Drinking and Heartbeats

First, happy repeal of of the Volstead Act (80th anniversary today...imagine how wasted this country was 80 years ago today).  Unfortunately, I'm at home suffering from the remnants of a nasty cold (likely picked up on Black Friday), which is a double shame because I finally have the perfect 1930s-style evening dress.  I swear I'll go out next year, especially since it'll be on a weekend.

I have my own personal reason to get wasted tonight, which I'm doing at home.  The standard vodka and a mixer tonight.  My damn uterus has been desperate to get pregnant for years now, and this time I really thought it had succeeded.  After all, I was supposed to start bleeding on Saturday.  However, the pee stick said no (I always use First Response, this time splurging for the digital display so there;s no way I'd be confused).  Last week was the shittiest week I've had in years, and Sunday and Monday saw me flat on my back thanks to this damn cold.  Sometimes, it just takes me getting wasted as fuck to start bleeding.  One memorable pregnancy scare happened in New York, which was understandable because at the end of that week, I was going to my friend's shotgun wedding.  The night before I finally started, I was so wasted that I engaged in my first act of public urination since I was tiny.  Happened at the edge of Central Park on the UES edge (I'm classy like that).  Then, in the morning, I noticed some blood, and by the time I got to the airport by midday, I was changing my tampon like normal.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still going to take a second test in the am, just in case 6 hours wasn't enough of a wait for the hCG hormone.  Either way, the booze won't do my womb harm because I'm just going to have an abortion.  I do want kids someday, but I can't financially afford to be a single mom at the moment.  These days, unless you're in a serious, committed relationship, you shouldn't expect your partner to help raise their offspring.  The important part about abortion is to keep tabs on when you have sex and when you are supposed to ovulate and when you're supposed to bleed.  After you can detect hCG through a home pregnancy test, you have a whole month to get an abortion before a heartbeat even develops and you can get the abortion pill, which is a lot less scary/invasive/risky than the other abortion treatments out there.  The way I see it, if we use a heartbeat to measure whether or not a human is alive, then why not use it for a fetus?

Anyways, back to focusing on drinking...and watching Carrie Underwood in The Sound of Music.