What do gyms and house buying have in common?

Looking back at some of the later posts I have twice left a hint of 'watch this space' or words to that effect. One was to do with the Little Man and New Year resolutions and the second was with regards to pregnancies/babies etc. Now this got me thinking, firstly I need to update - in my opinion there is nothing more annoying than reading something that indicates an update will occur sometime in the future and it never happens and the realisation that life, even when it is just bobbing along, takes you along paths you just never expected and you never even noticed until time was taken to stop and reflect.
Since Mid February I have been taking full advantage of one of the local Sure Start Centres who offered Socatots for an hour one morning a week. If I am to be totally honest, I couldn't see it being my cup of tea. Once every four(?) years I do muster some enthusiasm for the World Cup but that is pretty much it for me and football. When I enrolled the Little Man for the six week course PM looked aghast and begged that he is never asked to take Little Man along (a man not liking football is a rare and beautiful gift to a woman, I treasure it!) I am happy to update that the Little Chap loves his weekly Socatots and is a very lively and energetic member of the class. We have completed two half terms and all looks promising for a future of back garden football. Even I have learnt something - the warm up song and dance and I think that is where my football skills should safely stay.
Which brings me onto my next 'update'. Just to make it clear from the start there is currently no baby, no pregnancy. The situation is unchanged. This is new territory for me as in my previous history I have had three pregnancies though only one has made it to full term, Little Man. Each time it seemed very easy to fall pregnant, I was lucky. This time however, things are very different. Keeping the details to a basic outline, November and December 2009 we 'threw caution to the wind' just to see what happened. Nothing. January 2010 a little research was done and for the first time in my life I started to become more aware of what actually happens to the female body throughout the monthly cycle. I still sit back and wonder at how well over 20 years of my life passed and I did not notice what was going on in my body or question any of the things that happened/appeared. I just assumed it was probably OK and carried on with life. Oh how different things are now. I cannot have a slight twinge, ache or niggle without wondering 'is it this, could it be that, should I be looking for signs of...' I can certainly say that I preferred life when I wasn't so self aware of the reproductive system! February 2010 and I became a woman on a mission. I invested in ovulation kits (nope, I had never heard of them either until I started researching) and the next two months I was completely absorbed by peeing on sticks for blues lines - and you get through a lot of sticks - just find out when and if I ovulated. By the end of March I had convinced myself I was pregnant, I was so tired all the time, constipated and 'late'. Fairly classic signs. When I did a pregnancy test I just did not believe that it said negative. The next day another test with another negative. The next day, oh, a late period. Constipation, I have suffered on and off all my life so it was another particularly bad phase. Tired, far too many late nights spend looking up pregnancy related topics on the Internet! April 2010, this is when I realised I am my own worst enemy! I know I am getting rather old for all this reproduction stuff and the statistics of getting pregnant and carrying a baby to full term are dramatically reducing as the months go by but this doesn't mean I want to give up trying, but what I also want is my sanity back. The last few months I have worked myself into an over emotional, highly strung and very stressed person. They say stress is not good when trying to get pregnant and to avoid it - easier said than done when the biological clock is ticking, ask any woman who has been trying for a long time. I know I should go to a doctor for a check up to make sure all is well in all the right places but what I want first is to get me back on track. So, to do this I have made two huge decisions. Firstly, I have joined a gym to do some good old cardio-vascular workout and a weekly yoga class (yoga is said to be good when trying for a baby as it gets you 'in the right place' wherever that may be). Secondly, PM and I have had a long chat and it was agreed that to make me a nicer person to come home too (his words and I do have to agree) I needed a project. We decided to sell the house and buy a new one somewhere else! They say that moving house is in the top five of the most stressful things to go through but at the moment I am starting to feel like me again, I have a focus which brings an energy back to my life that I had started to miss. So between house viewings and yoga classes could I have found the remedy assist with getting pregnant? I doubt it but as I said once before.... 'watch this space'!