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Twins outlast Rays on Young's RBI single - Major League Baseball

ST. PETERSBURG -- Manager Ron Gardenhire said Tuesday that if he had to pick one hitter to be in the batter's box with runners in scoring position, it would be Delmon Young. Young got that opportunity in the ...

Rockies start up road trip in Pittsburgh - Seattle Post Intelligencer

(Sports Network) - Jeff Francis has company with regard to the Colorado Rockies' single-season wins record. He probably couldn't be happier. One day after All-Star Ubaldo Jimenez tied a club record, Francis ...

Giants wrap up road trip with loss to Braves - San Francisco Giants

ATLANTA -- The Giants will head home hoping to reclaim lost momentum following Sunday's 6-3 loss to the Atlanta Braves. San Francisco finished 2-4 on this two-city trip, dropping three of four to National ...

Braves 4, Mets 1: Mets Lose to Braves to Start Trip - New York Times

Mets starter Johan Santana struck out 11 batters, a season high, but gave up three runs in the first inning and took the loss. Now 53-53, the Mets have lost 20 of their last 30 games to drop to .500 for the ...

RBI Team In Hoboken Well Worth the Wait After Trip to World Series - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)

Their journey is one that has been building for years, ever since they were a club team in Newark. Head coach Vinny Johnson tried to get his girls softball team recognized by RBI (Reviving Baseball in the ...

Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens dies in plane crash during fishing trip - FOX News

An amphibious plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens crashed into a remote mountainside during a fishing trip, killing the state's most beloved political figure and four others and stranding the survivors on a ...

Ryan Kalish's Fearlessness to Be Tested in First Big League Trip to Yankee Stadium - NESN.com

Ryan Kalish was a high school star at Red Bank Catholic High School in New Jersey, about an hour's drive from New York City. He even attended some World Series games at Yankee Stadium when he was a kid. When ...

Miles 9th inning single lifts Pelicans - SCNow

Myrtle Beach’s Cory Miles delivered a two-RBI single in the top of the ninth inning to defeat Lynchburg 4-2 on Wednesday night. Hit were hard to come by, each team managed only five hits. For the second ...

Persistence pays off for Penn State grad and single mother of five - Digital Collegian

University Park, Pa. — Micelle Emery of Fairfax, Va., is ready to take a semester off after the year she has had. She got divorced, became a single mother of five children ages 7 to 15, moved and started a ...

Residents' life-changing trip to Kenya helps children get basic necessities - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

Several Wellington residents recently spent three weeks in Kenya with the local nonprofit organization Dream Sponsors, which sponsors orphans in Kenya providing them with the necessities, such as food, shelter ...

Open Question: Help! I think I pretty much screwed my chances up.....!?

Okay, well last year/semester, I totally fell head-over-heels for this guy. And I was so afraid to tell him...so towards the end of the year, I had a friend of mine (and a good friend of his) tell him I like him. But, I didn't know that the day before, he had just started dating this other girl in our class. :( So, I did my best to try to get over him, and he eventually stopped talking to me altogether. He didn't even talk to me on our class trip this summer. Then, the summer passed and I was CERTAIN I was completely over him. And school started (Monday). And I discover that in my first class, Geometry, I end up right in front of him (the teacher put us in alphabetical order by our last name - which both of ours starts with the same letter). And he was all "Heyyyy! Emillyyyy!" he said it just like that, dragging out the last vowels, and tapping my shoulder in class and what not. But I figured he was still dating whatsherface, so I was a total b!tch to him, trying to kill those feelings I still apparently had. (And he hasn't talked to me since Monday..) But that afternoon, I got on Myspace and checked his profile. He's now single! And he told my friend he'd keep me in mind..... I feel like I totally screwed up! I swear, I thought they were still dating and I didn't wanna get into any "stop trying to steal my bf!!" crap :/ I feel really bad about it now... But, do you think that it meant anything?Er well, my friend asked him to keep me in mind, cuz apparently "I'm great" BS. Anyway, before he started dating the other girl, he flirted with me. A lot...so.. but the girl was a total whore who had just dated another guy the week before..I don't eat donuts everyday asshole! In fact, he thinks i am not fat. He told me so! HAHA more

Open Question: RAW Episode 20 (Rate the show, 10 Points best review)?

WWE Royal Rumble Results: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;… Video: Royal Rumble Highlights, Batista is going to Wrestlemania Intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyZ0uMSoa… Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler at ringside tonight: - Batista is Going To WRESTLEMANIA after winning the Royal Rumble - World Tag Team Champion Tajiri vs. Sylvain Grenier - Edge vs. Batista in the main event - Shawn Michaels talking about SmackDown!'s Kurt Angle Evolution comes out and cut a promo. World Heavyweight Champion Triple H grabs the mic and says "Last night at the Royal Rumble, I Triple H retained the World Heavyweight Championship against Randy Orton, and now we have another Evolution Member Dave Batista becoming the winner of the Royal Rumble, this wil be a brand new era in the WWE the Evolution Era because we will have RAW's World Heavyweight Champion Triple H and SmackDown!'s WWE Champion Dave Batista and side by side with the Nature Boy Ric Flair in our corner no one will stop Evolution" Then a videotape is played: WWE Champion JBL from SmackDown! says "Sure Dave Batissta won the Royal Rumble, but Batista is not in my league!" Batista looks at the tape, Match 1: Singles Match World Tag Team Champion Tajiri w/World Tag Team Champion William Regal defeated. Sylvain Grenier w/Robert Conway: 6:24 Eric Bishcoff is seen anserwing a phone and then Muhammad Hassan comes with Daivari and then Hassan says to Bchsoff "Eric Bischoff, last ngith at the Royal Rumble, it was not fair!, I got backstabbed by so much WWE Superstars, I should have been the one going to Wrestlemania and becoming the Number 1 Contender, Bichsoff then says "Then prove it tonight, Because tonight Muhammad Hassan puts his 3-0 record against the man that got screwed out of the World Heavyweight Championship last night "The Legend Killer" Randy Orton. Match 2: Tag Team Match Kane and Intercontinental Champion Shelton Benjamin w/Lita defeated. Gene Snitksy and Christian w/Tyson Tomko and Women's Champion Trish Stratus: 8:32 After the match all the talent involved in the match brawl. In the end Snitksy, Christian, Tomko and Trish stand tall. Shawn Michaels comes out and cuts a promo. Shawn says 'At The Royal Rumble ,I eliminated Kurt Angle, but it seems that Kurt did take it seriously and then he hit me with an Angle slam and eliminated me. Well Mr. Angle you don't mess with the Heart Break Kid Shawn Michaels and you don't mess with The Showstoppa , Mr. Wrestlemania!" Match 3: Singles Match Muhammad Hassan w/Khosrow Daivari defeated. Randy Orton w/Stacy Keibler: 16:34 Hassan won after he reversed the RKO into a small cradle for the win. After the match Hassan started attacking Orton until Chris Benoit came out and applied the Crossface onto Hassan. Next Week RAW From Japan: Huge Main Event: World Heavyweight Championship: Triple H defends against Edge. And also Women's Championship: Trish Stratus(c) vs. Stacy Keibler Simon Dean promoting his Simon System to Viscera, But Viscera rejects it. Then Simon says "Maven, will be the new Face of the Simon System" Main Event: Singles Match Edge defeated. Batista w/World Heavyweight Champion Triple H and Ric Flair: 9:35 After a camer went backstage and we saw JBL's limo outside. Batista wasdistrratced and lost focus and then Edge hit a spear and Edge wins and then Triple H and Batista go outside to see if the limo is still there, It appears to have dissapered until the headlights come on bright and the Limo speeds up the road and it nearly runs down Batista but Triple H saves Batista's @$$ in the parking lot. Batista then says "I might make a trip to SmackDown! this Thursday!" Rating: Moment: Best/Worst Match and Night TV Rating: (using decimal) BQ: Do you like the build up. more

Open Question: He has a girlfriend - and he is too friendly or is he flirting?

This client comes to the office once a week, i barely know him, but every time he comes, he sort of sit down close to my desk and chat about arts, trips, etc. He keeps mentioning his girlfriend, but he stands close and talks for ages, and opens up about personal life, his tastes, likes and dislikes, his outlook in life, ask my opinion, and is always curious about me and my points of view. He is gorgeous and very friendly, and I never make any move to invite this conversations - he just sits down and start talking about his private life and make a lot of piercing eye contact He pays a lot of attention to me, my opinions, and he's older than me. I checked him at FB and his status is single. so what do you think? Is he friendly chatting or friendly flirting? more

Open Question: Thermostat shows blank display- Simple Comfort 2001?

