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My holiday tickets have not arrived!? I am flying next wed and my tickets have still not arrived, i booked on line so they should come directly to my house. I called First Choice and they said that they were sent 2 weeks ago! but not to worry, they can be printed off at the airport an hour before departure! This is my first holiday abroad with my husband and two children so i am now in a state of panic! has this happened to anyone else? and if so, what was the outcome??

What time should I show up for the WWE House Show? Show starts at 7:30, any dark matches? I have tickets for the KMART Holiday RAW tour @ MSG Tuesday night and wanted to know if I there are any 'dark' matches before the show starts? Also, any way to meet the wrestlers?

Christians, what would you do if your church had a holiday concert and sold tickets for it? Let's say that they were not even asking for a "suggested donation" but required that people paid the fee in advance or at the door in order to get into the concert. This is what is happening at my church, but is makes me very angry because it is a sin, as expressed in Mark 11: 15-17: On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple area and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. And as he taught them, he said, "Is it not written: " 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have made it 'a den of robbers.'" Their excuse for making this concert into a business is that they must pay for renting the costumes (it is a Boar's Head Festival), and they must pay the orchestra. Still, this is no excuse to turn God's house into a theater. They have even covered up the altar for this performance! I have talked to a fellow elder about this situation, but I doubt they take my concern seriously. What would you do if you were in my shoes? SERIOUS AND RESPECTFUL ANSWERS ONLY, PLEASE!!! Zelophedad's daughter, you are a Jehovah's Witness, so how can what your society teaches be in harmony with the Bible? The Bible teaches that there is on God who manifested Himself in three persons, but you disagree. Jenny K., it's pretty fancy that an atheist would tell a Christian about being Christian. Oh, and where exactly did I judge? You need to get over yourself! Amen, Worker4IAM! Santa Percy, I hope that someone is more respectful and sensitive to your concerns that you were with mine. And atheists on this website complain of Christians being pushy with our beliefs! You are just as pushy. I forgive you though.

I need help trying to book a holiday in Orlando? I've just booked flights to Orlando for the New Year. I'm looking for a house to rent. Can anyone recommend any good sites for booking somewhere to stay? We are looking for a pool and as close to the theme parks as possible. Obviously price is an issue and dont want to spend more than €1500 for the two weeks. Also can anyone recommend where to buy park tickets cheaper online before we go?

How do you deal with a wetblanket family? My family is a bunch of wetblankets and never want to do anything fun. My boyfriend's parents want me to come to their house over the holiday like I did last year and my family doesn't think it'll be fun. I have college football tickets and my parents think it's a waste of time. It seems like everything I do, they have some negative thing for it, just because they don't do it. I really would just like to be accepted for being myself and not have to deal with them being negative for everything I do. Any ideas?

Will the cops show up at my friends door over traffic related bench warrents?(on a holiday weekend)? He has three tickets that he was trying to write an appeal for( leaving the scene, failure to report (an accident) and a request to suspend his license. He failed to file the appeal papers by the correct date and is about a week late so a bench warrent was issued. He's po'd with me cus he wanted to stay at my house for the next few days thinking they'd come looking for him. I'm just not so into it for several reasons. Actually I just don't feel like having the company is all. My opinion is that if he was pulled over then maybe he'd have something to worry about but we're talking about traffic tickets, not major crime, right?

Split up with partner need advice on joint holiday? Yes we split up due to his cheating behind my back, I packed his bags etc. The trouble is we have a joint holiday this August. Both names are on the booking but I want to go on holiday but to a different place, i.e keep my ticket. I have all the holiday details in the house including his passport! I just want my half of the money or the holiday. I have heard that if the booking is in his name first then he can change my name any time he feels like it, hence I will lose out. (Holiday is through First Choice). We also have a mortgage and he does not have the keys to the house so I can use his passport as a way of getting what i want!! Dont want it to be nasty though honest. Looked into refund would lose most of my money about 70%

going to wwe raw house show on dec 20th? so this is the 3rd time raw (non televised) has come to tallahassee fl since jan 2008. i wonder why smackdown hasnt come yet, and jacksonville gets all the televised shows. they treat the capital of florida like shit, but i'm glad we get a house show , so this is the second time of this year that raw is coming back, the first time was in march which was the road to wrestlemania tour which was great, and when ecw was traveling with raw......now they are coming back dec 20th on sunday and here is the match card. what do you think of it so far? Come see all of your favorite RAW superstars WWE Championship Match John Cena vs. “The Legend Killer” Randy Orton Special Attraction Match “The Cerebral Assassin” Triple H vs. “The All American-American” Jack Swagger Also there: “Jamaican Superstar” Kofi Kingston The Miz “The World's Strongest Man” Mark Henry MVP Legacy Evan Bourne Chavo Guerrero Santino Marella “The Masterpiece” Chris Masters Melina Hornswoggle Eve CARD SUBJECT TO CHANGE WWE tickets make a GREAT HOLIDAY GIFT BEST VALUE IN ENTERTAINMENT

why is this raw house show starting at 3pm? i check wwe website and all the other raw house shows start at 5pm, but our is starting at 3pm. even on the commercial for advertising the show, it said with a special start time of 3pm? Come see all of your favorite RAW superstars Special RAW Tag Team Match “The Game ” Triple H teams up with "The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels to face Legacy in a RAW Tag Team Match Special Attraction Match Kofi Kingston battles “The Legend Killer” Randy Orton Also there: MVP The Miz “The World's Strongest Man” Mark Henry “The All American-American” Jack Swagger Evan Bourne Chavo Guerrero Santino Marella “The Masterpiece” Chris Masters Melina Primo Sheamus Kelly Kelly Eve CARD SUBJECT TO CHANGE WWE tickets make a GREAT HOLIDAY GIFT BEST VALUE IN ENTERTAINMENT

I was going to go on holiday with my boyfriend.. but? i am from a devout christian family... i have been dating a guy, who i know is serious about me for 6 months now. I had some impulsive urge to buy tickets for china .. .. which my parents have found out about 2 weeks before I was meant to head off, now they are extremely angry. What happens now, is I can get the full refund of the tickets. and go on another holiday later, or I can go. and risk a lot of family drama which i really don't want to have to deal with as my boyfriend/partner is making the big move to my city to work here.. to eventually be with me. i know this seems like I am a grown up and should be able to do what i like.. but is it worth the drama.. i hate drama and suffer from anxiety attacks occasionally and this really isn't helping at all. I am 26 still living at home, as saving for my house deposit. Any help would be great, well.. as long as its not angry.. but an intelligent answer

Have not changed the name to new keeper now I got a lot of tickets? I am an international student in london, I sold my car more than a month ago to an Italian guy. At the time of selling buyer told me he want to send the registration paper by himself and ask me all the car documents. I believed him and did not know I am the person who have to send the form. Then I was out of the country for holiday and just be back. I found out that a lot of penalty tickets were sent to my house as I am still the car keeper. How should I do? I just got his name and phone number (mobile and land line) but I don't know his address. I tried to contact him since I be back but he didn't want to see me and gave me his address. I made a representation against the the penalty charge but they rejected because I don't have the address of the new keeper. Please everyone suggest me!

do you think its possible to spend £85 million? Ive bought a euro lottery ticket for tonight and was just daydreaming what could you spend it on after youve bought the house/car/holiday?

Sorority Life-Face Book-How to buy a gala ticket? Holiday Charity Gala The House Mom announces that all attendees of the annual Holiday charity ball will be entered into a prize drawing! Buy a gala ticket and find out what youve won!! This is what a message saysbut how do I buy a gala ticket and where?

parking ticket on a bank holiday????? i have lived in my house for 4 years and every bank holiday /thought it was classed as a sunday / parked outside no worries , woke up this morning with an offensive yellow sticker on my window . i have a single yellow line and a sign saying mon-sat 8am -6 pm ...help

How To Tell If You're A Grinch? Your only contact with three spirits on Christmas Eve is gin, vodka and bourbon. You turn on the lawn sprinklers on Christmas Eve to keep carolers away. You buy all of your Christmas gifts at a store that also sells gas. Your idea of Christmas dinner is a six pack of beer and a cheese log. You use your Christmas Club money to buy wrestling tickets. Your only holiday decoration is a rotting pumpkin. You reuse last year's Christmas cards and send them out under your own name. You steal light bulbs from you neighbor's outdoor display to replenish your own supply. After an invitation to a friend's house, you bring a commercially produced fruitcake and try to pass it off as home made. You steal gifts from the Toys-for-Tots collection bins. You put out last year's stale candy canes for children.

How to make my dad to go on a holiday with me? hi, i really wanna go on a holiday with my dad to America, I wanna go to Los Angeles to see my boyfriend cuz he moved there :[ i havent seen him for ages, and i wanna go THIS summer. I told him to maybe come and see him, but my dad says he doesnt have any money and all that. my parents are devorced and my dad was super nice when i visited his house for the 1st time, and when i talked with him about going to america, and said he will check out the tickets. he did and he said its expensive and that theres no way to go there :[ im really upset, i dont know what to do.. is there ANY WAY to tell him or to make him say yes? i really wanna go :[

Hi All, I am married, having a 8 year old daughter, me and wife are living like seperated in the same house.? I have been married for the past 9 years and we have an 8 year old daughter. We are from india but lives in Denmark now. I and my wife do not go well together. She is very bossy, very arrogant; often have nasty arguments and verbal fights me in front of my daughter or even in the street or in the public. I have never seen a woman with so much pride and selfishness in my life. When she becomes really angry she even throw things in the room, shout very loud without even considering the neighbors. In the beginning I tried to adjust with her hoping that things are going to get better. But there was no change in her behavior. In fact it got more worst over the years. She just wants everything in her own way. Just for an example to show her attitude and behavior I am writing the following that happened recently. I want to visit my parents and friend in India every year. My wife doesn't want to come to india and visit her parents or relatives. Every time when I talk about going to india for a vacation she always find so many excuses. This year summer finally she agreed to go to india for exactly 30 days. I went to book the tickets to india. I get a cheaper ticket, if I am ready to travel on monday evening. But she was not ready to travel on that particular day, because if we travel on that day the total days of holiday becomes 31 days compared to her agreed 30 days vacation. She was not at all ready to travel on that monday. In the end I had to buy expensive tickets for the three of us. Even though she is working, she was not ready to pay for her ticket though. This kind of behavior, I cannot tolerate. I don't want to talk to her anymore because always it ends in arguments and fights. I don’t want my daughter to see all these. I just want to give my daughter all my love and care. We live in the same house but in different rooms for the past more than 6 years. I just live with her just because of my daughter. My daughter loves both of us. But often I think for going for a divorce. But when I think about my daughter, I think I will wait for some more years. My wife also loves our daughter very much, that I know. Emotionally I don't have anybody to share all my feelings. I haven't told about these to any of my friends so far. They all think we have a good family. Recently I met a woman at work, who is almost two years older than me. She is Danish and single. She looks is very calm, very pleasant, doesn't have any show-off kind of nature, works very hard, no gossiping, etc. We take the bus to work from the same place and that way we started talking each other almost every day. At first it was casual talking between us and then after a while we started talking about our personal stuff and feelings, etc. First I started liking this girl and now I think I started loving her. I love to talk to her and see her whenever it is possible. I think she also likes me. Until I met this woman, I thought I will never have another girl in life. It was not because I don’t like to have somebody to love, but just after thinking about my daughter. But now I am in a situation where I am on the verge of falling in love with this Danish woman. I have never shown any indication about this to her so far. I am confused now. At one side I have my daughter; a wife with whom I can’t adjust with or love anymore; me and wife are not separated officially even though we live like separated; now this new woman with whom I afraid I fall in love. I am really sad, depressed and confused now. Am I crossing the lines here? Am I really cheating since I am not officially separated from my wife? Please give me your opinions. Thank you very must for reading this.

Am I being unreasonable?!? Ok, so my partners sister contacts me and says she wants to have the family down for her birthday (she's 1000km) away, and she's hiring a holiday house. So we all like ok and we book the tickets. Then, my partner tells me that the holiday house is not going to happen, that she's booked a hotel for me, my partner and their parents, and my partner tells me it's 2 bedrooms. The other brother has to stay with the sister. I'm like ok. We arrive and it's a single tiny room with just enough space to fit a double, a single and a roll away bed. For 3 nights, 4 days. I'm sorry but who does that without asking how people feel about it? We would have been happy to book our own room. Which in the end we did anyway but because it was last minute it cost us a lot more. And then she was upset about us booking something else. I'm sorry but i must be missing something here. I would never in my wildest dreams book a hotel and expect my parents and my brother and his partner to share and not tell anyone what was happening. Had she bothered to look and be organized and plan ahead she would have been able to get 2 rooms for the same price or less, easy. We are expected to spend 16 hrs on average together every day with no downtime. I am so over it. I'm happy to play follow the sheep when the person leading is organized, effective and efficient. Keep in mind I've visited this city numerous times and it doesn't take a genius to get it right. Thanks to most of you guys who read my question and gave me an intelligent response. It's too hard for me to pick the fave, so i'll allow it to be voted on! I really appreciated the replies. At the time that I wrote this I was stuck sharing that hotel room for the Saturday night, because we had no other choice, everything else was booked out and everyone was snoring loudly. I had like 2 hours sleep that night. To the two people that clearly didn't read my question properly. It stated that that 1. I booked something else straight away when I found out 2. There was no budget issue which is why I said 'able to get 2 rooms for the same price or less, easy...

Cost of a Holiday in Spain? Friends and I want to go to spain at the end of next year to celebrate being awesome and stuff... It's good because the house we're staying in is ours so it'll be free and my parents are paying my ticket. So aside from accommodation/flight how much would a holiday for 7 days cost in southern Spain? (food, travel etc...) There will be 8 of us altogether... but what's the individual cost? Please and Thank-You.

I bought a house in Carmichael and, while moving in I received a ticket for parking in front of my new home.? I was never informed that, I couldn't park in front and, I was in the process of moving in. After receiving the ticket, I called the number and, was spoken horribly to by a foreigner. The foreigner stated that, I could never park in front of my house ever and, was very mean and rude. I was devastated!! So, I looked and saw that their was only 3 houses on my street that this sign was in affect for and, unfortunately, mine was one of them! The sign stated that after 6pm was ok to park and, before 7am. The rest of the houses had a sign that stated that, you could park on weekends and, holiday & during the week after 6pm and before 7am. I've never heard of such a thing!!! I am not part of a home owners association and, there are no businesses on my street. Does anyone know if this is legal and, how I would go about changing the sign to where at least I can have family and, Friends come over on the holidays and weekends or, abolish it completely. I never would have purchased this house had I known that I could not park in front or, have family or, friends. I feel so isolated and, I hate it!!!!! My real estate agent never told me about this, was he supposed to? Is this legal? People have told me that this is possibly a county ordinance, is this true? What recourse do I have? Where do I go to change something like this? What paperwork do I file? Can I do anything on my own or, do I need to hire anyone?

In love and need advice? I'm in uni studying medicine and my best friend who's also my roomate invited me to her family's holiday house for Easter because I couldn't get home, my family live in Russia and I couldn't affor tickets home. Anyway I was up in their house and they're really really rich. We were having dinner that night and her brother came in. He's exactly my type, aloof, not sexy but handsome. After dinner I went to talk to him but these people are like upper middle class and I was raised working class so I was afraid I embarrassed myself. I tried flirting the next day but he's nOt that kinda guy and it makes me want him more. I thought he wasn't into me but I overheard him saying to my friend he thinks I'm genuine, he loves my stories about growing up in Russia and Northern Ireland and he thinks I'm courageous for going to mass when staying with a Protestant family. What does this mean? What should I do? I really like him

He's a higher class than me. What should I do? I'm in uni studying medicine and my best friend invited me to her family's holiday house for Easter because I couldn't get home, my family live in Russia and I couldn't afford tickets home. Anyway I was up in their house and they're really really rich. We were having dinner that night and her brother came in. He's exactly my type, aloof, not sexy but handsome. After dinner I went to talk to him but these people are like upper middle class and I was raised working class so I was afraid I embarrassed myself. I tried flirting the next day but he's nOt that kinda guy and it makes me want him more. I thought he wasn't into me but I overheard him saying to my friend he thinks I'm genuine, he loves my stories about growing up in Russia and Northern Ireland and he thinks I'm courageous for going to mass when staying with a Protestant family. What does this mean? What should I do? I really like him

How would I ask him out? I'm in uni studying medicine and my best friend invited me to her family's holiday house for Easter because I couldn't get home, my family live in Russia and I couldn't afford tickets home. Anyway I was up in their house and they're really really rich. We were having dinner that night and her brother came in. He's exactly my type, aloof, not sexy but handsome. After dinner I went to talk to him but these people are like upper middle class and I was raised working class so I was afraid I embarrassed myself. I tried flirting the next day but he's nOt that kinda guy and it makes me want him more. I thought he wasn't into me but I overheard him saying to my friend he thinks I'm genuine, he loves my stories about growing up in Russia and Northern Ireland and he thinks I'm courageous for going to mass when staying with a Protestant family. What does this mean? What should I do? I really like him

Relationship advice? Help please!? I'm in uni studying medicine and my best friend invited me to her family's holiday house for Easter because I couldn't get home, my family live in Russia and I couldn't afford tickets home. Anyway I was up in their house and they're really really rich. We were having dinner that night and her brother came in. He's exactly my type, aloof, not sexy but handsome. After dinner I went to talk to him but these people are like upper middle class and I was raised working class so I was afraid I embarrassed myself. I tried flirting the next day but he's nOt that kinda guy and it makes me want him more. I thought he wasn't into me but I overheard him saying to my friend he thinks I'm genuine, he loves my stories about growing up in Russia and Northern Ireland and he thinks I'm courageous for going to mass when staying with a Protestant family. What does this mean? What should I do? I really like him

Does he like me? Advice please!? 'm in uni studying medicine and my best friend invited me to her family's holiday house for Easter because I couldn't get home, my family live in Russia and I couldn't afford tickets home. Anyway I was up in their house and they're really really rich. We were having dinner that night and her brother came in. He's exactly my type, aloof, not sexy but handsome. After dinner I went to talk to him but these people are like upper middle class and I was raised working class so I was afraid I embarrassed myself. I tried flirting the next day but he's nOt that kinda guy and it makes me want him more. I thought he wasn't into me but I overheard him saying to my friend he thinks I'm genuine, he loves my stories about growing up in Russia and Northern Ireland and he thinks I'm courageous for going to mass when staying with a Protestant family. What does this mean? What should I do? I really like him

how much time can a person face? how much time can my hubby face after getting arrested in front of the house for traffic tickets warrant. he has no other criminal records and the bail amount was for 15,000. it happend just early this moring at 12.00 am and they transfered him to county jail until the christmas holiday is over, so his court is on wednesday. has anyone ever been through this? and what will the outcome be will he get out?

I actually can't believe it...? Ok well my best friend moved away from my city when I was about 14. We've stayed really close and we tell each other everything. In August i'm going to a University open day in his city. It took me so much to convince my mum, the plane tickets were nearly $1,000 plus accomodation. I had to get a job just so I can go to University up there next year. Well he just tells me now that he's going away for pretty much the whole weekend for a friends birthday party at her holiday house. There is no way my mum would let me go either. I'm so pissed off. How do I tell him that he's hurt me so bad? He knew I was coming up there to mainly see him. I'm so pissed off. How do I tell him that he's hurt me so bad? He knew I was coming up there to mainly see him. I'm not being possesive. I havn't seen him in nearly 2years now. He's had plenty of time to hang out with other people, but the only weekend I'll be seeing him he makes other plans. I'm not staying at his house, but he has known I'm coming up all year. He's been really excited. We are more than friends and if anything I thought he was more interested in our relationship that me.

How much do I need for 2 weeks holiday in Sydney? Hello all...I need info about how much money do i need for 2 weeks holiday in Sydney. I'll be stay at friend's house. So i will need for transportation, dine, ticket fee to tourist attraction, and a little bit shopping. Is Aus$ 300 enough for above expense ? Thank u ;p Thanks guys for answering my question. Wow 1000 is a lot...i thought 300 is enough..hahaha How about 900 ? is 900 still enough ? i''ll eat only in food court...no fancy restaurant at all. I wont go shopping stuff in mall, i'll just buy some souvenirs.

My rubbish christmas? Should I feel this way? Basically this Christmas is going to be really Sh*t because coincidentally int my dads 50th birthday which is really big so my mum bought holiday tickets which are really expensive so me and my brother are not going to get anything for Christmas. And my house doesn't feel christmassy at all no decorations no tree only a couple of cards. Should I feel sad because there's no spirit and presents or am I being selfish because there will be plenty more to come but only one 50th birthday for my dad. Merry Christmas have a good one :(

Am i over thinking everything? I was at my boyfriend house the other day and i found this box which had lots of little memoirs of him and his ex, like pictures holiday tickets and a really big fiance xmas card i didn't really think anything of it at first but then i decided to look at the pictures which i wish i had not have done they looked so happy in the pictures and also every time i had tried to take a picture he'd say no. They were together for 3 years but he claims he didn't love her and that i am the first and only girl hes ever properly fallen in love with but i don't see how you can be with someone for 3 years and not love them. But that's not all, when i saw the massive fiance card i didn't think anything but then on her bebo status it says engaged but from back then since she hasn't been on since then probs. Am i over thinking things and winding myself up or...? help please

dubstep, electronic or house festivals 2012? I want to go to some awesome festivals this year but I'm not into vfest and reading. I like the idea of NASS but I can't go to that I'm on holiday. So far I've got my creamfield tickets booked. I am going to try get tomorrowland tickets and if not I want to go global gathering. are there any dubstep festivals or electronic ones? drum and bass would be good too! I just want to go to as many amazing festivals as possible this year. could you try suggest ones in England I don't mind travelling abroad but I want proof that the festival is awesome. Dont suggest Melt! or hideout because I cant go to those and don't suggest snow festivals I'm scared of going to ski resorts lol.

shall i go on holiday, or let my social anxiety hold me back? sorry,. need to explain in full, so hang in there :) i am 16 male shall i go on holiday to Canada with my mum and brother? me and mum went out there last year and stayed at my mums very good friend's house. the fried has 2 sons whom are in their 20s. one son was friends with my brother who is 20 but sorta lost contact when they moved out there. when i was out there i became friends with that son, close friends, we talked for loads of the time. about 6 months later he came to England for a bit, we saw each other and had some time together; but we didn't really connect, and didn't talk as much. when he met my brother for first time in ages they got on well more than me (in England not when in Canada, in Canada we were really close) so should i go out there with my bro and mum. when i see that the son is closer to my bro than me, i get a mixture of jealousy, and depression cause i am left out. i don't think i will enjoy the holiday as much if that happens. i have to pay for ticket with my savings and we are booking flights 2morrow so need quick response plz. basically: i think i will be depressed when i am out there because; i will not be as close to him so less exciting and more awkward silences, and even worse, he will like my brother more and i will feel left out and jealous and very depressed. what shall i do. don't say " make friends with the other son" cause that wont really happen cause he is older and never around. BTW my social anxiety has increased since i went to Canada which is why we didn't talk much when he was in England. that is the link to my social anxiety in case you were wondering. urg, i dunno just help me, put yourself in my shoes thank you very much for all your input and help

why hasn't my boyfriend told me about his holiday? HELPPPP!!!!? my boyfriend had been complaining that he was stressed from college work and needed a holiday, which I totally understood and assumed that he would take the holiday during the summer break... One day I was at his house and he left his laptop open and I checked his emails (and I dont snoop, he does) anyway I saw a ticket for him booked to france for the 7th of july, Ive been waiting since march for him to come forward and tell me he booked a holiday, So I decided to ask him out of the blue yesterday and I asked him why didnt tell me about his trip to france, it was late at night so he didnt open the message till the next morning, it being BBM*BLACKBERRY MESSANGER* I saw it was recieved so I said hello to him later in the day, he asked how I was and I said fine, then asked about the trip again and he became upset, I said I saw it in his email, stated the date, and then he asked me again to confirm that i was talking about the his email account, then I said yes and he sent me a not interested smilie and I said whatever but you know Im right and nothing was said after that. I messaged him later saying I hate him and he asked me why, but I didny respond and we havent spoken since then....... my question is why didnt he tell about the trip and then act like that? Im 19 and hes 20.. thank ou

Holiday to america! Please help parks, where to stay etc? Although in uni me and my boyfriend have managed to land ourselves really good jobs, so instead of wasting it we want to put a percentage away every month and go to America for two weeks next year. We will both be nearly 21, so to my knowledge will not be able to drive in the US?? We will need to be somewhere where there are shuttle buses we can use, as we want to do some theme parks. Where is best for this? we will also need to be able to go out in the evenings to eat, and during the day to shop. Is there somewhere where all this is in walking distance? and where buses run to the parks? Some people have said we should not book park tickets in advance but just buy them when we get there... is this a good idea? What parks are best? Is it nicer to stay in a hotel or your own house? How much does anyone estimate this will cost, for flights, accommodation, buses etc? And then how much on top per person for spending money? if we wish to eat out at night and do a little clothes shopping?? Sorry about all the questions, i just want to get as much info as possible. Thanks in advance

flight tickets by email, flight paperwork? Right so I'm going on holiday soon.. from Kent International (Manston) to Jersey. and i don't have a printer and there's gonna be stuff that I have to print out isn't there we leave on the 20'th so we have to do it online. But anyways.. Once my parents put there credit card details in will the paper stuff we have to print out come up on the browser or will they e-mail my parents the stuff to print out? Because I don't have a printer to do it the minute after we pay but if they e-mail it to my mom's email i can go to a friends house and print it out there, so will they defenatly send it to my mum's email? many thanks.

