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Mine always comes up Little Rock too! And I know it's not right, because I live here now, and I've enjoyed several other cities quite a lot more...

Yes! Unless I would be billed for eating the room...

As for the waste - no more wasteful than flower arrangements, ice sculptures, or any other temporary decoration. A fine way for a sugar company to promote sugar.

for radiators- not good. the looking glass paint is only shiny behind glass - the painted side looks like bad silver spray paint. The glass side looks amazing though! I turned an old wall clock into a cute little mirror with some looking glass spray paint. We did a ton of vases with the antiqued look for my sister's wedding - we probably got 30 or so from a single can, so it doesn't seem so expensive if you have a lot of pieces to do.

I've always had trouble with Christmas shopping (one for you, two for me!). However, this year is the first year that everyone in the family has made a wishlist, and I've managed to get gifts for all 26 people and only a CD and a cookbook for myself! It took a while to talk everyone into the wishlist thing (years), but it's pretty much awesome.

I have a calamansi orange that is fruiting living an entirely indoor life. We just got a Meyer lemon and a key lime to go with it, too. It didn't start fruiting until we started misting the leaves every day. And we've got grow lights set up for winter, to make sure it gets its desired 12 hours of sunlight (though it is in a southern window).

My husband I and alternate Thanksgiving and Christmas each year with our families (though sometimes we host, and have everyone join us). Luckily, my family lives 3.5 hours one direction, and his family lives 3.5 hours the other direction, so no one can make us try to go both places for the same holiday.

When it's my family's turn, we have my dad and his girlfriend, my mom and my step dad, my half sister's dad and his girlfriend, my sister & half sister and their husbands, and sometimes their husbands' mothers, and sometimes one of my step-nieces & her family, and one or more of my step sisters, possibly with boyfriends/husbands & children. Plus sometimes the neighbors stop by, just to spice things up - they separated this year, so that'll add another exciting dimension. We all drink a lot, and everything goes fine until my step-dad makes too many crude comments in range of my sister's elderly mother-in-law. Maybe this year we'll try a seating chart!

I'm pretty sure you should hire BethAM to design it for you :)

If you do decide to partition off a sleeping area, make sure you still have a clear view from the front door out the windows. That'll help keep things feeling larger...

I love posts like this - actual therapy on actual apartments! I am excited to see how the move goes.

@ Larsie --

If we follow that logic, it's also imperative to never ever let your children go to church, because sometimes priests and youth pastors molest children; or play sports, because Jerry Sandusky; or hey - have relatives, because that is the biggest risk you can take as far as abuse goes... Don't be ridiculous.

And as for air travel, I've flown alone every year since I was 6 or 7. It was actually easier when I was younger -- at 14 or so, when I was returning from summer camp and not an unaccompanied minor any more, I suddenly had to navigate everything myself. I managed, but it was a bit of a shock. The worst problem I ever had was running out of candy.

I like to have salad after the main course - I'll have a smallish portion of the main course, and then distract myself by eating salad until my sense of hunger catches up with the food I've eaten (takes 15 or 20 minutes). This keeps me from eating too much, whereas salad isn't filling, so eating it first does no good at all.