Woke up this morning and the LCD display on the thermostat is blank, A/C wont come on. Removed cover, pressed reset button, checked wire connections- all snug.....didn't see a battery to replace. Checked circuit breaker and it wasn't tripped so i turned it off before going to the attic to check the covers on the blower- they were still on. I have a single A/C condenser and gas for heat. Im going to remove cover on condenser and check wires going to that.... When I was in attic I looked inside blower and saw a bundle of wires and found a wire with connector attached thats not hooked up. Im assuming that not all wires are used in the blower depending on the setup. ie. heat pump or gas electric combo....am I wrong HVAC guys?? What else should i do?Just heard a click from the thermostat like it does when it turns on or off. display came back on and read: DIFF 01 then it showed 85 (the inside temp) pressed temp down button and it showed the set temp that i have been keeping it on, so it saved that info. Looks like my digital thermostat is going bad? Does anyone know what DIFF 01 means? my guess is the difference in temp when the unit will turn on or off....because it will go off after it reaches 1 degree above or below the set temperature. BEST ANSWER goes to whoever can tell me what may have caused the thermostat to act like that, or whoever is most helpful. THANK YOU everyone. more

Open Question: Am I being used by my friend?

I have a friend who I speak more on the phone to than I actually see in person. She is a single mom and well I am kind of a soon to be. We both have our own problems except that she has three kids and I only have one, she has a job and I don't. She has asked me for favors in the past and I have asked her for one or two but for the most part I like to do things on my own and not really bother anyone. Lately she has been expressing to me that money is tight and I tried my best to ref-fer her to a friend for a higher paying Job, but I guess her company decided not to bring her on board. She knows that I am at home with my daughter right now and she asked me four weeks ago if I could watch her two kids for the rest of the summer for $150.00 a week because she could not afford to pay her sitter and she needed to save some money for school supplies. I said no because I am currently trying to start a new career I have been studying and taking test and I have to start looking for a Job in that field, I stay with my daughter at home because I can not afford to send her to daycare any longer but it is hard for me to get business done with the one child I have. A week after she asked me for that favor I invited her to my daughter's b-day party she said yes and it was with a three weeks notice. Last week I sent a text as a reminder to confirm who was coming, she said she was not sure if she would make it in time because they took a trip to the beach and were driving back the day of the party. She also asked me if she could borrow $75, which I told her I did not have. She never came to the party, I went by her office to drop off the books that she had loaned me and notice she had a new hair style, she asked me how the job search was going and I mentioned it was a bit more expensive than I thought it would be to start that career so she referred me to a girl we both worked with in the past to see if she had to pay as much when she got into that career. Today she text me because she had her oldest daughter with her at work and she was bored with nothing to do and wanted to know if she can stay with me for a while. I feel like I am being used I mean yes I am home but does it make me selfish for not wanting to take on more than I can handle. Please tell me is this a good friend or not or am I the bad friend/ more

Open Question: ugh boys, idk what to do with them...?

well i'm caught between 3 boys. i'll identify them by the first letter of their name. B: he's a guy i went to school and church with before i moved. i liked him for two and a half years and i told him how i felt about him before i left. things were a bit confusing but i made sure to make it clear that i didnt expect anything out of him, that i just want to be friends. he agreed and said he'd be honored to be my friend but after that we hadn't talked for months and the only conversations we had were brief and i was always the one to start them and he was always the one to end them. i decided that i wanted to get over him completely and when i came to visit last week i saw him and snaped right back into liking him the way i did before i left. i just dont know how to get over him completely while still maintaining a friendship. J: he went to the same church that B and i went to. he dated one of my friends for a bit but they broke it off. i liked him when he was dating her and a little bit before that too but i tried to keep that idea out of my head. now he's been single and when i went to visit last week i bumped into him several times and he was very easy to talk to and i remembered exactly why i liked him. he told me he was going to college near where i live so that made me realize i'd have a better chance with him now that he wouldnt be so far away. we talked about his trip to egypt he had this summer and i told him that my parents would love to hear his story about his trip and he said that he'd love to come by and that i could hit him up when ever and hed come by on a weekend or something. so we exchanged numbers. hes really sweet and i do like him but idk if he's got his mind set on friendship or more. plus i feel like he's off limits because he dated one of my friends. M: he's a guy i currently go to church with. i went to this church when we were younger. he's a year younger than me but you would've never guessed that. we've known each other since we were literally babies. our dads are really good friends. i stopped going to this church when i moved and him and i lost contact. but i moved back and we reconnected a little bit but it feels like we're back to being strangers and i just don't know how to break that boundry. theres always that bit of awkwardness just because we are family friends and that we grew up together when we were younger. i know that he's been trying to get this other girl's attention but that doesnt bother me because i still feel like i'd have a chance with him but i just dont know how to fully reconnect with him to the point where i could really talk to him wiht out it being awkward more

Open Question: Which class should I take?

I am starting college next fall and need to pick one of the following classes. I don't remember much from 10th grade biology, but I do know I mostly enjoyed the ecology portion. I'm not sure, though, if college ecology will be anything like it was in my biology class. I like earth science, but I'm not sure environmental science would be anything like the earth science class I took. Environmental science seems to be difficult. I'm not looking for an easy class, but I want something I'm not capable of doing, and I want something I will enjoy. I'm also wondering if I shouldn't just take regular biology. But I really want to take classes that interest me. I'm a liberal arts major. Introductory Biology Introduction to biology, the science of life. Includes: origin and nature of life, from simplest single-celled forms to complex plants and animals and human beings. Appreciation of diversity and unity in living world by studying form and organization of the bacteria and other cells to specialization of structures in human body. Introduction to Ecology Explores structure and function of ecosystems. Study of general ecological principles in context of current problems in world's ecosystems. With lab: Ecological investigations in field and laboratory settings and procedures similar to those used by ecologists to study the natural world. Environmental Science Study of biological and physical characteristics and principles of nature. Deals with diverse topics such as ecology, endangered species, pollution, meteorology, earth studies, populations, etc. Occasional guest speakers or field trips included.I don't want anything with a lot of math. Some is fine. But when the course is 99% (exaggeration) math, then I don't want to take it.*Something I AM capable of doing more

Open Question: Single Ladies (dating/wanting2date) single daddies.?

About 3 months ago my long-term relationship ended. This co-worker of mine finally responded to me, he had never spoken to me, even with the 2 years he's been working with me at this location, (I've been here for four years). So, I took a shot & have been casually talking to him. I'm 22 with no children he's 28 with two handsome little boys. He is black I'm hispanic. =] (race doesnt matter but just informing ) We've talked about "what if" dates happen, how would I handel his child support issues <very personal things in his life. It's been about 3 months we been talking but durring this time we have "hooked up" more than twice, I say 4 times. << that's alot I think. Now lately he seems to be growing distance from me, I dont know what I did to sorta drive him away or to "think that's what I'm doing". I ask him if he likes to kiss me?, if he thinks about spending time with me?... his responds was "sorry i was busy, YES". So his singals point towards he's kinda digging me but I don't know how to control myself around him. I feel like I annoy him and two I want him to step it up & really show he's interested but I can't stop texting him with little hints that he's super fine or that you know any questions to feel like he's opening up with me, just small chit chat. There is no boss here at work today, I sent him an e-mail saying. "Kisses ? No one is here. (we moved a bunch of stuff last night, then played the game stayed up late, kinda sleepy)" his reply -I went to sleep early : ( , woke up early not too tired but got lots to do, ttyl have a good day : )" now that seems nice but I mean I dont know, I really like his kisses, his whole figure, I feel I'm obsessing and I don't want this to drive him away. I think about his touch, his kisses, his face, everything. When the weekend comes around I get upset cuase I wont see him untill we come back to work, we try to spend time outside of work but he's told me his weekends are really busy and we'll he gets around to replying or answer my calls when were away from work, but we dont get that alone time beside when we go to lunch on the (DownLow). << we dont want people tripping and gossiping about us at work so we have keep this between us. I dont know how to feel or act on this situation. Please help, people say a lady shouldn't date a single father but what the harm if a single man can date a single mother? I need some chill cool advise to really get him super attracted to me again. I'm fine with his situations I tell him I understand and I dont' really pour alot of myself into this were not an exclusive couple and I'm keeping chill and as calm as I can be. He always seems so sorry that he can't give me these kisses when I want or being able to spend time with me. I do get it he's a single dad but if he had intrest before and sorta still shows he does, why can't he show more? I would be ready to handle becoming a stepmomma figure with his kids & I would never appreciate or respect them and thier own mothers. (2 kids 2 diff baby mommas) He's SOOO handsome and mature, he says he respects me & each time I ask him if he likes doing this or that with me it's always a yes. =[ I'm such a girl reading to much into things... Please help advise me. Thanks.********QUESTION IS SHOULD I CONTINUE TO TRY WITH HIM OR YOU THINK THERE IS NO HOPE, I LIKE HIM ALOT AND WANT TO SHOW HIM WHAT I'M ABOUT AND SEE WHAT HE IS ALL ABOUT AS WELL. more

Open Question: Why am i good at wrestling, i've never had any training lessons are tips from wrestlers?

i still manage to take people down though like single legs and tripping the other I had a guy who was 1.4 stone heavier than me and he had a clean double leg but still couldn't get me down. I was just hoping around holding onto his body pushing it up so he couldn't get me. Do i have a talent. My dad did wrestling for 5 months when he was a kid so he has some knowledge, a lot more than me at least. Hes 16.8 stone and he couldn't take me down but i got him down easily when i'm 11.4 stone more

Open Question: single day trip out of delhi with b.f on my b'day?

i am 20 n am Hoping something adventuruous or memorable. which places would be good? more

Open Question: Who is out of line??? (sorry about length)?

