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Q: Ive got a really bad obsession with the drink coca cola! and its not good for you to drink it everday of the week. Anyone give me advice on how to stop drinking so much coke?!?

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Drink Diet coke. Or caffeine free Diet Coke. Its better for you and you'll still be drinking coke. You sorta gotta get used to the taste tho.

Q: Today is Cinco de Mayo (sp?) and my mom wants to make something Mexician (as a side dish) with salasa. We don't have any tortilla chips, currently. We have shredded cheese and sour cream, which we were planning to use with it. So do you guys have any ideas on what to make? Thanks.

Well if you have little wraps you can melt the cheese on it and have a chesse quesedilla. Then you can cut some lettuce and sour cream on top. Yum!

I don't knopw if you have wraps tho.

Q:
where are places to get awesome and comfortable hoodies?

Pac Sun, Aeropostale, American Eagle, Abercrombie, and well, pretty much anywhere!!! Comfy hoodies are lurking around wherever you look!!!!

Q: My best friend has a really bad headlice problem. At school you can see them all in her hair! and the problem is i dont like hugging her because i feel shes going to pass them onto me. What can i do please help?? Shes had them for ages since ive known her mabe even before that.
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Well she proably knows why you wont hug her. Just be friendly but still keep your distance. You might want to ask her to get them looked at because well, i dont know a whole lot about lice, but that seems like a long time to have lice ( depending how long u've known her). JUst, don't hug her cuz she WILL pass them on!!!

Q: In about 2 weeks I am going to a weeding with my boyfriend. I am wearing a black cute dress and pink heels and a pink choke necklace and a pink purse. I want to wear my hair cute though. I was just goin got wear it half up and half down and curl it and put little so called "Wisskers"in the front and wear some makeup and cute hoop earings.
Does this sound okay today girls?
And guys is this nice? or too weird?
My boyfriend is going to be in the weeding so he will be wearing a suit and bowtie so this isnt dressed up too fancy.
My boyfriends 15/m
I am a 13/f

--Thx--

INstead of the hoops I'd wear dangling ones tho. I dunno, it'd just go good with the occasion. Otherwise...sounds great!!

Q: I really want to move and so my parents are thinking about moving to Arizona - Im kind of bummed about going THERE, does anyone live there or been there? Is it like totally DESERT? do people have southern accents or what? Tell me EVERYTHING PLEASE PLEASE PLEASe!! ill rate u a 5 && feedback, anything lol! I need to knoww any/everything. Im going there sophmore year maybe sooo ..?? help! ANy other good suggestions of places to move to??

It's not completely desert. I don't think people have southern accents cuz i went there and they talked normal. Its a cool place. I think ur lucky to live there. Excpet it gets really hot in the summer.

Q: Yesterday my friend pierced my ears. I was wondering how long I have to leave them in before I can change them? Thanks!

about 6-8 weeks should be fine. Make sure to clean them every day with alchohol and turn them three times a day!

Q: ok, i was just looking at my fingernails and i noticed on a few i have white spots.I seem to always have them.What are they?Is there any way to prevent them?

I get those. I think it means you arent getting enough protein or vitamins.

Q: i cant stop bitting my nails and my mom wont let me get acurlic is there anthing that will make them grow ffaster or make me stop bitting thx bunches!

WEll, i know to stop my dog from chewing stuff we sprayed everything with this nasty spray. We sprayed our shoes too! Well we touched our shoes alot to put them on and whenever we licked our fingers we were like "GROSS" it tasted horrible!!! So try that on your fingers lol. It sure got us to stop licking our fingers.

by the way, the stuff we got didnt smell bad or anything.

Q: My hair is extremely long and straight, and I recently took four inches off of it so the tips reach around the middle of my back. I'm a dancer, so I can't go too short, but I want to make it seem shorter by making it wavy. I heard curling irons can be damaging to hair. Is there another way to get my hair into waves?

