Oh,mopsy, take care! And even if monitoring is a pain, just think of the chance of sitting down!
Seven, how are you? Looking forward to your "imminent release"? I'm not sure whetherto wish you delivery soon or not: you do soundvery uncomfortable! (unlike DrFunkes, with her little Braxton Hicks stealth boast 
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My brother was admitted to hospital this weekend with alcohol poisoning. This follows "incidents" at work dating back to the spring, and a spell in rehab this June.I really don't know what to do about it,or what not to do, either, as we're 3,000 miles apart, and are not very close. Not that we hate each other; we just don't know each other very well, given we haven't lived together since I was about 14/15 and he was 11/12. I've read endless advisories on not being able to change people if they don't want to change, warnings against codependency, etc... and those seem conveniently compatible with our history and the geographical distance, as well as compatible with not-caring and not-helping. Yet I can't sail past this window, either, as then we will never be any closer, and may even grow further apart. 
DH and I are going to give DM some money to go out and spend time with him, but I'm not sure if that's "personal" enough to let him feel we (I) care. He's alone in the States, and I think that has been the case for longer than it's good to remember. He had two unsuccessful stints at boarding school when he was starting secondary (and our parentswere divorcing at home, so there wasn't much joy to be had there, either), and despite returning to our mother's to get through high school, the period probably left a big break in him somewhere.
More cheerfully, congrats to mrfiggy on the job! Maybe figgyboy will buck up his potty training when he sees more of Daddy?
Fingers and legs crossed for everyone with the potty training. My little creature tells me about number 1s but not number 2, andthat was the worst sticking point when we first tried PT, and why we gave up. There's no window in the foreseeable future, as we're meant to be going away in late August, and thatwill include a 2-3 day absence of me and DH, while the DC stay with PILs, so she will be climbing the walls. Then whenwe come back, we still won't have moved,and there's no WAY I'm having her sneakily crapping in packing boxes! 
Oi, those are some really crap stress symptoms! I get stress spots as well (have got some at the moment, with DH's cousins staying - 4 KIDS,including 2 TEENAGERS 
). I'm hoping to get some time to get back to the Oil Cleansing Method, to clear up my face, and that might help you, too? At the very worst, it makes you massage your face,but at best, it clears out your pores and moisturises your face (without the harsh effect of cleansers). I use the castor oil and avocado oil.
CBeebies presenters... Hmm.... I don't have a real thing for any of them,except flashes of something with Alex. Luckily we don't seemuch real-time TV now,with the iPLayer. Phew.
Rather a long post, and rambling, sorry. I'm typing in a Windows "notepad", which has no hard carriage returns, so I have no idea what I've written in most of my long paragraphs! In addition, the space bar is buggered on our "family" laptop, and my own "baby laptop" was fried by injudicious useof an adaptor inCanada !