Kimmie, if you like the trash to treasure stuff, do a search for my name over at the Trash to Treasure forum and some of my projects/pictures will come up. I don't have much else besides what I've posted there. BTW, My cute guest room has changed a bit this year now that I have a foreign exchange student living with us. Once she leaves in June, I'll get it back the way it was again! I see you've been posting like crazy! I'm enjoying your pictures. Here is a link that might be useful: T to T

That's okay missindia! Just added what was on mine.. so that everybody's thoughts were in one place.:-) Lots of AI fans here at the KT!

Thanks everyone and thanks Georgysmom for starting a post for me today! Just got back from shopping and lunch with my Mom, SIL and my DD. I had a whole weekend of celebrating, bar-hopping and eating too much. Just want to relax the rest of today.

So along these lines, I just tried taking some melatonin to help me sleep. I'm really paranoid of prescription sleeping meds though I have tried them and they work wonderfully with no apparent side effects. I'm still concerned about becoming dependent on them. In any case in spite of doing all the other recommended practices to sleep - exercise but not too late, quiet, dark, etc. sometimes I get very little sleep - maybe 3-4 hours. I then have to go to work at a very demanding job for 10 or more hours and I simply cannot function like that. So now I'm avoiding prescription meds and taking something that could be just as dangerous. I've done some reading of what I consider to be fairly reputable sources - lots of potential side effects and possible drug interactions with other meds (none of which I take from what I can tell). It seems to have become more effective after using it for a few days - works great. Interestingly my mother tried taking it years back and she thought it did nothing. Maybe I'm experiencing the placebo effect. It's an interesting dilemma....whether or not to take anything at all to treat a "problem" and if so what. I've also taken Zicam which considers itself to be homeopathic. I find it works really well at heading off cold symptoms - unlike anything else I've ever found. If I didn't have to go to work every day I'd probably be more inclined to just suffer with my ailments but I need to be able to go to work and be functional.