Daniella you mean I can plant this one outside when danger of frost is over? Shade? Sun? That is another thing I learned here and continue to. So many *house*plants can go outside. Was even able to eat a little dinner tonight. Glad I was able to sleep this out lol Lucy

Justgotabme - Ha ha! Sadly I wasn't much better before I had kids. At least not about getting organized and staying that way. But I did have more energy to just stay up an extra half hour and tidy up so it didn't get quite so crazy. The good news is that after I wrote my pity-party posting last night I did get up and pick up the scattered mail, any trash on the floor, DD's books and got the toys back to her zone. Some of the stuff is gone off the couch too, mostly just the trash stuff though. Looking at what I just wrote about not being able to get organized and stay that way... I'm not sure that's true. I don't think I have EVER been organized. I have gotten my house neat and clean, but I think I can't keep it that way precisely because it is not organized. On the other hand, I think my kitchen is fairly organized and everything there that belongs there has a home... but it doesn't stay neat because other things like to camp out on the kitchen counter and table. I don't think most of my house is unorganized because I have too much unloved stuff (though that's certainly true of the garage), we do haul stuff to Goodwill several times a year and there's an ongoing goodwill pile in the garage. But I'm sure if I started digging through my closets I could find more to haul away.

Alisande, I am just nuts about basketball. Ten or 12 of us have season tickets to the ISU womens games. It gets us through the winter. We have so much fun at the games. I watched lots of the NCAA play offs this spring. Mens and womens. If the season tickets for the men's games weren't so darned expensive, I would attend those also. Funny thing, when I moved here 5+ years ago, I didn't know much about basketball.

Students in most all colleges party and cavort to excess, that's not significantly different in one place as another. I agree generally with what you're saying. Of course the mid-range and lower students aren't flotsam or hovel sleepers. But continuing the fantasy that everyone is entitled by birth to and is capable of getting a college degree and that that will make their life magical isn't the right mindset either. There are too many youngsters who aren't capable of being successful in college but there aren't enough alternatives offered to them. I said I saw a problem and I don't know what the solutions are. Some quick numbers I found without belaboring the point - California Community Colleges have 2.1 million students. Yes, many are part time, many are adults or even retired persons taking classes for personal or occupational enrichment. Fair enough. Let's assume half of the total is such people and others in the very important two year vocational programs (Fire/police, dental and medical assisting, etc). That leaves about one million. Total CSU transfers in Fall 2014- 47,000 Total UC transfers 2015-016 - 17,000 That's 64,000. If it takes 3 years to complete 2 years (which it shouldn't), then there are 350,000 "graduates" each year and 64K are transferring to the obvious places. What's happening to the rest of them? Hundreds of thousands disappear each year. My speculation is these missing noses are dropping out before completing a program and perhaps shouldn't have been there to begin with.