I suppose one could chastise you for all of the things you have done wrong, but you asked for advice so I will throw in my two cents. You were (are) in a marriage that is failing and you are choosing to put that failure all on yourself - stop right there. Neither one of you was putting your full effort into the situation. He doesn't follow through with his promises to land a job and then won't follow you to your next job? He needs to stay with/follow you. There is no reason for him to stay behind (no job and your daughter is not in school, yet). Yeah, you cheated. And he is taking advantage of that instead of trying to get things back on track. You are both at fault here. You both decided to 'take a break and see other people'? That is not marriage. And you allowed yourself to believe that the only job you could do is one that takes you away for weeks at a time. You both need to change careers - yours is actually a career change; his is getting off the couch. You need to think about what is best for your daughter. And that would be a stable home life. Not mom or dad gone for 6 weeks at a time. If the marriage does end, then you will surely be forced into a new career if you have any hopes of raising your daughter alone. Would that be so bad? To put your daughter over a career? Careers/jobs can come and go. Your daughter is not so expendable. Do what is best for her.

Love mine! I had our previous smoothtop GE Profile range (w/convection oven) for over 12 years and the top still looked like new...no scratches that I could find. Even when I boiled over tomato soup (which I did a lot) or other things, I just turned off the burner and took a very wet (dripping) dish cloth, wiped the excess food off the burner (fast!), rinsed the cloth and again got it very wet and placed it on the burner...it helped it not stick too badly. Later, when it cooled, I'd finish cleaning it. I rarely used the cleansers after the first couple of years and saw no performance difference. It was shinier when I used the cleanser though, so I would use it before parties. The smoothtop was black w/grayish speckles. We donated the range to our church and the family that got it told my husband how wonderful it is and they couldn't believe it was as old as we said it was...it still works perfectly & looks like new! While we are going w/a cooktop this time, it's a smoothtop...another GE Profile (along with the Trivection double oven!) I tried to talk my DH into induction but no-go. So I just got the a basic cooktop and they are wiring us for induction...just in case! (I will eventually be able to talk my DH into induction, but not until this remodel is done and the bills stop coming in!) BTW...I slid pans on my cooktop fairly frequently, no scratches. As to stirring and the pan turning, I seem to recall that only happened if I was using a pan w/o a flat bottom. I do not use cast iron, so I can't attest to that one way or the other. I will never have anything other than a smoothtop! (Unless some wonderful new technology comes along to wow me!) HTH!

Hi there Carla. When I saw this topic, I couldn't believe how up my alley this question was. For the last five years, I've been working in selling cameras while going to school. Our store stresses superior product knowledge and I pride myself in keeping up to date on the camera market. Basically, I'm familiar with about 90% of the non-professional cameras on the market. Anyways, sorry for tooting my own horn there. The Yashica T4 is an excellent camera (I own one!). Lore hit the nail on the head in that it's all in the Zeiss lens. The T4 Super Date should run you around $200, about half of it's value being in the lens. The only other P/S camera that might come close to it is the Olympus Stylus Epic (make sure it's the one with NO zoom, and an f/2.8 lens). We did a side by side comparison of the two when the Olympus first came out and we couldn't really tell the difference. You may also want to consider upping your price range to get yourself an SLR camera. While spending more money doesn't GUARANTEE you better pictures, SLRs do tend to do a better job than P/S's. Lastly, Consumer Reports is probably one of the worst places to do research on cameras (though they did rate the T4 #1 for like 4 years straight). The problem is that they rate a small sampling of the cameras on the market and definately miss out on many models, both good and bad. Second, they rate cameras every 2-3 years, while in those off years, just reprint an old report with the updated models and just assuming that the new models are EXACTLY like the old ones. Good places to look are in photo magazines, though they don't "rate" as much as they just list them all and describe them. You kinda have to dig to find the actual tests they do. I'll try to dig up some URLs for you. I hope that helped for now... :)

The only paper I've every really been interested in getting is the Sunday edition. Occasionally I'll subscribe for a while and it goes the same way. They give a great introductory rate then raise the price again and again until it costs more than to buy it at the store. And often the delivery service gets terrible. Now let me be clear - I delivered papers for a while so I know what the job is. IT'S NOT EASY! You get the old bags that have to have the paper in a particular position, facing a particular direction on the particular spot or they'll call and complain that it's wet or not received. The one I put into 15 bags! Nope that wasn't wet, but I digress. Additionally I recently spoke with a carrier and now the carriers have to buy rubber bands and bags for the papers from at least the one company. That stinks. That said, I've had great service but often get bad service. Let's face it, carrying papers isn't something you want to do all your life. It's actually fun for a while but it gets old with the whiners trying to get free papers. But all that said, I enjoyed getting up about 4am on a Sunday, brew a pot of coffee, and look through the paper. I'd look at the headlines, read an article or two that interested me, checked a couple other sections and usually would look at the store flyers and coupons. Now the coupons are few and far between and the flyers are all available online. The paper is free online and I can get the current headlines, not something that's a day old. Most all the feature stories are in there and the big paper here doesn't have a TV log in it - but I always get that online too. The biggest paper here is nearly bankrupt for a lot of reasons. The subscription part is being ignored and they're losing subscribers which means MORE lost revenue since their advertising rates are based a lot on subscriptions. The secondary paper doesn't deliver to my area. I'm on the wrong side of the river for them apparently. I get my news from a variety of sources. I've always believed in doing that. I always shuddered when people only got their news from one source. Sad really. I like different perspectives. But today, the newspaper isn't for getting the "news", as stated repeatedly above, it's for the features, the stories, the entertainment. TV, radio and the internet let you know what's going on within minutes or seconds, papers make you wait sometimes DAYS! But it's the tv logs, the crossword puzzle, the comics, the arts & entertainment section and the like. Even the want ads in the paper are being replaced by other more productive means. Papers have caused many of their own problems. I can't see a lot of these papers lasting. Around here I'd expect the two papers to merge eventually. Actually they already have. What was four papers a few decades ago are down to two. They used to have morning and evening editions, now it's one, the overnight edition. Small town papers used to be fun. I used to subscribe to a couple different ones for various reasons but now they're not independent anymore, they're all part of a big chain that owns a dozen or more of the small town papers and they're carbon copies of each other. Again, you're as well off getting it online. Plus the post office can't deliver a paper in a reasonable time so I don't bother trying to subscribe to the out of town ones anymore. The cost is about the same as the "big town" papers. But I understand and didn't mind, when I would get it. I mourne the loss of local news. I'm saddened to see the destruction of the local papers. But businesses, like people, get greedy and shoot themselves in the foot too often. And what's just as sad is the dissolving of the local newscasts too. They're all dumping reporters, going with more canned stories and are a variation of the national stuff. There's just not much out there anymore for truly local NEWS. The saddest part of it all is this is what people want. Ugh.