2 stories...

You are all right... symptoms don't mean anything, but still- am I the only one to focus in on everything that my body is doing in these 2 weeks? It sucks! I couldn't sleep last night because I kept thinking AF was coming. Its now 10dpo and I decided to take my temp this a.m. It is is still high but not tri-phasic. I just hate the 2ww. Hate it hate it hate it HATE IT! I have a few questions for you all...
1. If you temp, do you continue to temp through the 2ww?
2. For those of you "early" testers, when do you start testing?
3. Would you rather AF arrive, your temp drop, or get a BFN to find out that the cycle was a bust?
4. Do you obsess like I do about every little twinge that happens in the 2ww?
I am with r&r in that I HATE testing. Both of my pregnancies were the palest pregnancy tests ever. Now I obsess and obsess about "that line" and I always imagine that I see a second line. I am SO envious of Von for getting such a bright and shiny BFP- no doubt about that one! Good for you girl! You give me hope! And people always say it isn't the shade of the line- a line is a line- but I will only feel decent about a pregnancy if I get a 'no doubt about it' BFP.
Anyway, to distract myself I will tell you 2 stories... 1 is short and sweet and the other I could tell you forever...
#1 How I became a teacher...
I have wanted to teach since I was 2 years old. No lie. I remember my brother going to pre-school (he is 18 months older than me) and I wanted to go too. My mom actually potty trained me in 1 day because I couldn't go to nursery school if I wasn't. Anyway, as soon as I met my brother's teacher, I played school. That's like the only "game" I would play and I would always play the teacher. People told me my whole life that I would change my mind. According to them, no one decides what they want to do when they are 2. But I didn't. I went to Longwood College which is primarily a teaching school. My dad told me not to freak if I changed my mind about my major. I didn't. Then when I started, I was again warned that some people change their mind once in the real world. I didn't. I have been teaching now for 11 years and I don't plan to stop. The only job I ever consider changing over too is something in curriculum and development. But I think I'd miss teaching too much.
#2 What made us want to start trying...
Even before FJ and I were married, we talked about waiting about a year to start trying to conceive. Little did we know that the pill was a total waste of our money and all of the "scares" we had were a waste of energy! After about 15 months of being married (2 years ago this month), we started trying. I can remember the first time we did it without a condom. FJ was scared shitless. I think he really believed that that would be all it took. I, on the other hand, had an incling that it might take a "few months". Needless to say I did not get a bfp that month- or the next, or the next. So here we are- 2 years later and praying for a miracle.
I will answer the wedding question next time! I am off to Williamsburg for a conference and will check in Wed. night. I will be hoping and praying for all of you who plan to test this week! I hope with all hopes that this is it for at least one of us!