Negative

After the shortest period ever, I decided to take a pregnancy test just in case.  It was negative.  Of course.  I'm not sure what to think about my "period".  It lasted, at most, a few hours.  I'm calling the clinic today to find out just when someone will call me about an appointment.  I'm getting quite irritated.  Why can't I just find a doctor who will work with me???

And Mother's Day is this weekend.  Luckily, I have an out-of-town wedding Saturday evening, and even though we'll be back Sunday late morning, at the moment we're not planning to do anything.  Not surprisingly, I'm not really feeling like celebrating.  My sister is doing something with my mom on Saturday, since she didn't start planning early enough to get a reservation for Sunday.  My sister and I are both pretty low-key people, and neither of us would necessarily want to go out for a fancy Mother's Day meal (not that I'm a mother, but she is).  Our mother, on the other hand, always wants a nice meal at an expensive place, regardless of what anyone else wants.  Now that my sister is a mother, you would think my mom would take that into consideration, but she really doesn't care what my sister wants.  She only sees what she wants, and what her children aren't doing for her that they "should" be doing.

I've sort of been avoiding calling her, partly because I don't want to get suckered into driving out there for Mother's Day (and we NEVER spend time with D's mom for Mother's Day - that would really make my mother angry, because as far as she's concerned, she's more important than D's mother), and partly because we're planning to visit my brother for Memorial Day weekend and my mother wants to get a ride with us.  My husband has flat-out said that a 14-hour drive with my mother is NOT happening, but my mother is not taking no for an answer.  She insisted I think about it and let her know, and obviously my answer has not changed (still no!) but I don't want to argue about it anymore.

Ugh.