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19th November 2014
France: Former President Sarkozy condemned by key allies for call to scrap equal marriage 18
5:09 PM — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been condemned by a number of his political allies, after he called for same-sex marriage to be repealed.
16th July 2014
Anti-gay former French National Front candidate jailed for racist remarks against minister 17
5:40 PM — A former candidate of the homophobic French Front National (FN) has been sentenced to nine months in jail for comparing a black Justice Minister to a chimpanzee.
2nd May 2014
French lesbian couple told they cannot adopt child – despite biological link 2
1:20 PM — A lesbian couple in France have been barred from adopting a child – despite one of them being its birth mother.
16th December 2013
France: President Francois Hollande to snub Russian Winter Olympics 8
11:43 AM — French President Francois Hollande has become the most high profile leader to snub the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia.
18th October 2013
France's highest court rules mayors cannot refuse to perform same-sex marriages 10
12:15 PM — France's highest court has ruled that mayors cannot refuse to hold same-sex weddings in the country.
18th September 2013
Gay man jailed for attacking husband on wedding day following row about mother-in-laws 10
3:01 PM — A 22-year-old man in the northern French city of Alencon has been jailed for attacking his new husband just hours after tying the knot.
25th August 2013
France: Far-right mayor refuses to officiate at same-sex wedding 53
2:03 PM — A far-right mayor in the south of France has refused to officiate at the wedding of a lesbian couple, despite the government's recently passed same-sex marriage law.
19th July 2013
French Government study recommends lifting of blanket gay blood ban 8
12:10 PM — The ban on the donation of blood by men who have sex with men in France should be lifted, according to a new government study.
6th June 2013
France: President Hollande condemns fatal attack on teenage gay rights activist 26
9:11 PM — President Francois Hollande has condemned the fatal attack on a French teenage gay rights activist "in the strongest terms".
25th April 2013
France: Anti-gay MP accidentally votes in favour of equal marriage 31
3:00 PM — An anti-gay French MP, who strongly opposes equal marriage, accidentally voted in favour of it during a parliamentary debate on Tuesday.
23rd April 2013
'Vive la France!' as campaigners celebrate equal marriage victory 40
5:56 PM — Campaigners are celebrating the news that France has become the 14th nation in the world to legalise marriage rights for same-sex couples and Justice Minister Christiane Taubira says the first weddings could be held as soon as June.
France: Water cannons deployed in Paris ahead of same-sex marriage vote 35
12:04 PM — Security is being stepped up around France's National Assembly building in Paris ahead of today's landmark equal marriage vote.
19th April 2013
Video: French filmmaker reaches out to those opposed to equal marriage: 'Fear not' 6
2:43 PM — A French filmmaker has posted a YouTube video of himself addressing those in France opposed to legalising equal marriage, in which he reaches out to them, and gives reassurances around common misconceptions linked to same-sex marriage.
12th April 2013
French Senate backs same-sex marriage bill 22
1:14 PM — French lawmakers have approved a bill allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children.
Comment: The real face of Manif pour Tous 26
12:17 PM — Journalist Patrick Cash writes about last weekend's violent homophobic attack against Wilfred de Brujin in Paris and profile's the anti-gay French group Manif pour Tous.
11th April 2013
France: Anti-gay Chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim quits over plagiarism row 7
2:58 PM — France's Chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim, who has written essays against equal marriage, has resigned in a plagiarism row.
4th April 2013
France: Same-sex marriage bill reaches Senate 5
12:00 PM — The French Senate will debate the country's proposed same-sex marriage bill today.
19th February 2013
Comment: France's Justice Minister Christiane Taubira has become an equal marriage hero 3
4:47 PM — Writing for PinkNews, French student David Browne says France's Justice Minister Christiane Taubira is now synonymous with the debate on gay rights in the country.
12th February 2013
French National Assembly approves equal marriage bill 12
4:20 PM — France took a step closer to legalising equal marriage and adoptions for same sex couples, as its National Assembly approved a bill to do so, during its second reading today.
22nd January 2013
France: Karl Lagerfeld supports equal marriage with lesbian brides at couture show 1
1:25 PM — Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has used his lastest fashion show to support equal marriage amidst divides across France on the issue.


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Breakfast in downtown SF?
- MandalayVA Jul 30, 2008 07:47 AM
My husband and I will be making our second trip to SF in early September--we'll be staying at the Courtyard by Marriott near the convention center and are looking for some good non-touristy breakfast places in the area, preferably someplace that can put together a good omelet or egg dish. (Yeah, we did Sears Fine Food the first go-round.) Thanks!
There have been some very nice comments about Cafe Bean.
Cafe Bean
800 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA 94109
re: Xiao Yang
Hey we are a walking town. 1.2 flat miles from hotel to Cafe Bean than .8 miles back to Moscone. Piece of pancake.
About 3 blocks south on 2nd is South Park. On South Park there's the Butler and the Chef. This is going towards the ballpark. There's also Town's End near the Embarcadero.
Butler & the Chef Bistro
155 S Park St, San Francisco, CA 94107
If you have the time, I suggest you stroll down to the Ferry Building and enjoy a lovely breakfast at Boulette's Larder. In addition to having great food, it's fun to sit and watch the commuters arriving by ferry. Another option is to head over to Brenda's French Soul Food. They have great Louisianan breakfasts, but you'll want to either take a cab or be very careful about your route. It's not far, but the worst of the tenderloin neighborhood (ugly and not safe) sits between you and Brenda's.
Boulettes Larder
Ferry Slip, San Francisco, CA 94111
Brenda's French Soul Food
652 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94102
Sears really isn't very good, more of a tourist trap. They are also owned by Lori's Diner which can also be skipped. Mel's near your hotel isn't that good either.
Dotties True Blue Cafe is good
Town's End, as mentioned is also good. The Chef and the Butler is probably nearest to you. I haven't been there in a long time, but always liked the breakfast at Campton Place but it is very pricy. Another near-ish place that has had positive mentions is Cafe Andree. Cafe de la Presse has had mixed reports.
Your hotel at one time had a breakfast buffet. Never tried it so don't know how good it was.
re: rworange
My dad, a SF native, took my brothers and me to Sears whenever we were in town on leave from military assignments. I loved it then, and I love it now. I don't care if tourists like it, too.
Cafe de la Presse does good French breakfast and omelets.
La Boulange bakery just opened an outpost on Market St and 3rd St. No omelets but they make a tasty mini-quiche. Of course, there's always the croissants and assorted pastries. There's outdoor seating so it's a nice way to take it easy in the morning.
