5:03 PM Make the executive decision that though it is three days before my period, I feel “funny” and therefore should stop and buy a pregnancy test on my way home from work. Besides, it is my birthday and birthdays permit self-indulgent behavior.
5:27 Sneak pregnancy test into bathroom in my pocket, because my husband hears enough of my wacked out premonitions and he never needs to know about this one.
5:29 Pee on stick. Badly. I’d tell you how badly but you don’t need a visual.
5:31 A plus sign develops on the stick. I frown disbelievingly at the plus sign
5:32 Shake the stick, then frown at it again.
5:33-6:00 Silently fume at the stupid stick while we ready the house for friends who are coming over for birthday cake.
6:02-8:00 Celebrate birthday. Explain drinking tea instead of wine because I “am coming down with a cold.”
8:11 Tell husband and show him the stick after everyone leaves.
8:12 Debate the validity of the stick. He suggests that it might actually be correct.
8:13 We fall over in panic.
That was a month ago.
April 19, 2007 at 3:01 pm
We looked at the stick independent of the instruction sheet. For some reason we didn’t consider the fact that it was a plus sign meant it was positive. We debated the darkness of the lines in relation to the control line.
Then she went back down and got the instructions…