The first clue was getting sick yesterday morning while I tried to eat an english muffin. But we refluxive types occasionally find that even if we’re hungry, we can’t eat anything at right at the moment.

Still, it was enough to make me think, “It’s early…but maybe I should test.”

That thought led a ridiculously faint line on a dollar store pregnancy test yesterday morning. So faint that I didn’t even torture Jill by making her squint at it, although I did engage in that torture with some fellow obsessors on a TTC message board I frequent. They saw it, but agreed with me that testing again with a different brand would be reassuring.

Then I went to lunch.

One of my colleagues and I ventured out to Mama Fu’s, a mid-sized “Asian Fusion” semi-fast-food chain, where I had the most delicious meal EVER.

Something tells me that in the world of objective taste buds, that might not be true.

I’m sure it was genuinely good — but probably not as good as it tasted to me. Especially since last time, I became so enamored with the ranch dressing out of a 5 gallon jug at a bar, that I made Jill AND the random guy sharing our table try it. (They thought it tasted like standard bar ranch dressing.)

So lunch was the next clue.

Another test, this time on a mainstream brand, revealed a faint but distinct line. I wasn’t imagining it!

This morning, the follow up test is darker. And I’m feeling nauseated. I can’t remember ever being so excited about feeling sick.

The other thing that is incredibly exciting is that I’m apparently going to have a ton of company on this crazy adventure! Cali, and Jen & Cait, and K’s DP also got positive pregnancy tests this week! We are all anxiously hoping that Chicory and Hope & Megan will be joining us.

Of course it is super-early for all of this. Any number of things happen during the first trimester. But I am just not the “able to sit on big news like this” type. (Heh. You’re shocked, I know.)

I’m scheduled for a beta (blood test) on Wednesday (15DPO), which will be the start of having a lot more information.

Hopefully within a week of the beta, there will also be an u/s to confirm the presence of just one itty bitty little being growing in there. (A concern, particularly since there were 2 very promising follicles at my last u/s.) Whiz-bang, those two appointments should take care of my insurance deductible, probably before I even get the 2008 insurance card.

While Jill and our families are trying to stay in the “cautiously optimistic” camp this early, I find that as much as I’d like to, I just can’t. I’ve already lost my head, so let me close with this:

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! I’M PREGNANT!