There is a very effective program that you can download for free called "Spam-Aid", it will block ALL messages that are from anyone that is not listed in your address book.It is installed on your computer as a separate program and you can use it, or bypass it to check your email the usual way without anything being blocked. Just keep in mind when using Spam-Aid to check you mail, EVERYTHING is blocked and deleted at the server except for messages from those that are listed in your address book. It is very effective at what it does, I use it and am well pleased with it. I might add that the program does have a way for those whom you know that are not listed in your address book to get a messsage delivered to you by way of a "password" which they can obtain from a clue you give them in setting up the program. Just check it out, you may want to use it, you may not - but it works. http://www.topshareware.com/Spam-Aid-download-12249.htm

I always accessed the sign-in page for Hotmail via a bookmark. The Hotmail bookmark would no longer work after the switch, so I had to Google the Outlook sign-in page, and bookmark it. Everything is there on my Outlook page as before, but I don't seem to be getting nearly as much junk mail.

Thanks Ladies...... Cat - I don't think the judge would have really listened to both sides if the claims BM made did not seem so outrageous and DH and I had not been collecting all of the information we did. BM in this case really took it way to far with the false allegations.... she claimed DH's entire family and myself and daughter were all against and abusing SD..... Of course the worse things were pointed against myself. But we had tons of things to counter as well..... pictures, dvd's of family events and vacations we took SD on, and the other things BM left as a paper trail.... letters from the school, daycares and doctor. It was extremely stressful to have to go through a BM trying to take away joint custody from my DH simply because he got married and to see all the lies and allegations.... BUT like the judge said - because DH got on that stand and said he did not want to take custody away from BM - he just wanted to have a peaceful relationship with his daughter and was willing to give BM another shot at trying to be mature - the judge as she put it is giving BM "custody probabtion" and hopefully BM will take her words to heart. We have been so much more peaceful at our home - and just to see SD be more peaceful when we pick her up or when she comes - lets us know that maybe the alienation for now has ceased. I just am hoping the situation remains peaceful for now - and this story may help someone else out in some kind of way.

Nope, I've always known better than to travel in white tennies. Even made my hubby buy dark tennies when we traveled to Central/South America and SE Asia. However, being the small person I am, I don't like carrying purses because I don't think I could fight off someone who felt they needed it more than me. Hence, the very unflattering fanny pack. I would have preferred to keep everything in a hotel safe but we were renting an apartment with dodgy front door and window locks. Plus, I don't think I would even bother traveling if I could not take a camera with me as I saw the world. Now, I did manage to spend an entire night on the Champs-ÃÂlysées without incident. It was Bastille Day 2003 and my daughter, me, my best friend and her daughter all made our way to the Eiffel Tower to take in the fireworks, music and festivities which didn't begin until nearly 10:30pm. It was us, and about 100,000 other revelers. The celebration was over just as the Metro was about to close and the crowds to get underground wrapped around the block. All taxi stands were filled with crowds and not a taxi in sight. Locals were gassing up their mini-vans and offering rides for, as the French say "beaucoup bucks" :-) My friend called her French husband back home in Calif. and asked him to call us a cab. The phone died before she could tell him where we were. So, we took turns sleeping on a bench on the Champs-ÃÂlysées about a block from the Arc de Triomphe and were the first ones on the Metro when it opened the next morning at 5:30am. Crazy night but all of my belongings were safe and sound inside my little ugly black fanny pack. :-) Jodi-