Thanks everyone. I love the Thoreau poem Jeffro. BlueInanna and Secretum...thanks for offering to be my friends : ) I would love that! Cheshirecatgrin you bring up a point that i have overlooked: you can't just say "hi, nice to meet you...now whats the meaning of life". I will have to expect that friendship takes time to grow. Thanks for reminding me of that. I guess i want a magic wand so that I can just make things happen the way I want, when I want. Sans you are right...the cool people ARE here : )!!! And Christina, I feel like I am a ****** person, too, sometimes. I can only tell you from my perspective I view you differently than you view yourself. I think you are candid, wise and helpful (notice ****** is not in there : ). One other thing that we share is that my dogs are my friends too...they just are really poor conversationalists haha.