day 12 of 2WW

A few more days! Yikes! I'm excited to see what the pee stick has to say.  Well, I broke down and bought a pack of CVS brand early pregnancy tests.  Even though I knew what her answer would be, I asked the pharmacist if the CVS brand was the same as the other more expensive ones.  Of course, she said yes.  It was nearly $10 less for the same amount of tests so the way I see it, I did good!  It's about that time for the period, the only symptoms I have are sore breasts.  My boobs don't always get sore before my period but they do sometimes so I don't know what to credit the tenderness to: pregnancy or period!

On account of my never-on-time period, missing the first day of my expected cycle is no big thing.  I'd love to think it was, but it certainly isn't uncommon.  I've been toying with the idea of testing early.  I never thought I'd be the girl to do that considering how this two week wait has been a breeze in all honesty--but, I'm leaning towards testing tomorrow!  I won a home pregnancy test through a message board (CafeMom) about a month ago, and I'm saving that one for Turkey Day because I think it's lucky.

 [In case you are unaware of what 4 HPTs look like, see photo below.]

In total I have 4 home pregnancy tests so I figure I spare one.  The funny part is, I won't be satisfied if it's positive or negative.  As I mentioned in a previous blog post, the hCg shot raises the pregnancy hormone in your body for up to two weeks.  One of the few instances where you can actually get a false positive (typically, false positives aren't nearly as common as false negatives since the test works off of pregnancy hormone levels that you don't have unless you're pregnant.  Unless of course you get a SHOT of those hormones...), so a positive result within that two week period (tomorrow would fall under that 2 weeks) isn't always a real positive.  Siiigh.  And a negative result tomorrow would just make me think of the real possibility that I tested to early and I'd need to try again in a couple days.  So really, what is the point of testing tomorrow?!  Nothing more than it would be exciting to see a positive result, even if it couldn't (yet!) be 100% verified.  I'll post the results either way in the mornin'!

Aside from my exciting trip to CVS, a glorious day at work and some hickory smoked BBQ wings from Wingstop for din din--that's all to report on for today!  Oh, and I also bought my Christmas cards.  I think they are absolutely awesome.  Most of you on here will more than likely be receiving one so I'm not going to go into detail, but I love them.  Not sure why, but I do! And for the sake of not breaking my 5 year streak of holiday tradition, they will go in the mail on Black Friday.  First thing.  I think I have this obsession with (possibly) being the first card on the mantle.  I win.