Television took me down memory lane

This morning I was watching Mad About You in reruns on the TV Land channel while I drank my coffee. I liked this show when it was on; it was well done and witty, but I also kind of liked it because it started in 1992, which was the year I got married, so it was like 'my' show.

This morning the episode was when Paul and Jamie decided to start trying for a baby and it made me laugh, because it was the episode that got us started on our path to Charlie.

We'd moved into our house that summer, June of 1995. I was ready to have a baby but my husband, typical man that he is, didn't think he was. God Forbid we mess up the status-quo, or whatever. So I told him that my prescription for the Pill was ending in August and I wasn't renewing it, so if he wants to not have a baby, it's up to him.

Granted I only said this once, relying, probably, on the fact he has the world's worst memory when it comes to things I tell him. So fast forward to whenever this episode aired, probably in November, and we're watching it, and I mention something about how it was slightly similar to our sitution. Of course he's all 'You did what now?' but it was very obvious he rather liked the idea and was glad the decision had been made for him. He was certain I must be pregnant at that point, even, and was very disappointed when it turned out I wasn't.

In fact, rather like Jamie and Paul, we went through a year of trying and failing, and going to doctors and that sort of thing before getting the result we wanted. Although I had to take a fertility drug and Jamie didn't. And it wasn't nearly as funny for us.

Television took me down memory lane

This morning I was watching Mad About You in reruns on the TV Land channel while I drank my coffee. I liked this show when it was on; it was well done and witty, but I also kind of liked it because it started in 1992, which was the year I got married, so it was like 'my' show.

This morning the episode was when Paul and Jamie decided to start trying for a baby and it made me laugh, because it was the episode that got us started on our path to Charlie.

We'd moved into our house that summer, June of 1995. I was ready to have a baby but my husband, typical man that he is, didn't think he was. God Forbid we mess up the status-quo, or whatever. So I told him that my prescription for the Pill was ending in August and I wasn't renewing it, so if he wants to not have a baby, it's up to him.

Granted I only said this once, relying, probably, on the fact he has the world's worst memory when it comes to things I tell him. So fast forward to whenever this episode aired, probably in November, and we're watching it, and I mention something about how it was slightly similar to our sitution. Of course he's all 'You did what now?' but it was very obvious he rather liked the idea and was glad the decision had been made for him. He was certain I must be pregnant at that point, even, and was very disappointed when it turned out I wasn't.

In fact, rather like Jamie and Paul, we went through a year of trying and failing, and going to doctors and that sort of thing before getting the result we wanted. Although I had to take a fertility drug and Jamie didn't. And it wasn't nearly as funny for us.

I need $613.00

I just did some calculations to see if we could afford to go to Cooperstown NY for a family vacation.

I found a place that is a very inexpensive campground, $22.00/night if you have a tent, which I do. I personally loathe sleeping in a tent, but the husband and the child like it, and I'll put up with it. There's bathrooms and showers, and that's all I really care about.

So then I figure about $100 in gas or so to travel there. That's probably an optimistic number, but whatever.

Then I figured 3 meals a day at about $20/per day conservatively would be $240, and activities and things would run about $150. There are a surprising number of things one can do for free in the area, and the Baseball Hall of Fame isn't even that expensive - $15 per grownup and $5 for the child.

It all comes out to $613.00. Which I'm not really certain I could spare. But I really want to do this.

I've actually wanted to go to Cooperstown ever since I read "The Secret of Mirror Bay" when I was a child. Nancy Drew goes to Cooperstown and stays in this lovely cabin by Ostego Lake* which used to be known as "Glimmerglass" because it is so smooth and clear. I don't know why, but the whole area really caught my imagination; one of the rules of writing a Nancy Drew book is if you send her somewhere real, you need to include a travelogue.

And now with Charlie so enamoured of Baseball, it seems like a perfect place to go. And we haven't had a real family vacation in, well, ever.

Anyone have any suggestions how I can raise $600 plus dollars soon? Still can't get the Hoosier sold, so that's out. I'm going to try to put money aside, but that never seems to work out right. Something always comes up.


*Which I swear I found on line. The cabin in the photograph looked so much like the one I remembered being described in the book, and it was right on the lake with a dock and everything. That, however, I know I can't afford. I'm not an 18 year old amatur detective with a famous lawyer father.

I need $613.00

I just did some calculations to see if we could afford to go to Cooperstown NY for a family vacation.

I found a place that is a very inexpensive campground, $22.00/night if you have a tent, which I do. I personally loathe sleeping in a tent, but the husband and the child like it, and I'll put up with it. There's bathrooms and showers, and that's all I really care about.

So then I figure about $100 in gas or so to travel there. That's probably an optimistic number, but whatever.

Then I figured 3 meals a day at about $20/per day conservatively would be $240, and activities and things would run about $150. There are a surprising number of things one can do for free in the area, and the Baseball Hall of Fame isn't even that expensive - $15 per grownup and $5 for the child.

It all comes out to $613.00. Which I'm not really certain I could spare. But I really want to do this.

I've actually wanted to go to Cooperstown ever since I read "The Secret of Mirror Bay" when I was a child. Nancy Drew goes to Cooperstown and stays in this lovely cabin by Ostego Lake* which used to be known as "Glimmerglass" because it is so smooth and clear. I don't know why, but the whole area really caught my imagination; one of the rules of writing a Nancy Drew book is if you send her somewhere real, you need to include a travelogue.

And now with Charlie so enamoured of Baseball, it seems like a perfect place to go. And we haven't had a real family vacation in, well, ever.

Anyone have any suggestions how I can raise $600 plus dollars soon? Still can't get the Hoosier sold, so that's out. I'm going to try to put money aside, but that never seems to work out right. Something always comes up.


*Which I swear I found on line. The cabin in the photograph looked so much like the one I remembered being described in the book, and it was right on the lake with a dock and everything. That, however, I know I can't afford. I'm not an 18 year old amatur detective with a famous lawyer father.

My life. A brief update

Went to the doctor's this morning because I've been very dizzy lately. And not dizzy like Gracie Allen, dizzy like I feel like I'm going to fall down.

It's most likely an inner ear thing, so he gave me Allegra and I have to have blood tests tomorrow, just to make sure.

I said to him, "So I guess you don't have to call in Dr. House, then." He laughed. He isn't a big fan of the show, not because of the medicine, which he said isn't actually that bad, but because House is so mean. Apparently that really bugs my kindly doctor.

Had a Shakespeare thing tonight. I've been called back to read Olivia, and just Olivia which can mean one of two things. One, he is so sure he wants me to be Olivia, that he's just seeing who I work best with or two, I have a very limited range, and he's just throwing me a bone since I'm on the board.

I'm hoping it's the first one.

I also hope I remember I can't eat anything tomorrow.

My life. A brief update

Went to the doctor's this morning because I've been very dizzy lately. And not dizzy like Gracie Allen, dizzy like I feel like I'm going to fall down.

It's most likely an inner ear thing, so he gave me Allegra and I have to have blood tests tomorrow, just to make sure.

I said to him, "So I guess you don't have to call in Dr. House, then." He laughed. He isn't a big fan of the show, not because of the medicine, which he said isn't actually that bad, but because House is so mean. Apparently that really bugs my kindly doctor.

Had a Shakespeare thing tonight. I've been called back to read Olivia, and just Olivia which can mean one of two things. One, he is so sure he wants me to be Olivia, that he's just seeing who I work best with or two, I have a very limited range, and he's just throwing me a bone since I'm on the board.

I'm hoping it's the first one.

I also hope I remember I can't eat anything tomorrow.