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@Hanzabelle: What a great question! I already know what I'd do, if I could!

If we won the lottery and thus had the capital to set a business up and I didn't have to worry about making money out of it particularly... I'd set up a dog training centre with a twist!

I'd buy a huge place and turn half into really swish boarding kennels and a doggie spa. The other half I'd turn into a dog training centre. I'd employ a couple of really great behaviourists but the rest of the staff would be people that the world has kind of given up on - young offenders, young people with disabilities. I'd train them to do jobs around the centre - reception duties, dog care, grooming - and also how to cope with daily work, conflict management, personal money management - with a view to moving them into permanent work elsewhere when they're ready. Once they're in a new jobs, we can take on new trainees to fill their space!

We'd keep the centre afloat by offering grooming, daycare, boarding facilities to paying customers but the real work is this: We can go to the kill-shelters and take out dogs which are seen as un-adoptable - the badly behaved, hyperactive, crazy dogs. The staff will then work with the behaviourists and rehabilitate the dogs and then train them to become therapy dogs - the dogs can then be taken into hospitals, nursing homes etc. So it's the people the world gave up on rehabilitating the dogs the world gave up on, giving happiness to people and making a real difference. Once the dogs are ready, we can let them be re-homed, freeing up space for another badly behaved dog!

I hope my rambled explanation makes sense? I'd love to do this... but I don't ever see a time when I wont have to work just to keep our heads above water and the project would be too risky if we didn't have tons of money behind us.

@Hanzabelle: This is so hard. Um I think I would run a hospital, if I kept in my same field of work (because I do aspire to do that one day) but then I also would love to own a dessert bar business (like where you're hired to do them for weddings and events) which goes well with the wedding planning business I already have, and I'd also love to be an interior designer. If I had lots of money our home would look amazing! So I'm all over the place on that one, lol.

Don't get hung up on symptoms or lack of though... I had ZERO symptoms last month and I had a BFP - even if it didn't stick around for long.

@Hanzabelle: I'm glad you're feeling cheerful again! It's good to be upbeat!!! I'm excited about Sunday!!! Thank goodness your Sunday starts 7 hrs before mine so I wont have to wait too long!!

I'm feeling pretty good, too. I've just submitted my final assignment for my course module (I'm doing an English degree distance learning and it's been really hard going!!). I've hated this module so I'm glad it's all over and I can start a new one!!

I also think my body is gearing up to O!! Yay!! I started getting almost pos OPKs a week before O last time so if this month is the same, I'll be Oing while we're away for a few days - RESULT!!! If that is the case, my stupid long cycle post BCP was just a blip and I'll get normal ones from now on!! Fingers crossed!!!!

@Strawberrybee: Haha!! Yeah, when you get your BFP, you can "confess" that you've been buying stuff and show him everything. Then, when he's thinking you've gone completely mad, you can say "oh and I also bought one of these" and show him the test!!

@Strawberrybee: Yeah... that's what i did!! I had it all planned out but when the time came I just ran to him waving the stick in his face! He looked at it then said "okay.. what does that mean?" Lol.

@Hanzabelle, @Chibee: Never give up until AF, and then try to think of the next cycle as another chance, not something that happened because you failed. And if you read all of the boxes for PT's they say that nothing is really guaranteed until the date of your missed period.
@Hanzabelle: I wouldn't put off having a baby because of moving. I think you'd rather have a baby than not, no matter what the consequence. But a month or two not "trying" could be good too because usually that's when people get pregnant due to the lack of stress.

@Ambular1025: i know the logical thing would be to wait till AF is late but it's so hard and still so disheartening to see that bfn. then i feel like a whiny baby bc i know there are girls on the board who have been at this for so much longer. ugh.

@Hanzabelle: i can understand. moving is so stressful - when we bought our house and moved in june we literally moved a couple blocks away from our condo within the same town and i cant tell you how stressful i felt about it so i can't imagine moving so far!

Well, my temp went down a bit today which is disappointing so I think at this point i will just wait for AF to make her stupid appearance.

@Hanzabelle. Join Fertility Friend. Its free. They send you a charting course free when you join (like one short lesson per day via email).

But to get you started: You just need a BBT thermometer. Take your temp every mornibg then plot it on a graph (on FF). Then, from about CD 10 pee on an OPK every day until you get a line which is darker than the control line. When it is, you will prob O within 12-36 hrs. Then, BD like crazy. You can tell you did O when your temp goes up for three days in a row - it is clear on the graph when its happened! Then and only then can you turn down the BDing (from the day after!!). Other people chart CM too but I don't.

But you hopefully won't need it, right?! Xxxx

@Hanzabelle: Lol! I need to post a pic of that later (im on my phone now). Yeah, I'm fine thanks. Its my dads funeral today - dreading it - but apart from that all is well. I'm not as intense about TTC this month, which is good. I'm charting etc but managing to think of things other than babies this month!!

@Ali: thinking of you today. I think it's good that you're not stressing as much as last month though - this is something I need to work on!

@Hanzabelle: do you really think i have that much self control? I did last night, 10 dpo, BFN!

@Hanzabelle: I will try to hold on till AF shows at this point, testing has become so like routine for me, pee on a stick, see BFN go on about life. I literally cannot see myself seeing a BFP on it anymore. I had a dream 2 nights ago that I took a digital and it was positive and what a disappointment when I woke up. Are you at 11 dpo now? Last cycle AF came after 12 dpo for me, when are you expecting AF?

@Hanzabelle: I've sort of given up hope and gearing up for next cycle to try things differently, but you're right, it's still sort of early so let's keep our fingers crossed. How funny that we are in the exact same place, 2nd cycle ttc, same dpo!!!