What are your Christmas holiday traditions? I know Christmas is a while away.. but who doesn't love Christmas? :) What do you eat? What activities do you do? Does family come to you or do you go to the family? In my house (I still live with my parents for now): on Christmas eve we have Baked honey glazed-ham, baked beans, baked macaroni, green been casserole, and the usual dinner rolls. No dessert. Christmas morning we have Eggs Benedict. Christmas day for dinner we eat roasted Turkey, Mashed potatoes, stuffing, vegetable casserole and the usual dinner rolls. Dessert we usually just have cookies and a boxed red-velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. We have no traditions, sometimes we don't even get a tree. (a bunch of bah-humbugs if you ask me). As for family, we live too far away for family to visit us. Every now and again we take the 4 hour plane ride when the tickets arent overpriced! Luckily, my Fiance and I are moving closer to where the majority of my relatives are this fall so hopefully me and my fiance will be able to start some traditions of our own :) Now tell me yours! :) btw - where I live is hot all year long. To me Christmas isn't Christmas without cold weather and snow! :) Michael I LOVE your traditions!! I can't help but dream up all of the family traditions I would love to start with my Fiance and future children at Christmas time when we have a place of our own! ahh all this talk is making me anxious for it to be Christmas once again :) This year I am going to start up an ornament collection, you know - buy one special ornament every year to represent the time me and my Fiance have been together. I also think the new Christmas pajamas on x-mas eve idea is so cute! :)

if i got a domestic violence charge and warrant will they let me in australia on a work holiday visa? back in 2006 my wife at the time said i beat her , i didnt, the cops were on my side but they wanted me to leave the house . when i told them to go fuck themseves they arrested me. while awaiting arrainment i violated my restraining order by calling her for bail twice. i pled guilty and had a suspended sentance of three years, not that i would ever really have to do all of it. while on probation i left and because of that i have a non extradition warrant in hawaii for a misdemeanor i didnt committ. now my question is when i apply for my working holiday visa should i lie ? they wont know unless i get spot checked at the airport on my way iin right...which i am giving a 50 50 chance. i amalso thinking of telling themabout the charge and leaving the warrant part out of it. i dont think they will know about the warrrat on an fbi backound check anyways. i rather be honest about it if i have a chane of getting in but i would rather lie than be denied. i am sending them my ex wifes phonenumber along with the app so she can valdge that she hit me. i dont know what to do, lawyers are so exspnsive to talk to on these simple questions, try 1000 bucks. maybe i should just hire one ? oh yeah also i skipped court for a driving undersuspension ticket last year in los angeles.... any thoughts people

If you won 58 million dollars what would you do with it? In Australia a few weeks ago, someone won 58 Million dollars, my husband and I bought a ticket and of course we dreamed what we would do with it. We thought about buying a house, paying off our debts, and going on a holiday. What would you do?

Would you disapprove of your 17-yr-old daughter having her boyfriend visit for the holiday? What can I do? I am an American but lived in Australia for most of high school, and that's where I met my boyfriend. I now live in Chicago with my grandparents and they are the ones who actually encouraged me to invite my boyfriend to come visit over the holidays. They've Skyped with him before, and they like him a lot. They know how much he means to me. They talked with his parents about everything. His parents are extremely excited for him because he's never left Australia. They're happy about it. They bought him the ticket already. My grandparents are treating him to everything we're doing in Chicago (shows, ski trip out of the city, stuff like that) We were together for two years, and really he was my one genuine friend there. Even though I was living in Australia, I was going to school online through a program in the US, so I didn't have a typical high school experience at all. I used to be an extremely extroverted, happy girl before we moved but in Australia I was very isolated and lonely. My only other friends were from gymnastics, but none of them really lived close enough to me to be able to make a close friendship. I didn't have a car and my mom wouldn't let me take Cityrail. He was honestly the only one who was there for me. He did a lot more for me than a typical boyfriend our age. We broke up before I moved, but would like to figure out some way to be together. My mom is the one who is taking major issue with it. She thinks it's totally inappropriate and has been calling and emailing my Nana and harassing her about it. My family is coming over for the holidays, too, and I'm scared my mom is going to just sabotage our happiness. Thankfully, they will be staying with my other grandparents (her parents) so they won't be in our house. But she could still seriously muck everything up. She has a lot of issues as a result of prescription pain addiction (we were in a car accident years ago and she was badly hurt), depression, and other things. She also had brain cancer, but has been in remission for it for five years now. She became a religious zealot after everything, and now thinks I'm like an embarrassment or something for inviting my boyfriend to stay with me. He'll be sleeping in a guest room downstairs right across the hall from my grandparents' room, and my room is upstairs. We're not going to be shacking up. I have way too much respect and gratitude to my grandparents to do anything that would put them in an awkward position. What should I do? I mean, both sets of my grandparents, his parents, and my dad are okay with this but she's the only one who isn't. Unfortunately, she's the type to ruin everything for everyone. Idk what to do. Would you even disapprove of this, all things considering? What should I do? I'm getting so anxious. PLEASE READ (or at least skim) the whole question before answering. Skip it all together if it's too long. Thanks, Brittany. :D Yeah, she disapproves of pretty much everything I do so I've gotten over that. I just don't want there to be crazy tension at every gathering. She's like a bomb that you know is going to go off, and so you want to learn how to try to diffuse it in advance.

misslead information from FlyBe operators? Been told by the flight company reps, of Fly be in Belfast City airport that we can’t proceed to flight to Geneva with ID cards we need passports. We been turned back. We are from Lithuania and we were taking holiday to Geneva and then transfer to France for ski holiday through the skidirect.com. At the check in we was told that we have to use passports not ID cards as they are not in EU and ID cards not accepted. So we had 1 hour to sort this out. I was sure we can use ID cards as when I made a payment is says need to be valid ID card or a passport. From faces we saw was sure they not sure about that them self’s. But they told us to get passports or we will loose flight. So I and other friend had to head back long way home on M1 and try to get in time but that was impossible even for 007 Bond. 2 other friends stayed at the airport to wait for us and with other friend we made grand theft Auto on roads of Belfast. 120miles and hour all the way lets say 40 miles there and back, please keep in mind Belfast city and traffic as it was midday. And drop of in one house and other house to get passports. On the way towards home we been on the phone with Fly be and I was asking could we call them on the way back with the details they need for check in our luggage. But they told they need passports not details and if we not make in time we will miss flight. So we were on the age to kill someone or kill ourselves in any time. And I was sure that we don’t need the passports. Lucky enough of playing chickens and GTO and a good car 2010 we was heading back to Belfast city. we been 56min from time given and received call from our couples that Fly be confirmed that this is they mistake and that we could fly with ID cards no problem. These stupid people didn’t knew that Switzerland is in Schengen country list and you can fly there as in other EU countries. After this call we were already in airport car park. Lucky all live. FLY be staff looked very relieved that we back safe and our luggage was already checked in without even need our ID cards or passports. It was just formal for printing out tickets. All holiday was stressed out and could not feed holiday at all. If anyone could make since out of this or help what could I do against the FLY be of this misinformation related to our Origin and they knowledge of what the should know in the first place. Do I have a right to make a claim against them or to suit them for something as this ruin all our party holiday?

I cant decide whether to keep my baby? I have found out that im six weeks pregnant and am not sure what to do. My boyfriend who i have been with for four years doesnt like the idea of starting a family as we havent got a house. We have booked to go travelling in April and was meant to be going for a year. He says he doesn't think he's ready and he thinks having a baby should be planned. He doesnt want to miss out on doing things in his life. A big part of me wants to keep the baby and use the tickets for travelling to go on a 3 week holiday before i have the baby. I havent been able to talk to my parents about this, im 21 years old and he's 24. We both have fairly good jobs. I dont know what to do.........as i dont want to be the one to ruin his life

Best Mates, then she dissed me for kicking off cos she didn't ask me out for my Birthday? Been friends for years. although got megga problems myself, put my back out to help her through a morgage, (work or an IFA) ran down in torrential rain on day off to fax details to solicitor, walked her daughter's pups while she was at work cos daughter on holiday, tidied her house, (she didn't ask me to, goodness of my heart), her internet broke down, she asked me to book tickets for her Mum and Daughter to go on holiday at my work place, I said ok, and did. Then come my birthday, totally on my own, no guy, her my mate, son's doing their own thing, she never asked me if I would like to go out. Then when I told her why I wasn't phoning or texting, cos I was upset that she didn't ask me to go out! I got a very nice text (NOT) saying I couldn't leave everything up to her, It's my birthday and I should organise it if I want to do anything. What's the rating of this friend please. X

should my hubby come home for the holiday? my husband has been away on work for about 3 months. he took this job so that we could have more $. he has been home to visit me & the kids twice so far. it costs him at least $300 or more to come home to see us. we miss him a lot. & he misses us a lot, but we really can't afford for him to come home. if he drives, he will only be able to stay for 1-2 days b/c he will have to leave on sunday to be back to work on monday. i've thot about the plane, but you have to have all of the $ for the plane ticket at one time - we haven't had it; our mortgage is due; the house phone just got cut off; & he now has to find an apartment where he's working at b/c it's time for him to move out of our friend's house that he's been staying at for free. i miss him a lot. i know that i mentioned that already. but, the purpose of him taking this job was for us to have more $, & it seems that since he's been gone, that all the extra money he has made has been spent up in gas with him driving home to see us. consequence of taking the job was having to stay for a year... if i leave to go where he is, we will still have to pay mortgage, unless i am somehow able to rent/lease our home, but even that takes addt'l $ b/c we will have to either put our stuff in storage, or pay to move it to where he's at..

I told my mother to leave if she could not respect my house. I called her a cab and she left. Was I wrong? I often have family over for the holidays and I try to make everyone feel comfortable and welcome. My mother came to visit for the holidays and I showed her my new place (I live in a different state). I then showed her the guest room and she went into my bedroom, saying, "This is where I want to sleep." I informed her, "No, this is where my husband and I sleep. We made up the guest room for you." "Well, I don't want to stay in there; I want to stay in here." I said, "No, you cannot sleep in here. We also have a pullout sofa bed and a futon in the family room if you don't want to be in the guest room." She said, "Well, if I can't sleep where I want, then I will go to a hotel." I decided to drop it for the time being. But then she began rearraging my things, moving the furniture and redecorating my house and I told her to put everything back. She refused. I told her to put it all back, and she said, "If I can't fix it up the way I want, then I'll just change my ticket and go home."

Can you please add on to this Holiday Friday Fun? You Know It’s Nearing Christmas When:? Here are some Examples. You Know It’s Nearing Christmas When: Your Ghosts wear chains. Three guys in robes get a ticket for riding camels on a highway. Your credit card begins to melt from slide friction. You’ve made it through Hanukkah and all the kid’s questions. The kids keep asking if Solstice is like Santa. The kids keep asking how Santa Claus can get down your Faux fireplace. The kids start throwing away last year’s video games. A young’un with size one feet wonders around with a size forty sock. All the scotch tape disappears. Your kids get weirded out when you bring a real tree into the house. Your preteen green scolds you because you murdered a tree. You spend hours trying to find the blown bulb in a dead string of lights. Your spouse is nicer to you than he or she was for the last 362 days. You spend hours seeking addresses of people who sent you Christmas cards last years. You find weird hiding places for even weirder Christmas presents. You spend hours figuring out what to get both sets of in-laws, that won’t split the family. You try to explain to a 4 year old what jingle bells are. You try to explain to a 4 year old why you don’t have a sleigh. Your 4 year old sings the line“Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way,”for 6 hours. You can’t get to sleep because your neighbor has a million watts of Christmas lights and doesn’t turn them off until 3 A.M. Your 8 year old asks if Thor could whip Santa Claus. The kids drag in a big “Yule” Log and put it in the gas firplace.

My cousin wants her boyfriend to stay at our house for 3 weeks during holidays.? Cousin and I live together. She's always been different, and now is making the transistion to be a male. My family doesn't recognize her as a male. Anyways, she met her boyfriend online. He doesn't work, 22years old, living on the streets of California...we sent him a blanket cause he didn't even have one...he apparently is going to come up with money for round trip plane ticket to Michigan and stay with us for 3 weeks. They've never met before. I don't feel that this is smart or safe. Can anyone share their opinion of the situation? He may be a rapist, murderer, liar....what if it doesn't work out? He'll have to stay the full 3 weeks regardless...I'm just concerned that my cousin will harm herself if I don't put faith in her decision making, or try and "ruin her holidays" as she puts it....

Turkish phrases? help any Turkish speakers? Okay im learning turkish. i have the books, the cds etc etc but so far they've only been teaching me thinks like how to order drinks, how to check in at a hotel, how to introduce myself etc. i want some more phrases that i can use with my boyfriend, also id like it if you could out how to pronouce them for examle: luften (lootfen) or teskkur (tesh ek kur) please could someone give me the translation for these? it would be even better if you could write the pronuciation by the side also. i will pay for your flight tickets:) come on holiday to england! you can stay at my house with me and my family we will take care of you for the week you can bring your mother or your brother or sister do you want to come? you can come whenever you want, just let me know. ive dyed my hair what do you think thank you guys :) please no google translate or anything xxxx

should be have gotten a ticket? someone parked in our driveway next to our house while watching our local holiday parade causing us not to be able to park in our driveway. we called the police dept. and we were told they(the person parking in our driveway) could not get a ticket because we did not have a no parking or private driveway sign up. is this right. its private property we own the home. because of this we missed the whole parade and my husband is very upset.

Christmas gift for in-laws..WHO HAVE EVERYTHING!? Okay, they have literally everything, and this is my second year and I will be spending the holiday at their house. I have purchased things already for them only to go for a visit and see that they already have it! I have no ideas left! They aren't snobby but like the finer things, and anything that we can afford to do for them they already have and we can not afford to get them the things they really want... like and antique armoire... So one idea is a blue ray player but we only have like a 200.00 limit, any ideas ... Please help!! I really wanted to make a good impression and impress them. His sister is making a photo album for his parents and tickets to the symphony... see what I’m up against! Lol! Any suggestions would be great thanks! I cant even do book b/c she is a librarian and he get all types of movies.. They are very sweet ppl that would like anything, she works as a librarian so book are out and he is an engineer, so tools are out for him. They like antiques but almost have everything except for like a set of tea cups...(too expensive) He goes to home depot every weekend to buy stuff for their garden. They are fun-loving people that are sentimental, good since of humor and they like everything! But When I Think of things to get them it seems so impersonal..?

I am doing a monthly "To Do" Checklist, to help me prepare for the month ahead, Please help, EZ 10 Points "?"? with the months of things to in; MARCH, MAY, & AUGUST Also if you have any other additions to fill in for any other month that would be very cool! Thanks =] Best Answer Rewarded ASAP <3 **January** Get started Cleaning & Prepare for the new Year Send out Happy New Cards **February** Confirm any Hotel Reservations Find a Valentines Day Gif & Card Find a nice outfit Yummy Beverages Romantic Music / Movies **March************************** **April** Time to Prune All Trees & Get ready for City Trash Pick Up Fertilize Lawn, Should be done twice a year, both Spring & Fall **May************************** **June** Plan out Fun Summer Activities for Kids & Adults **July** Get a nice outfit ready for 4rth of July Make and prepare any foods that can be made in advance Bring Ice Chest filled with Cold Beverages Decorations; Balloons, Streamers, Flags, Glow Sticks, Glow Cubes Games & Activities; Horseshoes Video and Still Cameras Camping Gear - Tents, Sleeping Bags, Chairs, Tables **August************************** **September** Time for last minute projects around the house before Winter sets in **October** Decorate the house with Warm Color Schemes & Fall Decorations Start Christmas Shopping for Friends, Family, & Unexpected Guests Create Dishes for Thanksgiving Dinner Make sure car is maintained for Holiday Travel **November** Buy tickets for Seasonal Entertainment Prepare to send out all Holiday Gifts; Greeting Cards, Mixed Tapes **December** Decorate the house Do something to help others Buy Fresh Flowers & Plants for your home Have fun Holiday Drinks Around Have Christmas Video’s on display Have Fun Holiday Music Nice Scented Candles Festive Games Send out all Christmas Cards Put together a nice Christmas Outfit Mail Holiday gifts by the 15th Book Reservations for Valentines Day **January - New Year’s Eve** Glow Sticks / Glowing Ice Cubes Decorative Party Hats / Balloons / Horns / Silly String Cab Company Phone Numbers Alcohol related; Good Sales, Cork screws, etc Video and Still Cameras Fun New Years Eve Games

have you ever been in a similar situation? When i was 13 i went on holiday to new york with my brothers fiance's family. The hotel we stayed at had an arcade and i spent £40 ($63) of my £60 ($95) holiday money (that i saved up myself from my pocket money) to play games to earn tickets. There was a shop that you could buy anything you liked using your tickets, there was this science experiment set worth £110 that i had begged my parents to buy but they just said no, when i realised they had this in the shop and you needed 300 tickets to be able to buy it, i came every single day to play games to earn tickets. I was so determined to buy that science set that instead of going to visit new york i pretended to be ill so i could stay behind with my aunt, i missed out on visiting lots of attractions in new york so that i could get that science set. After a week of coming every single day and spending £40 and even asking my dad for an extra £20 so that i could get more tickets i managed to get 410 tickets, not only had i been able to get the science set i had dreamed of having for so long i had an extra 110 tickets. But, on the last day of our holiday when i went to the counter to buy my science set, i realised that everyone had found out that i had 410 tickets so they came with me so they could all get something too, i told then over and over that they could have 110 as long as i could have 300 for my science set, they all agreed so we waited in the que for our turn, When my brothers fiances little brother and sister both spoted a toy (her little brother is 9 and her sister is 8) her sister wanted a barbie house and her brother wanted a remote control car, the car was worth 190 tickets and the barbie house was worth 160, in total it was 350. Theyre mum and dad told them to chose something else, they told them that he already has 3 romote control cars and that she has a barbie house. But they both burst into tears and they screamed and shouted so my parents told them that its ok they could have the toys, i whisperd in my dads ear that its not fair i spent all my money and time and they get what they want just becaus they cried. He said hes sorry but theyre kids we cant just say no to them. I left the hotel with a DVD of shrek, while the kids had a new barbie house and a toy car, and my brothers fiance had a new pair of hair tongs and my brother had 2 new plastation games. I was raised well so i didnt argue and say no theyre my tickets or cry i just kept quiet. I cried scilently in the airport toilete my mum tried to cheer me up by saying she would buy me a new bike but i just wanted the science set. I left new york with tears, it was the worst holiday i had ever had. Im 19 now and i went to new york just 2 days ago, i went to this toy store and they had that exact science set i wanted 6 years ago, and yes i did buy it and its incredible! Have you ever been in a similar situation? Btw i have hated those kids ever since, i never really liked them that much they where really spoiled.

Help... I need to find house in Chicago? Hi, I'm Maurice and I came from Italy. Really I'm in Italy right now :-) My problem is the following: the next summer I want to spend my holidays in Chicago, but on the web I can't find a house to rent. Can someone to link me some adpartment ads? So, in your opinion, is possible to buy fly tickets from the USA? If someone can help me I shoud be so so so so so so happy!!!!!! Thanks!!!

my wife left me for my friend and left me with kids i had to give up work was supposed to be taking kids on ho holiday 6th july she has been in to my house and stole passports airline tickets she still had keys ive now changed the locks would you kill her

HELP, i'm a French student and I'm looking for house for a week in New York!? Hello everybody! My name is Nicolas Gameiro, I'm a French student. I ask you for help! I would like to discover New York and American people, i am really interested in your country, I study the english for a long time and i earn money during my holidays to pay the "plane ticket" to go to America. I would like to stay in the city of New York for 7 days during December or February. But it is too expensive for me to stay in a hotel, and i would LoVe to meet an american family! It's very important for me to share opinions about "life way" and a lot of other things! ( I can cook if you want lol )! You can see me on my blog : (on page 3) http://freeyourlife.skyrock.com/ I am waiting for your answers and i'm really sorry for my mistakes in English! Bisoux from France...XXX I can pay 300$ you if you accept me to stay in your home (Sorry for mistakes!!! I have to improve my language!) If you have a question about me or anything which i forgot, contact me on glouglou39@hotmail.com. thank you very much

my DYSFUNCTIONAL family.help? I am the eldest,female age 30,and hav a brother age 26.but my family always protected him,complimented him.they were always negative to me,and pushed me into exams i couldn't do.they always had to have the best,my dad worked 2 jobs,for holidays,nice house etc..i now live alone,but my brother still lives there with his girlfriend,they don't work.i see my dad putting fuel in his car!! my dads business is not doing well,and he is constantly calling me asking me to pay parking tickets for my car (insurance under his name)but i pay it!! He even creates fines i don't have,and he still takes my car to weork leaving me without one,while my brother could loan him his as he never gets up before 2pm anyway..and wen i visit my parenst my brother is always in with 'put downs about my life.help?als to get extra money they are now claiming of house insurance for burst pipes,that i don't think ever happened...

Who did the Halloween Horror Nights...? at Universal Studios? Me and my boyfriend went as we were there on holiday and thought it would be fun, however after spending $80 on the tickets and a further $90 on FastPass tickets we went through the Silver Screams house. Somebody chased me with a "chainsaw" I burst into tears, screamed my head off, almost passed out and had to be carried out through a fire exit, then we went home. Boyfriend = not impressed. Me = embarrased. What did you guys think of it?

Any Tips for Disputing Parking Ticket in Person? I received a parking ticket while I was staying over at my boyfriend's house a few Saturdays ago. The ticket stated that I was being fined for parking overnight (2AM-6AM). I will be meeting the officer who gave me the ticket this Friday to contest the ticket based on the street sign which states that parking is prohibited for more than 4 hours at a time EXCEPT on weekends and holidays. Apparently my boyfriend's village has this weird (to me) law that people who don't live there aren't aware of, namely no overnight parking on the street. (The city I live in has no such rule, I park my car outside of my house all the time.) How do I properly reason with the officer so he waives the ticket? I don't want to go into a wordy discourse, which I am prone to doing, and don't want to do anything to tick him off. Help?

Ca DUI and tickets, what to do? I received two seperate tickets within a week of each other, speeding and stop sign. Holiday weekend, about two weeks later I get a DUI leaving the bars. I am 6'2 235lbs, had two beers at my house around 9:30pm and two larger than pint beers at around 11:30. I was pulled over around 2am.I was administered two breathalyzers where I blew " in the low .08's" I feel I passed the sobriety exams no problem even in the 29* weather. I was cuffed up and hauled off for the early morning. I took a blood test about 45min after the breathalyzers at the jail. Today I get a speeding ticket, awesome. Does anyone have any idea what I'm up against? I haven't attended my arraignment yet and police won't release the reports, including my blood test until then. If the blood test comes back significantly lower(let's say.065) do I have a case for dismissal? I know temp can effect results, is that an argument? Also this happened on a sat, to my knowledge the breathalyzers are calibrated on Mondays and are notorious for reading high anyways. I'm gonna try and take traffic court for the first ticket, leaving me with two speeding tickets(2pts) and then facing the court case for the DUI. Ca DMV suspends licenses for around 6months if you get 4pts in 12months and that's just points not the DUI. If offered should I settle for a wet and reckless giving me the 2 additional pts needed for suspension or do I fight to the bitter end? Given different blood result scenarios at what range should I either fight back full force or accept a plea? Any ideas?Past experiences? Advice?(other then to slow down). Can I get a restricted for school and work if it's not dismissed?

