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My name is Laura and I'm 28 years old. I live in Illinois and work as a licensed veterinary technician. I am a runner, bookworm and obviously, an animal lover.I've been on this site since '05. I take hiatuses, but I'm never gone for good. I enjoy giving advice and I've made such lovely friends on this site that I couldn't imagine giving it up!
chat it up yo.
ps. here's my bestestestest friend.
I love him. You will too :)
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I want to start running, but I have a few question.
How long for?
How many times a week?
What kind of shoes?
Any other tips, etc would be great :)
Thanks for asking to my inbox =]
Anyways...
1. I think that running for about an hour to 2 hours is good. Make sure to start with a 10 minute warm up and about a 15 minute cool down.
2. Three times a week is plenty.
3. This depends. You didn't specify if you needed shoes for actual cross country running, or just training. If you just need them for training/recreational running, then just make sure they fit well and are comfortable on your feet. I really like my Adidas shoes. They're amazing for just recreational running. They have soemthing called a 'torsion system' and I'd reccomend that kind. Otherwise, Nike, Reebok, or any other sports brands have a great variety of shoes to choose from.
If you're doing actual cross country, you need shoes with little spikes on the bottom. Nike has some great ones.
4. Hmm any other tips,
- STRETCH. There's nothing worse than a pulled muscle or injury on your leg from lack of stretching. Make sure to stretch the back of your calves really well.
- Warm up & Cool down. It's really important.
- If you're just getting into running, I'f suggest starting by just jogging half a mile and gradually increasing.
Good Luck! =]
Hey does anybody here know a really good quotes website (msn quotes). I searched on google, but i keep getting the same ones over and over again.
Thank youu
BTW, quotes for teens!
http://groups.xanga.com/groups/group.aspx?id=2137392
Take your pick.
There are over 8500 =]
Okay , me and my boyfriend love eachother sooo much and we're totally commited.Problem is , my parents are spliting up and I have to move to Newfoundland [I live in Ontario now] and we're going to try to stay together.I will be coming to Ontario 1-3 times a year and I'll see him everytime.Okay so also , I'm 13 and he's gonna be 15 in January.He's not a virgin [he did it 1 time that's it] and I am a virgin but I am thinking about doing something like that...please if you're going to lecture me give me an answer to.I want to give him something soo sentimental , but I don't have anymoney.AND if I am going to give him my viginity then it will be cuz I was thinking about it anyways , not just cuz I'm leaving !! THANKSS IN ADVANCE !!!!!!
13/female
I would not give him your virginity.
Make him something instead. Because you're only 13 and you've got your entire life ahead of you =]
Home made gifts are always sentimental.
- Make him a scrapbook with pictures and details of your relationship.
- Make him a mix cd of love songs (I could give you a ton if you decide to do this).
- Make him a little book of coupons. Like "2 free hugs". Kinda cheesy, but cute.
- Make him a book, filled with words that you feel describe him. I read this on a website, and the guy loved it.
Or, the night before you leave. Do something really nice & special.
- Go out to dinner, then come home and watch a romantic movie.
- Lay out and look at the stars.
- Go to your favorite place, or the place you first went on a date/met.
I hope this helps & let me know if you need more help =]
I'm making a CD for my boyfriend before I go to college. What are some good missing you songs, i love you songs, and leaving (going off to college) songs? Thanks!
A Thousand Miles- Vanessa Carlton.
Alive With The Glory of Love- Say Anything.
Baby, It's Fact- Hellogoodbye.
The Best in Me- Sherwood.
Brighter Than Sunshine- Aqualung.
Collide- Howie Day.
Don't Forget To Remember Me- Carrie Underwood.
Driving Away- Holiday Parade.
Far Away- Nickelback.
Here in Your Arms- Hellogoodbye.
Hey There Delilah- Plain White T's.
Keep Holding On- Avril Lavigne.
My Beautiful Rescue- This Providence.
Never Stop- Hilary Duff.
On The Ride- Aly & Aj.
Safe And Sound In Phone Lines- A Change of Pace.
Simple, Starving To Be Safe- Daphne Loves Derby.
She Will Be Loved- Maroon 5.
Stay With You- Goo Goo Dolls.
Stolen- Dashboard Confessional.
Such Great Heights- The Postal Service.
Thunder- Boys Like Girls.
What Sarah Said- Death Cab For Cutie.
Wherever You Will Go- The Calling.
Wonderwall- Oasis.
