The BEST laundry aid I have found is "GOOP" You can find it in a small tub in the auto section - mechanics use it to clean grease off hands. It has worked for me on numerous occasions. I just coat the stain heavily and let it stand overnight, then wash in AM. It has never let me down. Actually, just the other day, the cover to the arm of my couch was found on the bottom of the moving truck covered with grease and rubbed in dirt...I figured it was doomed. I tried the goop, didnt even let it soak in, washed it, and it ALL came out. Sounds like I could be a saleperson for them, huh?? Hope you try it...let me know the results if you do!! DINA :)

John, I am not sure the lights you have bought will give you the intensity in output to make a significant difference. The so called 100 watt equivalent CFL bulbs give you only about 1,600 lumens each. Just for comparison my 400 watt metal halide grow lamp puts out 32,000 lumens. Take a look at these bulbs, they are much brighter: http://www.amazon.com/CowboyStudio-105-Fluorescent-Daylight-Photography/dp/B004L75BGQ/ref=sr_1_17?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1360072582&sr=1-17&keywords=daylight+cfl+bulb http://www.amazon.com/CowboyStudio-105-Fluorescent-Daylight-Photography/dp/B004L75BGQ/ref=sr_1_5?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1360072904&sr=1-5&keywords=daylight+cfl+bulb+studio IMHO, multiple lamps are not ideal. It gives too many sources of glare to the eyes. I think a bounced even all around ambient bright illumination feels the best. I believe humans react to light more than just visually by eyes. That's why blind people can also have SAD problems. Also, a blue incandescent light does not give more blue light than a regular white incandescent light. You may also look into getting a dust/dawn light to wake you up in the morning, and to put you to sleep at night. Looking at the picture of your office, I have a few suggestions: 1. Have your monitors oriented away from the window. Your pupil react to bright window light and contracts, making it a strain to view the text on the monitors. So you compensate by turning the screens to their brightest, but that create another problem to the eyes when it gets dark outside. In addition, for visitors to your office, the displays on the screens can be a distraction. I don�t know in your line of work whether it is important to provide privacy to the materials displayed. For some businesses that is a legal requirement. Do you have glass wall/door to your office? I noticed that you hang your coat on the chair, and not on the coat hook behind the door. 2. I am sure you have tried to set up your monitors most comfortable to your own preference. To me, it seems the monitors should be about 3" lower. I think that would be more ergonomic. Also, if you stack the monitors there will be less neck issues. Most multi-monitor traders have there monitors stacked (see link below). Where you spend the most time, everything contributes to your general well being. Gina, "--A friend of ours had us look at a site where you can figure out the solar azimuth angle over your home - but it was, uh, geekily complicated, LOL.�" It can be complicated to figure out the angle of the sun based on the time of day, the day of the month, the month of the year and your geographic longitude and latitude. Solar panels are coming down in price quickly, in anticipation of using solar energy, I have designed and built an instrument known as Heliodon, which can give the angle of the sun based on many criteria in seconds without doing any figuring. It can also be very useful in building a house to optimize orientation, window locations, and placement of gardens. dcarch My Heliodon Here is a link that might be useful:

Hi axixic, looks like I'm catching up on these posts. Sorry if I missed one. I talked to my wife, and she uses the Natural Progesterone cream once a day for like 25 days, and then she lays off for like 5 days, and then starts up again. She likes using the brands that have a pump, like Life-Flo and Now Foods, so she doesn't have to measure it, but just press the pump down, and out comes the right amount. I'm a little confused by your saying that you found some cubes even with progesterone cream in them, because when I Google hydration cubes, the only brand I see is Bezwecken, and I only see 2 different cubes, the 1X 12 cubes, and the 2X 12 cubes. Not certain what the "1x" or "2x" designation is (perhaps 1mg vs. 2mg?) I can tell by the packaging that she's using the "1x" version. Perhaps there's another company who is offering similar cubes, and maybe they're putting progesterone cream in them. You know, when she first started using the hydration cubes, I was overly cautious, so I wanted her to use 1 a week, and see how that worked. Then, if she didn't get the desired results, I was going to suggest she up it to 2 a week. But before we got very far along, on this regimen, she saw a Naturopath. And the Naturopath said my plan would take forever. She explained that you need an intensive, concentrated period of time, where you're attempting to get those tissues "plumped up." Then, she said, once you achieve that, you can cut down on the dose. So, she suggested my wife use them once a night for 2 weeks, then begin to taper off, the goal being to taper down to the point where you use say 1 a week. My wife adopted this approach, and it indeed worked. I don't honestly remember if she went from one a night for 2 weeks, to one every other night for a week, and then one every 3rd night for a week, and so on, until she was down to one a week, or what. But I bet her Naturopath would say listen to your body...as you transition down from once a night for 2 weeks, to the end goal of say, one a week, and let your body tell you how rapidly to taper off. As an aside, my wife also uses one of the vitamin E suppositories once a week. Then also one like an hour before we have sex. There seems to be 2 issues here - one is that those tissues need to be plumped up, or soft and pliable, but there's also the lubrication issue. For my wife, using the hyrdation cubes solved the atrophy issue (i.e., it got her tissues plumped up, and soft and pliable) but her arousal lubrication was insufficient...and thus she had to begin using the Carlson Labs Key E Natural Vitamin E Suppositories as well. She uses one a week, and also one before sex. By the way, the difference is just incredible. We went through a time where she was convinced our days of having sex were over. Fast forward to now, with her using the hydration cubes and Vitamin E, and wow - we're once again able to enjoy being intimate. Hope that helps!

Try Googling Lichen Sclerosis and see if the symptoms sound like yours. I have that and it sure puts an end to your sex life. I was at an age when I didn't care about that as much but I hate the disease itself. All the doctors said atrophy but one. She recognized it right away. She said she had 5 year old patients that have it. Poor things, there is no cure for it, just meds for comfort if you need them. My urologist was going to do a urinary scope on me. When I said you may have to cut to find the urethra, he didn't say much. I don't think he believed me, until he did a pelvic. After he did the pelvic he got the insurance to approve to putting me to sleep.