Do you think my ex bf has good excuse to leave me? We split up about 3 months ago and been together for a year and it was a serious relationship.4 months prior to break up ,he started to new job as a taxi driver and he was earning good money and wroking long hours.We had a long distance relationship.He stopped his affection ,all those nice texts.Whenever I complained he used to say he was working for us to save money and moving together,I wanted to be with him in the news years eve but he chosen to work instead.We only had 2 proper argument in 1 year . *iN THE first one ,I complained that he has changed towards me ,we had an argument on the phone and i said I am leaving you ,next day he came to my house apologised and we made up.my intention was not splitting up *second one,we were going to visit his family to meet for the first time and i was under stress ,they live in Turkey,1 week before the holiday he was distant again and we argued ,i said i wont come to holiday with you and he promised that after holiday he will change his behaviour and all because of the stress of his job. I believed him and went to see his family ,when we came back he had problems at work and money problems and I was very ill with a terrible flu.All he talked for 4 days was the money he needed,he had to borrow from someone,Even though he found another job in 2 days time,I supported him emotionally but he was keep compaining.He spent money on me on the holiday and for the tickets and I felt bad.He had proposed me on the way to holiday and I said yes.When we came back he was so cold ,and I reminded him that he promised that things will change.So we had an argument he said he cant change and that was it. *I never called him,he been calling friends and family and blaming me for the break up and telling them that i was keep leaving him and he had enough,After 1 months he asked his stuff back by post and I sent it,He calls me time to time and chat withs me friendly and it annoys me because he doesnt say all those things that he tells my friends.I dont know if he wants to get back together.I love him .He called me last week ,People say its your turn to call him back but I cant.He hasnt got good enough reason to leave me broken hearted.We were getting engaged this summer.What shall I do?Shall I call or text him after couple of days?I think he wants me to act first and say sorry ,dont complain and accept the way he treats me.He was a vvery nice person prior to break up became evil after.Any advice appreciatedxxBy the way he gave all the money he saved to his dad when we went to visit them so all those months he ignored me and said he was working for us is pointless now.I think he chosen money over me ,I heard that he is now working 16 hours a day and he has plans to go back to his country *When answering please consider that I left my dogs in the kennel when I went to see his family and my dogs were ill.My exams started and I had so much stress of revising when I got back.I had to take 2 weeks unpaid holiday all for him,Just to make him happy

What Could i have done so bad? I have been with my partner 4 years we have a baby together.It has been very off and on for 2 years but hes never gone longer than a week.He has done ALOT of horrible things to me i wouldnt even mention on here and i have been strong but forgiven him, he tends to be very arrogant and doesnt like being told what to do..but does anyone??We have been getting on really well recently untill i said something about wanting the radio on while i was cleaning up and he kicked of threw a plate at me and screamed and swore in front of our 2 year old son and took everything and walked out,he took my house key so i couldnt even lock my door and had to ring in sick for work.He has now had his locks changed (as i had a key) and refuses to exept he has done anything wrong he wont speak to me or txt me just tells me to f**k off n hes not interereted.We are ment to be going on holiday in 2 weeks but he is getting the tickets delivered to his house!!Im so upset and shocked and dont undersatnd what i could have possible done.Hes sent me one message 'your on your own now and your life is gna get worse my lifes guna get better!'meaning because i have a son to look after and he can live the single life.I know we deserve better but i would just like an explaination??Am i wrong??

I got a ticket for improper parking? I understand the reason for the ticket, but I don't understand why the cop didn't just give me a fine. Instead I have to go see a judge in January. I went to my local court house to see if I could just pay a fine, but since he set a court date they say theres nothing they can do. So now I have to worry all through the holidays about it. Why didn't he just give me a fine?

Should I call my aunt and apologise to her again? Me and my brother went to her house for the Chrismas holiday and were supposed to return back home today using a pre-bought ticket. Our train was for 11:23 but after I checked, for some reason I kept thinking it was 11:43 so we missed our train and she had to spend a lot of money to buy us new tickets even though she's broke right now. I already said sorry while we were boarding the train and texted her saying sorry but she never replied to either and I feel bad for wasting her money.

would you share your...? Would you share your...? One of four Piqua city employees suing fellow employees who won a $207 million lottery said in a sworn statement he didn't throw in his dollar the day money was collected for what was the winning ticket but felt comfortable because players in the work pool regularly covered for one another. Doug Harter, identified in city commission minutes as the street department supervisor, said in an affidavit filed with the suit Tuesday, Dec. 23, he was off work Dec. 12, cleaning his house for the department holiday party. That night a ticket purchased by the pool played by employees, primarily of the streets and parks and recreation departments, was the sole winner in the Mega Millions lottery. The next week, 14 employees and one's father-in-law came forward as winners of the jackpot. Opting for the lump sum payment, 14 won $6.3 million each, while the 15th player, who threw in an extra dollar, won $12.6 million, Ohio Lottery officials said. The four suing in Miami County Common Pleas Court claim those who regularly played in the pool had a verbal agreement to share any winnings. The lawsuit seeks $41.4 million plus punitive damages. A hearing is scheduled Jan. 15. Harter claims in the affidavit that the four suing and the winners had contributed pool money for each other in the past. "At various times in the past, defendants to this action have stated to various plaintiffs ... that they would 'take care of' or 'make good on' parties who were participants in the lottery pool who were unable to put money on in on the date of a particular drawing," Harter said in the affidavit. WOULD'T IT BE BETTER TO SHARE AND BE ABLE TO LIVE WITH YOURSELF?

1. Are you a dem or rep and 2. would you share your...? Would you share your...? One of four Piqua city employees suing fellow employees who won a $207 million lottery said in a sworn statement he didn't throw in his dollar the day money was collected for what was the winning ticket but felt comfortable because players in the work pool regularly covered for one another. Doug Harter, identified in city commission minutes as the street department supervisor, said in an affidavit filed with the suit Tuesday, Dec. 23, he was off work Dec. 12, cleaning his house for the department holiday party. That night a ticket purchased by the pool played by employees, primarily of the streets and parks and recreation departments, was the sole winner in the Mega Millions lottery. The next week, 14 employees and one's father-in-law came forward as winners of the jackpot. Opting for the lump sum payment, 14 won $6.3 million each, while the 15th player, who threw in an extra dollar, won $12.6 million, Ohio Lottery officials said. The four suing in Miami County Common Pleas Court claim those who regularly played in the pool had a verbal agreement to share any winnings. The lawsuit seeks $41.4 million plus punitive damages. A hearing is scheduled Jan. 15. Harter claims in the affidavit that the four suing and the winners had contributed pool money for each other in the past. "At various times in the past, defendants to this action have stated to various plaintiffs ... that they would 'take care of' or 'make good on' parties who were participants in the lottery pool who were unable to put money on in on the date of a particular drawing," Harter said in the affidavit. WOULD'T IT BE BETTER TO SHARE AND BE ABLE TO LIVE WITH YOURSELF?

How to let your parents go on a holiday? Im 13, and last September/October i went to Queensland with my mum and stayed with my cousins that live up there... And In April i have a 2 week break and i wanna go for a few days by myself on the plane... i really want too!! and i they would pick me up from the airport... i was willing to pay for the flight tickets and my mum and dad give me some money ( my parents are divorced) my dad says its fine but its always the Mums decision... I Live in Sydney so on the airplane its about 1 hr... And i have my unlimted theme world pass that i wanna use up coz i dont think im gonna go back this year... i really need to convince my mum please!!!.. HELP ME!!!!... and also how do u get your mum to give you keys so you can get home everyday after school instead of going to her work everyday which is realy boring!!.. my mum refuses to give me a unit house key!!.. i dont know why tho but i no i wont loose them coz i have never lost anything off mine.. but my mum has lost he rhouse keys so many times its not even funny... so how do i get her to give me house keys??? thanks bye xx

WHat would you have done in this scandal...? One of four Piqua city employees suing fellow employees who won a $207 million lottery said in a sworn statement he didn't throw in his dollar the day money was collected for what was the winning ticket but felt comfortable because players in the work pool regularly covered for one another. Doug Harter, identified in city commission minutes as the street department supervisor, said in an affidavit filed with the suit Tuesday, Dec. 23, he was off work Dec. 12, cleaning his house for the department holiday party. That night a ticket purchased by the pool played by employees, primarily of the streets and parks and recreation departments, was the sole winner in the Mega Millions lottery. The next week, 14 employees and one's father-in-law came forward as winners of the jackpot. Opting for the lump sum payment, 14 won $6.3 million each, while the 15th player, who threw in an extra dollar, won $12.6 million, Ohio Lottery officials said. The four suing in Miami County Common Pleas Court claim those who regularly played in the pool had a verbal agreement to share any winnings. The lawsuit seeks $41.4 million plus punitive damages. A hearing is scheduled Jan. 15. WOULDN"T IT JUST BE EASIER TO SHARE THE DAMN MONEY AND BE ABLE TO LIVE WITH YOURSELF?

Is my boyfriend cheap or am I just high maintenance? My boyfriend and I have been together for almost three years now, but I've always thought he was cheap and now it is really affecting my feelings for him =(. He never takes me out and every time we do we pay 50/50, even if its just for coffee.. He will only pay for something like a $5 large pizza or a large meal at Maccas or something like that.. is this normal? I have talked to him about it several times, but I end up feeling bad because he is in a tough financial position. He is an international student so his Uni fees are ridiculous (like $20 grand a year) and he has to pay for rent and living expenses, study and work at the same time, and I do feel sorry for him. His parents are also really cheap, they never help him out but they themselves have many properties, antiques in the house, luxuries, etc. As a result, he comes to my place (I'm still living with my parents) on the weekends, and my mum would take him out to nice restaurants for dinner, buy him food, cook what he wants to eat... and he hasn't given us anything back. I understand that I am lucky to have better financial conditions than him, but still, I don't think it is appropriate for him to take and not give anything at all, maybe pay for dinner once or twice a year, or pay for my movie ticket and dinner once in a while (we never go to expensive places anyway - I'm not asking for wine and a three course meal, just like thai takeaway... I've also loaned him money before for a holiday and he took like almost 3 months to pay it back, and just keeps on saying, ok im going to pay like $100 this week ok? and pay back in many instalments... I feel like he thinks he can save by being really cheap with me, and that I don't notice but now it's just a really big turn-off because I feel like I'm the man in this relationship... I grew up in a wealthy family and I study hard and work hard for my own money and it is quite hard for me to suddenly live like a poor bum and eat only pizza with him and stuff because he can't afford anything and doens't want to pay for anything... I'm really thinking about ending this relationship because I just feel like we're not at the same level, and I can never feel security with him... however, I do love him and think he's a good guy. But everyone hates a cheapskate! It's not exactly a small flaw... As I said, I have talked to him about it numerous times but I think it just hurts his ego, so I don't like talking about it... should I end this or is it my problem and I just expect too much? Cathy

My life is pissed of right now? This is a really bad situation to me I never imagine that i will being through this but well that's life! I was dating my cousin of 14 and I 18 for a year ( but for me was not dating )( I know that i did wrong but we all made mistake plus we'r girls ) My aunt was suspecting everything so she asked her "what was happening' my cousin lye and said that I was following her to her school and I Obligate her to be with me and beats her. Everybody told my aunt that her daugther was lying and it was a consensual relationship. Well she went to the school to transfer her and the school told her that she had to put charged against me or they would do it. Well my aunt went to the presint and put charged against me but said that she don't want to put me in jail. She had too many presured from the school they told her that they would take her children if she didn't do anything. The school told her that to put a protection order against me ( to protect her family ) The following week the dectetive came to my house and took me to the presint! I told them that we were experimenting and that we only kissed not sex involved. NEVER! Well They gave me a desk appearace ticket misdemeanor b third degree! I went to the family court and they said that they would start an investigation ( social service ) I went to the criminal court and i have to go again. I have to go to the family court in a month to see what happened. I just pray to god that she say the true. What can happen to me? what can happen to my aunt if they find that everything she said was not true? she wrote in the family court that i picked her daugther from school and took her to my home and sexual abuse her! Im in college and in my final exam im trying to be calm and not think about this situation but it so hard for me really im not scared about jail, I just don't want to loose my mother she is sick and I know she is suffer too much. My mother used to love my aunt's children as they child. they always came to my house on holiday and my aunt didn't think about her. STATE: NY.........

my life is pissed off right now!? This is a really bad situation to me I never imagine that i will being through this but well that's life! I was dating my cousin of 14 and I 18 for a year ( but for me was not dating )( I know that i did wrong but we all made mistake plus we'r girls ) My aunt was suspecting everything so she asked her "what was happening' my cousin lye and said that I was following her to her school and I Obligate her to be with me and beats her. Everybody told my aunt that her daugther was lying and it was a consensual relationship. Well she went to the school to transfer her and the school told her that she had to put charged against me or they would do it. Well my aunt went to the presint and put charged against me but said that she don't want to put me in jail. She had too many presured from the school they told her that they would take her children if she didn't do anything. The school told her that to put a protection order against me ( to protect her family ) The following week the dectetive came to my house and took me to the presint! I told them that we were experimenting and that we only kissed not sex involved. NEVER! Well They gave me a desk appearace ticket misdemeanor b third degree! I went to the family court and they said that they would start an investigation ( social service ) I went to the criminal court and i have to go again. I have to go to the family court in a month to see what happened. I just pray to god that she say the true. What can happen to me? what can happen to my aunt if they find that everything she said was not true? she wrote in the family court that i picked her daugther from school and took her to my home and sexual abuse her! Im in college and in my final exam im trying to be calm and not think about this situation but it so hard for me really im not scared about jail, I just don't want to loose my mother she is sick and I know she is suffer too much. My mother used to love my aunt's children as they child. they always came to my house on holiday and my aunt didn't think about her. STATE: NY

my life is pissed of right now? This is a really bad situation to me I never imagine that i will being through this but well that's life! I was dating my cousin of 14 and I 18 for a year ( but for me was not dating )( I know that i did wrong but we all made mistake plus we'r girls ) My aunt was suspecting everything so she asked her "what was happening' my cousin lye and said that I was following her to her school and I Obligate her to be with me and beats her. Everybody told my aunt that her daugther was lying and it was a consensual relationship. Well she went to the school to transfer her and the school told her that she had to put charged against me or they would do it. Well my aunt went to the presint and put charged against me but said that she don't want to put me in jail. She had too many presured from the school they told her that they would take her children if she didn't do anything. The school told her that to put a protection order against me ( to protect her family ) The following week the dectetive came to my house and took me to the presint! I told them that we were experimenting and that we only kissed not sex involved. NEVER! Well They gave me a desk appearace ticket misdemeanor b third degree! I went to the family court and they said that they would start an investigation ( social service ) I went to the criminal court and i have to go again. I have to go to the family court in a month to see what happened. I just pray to god that she say the true. What can happen to me? what can happen to my aunt if they find that everything she said was not true? she wrote in the family court that i picked her daugther from school and took her to my home and sexual abuse her! Im in college and in my final exam im trying to be calm and not think about this situation but it so hard for me really im not scared about jail, I just don't want to loose my mother she is sick and I know she is suffer too much. My mother used to love my aunt's children as they child. they always came to my house on holiday and my aunt didn't think about her. STATE: NY

What Would You Spend Your Lottery Winnings On? This saturday (i think) there is a 112 million pound euromillions jackpot. I would like to know what you would spend it on should you win it. This can be anything you want. I have listed some of my things below. £5,000,000 to charities £15,000,000 on investing £7,500,000 on cars £20,000,000 on houses and holiday homes for me and children £5,000,000 on gadgets and phones £1,000,000 on sporting things (season tickets, shirts etc) £500,000 on staff Enjoy making your lists

Should I trust that they are just friends? I've been casually dating a guy for a little over 4 months. I like him and think there could be a possibility for a serious relationship. He has told me that he likes me alot and it's pretty clear. He has also made it clear that he is upset about the current situation but can't really do anything about it. He has a "friend" from out of the country here currently visiting him for 2 weeks. She has been here for 1 week already. He says the plans were made before we met and could not be changed due to the air tickets already being bought. Anyways, the girl is staying at his house. I'm sure going to holiday events with him and doing stuff with him (she doesn't know anyone here)...and we have seen each other once since she's been hear. Yet he calls me daily and text me. I really like him, but I'm starting to wonder if I should even be available once his friend leaves. Should I trust that they are just friends? Or is the situation too suspect? Should I leave it alone and say "Next"?

what would you do will 100million pounds sterling? The Euro Millions Lottery this week is an estimated 100 Million pounds sterling. ( that would be somewhere around 200 million US dollars, I don't know the exchange rate just now) Is it too much for one person? What would you do with that much money? After a holiday and a house for yourself, and perhaps your parents too. what then? with that much money, would you still work? If not what would you do to stay sane, and occupy your time? Yes I have a ticket, before you ask Lots of questions I know --- so what would you do first? No I didn't win, so Its back to work on Monday. Didn't get anywhere with the other lottery either. Any Millioniares out there? LOL Nope! OK

Best way to surprise a friend... Any ideas? I live in CA, and haven't seen my best friend who lives in NY in about nine months, I havent told her I bought tickets to visit home in hopes of surprising her... I was thinking about just showing up at her house or asking her to pick up something I ordered at a store for my mom for the holidays or something? Anyone have anything creative? I really want to make her piss her damn pants lol.

What would you do? Am I totally being selfish? I am 32 weeks pregnant. I have 2 boys one 4 and one 2. We are supposed to go out of town for the holidays this friday to my parents and in-laws houses (they live in the same state), who live 13 hours away. Going home is already stressfull enough with the pressure of pleasing both families and being fair with our time especially because they don't see us much. Anyway my husband is leaving on business for the first two weeks in December so he won't be there to help me and then to top it all off my parents got tickets to take my whole family to Hawaii for a week right before Christmas. I will be 36 almost 37 weeks pregnant. I so don't want to go. I have cleared it with my doc, but I already feel so stressed out that I have to go home & deal with our families that I don't know if I can handle the stress of that too. I feel like I am going crazy. Am I totally selfish to want to back out & just stay home with my husband & son's? Am I getting worked up for nothing?

Im scared of flying? right im 15 and have flown since i was about 3, but two years ago i didnt want to fly, but i still went on holiday. A year later i refused to fly and my parents went away and i stayed ay my nans house. This year they have booked my tickets and said im going no matter what. I really want to go as i missed them loads when they went and i reallly do enjoy being with them on holiday, its just the flight there and back. Can anyone help me to overcome my fear of flying? and yes i do watch A.C.I....maybe to much lol

I had sex with my friends mom!!? I'm nineteen I went to my friends house to borrow some of his books. I stayed around for dinner and was invited to stay the night. Anyway I've had a crush on his mom for ages and heard a rumor she used to be a hooker. My friend had to leave for a soccer match, anyway I asked his mom if she knew about the rumor about her being a hooker. She said it was true and she could show me. She called her son and told him to stay at his fathers house (his parents live in different houses and aren't divorced but do have marital problems and hardly talk to eachother) he said ok. The next hing I'm lying naked in bed next to her while she's giving me a blowjob. The sex was mindblowing. We went at it for ages. The next mornig I woke up next to her and we did it again. I was totally crazy and bought plain tickets for Spain where I have a holiday home and she says we should stay there together for the rest of the month. I thought this stuff only happened in stories. What should I do? She's a slamming hottie and a sex machine. ******* is a blow job I didn't want to it just happened. But now I just want her. My brother asked the dog question but he gave me his account when he switched to gmail. He says it's way better. We got a king charles by the way I told her we should stop and she says she'll tell her son I assaulted her if I do dump her what do I do now.

Travel to Nanjing by Bus? I want to travel to Nanjing from Shanghai this October holidays but all the train tickets are sold out on the date I want to travel. I know I can buy bus tickets at the Shanghai Train Station for bus tickets to Nanjing but can someone tell me 1. How much per person 2. How often do they travel to Nanjing 3. Can I buy them before day of travel 4. Do you have the phone number so I can call them & get them delivered to my house (if its possible) Thank you.

<Sleep-over issues> Would he feel offended? I invited a guy to visit me in my country after our holiday together, and he's purchased the air tickets to visit me. I've told him that my parents would be happy to hav him here. As he likes our culture, he was excited to have an experience of homestay in his favourite country. However, the truth was my parents would feel not so comfortable letting someone stay over at our place, simply because they have their family business and they wanna relax in the evening. I wanted to be nice, but in the end it became a little lie. I therefore found a weekly-apartment, and decided to spend time with him there, and maybe invite him at my house only for dinner sometimes...(I also want us to be able to stay together with some privacy). Would he feel disappointed about this? The weekly aprtment is still very nice, and we'll still visit my relatives just to show what our life style is like. What is the best way to update this without reveal what the actual situation is? He is by the way from Italy, and my mom and dad love people from Europe. But since I once took a guy whom they were not so keen, they have asked me not to bring boys anymore... I feel terrible, as I did not mean to lie to him, but I was thinking that it could be possible that my parents give us a chance,,, but today when I saw them working hard, I could not ask them... Also it is impossible for me to stay in the same room at my family's so,,, i came to the decision to stay at the weekly rental place. I do not want him to think that my parents do not like him, just because they just feel less relaxed when there's non-family member in the house...

False Signing Of Mortgage Papers, advice required? My wife took someone else to sign mortgage papers who was impersonating myself, this can be verified and proof is easy as at the date of signing and throughout everything going on with the move i was in prison. Does this affect the claims i have against my house being in my name. This took place six years ago and since then she has been formally cautioned for benefit fraud and i am paying back the monies to the tune of 6k also she is now trying to get my holiday changed i am the lead name on the tickets and i fear she will get someone to impersonate me again. Although i have the tickets she has been trying to call thomson direct to change the details. Advice would be very appreciated on this one.

I'm italian, would you tell me what languages do you study at school mainly? Italian guys have to study english at all schools cause it is the "international language". We use many english worlds, like "computer", "mouse", "joystick", "jet-lag", "trolley", "ticket", "disco", "house" (music)... so that I wonder: "If i were english, which foreign languages would I have to study?" "Are you aware that your economical power force people to learn your language and me to waste time on holiday? (because of the homeworks)

read the Runaway child sweethearts ? Two German children, aged five and six, have been stopped from running away to Africa get married, say police. Mika and Anna-Bell got together their swimming costumes, sunglasses and a lilo and headed for the airport. They even thought to take Anna-Bell's seven-year-old sister with them to be an official witness at their wedding. But a guard called police when he saw them at Hanover railway station and the travelling trio were persuaded they'd need money and tickets to reach Africa. Police spokesman Holger Jureczk told reporters the young couple were "very much in love" and had decided to get married in Africa "where it is warm". Anna-Bell and Mika came up with the idea as their families celebrated New Year's eve together and Mika told the two sisters all about a recent holiday to Italy. The next morning, they crept out of the house while their parents slept, walked about half a mile to the local tram station and hopped on a tram to the railway station. Parents relieved They were about to get on a train to the airport when their African adventure came to an end as a guard got suspicious when he spotted them on their own with all their summer gear and called the police. Now Mika and Anna-Bell's wedding plans have been put on hold, but they did get to have a tour of the police station while they waited for their relieved parents to collect them And funny.

feeling guilty? I am feeling guilty, for no reason. I'm going to my aunts house in the easter holidays, and I have to take the train there. I'm going first class (so ill be ok....etc.) and my dad has paid quite a lot for the tickets, and for some reason I feel guilty when he didnt even mind paying for them. I just feel bad that he has to spend so much. I don't know why though. any suggestions/advice?

The Christmas Fun poll-How would you go about doing things? 1)Use gift wrap or news paper to wrap 200 Christmas gifts. 2)Use a real live Christmas tree or card board cutout of a Christmas tree. 3)Wait till Christmas day to go holiday shopping or Black Friday 4)Listen to evil Satanic music or 700 new Christmas songs played on the piano 5)Use name tags or post it sticky notes to let the person who you are giving the gift to to find their name so they won't open any one else's gift by mistake. 6)Watch Christmas movies or Wheel Of Fortune 7)Make home made eggnog or steal your neighbors eggnog. 8)Decorate the house using old decorations from 20 years ago or hand make your own. 9)Get tickets to see Santa or get tickets to Oprah's favorite things/ 10)Use a Christmas shower curtain or no shower curtain.