Your Guardian Angel- The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.
please help-
my weight was 124 (5'3, 14 yrs old) in the begining of the year. by april i got to 115 with healthy eating and running/exercising. then it was 110 in june for my physical. now my scale shows me between 100-105 though my scale is off a little. i don't feel like i do, but my friend who was annorexic and knows alot about it tells me she thinks i have an eating disorder. alot of people tell me im skinny and look real thin. my friends mom tells me i need to eat im getting to thin, and a few other people too. i dont think i do really. i eat good in my opinion. i eat portion sizes, like with my cereal and meats and stuff. i eat alot of fruits and veggies. i haven't had a candy bar in months, and on speical occasions i have cake for parties, or desserts but never over my limit. i do exercise.. cheerleading, bike riding alot, running sometimes, i exercise with crunches in my room all the time. when i wake up and push my stomach out it doesn't even go very far. but still i haven't had my period since the begining of april and it was really light for like 3 days. i get really dizy when i get up from laying down (my mom says i might need more iron). i dont know if i have manutrition because i do eat alot of good food. i still want to be thinner sorta, but mainly i just have this biggest fear of gaining weight. i have a weird issue with looking at every food (wheather at parties, houses, my kitchen, stores) and seeing the labels and deciding what i can and can't have. i dont know if i should tell my mom to take me to the doctor or not, i dont know how to tell her. also at times i have zero energy like im so tired i can't move around or whatever. im not sure. someone please help.. anything is appericated.
First off, the weight you're at now is underweight. You need to get back to the 124 range, because that's the perfect range for your weight. It's ok to be a little underweight, I myself am, but don't take it to extremes as you seem to be doing.
The reason you don't have your period is because of your weight loss. Your period requires energy, which your body is using for other various activites. You need to start eating more.
And the reason you're feeling tired, weak, or dizzy is most likely that you are lacking iron.
This happens to me a lot, and my mom (a nurse) took me to get tested for anemia.
This is when you do not get enough vitamens/nutrition. This could also be the problem.
Have a family member take you to the doctor and explain your symptoms to them. Also, tell them you've been losing a bit of weight. They'll decide what to test you for and hopefully, tell you what you can do to become a bit healthier.
Also, if it's hard for you to eat without looking at labels and deciding what you "can" and "can't" have, talk to somebody. This can become a big problem for you and your health. Tell this to your doctor as well, and hopefully (again) you can get the help you need.
Good Luck & I really hope this helps!
15/f
I get bad period symptoms.... well I think they're bad anyway. I'm pretty sure they'd be classified as bad symptoms too.
i'vw talked to my mom about it a little, but i dont want to talk to my doctor because im pretty sure that if i did, it'd end up being something really serious and i dont want to deal with that.
i heard that birth control pills can make ur period go away.
is that true? because thats the answer ive been looking for.
if i dont have a period, then i wont have these problematic syptoms. ok....
so my mom says that you can be permanently infertile by taking birth control pills, but ever since i was little, i NEVER wanted to have biological children.
so i wouldnt care if i was infertile. whatever.
i dont need birth control pills for actual birth control, cause im a virgin and im waiting for marriage,
but i want to know
do birth control pills stop ur period?
are there any risks?
and if the risks are low and it does stop periods, is there any way i can convince my mom to let me take them?
help me!!!!!!!!
While I personally do not take birth control, I have a few friends who do. It gets rid of your symptoms, or just make them a lot less bothersome. It calms cramps, fatigue, etc from what I've been told.
There are some types you can take that don't actually stop your period, but they can make it come only a few times a year. I'm sure you've seen the commercials on T.V.
There are risks, but it depends on which type of birth control you want to use.
I would reccomend talking to your doctor and mother about it (at the same time).
This way, you can both have all of your questions answered and your worries cleared.
I've never heard that you can become infertile from birth control, but I am not a doctor.
Good Luck!
hey, you really seem to have a handle on this so i thought i'd ask you. do you know when and where the clique auditions are going to be? i need an answer. i'm dying of anxiousness. claire is practically my twin and i'm dying here. plz help.
They aren't making a Clique movie. Sorry!
It says, in the back of "It's Not Easy Being Mean" in the interview with Lisi Harrison.
But they're trying to make it happen =]
ok well i really want my boyfriend over but he said he is scard to my family! i was like what the heck. but then i let it go. so then couple weeks later he asked if i could come over his house and i said yea but why cant he come over my house! Not me going over his house all the time!What should i do!!!
Thanks for asking to my inbox =]
Well, go over to his house. He probably wants to see how his parents interact with you first, which could provide signs of how your parents might react to having him around.
After you go over to his house and whatnot, try to ask him if he'd come to your house. Tell him it's only fair, and you want him to meet your parents since you met his. Make sure you clear this with your parents in advance though. And do something fun, like play a board game =]
hey. yeah, i tried scrunching it, with like that pantenee gel stuff, do you know of anything that works better, or anything else i could use?
Well first, I get my hair damp, not dripping wet, just damp. Then, I use Hold It! gel. It's in a dark blue tube with a yellow cap and it holds really well. After it dries completely, spray it lightly with some hair spray. Good Luck! =]
do you know any websites where you can take a test and it'll give you careers you might like?
thanks :D
We used some of these in school, but the only ones I can remember are:
http://www.similarminds.com/career.html
and
http://quiz.ivillage.co.uk/uk_work/tests/career.htm
can i get the season premier on demand on comcast?
No but you can download it for free on iTunes.
