So sorry to hear so many of us have been feeling a bit blue today, but I totally agree with Fritzi - it's the full moon! I was catching up earlier while making supper and I kept saying to the iphone 'it's just the moon'! Honestly, my GP who was the most sensible lady I've ever met said she thought the effects of the full moon were a load of rubbish until she was a junior doctor and worked in A&E 
red I feel your pain, I have had that experience so many times. FWIW, Topshop Kristens are the best jeans I have ever tried. I have 2 indigo pairs of differing lenghts, a red and a cobalt. They come in lots more colours than are on the TS site ATM, always lots on ebay. I also find Ralph Lauren jeans and trousers are great cuts for me. Also Oasis can be good. Houlis were totally out for me, but I found a great pair of Oasis houli-alikes. I need to be in a great mood to go jeans shopping as it can be a salutory experience. I also echo what Annie says, when I cut out dairy, my thighs shrink! Don't let it get you down, we haven't met but you are clearly a stunner from your photos 
Hopefully our local shoemaker changed my life recently when my mum, who loves her heels but hurt her back recently and was sick of wearing flats, discovered he can take about 1/2" from the heel of any shoe/boot. Now I look at much higher heels than I used to knowing they can be customised! I have a lovely pair of brown Farhi ankle boots, I'll root around for a link.
Marsha It will probably be a great bonding experience for dh and ds to go to the interview. Take him out for cake afterwards and he can tell you all about it.
Carciofi I can see why you'd want to stick with a FurReal! I really think you deserve a regular babysitter, your dh works such long hours, it's the last thing I'd give up if I were you.
MIM I think you're absolutely right, you have had a really rough time recently and the Roxy will give you a lift. I used to expect that my dh would think the same as me and realise what/why I was feeling, but it has dawned on me that his brain works sooo differently to mine I need to spell. everything. out! It is really different when you lose your financial independance, but if he has trips away, you need treats too, otherwise resentment breeds very quickly and it's hard to go back from there. I have become very adept at squirrelling money away so that when a Roxy moment arises I have a fund. Dh and I have a tricky relationship a lot of the time, but as with toddlers and babies, it's all a phase and it will pass.
As for new babies arriving, when ds1 was a baby we were inseperable, the first night I left him was the night ds2 was born. But because we had such a bond, he was totally fine about the new baby, and they have always been the best of friends. They can fight like cat and dog, but they realise they are lucky to have one another.
Ollie I hope you are on the mend now. I always feel like that after Christmas, I pour so much energy into making it as perfect as I can that I'm burnt out by january. You are so right to plan treats to look forward to. I went to see Woody Allens 'Midnight in Paris' one morning before the holidays, it was such a treat, I felt good for days because of it.
I've taken so long to type this I've probably missed loads!