I, personally, have no issue with WM, but it seems as though your experience and beliefs have led you to make a decision, which is great! I believe you can find, along with using coupons and shopping sales, equivalent prices at grocery stores, drug stores and dollar stores. A good friend just told me about http://www.couponmom.com. It is a FREE "grocery game" style website. You match coupons to store sales to get good prices on the things you need. It may work on a stock-piling system (meaning you buy a lot of certain things now and use them over time so you aren't buying that item as frequently). I haven't actually explored the site, but my friend seemed impressed - she's more into grocery gaming than I am. But, it might be worth checking out!

Who am I to judge? I ate oatmeal cookies for breakfast yesterday! (Just finished a nice PB&J lunch with the fam - now, it's nap time for the little ones!)

I'm a nurse (bee), too! Yeah, SWB is the only Queen Bee. I guess if you research, write, and publish as much, get as much (well-deserved) acclaim, and build up your own forum board, you can bee the Queen, too! But we can all strive to be "practically SWB"! Hey, I'm just happy I hit 100 in the few weeks I've been here!

I'm probably not much use since I'm pretty chatty myself. Good luck with your chatty child!

Just be careful! Change out of your suit and shower right after you get out of the water. Don't go in if you have any open wounds. And don't drink the water - on the rare occasions I brave the lake, I don't let my face get anywhere near the water. I'm a bit OCD about lake swimming, too.

I love Firefox - and if I need to watch a Netflix (view instantly) movie, I can just open an IE tab in Firefox. Firefox is so versatile!

The northeast Georgia mountains! Love it here!

Good luck finding the owner! Do you think it might have a dog chip beneath its skin?

Cheese - makes everything better. Also, I beat in some heavy whipping cream to make them thicker. Yum.

That is sweet...

I had no idea! That is so sad.

Bugs or something? Go to wikipedia - that's where I find answers to everything!

I'm sorry about your van problems... where will kitties go to play, now?

What is your avatar/profile photo? Does it have a particular meaning to you? Mine is a picture of me when I was 3 years old, vacationing at Daytona Beach, FL with my mom and dad. I've always liked that picture, so I decided to use it.

Are you getting A LOT of emails per day? The same thing happened to my mom (she's on some file sharing groups that send her hundreds of mails a day) and her yahoo mail account kept crashing. She eventually closed it.

Love, love, love the B-52's!

Jenny, Were you in Athens or Atlanta? I saw many of those same bands. Grew up in Atlanta.

Oh! Bruce Hornsby - Mandolin Rain.... I need to put that on my mp3 player. Martika - Love Thy Will Be Done

I give rep if someone begs... LOL! :lol:

Yeah... I totally posted before I read the entire thread. That's just me... chomping at the bit for a little bit of rep! :lol:

Me...and I'll return the favor, if you're not all tapped out! :lol:

What an amazing story! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks! After I showed him the site, my husband played various games on that site for 2 hours! :D

I say, stay at the hotel - explain that you really think it's for the best, both for your family and your health reasons. But also tell your SIL that you would still love to see her newly remodeled room - and once you do, go absolutely gaa-gaa over it. That way, she'll get to show off her new room, she'll get praise for it, and you'll be happy and comfortable in your hotel! :001_smile:

I'm a TOTAL Pixar fan! In this order: Monsters, Inc. Ratatouille Toy Story (which we're watching right now) The Incredibles Finding Nemo Wall-E Cars Bug's Life Toy Story 2 I also love the Pixar shorts - especially For the Birds.