good omens

In the past several weeks, we have gone back and forth between our top two choices of donors (lovingly dubbed Lance Armstrong and Monty McSteamy) to compliment Drakey in creating the perfect offspringy creation. This involved numerous and profound discussions about nurture vs. nature, interviews with parenting coworkers and of course, tireless hours of Internet research. Because let’s face it, the Internet is truly all-knowing and who would defy that simple fact? Al Gore did good when he invented it, I tell ya. Drake and I were at odds for a few days arguing over Lance and Monty McSteamy but ultimately the decision was made over a night of 10 drunk friends at my Winos party pouring through profiles and baby pictures, swilling wine, throwing bean dip at each other and naturally providing their most educated and logical assessments of the two donors. McSteamy had the vote… unanimously. Primarily because he has great hair and 100% my personality. I also have great hair, mind you, so this decision seemed an obvious one for me right out of the gates. We chose to forgo the super hot Lance Armstrong look-a-like with the genius IQ and perfect medical history because he was too much like Drake and god love her but what the hell would I do with two of those? Sweet Jesus! So Monty McSteamy it is, with the thick golden curled locks and Amazon-like ancestors.

Another thing that warrants mentioning and tangential to this topic is the Cryobank we chose. Becuz we switched that up too. We were actually going for a Cryobank that we had believed was local to us here in Seattle but turns out had recently relocated to NYC. They focus on Scandinavian swimmers which is exactly what we’re looking for to create the perfect mix of half-breed. I know that "half-breed" is an entirely rude and inappropriate term, and for those that don’t actually know me and cannot therefor logically make this assumption, I am kidding!! I am not as much as an insensitive ass as I come across as in writing and I would NEVER refer to my child as a “half-breed” to their face. Or to anybody else that didn't GET IT, so to speak. Anyway… not only is this Crybobank way cheaper than the California Cryobank, but what really impressed us was that Drake had called to get baby pics ordered and ended up in a 20 minute conversation with a guy that works there and knows both Lance Armstrong and Monty McSteamy quite well. He was freely telling her all sorts of things about their current appearance and personality, etc. They were having a candid and open dialogue about it. It was AWESOME and certainly never an option we had before. Point to be made is that we have truly had such a drastically improved experience thus far and we're just at the very beginning stages of this. I feel confident and good! Real good!

Lastly - I am making a commitment to be more attentive to this blog now that things are finally gearing back up. I will commit to blogging once a week if not more. If I got nothin' to say relevant to the fertility subject, you may just get to learn about things like my adorable girl dog and her new imaginary friend that she's been having troubles with lately resulting in a lot of loud growling and vicious fights with invisible things. We'll just have to wait and see.