Cafe De La Presse
352 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94108
re: larochelle
I'll second Cafe Bean. We took Mr Mouther's advice in April 2008 and really enjoyed it -- would return based on that visit.
The opposite of non-touristy but well worth a visit if you're in SF on a Saturday: Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market for breakfast. Personal favourite is Primavera's chilaquiles.
Not too far away is Canteen, another non-touristy breakfast place.
And finally, we're fans of the already mentioned Café de la presse.
I'll excerpt my comments on these four options in case you're not in the mood to dredge through my rather long-winded trip report here, here and here :-): http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/512584
On Friday morning, we headed to Café Bean (800 Sutter at Jones) for an early-ish breakfast. J had the Dutch Smasher for $7.25 (melted Edam, fried onion, tomato, ham and over easy eggs on toast) while I went for the chicken apple sausage and eggs with toast for $6.95. The eggs were perfectly scrambled, the sausage was delicious (housemade or at least very local I think) and the toast okay. We saw some Dutch pancakes on another table that looked mighty tempting too.
8:15 Saturday am and we head for the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market. We made a beeline for the Primavera stand as the lineup was long in November but I had my chilaquiles in hand within 5 minutes this time.
The next morning we obeyed the siren song of the Canteen breakfast (817 Sutter St (between Jones and Leavenworth) and returned for another satisfying meal. Arriving a bit after 9:30 we still got a coveted booth (no resos for brekky and brunch here). J ordered the omelette with fontina, ham and oyster mushrooms ($8.95), BIL went for the benchmark eggs and sausage ($8.75) and I opted to try the much-vaunted eggs benedict "with all the accoutrements" ($10.75). The boys also had the recommended short lattes ($2.50 each) and we were all very happy with our choices. The sauce on the benny was nicely tart and unctuous, maybe a bit much of it, and the eggs were well poached if a bit runny for my taste but once again these are tiny quibbles.
Monday morning was reserved for our now traditional breakfast at Café de la presse (352 Grant at Bush). And yes, I had eggs benedict for the second day in a row. I give a slight edge to the bennies here over Canteen for two reasons 1) less sauce 2) eggs just a bit more set ($13). J had the oeufs en meurette ($13) and we both enjoyed a large bowl of Café Colombe au lait ($3 each).
Town's End is probably the best breakfast close by. If you don't mind going further afield, Mama's on Washington Square in North Beach is excellent, and shouldn't have much of a wait during the week.
Mama's On Washington Square
1701 Stockton St, San Francisco, CA 94133
Town's End Restaurant & Bakery
2 Townsend St Ste 2, San Francisco, CA 94107
for something pricey but lovely, breakfast in the atrium at the palace hotel is wonderful. but very dear.
For some of us breakfast is about great coffee and lots of it. With this in mind I'd like to mention Blue Bottle Cafe at Mint Plaza (5th and Mission, not far from the Courtyard Marriott.) Been open since March. Fantastic coffee. Fun people watching - very modern. They do have breakfast - a imited menu, but good. Per your request for an egg dish, they have a simple and tasty pop-eye egg dish (Acme Bread.) The waffles are great. BUT...as of a month ago, they don't start serving food until 9 AM even though they open at 7 AM. (Wish they would change this.) Food service can be a tad slow, but again, this place is really about the coffee.
Brenda's is great. Worth the cab or bus or Bart ride from your location. Also worth getting to, IMO, Ella's on Presidio. Extensive breakfast menu, wonderful egg dishes, off the beaten tourist track. On weekends, be ready for a wait or go early. This is true for Brenda's also.
Ella's Restaurant
500 Presidio Ave, San Francisco, CA 94115
Blue Bottle Cafe
66 Mint St, San Francisco, CA 94103
I know it's terribly boring, but the only thing I eat for breakfast is: HEALTHY OATMEAL.
And, I've found that Lori's Diner does it just right.

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Have You Ever Written a Cookbook for Your Family and, Maybe, for Friends?
- herby Jan 17, 2011 03:12 PM
This is a project that I started a few years ago at the request of my two grown daughters (both have families now) - write a cookbook of family favourites and any other recipes that will be useful to them. A few friends heard about the project, word kind of spread around and now there is an expectation of a fabulous cookbook that many of those who've eaten at my house want. And I am stuck...
I started by developing a format, then creating categories and writing out recipes. All was going well at first but then I do not know where to stop. I constantly "discover" great recipes that I make 2-3 times and then move onto something else. The second problem is how to make a book out of the little pages that I've created? I want it to have a hard cover so that it lasts, spiral bounding so that it opens flat, pages that could be whiped off if things spill and thing will spill if the book is used.
I've heard of two sotwares that could be helpful - Master Cook and Living Cookbook; have you used these or any other ones?
Please share your experience and tips on how to go about completing this project. Maybe the cookbook of this kind could be "evergreen" but I do not want an e-book, I want the real thing!
I am happy to post any elements of my cookbook - just ask for what you are interested in.
Looking forward to hear from many:))))
I wrote a very short cookbook (more of a cook pamphlet) as a sort-of mock souvenir of a tasting menu I once did to showcase that wines do come from countries other than France. Unlike your project (which sounds fascinating), my pamphlet was fairly easy because I only had to work on the recipes which made up the menu.
I didn't use cookbook-specific software as the exercise at the time helped familiarize me with Adobe InDesign for layout. I used Photoshop and Illustrator for photos and graphics, and wrote the text in Word before pouring all the elements into InDesign. My pamphlet was output to PDF for distribution, though I do know people have printed it off.
There are companies which will help you print one-off or short-run paper publications (acid-free paper is always nice as the pages won't yellow). Printing spiral-bound is pretty easy as many copy shops can do this, but laminated stock for easy wiping bumps the price up really quickly. Too bad about the no e-book thing because if your fan base is a bit more technological, you could investigate publishing to the iPad since that allows you to quickly update the cookbook. I think that would be great since you mention that you constantly discover new recipes.
You could also set up a private blog.
As for the organizational part of your project, there's plenty of cookbooks which should lend a hand in thinking how you want to present things, including:
- classic division by food types (vegetables, meat, fish, dairy)
- classical division by plate types (appetizers, soups, salad, mains)
- division by complete meals (categorize by season, categorize by holiday)
- division by technique
KatieNell wrote a family cookbook and reported on it here.
My mother and I put together cookbooks for my brothers when they were in college that included family recipes, some original, some tried and true magazine clippings ie Cooking Light and my mothers techniques for basics such as rice, Thanksgiving turkey etc. My brothers still turn to these when cooking for their families. We printed recipes on the computer, and used self laminate to create "recipe cards." We put the recipe cards in store bought Hallmark blank recipe books. This of course was in the early nineties, and now the technical options available are endless. And while a online published book would look lovely, it is nice to have a recipe book that changes can be made to by adding or subtracting recipes to the cookbook based on the recipients likes.
