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Basically, the movie is about Sam Lowry who’s in a dead-end job but lives in a futuristic world with an over-reliance on machines and technology. The film has the look of Time Bandits, the feel of 1984, at times, and mixed with the humor of Monty Python all against the backdrop Blade Runner and Bioshock combined.

Favorite line in the movie (there’s so many it’s really hard to choose): “Computers are my forte”

What’s a sniglet???

Sniglets are funny made-up words/definitions for those things in life that just don’t seem to have any “official” terminology. The world of infertility provides lots of hilarious inspiration.

In this first section are sniglets that refer to the period of time we are currently in, “Post Transfer”

*****This is the stage we’re in*********

Psycho-symptom-atic Syndrome - a psychosomatic condition afflicting women during the two-week waiting period; marked by a tendency to incorrectly attribute every bodily twinge and twitch to the early stages of pregnancy.

Hindsight - looking back to see what is happening as you get your shot in the ass!

Metrodinner - the evening meal preceded by a shot in the tush.

Pergna-tory - the two-week, in-between waiting time

Laying the PIPE DREAMS - the vain hope that if you just relax and enjoy the ride you might actually get pregnant.

Buttcushion - where you store your fertility shot needles.

Hormotional - easily rattled emotional state brought on by hormone surges; especially symptomatic of women on fertility drugs.

Hormonophobia - dread fear of saying the wrong thing to your wife when she is on fertility drugs.

Inferguilty - how you feel when you’re having a bad day and you read someone’s post announcing their pregnancy and you are overcome with the urge to kill them.

Multiple Dwarf Syndrome - a state caused by the ups and downs of fertility treatments, characterized by describing oneself as some combination of grumpy, sleepy, dopey, bashful, etc; especially effective descriptor if you include what we like to call the “alternative dwarves,” such as horny, bitchy, barfy, crampy, etc.

Prince Charming (or Hubble without a Choice) - the name for a sweet husband who is infinitely patient and kind while you have Multiple Dwarf Syndrome.

Punjab - Cracking jokes to take your wife’s mind off the fact that you are about to give her a shot.

Pokejoy - The imagined glee wives think that husbands get from sticking them in the butt with a needle.

Darts - the art of throwing a lethal weapon in the general direction of your darling wife’s rear end with your eyes half closed from sleep and hoping that you hit the bull’s (or should I say cow’s?) eye.

Pokeher - a game much like darts, only it involves a little more thought and it appears to be a little less random.

Shotting the Breeze - a game of darts or pokeher where Bec (aka “a breeze”) is the target.

Flying buttress - an architectural feature, consisting of an elaborate constuct of cushions and pillows designed to maintain the would-be mother’s posterior in the optimum position for playing darts or pokeher.

Pregtember - name of the month you hope to be pregnant by.

Fanta-sizing - Dreaming what you would look like nine months pregnant.

******This next section of sniglets cover a wide range of stages and types of infertility other couples go through, hope you enjoy!*******

Cruisin’ for a bruisin’ - driving one hour each way in rush-hour traffic to have blood drawn by a technician who’s blind in one eye and has arthritis in both hands.

Naturalism - the pathetic belief that any egg produced when your doctor wasn’t expecting it (e.g. not induced by HCG, not induced by fertility drugs, etc.) is miraculously more fertile than the rest, as though somehow your medical care is specifically causing your infertility. (Also known as “A watched egg never fertilizes syndrome”.)

Pregsplotion - the sudden abundance of pregnant women in your vicinity within hours of your negative pregnancy test.

Furrtility - when your cat gets pregnant before you.

Multiplous avoidus - the act of reminding the nurses yet again (!) to avoid the “infertility” diagnosis on insurance forms.

Day-one-dering - wondering why oh why you have to deal with “day one”, yet again!

Misconception - the pathetic belief that you might actually manage to conceive naturally the month before a laparoscopy.

Missedconception - the pathetic belief that you actually would have conceived if you and your partner hadn’t avoided sex in spite of being toooo tired or not in the mood.

Mythconceptions - what happened on Mad About You and any urban folklore about people who got pregnant on vacation, after they adopted, etc.

Preconception - the insane belief that you will get pregnant before you have to do IVF.

Preconceived notion - the idea (before trying to get pregnant) that one will get pregnant within a month or two, three at the most.

Pitspermitis - the crick in your armpit which arises from carrying that plastic bottle of semen from home to the clinic.

Preggozone - the magnetic area around all infertile women that draws expectant mothers into close viewing range; the first day of any cycle has the greatest magnetic field, closely followed by any day on which an infertile womans fails a pregnancy test.

Pregnorance - the inevitable brain shrinkage that occurs in pregnant women making them seem less intelligent.

Pregnesia - the way pregnant women forget everything, sometimes even the fact that they were infertile.

Snow White Complex - the mental state following your careful examination of white undies and panty liners for indications of mucus or menstrual flow; any hint of red on white or confusing mucus signs gives you the absolute right to take on any or all of the emotions in the Multiple Dwarf Syndrome.

Joe Pesci Syndrome - the overwhelming urge (which occurs around day 12 of a IVF cycle) to attack someone rude with a pen, pencil, or whatever’s handy.

Reverse Pharmacology - taking Birth Control Pills in the month before your IVF.

Ticklesticles - extremely ticklish testicles!

Miss Mannerism - the habit, when people ask you nosy questions about when you’re going to get pregnant or make rude comments like “want my kids?” of looking a combination of shocked and puzzled and saying something like, “Why ever would you say such a thing?”

Wining and complaining - drinking LOTS of red wine while whining about another negative pregnancy test

Regarding our embryos Tim and I had this discussion:

J: Thanks, I’m putting my money on the one that’s way ahead of the others! It’s like the Arnold Schwarzenegger of the bunch. But it could also turn out to be the Danny DeVito one, but that’s ok! All we want is a healthy baby.

T: That’s all we want as well. How about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s muscles and Danny DeVito’s acting ability?

J:Yeah and he could look like this

On Tuesday 7/15/2008 six embryos were transferred to Jane.  For more information click on the link below:

Jane and Darryl’s Embryos

They did the mash, they did the monster mash, the monster mash….