I've seen this before. It was forwarded to a group of us females in an email by one of the most competent woman I know. We thought it was funny. And, honestly, I could certainly see myself and other women I know in that. We could identify. You have to be able to laugh at yourself a bit. However, they abbreviated the male behavior a bit too much. It should be changed after #5. 6. Ring the teller to let him/her and everyone else within earshot know that the account balance is off by $0.03 and it couldn't possibly be your fault. 7. Demand to speak to a manager regarding your $0.03. You're not leaving until this is resolved. 8. After being advised to come in to sort out the issue, throw your car into drive, gun the gas, and squeal away from the drive-thru ATM, yelling angrily the entire time.

THank you all so much for writing...it's been a roller-coaster of a day...I called the dentist back and said that it was worse than ever, not subsiding, just growing -- he folded and referred me to an endodontist, but I couldn't call them until after 5, so I won't know if I can be seen until tomorrow morning. By around 5:30 as I was driving DD to orchestra, it finally HIT so bad I was ready to go to an ER. I was sweating, panting from the pain, and felt faint...oh my gosh it was bad and just getting worse...luckily DH met me at the orchestra place and he drove me at first to a dental ER, but I REFUSED to let them see me because it seemed so shady (weirdly, I got definite vibes not to let them near me, and the weirdness was confirmed by the completely inappropriate behavior of the people behind the desk and the questions on the registration sheet -- how many medical offices make you write the name of your "Financial Institution" and warn you about the fee if you don't call within 24 hours of your next appointment before even handing you the *long* registration form??! but I digress)...by then I had given in and taken an extra half tramadol, just because I was going completely insane with the pain. I would categorize it as the second worst pain I've ever felt--first being childbirth. But I think the tramadol what did the trick because in about 45 minutes I was living again, doing errands with DH while we waited for DD. I can feel it's coming back again now, but I know now how to control it until tomorrow morning. jbrig, thank you for the clarification -- you're right, I was being too broad-brush and ended up just being wrong -- I think I was thinking of the prostaglandin-inhibiting and the anti-inflammatory effects of ibuprofen (or at least that's what I had been told). Thanks for correcting me. Funny that you should mention the tramadol/flexeril, because those are what I take -- the tramadol in the daytime for fibro and the flexeril at night (low dose, as a muscle relaxer as you mention). camlan, WOW...that's scary...how did they end up finding it? Do you have complete resolution now and you're pain-free? And Pat, I'm sorry to hear you've had that situation for years...I can only imagine what it must be like for that long. Could TN2 include the feeling that teeth are about to explode? INTENSE ache? I'll bring it up with the endodontist tomorrow. I can feel a tooth throbbing now, starting the wind-up. I really appreciate your all's understanding, help and good wishes so much. I'll post back about the endodontist. THANK YOU!

Thanks -- I have never thought out or planned what went under a sink so much as in this remodel. Never had any choice other than making the best of what came with the house. It's easy to use and to keep when you plan a spot for what you need and have an extra couple of spots for overflow (that extra bottle of Dawn that seems will be there forever and some extra sponges under the disposal as well as some on the right). Having everything that needs to go into the cabinet and telling the plumber where he can put the pipes rather than letting them run all over the place makes a big difference. They'll eat up the whole thing if no one tells them otherwise because it's easier to work out front -- even with that rear drain. My sink drain is center rear. We found that nearly everything that large other than the Shaw's Original fireclay farmhouse sink had center or center rear drains. The side drains was one vote for the Shaw's, but we weren't convinced we wanted a farmhouse for the long haul. As it turned out, it works well, both in the sink and below. In the sink, I can put a half sheet pan laying flat front to back on either side and still have the center open for the drain. Having it to the rear does give me more height for cleaning supplies toward the front. My corner pantry didn't work in large part because of the shelving -- it wasn't right for the space or our needs. It wasted anything above 5 or 6 feet and we had 10 feet ceilings. The shelves were also on 2 sides only They were deep on one side, and that meant you had deep, dark corners that were near impossible to use, even with turntables, for half the space. The third wall was wasted (could have had shallow shelving -- great for cans -- if it had been better planned)and the fourth was the door and the depth of the narrower shelves. The only good thing was the spice rack DH built and installed on the back of that door, but I like my spice drawer better. I think that we could have possibly redone all the shelving and made the pantry work much better. We started toying with the notion of taking the pantry out altogether when I was questioning whether the ovens I wanted would fit in the cabinet we had right next to the pantry. Sliding the ovens over gave me a more workable space for baking, and creating a wall of tall storage evolved from that -- fridge is flanked by pantry rollouts and pantry tower as well as as 12" utility and 24" cabinets above all of that. My small appliances go in 13" deep cabinets on the back of the island and are very handy -- but I don't have any island seating. Either system can work, but you need to be able to make it work for all your needs. You should have some flexibility in your system too (I'd want adjustable shelving rather than fixed). I'd be careful about having deep shelves. What you have planned isn't wrong and many people would love to have something just like it. Mine didn't work -- in large part because the fixed shelves were thrown in (on 2 sides only) by the builder who didn't care how it functioned and so much was lost to deep corners. It was a big space so it should be good, right? Wrong. Plan it an make sure you get what you want and that anything you are uncertain about has flexibility so you have options. I do like having my corner more open and the space feeling larger. I also paid more for my cabinets to get it. Lots of things to think about.

As Mazer said, it all depends on the personalities of the dogs involved. I had three females for many years. The first, Sarah, was a very submissive adult when I adopted her. Then I adopted a very young female puppy, Moonie, who Sarah treated very kindly and motherly. Moonie matured into an EXTREMELY alpha female and spent the rest of their lives together bullying and intimidating Sarah. I also adopted another adult female, Bootsers, who was a very middle-of-the-road type, happy go lucky, neither submissive nor dominant. Although Moonie also bossed Bootsers, Boots took it all in stride and learned how to appease the Moondog by cleaning her ears. Sarah passed, after which I adopted Tasha, a very young and EXTREMELY dominant puppy. Tasha tried to get Moonie to be her mother, but Moonie was completely intolerant of her puppy enthusiasm and kept putting her firmly in her place. Bootsers took Tasha under her wing and served as a fine surrogate mother during Tasha's puppyhood, though Moonie was always the disciplinarian. Knowing how dominant Tasha's personality was, I was very nervous about how she and Moonie would interact as Tasha matured, esp. since Moonie was extremely old and had virtually no mobility without assistance. To my amazement, even as Tasha bossed every other living creature on this farm, she NEVER for a single moment questioned Moonie's authority or alpha dog status. When Moonie would bark or snap at her from her bed, Tasha would flop over on her back and beg forgiveness. It truly was remarkable. All of my old girls are gone now, and Tasha is my only female. There is no conceivable way Tasha would ever tolerate another alpha dog in her territory now, and I would never subject a submissive female to her relentless bullying. She might be able to coexist with a happy go lucky female like Bootsers, but I wouldn't risk it. She has her two tolerant doggie brothers to keep in line, and that's enough. Laurie