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MY boyfriend ...should I forgive him or not?help? I hve a boyfriend that I love him and admired him because he told me many lies?!!!And when there is nothing to do and there is nobody to talk to.here and you people are my lastchance and hope for showing me the way of truth.I am on holiday in Sweden where my boyfriend live and study at the university..he never argued with me, he talked not too much and when i was angry, he was the mountain of silence for me,he bought for me two ship tickets for a short journey to Norway, he invited me to erstaurents and brought me to his parents house and told me he loved mebut but last night I discoverd on his PC that he was chatting during month february with another girl and had chatted before we met last year while he told me he hasnever had met another girl, dont know what I should do..I really get mad at him and he has been begging for forgivenss,his punishment is today: to buy a pair of golden bracelet for me instead of what he ahs done,e is ashamed of himself for telling me lie..should I forgiv

How do we tell them we aren't coming home for Christmas? My husband and I live in Southern California. He is a Marine and he has leave before he gets deployed. This is around the holiday season. I've looked at plane fare and just about died. Basically it wouldn't be in our budget to go home. There are also a lot of issues going on at home. His family is basically falling apart. Dad got a DUI and is awaiting trial, mom is mentally unstable, sisters in financial problems and one of them who is still in high school has moved out. My mom came and visited me last week and said it would probably be best if we didn't go home after we talked about everything that is going on. She said that it would probably way too much to deal with because everyone (his whole family, including distant relatives live in the same state) would want to see us and it would be really stressful before he leaves. Not to mention all his "friends" keep asking if he is coming home soon. I say friends in quotes because his supposed best friend wouldn't even write him in boot camp after I asked him very nicely a few times. His friend told me "I don't have time to write him." at first but then told me "We didn't hang out all that much before he left and I don't really feel the need to write him." Now he is acting all buddy buddy with my husband again. I call him a synonym to a donkey every time my husband brings him up. Basically we wouldn't get any time to ourselves. This is also his first deployment and the longest we will have been separated. My husband and I have already agreed we are going to go to the mountains for a week and then go to Monterey to see the aquarium. Pretty much as soon as we saw the plane fare prices, it was like "So, wanna stay here for Christmas?" "Yeah, sounds great!" I must admit that I take selfish enjoyment that I get my husband all to myself for the holidays for the first time ever. I've never had just a Christmas with us. I had to cut Christmas with my family short last year so we could go to his family's house, which wasn't planned out to well. But we haven't told his family we aren't going to be coming home. They keep asking when he will be coming home. They are very family oriented and I know are going to be disappointed he isn't coming home. Somehow I don't think saying "We didn't want to shell out the money for plane tickets and are instead going on road trips to the mountains and beach instead." is going to go over very well. I'm a very eloquent writer, but when it comes to conversation I'm rather blunt. I worry they will blame it on me even though my husband and I both agreed on this or will try something crazy like driving down here. How do we tell everyone we aren't coming home without getting them disappointed?

When did the children become the parents? In this last year alone, I've had my father come to visit and see family at my expense, with the promise to pay me back. My mother had money problems to get the bond of a house she's renting, which I had to take out a loan to get her the bond so she can have a roof over her head (and my brother too), with the promise to pay me back. Both are paying me back, however I have to prompt them for it everytime. My parents are seperated and they live in the same city. I'm beginning to feel like their my children now because I'm having to bail them out with money. No matter how many times I say no and find another solution, I'm pressured because they have left it to the last minute. I'm seriously considering in cancelling my tickets for my xmas trip to mum's (no refund) to have a holiday to myself because I feel I need to be selfish for a change. I can deal with bitterness from them if I do cancel. Should I do it for the sake of my sanity? I have my own money problems to deal with too. I'm a 26 year old female with a permanent job. For those who asked. Bond loans from department of housing said no becuase they said mum made too much money in a week. Go figure. 1 of the many things I suggested. I have never asked them for money because I know their financial status. If I would ever ask them they know I would pay it back in an instant.

I had the most fantastic time of my life, meeting the girl of my dreams on holiday.The feeling is mutual but?? I'm fresh of holiday, been back for 2 weeks now. I went away with some very close friends. A few days into the holiday me and my friends were a sitting at a table ready to go out. Just before we had to leave we all notice some girls at the bar, me being shy in these situations sat back and it wasn't long before one of my friends approached one of the girls. I just remember seeing one of the girls who took a back seat as well. She was stunning, Straight away I could just tell she was everything (to look at) I always wanted. We shared a few awkward moments at catching each other staring at one another. The time had come for us to go out and the girls were staying in tonight as they had jus flew in. I immediately spoke to my friend who had done most of the talking, asking where there from and how long are they staying. There from America I was told and they were there for 7days. Well we had 7days left to do so this made me so happy. That whole night I couldn't stop thinking about her. Here I am in one of the best clubs in the world, alcohol, dancing, girls and im sitting down looking like I don't belong. thinking to myself I must find her tomorrow and talk to her. Anyway the night passed and it was now morning. Me and one of my friends decide to go to the beach and find them. Brilliant there over there, we see all the girls lying down in the sun. But the one im here for is asleep. So we get chatting to the other girls getting to no one another, there are truly a group of lovely girls, very friendly and warm people. We decide to go for a swim in the sea. Finally she wakes up and sees her friends talking to us, she gets into the water and we talk straight away, just small talk, but time just seems to disappear when we were together. So what we done was, we got the girls to come out with us that night. It was the best night of my life, we got to no each other so much, we danced we kissed it was amazing, unforgetable.So the night comes to and end and we all get a cab to the hotel. This beautiful girl on my arm agrees to come back to my room. I wasn't interested in a one night stand, this was so much more than that. All I wanted was to hold her in my arms and show her how I felt about her. She layed in my arms all night, I was in heaven. Over the next few days we were inseparable, we spent every moment we could together, we watched the sunrise, we walked on the beach swam in the ocean, I was falling for this girl. The last night came and I wasn't my usual self with her, we went to a show (the whole gang) and I new the next day I was leaving, flying back to England when the girl of my dreams was flying the other way to America. Devastated. I was getting restless just thinking about it. Sweating my heart was pounding, I had to go to the toilet. I broke down in tears. 23 years of age 6f 2" crying in the men's toilets. My friend immediately came to find me, he new what was wrong, I told him im falling in love with this girl and I don't no what to do. He words were simple, "Donny follow your heart". I rushed back to my girls side held her and made sure our last night together was incredible. I was flying at 3pm the next day, it was now 4am and we were now leaving the club. I asked her if she would like to walk home, She agreed so hand in hand we did. I told her how I felt, how this has never happened to me before. Hearing her voice saying she felt the same way was like an angel talking to me. We talked about running away together there and then, packing our bags and starting a new life. I was so close to doing, I really was. We walked back to the hotel went straight to the beach and watched our last sunrise, it was so beautiful. We slept right there on the beach, her lying in my arms. I woke up at around 10am I think, I woke her up and took her to her bed while I went to my room and packed. My emotions and feelings were everywhere, she phoned me at 12pm to meet down stairs. All I had was 3 hours left with this girl. We went straight to the beach sat on this rock way above everyone else and looked out at sea. I cherished every second. The time came to leave and I wanted to stay strong in front of her, we exchanged numbers emails and face book so we could stay in touch. When I left her she broke down, It was killing me inside to see her like that. just as I left I Looked her in the eyes and said "nothings impossible, I promise you we will see each other again". I got on the bus and broke down, the whole 12 hour trip to get back to my house I cant remember a time when I wasn't crying. My friends all around me wanted to help but didn't no what to say to make it better. I got home and straight away went to my dad, mum and sister, told them this story and asked what I should do. They said the same thing as my friend in the toilet, follow your heart. I think a day or two went by then I got in contact with the girl I was falling for. We talked and said it was for real, not just a holiday romance we wanted to be together dropped everything, my work, my football, this house I was fixing up to stay in. I needed to go see her in America, I went to the travel agents and brought a ticket to go and be with her.Shes so excited we both are. I go on the 22nd of this month, im allowed to be in America for three months until I have to leave.Heres the but, im so nervous about going, not to see her, because when im with her its like nothing else maters to me, I just want to make her happy. She got her whole life there, a different one to what I no. Her family, friends, university. I'm going to a foreign country all alone no friends, haven't a clue what to expect. I'm just following my heart, this girl is my body mind and soul, am I allowed to be nervous??? Any advice is very welcome and im sorry about the essay.

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What are your Christmas holiday traditions? I know Christmas is a while away.. but who doesn't love Christmas? :) What do you eat? What activities do you do? Does family come to you or do you go to the family? In my house (I still live with my parents for now): on Christmas eve we have Baked honey glazed-ham, baked beans, baked macaroni, green been casserole, and the usual dinner rolls. No dessert. Christmas morning we have Eggs Benedict. Christmas day for dinner we eat roasted Turkey, Mashed potatoes, stuffing, vegetable casserole and the usual dinner rolls. Dessert we usually just have cookies and a boxed red-velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. We have no traditions, sometimes we don't even get a tree. (a bunch of bah-humbugs if you ask me). As for family, we live too far away for family to visit us. Every now and again we take the 4 hour plane ride when the tickets arent overpriced! Luckily, my Fiance and I are moving closer to where the majority of my relatives are this fall so hopefully me and my fiance will be able to start some traditions of our own :) Now tell me yours! :) btw - where I live is hot all year long. To me Christmas isn't Christmas without cold weather and snow! :)

Some people are saying that Hillary Clinton is increasingly likely to be the next president...60% chance? http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff163.html Hillary Clinton is more and more likely to become the next President of the United States. The price of her nomination contract on Intrade has jumped to the 60 area, meaning she has a 60 percent chance of winning the nomination. No one else is even close. The market thinks that Bill Richardson is likely to be her running mate. Speculators think that this ticket will win the election, although they are not as sure of that. They are very sure that Democrats will retain both Senate and House control. A Clinton II presidency will affect taxes, stock and bond prices, dollar and gold prices, and a great deal else. Speculators and planners will be watching closely her every word in order to discern the material impacts of her possible policies. Long before she is elected, asset prices will begin to move in anticipation of potential legislation and policy changes. There are certain areas that Hillary Clinton is very interested in that will affect many Americans and the portfolios of many Americans. Interesting questions arise. Will Bill Clinton serve in a new Clinton administration? Will he have a marked influence on Hillary’s policies? Will her fiscal and monetary policies look like his? Will she be her own woman? I will briefly summarize a few of Hillary’s currently indicated directions. This usually is a valuable exercise. Elected officials often follow the signals they emit during their campaigns. But it is an iffy exercise. Events overtake a president and lead to unexpected twists and turns. I also cannot resist offering a few of my own jaundiced reflections. It is extremely difficult to watch multiple American tragedies unfolding before our eyes and not say something about them. And who knows? Maybe Hillary or someone close to her will read this and see some light. Hillary would like to end the war in Iraq. Bill Richardson even more plainly wants to end it. The idea is to shift the $450 billion going into warfare into domestic concerns like health care, education, and energy. Such a platform is a sure winner. But Richardson as Vice-President will have limited influence. Hillary will find herself drawn into the foreign policy game just as her husband was. Hillary as President will curtail U.S. military operations in Iraq but not end them. She has promised to end the war, but at the same time she promises to transform and continue it. She says she will retain a significant force and continue to try to produce country-wide military and police forces, attack terrorists, and provide materiel. She will call for more equipment for the area and fewer personnel. She will talk tough to Iraq’s leaders. Her promise to end the war is an empty one. Since she and the U.S. establishment want to produce a stable Iraq allied to the U.S., she can’t end the war because that will produce the opposite consequences. Iraq will disappear and be replaced by a partitioned country with many frictions: between Iranian and Iraqi Shiites, between Iraqi Shiite factions, between Sunnis and Shiites, between Turkey and Kurds, etc. The bloodthirsty terrorists of Al-Qaeda will ally themselves with whomever they can to lever their position. Events in Iraq are unpredictable. Both the U.S. and Hillary are willing hostages to them. Even under the cover of a democracy, a strong man could arise, another Saddam. Which way will Hillary go? Will she bite the bullet and withdraw, letting the chips fall where they may? Or will she succumb to the urge to shape events and control Iraq’s future? Like her husband, she will do both. She will straddle the issue. Just as he bombed and bombed, she will try to substitute equipment for manpower. She will withdraw some men but not all; and she will not withdraw power and interference. She will compromise between those voices urging faster exit and those counseling disaster if she withdraws too quickly. In other words, the war will drag on until the balance of power shifts to install a regime or regimes that keep power. Hillary on the Iraq War is a continuing disaster. She will not exercise a foreign policy leadership that will make a real difference. She has already joined others in her party who promise to heat up U.S. efforts in Afghanistan. Adjacent Pakistan also continues to heat up as another hot spot. On energy, Hillary is a booster of the Apollo Alliance. She supports renewable energy sources, ethanol, biofuels, clean coal, and measures to reduce global warming, which are all popular but costly, wasteful, and ineffective ideas. None of these measures will reduce America’s oil dependence, as she claims to want. Only a big shift into nuclear power will accomplish that. However, she is at best lukewarm and/or really cold on nuclear power plants. She thinks the public is against them ("so hard to site them") and that they cost too much ("so hard to fund them.") Since she could exercise leadership on nuclear power and isn’t, she is unlikely to go in that direction. Instead, in a speech on Feb. 26, 2007, she called for an Apollo Project for energy that would end "tax breaks for big oil" and subsidize research and development of clean fuels. Hillary on energy is a disaster, but so has been every administration for a long time. U.S. energy policy is a huge and stupid tragedy, and Hillary will play a lead role in continuing it. Hillary hasn’t moved an inch on HillaryCare. The Congress, with benighted public support, has moved in her direction, enacting universal health care piece by piece. Hillary will extend health care benefits and introduce price controls on insurers. She wants full and universal coverage for all Americans. On paper everyone will have health care. In reality, there will be rationing and price controls. American health care will deteriorate even further. Will Americans care? Will they fly to India or Thailand where they can get better, faster, and cleaner health care? Hardly likely. Unlike Canadians suffering with their national health care system who have been coming here, where will Americans turn? They will wait, suffer, and die before their time. The only bright side is that this will provide a background for those who see some advantage in running against the system and drastically changing it. Nothing less will suffice at this point than completely dismantling the health care monstrosity. Hillary on health care is a continuing disaster. George Bush II played his role in this tragedy by introducing the prescription drug benefit and failing to reform the system in any way. In another sign that she does not understand economics and/or wants to make political hay, Hillary wants women by law to be paid the same as men are. This sounds good to untutored American ears, who think this is a matter of simple justice. However, if women were systematically being underpaid for no good reasons, wouldn’t those same businessmen who are supposed to be so greedy rush in and hire them at $0.75 on the dollar? Shawn Ritenour explains some of those good reasons for men-women pay differentials here, and Thomas E. Woods, Jr. explains that "never-married women of comparable education and experience and who work full time have the same incomes as their male counterparts" here. Raising women’s pay above the market level that takes into account compensating differentials (related to such factors as on-the-job training, length of tenure, job interruption, and time spent with family) will put women out of work. In an interesting pair of contradictory statements from the Hillary campaign site from which I draw her positions, we are told that "Hillary has stood firm as an advocate for a woman's right to choose." Hillary favors Roe v Wade. She is in favor of abortion. But a few sentences later we read this: "As president, Hillary will continue her lifelong fight to ensure that all Americans are treated with respect and dignity." Apparently, babies in the womb do not count as Americans. Moreover, Hillary is known as a champion of children: "America is ready for a president who fights for our children." She has a long slate of legislation relating to children, including a new proposal to extend pre-kindergarten schools to all 4-year-olds. Why then does she not favor the babies who would be born? Maybe it’s because they can’t vote. Hillary on the American family is yet another continuing disaster. In the Clinton II realm, the government will step up its invasion of the family. The State long ago crossed the boundary into American family life in a largely unnoticed and unheralded stealth invasion. Hillary will extend the State’s victory over the American family and consolidate that control. Like all presidents, Hillary can be counted on to push for a number of favorite hobby-horses. Hers are many. They include public schools in overseas countries, support of Israel, government reform, voting reform (including same-day registration and an Election Day holiday), and working with the U.N. Political government under Hillary will grow larger, just as it has under just about every president ever elected. This process can go on for some time as there is a lot of ruin in a country. When major American establishment figures start talking different games than the ones we’ve been hearing for the last 100 years, then we’ll know that some real change is in the air. This has not happened yet. In the meantime, the only consolation is that the State is running into diminishing returns. We can see this in the projected deficits to fund the government’s programs. We can see it in the difficulties and cutbacks in countries overseas. Economics is a constraint on how far the State can go. Clinton II will be operating under constraints. Unfortunately, they are not yet tight enough to prevent her from continuing the tragic policies of her predecessors and placing her own personal stamp upon them. --------------------------- Mitt Romney would lose against her. Giuliani would lose against her. Thompson would lose against her. The only people I could see beating her are possibly Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul. What do you think?

I am doing a monthly "To Do" Checklist, to help me prepare for the month ahead, Please help, EZ 10 Points "?"? with the months of things to in; MARCH, MAY, & AUGUST Also if you have any other additions to fill in for any other month that would be very cool! Thanks =] Best Answer Rewarded ASAP <3 **January** Get started Cleaning & Prepare for the new Year Send out Happy New Cards **February** Confirm any Hotel Reservations Find a Valentines Day Gif & Card Find a nice outfit Yummy Beverages Romantic Music / Movies **March************************** **April** Time to Prune All Trees & Get ready for City Trash Pick Up Fertilize Lawn, Should be done twice a year, both Spring & Fall **May************************** **June** Plan out Fun Summer Activities for Kids & Adults **July** Get a nice outfit ready for 4rth of July Make and prepare any foods that can be made in advance Bring Ice Chest filled with Cold Beverages Decorations; Balloons, Streamers, Flags, Glow Sticks, Glow Cubes Games & Activities; Horseshoes Video and Still Cameras Camping Gear - Tents, Sleeping Bags, Chairs, Tables **August************************** **September** Time for last minute projects around the house before Winter sets in **October** Decorate the house with Warm Color Schemes & Fall Decorations Start Christmas Shopping for Friends, Family, & Unexpected Guests Create Dishes for Thanksgiving Dinner Make sure car is maintained for Holiday Travel **November** Buy tickets for Seasonal Entertainment Prepare to send out all Holiday Gifts; Greeting Cards, Mixed Tapes **December** Decorate the house Do something to help others Buy Fresh Flowers & Plants for your home Have fun Holiday Drinks Around Have Christmas Video’s on display Have Fun Holiday Music Nice Scented Candles Festive Games Send out all Christmas Cards Put together a nice Christmas Outfit Mail Holiday gifts by the 15th Book Reservations for Valentines Day **January - New Year’s Eve** Glow Sticks / Glowing Ice Cubes Decorative Party Hats / Balloons / Horns / Silly String Cab Company Phone Numbers Alcohol related; Good Sales, Cork screws, etc Video and Still Cameras Fun New Years Eve Games

I have recently remarried and moved to another city. My 19 yr old son comes to visit. What is reasonable? All he wants to do is sleep all day, not take meals with us and stay up till 3am watching TV or on the computer. He left all the lights on in the house, refrigerator open all night. Yet he wants me to take him shopping and run the washer and dryer when he is up - doing all his laundry. He only brought dirty clothes with him ( college student). I paid for an airline ticket for him. This is the holidays - all I wanted was to spend time with him and hopefully have him get to know his stepfather better. We feel his behavior is disrespectful. Are we wrong?

if someone said you could have anything in the would right now what would it be? mine would be winning lotto ticket then i could get anything i want. eg my own house better car nice holidays and much more.

Should I dump him or not? Currently living with my boyfrnd. Both of us decided to go home for the holidays. But the house we are staying in is a little creepy. We keep hearing all sorts of noises the whole day. But the house is in a safe neighborhood. But he had to leave a day before I had to cos my flight got postponed. He did not even offer to stay back for me but I was hoping he would at least ask if I wanted him to stay. I was too bugged so I shamelessly asked him to stay back. He said this was the cheapest ticket and had to get out. After a couple of arguments, he said it was left to me whether I should make him spend more money or not and that he would do as I say. Ultimately, I felt so let down by this, that I asked him leave on time. That night that I spent alone was the scariest night of my life and I could help crying. I felt so abandoned. He did call me once we reached our homes. I told him how I felt but he said it is up to me to feel whatever I wanted to. I am beginning to feel suffocated here. Is this the point where I should leave him and move on? PS: it has been 3 months since we have been in a relationship. ok i feel i need to give more info here... a month back i was in the neighboring city (which is 6 hr bus ride away), and it was the time when i realized i might be pregnant. I called to tell him that I am worried and that I am going to visit a doctor and take care of things before I come back. I wasnt shocked when he freaked out as I could understand that. But again, I expected him to drop in where I was for emotional support but he said he cant think straight and felt very scared. I knew I could not sit and debate this with him. Thankfully, I tested myself and I was not pregnant. When I came back he said he felt bad he was not there when I needed him. I know I cant expect things from him when it is my body and I should take care of myself (i am very particular about protection, but again, thats just 99% safe). But I really wished he atleast offered to help. So, this the second time I am feeling let down here.

