Code Talkers

"Code Talkers"... don't know why I was thinking about this topic so much lately... But as I was walking the dog one day and pondering what gentle wording to use during a "reestablishing baby care guidelines..." talk with my Mother-in-Law (more on that topic another time) - I actually used the words "my MIL" in my head when thinking of her (not to be confused with her name, that coincidentally starts with the same 3 letters...).

anywayz - being a tech geekess I thought my work world in general was filled with enough codes or acronyms: WYSIWYG, GUI, TCP/IP, lan, ram, rom, smtp... and LOL, IMHO in the chat rooms... and so on. Then one day we "decided" to have a baby and as I always enjoy doing web research my current topics of interest, I started to explore conception and baby related chat rooms and bulletin boards. I was overwhelmed by the "code talkers" I found there... And of course as a "newbie" you want to play along properly but also don't want to get flamed by the regulars for asking simple or stupid "uh, what's that?" questions. So I had to jump in and learn the lingo by the seat of my pants or on the fly (which was also much like my experiences as a Jr geek wanna-bee learning about computers and technology).

here's a rough example of the baby related code talking:
so when DH and I were TTC I started charting my BBT and using OPKs. Sometimes if the combination of methods showed I was near OV, I would go home on lunch hour so we could BD. Eventually I got the timing right (or we got lucky) and I was PG with DS... but now since DH and I both need to WOTH, and I want to BF for as long as possible, I have to EBM during the day and then DS RC BFs. And since I can't be a SAHM like I wanted, thankfully my MIL is my daycare person!