I took out a tiny bit of water so that the water coming off the filter circulated the water and created more oxygen, for now. (i read that somewhere online) I couldn't get to Petco today. There is a small fish store about 35 min. away but I don't feel I can really go in there and ask for advice since I haven't bought any fish there. Ds was given a $50 gift card to Petco along with the aquarium, so he got the fish at Petco with his gift card. We went to check out the fish store and it was very clean (petco is really dirty) and the girl working was very friendly and helpful. I only bought a new tank cover while we were there. The heater is turned up as high as it will go and the water temp is 78. Is that okay? Any other suggestions until I can get my water tested again? Should I change out some water? They still aren't swimming around much. Everything I've read says that tiger barbs are very active fish (they were the first two days) and they are just sitting there. They did eat when we put in a few flakes earlier.

Biwako - I went to options and changed it to default (I had had it set for colors to correlate with domain - and it used to work like that - but I thought I'll try anything). Again - it worked at first - and then the color goes away (it's odd - it's not just when I close a tab or open a new one that it's white - the same tab that was blue before - now is white - no colors now at all). I cannot imagine what add-on might conflict. It's a daunting task to figure out which one. I've been so wild about the FF add-ons - that I have a ton of them. I don't believe any of them were new (oh - except for extensions to try and capture hulu streaming videos). I'll try the safemode and see if colorful tabs works there. If it does, I'm willing to try eliminating those last couple of video capture extensions. If that doesn't work - I'm in for a big, long process of elimination. I don't have any color - or the other extensions that were identified as being incompatible with Colorful Tabs. But something else has gone awry - my all-in-one-sidebar doesn't work consistently either. I guess something I added or updated is causing a problem. I'll report back if I figure it out. Thanks. Lynn.

The good thing about Ikea's curtains are that they come in such long lengths! I would hate to do a conversion like this and then look at the bottoms and see they are like pants that are just-that-bit-short that you see your socks! (What's the slang for that? 'high-waters'?) Oh--one thing: Do a few flip-backs on the tabs, then stand back and make sure they look OK to you, because some of Ikea's curtains' weaves can be a bit skimpy, and you might not like the shadow behind the flipped-back tabs.

My DD9 is allowed two activities. She does baton and one other activity. Although this year she wanted to do parades, so even though it's still baton, that's her additional activity. My DD4 does one activity...swimming. She loves it. She's already starting to learn the front crawl. I see swim team in her future. My SD9 does 4-H with her mother, and right now she's taking some vocal lessons when she's with us. She wants to be a future American Idol. She was also in her school's drama club this year, and she was really great at that!! Often times I feel like a taxi service, but I think it's important that each of the children have their own thing they're good at...something different from the other children so there's no competition over it. I want each one to feel they excell at something without having the others trying to be "better" at it. At times we put the older girls in activities together, like cheer camp, and at one time they all three were taking swimming lessons, but I've found that each one is so different and that they all have a different niche. I've also noticed that sometimes you have to try a few different things before you find your passion. My DD9 did ballet, tap, jazz, and tumbling before she saw the twirlers, and she said, "Mom, I want to do THAT!!" It's been a passion of hers ever since. DD4 tried gymnastics and ballet, and I put her in swimming just because I'd like her to learn those skills and learn water safety, but she took to water like a fish...her passion found. Who would have thunk it when DD9 wouldn't even put her face in the water until she was 7 years old? I do take the summer off though. The parades this year will last until early July though. I think they also need time to just be kids without having a "schedule", and right now summer is perfect for that. Also, gives me time to refresh before I become the taxi service again!!