What is your zodiac sign? Does any of this describe you? I am Aries, I must say I do resemble some of these remarks. I'm always bumping my head & I can relate to Hard Headed Women by Cat Stevens and I won't bring a knife to a gun fight :) ENJOY!

i need a title for my personal story? in 2 weeks marks a big day for me, no its not because its Barack Obama Bday, not its not because its my bday, its because it marks the second year anniversary of me being diagnosed with social anxiety at the youth clinic. Sadly before I was diagnosed, I battled social anxiety for many years maybe as early as grade 7. With social anxiety comes loneliness which brings its best friend depression along with it. being a only a child i kept all my problems to myself. I never told an teacher, friend or my parents. I planned a suicide attempt once or twice, I thought about commiting suicide at least 3 times, I've been depressed way too many times to count, I thought about running away numberous times and I've starved myself for a month. how lonely did I feel, imagine seeing all ur friends getting present for christmas and you having none. thats how I felt, thats how I felt every christmas. It was during my grade 10 year did I not realize that my life would turn from bad to worst to almost being lost. As days went, I became more anti social. I stopped walking in the school hallways, i stopped answering phone calls, I would speak less. At the end of my grade 10 year, my whole entire life was my entire room. During the summer I spent all my days in my room. how much time did i spend in my room I played 140 games on Mlb The Show ( a baseball video game ) . each game lasts about 50 mins. i played all those games that summer except the last 2 weeks of august. If I had to leave the house I would run out the house and down several blocks. why did I do this, it was the only way to get me out of the house, to raise my adrenaline. By this point I was almost agoraphobic. it took alot out of me to leave the house, so imagine being me, on the night before my first hero holiday trip to mexico. I couldnt sleep, I thought, I Panicked the entire night, which got me tired out. I then decided to go, since my parents did pay $1200. So the next afternoon, I arrived in Abbotsford. I entered the hotel and saw several girls sitting in the lounge, 2 of them were classmartes of mine, but during school I barely talked to them. I decided to go up to the room to watch the Jays vs. orioles. for dinner everyone ate at this restraunt across the parking lot. I enter the dining room doors and to my horror all 4 or 5 tables are filled with girls, just girls, 26 to be exact. so during the enitre dinner i barely spoke. The next morning I woke up late and ran to the bus which we were taking to mexico. when i got on i saw one guy, THANK GOD. but the only seat left was next to a girl 3 or 4 rooms deep. I sat in the seat, I barely said a word for the next 4 to 5 hours. Then, one of the adults ( Charles ) arranged a poker game at the back of the bus. hey since I knew how to play poker because of my school friends I decided to play. here we are 8 of us playing texas holdem with a $5 buy in. I look at my first hand, and for the first time in a long time I was happy and more important I had hope. what I got was pocket aces, I won the hand and doubled up while knocking a player out after the first hand. my pocket aces beat pocket queens. I later won the the game but more important I beat my battled with social anxiety. cause after the game I was more confident which lead to me talking to everyone. by the time we got to Mexico, no one could shut me up lol. During the next 10 days I broke out of my shell and enjoyed every minute of the trip. i also help build a house for a family while making friends with everyone. I came back from the trip happy and changed. so for the next 6 months I tried to switch schools but with no luck. I talked about the trip infront of 700 students at my school when absoulte did a presentation. fast foward 4 months later. there I was in a church for the first time for at least 10 years watching my cousin get married to the love of his life in hong kong. it made think about love and religon. after the wedding I went tomayalisa for 2 weeks. this is where I met all my mom's relatives, friends and my god mother. well they were all christians and they talked to me and really made me think about my own views on religon. I then went back to hong kong where I lived in a apartment by myself for 3 weeks. wow what a difference a year makes huh. there in hong kong I shopped, had family dinners and met random people off facebook which i later call friends. on July 26th after being on standby for a month, with slim to nope hope of me retuning to canada in time for my internship for this august hero holiday trips, I got a ticket and headed back to canada. i then took a plane to san deigo for the first of 2 hero holiday trips to mexico. for the month of august I had the best times of my life. meeting over 70 people and calling most if not all friends. sharing all the amazing experiences with all these new friends of mine and help build 2 houses and 4 in total was amazing. there are too many incredible things to say about the trip except I could have liv

Ladies, what do you think....what would YOU do? Hello all, Firstly this may be a strange question to ask in this forum, but I want to ask people who are in the same shoes as I am, and I am a mother of one soon to be a mother of two (2nd girl due next week by c-section). So that's why I'm asking here. So, although originally my whole family was due to fly out for the birth and visit with me (I live in Greece, my parents are in the UK working, and my brother, sister and partners are in Australia where I am from) my brother and his partner calls me 6 weeks ago (when I was 7.5m pregnant, and tells me they aren't coming because they really just cant afford it, they are getting married instead, they are cashing in the ticket for a honeymoon holiday credit and are getting married before the years end. Now them not coming doesnt upset me apart from not having the opportunity to visit, they've already come out to visit twice for my first girl and my own wedding, so I absolutely understand. But the fact that they decide to get married whilst I am ready to drop, and schedule it barely after I would go in for my 6 week checkup... has just thrown me! Now I am not asking whether its fair or not, I am one person out of many they have to consider and their own happiness is of course paramount. But I have decided not to go and I wonder if any of you would decide the same as me...? My reasons for not going are as follows; Travelling to Australia barely 2 months after a c-section, with a 2 month old baby and an unbelievably rambunctious, prone to tantrums, heavy with the 'terrible twos' 2 and a half year old. Travelling without my husband (is on a strict job contract, holidays taken for the birth of the baby) even though my parents did offer to fly out from the UK to travel with my from Athens. My parents only have 2weeks left of annual leave, having taken the other weeks earlier in the year, not knowing about the sudden wedding....so I would be going through such a journey for only 2 weeks. Obviously my second born does not have a passport, and I would have to literally race around like crazy getting one as soon as I left the hospital to get it in time (there are no online applications in Greece and turn around times for public offices are insane, also I live on a Greek island and would have to travel back and forth to the next bigger and more populated island to put through papers in person) My recovery for my first c-section was horrible, perhaps because it was an emergency c-section. I had nightmares, I was depressed, I felt like a failure. I didn't want to deal with all the people around me coming to congratulate me, I wanted them all to go away and just to be with my parents and my husband. I rolled out of bed for weeks, and my scar hurt for weeks when I accidently exerted the muscles in that area and smarted for months...say if my husband picked me up to hug me or if I lifted something too heavy. It was an physical and emotional rollercoaster. I know some women recover quickly and without too much of an issue....but it wasnt like that for me! Lastly, it would all have to go on my credit card, all our money is gone on the new baby and the building of our new house. Now if it was just the money....it would not stop me from going, but it just adds another weight on my back since I have been a stay at home mother since I had my first. Its breaking my heart not to go, but I thought atleast I could spend the next year to plan for a trip out next Winter when I will physically fit and the newborn will be a toddler and I could stay for a month or two and have saved all year for it. And there is a good chance my husband could come with me obviously have a years notice for his work commitments. Also seeing as my soon-to be sister in law has been desperate for kids forever, we might learn in the year that she is pregnant and plan our trip around the arrival! What do you think ladies? Do you think my decision not to go is fair enough? I've been so torn up about it ever since they told me, had they decided to have it a few months later or atleast if I could have had a VBAC, I would probably have gone, but with all these obstacles, I thought that I just cant. I also just dont want to subject my new baby to it all, being so young and susceptible etc. And the wedding is a 3hr car drive from where we live in Sydney to boot. sigh.....so what are your thoughts?? oh by the way..the travelling would be - 2hr ferry to the nearest island with airport alone 1hr flight to Athens, alone 5hr flight to Dubai, with parents 7hr flight to Singapore 7hr flight to Sydney

This really pisses me off but how do I handle it in a calm way? So I have this friend that I've known since middle school. We've always had an on and off friendship. She lives in FL right now and shes having issues with her live in boyfriend. He wont leave, regardless of how many times she asks him to. Note this is her mothers house. I've told her to get him out but her excuse is she wants to but cant because he helps pay some of the bills (even though getting the money is like pulling teeth). So she sent me a text over the holiday telling me she needed to get away and if I could tell my friends her situation and then ask them to pitch in some money to pay for her plane ticket which she doesnt even plan on paying anyone back. Shes always been the type to use people. It had been so long though I thought she changed.I figure its her situation and she has her own friends in FL, so why not ask them? I would give her the money if I had it but I dont and neither does any of our mutual friends here since we're all college students barely making any money.

What are your Christmas holiday traditions? I know Christmas is a while away.. but who doesn't love Christmas? :) What do you eat? What activities do you do? Does family come to you or do you go to the family? In my house (I still live with my parents for now): on Christmas eve we have Baked honey glazed-ham, baked beans, baked macaroni, green been casserole, and the usual dinner rolls. No dessert. Christmas morning we have Eggs Benedict. Christmas day for dinner we eat roasted Turkey, Mashed potatoes, stuffing, vegetable casserole and the usual dinner rolls. Dessert we usually just have cookies and a boxed red-velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. We have no traditions, sometimes we don't even get a tree. (a bunch of bah-humbugs if you ask me). As for family, we live too far away for family to visit us. Every now and again we take the 4 hour plane ride when the tickets arent overpriced! Luckily, my Fiance and I are moving closer to where the majority of my relatives are this fall so hopefully me and my fiance will be able to start some traditions of our own :) Now tell me yours! :)

Can a man and a woman be a good friend for life with out have any intimacy? I have a friend in New York who is 36 years old. I am 53. We met on the chat line 4 years ago. I invited him to London. He stayed with my family. My children gave me 2 tickets to take a friend to Spain for my 50th birthday. I took my friend with another girl friend from work. Three of us shared the same bed room (not bed) and had a wonderful holidays. He came to London last year too. He is so good and always there when I need advise. He invited me to New york too. I spend my holidays with him. I cooked for him and packed lunch for his work(three days he had to work before taking his holidays to spend with me) I tidied up his house. when he came home he was so happy to see food on the table. we watched tv, went out for meal, sight seeing, shopping,laughing and joking until bed time. we had separate bed rooms.We never promised marriage. Every week we sending each other e-mail. Even just to say " have a good day at work" Now he want me to come to New york again for holidays.

Am I A Dishonest? Two months ago, I began to chat to a guy off net, a little older than me, 39 to my 31, and over time it soon evolved into regular texting and lengthy phone calls. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I agreed to meet him for the first time on the night of the Ruby World Cup final in a bar, and we got on well. I had been planning to visit the UK to see my parents on the October Bank Holiday weekend, but due to a argument with them, I decided not to go, but I let the assumption hold that I was still was going, for no sinister reason other that I didn't want to have to explain myself to anyone; I just wanted some alone time. During the week, this guy had made an offer of driving me over on the ferry, which for allot of reasons, but mainly due to the fact that I had only met him in the flesh the weekend previously, I didn’t think it politic to take up, and I declined. On the Friday night of the Bank Holiday weekend, I got a phone call from this him, saying that he would be passing by my house and could he drop in, which he did, and he ended up staying the night. We spent most of the morning together, and every now and again he would ask what time my ferry was at, I just avoided the question, saying not to worry, and that I would get there in my own time. By the time 4pm had come, and I wanted my own space, and made the excuse that I needed to get washed, get packed and head to the port; so he had his wash, dressed and left. Later that night I got a text asking me if I had made the ferry, I replied that I had not, and because I was feeling guilty about earlier, ask if he was available to meet me the next day. I got a text back to say that he was not, and that he was very disappointed in me, I immediately rang to apologize and explain the reason why I had behaved the way I had. He told me that he had a packed travel bag in his jeep, had driven straight to the ferry port after he left my house, where he had booked a ticket to Holyhead, had waited for me to arrive, and how he had booked a B&B close to where he thought my family were staying. He sounded upset, very angry and a little drunk, and kept banging a table and shouting at me to tell him “Why” I had lied to him, and kept calling me a “duplicitous liar”, which put me on the defensive and made me rather uncooperative about opening up on the reason behind my deception. He kept asking me how come I didn’t know what he had planned, hadn’t it drawn on me he had planned this due to his knowledge of the ferry time table, his constant asking of when I was leaving for the port, as well as the fact the he had "very obviously" engineered his visit on Friday night. In the end I had to explain to him the reason I hadn't gone to see my parents, which I did not want to do, because it was unpleasant to recount the reason. He told me, that there was no good reason to have deceived him, that he wanted nothing more to do with me, how disappointed in me, how close to falling in love with me the previously night (which I thought was a bit strong), how I wasn't a gentleman, that he couldn't trust me, and if had “caught” anything from me, he knew were I lived. I am aware that I should have be honest about my travel plans, but I didn’t think that my actions were worthy of such an outburst. Is he justified in his reaction?

Am I A Dishonest B*stard? A month ago, I began to chat to a guy off net, a little older than me, 39 to my 31, over time we were chatting most nights, and it soon evolved into regular texting and then lengthy phone calls. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I agreed to meet him on the night of the Ruby World Cup final, and when I arrived, much to my surprise, he was there with a good friend of mine - who seemed to be drunkenly doing everything in his power to get him to go home with some guy who had been chatting him up all evening. Soon after the end of the match, we left and went on to a small restaurant and wine bar and we had a good night together; later he dropped me off home, and as I went to get out of his jeep, he lent across and kissed me. In the week leading up to the October Bank Holiday weekend, I had been planning to visit the UK to see my parents, but due to a argument with them, I decided not to go, but having spent all of the last week telling everyone I was going to the UK, I decided to let the assumption hold that I was still was, for no sinister reason other that I didn't want to have to explain myself to anyone. Instead I was going to do some much needed study, catch up on my sleep, watch TV, and have some alone time without any interruption. During the week, this guy had made, what I took to be a throw-away offer, of driving me over on the ferry, which for allot of reasons, but mainly due to the fact that I had only met him in the flesh the weekend previously, I didn’t think it politic to take up and I declined his offer, and thought nothing more of it. On the bank holiday Friday night, about 11pm, I got a phone call from this him, saying that he was on his way home and would be passing by my house, I replied that he was welcome to drop in for a coffee and a chat, which he did, and he ended up staying the night. We spent most of the morning in bed, and every now and again he would ask what time my ferry was at, I just avoided the question, saying not to worry, and that I would get there in my own time. By the time 4pm had come, and I wanted my own space, and made the excuse that I needed to get washed, get packed and head to the port; so he had his wash, dressed and left, in what I thought was high spirits. Later that night I got a text asking me if I had made the ferry, I replied that I had not, and because I was feeling guilty about my misleading him earlier, ask if he was available to meet me tomorrow. I got a text back to say that he was not, and that he was very disappointed in me, I immediately rang to apologize and explain the reason why I had behaved the way I had. He told me that he had a packed travel bag in his jeep, and had driven straight to the ferry port after he left my house, where he had booked a ticket to Holyhead, and had waited for me to arrive, and how he had booked a B&B close to where he thought my family were staying. I explain that this was all news to me, and if he had told me of his plan I would have perhaps reconsidered my own. He sounded upset, very angry and a little drunk, and kept banging a table and shouting at me to tell him “Why” I had lied to him, and kept calling me a “duplicitous liar”, which put me on the defensive and made me rather uncooperative about opening up on the reason behind my deception. He kept asking me how come I didn’t know what he had planned, hadn’t it drawn on me he had planned this due to his knowledge of the ferry time table, his constant asking of when I was leaving for the port, as well as the fact the he had "very obviously" engineered his visit on Friday night in order to drive me to the ferry port the following day. In the end I had to explain to him the reason I hadn't gone to see my parents, which I did not want to do, because it was unpleasant to recount the reason. He told me, that there was no good reason to have deceived him, that he wanted nothing more to do with me, how disappointed he was with me, how close to falling in love with me the previously night (which I thought was a bit strong), how I wasn't a gentleman, that he couldn't trust me, and if had “caught” anything from me, he knew were I lived… All this has played on my mind; I am aware that I should have be honest about my travel plans, but I didn’t think that my actions were worthy of such an outburst. It has all left a nasty taste in the mouth, as I believe he thinks that I had in someway maliciously mislead him for my own amusement. I would like to hear your comments and views on this matter; is he justified in is reaction, am I indeed a dishonest bastard?

Does race influence how dems vote and seat people in office? Does anyone else see a problem with the following statement??? Senate leaders, who were scattered for the holidays, immediately convened a conference call. Some involved in the call were WARY of being seen as denying a black man a seat in a chamber where, with Obama's departure, there are no blacks, according to two officials knowledgeable about the talks who requested anonymity in order to speak freely. Does this not scream of racism based on race? When race plays a part in politics how can it be just?? be they black, white yellow or brown. shouldn't it be based on the person for the office and not the freaking color of his skin??? This is the same kind of crap that got OJ off for killing his X who was white. And yes this is the same kind of crap that got Obama the ticket to the white house. It's a sickness that is being allowed to grow, because people are afraid of being labeled a racist. And yes, there are stupid people here that will try to plant that Label on me, but the truth is, I don't judge by race, it's the individuals I base my opinion on http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081231/ap_on_re_us/illinois_governor

why won't he come home with me for thanksgiving? My boyfriend and i have been dating a year right around thanksgiving. I invited him to fly home with me to west virginia for the holiday, and he seemed hesitant, and eventually declined the offer. it would be about $250 for a plane ticket. everything else is on the house. i just feel like if he really loved me, he would come. but another part thinks..we're young, in our 20's...(25 & 26) and althought he makes decent money, it's not like he's living absolutely comfortably. i also contemplate wether i would do the same for him. But at the end of the day, i know those are just excuses when my family hears them. they will automatically feel like he isnt good enough for me when they see he didn't come home with me. and a part of me fees like that would be true. what do you think????

I am doing a monthly "To Do" Checklist, to help me prepare for the month ahead, Please help, EZ 10 Points "?"? with the months of things to in; MARCH, MAY, & AUGUST Also if you have any other additions to fill in for any other month that would be very cool! Thanks =] Best Answer Rewarded ASAP <3 **January** Get started Cleaning & Prepare for the new Year Send out Happy New Cards **February** Confirm any Hotel Reservations Find a Valentines Day Gif & Card Find a nice outfit Yummy Beverages Romantic Music / Movies **March************************** **April** Time to Prune All Trees & Get ready for City Trash Pick Up Fertilize Lawn, Should be done twice a year, both Spring & Fall **May************************** **June** Plan out Fun Summer Activities for Kids & Adults **July** Get a nice outfit ready for 4rth of July Make and prepare any foods that can be made in advance Bring Ice Chest filled with Cold Beverages Decorations; Balloons, Streamers, Flags, Glow Sticks, Glow Cubes Games & Activities; Horseshoes Video and Still Cameras Camping Gear - Tents, Sleeping Bags, Chairs, Tables **August************************** **September** Time for last minute projects around the house before Winter sets in **October** Decorate the house with Warm Color Schemes & Fall Decorations Start Christmas Shopping for Friends, Family, & Unexpected Guests Create Dishes for Thanksgiving Dinner Make sure car is maintained for Holiday Travel **November** Buy tickets for Seasonal Entertainment Prepare to send out all Holiday Gifts; Greeting Cards, Mixed Tapes **December** Decorate the house Do something to help others Buy Fresh Flowers & Plants for your home Have fun Holiday Drinks Around Have Christmas Video’s on display Have Fun Holiday Music Nice Scented Candles Festive Games Send out all Christmas Cards Put together a nice Christmas Outfit Mail Holiday gifts by the 15th Book Reservations for Valentines Day **January - New Year’s Eve** Glow Sticks / Glowing Ice Cubes Decorative Party Hats / Balloons / Horns / Silly String Cab Company Phone Numbers Alcohol related; Good Sales, Cork screws, etc Video and Still Cameras Fun New Years Eve Games Well thanks, I have ADD so I have to plan things way ahead of time and have them written out lol