In fact I own a number of these 'recipe books', one that I collect all my traditional recipes, and one for all my healthy recipes. I am now working on a third, my gourmet recipes, more adventurous recipes.
re: lulou23
lulou, how did you "self laminate"? Did you buy the equipment to do it? Staples or kinko? I really want a bound book but it is half the size of a typical sheet of paper - smal-ish.
I did one a few years ago. Type the pages on letter size paper,print the number of each you want, put in plastic sleeves, and put in three ring binders. I printed on both sides, but it would be okay to print on one side and put two sheets back to back in each sleeve. This is easy to keep clean and lies flat. Be sure to keep one for yourself.
My goodness, you have described my project. I have been writing a cookbook for primarily my children, but like you, friends are enthusiastic and looking forward to the finished product. I have been using Master Cook for years to develop and edit my recipes. I was going to switch to another software but found that Master Cook was more than adequate. I invested in a book 'The Recipe Writer's Handbook' and have been revising my recipes so they follow the same format. It is a long process. I have not got to the stage of how I am going to self publish it. That's where I will need some advice.
This is a labour of love....but one that is much appreciated by my daughter and son. Hopefully, they will (or their children will) carry on the tradition of "fall pickling" or making our family Christmas Cake. The recipe was developed by a great aunt and is over 75 years old.
Good luck!
re: Deborah
Deborah, we should talk more about the details. I designed a layout that I am very happy with. One recipe per page divided into a short para under the title to say a few words about the recipe - ingredients - instructions. Made me very mindful of a need to have short precise instructions. How did you divide your recipes? I have a lot of sections - appertizers, breads, breakfast, chicken, soups, condiments, etc. - too many really, need to simplify. How many recipes do you have? How many pages? I probably have close to a hundred.
re: herby
Hi Herby: I am thinking of dividing my recipes up according to seasons.....Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter. I have well over 300 recipes so I am going to format them all and then decide which ones are the most important to include in the book. I know it is going to be difficult as I too have so many different categories.
Check out www.tastebook.com
I just made a cookbook called Family Favorites for my siblings and my parents and it turned out great! They provide the format and you just fill in the specifics for your recipes. It even allows you to add your own photos. The finished product is beautiful and my family was touched by the collection of recipes, photos, and anecdotes.
re: arp29
Thank you for the link, arp29! Looks like a great site and it sure wants to sign you up:) I wonder were you able to use your format if you prefer? Did they printed and mailed the book to you? It says $30 for 100 recipes - I wonder if I want 12 or so of the same thing, do I pay $360? Do you know?
re: herby
Hi Herby,
Yes, they are a bit intense in trying to get you sign up:-) I *believe* that you have to use their format. They mail the books to you printed, but not assembled. Everything is grouped together and in the appropriate order, but you have to put it in the spiral binding. They offer quantity discounts and run specials every so often (ie: 10% off if you order by a certain date, free shipping, etc.) As wineos mentioned it is affiliated with Epicurious (and a whole slew of other sites with recipes) so you can incorporate recipes from those sites easily.
re: arp29
I agree!!! and it was a wonderful experience!
I like that it is a binder format, and you can order additional pages to add to the book as your list of favorite recipes grows. There are many ways to customize the book and recipe pages, and it is connected to epicurious (or used to be?) so the recipes can be pulled right from that site to add to your book. The con is that the binder has already begun to peel.
Several years ago, my mom (she's 93 now!) and I put together a book of her tried and true recipes for her to give as a Christmas gift to her kids, grand kids, and select other family members. At that time I used Mastercook to do it. It was great. I printed it out and had it spiral bound at Kinko's. It was a huge hit.
Since then, I no longer use Mastercook but have successfully transferred what everyone calls "the book" over to Living Cookbook. If you have any questions about Living Cookbook, I can try to answer them for you though there are probably those here who have more experience with it than I do.
re: herby
herby, I really do like Living Cookbook. I'd used Mastercook for years but found that after it was sold off to another software company that the customer service was not so great and it had a lot of glitches. I was really glad to find LC and was able to import all of my cookbooks over from Mastercook. I haven't played with it much more than importing recipes here and there. That's really really easy, by the way.
Please let me know if you have any specific questions.
re: Deborah
Did you find it hard to make the software work, Deborah, or their website? I find the software really easy to use once I got used to it. Importing recipes is super easy using a cut and paste method. You then highlight portions of the recipe (such as the title, or ingredients, or procedure) and then just click on the appropriate label (title, ingredients, procedure, etc.) and when you are done, click on finish and it will automatically put it in recipe format, do the nutritional info if you want it, and so forth. Easy peasy.
re: Leepa
Leepa: I had a hard time to make their software work. I wasn't looking to import recipes but to use the site for writing and editing my personal recipes. I wondered whether it was because I signed up for a 30 day trial. Was the format of their recipes similar to Mastercook? With Mastercook the "notes" go on the side of the recipe where I would prefer the notes to go under the title and before the ingredients. Other than that, I find my version of Mastercook works quite well. What are the improvements with Living Cookbook?
re: Deborah
Deborah, I'd say if Mastercook is working for you then keep it. But to answer your question, if you type your notes in Comments (in Edit Recipe and at the bottom of the Recipe tab) then they will show up between the recipe title and the ingredients.
I had the privilege of working as part of the team on a series of 'real' published cookbooks once upon a time and had the satisfaction of seeing some of 'my' recipes published.
But the sheer hard slogging of reproducing recipes in a test kitchen over and over with variations ( .5 % milk, 1%, 2%, whole milk....) took a great deal of the the joy of creation out of it. And then food photography! all varnish and mashed potatoes tinted to look like ice cream-yuck!
Recently however I prepped a cookbook for our only child, my recently married daughter. My latest project was low-tech, all original sources--hand-written or magazine clippings, but had the joy of being totally hand-made and personal.
I did the 3-ring binder thing and organized all my recipes that weren't in cookbooks and printed out a few that were that had special family meaning. On the left hand side of each page was the recipe and on the right, the story. I had some hand-written notes from my great-grandmother, grandmother and mother, my mother-in-law, aunts, precious family friends and other characters in my own life and that of my daughter.
There were gems in there: a newspaper clipping from my grandmother-Menu for a Wedding Tea, saved from a day when her daughters were only 5 and 7 (my own mother)! Some dreams cross generations...
There were recipes that my mother-in-law gave me when I married her youngest son, with notes about his favourite foods (!)