I'm a 24 year old single mother with a 3 year old. I'm living with my mother until I finish up school approx. a year from now. First thing first, I am forever in debt to my mother for being gracious enough to allow my son and i to live with her.I thank her 100 times a day. The problem is it seems to me that she doesn't want anything to do with her grandchild. I don't ask her to babysit every night and have never even spent one night away from my son. I love him, I'm the parent, and he is my responsibility. I know this and welcome it and love love love every minute i get to spend with him. I rarely ask her to watch him, but when I do I always promise to not leave until he's fast asleep (which can take absolutely forever). I understand its hard to get him to bed, so i never ask her to watch him before bedtime. That way, if he wakes up or needs a drink( which has never happened, he sleeps like a rock all night), all she needs to do is tuck him back in or call me and i'll come right home. I don't even consider this completely "babysitting" since its always when he's asleep. Maybe I'm wrong. It's to the point now that she refuses to even keep an ear out. She is completely uninvolved with him during the daytime. Occasionally he gets about 5 min of her attention, before she calls on me to "give her a break". She has never gone on an outing with us in 3 years. We go to the park almost everyday and she has never even gone with us once, even when invited. Another thing is: she refuses to let people come into our house. ever. I'm still relatively young and have tried dating, but my circumstance at home just doesnt allow it. She refuses to watch my son and since she has a thing about people visiting, that's out too.She's also mentioned several times that "most babysitters get paid." Ive been dumped over this once. I'm seeing someone now and i get embarrased having to explain these things. I feel like nobody should waste their time with me because it would be like dating an 8th grader. This upsets me because by even just asking i get yelled at and heavy guilt trips thrown my way about her letting us live here. The way we are going my son's only memories of her will be those five min windows when she seems obviously put out. Also, it has bevcome impossible for me to even keep a relationship. Again, I am always thankful and polite. I run all errands as well because when she isnt at work, she never leaves the house. She hasnt been to a grocery store,to pay a bill, and hasnt driven her own car( i drive her to work too) in three years. Am i asking for too much by wanting a night out every once in a while? Or should i just be ok with the idea waiting another year to get those occasional nights? more

Resolved Question: My Girlfriend's mum doesnt like me...?

Well, here's the low down... (I know it's alot, but easy 10pts) :) Me and my Girlfriend have been together for 6 months last sunday, and i don't know if im not being open minded enough or what..? But i don't think that she likes me... I wouldn't go as far as to say that she hates me... Right? o_O Well to start with, she's foreign... She's from an Eastern European country... let's say Russia... (incase she sees) and has a very stern look about her. Sometimes, she smiles in passing, but she doesnt really talk to me, and doesn't really acknowledge my presence most of the time... Okay, granted; sometimes she will let me stay for dinner, and not that i expect to.. ofcourse i dont, but when my girlfriend insists on asking if i can, the answer is usually "no". or "n'yet," lol :L Yeah, that's another thing, she speaks russian with the idea that i wont be able to understand a word, but unknown to her OR my girlfriend, i do understand intermediate russian :) She almost can't wait to see the back of me... "What time is james going home?" (russian) and i honestly, HONESTLY bust my balls trying to please her, and try and be liked, but now, i guess ive just given up trying... the last few times, shes greeted me with smiles etc and ive just been like :| hello... being pleasant, mind you... not rude... just not trying to be over polite, because to tell the truth, i can't be arsed. Question is..? - Is what I am doing: Right? Mature/Immature? - Is it the wrong thing to do? - Am I over-reacting and it's just part of her foreign strictness..? - Are there any other ways that i could go about it..? oh, and i guess it's also worth mentioning; my girlfriend swears blind that she doesnt dislike me, it's just the way she is... and even got her mum to tell me... and its was just me and her mum, the tension was unbelievable... I was waiting for my girlfriend to get ready and i was on her sofa watching whatever was on TV... she offered me tea, and she suddenly went "**** tells me zhat you think i don't liak you... zhat's not true, i zsink you're a cool guy..." and that put it to rest for about... a month and a half... until she found out that we were sexually active, and now probably thinks that all i want is sex... and nothing could be further from the truth... i love her no end... and yes, i use condoms... and she knows it (mum)... I ALSO think it's worth mentioning that its ALWAYS me that goes to my girlfriends house.. because her mum is a lazy, tight ass f*ck, and wont drive my GF.... and i pay about £5 for a round trip ticket each weekend... Her mum is a single parent, but dates guys... My GF doesnt know her dad... But anyway, you're help would really be appreciated guys... sorry i wrote so much... :) Thanks, James(: more

Resolved Question: For the ladies...Going to the movies alone, would you believe me?

I'm a 33 yr old male that lives by himself. (if this means anything) During my single life, sometimes I like to have some by myself time. On Tuesday nights, I like to go see a late movie (10pm movie or something like that), eat popcorn, and just chill out looking at a good movie. While I was dating this girl, she understood this and accepted it. We are now in a relationship and I still would like to SOMETIMES continue my by myself time by going to see a nice movie on a weekday night. So, I did last week but I fail to mention it to her. I just got up and went without hesitation. She ended up calling me while I was at the movies (phone on vibrate) and I did answer. I told her I was at the movies chilling and she was like "uhhh okay". She talkied to me for a few minutes then I told her I will call once the movie is over (cause I was trying to see the movie). So she said "okay" and I hung up. It's been a week now and she's been acting kind of funny. I asked her why she been trippin lately and she comes right out and say "You sure you were at the movies by yourself last week?" WTF... I told her YES but she giving me looks like she don't believe me. So my question to the ladies is "Would you be acting like my gf the same way too?" She I stop going to movies alone on a weeknight or should she be able to trust me? Am I making our relationship difficult to deal with? P.S. Me and her go out plenty of times so I don't know why she tripping. more

Open Question: Antalya, Kusadasi, Bodrum, Marmaris??

I am a doctor & leaving for Turkey as a Single Traveller..... Need a real unwinding trip... Never been to Turkey before... Have 10-12 days and would like to visit atleast 3 beach resorts... charming beaches, good bars, belly dancing (have heard a lot of this) night life, fun, girls (yeah... docs too have a heart.... topless will have additional points)... Dont mind even if place is crowded with either Brits, Germans or Russians (Love Them All).... Where should i go..... My picks are Antalya, Marmaris, Bodrum, Kusadasi etc... But any other suggestion is welcomed... If you Suggest Marmaris the please explain which part of Marmaris (oludeniz, icmeler, fethiye, marmaris) and why that part??? One more request.. kindly suggest a tour in continuity so that i can follow a road trip ;) more

Open Question: Single day trip out of delhi with b.f on b'day?

i am 21, n wanna go out of delhi 4 a single day trip with my b.f on my bday, something adventurous. more

Open Question: My husband slept in the same bed with a single woman for 8 nights on a vacation w/his friends. Is this ok?

Even in the photos of the trip the two couples stood together, and my husband and this single woman were together. I am very upset. I couldn't go, because I have Multiple Sclerosis, and only 10 days before had just had gall bladder surgery. I can barely look at him now, and I want to scream and yell, and kick him out. We have been married for 38 years. more

Open Question: Could this dream mean anything?

okay, I tried posting this before but it didn't post, so I'm gonna just make this as short as possible. Usually I dream A LOT, and my friends hardly ever dream, or don't dream at all, I ask them what their dreams were like everyday. /: Last night I had a few dreams, but I can hardly remember them, and I can only remember one, not fully, but better than the rest. My friend Mikey & I, we were exploring, or something. We ended up in this weird caged up place, that was flooded. It wasn't clear water or anything, it was like mucky sewer water. And the place we were at was really dark, plus all the walls (If you could find any) were so dirty, (the walls were tile, but because of the dirt you couldn't really see how white it was anymore it was just all basically brown). I wanted to explore deeper into it, Mikey just wanted to leave. So I left him alone, and continued. Soon I entered a maze type of thing, the water was a bit higher now. I came to an end, and randomly dived into the water, the water was like crystal clear if you were under the surface , I saw Mikey and other people, just laying at the end, dead. Someone grabbed me and took me to the surface again. It was my brother & Mikey's friend, Suzie. I don't really know her all that much, just that she's REALLY pretty and pretty much reminds me of a doll in every single way. Not like a barbie doll though, just super pretty, no flaws, skinny, and yeah. She was trying to help me out, but she had traveled to far ahead. I tripped and fell under. Mikey and all those people were still there, but they were dragging me with them this time. Then I woke up. I'm not really scared or anything, I actually dream like this a lot, it never bothers me. But I was wondering if it had some kind of meaning or something? more

Open Question: US L1 visa how long i can stay back in single trip?

