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Thanks again for all the encouragement! Everything is wrapped up now.  As mentioned already, the rest of the stair treads showed up, and the blinds guy finally came and put up the right color shades. The lampshade was a continuing hassle, with the company telling me the shade is "on the truck"...

My favorite is a veggie pizza with anchovies. I also love black olives and green olives together on pizza. Can you tell I like my pizza a little salty?   Most pizza places are just okay. Really unless it's over or undercooked, it's difficult to mess up a pizza if decent ingredients are used...

I've never seen toys that dispense food, but I don't look specifically for them. The fact that there are "a million of them out there"  like this one doesn't change my opinion, though. Our cats would start expecting treats along with the play if I introduced something like that.

I wish. Our daughter has always been a very social animal, and being an only kid it just wouldn't have worked for us. Her schools were not that great, either, there were some good teachers but mostly not. She's in grade 12 now and we are still tutoring her (precalc at the moment) because she's...

This just seems like a bad idea to me. I play with the cats so they have exercise (also they make me laugh) and eating is not a part of it.  It's like nibbling on candy bars while doing pilates, lol.

Fog is so beautiful! We used to live by the shore and you could always tell when it was Fall because of the fog rolling in from the water. I'll never forget walking home from the store one day with my daughter (she was little, I think around 5) and we rounded a corner and saw what looked like a...

This is the only potato salad I ever make. The first list is reunion-sized recipe, so I've also included the smaller family-sized recipe. 4th of July Potato Salad (1885) originally from Waynelll Duderstadt, Weesatche, Texas 10 pounds brown russet potatoes, boiled slowly with skins on 2 cups...

I don't know #1 or #3. I think that might be a good thing. My least favorite is "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." It seems belittling somehow, trivialized, like if you ask someone "How's your little job?" or "I heard you started a little business" or "Are you enjoying your little...

OMG! That video is crazy! The crocodile keeps trying to chomp the leopard's head, but leopard is amazing! What a beautiful cat. Our kitty Sparkle has always been a great hunter. When she used to go outdoors, we would find poor dead mice and rats by the back door all the time. As an indoor cat...

You know, I've always heard that and was surprised to find that magnets work on all the stainless steel appliances in our new kitchen. They stick to the dishwasher too, which I'm happy about because we need one of those clean dishes / dirty dishes magnets for it. We have 3 little silver magnets...

We have just one TV, in the living room. We don't have cable but we use it for games and watching dvds. It's never just running because you really have to have a reason to sit down and turn everything on. I like to watch old movies sometimes while I'm sewing or cooking, but I've been using an...

Geez, you mean moved? That seems like a pretty major thing to find out on social media.   Maybe they're just on a vacation? My daughter is 17, but once she's in college I'm sure I'll find out all kinds of things about her over facebook.   

I love clear lights for our Christmas tree, but we always seem to add another color for some reason. White and red lights together is my favorite combo, but we have done some snow-and-ice themed trees so we usually use white and pale blue lights for that. Multicolor lights are beautiful, too...

I don't see anything wrong with gifting them - I guess it's not technically re-gifting since you bought them for yourself. Just make sure they don't have a year printed on the front 'cause that would be awkward. An angel ornament is a very nice gift. 

Our honeymoon was the best vacation.

I don't like the noise, but otherwise not a problem. I've always been the one to have the tools - it was funny when a tradesperson asked to borrow something from "your husband's toolbox." We have a workshop now with a sawhorse so that's going to make small house repairs a lot easier to do.

I can't eat burnt foods, or blackened in any way, I can't handle the smell of them, either. The smell of burnt toast will put me off of food for hours. I also don't like a lot of sauces, aiolis, melted cheeses, runny eggs, goopy stuff all over the plate. I don't really care for bread, especially...

Window treatment guy never showed up! He called about 2 hours after he was supposed to be here, and said he'll call Saturday morning to reschedule, "When I have my calendar in front of me," but he never called. I picked that company in part, because they are members of the BBB, looks like that...

You've already received some great advice, but I want to give you a hug.  I think most of us have been where you are, sometime in our lives. You sound completely overwhelmed, I'm so sorry. You know how the safety announcement in airplanes where they tell us to put the oxygen on ourselves...

I like to use the oven a lot in the Fall and Winter for roasts and roasted vegetables, beans and other legumes, and pies (or crisps, cobblers), mainly because it helps warm up the house.  It's pretty chilly here 9-10 months out of the year, and I cook 5-6 nights a week so my list is of meals is...