WEll, I'll post aboput yesterday in a bit, but I'll try to address some of your great points and queries about the yard and PI sitches first.

CHL!!! Yes, definitely itchy butt...this is my first span of time off from work since 2002...hence more time to think and process.

About the yard.,..CJ doesn't see it as his domain...he does mow the lawn, but that's about it (except for the watering this year). We have a huge hedge with a mowhawk because I can't reach the top of it with my pruners!

That doesn't seem to bother him much. (At all or perhaps he'd take out the electric clippers and get rid of it!).

On the recycling front...he and I took in a a load of glass (wine bottles to be perfectly honest) and he took in another one the next morning...it's a start! (we figure about 160 - 200 bottles...relax! we're talking YEARS worth of bottles!).

CJ was actually NOT angry when he got home from work after my "out burst" on Wed. He suggested we go test drive cars on Thurs.

So we did...and wound up buying a new car!!! We got it for the price of a new/used model since we paid cash and they didn't have a colour on the lot that I liked. I played it up real big that silver is my PARENTS car! ...but we wound up with a nice Burnt Maple leaf red (must get the proper name) 2004 Pontiac Sunfire (4-door, I must be able to see out the back and the sportier 2-door won't allow it).

I think the plan is to take her for a little drive, maybe overnight somewhere tomorrow!!!

Did I say I'd address the PI thing here and update you later? Bass Ackwards as usual!

Shiny

P.S. when it came time to sign for the car I think CJ expected me to want sole ownership (we'd discussed this before, me never having had a car of my own)but we co-signed...I think that was a vote of confidence in him as he seemed really pleased and relieved.