In US L1 visa how long i can stay in one trip?Is there any I-94 kind of thing is there for L1 also? Note:My visa has 3 year validity. more

Resolved Question: Would you feel awkward and how would you handle a cheating aquaintance?

My husband has a co-worker he's known for just over 4 years. The guy is a complete douche, he has a wife and an almost 3 year old daughter and the guy cheats on his wife constantly. Here's the thing though he never actually has sex with other women but he's done everything else. He's given rim jobs, topless massages, stolen under wear from their dirty clothes hamper and taken it home as a souvineer. He even flirts shamelessly with other women when his wifes not around. My husband has to associate with this jerk unfortunatly because of his job so he tried to ignore the douche as best he can. He has naked pics of other women in his phone and he has told my husband that if one of these women showed up on his doorstep asking him to runoff and be with her that he would leave his wife in a heartbeat. My husband says he hates listening to this guy brag about his conquests but he doesnt want to cause stress at work and a fight so he just nods his head and walks away. I get fed up with it because the wife calls, texts, and emails me all the time about how bad the husband treats her, how he won't have sex with her, wont spend time with her etc..But she can't figure out why.. I tried telling her once that maybe her husband wasnt being faithful and she blew up at me and said i was making it all up so i havent touched the issue since then, and at my husbands request i am trying to butt out so we don't have to deal with them. For instance just recently the husband went on a supposed boys only river float trip and left his wife and kid at home for his birthday. The week after that all of the single guys on the trip were telling my husband (he's their boss) that this guy flirted with every woman who crossed his path the entire trip. My husband just shrugged and told the single guys that's just how he is.. My husband feels bad for the wife and irritated by the guy but what can he do? My husbands military and a superior officer to this guy but he doesnt want to cause a lot of fighting and problems in the workplace..Is there a polite way to tell this dude to keep his conquests to his self and leave us out of it? We have turned down invites to BBQ's and banquets and other military functions just to avoid this a-hole and his jerry springer drama, but as my husband moves up in rank it's getting harder and harder to avoid him and his wife..What are some good solutions to our problem without causing to much drama..Wow, so watching another man be immoral is blowing it out of proportion? I can continue to ignore them that's not the issue. it just gets old after a while....Thank you Suzy so nice to hear from another wife about this. My husband hasnt been in too long but he is a Ssgt now so he does have a few people under him including this piece of work. He doesnt want to file paper work and all that unless he's pushed to his limit, but he's really tired of this SOB's attitude and drama. I'll mention to him what you said...thank u so much... more

Open Question: What can I do to help myself?

I'm not sure if this will help me, but I have no one else to talk to. I feel like I am losing control of my life. I think it all began when I was 18, in feb of 06, when my daughter was stillborn. I dont think I can describe the pain I went through...and am still going through. It felt like my heart had been ripped from my chest, and ever since, every single day, it feels like someone is squeezing it with all their might. Not to long after that, I had gotten pregnant again. It was an accident. My boyfriend (now husband) and I didnt know how to communicate our pain to each other and I think we found a sort of comfort in making love to each other. It was the first time since our daughter had passed. When I found out I was preganant again, I was scared to death. I was also disappointed in myself, I felt like I was cheating my daughter somehow. Not to long after that I started bleeding. I had to go to the hospital several times, and then finally one saturday morning, I went to the bathroom and my miscarriage started. I lost the baby. I felt like a hollow shell. I dont even remember how I managed to breathe after that. A couple of months after the miscarriage and the death of my daughter I found out my boyfriend was cheating on me...with a pregnant girl. He had cheated on me a couple of times before, but that had been when we had first started dating...before we were in love and before we had had a child. His mother was the one who told me of his running around. I guess I had been so blind, lost in all my sorrow that I didnt see what was going on right in front of me. Of course I confronted him and threatend to leave, and he said he didnt do it. I dont know why I believed him. Something in my heart told me he was telling the truth. and I think maybe I was to afraid to lose the only other thing I loved. So I stayed. We decided to move out of state... that his family was trying to sabotage our relationship and that we would be better off going somewhere and starting over, somwhere we could overcome our loss. We moved to Arkansas, into his Fathers home. His Father wasn't a big part of his life so it was almost as if we moved in with a stranger. His Father of course had a new family... A wife and step children. And at first, it was ok. The country side was beautiful and I got to experience a sort of purity I had never had had before living in the city. But things got bad rather quickly. His stepmother and step sisters began being awful to us. They would call us names and tell us the only thing we were good for was having kids so that they would die. They would tell me I was jealous of them because they could have babies and I couldnt. From the time we had moved in, I had always done everything I could do to be of help. And I never did and unkind thing to anyone. They treated me like a slave. I became the only one to cook and clean, not to mention one of his step sisters dropped their baby off on me, and wouldnt be back for days to get him. I became his Mother just about. And what made it worse was the fact that my boyfriend was leaving me to do all this on my own. He would disappear off into his own world or go off with his family and I'd be left alone by myself.. just me and the baby. In Feb of 07 my boyfriend was going away for two weeks with the ARMY and he asked me if I wanted to go home and visit my family while he was gone. Due to the horrible life I had at that point and the fact that I missed my Mother more than anything, I jumped on a grayhound the day he left, and made my way back home. I had a good time with my family...even visiting his sister and her daughter because they had been a big part of my life before we moved. The whole time I was home, my boyfriend hardly called me...and if I called him he usually was to busy to talk longer than 15 mins. Finally when he returned to arkansas, back from his trip with the ARMY I got a hold of him one night at work. I had called him to tell him that I missed him and that I couldnt wait to come home and see him. But when he picked up the line I knew something was wrong. that night he broke up with me. In a conversation that lasted about 20 mins at the most. I was devestated. I had lost everything. I cried and cried for awhile... and then after about two weeks, I called him again at work. I had called him to tell him I had some of his things, and that he needed to figure out a way to get them. While we were on the phone, he told me he was living in his car. That he had had a falling out with his dad and now lived in his car in the parking lot at work. I was upset for him. Even tho he had dumped me I couldnt stand the thought of him living in his car, so, I called his sister. We three-wayed his step mother on the phone to see what had happened and what she told us broke what was left of my heart. They hadn't had a falling out. He had moved out and moved into an apartment with his girlfriend. This was only two weeks after we had broken up...so I think more

Resolved Question: What would be a safe country in Africa for a multiracial family to vacation?

I want to be able to have my child experience the world from a young age so I have decided I will take her to at least one country in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America (we are from the U.S. btw) before she is a teenager. I am a white single mom and my daughter is a six year old girl of color. I know that there are still places in Africa where there is major racial tension and it might not be safe for me or my daughter to have a family vacation there. What country or countries would it be safe to travel to in Africa for me and daughter to have a fun trip and learn about new cultures? Keep in mind that whatever county we visit will have to have enough modern attractions to accommodate a six year old who can't be out in the sun for too long and likes to swim. Thanks in advance!Please no more stupid asnwers like "somalia". For real? I haven't been lost in a cave for the past 10 years! Serious answers ONLY please. more

Open Question: My 18 mo. old hits her head on sumthing almst evryday by accident.No signs of concussion but Im still concernd?

Should I take it more seriously? She is my first and only child. I am also a single mom, so I don't really know if I should take her to the doctor every time she bangs her head on the table or trips and hits her head on the floor... She will cry for a few minutes but then she seems fine and normal.. I will usually put a cold compress on her head but it can be hard to keep it on her head since she doesnt like to stay still at this age. Any helpful advice? Anyone know a lot about concussions? Should I get a cat scan for her to make sure there was no serious damage?? Ive asked my doctor and family and friends and they all say if she seems normal then not to worry that much more

Open Question: Can this happen? (Child support question)?