Collection of jokes? Collection of jokes There was a guy riding through the desert on his camel. He had been travelling so long that he felt the need to have sex. Obviously there were no women in the desert so the man turned to his camel. He tried to position himself to have sex with his camel but the camel ran away. The man ran to catch up to the camel and got back on and started to ride again. Soon he was feeling the urge to have sex again so once again he turned to his camel. The camel refused by running away. So he caught up to it again and got on it again. Finally after riding the camel through the whole desert the man came to a road. There was a broken down car with three big chested beautiful blondes sitting in it. He went up to them and asked the women if they needed any help. The hottest girl said , "If you fix our car we will do anything you want." The man luckily knew a thing or two about cars and fixed it in a flash. When he finished are three girls asked, "How could we ever repay you Mr." After thinking for a short while he replied, "Could you hold my camel?" A pianist was hired to play background music for a movie. When it was completed he asked when and where he could see the picture. The producer sheepishly confessed that it was actually a porno film and it was due out in a month. A month later, the musician went to a porno theatre to see it. With his collar up and dark glasses on, he took a seat in the back row, next to a couple whom also seemed to be in disguise. The movie was even raunchier than he had feared, featuring group sex, S/M and even a dog. After a while, the embarrassed pianist turned to the couple and said, "I'm only here to listen to the music." "Yeah?" replied the man. "We're only here to see our dog." A man is in a hotel lobby. He wants to ask the clerk a question. As he turns to go to the front desk, he accidentally bumps into a woman beside him and as he does, his elbow goes into her breast. They are both quite startled. The man turns to her and says, "Ma'am, if your heart is as soft as your breast, I know you'll forgive me." She replies, "If your penis is as hard as your elbow, I'm in room 436." A man decided to have a face lift for his birthday. He spends $5, 000 and feels really good about the result. On his way home he stops at a newsstand and buys a paper. Before leaving he says to the sales clerk, "I hope you don't mind me asking, but how old do you think I am?" "About 35, " was the reply. "I'm actually 47, " the man says happily. A little while later he goes to McDonald's for lunch and asks the order taker the same question, to which the reply is, "I'd guess that you're 29?" "Nope, I am actually 47." He's starting to feel really good about himself. While standing at the bus stop he asks an old woman the same question. She replies, "I am 85 years old and my eyesight is going. But when I was young there was a sure way of telling a man's age. If I put my hand down your pants and play with your penis for ten minutes I will be able to tell your exact age." As there was no one else around the man thought what the hell and let her slip her hand down his pants. Ten minutes later the old lady says, "OK, it's done. You are 47, " Stunned the man says, "That was brilliant! How did you do that?" The old lady replies, "I was behind you in McDonald's". A young couple on the brink of divorce visits a marriage counselor. The counselor asks the wife what is the problem. She responds " My husband suffers from premature ejaculation." The counselor turns to her husband and inquires "Is that true?" The husband replies "Well not exactly, it's her that suffers not me." A little girl came running into the house crying and miserable from a small cut she just received. She asked her mom for a glass of cider. "Why do you want cider?" asked Mom. "To take the pain away, " sobbed the little girl. Tired of all the tears, Mom poured her a glass. The little girl immediately put her hand into the drink. "It doesn't work!" she yelled. "What do you mean?" asked Mom. "Well, " sniffed the little girl, "I overheard my sister say that whenever she gets a prick in her hand, she can't wait to get it in cider." A successful businessman flew to Vegas for the weekend to gamble. He lost the shirt off his back, and had nothing left but a quarter and the second half of his round trip ticket -- If he could just get to the airport he could get himself home. So he went out to the front of the casino where there was a cab waiting. He got in and explained his situation to the cabbie. He promised to send the driver money from home, he offered him his credit card numbers, his drivers license number, his address, etc. but to no avail. The cabbie said (adopt appropriate dialect), "If you don't have fifteen dollars, get the hell out of my cab!" So the businessman was forced to hitch-hike to the airport and was barely in time to catch his flight. One year later the businessman, having worked long and hard to regain his financial success, returned to Vegas and this time he won big. Feeling pretty good about himself, he went out to the front of the casino to get a cab ride back to the airport. Well who should he see out there, at the end of a long line of cabs, but his old buddy who had refused to give him a ride when he was down on his luck. The businessman thought for a moment about how he could make theguy pay for his lack of charity, and he hit on a plan. The businessman got in the first cab in the line, "How much for a ride to the airport, " he asked? "Fifteen bucks, " came the reply. "And how much for you to give me a blowjob on the way?" "What?! Get the hell out of my cab." The businessman got into the back of each cab in the long line and asked the same questions, with the same result. When he got to his old friend at the back of the line, he got in and asked "How much for a ride to the airport?" The cabbie replied "fifteen bucks." The businessman said "ok" and off they went. Then, as the drove slowly past the long line of cabs the businessman gave a big smile and thumbs up sign to each driver. John woke up one morning immensely aroused so he turned over to his wife's side of the bed. His wife, Heather, had already awakened though, and she was downstairs preparing breakfast in the kitchen. Afraid that he might spoil things by getting up, John called his little boy into the room and asked him to' Bring this note to your beautiful Mummy.' The note read: The Tent Pole Is Up, The Canvas Is Spread, The Hell With Breakfast, Come Back To Bed. Heather, grinning, answered the note and then asked her son to 'Bring this to your silly Daddy.' The note read: Take The Tent Pole Down, Put The Canvas Away, The Monkey Had A Hemorrhage, No Circus Today. John read the note and quickly scribbled a reply. Then, he asked his son to take it back to 'The lady in the kitchen'. The note read: The Tent Pole's Still Up, And The Canvas Still Spread, So Drop What You're Doing, And Come Give Me Some Head. Laughing, Heather answered the note and then asked her son to 'Take this to the poor man upstairs'. The note read: I'm Sure That Your Pole's The Best In The Land. But I'm Busy Right Now, So Do It By Hand! Two 90 year olds had been dating for a while, when the man told the woman, "Well, tonight's the night we have sex!" And so they did. As they are lying in bed afterward, the man thinks to himself, "My God, if I knew she was a virgin, I would have been much more gentle with her!" And the woman was thinking to herself, "My God, if I knew the old geezer could actually get it up, I would have taken off my panty hose!" There was this construction worker on the 3rd floor of this unfinished building. He needed a hand saw, but was too lazy to go down and get it himself, so he tried to call his fellow worker on the ground to get it for him, but this guy could not hear a word he said. So he started to give a sign so the guy on the ground could understand him. First he pointed at his eyes (meaning "I") then pointed at his knees (meaning "need), and moved his hand back and forth describing the movement of a hand saw. Finally, the guy on the ground started nodding his head like he understood and dropped his pants and started to jerk off. The guy on the 3rd floor got pissed-off and ran down to the ground and started yelling at this guy, "You idiot, I was trying to tell you I needed a hand saw." The other guy replied, "I know, I was trying to tell you that I was coming." A couple were having financial problems until finally they couldn't stand it any more. The husband said to his wife that is was necessary for her to make some money through prostitution to get by. So the husband drove her to the place where she had to do the job and in the evening he picked her up again. "So, how much have you earned today?" the husband asked. "Well", the woman responded, "I've made one hundred dollars and fifty cents." "That's strange", the husband responded, "who gave you the fifty cents?" Said the woman: "All of them, of course!" Steve is shopping for a new motorcycle. He finally finds one for a great price, but it's missing a seal, so whenever it rains he has to smear vaseline over the spot where the seal should be. Anyway, his girlfriend is having him over for dinner to meet her parents. He drives his new bike to her house, where she is outside waiting for him. "No matter what happens at dinner tonight, don't say a word." She tells him, "Our family had a fight a while ago about doing dishes. We haven't done any since, but the first person to speak at dinner has to do them." Steve sits down for dinner and it is just how she described it. Dishes are piled up to the ceiling in the kitchen, and nobody is saying a word. So Steve decides to have a little fun. He grabs his girlfriend, throws her on the table and has sex with her in front of her parents. His girlfriend is a little flustered, her dad is obviously livid, and her mom horrified when he sits back down, but no one says a word. A few minutes later he grabs her mom, throws her on the table and does a repeat performance. Now his girlfriend is furious, her dad is boiling, and her mother is a little happier. But still there is complete silence at the table. All of a sudden there is a loud clap of thunder, and it starts to rain. Steve remembers his motorcycle. He jumps up and grabs his jar of vaseline. Upon witnessing this, his girlfriend's father backs away from the table and screams, "OKAY, ENOUGH ALREADY, I'LL DO THE FUCKING DISHES" The doc told him that masturbating before sex often helped men last longer during the act. The man decided, "What the hell, I'll try it, "He spent the rest of the day thinking about where to do it. He couldn't do it in his office. He thought about the restroom, but that was too open. He considered an alley, but figured that was too unsafe.Finally, he realized his solution. On his way home, he pulled his truck over on the side of the highway. He got out and crawled underneath as if he was examining the truck. Satisfied with the privacy, he undid his pants and started to masturbate. He closed his eyes and thought of his lover. As he grew closer to orgasm, he felt a quick tug at the bottom of his pants. Not wanting to lose his mental fantasy or the orgasm, he kept his eyes shut and replied, "What?" He heard, "This is the police. What's going on down there?" The man replied, "I'm checking out the rear axle, it's busted." Came the reply, "Well, you might as well check your brakes too while you're down there because your truck rolled down the hill 5 minutes ago." Doctor, the embarrassed man said, 'I have a sexual problem. I can't get it up for my wife anymore.' 'Mr. Thomas, bring her back with you tomorrow and let me see what I can do.' So, the worried fellow returned with his wife the following pad. The doctor greeted the coupled and then said, 'Please remove your clothes, Mrs. Thomas.' The woman obliged and removed her clothing. 'Okay, now turn all the way around... Now, lie down please... Uh-huh, I see. Alright, you can put your clothes back on.' While the woman was busy dressing herself again, the doctor took the husband aside. 'You're in perfect health,' he said to the man. 'Your wife didn't give me an erection either.' Jack and his friends were playing golf one Saturday. As they are getting ready to tee off, a guy walks up and asks if he can join them. The friends look at each other, look at the guy and say, 'Sure.' About two holes into the game, the friends get curious about what the guy does for a living. So they ask him. The stranger tells them he's a hitman. They all laugh. The guy says, 'No really, I am a hitman. My gun is in my golf bag. I carry it everywhere. You can take a look at it if you like.' So Jack decides to check it out. He opens the bag and, sure enough, there is a rifle with a huge scope attached. Jack gets all excited and says, 'WOW! I bet I can see my house through here! May I look?' The hit man replies, 'Sure.' So Jack looks and says, 'YEAH! You can see my house! I can even see through the windows into my bedroom. There's my wife. Wait, there's my next door neighbor! And he's naked too!' This really upsets Jack so he asks how much it would be for a hit. The hitman replies, 'I get $1000 every time I pull the trigger.' Jack responds, '$1000? Well, OK, I want two hits. I want you to shoot my wife right in the mouth. She's always nagging at me and I can't stand it. Second, I want you to shoot my neighbor in the penis, just for screwing around with my wife.' The hit man agrees, gears up and looks through the scope. He's looking for about five minutes until finally Jack starts to get really impatient and asks, 'What are you waiting for? The hitman replies, 'Relax..... I'm about to save you a thousand bucks!' A little boy goes up to his father and asks: 'Dad, what's the difference between hypothetical and reality?' The father replies: 'Well son, I could give you the book definitions, but I feel it could be best to show you by example. Go upstairs and ask your mother if she'd have sex with the mailman for $500, 000.' The boy goes and asks his mother: 'Mom, would you have sex with the mailman for $500, 000?' The mother replies: 'Hell yes I would!' The little boy returns to his father: 'Dad, she said 'Hell yes I would!'' The father then says: 'Okay, now go and ask your older sister if she'd have sex with her principal for $500, 000.' The boy asks his sister: 'Would you have sex with your principal for $500, 000?' The sister replies: 'Hell yes I would!' He returns to his father: 'Dad, she said 'Hell yes I would!'' The father answers: 'Okay son, here's the deal: Hypothetically, we're millionaires, but in reality, we're just living with a couple of whores.' A young guy drops off his girlfriend at her home after being out together on a date. When they reach the front door he leans up against the house with one hand and says to her, "How about a blowjob?" "What! Are you crazy!" "Don't worry, it will be quick, " he ensures his girlfriend. "No! Someone might see us..." "It's just a small blowjob, " he insists, "and I know you like it." "No! I said no!" "Baby... don't be like that." "Come on baby pleeeeaassseee" "I'm not going to give you a blow job" "Why Not...baby it will be quick I promise?" Suddenly, the girl's younger sister shows up at the door in her nightgown, with her hair a mess, and rubbing her eyes. She looks at them and smirks, "Dad says either you blow him, I blow him, or he'll come downstairs and blow the guy himself... but for God's sake tell your boyfriend to take his hand off the intercom." Little Tommy runs into the bathroom one day to find his mother taking a bath. He points at her bush and asks, 'What's that Mommy? 'A little embarrassed, she tells him that is her sponge. Tommy is satisfied with that answer and goes back to playing with his toys. Some time later, Tommy catches his mother in the shower shortly after she has shaved her bush for bikini season. Tommy asks her, 'Where is your sponge mommy? 'Again embarrassed she tells him that she lost it but will probably find it soon. Tommy is a little worried and promises his mommy that he will help her find it. His mother says OK and goes back to showering. Soon, Tommy comes running back in and says that he has found his mother's sponge.' What do you mean you found my sponge? "The lady next door has it and she's washing Daddy's face with it!' This story occurred on Melbourne radio last week. One of the FM stations has a competition where they ring someone up, ask them three personal questions, ring their spouse or partner, ask them the same three questions, if the answers are the same, the couple win an overseas holiday. Last week the competition went like this: Presenter: Hey its XXX-FM, do you want to play the game ? Brian: Yeah, sure. Presenter: O.K., Question 1 - When was the last time you had sex? Brian: Ha Ha, well, about 8 o'clock this morning. Presenter: And how long did it go for Brian ? Brian: Hmmmmm .... about 10 minutes. Presenter: 10 minutes? Good one. And where did you do it? Brian: Ohhhh , I can't say that. Presenter: There's a holiday to Bali at stake here Brian ! Brian: O.K. ... O.K. ... On the kitchen table. Presenter: (and others in the room - much laughter). Good one Brian, now is it O.K. for us to call your wife ? Brian: Yeah, alright. Presenter: Hi Sharelle, how are you ? Sharelle: Hi. Good thanks. Presenter: (Explains competition again) We've got Brian on the other line, say hello. Sharelle: Hi Brian. Brian: Hi Sharelle. Presenter: Now Sharelle, we're going to ask you the same three questions we asked Brian and if you give the same answers, you win a trip for two to Bali. Brian: Just tell the truth Honey. Sharelle: O.K. Presenter: Sharelle, when was the last time you had sex ? Sharelle: Oohhhh, noooooo. I can't say that on radio. Brian: Sharelle, it doesn't matter. I've already told them. Sharelle: O.K. ... About 8: 00 this morning before Brian went to work. Presenter: Good, nice start ! Next question. How long did it go for Sharelle ? Sharelle: (giggling) About 12, maybe 15 minutes. Co-Presenter: That's close enough ... Brian was just being a gentleman. Presenter: O.K. Sharelle, final question. Where did you do it ? Sharelle: Oh no I can't say that. My mum could be listening. No way, no. Presenter: There's a trip to Bali on the line here. Brian: Sharelle, I've already told them so it doesn't matter anyway.. just tell em. Sharelle: Ohhhh .... alright .... Up the ass ! Radio Silence A little guy goes into an elevator, looks up and sees this HUGE guy standing next to him. The big guy sees the little guy staring at him, looks down and says, "7 feet 3 inches tall, 385 pounds, 12 inch penis, 2 pound left testicle, 2 pound right testicle, Turner Brown." The small guy faints away and falls to the floor. The big guy kneels down and brings him to, gently slapping his face and shaking him, "Are you alright?" In a very weak voice the little guy says, "Excuse me, but what EXACTLY did you say?" The big dude says, "I saw the curious look on your face and figured I'd just give you the answers to the questions almost everyone always asks me. I'm 7 feet 3 inches tall, 385 pounds, 12 inch penis, 2 pound left testicle, 2 pound right testicle, and my name is Turner Brown." The small guy says, "Thank God! I thought you said 'Turn Around'. What is a four-letter word that ends in k and means the same as intercourse? What is it that a cow has four of and a woman has only two of? What can you find in a man's pants that is about six inches long, has a head on it, and that women love so much that they often blow it? What word starts with f and ends with u-c-k? Name five words that are each four letters long, end in u-n-t, one of which is a word for a woman? What does a dog do that you can step into? What four letter word begins with f and ends with k, and if you can't get one you can use your hands? What is hard, six inches long, has two nuts, and can make a girl fat? What four-letter word ends in i-t and is found on the bottom of birdcages? What is it that all men have one of; it's longer on some men than on others; the pope doesn't use his; and a man gives it to his wife after they're married? ANSWERS: 1. (talk) 2. (legs) 3. (a twenty dollar bill) 4. (firetruck) 5. (bunt, hunt, runt, punt, aunt) 6. (pants) 7. (fork) 8. (Almond Joy candy bar) 9. (grit) 10. (last name) A man who just got a raise decides to buy a new scope for his rifle. He goes to a rifle shop, and asks the clerk to show him a scope. The clerk takes out a scope, and says to the man, "This scope is so good, you can see my house all the way up on that hill." The man takes a look through the scope, and starts laughing. "What's so funny?" asks the clerk. "I see a naked man and a naked woman running around in the house." the man replies. The clerk grabs the scope from the man, and looks at his house. Then he hands two bullets to the man and says, "Here are two bullets, I'll give you this scope for nothing if you take these two bullets, shoot my wife's head off and shoot the guy's dick off." The man takes another look through the scope and says, "You know what? I think I can do that with one shot!" A husband, one bright sunny morning, turns to his lovely wife, "Wife, we're going fishing this weekend, you, me and the dog." The wife grimaces, "But I don't like fishing!" "Look! We're going fishing and that's final." "Do I have to go fishing with you... I really don't want to go!" "Right I'll give you three choices... 1 You come fishing with me and the dog... 2 You give me a BLOW JOB.... 3 or you take it up the ass!" The wife grimaces again, "But I don't want to do any of those things!" "Wife I've given you three options.. You'll HAVE to do one of them! I'm going to the garage to sort out my fishing tackle, when I come back I expect you to have made up your mind!" The wife sits and thinks about it. Twenty minutes later her husband comes back, "Well! What have you decided? FISHING with me and the dog, BLOW JOB, or ass?" The wife complains some more and finally makes up her mind, "O.K. I'll give you a blow job!" "Great!" He says and drops his pants. The wife is on her knees doing the business. Suddenly she stops, looks up at her Husband, "Oh! It tastes absolutely disgusting... It tastes all shitty!" "Yes!" says her husband "The dog didn't want to go fishing either." A guy goes to the tattoo parlor and offers the tattoo artist $1, 000 to put a $100 bill on his willie. The artist agrees, but is curious and asks the man why he wants to do this. The man replies, 'I have my reasons which I would rather not tell right now.' So, the artist goes ahead and does the job. But, all the while he is anxious with curiosity over why this man wants a $100 bill on his penis. So, he tells the man that he really needs to know the reason why and says that the man can keep the $1000 he would have paid for the tattoo if he would just tell the reason for putting a $100 bill on his willie. So, the man consents and offers these three reasons: 'First, I like to play with my money. Second, I like to watch my money grow. And third, and most importantly, the next time my wife wants to blow $100, she can stay home to do it.' It was the mailman's last day on the job after 35 years of carrying the mail through all kinds of weather to the same neighborhood. When he arrived at the first house on his route he was greeted by the whole family there, who congratulated him and sent him on his way with a big gift envelope. At the second house they presented him with a box of fine cigars. The folks at the third house handed him a selection of terrific fishing lures. At the fourth house he was met at the door by a strikingly beautiful woman in a revealing negligee. She took him by the hand, gently led him through the door, and led him up the stairs to the bedroom where she blew his mind with the most passionate love he had ever experienced. When he had had enough they went downstairs, where she fixed him a giant breakfast: eggs, potatoes, ham, sausage, blueberry waffles, and fresh-squeezed orange juice. When he was truly satisfied she poured him a cup of steaming coffee. As she was pouring, he noticed a dollar bill sticking out from under the cup's bottom edge. "All this was just too wonderful for words, " he said, "but what's the dollar for?" "Well, " she said, "last night, I told my husband that today would be your last day, and that we should do something special for you. I asked him what to give you." He said, "Fuck him, give him a dollar." The lady then said, "The breakfast was my idea." One day a construction worker left the job a little early, and when he got home he found his wife in bed with another man. Purple with rage, he hauled the man down the stairs and into the garage where he proceeded to secure his dick in a vice. Utterly terrified, the man screamed, "Stop, stop! you're not going to cut it off, are you? ARE YOU?" "Nope, " replied the construction worker, "You are...I'm going to set the garage on fire."' A woman was shaking out a rug on the balcony of her 17th floor condominium when a sudden gust of wind blew her over the railing. "Damn, that was stupid, " she thought as she fell. "What a way to die." As she passed the 14th floor, a man standing at his railing caught her in his arms. While she looked at him in disbelieving gratitude, he asked, "Do you suck?" "No!" she shrieked, aghast. So, he dropped her. As she passed the 12th floor, another man reached out and caught her. "Do you screw?" he asked. "Of course not!" she exclaimed before she could stop herself. He dropped her, too. The poor woman prayed to God for one more chance. As luck would have it, she was caught a third time, by a man on the eighth floor. "I suck! I screw!" she screamed in panic. "Slut!" he said, and dropped her. A man and his wife go to their honeymoon place for their 25th anniversary. As the couple reflected on that magical evening 25 years ago, the wife asked the husband: "When you first saw my naked body in front of you, what was going through your mind?" The husband replied: "All I wanted to do was to fuck your brains out, and suck your tits dry." Then, as the wife undressed, she asked: "What are you thinking now?" He replied: "It looks like I did a pretty good job."

What is your horoscope sign...? I am a Leo. I love automated opening doors and nothing would give me more pleasure than to have Clappers applaud me when I enter a room. I must admit I am an attention seeking person. ENJOY!

Fair or Unfair ??? my husband's son will be passing to 3rd grade with A & B's he comes to our house only during school vacations and some holidays but we always pay for two way trip on airplane cuz of the distance, but now as a reward fro his good grades he wants the new video game that came out that cost $400.00 & his mom wants for my husband to pay half & she never wants to pay for half of the ticket wich is always between 250 & 300 & now because of some things that came out we can't afford to pay that much for a video game which it will be need a game to play too ( other 60 or 80 ) & we have 2 other kids & my girl is being asking for toy house that cost like 60 & we haven't bought it because of our economic situation, i allready told my husband that we can't afford it to talk to his son & Expalin that at this moment we can't maybe to save & buy it for Christmas & his bday wich is two days apart, Am I being unfair or what should I do???

Aboout my wife? Heres my problem, I married my wife and brang her to Australia. We have been together for 8 months, she loved her mum sincerely. Ever since she came to Australia with me she always chated with her mum, which I didn’t mind but to me I felt like she cared about her mum more than me. Yes, she did say yes to the marriage but her father encouraged her to do so and her mother really didn’t want it due to the far distance (the mother lives in Turkey). I loved her a lot when I said yes I did have some doubts about her because I thought she was abit stubborn but in time I learned that she had other nice qualities about her. No matter what I did I felt like her mother was the first priority in her heart. If I took her out to dinner she would look at the time and she couldn’t wait till she got home to talk to her mum. Now, recently after 8 months I sent her back for a holiday and now she refuses to come back, she did have some problems with my mum but I moved out to my sisters house and I also made sure I got a job and she knew that we were going to move out to our own little place. She told every bad things about here, but that’s life bad things do happen and I expected her to be side by me but instead she left me. Her parents just took over everything and I don’t know what to do, shes got 3 months to come back and if she doesn’t come back in time her ticket is going to expire and maybe her Visa to. This is her third time she done this to me the other two times her parents requested their daughter to come back and we as the whole family managed get around it but this time she really blew it. The father in law rang my house saying that “my daughter has told me everything and use have treated my daughter with no respect at all”, which is all a lie, all a lie that she probably told them. She usually did this when I didn’t give her attention but I had to test her out she went over seas I rang her first day she went there everything was smooth the second time I emailed her and she didn’t check her account the third time I chatted with her and she said “I’ve been waiting for three days why didn’t you come on msn” and I told her “well I wanted to wait to see if you were going to email me but you didn’t so I decided to come online to talk to you. You see when she left from here to go back there she didn’t drip any water from her eyes at all but when she arrived there she cried with her mother. When she was here if her mother didn’t come online she would write a message but when it comes to me it’s not that much of importance. I don’t know what to do I love this girl shes my wife and I don’t want to re-marry another women because I think I will always love her.

what ya think of these jokes? Today is International Disadvantaged People's Day. Please send an encouraging message to your weirdest friend, just as I have done. I don't care if you lick windows, interfere with animals, fart in company..... you hang in there sunshine, your f*cking special!! A flasher was heading off on holidays. Just as he was about to board the plane a pretty air hostess was checking tickets. He walked up to her, opened his coat and flashed her. Without blinking the air hostess says 'I'm sorry sir you've to show your ticket here, not your stub.' Martha lost her husband. She had him cremated, took his ashes home and poured them out on the patio table. Tracing her fingers through them. 'Bob, remember the dishwasher you promised me, I bought it with your insurance money. The car you promised me, bought that too. The diamond ring, bought that too. Bob remember that bl*w job I promised you,here it comes!!' This week we celebrate a special birthday. Monica Lewinsky turned 31. Can you believe it? It seems like only yesterdayshe was crawling around the White House on her hands and knees, putting eveything in her mouth. They grow up so fast, don't they? Abdul and Ali are making letter bombs. Abdul: Do you think I put enough explosive in? Ali: Open one up and have a look. Abdul: What if it blows up? Ali: Don't be stpid, it's not adressed to you! A dad on his way home wants to buy his daughter a Barbie. He stops at a toy syore and notices there is a Shopping Barbie, a Beach Barbieand a Disco Barbie priced at €19.95 but a Divorced Barbie is €265.95. 'Why is this one so much more?' asks the man. The shop assistant replies 'That's because Divorced Barbie comes with Ken's car, Ken's car, Ken's boat, Ken's computer, Ken's furniture and one of Ken's friends!!' Teacher asks science class 'What is relative humidity?'. Johnny the traveller answers 'It's the sweat you get on your b*llix when your riding your cousin.' A guy walks into a bar and buts a pint. Then he takes a photo from his top pocket, looks at it, then puts it back. He repeatedly does this every time he has a pint. After the eight pint the barman asks 'Why do you look at that photo every time you order a pint?'. He replies 'It's a picture of the wife and when she looks good enough to ride I'll go home!!' Chris Tarrant: 'For €32,000 what is the colour of the hair on your girlfriends v*gina? Is it: A: Brown B: Red C: Blonde D: Black' Kerry man: 'Can I phone a friend?' The latest Christmes toy has just hit the shops - a talking Muslim doll. Nobody knows what it says yet because no one has the b*lls to pull the cord!! Two newly weds turn up at a hotel and ask for the honetmoon suite. Receptionist asks 'Do you have reservations?' Bride replys 'I'm not sure about taking it up the a*se.' Wife packs case and says to husband 'I'm off to Amsterdam to be a whore getting €400 a ride instead of giving it to you for free'. Husband packs his and says 'I'm going with you. I want to see how your going to survive on €800 a year!' It goes in dry, it comes out wet. The longer you leave it in the stronger it gets. You can have it in bed just you and me. It's not what you think, it's a cup of tea. Man has €50 note totooed onto his c*ck. His wife asks 'Why have you done that?' He replies, 'For 1, I like to see my money grow. 2, I like to play with my money. 3, I like having money in my hand and last but not least, next time you want to blow fifty quis, you can stay at home to do it!' Paramedcs attend a nasty accident involving a sports car. When they see the driver screaming in pain they tell him to calm down as at least he was not flung out through the windscreen like his girlfriend. He screamed back 'Have you seen what's in her mouth?????' A man who was sunbathing on holidays fell asleepand badly burnt his legs. The pain was unbearable so he went to see the doctor for treatment. Doctor took a look at hi legs and said 'This is a small village surgery and I've nothing really to help you but give this a go' and handed the man a Viagra tablet. The man said 'But I've got acute sunburn. What's a Viagra tablet going to do for my sunburn?' 'Basically nothing' said the doctor @but it will help keep the sheets off your legs tonight!' Woman was helping husband set up their new computer. 'You now have to enter a password'. Husband is feeling randy and tries to hint and shock wife by typing P*NIS. Wife fell off her chair laughingwhen computer replied PASSWORD REJECTED - NOT LONG ENOUGH. Paddy flying Ryanair into Manchester. The plane is introuble so he calls the tower and says 'Help! Easter Sunday, Pancake Tuesday, Boxing Day!' A voice comes back and says 'Paddy the word you're looking for is f*cking Mayday!!' To men are at the opposite side of the world but are thinking the exact same thing. One is walking a tightrope between two skyscrapers, the other is having a bl*w job from an 85 yea old woman. What are they both thnking? Don't look down, don't look down, don't look down!! Alcohol doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean....... against tables, floors, chairs, walls,and ugly f*ckers. Pass this on to your alcoholic friends as I've done. Do you want a Nokia N95 including 1000 free any time, any netwok minutes a month? With it you get a fre 42" LCD HD TV, free Apple iPod Nano and free Stella Artois mini-fridge. It's a 6 month minimum contract at €12.50 per month. Simply log onto www.dreamonyoucunt.com An Essex blond gets a job as a teacher. She notices a boy on the field stood by himself while all the other childern are running around having fun. She takes pity on him and decides to speak o him. 'Are you ok?' she asks. 'Yes he says. 'You can play with the other children you know.' 'It's best I stay here' he says. 'Why?' asks the blonde. The boy says 'Because I'm the goalkeeper'. Three travellers were knocked down and killed in a Tesco car park today. Tesco. Every little helps.

