2015 Goals and Dreams

It's been a long while since I've written on this blog as I mostly frequent Instagram, with it being more convenient (whip out your phone, take a photo, write a caption and post).

As thin as that a thousand-dollar MacBook Air for 20% of the price

Since I've taken to liking the new Samsung Chromebook Sergs supposedly bought for the two of us, I might as well post something here.

So what have I been up to lately? Well, aside from the ups and downs of my weight recently (which has never gone lower than 119 lbs since our Philippine vacation in May and not lower than 118 lbs since my crazy fertility treatments), I've been battling skin breakouts caused by the same treatments I have been undergoing. A co-worker took notice and suggested that I drink more water (I'm so far on point with at least half of my body weight in oz per Chris Powell's tip) but like what I told her, it comes with the territory: I want a baby.

This wanting to have a baby has had me planning the next 12 to 16 months of my life with a timeline, to wit:

August  -  resume in-hospital fertility treatment with IUI #3
September - IUI #4 if #3 doesn't work
October - vacation in New York/New Jersey
November or December - IUI #5 if #4 doesn't work
January to June - @$*x% rest my body from the injections, the crazy medications and the no-exercise rule from the day of the insemmination to when you know nothing implanted
July - Paris/Rome vacation
August/September/October - IVF if nothing else works (LAST RESORT)

From what's on my list, I'm mostly excited with Paris/Rome vacation schedule. So excited that in fact, I already have a working budget ($5500 shopping money) and a rough general itinerary in mind:

July 23, 2015 (Thursday) - Take the night flight to CDG from SFO (AF 85) with a standby business class ticket (praying to the gods of booking and reservations that J class isn't full on that day otherwise I'd be gleeful to accept Premium Economy which isn't so bad if my supervisors still like me enough to grant either of the two).
July 24, 2015 (Friday) - arrive in CDG at 5 pm and fly to FCO at 8 pm
July 25, 2015 (Saturday) - whole day in Rome Part 1
July 26, 2015 (Sunday) - attend mass at the Vatican  -  A HUGE MUST; whole day in Rome Part 2

July 27, 2015 (Monday) - whole day in Rome Part 3
July 28, 2015 (Tuesday) - fly back to CDG and arrive after lunch
July 29, 2015 (Wednesday) - Have lunch at Le Jules Verne (reserve months before for their 3-course lunch experience) Restaurant at the Eiffel Tower. Lunch check is ON ME - gotta have the famed Chef Alain Ducasse experience! I mean, if I can't have his dishes served at the La Premiere Lounge of AF in CDG, I might as well be at his restaurant!! Seriously, I would rather buy two Chanel purses than purchase a $10K one way plane ticket to Paris from SF.

The entrance to Le Jules Verne is a the base of the Eiffel Tower
and the restaurant itself is 125 meters up from the ground. (Photo Not Mine)

July 30, 2015 (Thursday) - whole day in Paris
July 31, 2015 (Friday) - whole day in Paris; shopping at, ehem, 31 Rue Cambon and at, ehem, Champs-Elysees (if you know me well enough, you'd know what's in those places)
August 1, 2015 (Saturday) - fly back to SFO via AF 84 on that Airbus 380 of ours :)

All I need is that blue passport to be on this big baby! ETA of that blue passport: End of this year or early next year :)

Crazy and as thoroughly ostentatious as all these sound, I can only truly hope and pray that we don't have to go to the extent of jumping in the IVF bandwagon. My only point of relief in IVF after all is, from what I have been reading, the deep sedation that happens during egg collection. My profanities in mind certainly declare my dislike for having to go through another pain like what I had during my first HSG (Google if you're unfamiliar with this) per a nurse cousin of my bestfriend.

My dear baby, I only need one egg for you to form. Please materialize. Mommy is sacrificing gym time and cheat meal days (because there should be lesser gym time). Not that those so much matter really (clean eating... clean eating... clean eating... clean eating) as, like what my deal is with my breakouts: Anything to have a baby.

The photo quote says it all. When such time comes, that's when I'd start new goals and dreams.