Use scrunching sprays. John Frieda has really good stuff that takes no time to do. You just put the stuff on and scrunch scrunch scrunch. THen you let it dry or blow dry it and your hair is curly! You have to shower before you use it though.

Q: lets call the kids jack and jill.

so ive been babysitting jack and jill every other weekend. jill is really good and sweet but jack is not. now there mom wants me to watch them everyday in the summer. and i dont want to! im only 14 i have a life! but their mom is really pushy and in your face.

what should i do?

Well if you have caller ID this is what i'd do:

Tell your mom to pick up the phone every time you see their number. Have your mom say that you can't babysit because you're young and you have a life. They'll listen to your mom. Give the lady names of people that would be interested so she wont be sitterless.

Something like that

Q: What are Shingles?

Shingles are like tiles that you put on your roof. I think they like protect your roof from water damage. I don't know what they do really.

Q: ok i went to walmart ok.. well i went for blank CD's but i picked up DVD-r CD's instead!! is there anyway possible to burn music on a DVD disk?

NO. I made the same mistake as you. It takes some time to get used to the markings and stuff. U need to get CD-Rs.

Q: I just got my period again today (not the first time) But I have a wicked bad cramp. Like I came home from school because it was way too unbearable. Any ways on how to make it less painful other than take advil or w/e cuz i already did.

Exercising helps and if you put a warm water bottle on your abdomin that helps too.

Q: Well for the past year and a half or so, we've been working on re-decorating my bedroom. Right now I have one of my bedroom walls a hot pink colour and the rest are white. I wanted to accent my room with lime green, so that there wasn't so much pink. I'm painting my closet doors in that sublime green colour with hot pink stripes down the middle of each of them, but I wanted to add more green into my bedroom. My idea was to put some sort of design in the corners of my walls like right at the top where the corner of the two walls meet the ceiling. My only delema is, I'm stumped as to what design I should use in those corners. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the design should be in the corner? I'm open to any ideas! Thanks!

I had the same porblem. I just painted the trim of my room green and the door. Then i put some green throw pillows. For the corner thing, i think you'll get sick of it easily. If you really want to do it, you could do a pink flower with the lime green as the leaves.

Good luck!

Q: hi...i really need help. i am on a dance team and they told me that i had to lose weight. this was about a year and a half ago. right when they told me that i had to lose weight to stay on the team i started getting ideas that i was too fat. and now i think im fatter than fat. so during that i year i decided to skip a meal to see if that would help but then i started to skip 2 meals and now im not eating at all. my best friend keeps saying that im anorexic but i dont want to believe it and i dont think its true. either way i am really scared because im losing weight really fast and all but i dont want to lose it this way and im scared that im going to die or something. i dont want to tell my parents so i dont scare them so what do i do......PLeASE HELP ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was really wrong of you dance teacher to tell you that. Doesn't she know that this would happen???? Well anyway, at most dance schools they dont even care, so why not switch dance schools and get out of this situation before it gets worse!! If you still want to stay, Keep eating normally and exercise A LOT!!! If you eat right AND exercise you'll be fine. It's all about a balance. Think of this: YOU ARE RUINING YOUR LIFE OVER A DANCE TEAM!!!

Q: Why does my skin become so oily, so quickly, after washing? It's nasty...
Any suggestions?

Use those oil absorbant sheets. Maybe that will reduce the oils in ur skin! You can find them at drugstores i think.

Q: Does anyone have any good ideas for a mother's day gift? I have no ideas! It could also be a home-made gift.

Maybe a gift card to a spa. Moms always love that.

-Ari

Q: Does anyone have any tips for swallowing pills? I have some pills from my doctor for a bronchidal infection, and they were huge, I had to cut them up into fourths, yet they still are tough to get down. Tips or tricks?

Just get a big glass of juice and put the pill on the back of your tounge. Take a great big gulp of the juice and swallow without thinking of what you are doing. Just do it. The pill should just float down.