Cramps

So I started today.  Or I guess yesterday.  I had some light flow yesterday, and my cramps got worse towards the end of the day.  I can't take any painkillers other than tylenol.  I usually take 3 Aleve to start, and then another one or two every two hours until my cramps subside to a manageable level, but now I'm stuck with Tylenol because of my upcoming surgery.  Today is not going to go well.

My husband and I were going to ride our motorcycles to work today, since it's supposed to be 80 degrees, but when we got up it was cold and foggy.  Combined with my cramps and our exhaustion, we decided to just carpool instead, and I'm so glad we did.  People were driving like maniacs!

So our dog run has not proved as successful as we had hoped, at least so far anyway.  I left work early on Wednesday to get my fall garden in before it started raining and then I had surgery and then it would be too cold/wet to do anything.  I arrived home to discover both dogs napping on the patio, on the wrong side of the dog run enclosure.  They had chewed through the end of one of the boards that make up the gate until they managed to dislodge it, and then they were free!  The next morning, D and I added extra boards so they wouldn't have room to squeeze their heads in and chew on things.  Arrived home yesterday to Apollo running around the back yard.  Apparently, he managed to squeeze through somewhere, and Lola is bigger so she was stuck in jail still.  This morning, D reinforced the entire fence with some extra pallets we have, a temporary measure until we can figure something else out.

More gratuitous pictures of Apollo.  This is the day we brought him home from the shelter.  He was skin and bones:

Here are a few picture showing how absolutely ridiculous he is:

He will fall asleep in the WEIRDEST positions.  He's a lot chubbier now, so I'm a little surprised he can still squeeze through the fence, but I guess that's something we're going to have to deal with, considering that on Sunday, while we were out buying supplies for the dog run, he got into my garden by squeezing through the fence and then went on a destruction spree in the lettuce and kale.  I was NOT happy.

Anyway, I'm disappointed but not at all surprised that I'm not pregnant this cycle, but I'm SO happy that I'm having surgery now and I don't have to wait another two months.  My doctor kept mentioning how all of these women he's treated had fibroids and he removed them and they were pregnant within 3 months.  So I'll just be keeping my fingers crossed.