15/f
ok, does anyone know anything that will make my hair wavy or how to make it wavy. not curly. WAVY.
??
Have you tried scrunching it?
If you haven't and want to try, you can post in my inbox and I'll try to help you out =]
If you've tried that, let me know and I'll edit my answer.
I have a 5-year old Yellow Lab, and I was wondering if I gave her a bath, would it be okay just to use "people" shampoo? We don't have any dog shampoo in the house, & my dad is too cheap to go out and buy any.
Would she be okay?
It wouldn't be good. They make dog shampoo for a reason. People shampoo will irritate their skin. Just wait until you can get dog shampoo rather than rush and use people shampoo =]
Okay I have been crushing on my best friend for 7 years and I finally told her about it. She said she was shocked but she not sure what gender she is into yet and she not ready for a relationship. She said she feels fine about it and she respect me of who I am. We still hang out all the time with our friends and last night I was chatting with her online and I told her that I went to my sister’s house for a party and she said her roommate Jackie was trying to hook me up with her brother. I meet him and we hang out at the party and talk and played pool. That was it. And when I told my friend Jane (my crush) about it Jane reply "I don’t know if I should be happy for you or pissed off" and I reply "what?" Jane replies "what you means what?"
I didn’t think of it much and I changed the subject and she was pissed off at me the whole night she said she had to go and that was it. I said sorry to her the next day and she said oh I am sorry that I sounded pissed.
Was she jealous?
What do I do?
(I am bi)
She might've been jealous because you told her you were interested in her first. It might've caught her off guard, because she probably was trying to sort out her feelings for you when you told her about another possible relationship.
I'd talk to her, and apologize. But tell her she told you she wasn't sure, and you didn't want to wait. Tell her you ahd to explore other options, becasue you didn't know how she felt.
Ask her to decide if she wants a relationship with you or not. Otherwise, tell her you might move on to the brother you played pool with, becasue you can't wait forever and you never know where this relationship may take you. Good Luck!
I am really off on clothes. Likes I don't know what in style and stuff. I don't want to look preppy basically because I'm not popular and never want to be but thats besides the point. I'm in 8th grade and do you know any good store that sells cute clothes and are not like super expensive?
Forever 21, Charlotte Russe, American Eagle, Pac Sun, Hot Topic, Old Navy, Target, Kohl's, Rave.
Is "A Walk To Remember" a true story? Someone told me once that it happened to the lead singer of the band Switchfoot, Jon Foreman.
No, it's not based on Jon Foreman. His band just sang the song in it. It's based on the book by Nicholas Sparks. Though they changed a few details to make it more of a teen romance movie.
on aim, i sent someone two messages in a row. i sent the first one, then waited about a minute and sent the next one. i got this message,
ATTENTION (8:42:28 PM):You are about to be rate limited. Please wait a few seconds before sending, to avoid being rate limited.
ATTENTION (8:42:36 PM):You are no longer rate limited, and you may now send messages.
what does this mean? i have never gotten this before.
thanks!
You're sending too many messages too quickly. My friend & I do this all the time. We have "smiley wars" lol. We send too many =] 's and then we get rate limited. Just slow down with the message sending and you should be fine.
Can anyone please tell me what songs are the most popular or the best by from first to last? Have any been on the radio which I would have heard?
thanks
My friend loves that band. The song by them that I've actually heard a lot is "Note To Self".
A few other poular songs they have out now are "Emily", "Kiss Me, I'm Contagious", and "Secrets Don't Make Friends."
But my personal favorite song of theirs is "The Latest Plague" =]
do you think I should get my lip pierced, heres what I look like with a fake one in.
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=638mbeh
I tried answering this earlier, but it didn't work. Hopefully, this time it does.
I think you'd look better without one.
Get something else pierced instead.
Belly button maybe? =]
I took your advice and i asked a guy out. on the 2nd date we kinnda kissed like peckish like. it was short and weird. When i looked up from the kiss the guy was blushing and got kinda freaked. he ran away. I called him and asked what was up and he said that he'd tell me on our next date. well when he came he said he had a "boner" and was embarrased. So i said it was ok and after the date we kissed in his car. well maybe more like make-out. then he dropped me off at home. That was last week and he hasn't called me back! i see him places and he says "hi" but otherwide disregaruds me.
*Is he just scared again or is he trying to tell me we are over? I don't thnk i did anything wrong! whats up???
I'd call him. He seems really shy, and like said below, nervous. He might think you didn't want to kiss him or something. And now maybe he's embaressed that you don't like him, or maybe he thinks he shouldn't have kissed you?
Call him and be really nice, ask him how he's been. Tell him you had a great time when you went out and ask if he'd like to do it again.
But explain to him you noticed he seemed kind of nervous last time, and that he shouldn't be because you like him. Tell him not to be afraid to call you back, because you want him too.
But before going out again, make sure he's comfortable with it. Let him pick the place, so it's somewhere he wants to be (hopefully) with someone who wants to be there with him. Good Luck!