tye - there are many of us in the same 'predicament' so you've come to the right place! Feel free to read thru our "coreporate profiles" and post one yourself so we can get to know you better!
Vickie - hope your shopping trip is turning out great...and you can swim in your pool soon (without your hair turning colors!).
Wendy - good luck with the 2 additional kids - I can't believe they would do that without investigating? How long with they be with you? How are they feeling about this?
I had always heard about the hair thing - and I also have blonde highlights but luckily so far have never had a problem in chlorinated water!
Kathy - did you find Shaun? Is he still alive?
I sure hope you make him clean up his own mess!
Sandra - I'm glad you came home to hot tub w/Curtis - keep him busy and as happy as possible! Good luck tomorrow - so you can't eat anything today? Are you starving?
Niki - I agree that pm sounds best - no need to stress everyone out in the morning (reminds me of some of those supernanny episodes I have seen!).
Thanks for the excellent articles - I am a obsessive weigher and need to keep it in perspective!
Saundra - hope you are not working too hard - just think of it as more fun money to spend on yourself!
Melissa - okay you need to have more than water for breakfast? What's up with that? Are you taking those prenatal vitamins as directed? (Yes 'auntie froufie' is now after you! ha ha ha).
Paula - hope you are having a nice nap right about now (I could sure use one too!).
Which of course means no I did not get much good quality sleep last night - first dh hopping up and down everytime dd put the hall light on - and big ds had friends over after the hockey game so front door opening and closing. I had fallen asleep but w/dh 'monitoring' every activity I couldn't help but wake up.
But the worst is my left neck/shoulder - guess when I actually did sleep I slept funny so I now have shooting pains thru my shoulder neck area and can barely turn my head to the left (makes for fun driving when you're trying to shoulder check!). I had to go down to the drugstore to get more ES advil (no moe in my desk!)...and picked up a pill splitter and some chewable fibre supplements (for that other 'problem' I'm having - a side effect of the diuretics I think? I did not DARE weigh myself this morning!
). Not sure if I shall make it to the gym - unless I go and just do lower body stuff and not use my arms/neck?
Actually no - the worst is my staff member who recently came into my office and shut the door (you know when the door closes it's always bad news?) to inform me she has accepted another position (congratulations I say - smiling on the outside but you can bet inside I AM NOT SMILING!) and may be gone as early as mid-july (which is like in 3 weeks?). THIS IS NOT GOOD - I am trying to arrange a meeting w/my Director to see what has to be done. I may have one person who is interested and will try and get in touch with her today (do you ever get the feeling you should have stayed home instead of coming in to work?).
And it seems like my toronto gf has decided NOT to cruise with us (she even mentioned being like a 3rd wheel!). She is going to Disney w/her dh and dd end of August and this would be too soon and too much $$ - says she will look for xmas holiday cruise instead!
Last week of school for both ds and dd (who is now into exams and quite cranky). Ds is in a play friday aft so I shall leave work early (he is the grandfather in Peter and the Wolf!). Then we have his (early) birthday party on sat (bowling party for school friends - his real bday is end of July and no one is ever around then!).
Told dh to pick up some fresh fish for dinner - getting tired of chicken all the time!
Frouf
sorry about the worker leaving so soon. i'm not talking dirty here--but do you have a vibrator? i have one that has heat that we use for neck/shoulder pains. also heating pads might help relieve some of the stress. 
just found this smiley and had to show it to you. i know you've been practicing, but have you taken any tests yet?
