Feeling better today

I survived my first night without D.  It didn't go too badly.  The dogs mostly behaved, the cats mostly behaved, I got to eat my favorite food that my husband doesn't like, and I watched something like 5 episodes of How I Met Your Mother.

Speaking of mothers, it was my mother's 75th birthday yesterday.  I called several times, and finally got through last night, only to listen to a barrage of complaints about her friends.  She explained that she ate lunch by herself (or maybe it was dinner?) at her favorite restaurant because her friends are mean and all made other plans, and I actually felt a little bit bad for her.  But listening to her, it made me realize that if she and her friends cared as much about each other as they did about themselves, they would all be much happier.  Instead of giving anyone the benefit of the doubt, they automatically assume that everyone else's actions are meant to hurt them, and then they retaliate.  They spend insane amounts of time being angry and not talking to each other.  Every time I talk to my mom, she's not talking to at least one of her friends.  I hope I'm never like them.

Ah, well.  My sister and I are taking my mom (along with my sister's family, but not D since he won't be home yet) to a new restaurant near my mom's house that I'm excited to try.  Should be fun as long as my mom keeps the complaining to a minimum.

Now that D is gone, I'm realizing how much I depend on him for certain things.  For instance, he's my alarm clock.  Realizing I was going to have to get up on my own this morning, I tried setting an alarm on my phone.  When I went to turn it on, instead of having a check box next to each day, the days were all listed in green.  when I touched a day, it turned white.  I assumed that meant it turned the alarm on for that day.  HAHAHAHA.  Apparently, the default was for the alarm to be on every day, so by changing it, I was turning it off.  Oopsies. I woke up 10 minutes before the alarm was supposed to go off, and decided to just stay in bed until it was time to get up.  15 minutes later, I realized my alarm wasn't going to go off at all and that was when I discovered my mistake.  Thank goodness I didn't accidentally sleep in, and now my alarm is hopefully set for tomorrow morning.  Whew.

Today is 10 days past my IUI.  Only a few more days to go before I will hopefully know something!  My boobs are super sore today.  It was actually hard to sleep on my stomach last night (one of my favorite sleeping positions) due to the soreness.  I hope this is a good sign.  No spotting so far either.  It's CD 21, although I guess it doesn't matter too much when you're controlling your own ovulation.