Drama will suck the life out of any situation, sory to hear that it killed APA for you. I guess we're lucky that there's fairly little drama to deal with, and most of it is ignorable.
I started in 2009, when it was still legal to smoke in bars, I was so happy when 2010 hit and they passed the law here in OR, no more smoking in bars!! And yes...I am a smoker...but smoking indoors is just plain gross.
We actually took a year off when we brought Kujo home, I didn't want to leave him alone for 5 hours when he was a puppy. Now that he's a big boy we decided to get back into it. I've been loving every minute of it!