The 200th post

Today is a big day in many different ways.

• Today is the last day of classes!  Finals next week and lots of grading before that and after that, but no more classes or labs for a while.
• A year ago today, I was staring at a positive pregnancy test in absolute disbelief thinking that I'd mentally blocked out the "not" in front of the word "pregnant."  And, no, in the end it didn't work out.  But, I still think back wistfully to the utter joy I felt that day and for the subsequent two months as I was happily anxious and nauseous.  I can't believe an entire year has gone by since then, but I'm feeling positive that our next steps will get me back to that feeling again.
• Instead, this year, AF showed up today as I expected and I feel pretty cruddy.  FF said yesterday was the day, but I didn't agree with it on my O date. Anyway, I'm ready to move forward.  And, next week is the perfect time to start heading down to the RE's office again.   I'm a little afraid that the cyst is still there and we'll lose another month if he puts me on BCP to shrink it, but I'm keeping everything crossed that this rest month allowed it to shrink down.  We'll find out on Monday.
• I'm limping around in a dorky looking cast shoe.  With lots of pressing from my DH, I finally went to the doctor yesterday for my foot.  He kept watching me hobble and looking at the interesting blue/green shade of my foot and stopped picking on me and started telling me to go to the doctor.  (I was partly avoiding this because my current PCP is the doctor I went to when I was pregnant and I don't have great associations with him at the moment but haven't been able to switch doctors, yet.)  He x-rayed my foot and, as suspected, I broke a bone in my pinky toe.  It's in the proximal phalanx (which is the part of the toe that looks like it is part of the foot).  He basically said that he wanted to do the x-ray so he'd know how long it should hurt -- if it was just dislocated it would be about 2 weeks, if it was broken it would be about 4-5.  Apparently it's a spiral fracture which, while it looks worse than a simple fracture, is actually a good thing because there's so much surface area contact along the break it will keep it properly aligned and should heal without a problem.  And, as suspected, there's nothing else to do but keep the toes taped together and take tylenol.  The cast shoe, while dorky, does feel better than other shoes, though. It does make me keep having to explain how I stupidly broke my toe walking down one stair, though...  I need to come up with a more interesting story.  Any ideas?
• (I'm incredibly frustrated because I was just starting to get back into the habit of exercising (which, in a roundabout way, is what caused this) and now I'm sidelined from any exercise that involves being on my feet until it stops hurting to bend my foot.  GRRRR.  I'm going to refocus on pilates, I think, for the time being.)
• This is my 200th post!  Isn't that crazy?  Thank you, once again, to all of you out there for being here for me all this time and for all of my random babbling.  

Did I mention that it's the last day of classes?   And it's gorgeous outside?  I am SO leaving work early today!!

Hope you all have a great weekend!