I was pointed towards an app called which is for people that are TTC (trying to conceive) – there a bunch of different ones, but this fit my bill. So I thought, okay, sure, whatever. Maybe now my super long period won’t shock me. This app is for people that are paying SERIOUS attention. The number of “daily log” questions felt overwhelming. I wasn’t going to put in my basal body temperature or a lot of those things – I’m not going to say “No/Yes” for whether or not I took an ovulation test every day. COME ON. So I immediately uninstalled it and found something else simpler to use. A few days later, I was feeling super cranky. The kind of cranky that doesn’t get better – everything just gets worse. I’d feel distracted and less grouchy, then something would get me all screwed up again. I thought “I’m going to log this because I’m SO cranky” – and when I went to my lame-ass-new-app it didn’t even HAVE a spot to put in what level of cranky you are. Well, FINE. Okay, so here I go again reinstalling the original app.

So, do you have to log it every day? Nah. But it’s there when you need it.

In fact, one morning I woke up and something was different. I suddenly wondered where all those boys were that told me how cute I was recently.  I was totally distracted all day – boys, boys, boys. My app sent me a little notification “you are ovulating today!” Okay, app, you can stay.

The good news is that this feeling really only lasted a few days and I was able to get back to my regularly scheduled programming of normal life. But tracking your period is kind of interesting – you become far more aware of things instead of just checking your pack of pills every so often and being like “oh, right, period coming up, good to know.” Of course, I’m sure that 3 day period thing will still be something I miss when it rolls around au natural.