Progesterone, paint swatches, and twiddling my thumbs

I went in on Wed. to have my progesterone tested. It came back at a measly 20.9. TWENTY POINT NINE. I was on 600 mg. of prometrium a day, 200 in the morning orally, and 400 mg. in the evening vaginally. I'm now bumped up to 800 mg. of prometrium a day. 400 in the morning orally, 400 in the evening vaginally. Is it possible that administering the pills vaginally would decrease the serum levels of progesterone? I've not had near the symptoms I had last time I took it (when it was all administered orally), so I'm wondering if perhaps that could be the cause.
Last night I had highly placed, sharp cramps so painful that when I came home from work early I went to bed, and laid on the bed with a heating pad in tears. They weren't normal period cramps, but sharp - and stabbing and somewhat focused on my left side, with the occasional "fuck you!" from the right. I expected to wake in the middle of the night drenched in blood, but so far I still haven't started spotting. This morning there was a slight beige-ish tinge on the toilet paper, although I'm not sure if that's from the vaginal prometrium or what.

I love my clinic, and I'd have my R.E.'s babies I adore him so much - except for well, um I've not exactly got a great track record in that area. The thing that irritates me though about IVF is that they only do a limited number of IVFs a year. They're right in the middle of an IVF cycle now, so the next one isn't until May. I thought it was March for some reason, but it's not until May. May is so incredibly far away. The doctor said he didn't see the point in us wasting time and $$ with another IUI, but to be honest, I'm only going to be out the $70 for all of my medication and sharps (G-d bless my employers very generous coverage of IF meds) and 20% coinsurance for the IUI itself as I've already met my deductible for the year. All of the scans and bloodwork are covered - apparently without the deductible applying, as I just got my first Explanation of Benefits for the first two scans and bloodwork and the portion I was responsible for was $0. [I know, I know, you're all entitled to hate me now, but trust in your heart I'm beyond thankful].

In a way, I realize that cycling in February and early March would be a pain, what with the remodeling of the new house {the wallpaper is coming down if it kills me, I don't care if it's a few months old, Michael and I detest wallpaper} and moving, and unpacking and all that jazz, it's going to be a madhouse. So, perhaps it's best that I don't try to cycle then. We could always just try on our own without help.... bwahahahahahahahahaha. Now that's funny.

This weekend is going to be hopefully low key. It's snowing today again, which sort of puts a damper on my plans to rip up the tulips, daffodils, crocus {crocusi? crocuses?}, hyacinths, alliums, etc. that I planted. The reason that I'm ripping them all out is that we were actually renting while we were house hunting. We just didn't expect to fall into a house quite so suddenly (we've been here only a few months) so I thought I'd at least get to enjoy the flowers. Some of them were fairly inexpensive, so I may just leave them, but there were quite a few that I had imported from Holland that I want to at least try to move. It may be a bust, but at least I can say that I tried. That sort of seems to be my mantra right now. At least I can say that I tried...

As some of you know, I have a non-infertility related blog that I have become very lax at updating, and I've decided that having two blogs is just too much effort. So I'm combining them here. That means you may be called on to offer decorating advice, as we're going to be doing quite a bit of work in the next month on making the house "our" home. For your first task, I need advice for a paint color for the downstairs half bath. The cabinets and are a slight off-white, and the floor is a light maple hardwood and the pulls on the cabinet are going to be changed to a brushed nickle, or perhaps crystal. It will serve primarily as a guest bathroom, and will have large two, two-foot high silver candlesticks on the vanity. I'm looking for something that is elegant, but not too incredibly formal. I'll try to get over there and get pictures of the entire house this weekend, so we can start planning the changes - and you can laugh with me about the wallpaper, er I mean give me ideas. We're shooting to change a room a month, as we're going to be converting the roughly 1500 sq. foot basement as a long term project into a pub/entertainment room and additional family room.

This weekend looks as if it's going to be fairly low key. I'll be spending quite a bit of time cuddled up with Westlaw researching the minutia of COBRA, trying to start to pack (we have a MONTH before we need to be moved in!) and a college basketball game on Saturday evening. It's not exactly brimming with excitement, but you know - sometimes low key is best.