There were some howlers like a recipe for a garlic dip served with cocktail weiners that (literally) sickened all the cocktail party attendees one wild weekend long before my daughters birth.
For this purpose, it was far more important that there appear a hand-written note next to the recipe for Chicken Della Robbia ( this is the first dish I ever cooked for your Daddy -November 1973) than that the recipe format or photgraphic approach be consistent.
Having said that, there can only ever be one of these precious books, but it I wanted to produce a dozen for all my someday grandchildren and for friends, I did enjoy the simplicity of www.tastebook.com
re: LJS
LJS....I have been thinking about a way to compile all of the recipes I use all the time, as well as some that have been handed down from both sides of our family. Your book sounds wonderful. I also have an only daughter (who mostly doesn't cook, but who is a librarian, so loves books!) and two grandchildren, both of whom do love to be in the kitchen with me! I also have one cousin, who manages a Farmer's Market and does a food blog, and with whom I would love to share family recipes. I will check out tastebook, thanks for the idea!
Very nice to read about other's experience. I have been planning to write a book for over 3 years now. Before I could publish printed book, I wanted to try the eBook. I published an eBook with 15 recipes. But somehow I always love the real book that you can hold in your hand.
Even I had the same feeling that I wanted to continue adding more recipes to the collection I had. Finally stopped at abt 75 of best recipes. I had to put the project on hold. Hopefully I will get this project out soon.
Meanwhile thanks for sharing about publication houses that I can look into.
Maybe your idea of printing just for family will be a great idea too..
I think using a service like shutterfly, that does the hard-bound photo books (not sure if they'll do print, but I'm sure there's a similar service for books) would be really cool - like your own published recipe book! That way you could include snaps of how the dishes look in an artful way that would make a really beautiful gift. Through shutterfly you could actually scan in the recipe cards as photo files and arrange them that way - i've done that to insert poems, etc. into mine.
When I was in second grade, I wrote a cookbook for my mother. I interviewed family and friends for a dessert recipe each. It is in tatters now and was very poor quality binding - it was typed on probably the first computer my family owned, and with one staple - but it still has the best chocolate chip recipe! However it is bound, I'm sure it will be treasured.
I've used MasterCook for at least ten years to build a database of my favorites and some family recipes. It started as a project to lessen the number of cookbooks I have. I realized I had many cookbooks that had just one or two recipes I used regularly, so I entered these first. Then I added recipes that caught my eye in magazines and cooking shows. There are more than 1,600 recipes now. I have printed out my "frequent flyers" and have them in sleeves in a three-ring binder. I take it with me (as well as my laptop) to my daughter's when we visit. Now that I am retired, I am thinking of editing the collection and doing something more creative for the family. And, did I get rid of those cookbooks with just one or two useful recipes? Noooooo.
re: magnolia
I wrote a family cookbook of my grandmother's recipe as a way to remember her. I had to figure out a lot of the recipes because she didn't have a lot of them written down. I spent about 6 months working on it and making a lot of the recipes to make sure they worked. I ended up using www.blurb.com; which lets you do a lot of the formatting yourself. I also ended up scanning in a lot of old family photos and putting them in the book as well. You can preview the book at the following site:
I also spent a lot of time searching thru other previews of cookbooks for ideas on how I wanted to do layouts.
re: JulesLP
Jules, this is truly amazing!!! Definitely the way to go if one wants a special book that does not feel/look homemade. Thank you for sharing - I'll absolutely look into it. Wish I could retire soon as the work really gets in the way of getting other things done:)
I did a book for all 4 of my daughters for Christmas last year. I had many recipes,lots of pictures and stories. I used blurb.com and love how it turned out. Each book cost me $35.95. It's a hardcover book with a colorful dust jacket and 80 pages. My girls cried when they opened their presents. I am working on another one for them as I did this one in just a month and have much more to write for them.
I am making a cookbook for a friend right now! It will have WAY fewer recipes than the OP and some others here -- it's only recipes for a cast iron skillet (which I am buying her as a wedding gift). I considered so many options of how to format, originally thinking I would have Kinko's make it into a bound book for me, but wound up deciding to do a simple homemade 3 ring binder with full plastic sheets for recipes and 4X6 sheets to put in pictures, because although I sortof wanted it it to look like a real cookbook, I ultimately decided that this would be the easiest to use, so she can add things in or move things around or whatever she wants. But then I also made it into a blog (www.kelliskillet.wordpress.com), so that if she wanted to share the recipes with anyone it wouldn't mean having to type them out again, and to allow for more pictures, and because it was free and fun. And this way I can continue adding to it. But this tastebook thing looks great for someone who wants to do this more regularly -- if I make this a habit, I might go with that in the future.
Herby, I hope you've come to a solution that you're pleased with. For what it's worth, I've made many cookbooks; I used to print them out as word files, add in any special pages of photos or whatever, and take them to copy shop to get them printed, cut to size & spiral bound. The day at the copy shop was always crazy. Now I use MacGourmet to corral my recipes, and MacGourmet has a plug-in called cookbook builder that gives you lots of options for formatting. But after it is formatted, I send the PDF to a site called lulu to get it printed & bound. Lulu is fast & inexpensive enough for me to periodically send all the recipes in my "to-try" file off to them, without worrying to much about order / etc, and a couple of days later I get my own "to-try" cookbook in the mail. MacGourmet isn't useful unless you have a mac, but lulu might be. You could send them any PDF file.


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STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) -- A Plover man has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the baseball bat beating death of his stepfather.
Thirty-three-year-old Andrew Pray entered his plea Monday before Portage County Circuit Judge Thomas Eagon, who ordered a competency exam
Pray is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the May 26 attack. The victim, 77-year-old Chris Bonnstetter, was removed from life support and died June 3.
Pray's mother told police Bonnstetter was laying on the floor in the living room and resting when her son came upstairs and struck him three or four times. She said he "just flipped out."
Plover Police Officer Michael Tracy testified at a hearing last month that Pray only said "no comment" when Tracy asked him what happened.
Pray is due back in court Oct. 6.
Copyright 2014: Associated Press
UPDATED Tuesday, July 1, 2014 --- 11:00 a.m.
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) -- A 32-year-old man will stand trial for allegedly beating his stepfather to death with a baseball bat in Portage County.
Stevens Point Journal Media reports (http://spjour.nl/1rTxVHb ) a judge decided Monday there was enough evidence to order Andrew Pray to stand trial.
Pray, of Plover, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of 77-year-old Chris Bonnstetter.
