You know you've been charting too long...

[LionsandBears]

I'm just charting, not trying. Just watching my body reset like nuthin's happened...

Anyhoo, today I discover my trusty old Maybe Baby has died. I couldnt work out how to change the battery/globe so in the bin it went. I dont really need it, but I do like scrutinising for pretty fern patterns. It makes me feel everything is working. (And I'm a nerd who likes little magnifying glasses).

So with that broken and being a POAS addict, I figured I'd give an OPK a go. Then I realised I didnt have time to wait for the result, as I had an appointment. So took it with me. Then forgot about it, leaving it lying face up on the passenger seat where anyone walking past could have seen. I've done some dumb things in my years of charting/TTC but this is a first

[luna moth]

That's funny.

I have an unused Maybe Baby lying around here somewhere. I'll try and find it for you.

[BlackRose]

You know you've been charting too long when you pack an OPK in your lunch box so you can test your wee in the afternoon while you're at work!!!

[LionsandBears]

You know you've been charting too long when you pack an OPK in your lunch box so you can test your wee in the afternoon while you're at work!!!

Oh wow - that's being prepared. What happens when your DH takes your lunchbox by mistake?

Audax - thanks for the offer. I'm taking it as a sign to not get too obsessed about things. If I decide to get obsessive again, I'll let you know. I mean, even more obsessive. I may buy a microscope instead and peer at things through that to fulfill my inner nerd.

[blessedatlast]

You know you've been charting too long :

When you stay overnight somewhere and the thermometer is packed in with your toothbrush..

When your alarm goes off and you automatically reach for the thermometer beside your bed.. (Even for a week or 2 after stopping charting)

When Fertility friend is saved as a favourite & you jump on the net as soon as you get up to enter your temp..

When you have to mentor someone as a TAFE assignment and you want to teach someone how charting and Fertility friend works because you can't think of any other subject you know more about.. (Yes that is true, unfortunately i couldn't find anyone interested so I taught swedish massage instead..)

[Stephie]

You know you've been charting too long when you catch yourself bringing used undies up to your face to peer at what kind of cm was there

[peanutter]

you know you've been charting too long when you catch yourself checking your cervix as a matter of course before bed, and then realise DH isn't home ...

you know you've been charting too long when you can't think why on earth your non-child-wanting friend is going to a Cervical Mucous workshop, and then (hours later) realise they were talking about Creative Memories (scrapbooking)...

[Mejane]

......Its not as bad as the day I had a shower and went down to the grocers, handed over the money....come home......only to discover while packing stuff away I had a pube stuck in my ring!!!!- on the hand I paid the money with!!! Somehow while giving the 'lady' a wash my ring picked up a ride!!!!

Now thats bad!

Cheers

M.J

[PumpkinZulu]

When you wake up and look at your chart, and you've already temped and entered your data...without even remembering waking up!

[Cassius2]

When you wake up and look at your chart, and you've already temped and entered your data...without even remembering waking up!

see, now, i just see that as efficient

[LionsandBears]

Wow PZ, sleep-temping! That's a first

When you're baking and separating eggs doesnt gross you out, you look closer at the eggwhite and think, that's familiar

[Elocin]

When you're baking and separating eggs doesnt gross you out, you look closer at the eggwhite and think, that's familiar

And when you decide to show DH and tell him 'that's what my fertile cervical mucous looks like'

[~Hestia~]

too funny!

Maybe not charting too long, but definitely obsessed when your huge bulk pack of OPKs that were meant to last months, all get used up within a fortnight

[Sopdet]

Or when the other person in your life knows your cycle just as well (if not better) than you do.