My daughters Mom wants to take my husband to court for child support so that he will pay for childcare for my step daughter. She is 9 years old, she is with us 3/4's of the time, I am more than willing and capable to pick her up and drop her off at school every single day and help her with her homework and everything, I WANT to do this. But her Mom wants for my husband to pay someone else to pick her up and watch her after school. It makes no sense to me, her mom never has her so why would my husband pay her to pay someone else to watch his daughter when I am home everyday and live right by her school and have never been late to take her to school or pick her up in the past and other people who her mom has sent have either not picked her up or have been late. My husband already pays $200 a month for health insurance for her, and has given her mom hundreds of dollars each month for her mom to take her on trips that her mom has planned that have nothing to do with us. She said she wants him to start paying because she has another baby by someone else and is being court ordered to pay insurance for that baby and her boyfriend is going back to work. My question is, can she really take him to court for money to pay someone else to watch his daughter when I am more than capable to do it myself without any financial, physical, or emotional support from my step daughters mom? Or does she have no case?Maria - It's hard to stay out of it when I have raised her for 5 years. Trust me I am not going to blurt out anything to anyone, I was only asking a question on here to get answers. And it's hard to parent "together" with someone who is bipolar and has no sense of reality. more

Open Question: Why, oh why hasn't she contacted me?

I have been friends with this girl since 1992. We met when I was overseas. We were friends first and partners on and off having a long distance love over the years. We've had some good times together traveling and seeing the world. There was a strong connection. Last time we were involved was in 2005. We were planning to move countries and live together. Marriage was on the cards. Then I had a one night stand when she was travelling my country with me (keep in mind she was living with someone for two months while claiming she was single and mine in the same year). We fought a bit on the trip too as we are both stubborn. We had never experienced these problems before. Anyway we broke up and she went back overseas. Got a postcard 2 months later saying hi. Then I moved and changed email. About a month ago I thought IDE like to reconnect our old friendship (or more) and see how she is. Got her email through her work colleague and sent a nice email reminding her of the good times and IDE love to hear her news. Haven't heard from her since last Tuesday. So sent email on Saturday seeing if address is right and IDE love to hear from her. Monday now and no response. She us 38 now and I am 40. I realize she was the love of my life. So hard not to hear a friendly word even after years of friendship. Could the 5 years we didn't have contact pee her off? Surely a quick note to an old friend isn't too much to ask. Really thought I was going to have kids with her. Wish I hadn't left contact for so long. Don't know what my next move should b? Should I get down on my knees and beg for contact? Should I wait a certain time, if so, how long& what do I say, to email again. I just can't get her outta my head. Miss my mate. All advice greatly appreciated.thanksSomeone please help with advice. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated more

Resolved Question: Is it possible to eliminate a 3-way switch and replace the remaining switch with a single pole?

im doing an overhaul in my garage and im replacing my switches and recptacles. Im trying to save some money so i was wondering if it is possible to remove the one 3-way switch towards the front of my garage, cap it off, and replace the remaining 3 way switch with a single pole. LIke i said, doing this would save me some money and a trip to a store about a half hour from here (None of the local stores seem to carry lighted 3 way toggles).Thanks alot everybody. I changed the switches out and it works great. And yes i know the switch itself doesnt save any money, i meant i didnt want to spend over 20 dollars on two lighted 3 way switches. Thanks for the answers. more

Resolved Question: going back 2 give a girl my #. Ladies what do u think?

On fri I met a grl who was a teller @ chase bank n there was an obvious mutual attraction and one of her co workers said 2 me out loud "she's single too" I said "yea me too, well ill be back." So I left and was upset I didn't give her my# right there so a lady I wrk with said to buy a simple card and write in it, saying it was nice meeting you and have my # on it and to write her name on the envelope...just walk in and drop it off 2 her n leave or if she's not there leave it 4 some1 to give her. That way the ball is in her court now and it'll show her I made a special trip there and by leaving a card doesn't put her under any pressure and shows a nice gesture and I have nothing 2 lose. It is a simple blank card. This girl was gorgeous and there was much eye contact between us, I just feel I need 2 give it a shot since I didn't take my opportunity on firday. Thoughts?Yea its a simple blank card with a little flower n some stones on the front.Oh this particular location I never go to, I just happen 2 go there cuz I was n the areaSorry Their Mommy, I gave u a low rating by mistake. more

Open Question: Should I call her parents and what should I say?

This is about the lady I USED to babysit for shee owes me money and doesnt want to pay Should i call her parents to get my money. Her parents pay all her bills so should I what should I say? Well I've always had problems with her paying me. She is a single mom who doesnt work lives off her wealthy parents and alimony checks. Sh has given me checks with no funds more often than not and has also cancelled checks on me but always ends up paying me but she also eats up my hours saying I wasnt there when i was. But I have just hd enough on saturday she calls me and tells me if i could go to her house right away 20 minutes later I am there and she isnt and after waiting 40 minutes in the lobby of her building I decided to leave. She calls and txted me non stop asking me to go back and that she couldnt handle her kid. I said I had to cancel another job to be with her kid and that i had gone ot my other job. Which i hadnt. She started a guilt trip on me saying he needed me and that he was crying. No offense but its her kid and not mine. she gave birth to him. Anyway she still owed me $150 and I texted her last night asking if she could just leave the money in her lobby with an envelope and she asked if I was kidding her that after i pulled on saturday i didnt deserve that money anymore. Which I think is super wrong because I worked for that money. I witnessed so many horrible things at her house one of her friends was high as a kite one time and came over while the kid was sleeping and when I asked to leave she said no because she was scared. She smokes pot while her kids sleeps in the house. Should I call her parents and ask them to pay me. I know its just $150 but I worked hard for it. I wasted my time and my gas so I want the $$. Am I wrong? I havent worked for her in over a week and dont plan to more

Open Question: How to show my siblings personal space?

okay, my siblings have no respect for me, or my personal space, and I want to change that. I am the oldest at 14, and my sister is 11, and my brother 8. However, they both... matured slowly due to our parents being very protective and not exposing us to anything. >.< So basically, pretend my sister is 8, and my brother... 6/5. That's a better way of thinking. Basically, over the past few days, I've been attempting to explain "personal space" and the bubble of it, and so on. They are actually confused - they don't know what it is. I kid you not. They just don't. They look at me like I'm an idiot when I try and explain. Of course, not knowing what it is, means they don't respect it either. I'm constantly picked on. On EVERY. SINGLE. GODDAMN. THING. They repeat what I say five times and laugh all the while, and they think everything I say or do is stupid or funny. Mum says "they are trying to figure out humour". I'm also very secretive by nature, and I HATE when people look over my shoulder or at my screen. If they see me sitting there, they will STOP, GO BACKWARDS, and LEAN OVER and LOOK. I will /scream/ at them to go away, and this will not work. I get told off. My parents will only tell them off if I start yelling at them for a good five minutes. What do I do? they have no respect for me, or my personal space. They are always coming over when I'm cuddling my pet rat, and trying to take her away (they both have their own...) and so on, and whenever I've got something they don't, they freak out and so on. I just... I'm hitting puberty hard, I'm secretly bi, and I have a total of four friends, with the closest 45 minutes away. We're leaving on a trip this weekend... I'll be stuck in a cabin without internet or anything like that, and with them. I'll be alone (all my friends couldn't come...) and if the pattern holds, they'll come up with some game that involves picking on me. Help, please? more

Open Question: We planned a camping trip w/ our family. I'm single she is not. She invited other couples, should I still go?

I'm a single mom with two teenage girls. She has a live-in boyfriend with three kids. She always organizes BBQ's and parties at her house and they usually involve other couples with their kids. This summer, I've finally given in to my daughter's constant requests to go out camping with her and her kids. We sat down and organized a trip for this weekend. Only thing is, a few days before she informs me she invited her brother and his girlfriend and possibly other couples. When I asked her if I'd be the only single person, she confirmed most likely I would be, but that I should stay positive and that I'll have fun with her and her boyfriend. Is she that insensitive or am I being overly touchy? I want to cancel but I know my girls will be crushed. What do I do? more

Open Question: What does this dream mean?