According to Bonnsetter's wife, Jennifer Pray, Andrew Pray came up the basement stairs and hit Bonnstetter three to four times while Bonnstetter lay on the floor May 26.
Plover Police Officer Michael Tracy testified Monday during the preliminary hearing that Andrew Pray only said "no comment" when Tracy found him standing in front of the garage at the scene.
A message left for Andrew Pray's attorney was not immediately returned Tuesday.
Copyright 2014: Associated Press
UPDATED Friday, June 6, 2014 --- 5:25 p.m.
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) -- A Plover man is charged with attacking his sleeping stepfather with a baseball bat and killing him.
Thirty-two-year-old Andrew Pray is charged with one count of first-degree intentional homicide in the May 26 attack on 77-year-old Christopher Bonnstetter. Bonnstetter died Tuesday from his injuries.
According to the complaint, Pray's mother, Jennifer Pray, told investigators she witnessed the afternoon attack and saw her son hit Bonnstetter three or four times.
WAOW-TV (http://bit.ly/1tP8OF2 ) reports court records say Bonnstetter was sleeping on the floor of his living room when Andrew Pray came in, said nothing and began hitting him with an aluminum baseball bat.
Andrew Pray is being held in the Portage County Jail on $250,000 bond. He's scheduled to appear in court Monday. Online court records do not list a defense attorney.
Copyright 2014: Associated Press
Posted Friday, June 6, 2014 --- 10:16 a.m.
PLOVER, Wis. (AP) -- A Portage County prosecutor says he will file a homicide charge against a Plover man accused of beating his stepfather with a baseball bat.
Thirty-two-year-old Andrew Pray is being held in the Portage County Jail on $250,000 bond. Authorities say he attacked 77-year-old Christopher Bonnstetter and hit him in the head and chest with the bat last week. Bonnstetter died Tuesday night at St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield.
Assistant District Attorney Cass Cousins says Pray will be charged with first-degree intentional homicide Friday. Police haven't revealed a motive for the attack.
Court records did not list an attorney for Pray.
Copyright 2014: Associated Press


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- Summary: The golden age of console hockey returns with NHL 07, featuring gameplay innovations that make players feel like they are actually on the ice. Featuring an unmatched level of freedom and control, NHL 07 allows hockey purists and casual fans alike to feel like they can play like a pro. [Electronic Arts]… Expand
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NHL 07 is easily the best playing, best looking, and best sounding hockey game currently available. If EA had not stripped away the additional gameplay modes, this would have easily been the game to beat.
The new controls, new gameplay and new graphics have given an unexpected treat to gamers everywhere. Not to say that there aren't issues like the awful manual, tough dynasty and some quirky things like being unable to select your favorite team like every other EA Sports game. This is a giant leap in the right direction.
Honestly, after playing this for several weeks, I was bored. I tried to like this game, and the graphics sure are enticing, but in the end it's just not as satisfying as "2K7."
While NHL 07 completely nails certain facets of the game, it definitely isn't the complete package. This franchise certainly has the appearance of going places, but it may be another year or two before it finally proves itself as the best game on the market.
A very enjoyable game that gives you greater control over your players than ever before. The series has had a rest on next generation consoles thus far, and the break has certainly paid off.
I was very close to loving NHL 07 but I think I'll save my money for a year when I can hold onto the puck.
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SuperyomaSep 11, 2006Skill stick and watching the goalies is next level sports gaming!
DaveK.Sep 16, 2006Buy it now...play 10 games to get used to the controls...and you will be very happy.
RedwingsRockRangersSuckJan 17, 2007The best game with out a dout. Skill stick makes it the best golies save are awesome looking too, but I can make awesome moves between my legs or anything so that could be better.… Expand
BrysonicSep 10, 2006The new controls are much more intuitive. Nice to finally see some inovation...
Apr 24, 2011Since this game obviously is horrible compared to the newer games, I will review this for the time it came out. It was a fun game and I found myself playing it a lot. It was a turning point for the better games, and it doesn't really offer a lot. It's O.K. but far from great.… Expand
JerryP.Jan 29, 2007I'm afraid I have to agree with John G. The graphics and Skill Stick are awesome but the rest of the game play is ridiculous! Getting the puck from the CPU is almost impossible without knocking him off the puck but the CPU can grab it from you just by being close! Except for breakout passes, every other pass you try to make RARELY goes where you want it, especially int he offensive zone! Cheap goals happen way too often. Your teammates play like minor leaguers so unless you can skate through everyone, and Im sure there's people who can, its just not all that rewarding. I didn't give it a 2 because there are lots of things I like but theres no way I can honestly give it a 9 because it DOESN'T play like a real hockey game, no matter what the other guys are saying!… Expand
BenjaminF.Jan 4, 2007Great game with awesome gameplay and graphics, but its too damn easy.....I have been playing the EA Sports NHL Series for about 7 years now, and difficult mode is SOO easy.......they need to make this game harder...in my dynasty, sidney crosby has 67 pts in 7 games......thats almost 10 pts a game average.....realistic? I think not!… Expand
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Critics of Denver Post owner Dean Singleton see him as a skinflint, but over the past several years his words and deeds regarding the capstone of his newspaper empire belie this tag. He's spent money freely to boost the paper's "We Cover the World" reputation, albeit with just a modest amount of success thus far, and he doesn't seem ready to turn off the simoleon spigot anytime soon, the recent downgrading of his corporate credit rating notwithstanding. And when editor Glenn Guzzo failed to turn the ship as quickly as his boss wished, Singleton reeled in Greg Moore, longtime managing editor of the Boston Globe, who's widely regarded as a rising star on the national press stage. Moore will take the Post's wheel on June 10.
In the remarks he's made since his hiring was announced, Moore has been uncommonly clear-eyed about the Post's attributes, as well as the flaws that prevent it from reaching its potential on far too many days. "I think there are some really good writers here," he said in a recent interview ("Changing of the Guard," May 9). "I think our sports coverage is energetic and comprehensive and quite good, and there are places where our photography is strong. But overall, I want us to have a bolder presentation, be less predictable and formulaic. We want to elevate the writing and the quality of ideas; we want to be much more aggressive on local coverage and more dominant in the region."
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WALKERTON — Eleven-year-old Grace Tibbs is like most girls her age. She is quiet, smiles a lot, is active in 4-H even winning the Farmer's Exchange Outstanding 4-H'er award, participates on the spell bowl team at school, and enjoys spending time with her family and friends.
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The details of what happened to Grace last year are still vivid to Grace and her family. It is how her story began.
On May 26, 2012 Grace was at a 4-H Horse and Pony fun ride. The next day she played a soccer game. Later that afternoon she went to Greenwood, Ind. with her family to visit her grandparents.
