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I talked it over with my husband during lunch. We're realizing that most of the days when I've had issues have been hot. That means I didn't turn off the AC and open up the windows like I do on nice days. I didn't do it until late yesterday. We're still going to check the wall, but we think it might be the ventilation system. If it is, then it's just a matter of either 1) waiting until we have enough money to pay someone to come clean it or 2) asking Mom and Dad for that as my Christmas present - early.

I'm actually the best in the bedroom, as that's where the air filtration is running 24/7. I probably could stay with family, but that would just cause more issues (my mother and I do great, as long as we're not constantly around each other). Next week I'm going to work 5 hours away for at least a few days, so that should give anything we stir up a bit of time to settle back down before I have to stay in the house for extended periods of time.

After today...that wall is coming down over the weekend, one way or another. I'm in my office on the opposite side of the house, and having to keep eating ginger to keep from throwing up. I'm going to talk to my husband about it tonight, and probably call Dad tomorrow.

We're planning on putting in fake hardwood floors once we get some stuff paid off. I hate carpet, and am seriously considering just living with concrete floors until that happens!

Part of the bathroom wall is along the living room, the other part is an outside wall. I am a bit worried that it's seeped under the carpet in the living room, but as hubby says, that's the easiest part to get rid of!

We plan to cut a hole in it and figure out our game plan over Thanksgiving, since my husband should have more days off than usual and be able to recover from work in time to do something. Although I am wondering if maybe that's part of the reason why he's so tired when he comes home every day.

TMC - We live in a desert. I actually run humidifiers during the winter because it's so dry out here. The problem isn't that the area is humid, it's that the stuff is probably trapped in the wall. I now have an air purifier running in our bedroom, and I plan to spray down the walls in the bathroom and living room with vinegar and tea tree oil on Monday as soon as my husband goes to work (the smell of vinegar makes him sick). Hopefully that will minimize the effects until we are able to tear the wall out.

He estimated that it would take us 4 days to take the wall down because of all the plumbing and electric that is in it. We can't do that right now, so maybe by the end of the year.

I'll talk to my husband and see what we can do when, since he'll be the one who will have to do most of the work. I woke up this morning with a sore throat and itchy eyes. I just got over pink eye (for the third time since we moved into this house), so NOT happy.

The problem is that the wall behind the toilet and shower backs up to the living room. We'd be basically ripping out a wall that would let people see from our living room into our shower. We do have the window in the bathroom open now and the door into the bathroom from the bedroom closed, trying to keep more of it out of the bedroom. By the end of the year, we might be able to rip it out and get it fixed, but I'm not sure if we'll be able to afford it by then. We may have to rip out the carpet in the living room as well. I'll just keep working in my office for the moment, and run the air filters as much as we can.

I have issues with mold. We already know this. We had a plumbing issue. It involved raw sewage flowing under the wall of our house from the base of the toilet all the way to the outside. The plumbing issue is (we hope!) fixed. I poured bleach under the wall in hopes that it would kill anything that was growing in there. Apparently it didn't. Our bathroom constantly has mold growing on the walls of the shower. I end up scrubbing it down every time I'm in the shower. I've been getting very nauseated and tired at home. I get heartburn almost every night. I don't get much done because I'm exhausted. I went to help my bosses set up their new office, which involved me being out of town for 4 days. I didn't have any problems, even though we were eating out and eating crap the entire time. I came back...and had heartburn that night and have been nauseated and tired all day. We can't afford to take the wall down right now. I plan on getting an air filtration system or 2, and putting one in my bedroom and one in the living room (the bathroom is off our bedroom, and shares a wall with the living room). Is there anything else I can do? I don't want to be sick the entire time I'm at home!

If it involves cheesecake, I'm in. I need to figure out how to do a pumpkin one with a ginger snap in the bottom...

1) People mentioned fried cheese cake. We NEED the recipe for this, please. 2) In the thread with the pictures, WormGuy mentioned cheese cakes made with Oreos in the base. We NEED this recipe as well. 3) I wanna go next year! 4) I should check out busuu.

That does NOT provide the required information. Can anybody else who was there help?

What' I want to know is...who made the cheesecake, and can we have the recipe?

If you get caught with a bunch of cash, they can seize it and keep it for absolutely no reason since almost all of the money in the US is contaminated with drug residue. Apparently saving is now un-American. Where's Mr. McCarthy?

Hmmm. Since part of the reason the 1918 flu was so bad was because it caused a cytokine storm in healthy individuals, I wonder if the death rate would be even higher if the same flu resurfaced nowadays?

They make little elastic straps with clips on both ends that you put on your fitted sheet across the corners underneath. $5, and our sheets last a LOT longer.

Woohoo! I definitely want to see what y'all are making, even if things are too much in flux for me to participate this time 'round.

I've seen t-shirt quilts before, but as I said, these definitely aren't pretty...I don't quilt, but I do need to start sewing more, as well as finding more crafts I can do out in the living room!

I was reading a fictional book about one of the Romanov relations leaving Russia, and it talks about all of the maids being put to work sewing gold and jewels into the hems and linings of dresses and coats. If you wear clothing that is lined, you can stitch things inside the lining as well.

If they were pretty colors, I might consider trying to save them up to do a rag rug...but they're not. I plan to use them for cleaning rags.

If I want to make rags out of t-shirts, will they hold up alright if I cut them with regular scissors or pinking shears? My hubby cleaned out his closet, so I now have plenty to use as cleaning rags for a bit. He said that as long as they're not being thrown out or something where they're useless, I can do whatever I want with them.

I have friends who are going Pinterest crazy. Sometimes, it's useful. Like when it leads me here: http://pinterest.com/orange76501/zombie-apocalypse/ They have things like how to make a candle out of a tub of Crisco, skin & clean a snake, and all sorts of other random useful things. They also have one on how to turn a mason jar into a 100-hour candle (note: only lasts for 50 with the way the wick is adjusted on hers)