The stair-step effect

Ok, so FF still says that O day was day 14....but if you'll notice, my crosshairs are dotted, which they say is because the CM and the temperatures aren't coinciding.  I am totally mystified by the fact that I've had the same temperature for 2 days in a row 3 times in a row.  And this is the 4th time this cycle that I've had the exact same temp for 2 consecutive days.  My chart looks like a staircase! That is so weird!  Grouper and I did the deed in the early morning of day 15 (based on me listening to the signs my body was giving me) and the late night of day 16, and we're planning to do it again tonight.  I, by the way, hate having to "schedule" sex....I'm so over all of that.

Anyway, I checked the chart gallery on FF and I found only one chart that is like mine that resulted in pregnancy.  I would lie if I said that my hopes aren't majorly dashed, but I am keeping my fingers crossed that I have a temp spike tomorrow and that my crosshairs move and become a solid line.  :)

Wait, wait, wait

Chart

Still no sure signs of AF.  It should have showed up yesterday or sometime today.  Yesterday my temp was really high (but Grouper was gone on business, and when he's gone, I sleep with the ceiling fan OFF), and today, since he's home, the ceiling fan was ON and I woke up half out of the covers, and my temp dropped a degree and a half.

My chesticles (yes I really call them that, so what?) have been bigger since yesterday and I have been having some soreness under my armpits, which was the first thing I noticed when I was pregnant before.  Other than that, not too much to report.

I am planning to test again tomorrow morning if nothing has happened yet.....I want to think there's still hope for us this cycle, but I'm afraid to get too excited.

So I'm just waiting.

Am I alive?

I bought this thermometer last weekend and I've been trying to take my temperature and try my hand at this charting thing.

There's a problem, though.  Most of what I've read has suggested that the best time to take your temperature for charting purposes is first thing in the morning.  I have done that for the past three mornings, and my temperature has been in the high 95's or the low 96's. 

Isn't that really REALLY low?  When I take it later on in the day, or right before bed in some cases, it's in the 97's or right at normal.

So, is the thermometer broken, or is it the operator? 

What kind of thermometers do those of you who are charting use?