Co-irker! Love it haha. I have had a rough go with coworkers this past year-- mostly because for the past 15 yr, I've worked with two great bunches of people. All capable, responsible, interesting and smart. Now I am managing a merger of two companies and am having to deal with incompetence, politics and drama. This is not my strong suit.. in fact, my strong suit is rising above and not tolerating or succumbing to these poisons. We're working through it but boy is it draining. I just wish that people would pause and look at themselves and their behavior. Some will lose their jobs--and not because there isnt a place for them. It's because there isnt a place for their bad mojo. AND don't even get me started on the third-party vendors. I am up early to get the results of a test upload of a db from a tech center in preparation for a move next weekend. It should have taken less than an hour.. at midnight they sent an update saying that it would be another 70 hr. Really?! No one stopped to question it. No one said, "hmm something must be wrong here". What has happened to basic problem solving skills? Arggg. Sue, glad to hear DD is able to compete.. and really hope you aren't coming down with the same. Can't imagine anything worse when you are traveling. Crossing fingers and toes!

Sleeper, just to expand on what Tamara has told you (I know some of our KTers have had trouble finding their way around) Hover your cursor over Your Houzz top right, then move it down and click on Edit Profile. You may have to sign in at this point if not already signed in. Advanced settings will be on the left, if you click there you will be at a page where you can uncheck any notification boxes that are now checked, and change the other options to Never. Let us know how you do....

Sherry, I haven't been here long enough to notice whether I'm seeing all the notifications from things I've commented on. Either that or I'm just forgetting what I commented on. You can go to your profile and check your own activity and see anything new. Sherry and Ali, I have noticed some very rude comments on here by a certain few. Many, sadly, are by "pros". I try to tell myself that I'm reading them with the wrong tone, but after reading many comments from the same people I'm not so sure that's the case. They seem to think my way or the highway. Think how boring the world would be if we all had to follow one set of "rules". We'd live in a world à la Stepford.

Linda, even though I addressed you in agreeing that I like Grover’s advice too, I certainly didn’t mean to make you feel like my comments were intended for you in a personal way. I’m so sorry if it came across like that. —- I’m just fumed up about Houzz constantly changing things and I guess my hope was that they are listening ;)) . Maybe I can find a way to contact them directly, but they don’t make that aspect user-friendly either. — Again, sorry. Nothing personal intended.