Okay this was a couple of months ago so my memory might be a little foggy... I have no clue how the dream started but I was in this mansion. It was wooden all over, and it was me, this girl, and another guy who's name started with J. After playing in the house for a while (we're all teenagers btw, like me now) we decided to go to the ocean cause we've never been out that way before. down to the ocean was a long, steep hill (about 45 degree decline) covered in what looked like flat ruins in the ground, sort of like what castles look like now a days without all the walls. But these looked old, like 1000's of years old, and were tinted a yellowish color with some plant growing on them. On the way down I examined a bush and on one leaf I saw it was covered in strange markings, and I noticed that ALL the leaves had these markings. Suddenly I got an uneasy feeling, and I went on full alert scanning everything. J man (cause I forget his name) looked at me and asked "What's wrong?" and I said that there was a disturbance. Finally we got close to the treeline that lined the ocean, and there was this circular gap in the trees with a single swing hanging from two ropes... J man suddenly ran and we shouted "wait up!" Now this is the part where my dream gets weird... Suddenly, out of nowhere, the ocean went from dead calm to high stormy waves and began to rise, crashing into the trees. J man fell on his back and turned and ran, as the waters rose ... me and the girl ran up the steep hill, and I turned back to see J man trip, and be consumed by the waters in a brutal crash. I turned to run to him, but the girl grabbed my arm and shouted "It's too late for him, there's no time!" and I took my last glance back... and we both jumped into the air and flew into the sky just as the waves turned into a man with a large beard.. he reached out with his hand and I turned back and felt an energy flow through my body... and a yellow light shone from my hand and I waved it, and his arm burst and shot to the side and he screamed in rage. Then we were high above the island, with people teleporting (or just suddenly appearing in bright lights) and doing battle with the rising waters with what looked like magic.. and me and the girl spoke briefly and she took off, and I took off towards the forest. After running through the forest for a while, there were people running here and there screaming and giving orders... and all of a sudden I was alone, I found a yellowish orb with what looked like nothing in the center (it was pitch black and my eyes couldnt focus on it) I took one glance back to see waaater crashing through the trees from what seemed like every direction, with a group of people running towards us with the girl at the front... she shouted "Go!" and reached her hand out to me... just as I jumped in the orb.. and I saw a last glimpse of her turning her head to see the water almost on her taking down the trees behind her just as everything went black and I felt like I was falling. Then all feeling stopped and I opened my eyes and I was in bed in my room, with a bruise on my knee (which I noticed later) No matter how much I think I cannot make sense of this dream... can anyone help me try to figure it out? Thanks! cam. more

Open Question: your answer will be highly appreciated.?

i'm a 30 years single women and would like to travel for 2or 3months either New York city or Paris? the purposes of my trip are : 1- Self makeover 2- Relaxation 3- Drugs Rehabitation 4- Meditation and Enlightment 5- Taking dance classes 6- Taking advertising courses 7- Little of fun and adventure I will travel on 12/2010 if God Allah will, but I am really confused where to go. If you can help please don’t hesitate to answer more

Open Question: my ex-lover lover says i can crash at his place,but he want tell his girlfriend,we were lovers for over a year?

my ex-lover still very good friend took our friendship to another level and starting sharing pretty our lives,he said he did not want a relationship,but the way he treated was saying otherwise,he was at my apt everyday and night,and he would call me to check on me,he went out on news years but called me to say happy news baby right before the stoke of midnight,then in february he bought me a box of candy and a single red rose and the box of candy said to someone special,then in march my birtday he suprised me with a cake on my bar in my apt and also made sure that i took a trip back home when i had problems with my credit card the place didnt except mine,he took care of everything,and he did everything,but i say if this wasnt a relationship what was it,was it all in my mind,but in ending i messed up and got my emotions envolved and jealous when i saw him with other people,he was angry and after all of that he said you did have me until you fronted me in front of his friend which didnt look like just a friend to me,but i love him and i know he has some kind of feelings for me i feel he is just scared of how i will react if i see him with his females freinds and thats fair,but i assured if he would have said we can share a relationship i wouldnt have reacted that way,because i would have trusted him and i know he would be faithful how can i win him back and show him he can trust me not to go crazy. more

Open Question: what does this "mini dream" mean?

I don't have this dream anymore but I'm just wondering what it's all about. Okay I used to have this dream every single night! I had it when I was in school and a little bit of the summer (if that helps). Whenever I had just fallen asleep like 10 minutes after I fall asleep, I would have a little dream that I was in the office of my house and I would be walking to come out and I'd trip. (i don't know what on, like my own feet) before I could hit the ground I'd abruptly wake up! Like I said I don't have this dream anymore I'm starting school again really soon, do you think it might come back? What does it mean?? more

Open Question: Does my boyfriend really need to talk to this girl EVERY day?

My boyfriend & I had been dating for about sixth months. Summer came, and I was going on a long trip with my family. Essentially, I was 8,000 miles away from him at one point. We weren't getting along too great (via text, pathetic). Things seemed to get better, until one day, when he was at camp, he dumped me. After talking to him about it, he admitted he met another girl, and kissed her after he broke up with me. My boyfriend and the girl talked and decided to stay just friends, even though it's clear to me she still likes him. Anyway, he regrets his decision immensely, and is showing it to me, and I believe him. He's doing anything in his power to make me happy, which I appreciate. I know a lot of you will say "leave him", but there's more to it. Regardless of the fact he regrets his decision, what gets me is that this girl texts him constantly every day and they talk. Is it really vital that he NEEDS to converse with a friend of the opposite gender he's known for merely 2 weeks? I told him how it angers me, and he said it's irrational of me to stop him from talking to a friend, but he's not getting my point that it's unnecessary to talk to her EVERY single day..it's clear she still has feelings for him and is trying to get friendlier with him, perhaps. am I overreacting, or is it ok for your significant other to converse with the opposite gender on a daily basis? thanks, everyone! more

Open Question: are independent medical laboratories common in the US?

So I'm thinking about moving to Florida some day not so far away, and was considering the possibility of having my own medical laboratory, since they are pretty common where I live, but in the trips I have made so far to Florida i haven't seen a single lab outside of a hospital, can any one tell me how common they are, or if people just go directly to a hospital??? more

Resolved Question: Give up on dating a separated man, who spends time with his wife?

I have been seeing a man for a few months who has been separated from his wife for 2 years, they both own their own homes now, but he is not divorced or going through divorce proceedings, or even has plans to at present. He spends quite a bit of time with his wife, he still has things in the loft at her house, they share a pet, and he texts and calls her, and he does mention her in conversations (although I am very guilty of that too with my ex). I know this week he is taking leave from work to take her for a day trip on her birthday. He is a lovely guy, he doesn't mind that I have children, has taken us all out for days to the park or lunch, has taken me to a works party and introduced me to colleagues, and is reasonably open about seeing me - but not with her, although he says she has 'an inkling'. He also knows that I am a domestic violence survivor and have not had an easy life especially during the last 18 months since I escaped my ex. Thinking this does not lead me to believe he would be hurting me on purpose, but then I don't trust men....maybe he is just like the others I have encountered and is pretending? He insists they are just close friends, they grew apart, and that he isn't attracted to her any more in that way. He only told me he was still married after our first date, even though we had been talking regularly for 18 months prior to this, obviously thinking it would make me wary. Which it has! I am in two minds. I am very lonely as a single mother and have no family around. I don't believe any man would truly want me and my beautiful 'baggage', so I am amazed this man sees me at all. But on the other hand heartbreak is something this fragile woman cannot handle again. Or am I just overreacting, as it is of course still very early days? Any advice?Just to answer a question below, they were together around 10 years I believe.Sue B, that's probably the most repulsive and nasty comment I have ever read, to post such a thing to someone who managed to escape with their children from a very abusive relationship you have to be a very sick person indeed. Utterly over the top. My children come FIRST. Incidentally I won't be seeing the man in question any more until he is divorced - if he cares, he will wait. more

Voting Question: Need Family counselor's advice..is this appropriate?

Dear readers, I am from this scary family where all of my mother and her sisters like to compete with each other. And all of my aunts and my mom like to compare their daughters. Nothing is wrong with that but people in my family like to come off as better than the other at the expense of another person. A lot of gossip of who did what and what a person did was bad. There is also certain people who is always the one that gets put down. And the winner looser mentality is strong, so a lot of bullying and a lot of teaming up with another to prove one's point and to curry favor only to turn around behind the other person's back to speak badly of another. I don't like it because of the passive aggressive comments they make. So I ran into this strange strange situation where I visit my older sister. My baby cousin Monique by the age of 16 also went to visit her to do a college tour. Monique is a brilliant girl. But she grew up closer in geography with other cousins...and was compared a lot to her cousin Sophia. All the aunts love Sohpia because she seemed so perfect..beautiful..tall... and her parents are together and rich. Sophia did NOT however get into as a good of a college as her pretentious mother had made her out to be. My cousin Monique is raised by a single mother who is really poor and not a caring mother..financially irriesponsible. Monique is however extrememily resilient and talented...she is Aceing all her classes and is applying to Ivy Leagues. But my situation is that when Monique visits I ran into frictions with her because whe she was with me and my sister....she seemed to be so into proving herself to be better than Sohpia and, suprisingly me. It seemed odd because when my older sister is not around she was like that. But she acted strange when my older sister came into the picture. She likes to use a nasty tone of voice to correct me when I speak of some knowledge that she thinks is wrong. I never really go out of my way to tell her when she is wrong at something. I did mention one time in front of her why she is so condenscending toward me. But she asked me how she was. I could not put it. I mean I know she hates when I told her one time that she was wrong that Salvador Dali is not gay. I guess a typical teenager knows it all kind of attitude. But what I hated was when she speaks badly of Sohpia behind her back. So after the trip was over...l emailed her to let her know how I felt and that she is bright and wonderful..and that there is a possibility that I might be the sensitive one. But being that I am twice her age....is it inappropriate? Is it even normal for a woman of the age of 30 to feel put down by her baby cousnin who is the age of 16 and to try and resolve an issues with the 16 yrs old as if they are equal? But what if I really just don't like the power trip and dynamic of the family? And I really want to have a happier interaction with them. In any case....my cousin did not respond...and I am affraid I might have lost her friendship all togehter. more

Voting Question: Lady i babysit for doesnt want to pay me?