some more bizarre facts? happy reading lol. *According to sales, 17,000 individual 'smarties' are eaten every minute in the UK *The life of an eyelash is about 5 months. *Iceland, Europe's second largest island following Great Britain, boasts of having the world's oldest 'active' parliamentary body, Althing, which first met in 930AD. *The Turkish football club, Galatasaray, has an A for every other letter. *The tongue of a mature Blue Whale has approximately the same mass as that of an entire adult elephant. *The study, which tested telephones, desks, water coolers, doorknobs, and toilet seats, compiled 7,000 samples from major centers across the country. What they found, was that while phones ranked highest in bacteria levels, the office desk was a close second. *In England during World War I, many German names and titles were changed and given more English-sounding names, including the royal family's from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. Kaiser Wilhelm II countered this by jokingly saying that he was off to see a performance of 'The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.' *Both turdoid and turdine mean "belonging to the family turdus," Turdus musicus is the song thrush & Turdus viscivorus is the mistletoe thrush *Nearly a quarter of all mammals can fly; with a huge 985 known species, bats make up 23.1% of all known mammals by species *January is National Soup Month in the United States, January is the seasonal equivalent to July in the Southern Hemisphere; & on Jan 14th, 90% of New Year resolutions will be broken! *You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown and you use an average of 17 muscles for a smile, and they say every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle *Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms in the first 14 nestling days of their life and that is not even their main food on the menu (14 feet a day is wrong) But parent robins make around 100 food visits to the nest every day! *The first man to die during planning & construction of the Hoover Dam was the father of the last man to die during its construction. December 20, 1922 with J.G. Tierney a Bureau of Reclamation employee who was part of a geological survey and drowned when he fell from a barge. Exactly 13 years later, in 1935, his son Patrick W. Tierney, fell to his death from an intake tower. * You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily *The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification back in 700 *Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than it does through the air *A greenfly born on a Tuesday can be a grandparent by Friday *There are more mobile phones in UK than there are people *Termites are affected by music; the termites will eat your house twice as fast if you play them loud music *Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the extreme fear of Friday the 13th *One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water! *Christopher Trace, the first presenter of Blue Peter, was the body double for Charlton Heston in the film Ben-Hur *Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever *A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water *If you think of the Milky Way as being the size of the continent of Asia, our solar system would be the size of a penny. *The chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex Myth or fact?? *The average driver will be locked out of their car nine times during their life time (yes, men are in the stats) *A Boeing 767 airliner contains 3,100,000 parts * Belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable under Church law * Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain *An owl can see a mouse moving from over 150ft away by a light no brighter than candlelight *The average person has walked 100,000 miles by the time they reach the age of 85. *Your hearing is less sharp after eating too much *In the course of a lifetime, the average person spends 2 years on the phone (I bet cell phones/mobiles were not taken into consideration when that fact was worked out!!) * Henry VIII was once served a loin of beef while visiting the house of a noble. He was so impressed with the beef that he asked for a sword and knighted it! Ever since, that particular cut of beef has been known as sirloin. ("Sir Loin").. This is a MYTH *In a lifetime, the average clean-shaven man will spend five months shaving and will remove 28ft of hair. *Beethoven was extremely particular about his coffee , he always counted 60 beans per cup. *In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper had to fix a computer glitch caused by a moth, hence the term 'computer bug'. *Jupiter is large enough to contain the other major 7 planets in our solar system. *The water pressure inside every onion cell would be sufficient to explode a steam engine. *Sunglasses were first worn by film stars, not to look mysterious, but to relieve there eyes from the dazzling glare of the early studio lights *If you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number, the answer will always be 5. *Over a 12 day period your body generates a whole new set of taste buds. (This process continues until you are in your 70's.) *Greyhounds can reach their top speed of 45 mph in just 3 strides *There is more sugar in 1kg of lemons than in 1kg of strawberries. *Paraskevidekatriaphobia, is a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th. Therapist Dr. Donald Dossey, whose specialty is treating people with irrational fears, coined the term. He claims, when you can pronounce the word you are cured. Friggatriskaidekaphobia has the same meaning. *American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class *Titan arum is probably the world's smelliest flower. Originating in the tropical rain forests of Sumatra, this huge, extremely rare flower is a giant lily. It seldom blooms, but when it does the smell is described as something like the dead carcass of an animal *A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer *Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day. *Turtles can breath through their bottoms. *Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. *The buzz generated by an electric razor in America is in the key of B flat. In the UK, it is in the key of G. *Some of the most popular lipstick shades in Renaissance England were named, Rat, Horseflesh, Turkey, Blood and Puke. *When Thomas Eddison died in 1941, Henry Ford captured his dying breath in a bottle. *Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" was the first Hollywood film that showed a toilet flushing - thereby generating many complaints. *The first flying-trapeze circus act was performed by Frenchman Jules Leotard at the Circus Napoleon on Nov 12th 1859. He invented the garment now known as the leotard. *In 1972 when Gordon Brown (British Chancellor of the Excheque) was 21, he won a Daily Express competition for "A Vision of Britain In The Year 2000." *It is said, grapefruit scent makes middle age women seem six years younger to men (but it does not work the other way round). *The average elephant produces 50lb of dung a day. *The dinosaur noises in Jurassic Park came from slowing down the sounds of elephants, geese and horses. *The French invented the pop of the Christmas Cracker in the 19th century (Tom Smith bought the idea back to UK after holidaying in France) *The chances of hitting 2 holes-in-one during the same round of golf is one in 8 million *Victorian ladies tried to enlarge their boobs by bathing in strawberries *Until the 18th century, India produced almost all the world's diamonds *The ancient Egyptians thought it was good luck to enter a house left foot first *During their marriage, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton bought an electric chair for their dining room * The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man *Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet of which 80% are in-cloud flashes and 20% are cloud-to-ground flashes. *When screen lover Rudolph Valentino married Jean Acker (on Bonfire Day), she locked him out of their bedroom, the marriage lasted only six hours *160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road. On paper they can, as the road (actually it's an avenue) is 865 feet wide, but in reality they can't. *When a female horse and a male donkey mate, the off-spring is called a mule; but when a male horse and a female donkey mate, the off spring is called a HINNY *On average women speak 7000 words per day, where as men speak just over 2000 *Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair *While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate No.85 *Disney World is bigger than the world's 5 smallest countries *A house fly hums in the middle octave key of F *Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor *In one gram of soil, about ten million bacteria live in it *A single ounce of gold can be beaten into a thin film covering 100 square feet *Before the 1800, there were no separately designed shoes for left and right feet *Paper was invented early in the second century by Chinese eunuch *The first person to receive a singing telegram was singer Rudy Vallee, in honour of his 32nd birthday, July 28th 1933. * The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched *In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase, "Goodnight, sleep tight." *There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball *A 75-year-old male driver received ten traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road four times, committed four hit-and-run offenses and caused six accidents, all within 20 minutes, in McKinney, TX on 15 Oct 1966 [Worst driver: G. B. of Records] *The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." *Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Shaghoopal *The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters. Also in medieval universities, the trivium comprised the three subjects taught first, grammar, logic, and rhetoric, AND the Roman Goddess, Trivia, is the goddess of crossroads, witchcraft and the harvest moon. *In 1935, the police in Atlantic City, New Jersey, arrested 42 men on the beach. They were cracking down on topless bathing suits worn by men. *During lunch breaks in Carlsbad, New Mexico no couple should engage in a sexual act while parked in their vehicle, unless their car has curtains. *The distance between cities are actually the distances between city halls. When you see a sign "Sheffield - 40 miles" it means it is 40 miles to the city hall of that city sign *The name of Canada is believed to come from the Iroquois Indian word "Kanata", meaning "village" or "community". The word Canada was first used in a 1534 text written by Jacques Cartier describing the Indian village of Stadacona. *The longest non-medical word in the English language is floccipausinihilipilification (29 letters), which means "the act of estimating as worthless." *Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags. *Bees visit over 2,000 flowers and fly over 55,000 miles to produce just 1lb. of honey *Four out of every ten people who come to a party in your home will look in your bathroom cabinet *The taboo against whistling backstage comes from the pre-electricity era when a whistle was the signal for the curtains and the scenery to drop. An unexpected whistle could cause an unexpected scene change! *The sound you hear when macho people crack their knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting. *Francis Bacon died of hypothermia while trying to freeze a chicken by stuffing it with snow *Captain Jean-Luc Picard's (Star Trek) fish was named Livingston *The WD in WD40 means "water displacement." The 40 in WD40 comes from the 40 attempts at creating this product. *Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed. *Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra. * The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz." *American car horns beep in the tone of F. *The only food cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers. *China has more English speakers than the U.S. *Hong Kong has the world's largest double-decker tram fleet in the world *The words silent and listen have the same letters. Santa and Satan do too *You can tell the sex of a turtle by the sound it makes, A male grunts, A female hisses. *There are no public toilets in Peru. *Samuel Clemens [aka Mark Twain] was born in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again *The pound sign is called a 'octothorp.' *In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run *"Dreamt" is the only word in the English language to end in "mt." *The Queen termite can live up to 50 years and have 30,000 children every day *The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging," eveything else was allowed. *A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout *The male gypsy moth can smell the virgin female up to 1.8 miles away *A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away *The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet out of the body. *A puff of smoke, such as when someone is smoking a cigarette or a pipe is called " a lunt " *The name "Pinocchio" is from Tuscany, Italy and means "pine nut" or "kernel". *Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy *It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. It was originally the right, but the translator messed up again. *Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600's by a translator. *Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour & if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee *For 47 days in 1961, the painting "Matisse's Le Bateau (The Boat)" was hanging upside down in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. None of the over 116,000 visitors seem to have noticed. *Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated. *Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Animal Kingdom." *The magic word 'Abracadabra' was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever. *The phrase "rule of thumb" was popularized by an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb top to first joint. (a thumb measurement is an inch) *More redheads are born in Scotland UK than in any other part of the world *The Sanskrit word for 'war' means - "desire for more cows". *The average bed is home to over 5 billion dust mites. *Only female wasps, bees, and mosquitoes sting. *Las Vegas means "The Meadows" in Spanish. *Born on November 2, 1718, British politician, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is credited with naming the 'sandwich.' He developed a habit of eating beef between slice of toast so he could continue to play cards uninterrupted. *Ice hockey was first played in 1885 by British soldiers stationed in Canada *Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute. *Your fingernails grow 4 times faster than your toe nails *Pain travels faster than 3000 feet per second *A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person *About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you *The snail mates only once in it's entire life, also a snail has 4 noses *The Coca-Cola company is the biggest consumer of sugar in the world *The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle. *All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split) *Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott" *The word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to exercise naked *Everyone thought Albert Einstein suffered from dyslexia, because he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old. *Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots *The nation of Monaco on the French Riviera, is smaller than Central Park in New York. Monaco is 370 acres and Central Park is 840 acres *Gweneth Paltrow's nickname for Steven Speilberg is "Uncle Morty." Steven Speilberg calls Gweneth Paltrow "Gwynnie the pooh." *You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. *The sorcerer's name in Disney's Fantasia is Yensid, which happens to be Disney backwards. *Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy *The world's longest name is: Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Shermasn Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Sr. *Shirly Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday. * When Christopher Columbus and crew landed in the New World they observed the natives using a nose pipe to smoke a strange new herb. The pipe was called a "tabaka" by the locals, hence our word tobacco. *Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. *The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly. *Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle. *Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. *In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt. *Queen Victoria [UK 1837-1901] eased the discomfort of her monthly cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana. *The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. [usually in our sleep] ~ this is a MYTH *If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough energy is produced to create an atomic bomb *Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist (William Semple). One way to assure business!! *The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children. *The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil. *The Spanish word esposa means "wife." The plural, esposas, means "wives," but also "handcuffs." *23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts. * There was one U.S. state that no longer exists? In 1784 the U.S. had a state called Franklin, named after Benjamin Franklin. But four years later, it was incorporated into Tennessee. *The clinical term for a hairy buttocks is "daysypgal." *A duck's quack doesn't echo, and ... no one knows why.~ MYTH everything echoes. University students have recorded a ducks echo. It is usually so quiet we cannot hear it. *"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. ??? Maybe if said fast. *Clans many many years ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them, burnt their houses down - hence the expression " to get fired." !!

Holidays and relationships? I am in a relationship with a man in Iraq right now. He will be back in November. We began to talk about the holidays right now. Both of our families live in different states. My family has never had a member gone for the Christmas and we usually have a pretty big celebration with 20-30 people at my parent's house. My fiance's family is also going to have a get together with him and his two brothers and his parents. I am used to large family celebrations and will be sad to be without my family this year and also sad to be without. I told him he could invite his family to our house for Christmas but he doesn't want to do that because it would be a lot of work getting five people a plane ticket to my parents. I also mentioned that we could spend this Christmas apart and then start alternating years when we get married. He demanded that I give him an answer now and when I told him I didn't know he hung up the phone. I don't know what to do. Any advice?

Dumb Criminals. Star If You Like? DUMB CRIMINALS Real Crimes Committed By Dumb Criminals Chicago: A man was wanted for throwing bricks through jewelry store windows and making off with the loot. He was arrested last night after throwing a brick into a Plexiglas window...the brick bounced back, hit him in the head and knocked him cold until the police got there. Portsmouth, RI: Police charged Gregory Rosa, 25, with a string of vending machine robberies in January when he: 1. fled from police inexplicably when they spotted him loitering around a vending machine and 2. later tried to post his $400 bail in coins. When Stan Caddell wanted to wash his Chevrolet, he backed the car into a foot of water in the Mississippi River at Hannibal, Missouri. When he got out to clean the car, it floated away. Police were able to retrieve the vehicle some distance downstream. According to an officer on the scene, no action would be taken against the driver because "you can't ticket a guy for being stupid..." Kentucky: Two men tried to pull the front off a cash machine by running a chain from the machine to the bumper of their pickup truck. Instead of pulling the front panel off the machine, though, they pulled the bumper off their truck. Scared, they left the scene and drove home. With the chain still attached to the machine. With their bumper still attached to the chain. With their vehicle's license plate still attached to the bumper. A bank robber in Bumpus, Tenn., handed a teller the following note: "Watch out. This is a rubbery. I hav an oozy traned on your but. Dump the in a sack, this one. No die packkets or other triks or I will tare you a new naval. No kwarter with red stuff on them, too." Dr. Creon V.B. Smyk of the Ohio Valley Educational Council says such notes are, lamentably, the rule. "Right across the board, we see poor pre-writing skills, problems with omissions, tense, agreement, spelling and clarity," he moaned. Smyk believes that the quality of robbery notes could be improved if criminals could be taught to plan before writing. "We have to stress organization: Make an outline of your robbery note before you write it," he said. "Some of the notes get totally sidetracked on issues like the make, model and caliber of the gun, number of bullets, etc., until one loses sight of the main idea -- the robbery." A lawyer defending a man accused of burglary tried this creative defense: "My client merely inserted his arm into the window and removed a few trifling articles. His arm is not himself, and I fail to see how you can punish the whole individual for an offense committed by his limb." "Well put," the judge replied. "Using your logic, I sentence the defendant's arm to one year's imprisonment. He can accompany it or not, as he chooses." The defendant smiled. With his lawyer's assistance he detached his artificial limb, laid it on the bench, and walked out. A man in Orange County Municipal Court had been ticketed for driving alone in the carpool lane. He claimed that the four frozen cadavers in the mortuary van he was driving should be counted. The judged ruled that passengers must be alive to qualify. A man was arrested for stealing a car. When he was taken to court for his arraignment the judge asked, how do you plead? Instead of saying guilty or not guilty the man said: "Before we go any further, judge, let me explain why I stole the car." The judge ruled in record time. A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record shop nervously waving revolvers. The first one shouted, "Nobody move!" When his partner moved, the startled first bandit shot him. After drinking a little too much, Stewart Butcher went to sleep on a West Virginia railroad track. A while later, something woke him-- a 15 car coal train. "I raised up," said Stewart, "and it knocked me out..." An Australian man accused of murdering his wife can't seem to get his story straight. June Mathew, John Rushton's second wife, testified that Rushton told her his first wife died of a heart attack, ran off with a Baptist minister after committing 55 acts of adultery, and drowned after being washed overboard. Rushton also claimed he was a nuclear physicist, a naval commander, and had been knighted for saving the Queen's life. Mathew, who was married to Rushton for five years, believed him because he was a "good talker..." but those pesky microtremors finally gave him away... An off-duty police officer in Newark, NJ, had a pistol-shaped cigarette lighter, which he had been using all night while drinking at a local tavern. After many hours and drinks, he apparently mistook his 32 revolver for the lighter. When he went to light his cigarette, he shot and killed John Fazzola, who was seated 5 stools away at the bar... An unidentified man in Buenos Aires pushed his wife out of an eighth-floor window but his plan to kill her failed when she became entangled in some power cables below. Seeing she was still alive, the man jumped and tried to land on top of her. He missed... Ann Arbor: The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan at 7:50am, flashed a gun and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away. Arizona: A company called "Guns For Hire" stages gunfights for Western movies, etc. One day, they received a call from a 47-year-old woman, who wanted to have her husband killed. She got 4-1/2 years in jail. Arkansas: Seems this guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. Seems the liquor store window was made of Plexi-Glass. The whole event was caught on videotape. Baggy clothes may save your life: a 13-year-old boy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia fell 130 feet from his hi-rise apartment and survived with only minor injuries. Witnesses said Daniel Gurgus' baggy sweater caught tree branches on the way down... remember, kids, just say no to Spandex... Burglars in Larch Barrens, Md., tried to cut through a safe using a Laser Tag gun. Carlos Diaz of New York got 18 years to life for committing a series of robberies by pretending a zucchini hidden under his jacket was a gun... England: A German "tourist," supposedly on a golf holiday, shows up at customs with his golf bag. While making idle chatter about golf, the customs official realizes that the tourist does not know what a "handicap" is. The customs official asks the tourist to demonstrate his swing, which he does--backward! A substantial amount of narcotics was found in the golf bag. Germany: Oil of Olay no longer turning the trick for her, a woman decided that she would bathe in the milk of a camel (a modern-day Cleopatra). So she stole a camel from the local zoo (where *else* can you find a camel when you need one?) and transported it back to her house--where she realized that the camel's name was "Otto." (Editor's Note 2: She might not have gotten much milk from Otto, but she probably made a friend for life while trying to ...) In Bent Forks, Ill., kidnapers of ice-cube magnate Worth Bohnke sent a photograph of their captive to Bohnke's family. Bohnke was seen holding up a newspaper. It was not that day's edition and, in fact, bore a prominent headline relating to Nixon's trip to China. This was pointed out to the kidnapers in a subsequent phone call. They responded by sending a new photograph showing an up-to-date newspaper. Bohnke, however, did not appear in the picture. When this, too, was refused, the kidnapers became peevish and insisted that a photograph be sent to them showing all the people over at Bohnke's house holding different issues of _Success_ magazine. They provided a mailing address and were immediately apprehended. They later admitted to FBI agents they did not understand the principle involved in the photograph/newspaper concept. "We thought it was just some kind of tradition," said one. Educators agree that such mix-ups point to poor reasoning and comprehension skills, ignorance of current events, and failure to complete work in the time allotted. Indiana: A man walked up to a cashier at a grocery store and demanded all the money in the register. When the cashier handed him the loot, he fled--leaving his wallet on the counter. Industrial thieves broke into the Bilgetek plant in Canasta, Wash., by crossing a metal catwalk and then blew it up, having forgotten it was their only means of escape. Joseph Owens of Mount Pleasant, Michigan, didn't think police were listening to his complaints that someone was harassing him, so he came up with a brilliant plan. Owens convinced his friend to shoot him in the shoulder with a shotgun so police would take him seriously. After a trip to the emergency room, Owens faces up to four years in prison for filing a false police report...next time, a little higher and to the left... Lake City, Florida: Karen Lee Joachimi, 20, was arrested for robbery of a Howard Johnson's motel. She was armed with only an electric chainsaw, which was not plugged in. New York: As a female shopper exited a convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police had apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the cruiser and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes Officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from." Newark: A woman was reporting her car as stolen, and mentioned that there was a car phone in it. The policeman taking the report called the phone, and told the guy that answered that he had read the ad in the newspaper and wanted to buy the car. They arranged to meet, and the thief was arrested. Rustlers in Spavin, N.D., made off with three Saint Bernard dogs, a stationary bicycle and the visiting in-laws of a farmer, after having failed to correctly identify the valuable cattle on the premises.

What happens if i shoot fireworks in maryland? So im having a big party this summer and i have a great fireworks store in pennsylvania right next to my house so im gonna stock up. I live in a big back yard in a small neighbor hood but im in the hick town of maryland. Im asking a few of my neighbors if they mind first if i shoot of fireworks but if someone does call the cops what is the worst that could happen. And im talking serious fireworks here not just little 5 second bursts im talking mortors and HUGE LOUD shots like the ones you see in cities on big holidays. I can handle a ticket or a warning but i dont want to be like arrested or something stupid. So i just wanted to get some help on the question .Thanks!

read this has your drinking your coffee ,,,ha ha ha ha? 78 Ways to know if you drink too much coffee... 1. You answer the door before people knock. 2. Juan Valdez named his donkey after you. 3. The only kitchen appliances you own are made by Mr. Coffee. 4. You ski uphill. 5. You get a tax cut for all the coffee you bought. 6. You get a speeding ticket even when you're parked. 7. You speed walk in your sleep. 8. You have a bumper sticker that says: "Coffee drinkers are good in the sack." 9. You haven't blinked since the last lunar eclipse. 10. You just completed another sweater and you don't know how to knit. 11. You grind your coffee beans in your mouth. 12. The nurse needs a scientific calculator to take your pulse. 13. You sleep with your eyes open. 14. When you open your dish cabinet, and there is only mugs. 15. You have to watch videos in fast-forward. 16. The only time you're standing still is during an earthquake. 17. You can take a picture of yourself from ten feet away without using the timer. 18. You lick your coffeepot clean. 19. You spend every vacation visiting "Maxwell House." 20. You're the employee of the month at the local coffeehouse and you don't even work there. 21. You've worn out your third pair of tennis shoes this week. 22. Your eyes stay open when you sneeze. 23. Your coffee cake, must have coffee in it. 24. You chew on other people's fingernails. 25. Your T-shirt says, "Decaffeinated coffee is the devil's blend." 26. You're so jittery that people use your hands to blend their margaritas. 27. You can type sixty words per minute... with your feet. 28. The only gift you get for Valentines Day you get chocolate covered beans. 29. You can jump-start your car without cables. 30. All your kids are named "Joe". 31. Your only source of nutrition comes from "Sweet & Low." 32. You don't sweat, you percolate. 33. You buy 1/2 & 1/2 by the barrel. 34. You've worn out the handle on your favorite mug. 35. You go to AA meetings just for the free coffee. 36. You walk twenty miles on your treadmill before you realize it's not plugged in. 37. You forget to unwrap candy bars before eating them. 38. Charles Manson thinks you need to calm down. 39. Every shirt or blouse you own has a coffee stain on it. 40. You've built a miniature city out of little plastic stirrers. 41. People get dizzy just watching you. 42. You've worn the finish off your coffee table. 43. The Taster's Choice couple wants to adopt you. 44. Starbucks owns the mortgage on your house. 45. You're so wired, you pick up AM radio and people test their batteries in your ears. 46. Your life's goal is to amount to a hill of beans. 47. Instant coffee takes too long. 48. When someone says. "How are you?", you say, "Good to the last drop." 49. You want to be cremated just so you can spend the rest of eternity in a coffee can. 50. You want to come back as a coffee mug in your next life. 51. Your birthday is a national holiday in Brazil. 52. Your hand is permanently shaped to hold your mug. 53. You'd be willing to spend time in a Turkish prison. 54. You go to sleep just so you can wake up and smell the coffee. 55. You're offended when people use the word "brew" to mean beer. 56. You name your cats "Cream" and "Sugar." 57. You get drunk just so you can sober up. 58. You speak perfect Arabic without ever taking a lesson. 59. Your lips are permanently stuck in the sipping position. 60. You have a picture of your coffee mug on your coffee mug. 61. You can outlast the Energizer bunny. 62. You can jump to the moon. 63. You short out motion detectors. 64. You have a conniption over spilled milk. 65. You don't even wait for the water to boil anymore. 66. Your nervous twitch registers on the Richter scale. 67. You think being called a "drip" is a compliment. 68. You don't tan, you roast. 69. You don't get mad, you get steamed. 70. Your three favorite things in life are...coffee before, coffee during and coffee after. 71. Your lover uses soft lights, romantic music, and a glass of iced coffee to get you in the mood. 72. You can't even remember your second cup. 73. You help your dog chase its tail. 74. You soak your dentures in coffee overnight. 75. Your coffee mug is insured by Lloyds of London. 76. You introduce your spouse as your coffeemate. 77. You think CPR stands for "Coffee Provides Resuscitation." 78. Your first-aid kit contains two pints of coffee with an I.V. hookup.

