it was a Coldwater Creek necklace. One of many listed. I did notice, after I bid, that the shipping was pretty high, but I forgot to look at the feedback.

Perhaps they accidentally listed more than they actually had to sell.

maybe. I really wanted that necklace though, bah!

I wouldn't be them; I'd be me. And Burma would be a lot more competently run, freer, and no longer a Non-Integrating Gap state, nor an oligarchic dictatorship.

The idjits running the junta have simply never had justification for their behavior.

Gotta agree with that one. There is simply no excuse for letting, lord knows how many thousands of people, suffer and die because they won't let foreign ships (not just ours), sitting offshore, unload relief supplies.
Simply none.

I have an exam tomorrow morning. I have not done anywhere near enough revision. In fact I have found it almost impossible to marshall my efforts in that direction all fucking week. I worked like there was no tomorrow during the campaign and managed, by the skin of my teeth and the patience of my school to get all assignments in and good quality at that.....I was left at the end of that mad month with 2 weeks to revise for one exam.....I have probably logged seven hours if that. I now have to spend the whole of today in panicky revision and am still having difficulty starting (hence being here at all).

Oh well. If I can throw a solid five hours at it I should be able to remember a few relevant queens and dates. I just hope I have enough of em to weave an argument for whatever questions come up.

[eta] oh yeah and to add to the feeling of approaching panic is the fact that I have become unable to get out of bed in the mornings. Even if its something important I see the clock reading maybe 5 am.....then the next thing i know it's gone 9. I have to be up and out of the house by 7 tomorrow morning in order to get to the exam for 9. This is worrying me.

Starting over again - AGAIN !
I'm getting too old to be doing this shit.

classicman, it's never too late to start over.

Awesome. Just fuckin' awesome.

Minifob has figured out how to climb out of his crib. Happy birthday to him.

Traditionally, there are two solutions to this sort of thing. One, a sort of tent device that traps him in from the top as well. Two, giving up on the idea of keeping him in the bed at all, and instead putting a gate at the doorway so at the very least he is trapped in the room until morning. If he plays until he just passes out on the floor, so be it.

But of course, he figured this out five minutes before Mr. Clod took the car to Houston with the stepkids, so I don't have the option of going to purchase either of these items. Bedtime tonight is going to be soooo much fun.

I feel for you.
Putting him back to bed in silence is what parent friends of mine advocate. But it can take up to five nights.

Clod ==> :zzz:

cf, don't you have some rope or bungee cord?

yeh I know, but its getting really old. I'm tired of it all.

[harshlove]Don't then. Stay where you are, as you are.[/harshlove]
New beginnings take energy, and that is what you are drained of right now. But nature promotes growth and rebirth. It's in all of us.

You'll come back bigger and better and stronger and happier than before.
You're not a seedling any more, you're established growth putting out new shoots.

on the bright side, if it's his first day at clambering out, there's a chance that he'll do it so often he'll wear himself out pretty early.... keep on encouranging it -either he'll get exhausted or he'll decide he's done pleasing you and stop.....

You joke, but I have a friend who had to take one of those kid leashes (a chest-harness attachment that's intended to keep them from running away at the airport or whatever) and thread it through the rails to keep her son inside, because he could A.) unzip the crib tents from the inside, and B.) climb over doorway gates. Oh, and she had to put it on him backwards, because after three nights he figured out how to take the harness off too. :worried: