Yesterday went really well. I had trouble getting down there, but made it alive and in one piece. It was in a hospital and the waiting room was mobbed, a great gathering of women in a hushed room with pastel paintings on the dimly lit walls.
"I love getting people like you pregnant!" declared my exuberant doctor the moment she came in. She was dark haired with lively eyes and a classic Kentucky accent, all Derby and Lexington. "You're young, you're healthy, you're beautiful. You're just the kind of person who should be getting pregnant!"
She was marvelous. She asked me all kinds of questions and took her time to explain things. She said the next step would be a sperm analysis and if that came out fine then she would prescribe Clomid for me.
"This is gonna happen!" she declared, patting me knee. "We're going to get you pregnant!"
I left feeling optimistic and well cared for.
I woke up this morning so grateful for the fact that I did not have to go anywhere. Nothing makes me so grateful for my quiet little routine than any major breaks from it.
Thank God I don't have a morning commute into a city. I can wake at seven, pull on a cotton skirt and tee and wander out into the cool, delicious morning with my dogs to let the breeze wipe the sleep from my eyes.
And then come inside, make coffee and catch up on the news, like how Obama is going to use the oil leak to push through Cap and Trade and how it's slated to be voted on.
"The plan is to conference the new Senate bill with the already-passed House bill IN A LAME-DUCK SESSION AFTER THE ELECTION, so House members don't have to take another tough vote ahead of midterms." link
Never mind that cap and tax schemes like this have failed miserably in Europe. Never mind that it's vastly unpopular in America. Never mind that it's going to impoverish this country, kill jobs and, as Obama has himself said, "necessarily drive up" electricity costs. Never mind that it will amount to the largest tax increase in American history.
No. Never mind all that. Because, as Rahm Emanual has said, one should never let a crisis go to waste. So, after the President bumbled stupidly through his response to the oil leak, a response that include several golf games and a few vacations, he's decided that instead of fixing it, he's going to take more money from BP, despite it being against the law, and put into the government's capable hands, because everybody knows that if the federal government stands for anything, it's stands for excellence in money management and then hijack the emergency for his own political ends.
Awesome.
Anyway. I could go on ranting almost indefinitely. This president, his administration and the 111th Congress may think they can come in and radically transform this country but they are wrong. I don't care how many bogus victories they may claim through back room deals and cowardly lame-duck votes between now and November, all the while avoiding their actual jobs, like coming up with a budget. How stupid do they think we are? Do they think by not coming up with a budget we won't realize how much money they're spending? Seriously.
It won't stand.
