This morning I woke bright and early, tiptoed out of my bedroom so as not to wake my husband (or my dogs) and went to the bathroom to suit up for my training session and pee on a stick.  That’s right, today’s cycle day 15…already!  And as per the doctor, I’ve been testing for my LH surge every day since cycle day 11, which was Monday 12/17. 

I’m using the Clearblue Easy Digital Ovulation Test because they are literally fool proof!  And I need fool proof.  All other tests require you to differentiate between two lines, the control and the test.  You need to be responsible enough to distinguish whether the test line is there, if it’s lighter, the same or darker than the control line.  Apparently I’m just not responsible enough to do this.  I want to see the test line equal to or darker than the control, therefore I think I see the test line equal to or darker than the control.  Not good.  After all, accuracy is kind of important in this game.

This test is fool proof because you have this little electronic monitor stick thing and 7 test sticks.  You open the test stick, remove the cap and insert it into the monitor.  You will see a little test stick appear on the digital screen and you know the test it ready to be peed on.  After you give it a 7 second shower, you will see the test stick symbol on the screen start flashing, which means its working.  Set it down, come back (or hover over watching obsessively like a hawk does its prey) 3 minutes later you will either see a smiley face or an empty circle.  What could be easier than that?  See, foolproof.  And MUCH cheaper than an actual fertility monitor.

Needless to say, I have not seen a smiley face yet, which means that a 28 day cycle is out of the question for me this time around.  Although I really don’t care about that; I mean, I’d prefer a 28 day cycle to a 45 day cycle, but the goal here is to even just ovulate.  So I continue testing until I see a smile. 

Happy Friday everyone!  Only 3 more full days of shopping…get your asses in gear!