Wow Benita-those are some great ideas! I had considered the idea of sectioning off the bed with some kind of divider. I like the idea of hanging something. That way if I ever have company over they're not looking at my bed. I mean, how weird would it be to feel like you're having dinner in your hostess's bedroom?

I think that's one idea I'm definitely going to go with! Thanks again Benita!

That is a really good idea. Plus, like I said, I know you don't make your bed. I distinctly remember you telling me I couldn't be your friend anymore because I made mine.

Just wanted to point out also that I never heard back from Legal Net. That's REALLY strange since both other times they have answered within several hours. Tomorrow will have been 7 calendar days. They say to give them 7 WORKING days. Remember that tomorrow is the day I had the "feeling" about. If you were me, would you e-mail them again tomorrow?

I would email them again. Maybe they are making a decision and are waiting until they have it made to email you back. Have you talked to Laurel about any of this stuff lately?

Hola muchachas.... I have been tied up in a court hearing with CPS


Benita... I love those Ideas So creative. Hey how are you and Alex doing?

Charity... That man of yours is a keeper Look at him being all sneaky with the gifts

Melissa... I am the same way... I hate making my bed... you'll have to be in it that evening so why bother

Charity... That man of yours is a keeper Look at him being all sneaky with the gifts

Well I must say he did pretty good. I was pleasantly surprised. I don't make my bed either. I just happened to do it that day. Javier gets up after I do and I don't have time to go back and make it. He said he would but I have only seen him do it on the weekends. He has yet to do it through the week. I have the same philosophy as you, you're just going to crawl back in it in a couple of hours, so why bother.

Okay I don't know about the rest of you all but this quote and reply thing is really confusing me. Can someone please enlighten me to the new process?

Ok so far on the e-mailing tomorrow

One yes and one (or did that count as two??)

Hi girls. Sticking my head in to get more posts. Almost platinum. So Hi

Hello! Good luck with your posting!

Good luck Ameristralian! I hope you reach platinum soon!

Bling bling! 30 more or so.

Okay so can anyone enlighten me as to how to use this new quote, reply system? Every time I try to quote someone it ends up quoting the wrong thing and I have no idea what the reply option does. I feel like an idiot.

Dont know either so please someone enlighten us with your quote - reply knowledge

I don't know all the intricacies but if you click Quote then Reply right next to it, it will have the quoted text in the field where you type your reply. You can then alter it, or type above/below it.

Well I just used the reply option so let's see what it does.

I think someone asked about Laurel, but I don't remember. Anyway, we haven't talked in a while. Since January I think. I haven't been to her chat for 3 weeks and we haven't really had anything to talk about. I e-mailed her yesterday just to see if she had heard anything and she hadn't. So that's it really.

Yeah I'm not sure what the deal is with quote...when you hit reply alone, it quotes for you. LIke this one. Just remember to click the reply button on the bottom of the post not the top, unlike the old forum.

Yes, I think that is were I was getting confused. I was still clicking the ones at the top and quoting the wrong person. Maybe I have it figured out now.

I need a dolly! And I can't find one....

Okay that took me a minute. I was wondering why you needed a play toy. It's been a long day. I don't know where you could get a dolly. That would be a hard one to track down.

Melissa I would definitely send an email! Sorry guys I havent had time to come on today. went to work till eleven and then went to the Dr. Still not going to release me and finally decided he wants an mri done! how crazy its been over a month and a half and is just now ordering this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bloody hell 10 more posts.

.... boy it has been a long day for me too.... I was thinking (elvia's dirty little mind...) Why in the world would she post this on a public forum... I mean I know that it is lonely at times.... (then I reread the post and got it...) I am still thinking dirty though


I'm still laughing.... I can't take it..... LOL and all the other laughing on the floor in the chair in the couch in the bathroom....(okay well maybe not that far) but I'm still laughing.... someone HELP ME PLEASE!!!!

Try Home Depot or UHaul, I know they both rent them. You might try Lowes too, my guess is they would have them too. Hopefully you have one of these around you. Even if it's a small Uhaul rental place, they might have them, I think you can look them up on the Internet and find ones close to you, that'd probably be your best bet.

