who is curious I've had slight PMS symptoms, but nothing major.  I don't normally cramp, but I cramped a good bit and felt generally crappy for a while after I took the generic Plan B.

Anyway.  I guess for now all I have to go on is how I feel and I don't feel pregnant.  I feel slightly PMS-y.  I have another test in the box if I decide I need to take it, so it's nice to have that on hand.

Lesson to take from this?  It doesn't matter if a round diaphragm rotates.  I won't forget that.

Even though I woke up at 3 pm yesterday

Even though I woke up at 3 pm yesterday I tired out at midnight, went to bed, and woke up at 7 this morning.  Fixed my schedule without even trying.  Go me.  😃

Now, can someone tell me just what the hell I am supposed to do on a Saturday morning this early?  I haven't a clue what to do with myself.  😳  Most of my ani-pals aren't even awake!