How can I ever trust again? It all started a few years ago. My best friends girl was very unhappy, telling everyone who would listen how he was hitting her, cheating on her, demanding all her money and taking drugs - this is relevant I'll be asking questions later. Shes been baby sitting the kids for me and my now ex wife for the last 3 years by now and has appeared to be a good friend through the divorce. A good shoulder to lean on. I fell out with my best friend because of a story that he had knockered her down in the pub (in anger - not by accident) I decided to move to Manchester - a change of scene and a new start for me after the divorce. She asked to come with me so she could go to uni - though that wasn't the reason at the time: "I really fancy you, and you're such a good bloke I could trust you in a room full of women." And rightly so. I was well known for my ‘straightness’ and honesty. Unfortunately I couldn't trust her - I just didn't know it yet... Manchester: My house didn't sell for a while and while it didn't leave me in debt with arrears it quickly became obvious that there was no profit heading my way. She started sleeping around, I just didn't know it yet. Whether these two things are related is anybody’s guess. She got pregnant - not by me. Caught out - bit of a tricky one to hide. Told me after her ex had treated her so badly she just needed to feel loved. She decided, without my input, to have an abortion. No sense of feeling for me, sense of shame for her behavior and her attitude to the abortion was that it was just like going to the dentist to have a troublesome tooth removed. Problem was she told all her family it was mine – to the outside world I’d taken her away and got her pregnant - and so a number of people I had very good feelings for were out to give me a hiding - when she visited her mother house at Christmas she got drunk and told the truth to her sister – who promptly told her mother. Me oblivious, keeps on forgiving, making excuses for her bad behaviour based on what shes told me about the way her ex – my ex best mate was treating her – while what I don’t know is the young lady in question is going home to ‘see mum’ on the weekends. In fact she is sleeping around back there – with her ex – one night stands from the pub – in fact the Ann Summers kit I bought for her which she never wore for me even though she helped choose it was probably being seen by many other chaps a lot more than I ever did. Im still oblivious and trusting. We’re planning to get married after her degree – travel the world a bit – and start a family. Or at least that’s what I’m being led on with. ‘I’d love a little girl just like *****’ And then she got a clearing place at Lampeter University... So we moved here. And I paid the rent, the bills, the mortgage and with time the arrears: "Im having trouble getting my student loan through, I'll help out when I get it sorted." The engine in her car died and unable to get to university, I was a good bloke and got the credit card out: "Im having trouble getting my student loan through, but don't worry I'll help out when I get it sorted." The suspension was shot on her car - no hope of passing it’s MOT bouncing around like a ball - new suspension components all round: "Im having trouble getting my student loan through, I'll help out when I get it sorted." Despite asking begging for help with the money – I’m getting the same story over and over until I take out a loan to consolidate the repayments. No surprise that I start to feel a little taken for granted. I planned to get awy for a few days – a break from the unbelieveable stress, pressure, worry and the being treated like dirt. A weekend away with a good but completely platonic female friend. Then a short while later she tries to ban me having my kids to stay. Its easy to figure out why, she's seeing someone else, behind my back from her job at the Dolaucothi mine... goldmine... golddigger - the engagement ring while technically being worth the £1000 I spent on it in more affluent times is totally worthless. I ask why: "You make me feel old, you don't take me out anymore." No shit Sherlock, we have no friends in the area and all my cash is vanishing every month to be replaced by more debt – talk about stress? She cuts me off from the potential friends we’ve started to make, no doubt (or at least in some cases for sure) “telling everyone who would listen how he was hitting her, cheating on her, demanding all her money and taking drugs” – remember this -I did suddenly too, maybe he did hit her; to stop her hitting him, I’m proud that I never allowed myself to go that far but it came close - cheating on her: she was flirting with everyone in town while they were together – demanding all her money = asking her for help with supporting her through her A levels – taking drugs, well yes, no shit the guy was diagnosed with depression (I wonder why) and couldn’t afford the prescription charges. I know some of the same things have been said about me and the pity of it is some of it was believed to be true by people I had got to know and like and care about. I ask how I am supposed to take her out when maintaining the status quo has left me with further debt every month. The guy she is seeing is 20 years older than her - but he does have his own business.... He could afford to take her to bath, this is where we were planning to go when we had a little spare, but ‘we’ did have a little spare – a whole terms worth of student loan was squirreled away, plus the wages from the mine, while the cupboards were empty and the electric was close to being disconnected. And there’s me freefalling into the situation of copping for the debts and mortgage arrears etc. etc..... of course I had to hear how lovely a time they had in great detail... Her plan was to set him up to take her to Rome; she’d always wanted to go to Rome.... And as a parting shot – not in anger but in the cold light of the aftermath: “I ve always resented your kids”. Ah – so it’s all been a blag then. The whole thing suddenly hits me. And it also hits me that during the time we’ve been together I ve done a lot of immoral things to a lot of people, quite innocently because I ve been misled into believing the wrong things. Back in Manchester we lived in a flat. I couldn’t take my dog, he was old and ill, I had a phone call from the girl who was taking care of him, she was in tears – saying I’d have to take him because he was worse and she couldn’t bear to have him put down. I took him away to the vets in Manchester and sorted it out – heartbroken. I later found out that the girl had just discovered that guess who had been involved with her husband – I should have got a second opinion from that vet.... and will forever regret that I didn’t. Then it turns out £2000 has suddenly fallen from the sky and landed in her lap – I wonder where that came from? While I am left owing about £10000. And at the same time it transpires that she’s applying to her University for special hardship payments (those ones designed to help those people struggling eg:single parents who need to pay for child care)– obviously not declaring the £2000 she’s had from me. So between me and the University and the Chinese girl she latched on to; she’s had a lovely holiday to China – it wasn’t Rome, where she’s always wanted to go – nobody to latch on to who’ll take her there. Tried to latch onto a lecturer though, a really old guy, but I suppose it wouldn’t have mattered – a stepping stone is a stepping stone regardless... planning an easy ride through the PhD. Beware gent’s a new meal ticket may soon be needed.... Nice. I’ve made up with my mate – there was a certain amount of ‘told you so’ but it’s nice to know I’m remembered back in the home town for who I am and not what I did – or was misled into doing.... How could I ever trust another woman as long as I live?

Is anyone interested in100 Ways to Save or Make $100 Bucks?Then read on!? 1. Set up an apple cider stand on a crisp fall day. 2. Start a gift-wrapping service at the holidays. 3. Sell items from the attic using an on-line auction service. 4. Wear your winter coat one more season--you've always loved it, anyway! 5. Set up an automatic paycheck withdrawal for $2 per week. 6. Hold a garage sale. 7. Barter with neighbors or friends for needed household services. 8. Babysit for neighbors. 9. Mow lawns. 10. Post a flyer at the grocery store offering to help people move. 11. Start a spring cleaning service. 12.Walk dogs. 13. Offer seamstress and tailoring services. 14. Sew instead of buying clothes or home accessories. 15. Provide a taxi service for elderly neighbors. 16. Bike to work. 17. Car pool. 18. Use public transportation. 19. Park in the less expensive lots and enjoy the exercise you get from walking! 20. Conserve electricity at home and estimate monthly savings. 21. Find a student (kindergarten through college) who needs a tutor. 22. Cut out candy and snacks; donate what you save on these purchases and dental bills! 23. Take outgrown kids' clothes to a consignment shop. 24. Take your duds from the '70s or '80s to a vintage shop-everything old is new again! 25. Camp instead of staying in hotels on vacation. 26. Give up cable television for a few months--or forever! 27. Pet sit for neighbors who are traveling. 28. Make Saturday "Homemade Pasta Night" instead of dining out. 29. Borrow the latest best-sellers from the library instead of buying them. 30. Give up soft drinks for a whole summer. 31. Take a Thermos of fresh-brewed coffee to work instead of stopping for gourmet brew. 32. For your birthday, ask friends and family to make a gift to Mennonite Board of Missions, Commission on Overseas Mission, Commision on Home Ministries or Ministries Commission, Mennonite Church Canada in your name. 33. Give up your gym membership for the summer and exercise in the fresh air and sunshine. 34. Use coupons when shopping, and donate the savings. 35. Shop at yard sales and thrift stores--you never know when you'll find a hidden treasure. 36. For large household purchases, look for bargains on-line. 37. Pay off credit card debt so no interest collects. 38. Don't let water run while brushing teeth and turn out lights when you leave a room. 39. Offer your services as an office temp or substitute teacher. 40. Design Web sites for local families and businesses. 41. Buy cost-cutter brands for staples and household supplies. 42. Email friends and family instead of calling. 43. Make your own gift cards for holidays and birthdays. 44. Wear more "hand-me-downs" instead of buying new clothes. 45. Buy clothes that mix-and-match for each season. 46. Start flowers from seeds instead of buying seedlings. 47. Put on a family or neighborhood talent show and charge admission. 48. Use vinegar and water for a general household cleaning solution and save on expensive products. 49. Collect cans. 50. Study your health insurance policy and discover ways to avoid health care costs. 51. Plant a larger garden and sell vegetables at a roadside stand. 52. Instead of taking friends or clients out to dinner, send a donation in their name. 53. Donate your holiday club account and give homemade gifts this year. 54. Instead of buying a new CD every week, trade with your friends. 55. Scale back your vacation this year, or choose a service project instead. 56. Wait another six months for any major household purchase. 57. Postpone an upgrade to a software application you use. 58. Make a choice: Chocolate or coffee. Movies or eating out. Experience the one you choose more fully and donate your savings. 59. Buy a live plant instead of fresh flowers to decorate your table. 60. Love your looks--give up hair color, permanents, and other things that detract from your natural beauty. 61. Learn calligraphy and make money addressing invitations and lettering announcements. 62. For special family nights, plan on a video and pizza at home instead of dinner and a movie out. 63. Take the kids to the grocery store with you instead of hiring a babysitter. 64. Restrict your use of the cellular phone to emergencies only. 65. Choose eyeglasses with a sun clip instead of buying prescription sunglasses. 66. Wait for summer clothes to go on sale. 67. Be creative with leftovers--use them for work lunches. 68. Find loose change and save it in a coffee can for a year. 69. Bathe the dog yourself and save the groomer's costs. 70. Do your own house painting this spring instead of hiring a professional. 71. Play tennis on the public courts and save fees. 72. Give up golf for a few weekends and hike in a state park instead. 73. Rake lawns in your neighborhood in the fall. 74. Donate your expense checks from work-related travel. 75. Hold a bake sale. 76. Have friends over for parlor games instead of going out to the theater or a concert. 77. Shovel snow for money. 78. Organize a neighborhood car wash. 79. Sell lemonade on a hot summer day. 80. Take used sporting equipment to resale shops. 81. Buy a frozen pizza and cook it instead of ordering one from a pizza place. 82. Assign a dollar amount to each book or page a family member reads, then donate family earnings. 83. When you order fast food, don't supersize it! Ask for water instead of a soft drink. 84. Get rid of your lawn service and donate savings. 85. Start a babysitting coop with people from your church or neighborhood, and donate the money you save on sitters. 86. Dust off that bread machine and treat yourself to homebaked bread for pennies. 87. Offer a matching gift to family members who contribute to Mennonite Board of Missions, Commission on Overseas Missions, Commission on Home Ministries or Ministries Commission, Mennonite Church Canada. 88. Check to see if your public health department offers low-cost vaccines. 89. Plan several vegetarian meals each week. 90. Sell your famous preserves or fruitcake to friends looking for holiday gifts. 91. Buy next year's holiday supplies at day-after sales. 92. Learn how to change the oil in your car. 93. Skip purchasing season football tickets and have friends over to watch the game on TV. 94. Get rid of phone service add-ons--call waiting can wait! 95. Set the thermostat at 65 and snuggle under a blanket. 96. Only go to matinee showings of movies. 97. Choose the cheap seats for concerts and sporting events. 98. Start a resume or word-processing service. 99. Find a housemate. 100. Organize a cycling or running event with people donating a specific amount per mile covered.

20 ways to confuse Santa? Instead of milk and cookies, leave him a salad, and a note explaining that you think he could stand to lose a few pounds. While he's in the house, go find his sleigh and write him a speeding ticket. Leave him a note, explaining that you've gone away for the holidays. Ask if he would mind watering your plants. While he's in the house, replace all his reindeer with exact replicas. Then wait and see what happens when he tries to get them to fly. Keep an angry bull in your living room. If you think a bull goes crazy when he sees a little red cape, wait until he sees that big, red Santa suit! Build an army of mean-looking snowmen on the roof, holding signs that say "We hate Christmas," and "Go away Santa" Leave a note by the telephone, telling Santa that Mrs. Claus called and wanted to remind him to pick up some milk and a loaf of bread on his way home. Throw a surprise party for Santa when he comes down the chimney. Refuse to let him leave until the strippers arrive. While he's in the house, find the sleigh and sit in it. As soon as he comes back and sees you, tell him that he shouldn't have missed that last payment, and take off. Leave a plate filled with cookies and a glass of milk out, with a note that says, "For The Tooth Fairy." Leave another plate out with half a stale cookie and a few drops of skim milk in a dirty glass with a note that says, "For Santa" Take everything out of your house as if it's just been robbed. When Santa arrives, show up dressed like a policeman and say, "Well, well. They always return to the scene of the crime." Leave out a copy of your Christmas list with last-minute changes and corrections. While he's in the house, cover the top of the chimney with barbed wire. Leave lots of hunting trophies and guns out where Santa's sure to see them. Go outside, yell, "Ooh! Look! A deer! And he's got a red nose!" and fire a gun. Leave Santa a note, explaining that you've moved. Include a map with unclear and hard-to-read directions to your new house. Set a bear trap at the bottom of the chimney. Wait for Santa to get caught in it, and then explain that you're sorry, but from a distance, he looked like a bear. Leave out a Santa suit, with a dry-cleaning bill. Paint "hoof-prints" all over your face and clothes. While he's in the house, go out on the roof. When he comes back up, act like you've been "trampled." Threaten to sue. Instead of ornaments, decorate your tree with Easter eggs. Dress up like the Easter Bunny. Wait for Santa to

Pranks to play on Santa? 1. Instead of milk and cookies, leave him a salad, and a note explaining that you think he could stand to lose a few pounds. 2. While he's in the house, go find his sleigh and write him a speeding ticket. 3. Leave him a note, explaining that you've gone away for the holidays. Ask if he would mind watering your plants. 4. While he's in the house, replace all his reindeer with exact replicas. Then wait and see what happens when he tries to get them to fly. 5. Keep an angry bull in your living room. If you think a bull goes crazy when he sees a little red cape, wait until he sees that big, red Santa suit! 6. Build an army of mean-looking snowmen on the roof, holding signs that say "We hate Christmas," and "Go away Santa." 7. Leave a note by the telephone, telling Santa that Mrs. Clauscalled and wanted to remind him to pick up some milk and a loaf of bread on his way home.

What should I choose to do on my birthday? My Birthday is on a Friday next month, & I dont like giving my age out but I am only in my teens. Should I: Do something with my friends on the day of my birthday like mall, shopping, bowling, dinner etc & then the next day on Saturday do something with the family like a dinner at my house or so. Or should I: Try and go to the NeYo, Mary J Blige, R Kelly, & J Holiday world tour at the Staples Center on my Bday. [Neyo is one of my fave. artist] But I have noooo clue if I have to pay for tickets since I've never been to a concert tour before. Then on the next day I'll have a family dinner. Orrrr Should I: Watch the new movie coming out on my birthday called "I am Legend" starring Will Smith with my friends at night. Mhmm Thanks everyone :] Take Care. If you have any more ideas you can tell me. thankssss!

Anybody with time to read this please read it!!!!!? I have been working on this on and off since Christmas last year. Will anbody read it and tell me what it needs and I haven't finished yet either about a couple more sentnces THE CHRISTMAS MYTH My name is Alexandria, my friends call me Alex for short, but I'm trying to solve this problem. My parents said Santa was real but my friend, Nicole, her parents said Santa was just a myth to make kids be good before the holiday, Christmas. Well me, myself, I think Santa is real, but what I want to find out if he is real or not. I've wanted to find out for years to see if he is a real myth or not. But for right now I have to go to bed. That night I had a dream, my friend, Nicole, and I were flying to the North Pole. When the plane landed we got off and we searched for the North Pole. We walked for hours searching for it, but we finally found it. We looked for buttons on it, but all we found was a piece of paper. On That piece of paper were directions. As soon as I was going to read it my alarm clock went off. I jumped up out of bed and went to get dressed. All day in school I keep thinking of what that note said. During all of my classes, I would set in the back to try to go to sleep, but the teachers would switch a person in the front seat and put me in the front and them in the back. When I got home I was more sleepy than I was when I tried to go to sleep in school. My parents weren't home so I didn't have to do any chores. I laid down to take a nap. I dozed off and my dream went right back to where it left of this morning. I was reading the directions and it said, "Alex, go to your mom and dad's room, and in their bathroom, there will be a clue in the tub and, another clue!" After I read the directions, Santa appeared and he said, "Alexandria, you will find your answer to your question. When I was a boy, I found my answer, and so will you...Alex...so will you." After Santa disappeared I jumped and fell off the couch, trying to catch my breath. After I caught my breath I jumped up and dashed off toward my parents bedroom. I nearly fell trying to turn into my parents bedroom, but right in the middle of the tub there was the note. There was also an airplane. The directions said, "The airplane stands for you to fly to the north pole, get your friend Nicole to go with you and tell your parents you will be fine, your next directions will be waiting on you at the north pole! P.S. bring scissors and coats, Good Luck" When I finished reading the note, I turned around and in the doorway was my parents. They ask me where I got the airplane and what was the note for. I told them I was on a strange, but it will be helpful, mission. I also told them I have to go to the North Pole. By now my parents were looking at me very strangely. They ask me why it involved the North Pole. I said, "because....because....because o-of S-S-Santa Clause." They said, "HHUUHH!" they looked pretty confused. Well I had to tell them the truth cause if I didn't Santa, if he is real, would give me a lump of coal and I didn't want that. My parents thought about it for a day. Then that day turned into a week and then a month. Well after a month and a half they said I could go, only if I took Nicole. Well it worked, and all I have to do is get her parents to say yes. Well after they said yes I ran straight to Nicole’s house. When I made it to her house and told her the news about Santa and everything, she was in total shock, but good, happy shock. After she was un-shocked by the news we went downstairs to where her parents were I told her parents everything that has happened and where I need to go. Her parents thought it over like for 20 minutes and finally agreed. Nicole and I have 1 week to get ready and leave. My mom went to get us tickets for the plane today so we are going to start packing tomorrow. Well me and Nicole have packed we are heading to the airport now. When we get to the airport we go to the airplane that we are supposed to fly on. We finally reach the airplane and get on Nicole takes out her IPod to listen to it. I start to get mine out but then doubts about the whole trip. I tapped Nicole on the shoulder to ask her something. She turned her head and took her earphones out to listen. I said, “Do you think all that stuff that happened to me was just a joke?” Nicole replied, “ No! I mean, come on, the plane in the bathtub, the dreams that went on about Santa, and sure, of course I said he was make belief doesn’t mean I am right, does it?” I answered, “No, I guess not then, but what if I am just making myself dream those dreams?” Nicole stated, “How in the world would you do that?” I paused to think about it and said, “I guess your right.” Nicole interrupted, “You guess or you know?” That’s when it hit me......she was right do I know or do I guess. I replied, “I really don’t know.” That put a smile on both of our faces, then it turned into a giggle and then a huge laugh! After about five minutes or until our faces turned from bright red to our normal skin tones we both put our head phones in our ears and fell asleep. When I woke up the flight attendant was hovering right over my face, and boy did she have s-t-i-n-k-y breath, she was telling us that our designated place to land will be coming up in a few minutes. After the flight attendant left I woke Nicole up and turned off my IPod and gathered some of my stuff up. When our plane landed we grabbed our bags and got off the plane. When we got off we went to our hotel, The McGlothans Hotel and Luxury. We went in and checked ourselves in; our room was the 6th floor, room number 407. When we got to our room, we changed clothes and put on warm clothes like: undergarments, sweatshirts, sweat pants, two layers of everything. After that Nicole and I left to the North, it is in Antarctica where we are. Now we have been walking for two hours in the cold. Nicole stops and says, “Do you know where we are, or even going?” I replied, “Yes well, possibly not really.” Nicole gave me a funny look. “Ok, ok, I don’t know where we are or where we are going,” I said. After that we trudged on for at least ten minutes until I saw something poke up on the other side of the mountain. It was like a white, red, and blue ball coming up. Then all of a sudden the ground under all of us

Feeling Pinch, Stores Woo Lagging Shoppers. Evaluate Article? Lackluster sales in this holiday season have retailers scrambling to wring a few last dollars from procrastinators by slashing prices, extending hours and wooing customers more persistently than last year. The moves show that retailers' strategy during this final weekend before Christmas -- when about 10% of holiday sales are expected to take place -- has become increasingly reliant on the same promotions and marathon hours once unique to the "Black Friday" weekend following Thanksgiving. But the discounts also reveal the pinch stores are in this year as the credit crunch, rising gas prices and winter storms have taken a toll on companies dependent on end-of-year sales. The tough economy has left aisles more empty this year. Total foot traffic at U.S. retail outlets took an 8.9% dive during the second full week of December, compared with the same period last year, according to an estimate from ShopperTrak RCT Corp., which bases its numbers on a formula that involves an electronic count of shoppers in malls and other retail outlets nationwide. A bright spot, however, has been online, where aggressive discounting and cut-rate deals on fast shipping have contributed to a surge in spending. From Nov. 1 to Dec. 16, online shoppers spent $23.5 billion, 19% higher than the corresponding days last year, according to comScore Inc., a Reston, Va., market research firm that tracks Web spending and traffic. Videogames, consoles and accessories are the fastest-growing category, more than doubling from the comparable period last year. Furniture, appliances and equipment ranks second, up 63%, while event tickets and consumer electronics are up 29% and 24%, respectively. Now, a final push is on, both online and in stores. Web retailers continued to hunt for business by cutting shipping charges to seal deals before the pre-Christmas shipping window closes. Shoebuy.com, a Boston-based unit of IAC/InterActive Corp. offered free express shipping until today. Online handbag merchant eBags upgraded purchases made by Wednesday from standard shipping to two-day air-shipping through UPS for no extra cost. Brick-and-mortar stores, meanwhile, retooled their hours for the weekend, hoping to spark their own shopping flurry. J.C. Penney Co. stores are staying open until midnight tonight and Saturday. Select Macy's Inc. stores on the East Coast will stay open nonstop throughout the weekend -- 107 hours straight for one branch in Queens. And New York-based FAO Schwarz made discounts of 25% to 50% on certain toys. Ed Schmults, the chief executive officer at FAO Schwarz, said that while foot traffic was up, business had not been as booming throughout the season as he hoped. The National Retail Federation, a trade group, is predicting just 4% in sales growth for 2007, the smallest growth rate in five years. Britt Beemer, chairman of America's Research Group, paints an even grimmer picture: He lowered his forecast of 2% retail sales growth to 1.8%, his lowest forecast in nearly 10 years. In the apparel category, men's clothing has showed modest single-digit growth through the first 20 days of the shopping season, according to MasterCard Spending Pulse, a unit of MasterCard Advisors, which tracks spending of all types. But women's apparel -- which last year constituted three times the sales of men's -- has been a major disappointment, as shoppers have avoided big purchases. Sales were down 5.7% from the same time last year. Retailers have responded with a flurry of price cuts, but large inventory remains in some stores. One of Gap Inc.'s Old Navy stores in downtown Chicago on Wednesday had piles of festive sweaters marked down to $20 from $36.50. Women's coats still stuffed the racks, despite being already marked down 50%, and its signature "performance fleece," also half off, was stacked eight shelves high. The bad tidings for apparel have left some retailers looking for other items to push. At Banana Republic, also owned by Gap, $64 gift sets of its perfumes, body creams and shower creams were marked down 30%. Gold-boxed gift sets of a new line of bath products at Ann Taylor Stores Corp. stores were discounted to $19.50 from $29. At Limited Brands Inc.'s Victoria's Secret, stores were piled with beauty gift sets, many 40% off. Meanwhile luxury goods are expected to have a good season this year, and retail consultant Frederick Crawford of AlixPartners predicts "pockets of good news" for high-end retail. For brands like Prada and Gucci, he expects to see 5% to 7% growth. According to retail surveys, electronics sales were down 0.5% in the three-week period between Nov. 18 and Dec. 9 compared to a year ago, according to Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis for market watcher NPD Group. He said consumers in recent years have been delaying purchases until closer to Christmas, which may account for the slowdown. Indeed, Angela Smith has waited until the last week to make her purchases. A 39-year-old bank employee in Dallas, Ms. Smith said she is waiting for prices to drop further as well as trying to spend less. For her three nephews, ages 12, 8 and 7, she plans to buy remote-controlled cars, which Wal-Mart Stores Inc. initially priced at $59 and has since dropped to $49. "I am going to swing by this weekend and see if they are going to take it down one more time," says Ms. Smith, who was shopping for a co-worker's present at her local Wal-Mart midweek. Home-furnishings retailers, fighting the weak housing market, are being particularly aggressive with their promotions this year. At Williams-Sonoma Inc.'s Pottery Barn store on Chicago's Michigan Avenue, Christmas-tree-shaped candles were discounted 50%, and holiday garlands of fake evergreen branches were 30% off. Wrapped gifts such as silver jewelry boxes, also marked down 30%, were stacked high Wednesday afternoon. Home-improvement outfits like Lowe's Cos. Inc. and Home Depot Inc. are destined to be hardest hit, says AlixPartners' Mr. Crawford. "Consumers are absolutely showing us that they will be delaying discretionary purchases" like gear to remodel a kitchen, he said. A boom-bust pattern is typical after Thanksgiving's Black Friday discounts, which encourages a flurry of purchases early but leads to a tapering off in early December, killing shopping momentum. This year the pattern was more pronounced: A double-digit sales surge on Black Friday exceeded retailers' expectations; but come December, throngs of shoppers didn't return. There was one exception, however: online retail. Web merchants have discounted and promoted heavily this season, say industry analysts. Shipping promotions have been particularly popular. Sixty-eight percent of surveyed Web retailers said they are offering express shipping promotions this year, up from 49% last year, according to Scott Silverman, executive director of Shop.org, an online retail trade group and unit of National Retail Federation. As the boom continues, these companies are becoming increasingly creative to draw customers. This year Ice.com, a Montreal-based Internet jeweler, has rolled out new videos to promote products and free overnight shipping. It has experimented with new marketing tricks such as buying front-page ads on Microsoft Corp.'s MSN and Yahoo Inc.'s Web sites this week. Ice.com even tried to tap influencers to drive word-of-mouth among blogs, magazine mentions and celebrities.