I can't take this anymore.... my eyes are watering and the person that just walked by my office is all like "what the hell is wrong with you and why are you laughing so hard"

hi ladies, thanks for all of your support. i'm glad to hear that everyone had a great valentines. melissa congrats on your new apartment! charity, luis is from puebla city, puebla mexico (that's how it is written on his birth certificate.) i guess there's like the city of puebla and then puebla as a whole? anyways, thanks for answering my question. i just wanted to check in and wish everyone a good evening. i need to take my daughter to cheerleading practice. ta ta for now!

Yea, it's Puebla City, Puebla. Just like New York, New York. I have been there. It is really nice. I would love to go back again when we have more time. Huauchinango is about 2 hours away from Puebla City. We took a day while we were down there and went site seeing. I really enjoyed being in the city but we didn't know where we were going so we didn't get to see much. I would like to go back again and really take the time to look around. It seemed like there were lots of things to look at there. Have fun at cheerleading practice.

OK...Just so you know between 7am and 8am I have no life. I should be working on catching things up, but instead I was drawing the layout of our apartment. I think it turned out pretty good. As you can tell, if we buy another stick of furniture it is going to burst at the seams.

Is anyone else bored????

I am waiting until 8:30 to call and schedule Alex to get to the doctor today. I got to daycare yesterday and Emily had a rash all over. When I took her to the doctor they tested her and she has strep throat. Alex has been compaining about his throat being sore since Sunday, (I thought he was just being a baby). I figure I better get him tested and on some antibiotics if he has strep. They say it can move to your heart that you can get rumatic fever. I need to keep him around a long time so we are getting him into the dr. today.

Benita: I think you are right. I don't think you could ever get another piece of furniture in there. You sound like me in your work habits. I have some really important things I keep putting off. I should really be doing that right now instead of this but you see where I am. I am such a procrastinator. I hope Alex is okay. I thought Javier and I had strep throat when we got back from Mexico. Turned out it wasn't but I didn't want us to be sick and not know we had it either. It can go to your heart and really mess you up. I know a boy that actually had that happen to him. It was really bad.

Benita, how in the world did you do such a nice detailed drawing? It looks nice! Wow, you guys have quite a tight fit. How old is Emily now? Surely, she will be ready for her big girl bed soon. Will you guys move into a two bedroom at that point or are you considering a house? BTW, I like your layout. Seems very efficient.

Charity, I told my mom about your suggested layout and she's freaked out at the idea of having the bed right next to the kitchen. I don't know why. I'll have to take her over there and show her how it's all going to work.

It sure would be nice to spread out a bit. Emily is going to be 2 at the end of March and yes I would love for her to have her own room. We plan to move to a 2 bedroom townhouse after Alex gets to work. Then we would start to save for a down payment on a house.

Melissa - I did the drawing on Photodraw, but I bet I could have done it with paintbrush as well. It has all those little drawing tools, plus you can make text boxes, which is what I used to type the description of the items in the apartment. Maybe I will take some actual photos so you can see as well. I have a hanging divider between our bed and Emily's bed - it gives privacy for when we are doing the laundry (not that it matters, because she sleeps like a log, she wouldn't wake up if a freight train went through the apartment).

Melissa: Does your mom think the bed bugs will crawl out of your bed and around the corner into the kitchen? If there wasn't a wall there I would be the same way but since there is a wall it really isn't next to the kitchen. I mean it is but it isn't.

Benita: I was wondering the same thing about how you did the layout. Javier has a job to do and he needs me to draw a floor plan for the inspector. I learned how to draw house plans when I was in landscaping but I haven't done it in a while. I learned how to do them on graph paper. I did the house plans for our house and the inspector accepted them. I guess I can still do it that way. I just thought it might be easier to do them on the computer. That way I wouldn't have to figure out the scale and everything.

Charity - You can get drafting programs, but if the scale does not have to be perfect then you can use paintbrush.

I guess if we are submitting it to the inspector it should be pretty much to scale. I will probably just by some graph paper and try to draw it out myself tonight. It's just a small square room so it shouldn't be that hard. I hope.

Sad to report no moving at lunchtime for me. We are having a lunch for an employee who is leaving. So I have to stick around. Good thing is I get a free lunch.

