Hobbit-ish Potpurri: Saturday Night in the Shire

Happy Saturday night, Humble Readers!

It's been a while since I did a potpurri post, so I thought tonight would be a good time to update you on all the little things in our world.

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First up... I have a new love in my life.  Now before you get all concerned, I am still beyond head over heels in love with my Beloved.  However, I am way in love with a wonderful little piece of technology called the ov watch.  If you haven't heard of it, it predicts ovulation based on chemical changes in your skin.  It looks like a watch and has a sensor on the back.  You wear it for 6 hours a day and it measures the level of chloride ions in your skin.  Apparently, in the typical woman, the level of chloride spikes immediately following the LH surge.  By measuring chloride levels, the watch then determines your fertile window, tells you where you are (non fertile days, fertile days 1-4, O day, and less fertile days).  So... yesterday morning I woke up and the watch said 'fertile day 1'.  Do the math and I should be ovulating on Tuesday.  I haven't been this stress free pre-O in more than a year.  I can plan our gof-ing, and not be worried about will my temp spike tomorrow and am I missing the eggie because I'm too pooped to party?  I know it's not fool proof, but nothing is.  Will it work for us?  Who knows... but I know I'm enjoying not being as stressed about O. 

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My Beloved preached his first ever sermon tonight.  Our church has a small Saturday evening service, and since we are currently without a pastor, he was asked if he would be interested in leading a service.  His sermon was great, and even though he rushed the liturgy a bit, I am crazy proud of him! 

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In reference to my post from the other day, the one regarding the Canadian national anthem... Perhaps the Honourable Mr. Stephen Harper reads my blog.  Are you lurking, Mr. Harper?  Are you taking your cues from this little hobbit?  (AS IF... lol) I guess it doesn't matter if he reads this or not, the thing that matters is that he has done a 180, he has heard the Canadian people, and he has said that the politically-correct-ifying of 'O Canada' will not be on his agenda.  Woo-hoo!  If it ain't broke...

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Dinner last night was a fifty-fifty success.  I made chicken breasts stuffed with herbed goat cheese and wrapped with proscuitto (is that spelled right?  the new updated blogger doesn't seem to have spell check) and sundried tomato risotto.  The chicken had too much proscuitto (this hobbit doesn't like bacon, but I was trying to expand my palatte) and it needed something.  Maybe a pesto sauce or something?  But the risotto... O. M. G.  I cannot even tell you how good it was!  I can't take credit for the recipe... it's all Ree over at Pioneer Woman.  I cut her recipe in half and still had a bunch left over for lunch, and it was divine!

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We are still hoping for a pug to expand our family, but we have recently come up against some road blocks in the form of our condo board.  We have to change the by-laws for our building to allow for a dog, but the last time we brought it up, everyone seemed okay with it.  When my Beloved sent out emails just to ask if everyone would be okay with it if we went ahead and got the dog before the bylaw was officially changed because the breeder we have been in contact with has pups available now, the first response we got back was less than favourable.  As in NO!  And this was someone who doesn't live in the building (they rent their unit out to a bunch of partying college kids)... they cited the thin walls and worries over noise.  Pot, meet Kettle.  We still have a shot, we just need to get a yes from every other owner (need 5 out of 6).  *Sigh*  I wonder what she'd say if we actually get to bring a baby into our lives...