Is it like lead or mercury? Does it make you go a little crazy? Almost since the moment I looked into Dan's eyes and realized I was "ready" to make a baby that had that same color brown, I started a membership on Fertility Friend because they have the best computer-based charting software I have found. In the past year, I have only really tracked my chart 4 times, but I still go back there several times a day because of the amazing, supportive community. I finally discovered what the word blog meant by following a link from Fertility Friend. From there, I followed a few more links and suddenly I was hooked. Thing is, I still go back to those message boards because there I can talk about things I would still be too shy to go into much detail about on joie.typepad.com. Embarassing things involving my delicate bits. It is a safe place and EVERYONE there understands. I have just celebrated a one year anniversary of a buddy group of four people (including myself) who all ovulated on the same day one time in 2005. (Hi Niki and Melissa and Debbie!) We have helped eachother through a lot. For the most part, it has been an entirely very positive experience.
So, I was very very surprised to wake up this morning, record my basal body temp & cervical mucous, check my email and learn that a whole bunch of people were angry at me. There was use of the little cartoony "smiley" that is all red and has steam coming off of it indicating "angry." There was blatant abuse of exclamation points. The administrator of the message boards sent me an email telling me I had been "reported." At first, I thought to myself, oh, FUCK, did I swear and offend someone? Take the lord's name in vain? Express a liberal viewpoint on the wrong thread? But, as soon as I read the email, I figured it out. I was accused of stealing someone else's chart. A few days ago I started a new thread with a question about my chart and tried to post the actual chart in the body of the message. And I did. I thought. It looked like it was there. But, when angry email sender #1 looked, she saw her chart, and when angry email sender #2 looked she saw her chart. It was like some kind of Harry Potter magic mirror fertility post.
So, I made some kind of bonehead code move and set it up wrong. I am not web savvy at all. But, come ON?! I did not maliciously copy their charts. Yeah, I really want to pretend I ovulated on the same day they did so I could be like them! I can see how it would be disturbing to see a stranger apparently copying your chart. But, is it that hard to figure out? Did I deserve being "reported?"Will this go in my permanent record? Am I flagged, now? This will be the ONLY time I will ever say this, but these women need to RELAX! I blame it on all the baby dust.