While there she rode her grandfather's riding lawn mower and complained to her mother, Janet, that she felt tingly and had a headache. That night she crawled into bed with her parents. She was feeling slightly better in the morning.
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A Life Line helicopter was brought in to transfer Grace to Riley's Children's Hospital in Indianapolis. While on the helicopter, Grace remembers one of the staff members asking her if she wanted to look out the window. She did, and "it looked really cool." Then she fell back to sleep. Her parents had to drive to Riley's all the while waiting for their cell phone to ring with bad news from the helicopter. They arrived about 25 minutes after the helicopter.
The staff of Riley's performed emergency brain surgery to place a drain in Grace's brain to relieve the pressure, it lasted for five hours.
On May 30th Grace had her second surgery to remove not just one large tumor but also nine other tumors. This surgery lasted more than 17 hours. She was under 24-hour care, unable to set up or move without help. Grace had a third surgery lasting seven hours to remove an 11th tumor.
The staff at Riley's hospital offered Grace more than just medical care. Grace had with her Beary, a stuffed bear that her father had given her on her first Valentine's Day. Janet describes that after each surgery Beary would come back with Grace, with matching bandages.
On June 14 Grace and her family returned home. Their joy was short lived when complications occurred just a few days later. The family went back to Riley's for additional surgeries including vision surgery to correct double vision problems. So far Grace has had over 40 hours of surgery with one more vision surgery scheduled. She will need to have a yearly MRI to make sure the tumors do not return.
While at Riley's hospital, Grace was still thinking about her 4-H projects.
"4-H gave her something to fight for," Janet said. "She asked everyday if she was going to be able to show her animals and if she was going to
be able to ride her horse."
In July the Marshall County 4-H Fair began, and Grace was determined to be a part of it. She completed three livestock projects and five building projects, in a wheel chair. She was in the Riders with Disabilities class for horse and pony, and had some help showing her heifer, Missy. She was able to show her rabbits unassisted.
This year Grace is enrolled in seven 4-H projects including showing Missy again in the beef category. She will also show her horse, Turbo, in the Riders with Disabilities horse and pony category. She still has a lot of restriction on her riding but that does not stop her from doing everything that she can. Grace will also show her mini-lop rabbit, Easter.
Missy the heifer is Grace's favorite part of 4-H. Grace's describes Missy as, "calm and gentle. She just does whatever I want her to."
The pair will be going to the State Fair together as well.
Morgan Tibbs, Grace's nine-year-old sister, also participates in 4-H in the beef, horse and pony, and domestic short hair cat category. Morgan describes Grace's experience as "scary."
When she visited her sister at the hospital Morgan, "made up a crazy silly dance to make Grace laugh."
Even though Grace doesn't remember it, Janet remembers that Grace laughed at her sister's dance.
Amy Weiss, Grace's 4th grade teacher at North Liberty Elementary, organized a fundraiser for the Tibbs family.
Brad Tibbs, Grace's father, said, "It's amazing how the whole community has come out to support Grace. It's been neat to see the whole community come together."
"Everybody has been so supportive," Janet said. "Everybody wants to see Grace do well and succeed."
Grace plans on being a horse trainer or a doctor when she grows up. She also wants to write a children's book about her experience to help other kids going through similar things. Last year Grace won three awards in 4-H. One for each of the livestock categories she entered including best of breed for Easter, the mini-lop rabbit.
Brad and Janet both participated in 4-H and now enjoy sharing the experiences with their children.
Grace and Morgan also have a little brother, Lane who is four years old. The children help take care of all the animals with their parents' assistance.
Grace has remained dedicated to her 4-H projects and schoolwork through all the doctor visits. She has a positive outlook on life and loves the time spent with her family during 4-H season.
(This feature story was published in the July 8 edition of The Pilot News.)


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18,000 miles for 2011
Today was my last ride for 2011, and it just so happened to take me over the 18,000 mile mark for the year. I had originally thought I was going to be short of 18,000 miles, but I noticed after my ride on Monday that I was reasonably close to try and make it there by the end of the year. Also, I had 2,134,824 ft of climbing … that's the same elevation gain as climbing Mt Everest 73.5 times starting from sea level.
I also ended up winning the Strava climbing competition for December and for 2011.
83 miles of epic snow biking
Another amazing day of riding up here. This time I braved the snow-covered roads leaving the Telemark resort having gained confidence riding in the snow yesterday for a mile or so. It was well worth it to be in such a remote location on winding, hilly, beautiful roads and trails that pretty much paralleled the Birkie trail all the way to Hayward. If I had done the Seely fire tower climb, then I might have even crossed part of the trail. But, unfortunately, I had to turn around shortly into my ride because I had forgotten to upload the course to my Garmin. So, I turned around and headed back to meet Kristine just as she and the kids were driving out to head back to Shell Lake. Right there on the side of the Telemark entrance road, I connected my Garmin to the laptop and transferred the file. Then I set off again on what was an 83 mile, 5+ hour, mountain bike adventure.
I spent most of the morning with a good internet connection while the kids went skiing again with Kristine and Poppa Dale. I plotted out a course that would take me from Telemark back to the Cardwell house in Shell Lake over an hour away by car. The course took me onto 9 miles of untreated snow covered roads and trails behind Telemark that were just amazing and fun to ride. Spider Lake Fire Lane started out well packed from cars driving out to cabins along the road. But eventually, once I made it past the last cabin, the snow got really deep and loose since not very many cars had driven over it. Still, it was possible to go slow on the downhills with minimal fishtailing and then crush the uphills. I would imagine that my speed on some of the uphills was faster than the downhills. It's amazing what the extra traction of a spinning tire will do. Theoretically, I suppose you could hammer the downhills and achieve the same effect but the consequences of a fall at 30+mph make me choose the more saner option of riding the rear brake gently down the hill at a comfortable 10-15mph.
For those of you who have ridden through sand, but never ridden through snow, think of packed snow the same way you would think of packed/wet sand. Loose snow, however, is just like riding through loose sand with the same fishtailing effects. The only difference is that you are expecting the fishtailing in the sand, but not on the snow when it has been hard packed and suddenly transitions to loose or when you lose the car track you were following. Also, turning on the snow is tricky. On one downhill, I was running out of room for the turn and ended up all the way on the side of the road – but it was pretty heavily banked and I ended up sliding through the turn with my wheel still pointed off to the side. This got to me to a straighter section where I could straighten out the wheel.
