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I don't know why but because I've always wanted kids, I never really thought I'd have trouble conceiving.. Now the harsh reality of PCOS and infertility is starting me in the face and all I want to do is cry.

Here I thought I'd have this perfectly planned life where every 1-2 years after turning 25 I'd have another kid. Nope. The struggle starts now because this may take longer than expected.

#pcos #infertility

Clearly underestimated how hard it would be for me to keep up to date without a computer. I just don't enjoy using mobile apps for stuff like this - whoops.

March 21, 2018 Went back to work today after being off from dental surgery and come crazy lung and sinus infection. Still having flem and tooth pain, but hey, it could be worse. Had some fried chicken for dinner, browsed Pinterest for a while and now ready for bed. I have a hard time falling asleep usually so I am trying to make a point of getting off my phone, turning on my diffuser and twinkle lights and taking some time to read before bed. I've also been wearing an eye mask to sleep lately, and it has been really helpful! Picked these books up a couple weeks ago, and am excited to start them tonight!

#dailykatie #toyoureternity #manga

March 19, 2018 Spent my Sunday in bed watching baking shows with the puppers! I swear they know when you're not feeling well! Always making me smile. If I don't make a daily post it is safe to assume I went to work, went to Pilates, ate dinner and went to bed with zero excitement of photos in between.

#dailykatie #puppers

March 18, 2018 Happy St. Patrick's day! I did absolutly nothing festive today, and did not wear any shade of green. What I did do was clean our bedroom! Now that I'm finally starting to feel better, I figured I'd better clean and disinfect everything before the germs get us again! Went to Wendy's for dinner with Dave and then checked the mail. Got summoned for Jury duty! I always get summoned but never selected to be a juror, but I've always wanted to.. maybe this will be my time!

New thoughts toward alcohol

Over the past few months I have given a lot of thought to drinking. In the past I have not been a huge consumer of alcohol usually about 4 times a year (my birthday, Christmas, and usually 2 parties that I will attend though the year). I didn’t drink through high school - other than one instance with a good friend where we drank sour puss and did vodka shots in the 10th grade. Even once I turned 19 and was in College I didn’t have the erg or excitement to hit the bars.

What I do know about myself is that generally I have a stomach of steel, I can mix varieties until the cows come up, and really have zero hangover the next day.

The only real reason I drink annually on my birthday is for the celebration with friends. This usually consists of my friends feeding me straight shots of whiskey, tequila, vodka and rum, while sipping on some coolers and a beer throughout the night.

Because of the fact that I don’t feel hungover and usually don’t get sick, I tend to drink at a party until I have zero memory the next morning... which actually really freaks me out.

I find it odd that we consume drinks that aren’t good for us, and that can change our personalities and steal our judgment and memories, all to “have fun”. I have that in quotations because there is always some drama that could have been avoided if people were sober.

For my 23rd birthday this year, the plans were big. I went to brunch with D and a good friend of ours, and had many mimosas. This was actually great because the relaxed atmosphere and good food really off-set the champagne. After going home and having a nap, we had a house party. This consisted of me doing the usual as noted above - but obviously going harder than normal and getting some alcohol poisoning and spending 10pm on puking. TEN PM, that’s how early it hit me. The next two days I was nursing a headache and stomach pains. This was 5 weeks ago and I still can’t stand the sight of alcohol.

Not only was this embarrassing, but also really upsetting the next day when I realized that so many of my friends came together to celebrate me and I was out of the game by 10 pm. I wanted to hang out with my friends and take photos, karaoke and play games, instead I have zero memory of what I’ve been told was about 30 mins of karaoke and dancing and a couple quick hours of gibber-gabber.

Now, I know this was one bad experience and that next time just pace myself, don’t mix drinks and it will be fine. But, no. This actually changed how I feel toward drinking completely. Does this mean I will never drink again? Also no, but I am going to drink very differently.

If I go to a restaurant/bar/pub, yes, I will still get a drink if its a special occasion (probably a martini of sorts). When family comes together at Christmas I will still gladly partake in wine, cheese, and the bomb lemon drop martinis my sister-in-law makes. And of course if there is celebration that calls for bubbly, I’ll pop that bottle and have a glass.

This really doesn’t upset me, and isn’t going to be hard. D doesn’t drink much either and we always have much more fun going to a movie, out for a hike, or spending that money on a new multiplayer video game.

Anyway, just thinking out loud. Sometimes it is nice to write thoughts down. On a side note, I had been thinking this all prior to the most recent party, but having that experience just confirmed my feelings.

My best guess is my next drink will be a beer with the first BBQ of the year and with the amount of food I will consume at the same time, I’ll never feel the beer.

#drinking #thoughts #alcohol

March 15, 2018

Day 8 in bed and day 1 back to blogging. I had dental implant surgery done on March 8 and the whole experience since has been horrible, painful, wonderful, exciting and expensive. I used to have a crown on the tooth, but it fell out about 2 years ago and I had a temporary tooth or “flipper” until last week - so that where the exciting feelings are coming from, I no longer have to remove my tooth to sleep or clean it.

I’ve been pretty much 90% sleeping and 10% staring at the ceiling for the past week, so I got up and made rice balls today for lunch. Yummy and cute. However, that took 110% of my energy and now I am back to bed. To note: my exhaustion comes not only from dental recovery, but also a sinus infection.

#dailykatie #riceball #onigiri #kawaii #recovery

Wow, wow, wow

It has been a while and a half since my tumblr has been active. Lots of new things in life, even more different than the last time I made a post similar to this. I miss using my tumblr... so here I am, committed once again.

I just had dental surgery a week ago today (hooray for dental implants) and was also hit with some sinus infection at the same time, so I’ve been locked in my room for 8 days... let me repeat... 8 DAYS, and just starting to really feel on the mend today. So between all the naps and bowls for frozen yogurt, I’ve had lots of time to ponder a variety of things.

I decided I wanted to get back into posting on here because I often find myself mindlessly scrolling though facebook seeing posts that are depressing, nasty, and not relevant to the things I would like to see. Whereas on tumblr, you can follow and unfollow all sorts of people until you find a dashboard filled with joy.

Yes, it is about now that I realize no one is reading this, but hey, I do this for me! (It seems less crazy to talk to myself on a blog as opposed to out loud).

I’ve thought about making a new blog to have a fresh start multiple times, but I always come back to Huxleychimes. I am so glad I ended up here again because I was having a walk down memory lane through my “Daily Katie” posts, and dang, I am so glad I did those. It has been almost 3 years since I made one of those posts, ending in May 2015 but I am so happy because after that was when I sold my computer and lost all my photos - but now I have them all here, safe and sound.

I still print photos and put them in albums, D and I started this when we got together, but sometime in 2014- early 2016 is missing because of the long lost photos. Heres to say I am very happy, Costco print shop will be happy, but my bank account will be sad now that I am going to print all these memories.

Long story short, for anyone who has continued to follow through all my flaky posting over the past few years, thanks, and I am happy to be back. Hoping to get back into daily posts, and probably some word vomit posts such as this once in a while - also, reblogs of all the cute things.

Side note: I think I left off when we got our pupper, Juno, well about 6 weeks later we also got another pupper, Huxley. They are both turning 3 this spring!

#imback #huxleychimes #imissedthis #update #heyhey