Our new house guest

DH's best friend moved in with us recently and he brought with him his kitty cat. Her name is Zoe Bear and she is quite the cutie. She and Bacon are getting along pretty well, but they still have their moments of fighting with each other. This is a picture of her on my bed this morning. DH's friend is out of town so Zoe is feeling a little lonely. So the two of them give me lots and lots of cuddles which is nice.

Bought more supplies

Well since I have no clue what is happening on the TTC front. Tests are appearing negative, I am concentrating on getting fit and crafting.

I have made a really hard effort not to snack in the evenings, and to make sure that my meals are sensible and smaller. My swimsuit is in, but I haven't had a chance to go pick it up. On Monday I am signing up for 10 weeks of HipHop classes on Sunday nights so that will be more exercise.


For the crafting, I went to Walmart today and stocked up on yarn. I am planning on being in a craft show in November, so I need to start preparing now. I want to crochet a couple of blankets for it. I picked some light green and cream, off white and medium blue, and purple. I already have quite a stash so it should allow me to do lots of colour variations.

I am also planning on selling rice bags ( that you microwave for pain or freeze for a freezer pack). I bought some more fabric today. It needs to be 100% cotton. I got a couple of metres of $3/m fabric and some things out of the remanent bin so I will have lots of colour variation. As well, I am going to make some aprons as well for adults and kids. So I have lots of sewing in my future as well. I will post pictures later.

The Cat- Bacon

Since I mention our cat, I thought I should share a picture of him. We got him when we had been married for about 4 months. Although my DH is allergic to cats, the minute he said I could get one, I got one ( like 3 days later). He is half Siamese and half NA short hair. When we first got him, he meowed for about 5 days straight. My DH wanted to get rid of him, but eventually the cat stopped meowing so much. When we went to the vet and asked about the meowing, he told us the cat was part Siamese and this they meow alot.

Not we would not trade the fact that the cat meows at us ( well when is hungry at 4 in the morning it can be quite annoying). He meows when we come home to greet us, he meows when he wants attention. We can pretty much have a conversation with him. He is our little baby right now. Most nights in the winter he sleeps on our bed and he loves to cuddle especially when I am on my laptop.

His name is Bacon. Not after the food, but after Sir Francis Bacon. Sir Bacon learned through trial and error which is pretty much what cats do. He is our Bacon Buddy, Pork Strip, and Bakkers. He is very loving and affectionate although he hates hates hates other cats.

Waiting for my doctors Appointment

It seems it is going to be a long wait for my doctors appointment. I am glad I went in to get referral back in October. March 31 is the day and it still seems a while away. In the meantime we are still trying. DH is really getting on board. He is really excited about trying and doing everything in his power to make sure that we have a baby to hold in our hands.

He even pointed out to me an app for the Iphone. It is called Iperiod. It allows you track your cycles, predict your most fertile times as well as you can write notes about each day. This will be handy when I go see the doctor.

In other news, I bought some new fish. I have had a tank for about 2 years now. I have black skirt tetras, cory doras, a pleco, and the new addition neon tetras. I bought 2 neons about 2 weeks ago to try them out as my black skirts are pretty mean guys. Well they survived so I bought four more neons. SO for a day I had 6 neons all swimming together. The next day there are 4. I thought the other fish might have ate them as I could not find the bodies anywhere.
Good news, they didn't eat them. I cleaned the tank today and took out the fake plants to wash them and there were 2 very bloated bodies in there.