See this yahoo help article. Someone is either spoofing yoru email or has hacked your account. If the link doesn't work google "yahoo account sending spam" and the help doc should come up. http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_US&page=content&y=PROD_ACCT&id=SLN2068&pir=fpZBPiRibUl12ul7dccwAF0qylL_GBBgUXiZ7tzCaGojVijjEIvQXUCC2g9cGQy1gxDypw3zLZQzXdFNHimx8S9KKYPhWmRJ7e0PolCCs.vn3FvDg5sER1BPhaW4oWjZPjwGNZXVB2s9SOg9MxBqURlcLcsYAMmm1VOFuoETAjfNVVr3aQyy0TtzR_t3SOasOf7CjwlelaxmVLTmatjBFo.eK7vuOdB3Cm5CbswTOSivJS5BMKOg2qHWeO1PJ9QMwWr3xLuB8GBWQCCWtoRx.CoFRrvSsKBWxwi1FuEv08H2LSoMzmsIgtg3242P9YHbrf8RXR0idLjf_wu.XeZYhgT7W1pPla2rFk_oV0OpRFPxOx_ZAEu1huMIdu.vOjPpbIb_9wByyxauo5dcXa6KGYs6_M9NSFJOH_JH6mk-

Glad it went well, Pamela! I am intrigued by the green mini-lights in the wine bottles and the painted skates with greens. Festival went well and we raised close to $80,000. That was up over $25,000 from last year, so the committee is pretty happy. I adapted your theatre idea and created a "Give my Regards to Broadway" tree with lots of gold lights (for the bright light of BW) on a gold wire tree with a red faux "fur wrap" garland. It was bright and brash with golds, reds and blues from the playbills and provided a textural contrast to the nearby green trees. A NY actor happened by the display and was pleased that the play that occupied the top spot on the tree was one he appeared in last year so that was fun. I also created a Black Tie & Tails Tree with champagne glasses and silver slippers, many more silvery ornaments and a black top hat at the top. One of the entrants created an interactive Frosty the Snowman tree with snow coming out of the top hat Frosty was wearing and falling down the tree. He also sang his signature song if you pressed his hand. It created quite a lot of interest among children and adults. An artist created a "Twelve Days of Christmas" theme with hilarious hand-made renditions of each verse. Two of the Five Calling Birds were talking on cell phones. The Drummers Drumming were actually famous modern drummers and a pair of the geese a-laying were actually in bed together. Another unique tree was created by a stained glass artist. He constructed churches out of wood and designed & installed replicas of the stained glass windows of famous French catherdals. He added gargoles and gothic angels. It was purchased and donated to a local Catholic church. We had a tiny pink feather tree with minature bottles of nail polish which all the little girls wanted, so we could have sold a dozen versions of it! All in all, we ended up with about 78 trees and our head designer had wonderful themes for the top sponsor trees created from lush materials. One was in limes and rich russet on a lightly flocked tree. It is just magical and is installed in a medical office where the patients are raving about it. Back to my cookies! Hope you have a chance to rest. The parenting parent time is very intense for both of us, I think.

I'm sorry to say, when I read your first post--with her letter, it immediately raised a pack of red flags. Anyone who has a list of excuses like that, who has all month to move (but needs the help now, when she's got the excuse of being recently sick)--is more likely than not, a user who rarely takes responsibility for themselves. Your further input only confirmed my opinion that this woman is the kind who is always looking to others to take care of her responsibilities I've met a few people like that in my life. They never change. They never get their finances together. They never get a stable home set up (they're usually moving from place to place as things start to overwhelm them). They start hinting at needing a little help, move up to asking for it, progress to begging for money (eventually large sums), and then attempt to make friends and family feel really guilty if they can't/won't help. Sadly, people who fall into that group never ever seen to get things reorganized. I don't know your friend--you do. IF she's one of the hardcore users I'm talking about, there's really nothing good to come from sacrificing your time, money and emotions on her. Those people are bottomless pits who will drag you down with them. On the other hand, if she's truly someone who has just hit a short stretch of bad times, there may be some value in helping her. BUT think carefully before you do. Do not ever give someone in a bad way cash--pay a utility bill for them, buy them a bag of groceries. It's okay to help someone pack--as long as they're working at least as hard as you are (but if you get over there and she decides she needs to sit in a chair and supervise as you work yourself to exhaustion, I'd suddenly remember a previous engagement--LOL). Remember--it's good for our character to help someone who needs it. It's bad for THEIRS if we help them continue to be deadbeats. Best help you can give someone is to help them learn to stand on their own 2 feet.

Hi bemonkey, I have graanieb's (Bea's) email address, so I'll email her and let her know to contact you, and point her to the post about members now being able to message other members, if they are set up to do so. Sue...resident busy body