Today was a good day, and I can almost keep the knowledge that school starts in SEVENTEEN days at bay. Fuck.

I had a JOB last summer, and I did more stuff and had more free time. I’ve had to do so much professional development and conferences and blah this summer that I did not have “my summer off.” At all. I almost wonder if I prefer a regular workaday schedule with the standard two weeks off — at least there isn’t this feeling of impending doom in August. Fuck.

So, today was spent (after getting one last GOF round in) doing various errands — going to Staples as it was Teacher Appreciation Day, and I got a goodie bag of random stuff, going to Toys R Us to look at Hot Wheels (don’t ask) and where I found Crayola markers on sale with Buy One, Get One, so I stocked up for school… also, we raked and mowed and did some laundry and hung out. Pretty random, boring, regular ol’ stuff.

On the BabyWatch front: I am HOT, so hot that even Dave has noticed my skin temperature. Also, my chin is breaking out (which is pretty unusual, I may get a zit here and there, and blackheads are my nemesis, but to have more than one actual ZIT forming is rare). I have also been tired today, and super thirsty.

I’m really hoping that my doctor appointment will go like this:

“Hi, Gretchen, let’s see, you’re here for a Pap today? Okay, before you get into the paper smock & tablecloth, let’s see…. any changes in medication? You’re off OrthoNovum? Since March? Okay, are you using another form of birth control, or….. Oh, how exciting! When was the first day of your last menstrual period? The 23rd? And your cycles are pretty regular? Well, it would be pretty early for a urine test, but how about we run a blood test, since you’re here. . . .”

I don’t even know how long blood test results take. Or if she’ll even suggest it. This is a new doctor for me, in the same practice. My regular doc was on vacation, but I needed this followup from the precancerous stuff last spring, and since I knew we’d be trying, I chose the OB/GYN in the practice, figuring at best, I’d be up the duff and it could be confirmed or turn into a prenatal appointment, or at worst, I am not harboring the future, so I get the pap and get to interview the OB/GYN at this practice. I’m tempted to stay there just to have it be one less paperwork hassle, but if I don’t get the answers I want, or whatever, I have recommendations for an OB practice that would be pretty in-line with my goals (my friend Jess went there, for endometriosis, then a twin pregnancy that was a c-section (breech babies) and then a singleton unmedicated VBAC, so if they are low-intervention in someone like Jess, I feel confident they would be the same for me, too.)

Anyway, it will be interesting no matter what. And hopefully, there won’t be any abnormal (read:SCARY) results this time.