Melissa: That is a good deal, I guess. Depends on if they are having anything you will eat. I am going to try and talk mom into going to Applebee's. I have a hankering for a Grilled Oriental Chicken Salad. Man they are the best.

I just wanted to add..I had a sore throat for a week. I went to the doctor and they did a strep test and mono spot. Both were negative so I was obviously told it was a virus. Then a day later the rash came. It started on my face and went everywhere. By the next day, my throat was so sore I could barely swallow. I had white patches on my tonsils. So we went to the ER. They did a strep test and mono again and this time it came back I had infected tonsils and scarlet fever. So I got meds and a stern warning to sue my doctor! It took me over two weeks to feel back to normal. I just wanted to let you know that in case they are still feeling bad and you ever get a negative strep test.

I hope they feel better soon!

MistyB: Funny you should say that. Our strep test's came back negative. My doctor had the good sense to give us an antibiotic anyway. We took it for the entire time she said to. Javier got better in just a couple of days but it took me a little longer. My throat is actually getting a little scratchy again. I hope it is just this crazy weather we have been having. I can't afford another doctors visit and antibiotic.

My throat has been hurting over the past couple of days also. I had thought I was getting sick (that's usually my first indication) but so far I've been ok. Hopefully it's not a throat thing. I don't want to deal with a doctor right now.

By the way, the feeling that I had about today being the day for the Advisory Opinion is pretty much gone. I haven't seen anymore signs or anything so I'll bet I was wrong about it being today.

Someone here said that a lot of people flying these days are getting strep. So maybe that is were everyone picked up their illness.
Alex goes to the doctor at 2pm, I will let you know.


On another note.....it is funny how when someone mentions something that you turn around and.... OK I will just tell you what happened. About 30 minutes ago I get a phone call from my landlord. She said there is going to be a 2 bedroom available (all on the same floor). Most of the townhouses with 2 bedrooms have a bedroom upstairs (the master) and another down. I did not want Emily to be downstairs just in case someone were to break in. So I called Alex and now we are thinking of moving into this one. We just need to go see it when she gets it ready to rent. The only problem is this immigration paperwork. I guess we will have to file the paperwork when you move. Has anyone had to do that yet?? What about you Melissa??

Oh wow. I think you should take it. Sounds like a great opportunity. I know how you feel about the paperwork, but I'm sure it's not that huge of a deal. Probably similar to changing your address for everything else. Just make sure you do that one first! Even so, you can have your mail forwarded so I doubt you'll miss receiving anything. I'm not sure the official process for changing address with USCIS but it can't be all that bad. Which reminds me. I need to make sure Laurel knows I moved because she was going to change my address with the Consulate!! Go for it Benita!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And by the way, since that just happened. Someone say something about the Advisory Opinion being approved and maybe it will happen soon!!

Hey Misty how have you been doing with your traveling sickness.... have you gone to get your ears checked?


Ps Melissa your advisory opinion will be approved

BENITA go for it girl. It will not be that hard to change your address

Benita: That sounds like an awesome opportunity. I wouldn't pass it up. I don't think changing your address is all that difficult. You should ask on another thread. I am sure someone here has had to do it.

I had tried to join a Dancing With the Stars forum but nobody pays attention to my threads because the whole thing is full of trolls.

Where is it? We'll go over there and talk to you. And maybe in the process it will annoy the trolls.

It's at abc.go.com (no www). From there, click on Message Boards, they have one for each show. Click on Dancing With the Stars. My name is LissNJavy. You have to make a user name. I would love some company!!

Okay apparently I am an idiot because I can't get it to let me do anything. I thought I registered but when I went to try and post a comment it told me I had to register. What in the heck did I register for?

Maybe you were no longer signed in. Try to sign in again using your user name.

Okay I think that is the problem. I never got to choose a username. It just asked me for my email address and stuff. Oh no! Now I have signed up for something and am going to start getting all types of crap email. Great! What am I missing? I didn't see anywhere else to register.

Oh I don't know what you signed up for! Hopefully they don't barrage you with e-mails now. Where you register is on the screen where it lists all the message boards for all the shows, beside the place where you log-in, it says "Join Now". That's what you click on.