http://www.oceandreamer.org a single Seattle dyke exploring parenting, dog training, being gluten free, and more. Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:12:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey Folks, Yes, I'm still here. It's been a busy month with school. :) Sorry for the lack of updates. I'm heading in to the doctor in a couple of hours for my next insem. I'm crossing my fingers that it's the right time. I got a very ... http://www.oceandreamer.org/2009/03/31/busy-days/ First, thanks so much for your comments on the last post. I really appreciate it. I just wanted to let you all know things have gone better the rest of this week. I'm really excited about my student teaching placement and have gotten out of the funk I was in. ... http://www.oceandreamer.org/2009/02/28/things-are-looking-up/ It has not been a good week.  I've kind of debated about writing on here about this, but in the end I decided to.  As a result of all the crap that's happening at school, I've been dealing with a lot of internalized homophobia.  I suppose I dealt with it ... http://www.oceandreamer.org/2009/02/25/internalized-crappiness/ I've been vegetarian for about ten years.  In that time, I only ate chicken on a trip to Italy, because I wasn't sure what gluten free food I would find.  In all that time, I never had any craving for meat.  Not once.  Yet for the past week, ever since ... http://www.oceandreamer.org/2009/02/19/500-chicken-dinner/ I just got a call from my sperm bank with some good news.  When I ordered my IUI vial last cycle, I asked about changing over my pre-purchased ICI vials to IUI vials, since I'll now be doing IUIs instead.  At the time, they told me they didn't have any ... http://www.oceandreamer.org/2009/02/16/at-least-a-little-good-news-on-the-baby-front/ Yup, not-so-lovely Aunt Flo appeared this evening.  This is only cd25, only 11 days after I inseminated.  I really thought I might be pregnant this time - had all the cramping and bloating I had with my chemical pregnancy this summer - and actually got my hopes up a bit, ... http://www.oceandreamer.org/2009/02/15/bfn-and-way-early-too/ My sweet Miss Zoe has been diagnosed with a number of allergies.  You may remember that she has had ongoing health problems.  Well, she's also had a cough since she was about one (she's now four).  Vets kept saying it must be kennel cough, they'd treat her for it and ... http://www.oceandreamer.org/2009/02/09/like-mother-like-pup/ Hi Folks, Thanks so much for all your sweet and supportive comments about my school experience.  The school crappiness continues - most recently having a fit at me because I *dared* to request that people bring a list of ingredients to an upcoming potluck so I - and other folks with ... http://www.oceandreamer.org/2009/02/05/school-updat/ First, thanks for all your sweet comments about the homophobia and everything at school.  I really appreciate them.  I have some updates - check back tomorrow for them. Also, sorry for not posting sooner!  Things have been crazy busy with school; this quarter is supposed to be our busiest of the ... http://www.oceandreamer.org/2009/02/04/first-iui-and-on-cd-14/ I haven't written on here much about my experiences at my grad school, mostly because they have been rather difficult and I haven't wanted this blog to turn into a place for me to complain about things.  For much of the past quarter, however, I have experienced a lot of ... http://www.oceandreamer.org/2009/01/03/school-crappiness/