Wait, what?

We leave for Hawaii on the 18th. It's the 11th. I haven't started yet, and as crass as it sounds, I did not spend $7K on a vacation in the South Pacific to have it ruined by a period. I decided that I would take birth control for a month to "fake out" my body and skip a period. Techncially, I should have started yesterday, so now I'm irked that I haven't started and now have to force my body to skip a period versus finishing up before our departure.

I wasn't feeling any symptoms, other than moody as hell, which is about par for me. The water works were flowing more than normal. I'm not a crier, and for me to have tears more than a few times a year is very rare.

I could not, in good conscience, start taking birth control without ensuring I was indeed not pregnant. Around 7am I took a Target brand for First Response and it came up negative. Until about 45 minutes later (and they are NOT supposed to take this long). I squinted. Held it up to the bathroom light. Held it up to the window. There was something there, but so hard for the naked eye to see. Insane as I am, I took a picture of it and enhanced the colors. Still, something so incredibly faint.

I know you're not supposed to read a pregnancy test after 10 minutes. I know this! But I hadn't started either. I left for work and called my girlfriend, Steph, to see what she though about this test. Her advice-test again. I called the fertility doc's office. Their advice-test again.

I stopped by Walgreens and picked up a pack of tests, this time Clear Blue Easy. Around 9:30am, it came up positive after the proper allotted time. It was faint, but it was positive. I'm in shock, to say the least. I called the fertility doctor's office who advised we should have blood drawn and perform a beta hcg test.

Around 1pm, had blood drawn, and now just to wait things out until Friday morning. Ah, just wait things out...