What I do when opportunity presents itself is buy plants that have another plant come up in the same pot. That's if it's something that I'd like, even if the original occupant of the pot isn't all that interesting. That's how I got my Gonatopus bovinii. I'd been after one for some time but have never seen them for sale. So when I saw it in another plant's pot I picked that one. At the cash register they were happily going to get rid of the "weed" for me but I insisted it stayed. So I've still got both plants and the Gonatopus has flowered a few times. Sometimes I've got ferns that way, they'll spread their spores readily. I'll also pick plants that can be divided. Got a ginger that divided into 5 plants, made the price seem okay, when divided by 5, lol.

The first time I accidentally came across SATC I was shocked, and embarrassed to be watching it with me in the room! Didn't finish the episode. One of the racier ones I guess. It was on free-to-air tv in Australia so I don't know how much it may have been edited. I've occasionally seen other episodes and thought the show might have been interesting. I made a point of watching the final episode. I can understand people following the show all the way through but it was on at a time in my life when I needed to be an expert channel changer so I just didn't tend to watch anything with that sort of potential. What has bothered me more is some of the stuff on SBS and ABC which has suddenly shown up in inappropriate timeslots. At least I had some idea SATC had a bit of a reputation, and it was in a better timeslot. (I've been told ABC and SBS don't have to abide by the same standards as the commercial stations.) I like Sweeby's comments. Popi, maybe your daughter was hoping for a conversation afterwards. I'm frequently shocked by the way increasingly young girls dress. But I don't have a teenage daughter so I really don't know what it's like for the parents to find the right path to tread on such issues. I suspect tv doesn't help, especially if the parents don't give some guidance as to what is appropriate viewing. I especially don't like it when parents put tv's in each child's bedroom.

I have a friend who used to do that, and she still turns it on as soon as she gets up, and can't fall asleep without it. I noticed it when she stayed with me for a few days and wanted *my* TV on all the time...drove me nuts, and when I asked her, she said the same thing your hubby did - it's the noise, not the actual TV. With her, I just told her I thought it was unhealthy, and that I couldn't stand having it on at my place all the time, though I didn't care what she did at her own place. So while she was there, whenever we weren't watching something and she turned it on, I just turned it off (reflexively). LOL We're pretty close friends - she realized what a problem it was when she had to keep turning it back on (and was really "aware" of it for the first time), and has been working on it since then, or so she says. My MIL does the same thing - no talking to her though. She's having a *really* hard time understanding why DH and I opted *not* to have cable TV...she can't imagine how anyone could live with just the 5 stations we get with our antenna. I'm just glad I don't have to live with that...luckily, her son sees it for the "noise" it is, and doesn't have that problem. I'm kind of suprised you didn't notice it before though - my DH and I just got married after dating for around 7 yrs as well (living apart), and by the time we got married, we'd spent enough time at each other's places that I was pretty used to his habits already, good and not-so-great. ;-) Can you ask your DH if he'd be willing to try the radio instead of the TV during the morning/day? It's still noise, but at least it might be easier for *you* to put up with instead of the TV all the time...might be a decent compromise if he'll agree to it. Probably not much chance of changing that particular behavior though if he's been doing it so long and you've already talked to him. Sorry...

Started stripping in December of 2004,two 30 yard (BIG) construction dumpsters and 14 days straight with a sledge hammer and my favorite (YEP) pry bar, we were ready to START our remodel. All new drywall and insulation. Rewired almost everything, removed 2 closets and 2 windows to reconfigure 2 bedrooms to end up with walk in closets in both. Removed wall between bathrooms to make master bath larger.EVERTHING in 2 baths new including all plumbing.Solid concrete slabs down here to bust up to redo octopuss of plumbing to rerout it all.Repoured concrete floors when done.ALL windows and 2-12ft,2-8ft and 1-6ft sliders replaced.Front door and laundry room doors replaced and had to make the opening for laundry room door bigger,can we say more of the old sledge hammer through solid old hard concrete!ALL new lighting throughout as well as paddle fans replaced.Every light switch and electric outlet as well as their covers replaced.New Cabinets(NIGHTMARE ON PRIMA VISTA)and THEN we hire someone to remarcite our pool and they POPPED it 3 ft out of the ground and destroyed it and the entire patio and screen room,you would not believe the pictures if I could figure out how I would post a few!We have just paid $10,500.00 to have it taken out and have hired an Att. to sue their Ins co. as they want to pay me $34,000.00 an amount that will not even pay for another pool let alone take the old one out, pour a new patio and the screen room alone is $17,000.00.So that has been an ongoing nightmare.All new flooring and then painted most of interior.Have'nt gotten all the wallpaper up yet.Trim still needs to be caulked Then painted and the gameroom ceiling still needs drywall and the drywall in the cabanna room(used to be) and laundry still needs to be finished.The tile in both showers still needs to be done AND the stucco on the outside still has to be fixed from installing all the new windows and doors and THEN the outside painting can begin!OH YEA they still have to form and pour the new patio(minus my pool)and pour the new driveway that the tree took out when it blew over in hurricain Francis.Then the landscape lighting and plants can go back in. ANYBODY WANT TO TAKE A "FREE" VACATION IN SUNNY(HA) FLORIDA THIS WINTER!! OVERWELMED? I CAN STILL LAUGH!!! I hope this puts it in perspective for you, as someone else said somebody always has a story worse than ours. OH YEA did I mention the new security system that they got the dates messed up and hooked it up on MONDAY when it was supposed to be hooked up on FRIDAY? We were robbed on Saturday night!!! NO KIDDING!! BUT my to do list is shorter than my GOT ER DONE list!!! Oh well I live in the land of the FREE and the home of the BRAVE and I can get on here and get it all off my chest and fell better (HA!) about it all tomorrow when they start forming my new patio(NO POOL) and driveway. Did I mention NO Pool? OH WELL I will jump in the brook behind our house in Vermont(if I ever get there!!!)