I only had one bike problem on the ride, when I couldn't shift back into the big chainring. I spent a few minutes about an hour into my ride trying to figure out what was wrong and eventually just cranked the inside limiting screw until it would shift back up and that worked for the rest of the ride although I had quite a bit of chain rub on the front derailleur so that was a little annoying to have to put up with for four hours.
Here's the ride map and interactive data from Strava -
And here is the super hi-res topocreator map -
Finally, enjoy the pics and Garmin screenshots that I took on the ride –
Adventures riding in the cold northland
Wisconsin Divide, a set on Flickr.
We had an inch and a half of new snow last night so today's ride was again on the mountain bike. The snow is perfect depth and texture for good riding as I discovered today since the road to the ski resort was completely covered all the way back out to Co Rd M. In northern Wisconsin, all the county roads get treated with salt and plowed on a regular basis so they remain relatively snow and ice free even with temps in the teens. Today I was riding through puddles and wet roads on Co Rd M and Co Rd D even with the temperature hovering around 20 degF.
The ride highlight for the day was on Co Rd D where I unexpected came across this large sign indicating the Great Divide of Northern Wisconsin. On the other side of the divide, was a long downhill. The internet connection here at the hotel is really spotty so I am waiting to upload the ride to see if it was an actual categorized climb. If you are ever wondering what I think about on long bike rides, I spent about 10 minutes of the climb working out in my head the vertical gain needed over a particular distance for it to count as a Strava Cat 4. I think to hit the 3% threshold, you need 158.4 feet of climbing per mile – I worked this out in my head making for a good distraction as I was trying to push the pace realizing that it was probably going to be pretty dark by the time I made it back to the lodge.
I pushed the pace really hard over the top of the climb and all the way back across Co Rd D to Co Rd M. I hit M just after sunset with about 12 miles left to get back to the lodge. With a cloudy, overcast sky it was already pretty dark. I could see fine even without a light, but I had to rely on my bright green neon vest for visibility. I got passed by about five or six cars on the mostly deserted road, but the last car was a local sheriff who put on his lights and told me to get in the truck that I couldn't be out without a light. He was very nice and gave me a ride the last 3 miles back to the lodge. I apologized profusely for riding without a light as I had expected to be back well before sunset but had gotten delayed on my ride.
All in all, it was a great ride, and the pics at the top of this post are the ones I took along the way.
Yesterday, I did a shorter ride out/back on Co Rd M and also snapped a few pictures. Here they are on flickr enjoy!
Co Rd M – Mountain Bike, a set on Flickr.
Kicking off a winter adventure with an epic
I left Birmingham, Alabama yesterday at 6:30AM and a little over 32 hours later we arrived at the Telemark ski resort in Cable, WI. To get here from Alabama involved an epic 123 mile bike ride and over 1000 miles of driving. Kristine started about 6 hours behind me in the car and caught up to me just south of Faulkville, AL north of Cullman. I started out doing a normal climbing route through Rocky Ridge, Vestavia Hills, Homewood, and Birmingham before merging in Gate City with the route that I had tried out last week on my way up to Smoke Rise.
This time I wanted to try out more climbs on the same ridge as Smoke Rise and Skyball so I diverted my route near Kimberly to head up through Trafford towards AL-160 and all the climbs that start on 160 and climb up the ridge. I had intended to do 4 different climbs and 4 different descents off the ridge, but on the way over on ??? rd which turned into ??? rd I was chased by numerous dogs. I decided since I was also running a bit behind to skip one of the climbs and only ended up doing Graves Gap, Co Rd 45, and Skyball.
I'll let the pictures (and captions) tell the rest of the story. Clicking on a picture will take you to flickr where you can flip through all the pictures.
Trip to Wisconsin 2012, a set on Flickr.
Photos from trip to Wisconsin 2012
Trip to Wisconsin 2012, a set on Flickr.
Strava shootout, Rapha 500, and Diabolical climbing
Diabolical double oak climbing profile. Each red box represents a climb/hill of at least 0.25 miles long and average gradient >5%. Each blue box is a downhill at least 0.25 miles long and >5% gradient.
Yesterday was the first day of the Rapha 500 challenge (ride 500km Dec 23-31). I'm hoping to knock out all of it in just four days (85 miles yesterday, 93 miles today including a KOM on the BBL ride, 30-40 miles tomorrow, and 135 miles on Monday riding from Birmingham up to a spot near the interstate in Hartselle where Kristine will pick me up for the rest of our trip up to Wisconsin). Yesterday was also the day that I picked to put in my effort on this week's Strava KOM shootout climb – Oakdale. My friend Warren St John was back home visiting from New York, and we got in a good short climbing ride on Thursday ahead of a much longer, and more diabolical climbing ride on Friday (yesterday). Basically, I looked at the topo map and tried to direct us to wherever the contour lines were closest together (i.e., the steepest hills I could find). This was all on the way out to the Double Oak Way climb which is 3 miles long with gradients exceeding 20% in several places and maxing out at 25% in one spot. We didn't finish the Double Oak climb, however, because some hunters or Alabama power workers were at the gate and turned us around. That's ok, though, because it was still well over 11,000 ft of climbing packed into a difficult 85 miles.
Making the ride even harder, I did my max effort on the Oakdale KOM – 7'07" at an average heart rate of 179bpm towards the beginning of the ride. Here is my heartrate and strava-calculated power data for the climb –
Oakdale KOM heartrate, Strava calculated power, speed, and elevation Here is the link to an interactive version of the Strava data – http://app.strava.com/rides/2848502
And finally, here is the detailed topocreator map of the route.
Oakdale Double Oak lots of climbing
Alabama topography annotated
Click on the map for a huge (7.2MB) detailed annotated map with a few major Alabama mountains annotated.
When I was looking at the state map of Alabama that I had made using topocreator, I noticed how you can see that the Smoke Ridge climb is connected to Skyball from the Tour de Cullman. I was inspired to make maps for both my Sunday Adventure to Smoke Rise and also for the Tour de Cullman. Enjoy!
Topocreator map of the Smoke Rise route with major Alabama mountains annotated. Click the map for a medium version (2MB) or click this link for a really huge detailed version (16MB)
Tour de Cullman annotated mountains. Click the map for a medium version (3MB) or click this link for a really huge detailed version (12MB)


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|Mon, 08-30-2010 - 3:21pm
Ugh. I'm so mad at myself. I wish I had been more forceful this morning at my pap appointment.
My secret plan was to get an ultrasound and a script for a trigger.......I ended up seeing my nurse prac. instead of my beloved Dr.......
