Sperm Free Are We

Or should I say he is!!

Yee-freakin’-hah!

That is a savings of $35.00 per month in birth control as well as untold amounts of money towards therapy and antidepressants in the event we had been crazy enough to reproduce 3 children!

{hint-hint…you crazy people who parented 3 or more children}

ow. ouch. uh that hurts.

Started my workout at 8:30am and ended at 11:30am.  It wasn’t a solid 3 hour workout, but almost.

Why?  I taught the Friday Silver Sneakers class for a co-worker at 10:30 but started my normal workout at 8:30 and then needed to kill time in between, by you guessed it…working out some more.

I’ll pay the price later, I know it.  In fact my eyelids are feeling very heavy right now.  Damn, my toes even hurt.

It’s Friday and I am glad ’cause I’m missing my honey, and just as Anne mentioned in her blog, the guys are readying themselves for Indy week.  Which means no Mike for a couple of days starting this Wednesday.  I am excited for him to get away and enjoy some time with the guys.  I just hope he doesn’t scare any of them into not getting the vasectomies they have discussed!

My Mum will be coming up and spending some quality time with us while Mike is gone.  The boys are really looking froward to having her here for a while.  As am I!

By the way, Rogan is still peeing on the potty and doing so more and more.  In fact he now goes by himself while I stand back, truly fascinated and thankful for the changes in this little boy.

I hope you all have a good weekend…as soon as I pop some pain meds, I’ll be just fine!

Vasectomy Leads to Sexual Freedom

Not yet!!

Mike has to get re-tested again.  They found swimmers in his first sample.  What does this mean you ask?

1. It means there are still some live ones in his system and we didn’t do enough to clean him out…if you know what I mean…or,
2. They botched the procedure and poor Mike will have to undergo additional efforts to stop his swimmers from…well…swimming…or,
3. My Mike is so damn VIRILE that his reproductive juices cannot be stopped from flowing forth from his loins!!

I’m betting on #1!!

Enough Doom & Gloom…

…as documented in bullet format:

• Beautiful day, TRULY!
• Great appointment with my EAP counselor yesterday, I feel good about where I am with everything right now!
• Still feeling thrilled that Mike had his Vasectomy!!  Best decision we made for the time!
• Looking forward to a weekend of great weather and family time!
• We have a duck couple visiting our bird feeders, or at least what has fallen on the ground, and this brings me great joy!!
• I’m eating pizza for dinner tonight, and I can hardly wait!
• The pair of watches I donated to the silent auctions sold for $80.00!!
• McKade is at a party right now!!  It was from 6 ’till 8pm!!  Who has parties for kindergartners that time of the day?  I hope he’s having fun!!
• I miss my Mum, but she will be here on May 6th and will be staying until the 11th!!
• I miss my sister, but feel joy knowing that our friendship is getting stronger!
• Have a great weekend!

grumpy

• rogan up all night with terrible diarrhea
• every hour on the hour
• i will not fix any typois today
• suyck it
• anne’s jam tastes good mixed in oatmeal
• ro’s ass is raw and he cries a lot
• i’m really fucking tired
• and gladd Mike got the vasectomy
• this up all night shit is for the birds
• rogan opuked peaniut butt and jelly on his floor
• it stained
• badly
• i got shit to do today
• like clean the damn carpet
• pedialyte tastes like crap
• why would a kid drink that shit
• i’m freezing it into a little popsiv\cle
• maybe I can convince rogan it’s a treat
• even though Mike is a great husband there are times he makes decisions I can’t help but question
• I’ll blog more about that in anbother entry
• the blame game, it’s worth blogging about
• Damn, this oatmeal with ANne’s jam tastes good…thanks Anne!
• every time i hear a gurgle noise, I’m afraid it’s Rogans’ ass explding again
• or puke

Damn Fundraisers

• We paid $5.00 for a $10.00 off coupon valid TODAY ONLY at Elder Beerman,
• The 5 bucks went to the PTA, for yet another fund raiser we are doing,  so I guess that makes it OK,
• I think this is the 786th fund raiser this week year so far,
• So Mike headed over there for a little “away from home time”, as he is feeling stir crazy and trapped. (Of course the overly tight jock strap isn’t helping much.),
• He has to wear the strap as he heals from the “V”,
• So Mike’s intention was to find himself some new shoes, but of course the coupon could not be used on any of the 5 pairs they had in stock.  Yes, that’s right, 5 pairs!,
• He calls and asks if there’s anything I need.  He was in the athletic department and began mentioning a few pairs of work out pants,
• Despite the $10.00 coupon, the pants he found were still going to run at least $25.00, which means these damn pants were around $40.00 to start with.  What?  Forty dollar work-out pants?  Are you freaking kidding me?  I sweat in those bitches!  It’s not like I’d wear them to a job interview!,
• So I say no thank you, but then tried to rack my brain to figure out something else we could buy.  Wait.  This is wrong on so many levels,
• I remembered that I was wanting a new water bottle, you know one of the new stainless steel ones…so I suggest that and luckily Mike tracks one down…AND it is only $10.00!!  BINGO!!  Coupon spent!,
• Except, Mike has no cash and he is faced with using our debit card for the measly 60 cents to cover the tax…
• So then we start bantering about investing in a new down-alternative comforter…apparently they had some on sale…
• Suddenly I realize we are seriously considering spending about $60 or $70 just so Mike can avoid paying 60 cents tax on our debit card.
• HUH?
• This is not a good plan,
• Spending $ does not = saving $,
• The above mentioned all took place while we were on the phone.
• Damn fund raisers!

Snip Snip

The die is cast and the reproductive chapter in our lives has come to a definitive end.

Mike had his vas deferens severed today, which in layman’s terms means he got snipped.  As I type this, he is in a Valium/ Vicodin induced slumber.  Poor guy started feeling some pain about an hour after we got home from the doctor’s office.  He said it felt like he got thumped in the ‘nards.

My husband approached this day and this decision really well.  In fact I would say that he was the one who spearheaded (no pun intended) the trek into his own sterility.  I look forward to stopping the birth control pill, and saving $35.00 a month,  although I will admit that it has been very easy for me.  The pill did exactly what it needed for me when I needed it.  I had relatively few side effects over the years and was able to address those sufficiently enough with a switch to another type of pill.

Right when we got home today, Mike asked me how I was feeling.  I joked and told him that I had changed my mind and that we should run upstairs and get pregnant.  But really, I’m good with this decision.  I liken it to when you are in a relationship which you know is over and when the break-up actually occurs, there are pangs of sadness and loss.  It’s the same for me with this, not that Mike and I are breaking up.  What I mean is, we knew we were done having kids, but now we’ve made it physical.  Whereas before it was more or less emotional.

I am proud and grateful to be married to a man who has taken responsibility for our reproductive choices.  Today he demonstrated yet another reason, among so very many, why he is the one for me.