Well I've always had problems with her paying me. She is a single mom who doesnt work lives off her wealthy parents and alimony checks. Sh has given me checks with no funds more often than not and has also cancelled checks on me but always ends up paying me but she also eats up my hours saying I wasnt there when i was. But I have just hd enough on saturday she calls me and tells me if i could go to her house right away 20 minutes later I am there and she isnt and after waiting 40 minutes in the lobby of her building I decided to leave. She calls and txted me non stop asking me to go back and that she couldnt handle her kid. I said I had to cancel another job to be with her kid and that i had gone ot my other job. Which i hadnt. She started a guilt trip on me saying he needed me and that he was crying. No offense but its her kid and not mine. she gave birth to him. Anyway she still owed me $150 and I texted her last night asking if she could just leave the money in her lobby with an envelope and she asked if I was kidding her that after i pulled on saturday i didnt deserve that money anymore. Which I think is super wrong because I worked for that money. I witnessed so many horrible things at her house one of her friends was high as a kite one time and came over while the kid was sleeping and when I asked to leave she said no because she was scared. She smokes pot while her kids sleeps in the house. Should I call her parents and ask them to pay me. I know its just $150 but I worked hard for it. I wasted my time and my gas so I want the $$. Am I wrong? I havent worked for her in over a week and dont plan to more

Voting Question: Harry Shaw- double room or not?

Just wondering if the prices for Harry Shaw holidays/day trips are automatically for two people or families? Say it says it's £250 for a few days holiday aren't you sharing a room anyway? Else it would be single room supplement, right? I'm a little confused! :/ more

Voting Question: Guys, please help me! (best answer-10 points!!)?

I asked this in the "Singles & Dating", but I didn't get a response... And you girls/guys here give great advice so thank you for that! So three days ago, this guy Ryan and I hooked up (we met back in March, but never really talked; 3 weeks ago, he Facebook IM'd me and said "hey. i always see u online so i thought id say heyy" and we've been talking since) When I was in the Bahamas all of last week, him and I were Facebook messaging back and forth and I was putting up pictures of my trip onto Facebook and he writes me "oh btw lookin gorgeous in the pictures you just put up" and that did it for me... I started to like him. So before we hooked up 3 days ago, I asked him why he randomly Facebook IM'd me and he said "cause you're cute" :) And then yesterday, we were talking about restaurants and he goes "do you like the Cheesecake Factory?" (American restaurant) and I said "yess why?" and he said "I've never been but we should go on a datee there next time ur in the city, we'll do dinner ;)".... I'm not sure whether or not he was joking, but I said "yes". Is he being friendly? Or is he like dropping hints? OH and I was with him all afternoon/night the night we hooked up and when we were hanging out, he kept putting his arm around me and kept rubbing my back and just AHH! Oh and we were hooking up for like the last 5 minutes we were together 3 days ago and I got a text the next morning saying: "u gotta come more. last night didnt last long. i need more than 5 mins with you haha"Anddd we video chatted until 4:00 AM this morning :))) more

Voting Question: Is there any other city in europe other than amsterdam to smoke weed?

I want to make a trip in November to Europe. Love Amsterdam but want to go for a different country all together. Definitely including Barcelona for single night life and fun. Would like to complement it with another city fun like Amsterdam. more

Voting Question: Taking another shot at my question.?

I have been in a relationship for the past 1 1/2 years with my significant other. We have not had any problems, fights, or really any disagreements until this point. We now live together and have for the last 8 months. I quit my job to stay at home with his 2 special needs children they are 11 and 13. I also have my own son age 2. I do all the house work, I cook all the meals, and basically try to make sure when he comes home from work all he has to do is relax. He owns his own buisness he has excellent credit no debt and is well off financially. I am 16 years younger then he is. I am a single mom and have been since my pregnancy. I have some debt not tons but I do have some. We haven't talked much about finances in the past. He does not pay any of my bills and I use the money I recieve from doing daycare for 2 children to take the kids on field trips and by the groceries for the house hold. I never ask him for money and he well never offers it. Which is fine because we aren't married. To my question my cell phone bill was high this past month and I used his account to pay it. I did not tell him right away I let him find out on his own I didn't hid it I just told him. He then decided he wanted to see all my bills and wanted me to write down all of my debt for him. I did this for him and went threw any money I owe and explained all my debt and bills. He now has asked me to let him print out my credit report. From speaking of marriage I don't see him proposing anytime soon. I'm pretty sure we will be together for years before that happens. I don't feel comfortable with him looking into my buisness like that. I have not asked him for this info. I know it is something he needs to know if we were to get married but we aren't getting married right now. I don't feel it's his buisness. I was honest with him about my bills and debt which consists of a student loan old credit card medical bills and an old cell phone. I now have no credit cards and don't live on any form of credit. He knows that. Should I let him look at the report? Or should I just say no not until we are going to commit to be together forever.Also he does not plan on helping me with any of the debt. So that is why I think it is not really any of his buisness. more

Voting Question: Lady I babysit for doesnt want to pay me?

Well I've always had problems with her paying me. She is a single mom who doesnt work lives off her wealthy parents and alimony checks. Sh has given me checks with no funds more often than not and has also cancelled checks on me but always ends up paying me but she also eats up my hours saying I wasnt there when i was. But I have just hd enough on saturday she calls me and tells me if i could go to her house right away 20 minutes later I am there and she isnt and after waiting 40 minutes in the lobby of her building I decided to leave. She calls and txted me non stop asking me to go back and that she couldnt handle her kid. I said I had to cancel another job to be with her kid and that i had gone ot my other job. Which i hadnt. She started a guilt trip on me saying he needed me and that he was crying. No offense but its her kid and not mine. she gave birth to him. Anyway she still owed me $150 and I texted her last night asking if she could just leave the money in her lobby with an envelope and she asked if I was kidding her that after i pulled on saturday i didnt deserve that money anymore. Which I think is super wrong because I worked for that money. I witnessed so many horrible things at her house one of her friends was high as a kite one time and came over while the kid was sleeping and when I asked to leave she said no because she was scared. She smokes pot while her kids sleeps in the house. Should I call her parents and ask them to pay me. I know its just $150 but I worked hard for it. I wasted my time and my gas so I want the $$. Am I wrong? she NEVER payd her bills she forwards them to her parents house. She is 34 its riduculous! i want my $$ i worked for it. I treated her kid so well. I dont work for her anymore more

Resolved Question: Why can't I send/receive multimedia messages on LG Neon?

I received an LG Neon earlier this year. This phone literally snapped in half and two days ago I got a replacement Neon. I never had a single problem with the original Neon (besides it snapping in half) but on the replacement, I can neither send nor receive multimedia messages (sounds, pictures, videos) even though this is covered in my data plan. I'm not sure of the relevance of this but the sim card is the same as the original Neon. I have tried going to my multimedia settings and everything seems to be in order but I still cannot send or receive multimedia whatsoever. Is there anything I may have been overlooking? Is this problem fixable without a trip to the AT&T store?On a previous phone (a Nokia, I believe) I had the same problem despite my data plan, so I doubt it's the LG Neon itself. more

Resolved Question: Need a females perspective, because i just don't get it.?