So I tell her about my all month long type cramping....she says it's age related.....yeah it stinks, etc., etc.......I can tell I'm not getting an ultrasound based on that....so I decide to be more upfront. I say.....you know on clomid.....you get more follies, but aren't your chances better with a trigger? Especially at my age? Can you just get a script for a trigger after you get a positive opk? (insert innocent look) or is it more involved than that? She says it's more involved...they'd probably want an ultrasound....so I say...."Oh....could you do that after a pos. opk, or is it a scheduled day sort of thing? (add another innocent look). She says they schedule it.......and didn't say much else. Then she says, "So let's cross our fingers!" Good bye. Ack!!!!!! Why didn't I say something else!!!!
Dang. Part of me is just resigned to hoping clomid on it's own does something this month and part of me wants to call my Dr. and talk to her directly. But I don't have much time....since today is CD9. Last month I O'd on CD12....don't know what to expect on clomid. Wouldn't I have to have an ultrasound pretty quickly to decide when to trigger? Like TODAY would have been nice. Dang it!!! But maybe if I wait to see when I O on clomid, I'd have a better idea of when to have an ultrasound next month? I don't know. I don't want to do clomid more than a few times....I don't want to waste a cycle. Dang!
Dee -- Homeschooling mom of 6 -- Forty-four and praying for 1 more!
|Tue, 08-31-2010 - 3:20pm
I remember my RE (who was one of the pioneers in IVF way back when) saying the purpose of the trigger was so that they could pin point when you would O was so that they could best time other interventions such as an IUI. >>>>
Really? That's interesting....it would be good. I thought that the trigger was supposed to make you O all of the mature follies.....
I'll ask my doctor tomorrow b/c she called back and is having me come in for an ultrasound. Yeah!!!! She didn't say anything about doing a trigger in her message, but at least I can talk to her about it tomorrow. Last cycle, I got a positive opk on cd11...which is tomorrow. So....if that happens this time, I might not have time to get a script and get the trigger anyway.....I either have to drive over an hour or have it express shipped overnight....not a lot of time to work with. Maybe clomid will delay my O...
At any rate, I'm dying to see what's going on in there! I'm very happy about that!
Dee -- Homeschooling mom of 6 -- Forty-four and praying for 1 more!
|Tue, 08-31-2010 - 2:25pm
I also didn't get symptoms until a few cycles... I was on it for 6 or 7 cycles... the last 3 or 4 were 150mg.. OMG... what a nut I was! Every side effect in the book started for me my 3rd cycle which was 100mg... OMG I shudder just thinking about those times! lol!
Just in case they decide not to pull out the big guns for ya just wanted to letcha know that you're still really on the right track. All the trigger does is pop out your biggest follies which isn't any different than what your body does already. I remember my RE (who was one of the pioneers in IVF way back when) saying the purpose of the trigger was so that they could pin point when you would O was so that they could best time other interventions such as an IUI. So should the talk with your Dr be a bust take a lil' comfort knowing that your chances this cycle are still really good with the Clomid doing the work to create a bunch of happy lil' eggies. :)
Best of luck!!
|Tue, 08-31-2010 - 2:04pm
I second Jasmine on the clomid effects. I was on it for 3 cycles, the the side effects/syptoms didn't show up for me until the 2nd or 3rd cycle. I was on 50mg the first time around and had no side effects then they uped it to 100mg for the last two...All I know is by the 3rd cycle (which did result in my BFP) I was seeing double, and had really bad hot flashes not to mention the CRAZY emotions.
I guess it won't hurt to ask for a trigger, accept I thought your ins. wouldn't pay for it? Either way it's good that you called your doc since you were expecting to see her instead of the NP. I know it must have been such a let down to think about it all week long and then get there and not even get to see your Dr, I think the office should have let you know that.
|Tue, 08-31-2010 - 1:17pm
I think I was on 100mg (is that the right measure? - it was 100 something!) daily. I remember thinking, hey this stuff is fine - what's the fuss - as I said, by the 3rd round I wanted to beat everyone up with a lot of rage! Maybe that was just frustration that it wasn't working and I blamed the drugs?!
AFM - just fine but anxious - my US is on Friday....just 3 sleeps away hurray! I don't feel much - just a little nauseous and dinnertime is a challenge each night. I am I guess a little worried as I don't feel much going on right now - at the beginning I was crampy and felt weird pulling, stretching etc. Now I just feel kind of tired and sometimes sick, and have a sore back from my graceful fall down the stairs! Need to see that heartbeat and then I will feel more secure :)
Hugs, Jasmine
|Tue, 08-31-2010 - 7:53am
That's interesting about the side effects, Jasmine. Did your dosage to up the 3 cycles you did it? Or was it just the cumulative effect?
If it were not for my temps being higher than normal, I wouldn't know I took it at all.
I don't want to do clomid for more than 2 or 3 cycles, max. Which is another reason that I finally decided to call yesterday. I figure if I'm only going to do this twice, I'd better use the big guns, kwim?
When are you doing an ultrasound, btw? How are you doing?
Dee -- Homeschooling mom of 6 -- Forty-four and praying for 1 more!
|Tue, 08-31-2010 - 2:26am
Hey Dee :) I am so sorry that nurse was not helpful to your cause at all.......I have never had the experience of not seeing my doctor at a doctor's appt. so can imagine how frustrated you must feel. I hope your doc. calls back and let's you get that ultrasound. I think perhaps the approach of being very upfront is a better strategy at this point. If you don't ask - you won't get the chance of Dr. saying yes - it seems like your doctor is pretty open to you and your goal of another baby......
As for the clomid, I am glad you are not feeling any side affects.....I didn't notice them until I was on maybe cycle 3 of it. For the first 2 I was wondering what the big fuss was....by cycle 3, I felt completely out of control with my emotions. I don't think this is everyone's experience for sure - I hope you get a BFP this cycle and never have to find out.
Okay, now go campaign for your trigger shot and let's get O'ing!
Good luck and hugs, Jasmine
|Mon, 08-30-2010 - 11:00pm
I finally got up the nerve and called the office back......I left a message and hopefully my Dr. will call me tomorrow....
A trigger shot is a shot of hcg to induce ovulation. I believe that it's supposed to help your body release all mature eggs....to give you a better chance.
I figure, at 44....the more eggies I get out there the better.
We'll see what she says.
Dee -- Homeschooling mom of 6 -- Forty-four and praying for 1 more!
|Mon, 08-30-2010 - 9:28pm
Hi Dee...
If I were you I would call to talk to my doctor...Tell her you were talking to the nurse prac and you think you'd like to do an u/s and etc......she won't be able to see your innocent face look but maybe you could sniffle or something lol!! :)...I mean the worst thing she could say is no right??
Oh and what's a trigger?
Good luck!


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