Sage,
Thanks for the ideas...this is a lot of what I've been doing, almost to a T, so It's great to know it's worked for someone.
The advice about doing 1/2 as much as you think of is good though, I swear I can get myself into such a whirl wind that I think I could make H want to run and hide, even in the best of times , so I need to watch that too!

been around awhile!