Alright, so i've known this one girl for about 3 yrs now, during these 3 yrs we've both been in long term off/on relationships. Mine ended about a yr and a half ago, hers ended about 8 months ago. She was in an abusive relationship, and eventually didn't seem to care about anything anymore.. not even herself. Throughout this i ALWAYS tried to help her, i'd be there when she wanted to get away, we'd go for walks or do whatever to take her mind off it. At the beginning of the summer, i moved to a different town for a job offer, and she went off to TX for a little bit. She came back from there about a month ago, and got ahold of me.. one of the first things she asked me is 'are you still single?' So we start txting for a couple weeks, and i ask her if she would wanna come spend a weekend with me.. And she says yes. So i went down last saturday morning and picked her up, we spent the whole day just hanging out with eachother and it was GREAT. She keeps hinting towards sex and we flirt for a while off and on, so that night we cuddle up.. anytime i try to make a move, i get turned down.. so after the 2nd turn down i just said screw it, and we just cuddled and watched movies till we passed out. The next morning we wake up, and spend a whole 'nother day together, and it was great too! That night i had to drive her back home, so we get in the car and get ready for a car trip to her house (about an hr and a half) It was really.. quiet. She wouldn't say much, so i decided to tell her how i felt about her, explained that i really like her and so on.. Well right now, she's doing things to find herself again and work on herself, like joining the national guard because she always wanted to. When i finally get her to start talking first thing she says is 'i think you like me more than i like you' and we talk a bit more, she says 'i wanna stay friends until im done working on myself and then maybe we could try being together' So im cool with that. i think its understandable.. when she goes to get out of the car at her house, we give eachother a hug and then she kisses me and asks if we'll talk tomorrow (meaning monday) so i said yeah of course, she goes to walk off, i yell for her to come back for a sec and she does, and i asked if i could have 1 more kiss (i dunno when ill get to see her again) so she gives me a small kiss, gives a nervious laugh and says 'this feels weird now' then we halfway hold hands until were out of arms reach and i drive back home. Now the issue, after having this awesome weekend together, and after SHE kissed me, and asked to talk to me tomorrow, she wont talk to me. Dunno, she didnt answer my txts on monday, then tuesday i just said 'hey hows it go?' and nothin. so i didnt txt her all day yesterday or anything, figured if she wants to get ahold of me she will.. Was she just letting me down easy with the 'lets be friends till im ready' thing? Do you think im must s.o.l? Should i even try getting ahold of her? I dunno what to do, but it confuses the crap out of me.. PLEASE GIVE SOME PERSPECTIVE!! i dunno what shes thinkin and cant guess at it, just doesnt make sense. more

Voting Question: my husband constantly interrupts me is it a man thing? or a lack of respect thing?

whenever i talk to my husband he interrupts me mid sentence. an example would be..he asks about my day/hospital trip or whatever and i start to tell him about it and he will interrupt before i've even got a sentence out with something such as "have you seen that car" or "there is this programme on tv tonight about volcanoes" or whatever. it drives me nuts. i just go uiet and wait for him to finish the oh so important thing he interrupted me for then i continue where i left off: answering his question about my day or whatever. however he will interrupt me several times that sometimes i forget what i was gonna say or later he will say to me you never did tell me about your day. this drives me nuts. i politely tell him that is because he interrupted me so much when i tried to tell him earlier that i just gave up. it happens over important stuff and non important stuff, he just seems to constantly interrupt me and i feel maybe its just because he has no respect for me.its at a point now where if he interrupts me i just listen to him but dont say a word then he will ask the same question again i will say well i tried to tell you earlier. i have tried to have a talk with him about it but he denies he is doing it and i have told him its a big problem for me but he denies its a problem for me. his mother even does it to me! his father asked me how my operation went and as i was telling him his mother interrupted me! i just wonder if its me sometimes. or maybe i should just give up and be single! anyone got any ideas why this happens? is it a man thing? more

Resolved Question: Is He Worth It? Please please help?

I know a boy at school and he’s a year younger than me but from the minute I saw him I really liked him but because he was in the year below I brushed it off. The next year he started getting the same bus as me and we used to talk and have a laugh and things. Then I realised I probably just liked him as a friend and got a boyfriend. My boyfriend was really nice at first but then he stared being really nasty to me and calling me fat and ugly. At first I was just convinced it was a joke because he was only nasty to me around his friends and when we were alone he was really lovely to me but then he started telling me hated me and that I should go and die and started flirting with other girls. After a while I grew sick of him and he was making me really upset all the time. The boy who was in the year below me started being really nice to me and was always there to pick up the pieces and was there to give me advice and things. After a while I ended it with my boyfriend just before the summer holidays. A few days into the holidays, the boy who was in the year below me started chatting to me on fb. He told me that he fancied me but didn’t ask me out. I told him that I liked him too but it was too soon for me to rush back into dating (I was a little scared of dating again after what happened with my ex boyfriend). When we came back after the summer holidays, I was ready to date the boy in the year below me and we became really close. The afternoon before the night I was planning to ask him out on was approaching. Then, I got the shock of my life when I saw him come out of a classroom with a Girl, and he was holding her hand! I was really upset by this. Then on the bus he kept showing me pictures of him and his new girlfriend trying to obviously make me jealous. A few days later though, his girlfriend broke up with him and he was upset. I was there to pick up the pieces for him and I was there for him. He eventually got over the Girl and I was gonna ask him out but I was going on a school trip. I made myself a promise that when I came back I would ask him out. But when I got back and was on the bus waiting for him, he didn’t show up. His mate got on and told me that he was on the other bus with his new girlfriend. I was heartbroken. His new girlfriend looked slightly like me with the brown hair but she was a bitch and she was quite big. They didn’t suit each other and I could see that he wasn’t happy with him. After a while, she left him. He was, once again heartbroken and once again I was there to pick up the pieces. A few weeks the new ex decided she was sorry and asked him back out. He forgave her again and they began dating again. I went on holiday and met a guy and we started dating but when I came back I realised that I loved the guy I the year below me and I ended it with my boyfriend. I was now single and even though he was in a relationship, he spent all his time with me. A few weeks later, he was in an accident at school (involving kitchen equipment) and broke his arm. I was pulled from my classroom by his friend. I ran (literally I have never run so fast in my entire life) to his side and held his hand as he was in so much pain. I was going to go with him to the hospital but one of my teachers stopped me and told me I had to go back to lessons. I couldn’t concentrate for the rest of the day and constantly called him and texted him whenever I could. His cousin told me he would be fine and that he’d just broken his arm and I went round to visit him twice. Whilst I was there, he told me that he was happy to see me and that his girlfriend hadn’t even called or texted him since the accident but he still stayed with her. When he came back to school, his girlfriend would always ignore him and pay him no attention. I would always sit with I'm at break and lunch and we would talk and have a laugh like we use to. One day he told me he was going to break up with his girlfriend because she didn’t care about him and he wanted someone who was there for him. We then became like conjoined twins and were with each other every moment of every day, constantly flirting and having fun. He’d come shopping with me and things like that. Then, his ex girlfriend called him back up and they started dating again. I was heartbroken yet again! I didn’t know what else to do and became very upset and often cried for hours on end. I’m still really really upset but I really do love him to pieces and I would do anything for him and he knows that but I’m just exhausted of fighting for him and I don't know what else to do. I have tied my very hardest to get over him but it just isn’t working! Is he worth fighting for? Please help! Ps. sorry it was so long  xxxx more

Resolved Question: Where can I find a hotel in San Antonio?

I am planning a small weekend road trip to the San Antonio in the River Walk area with myself and about 3 other people. I have already been searching for hotel rooms through several websites but really what I am looking for is a room where all of us can stay. One single room that has two rooms in one something where the rooms are being separated by adjacent doors. If that makes any sense at all i would really appreciate someones help. My trip isn't until Aug 20-22 so I am trying to do some reasearch ahead of time. Thank you in advance. more

Resolved Question: The biggest "Red Dead Redemption" of all time?

Going for the Bearly Legal Achievement, which is where you kill and skin 18 grizzly bears. This can be a DECENT challenge, because grizzlies are very powerful and fast, and can sneak up on you really well. If it attacks you before you attack it, 99% of the time you will not make it out of the situation. So today, I decided to take a trip north to the grizzly territory. Usually, it's not really easy to find them. But there was some place that I found that was a grizzly jackpot. I killed one, and then for the next 10 minutes was greeted by its siblings one by one from an unknown origin. They kept coming, and I kept moving up. 14,15,16,17... And then I saw one more. This was it. #18 and the achievement. I shoot it in the head twice, and somehow it kept going and mauled me. I died. 13 of the 17 I just got were from this one little trip alone, and I didn't save at all during my little spree. I didn't find it necessary because I was having so much luck! Is every single one of those grizzles I just killed/skinned gone? Am I back down to 4 again as if I hadn't even played today? more

Resolved Question: Any Bad experiences at a Nude Beach?

I'm posting this again ..did not get much responce hopefully more today :) I'm a single mom 4 with one teen daughter, now 17. We are very close, her dad is not in the picture at all. I'm dating a wonderfull guy almost 10years younger for the last two years all is very good. Last summer we went on vacation on a lake in British Columbia. One of the beaches (accessed by boat only) is a nude beach/camp ground. I didnt know we're going to a nude beach last year, but needless to say we were all sunbathing and swimming in our birthday suits, me my daughter and BF. It bothered me a in the beginning, her being nude around my BF, but not at all by the end of the trip. We just got back from another week long vacation at the same place with AWSOME weather! We all went again and my daughter brought her girl friend (With her mothers permission). We opted to stay right on the campsite and we all had a really good time. It was wild, exciting and definatly good for the tanlines! I really enjoy it and we're planning to back in three weeks I just want to know if anyone has had BAD family/relationship expereinces from going to a nude beach? Thanks more