When stretching, do not bounce. Stretch as gracefully and slowly as you can. Make sure your movements are in one fluid motion. Keep it symmetrical. If you stretch your left side, stretch the right too. Follow these stretches:
-Shoulders
Stretch each arm as far across your chest while holding it as you can without feeling pain for five or ten minutes every day.
Lift small weights daily so that your muscles can become more accustomed to the repeatative motion and movement.
-Back- be extremely careful!
Lay down on the floor.
Sit up straight, leaving your legs out in front of you. They don't have to be flat.
Turn your upper body slowly, and make absolutely sure that you stop turning when it starts to hurt. It is relatively easy to damage your spinal cord if you stretch improperly, so pay attention.
When you stop turning, hold that position for five to ten seconds. Turn the other direction, and repeat.
Try and do a crab but be careful not to go too far!
You can also stand up with your arms hanging out to the side and then very slowly twist from side to side.
Another stretch is to lay flat on your tummy and then use your arms to put yourself in a snake or seal stretch!!
-Legs
Sit down as you did before for the back exercises, only this time, make your legs as flat on the ground as possible, right beside each other.
Stretch down towards your knees. Do not bend your head to face your knees, face forward.
This will also stretch your neck muscles; if it hurts your neck to do this exercise, face your knees and stretch.
-Upper thighs (Buttocks)
Squeeze both sides together.
Hold for five minutes. (If this is too long, start with two minutes, and build it up.)
-Fingers
Hold one hand out, in a fist.
Slowly open up the fist.
Stretch your fingers back as far as they can. Hold for a minute.
Repeat with your other hand. This can help with carpal tunnel syndrome.
-Ankles
First sit with your legs straight out in front of you like you did in the legs stretch and twist your ankles in any shape or form (I like to do the abc's)
You can also sit with one leg in front of you and take the other ankle and rest it on your knee then grab your foot and twist your ankle
-Wrists
Sit on your knees and then you put your hands out like you are reading a book.
Then flip your hands onto the floor with fingers facing you, like "save the page"
You can also, after you do the stretch above, flip you hands in any way (fingers facing outward or inward to the side, whatever).

*Stretches courtesy of wikihow.com

Use lemon juice. I know this sounds weird, but put some lemon juice (just a tad, not the whole bottle) on the zit with a q-tip and it'll be like you didn't even know it was there in a few days! Here's some helpful advice from getridofthings.com: http://www.getridofthings.com/getridofacne.htm

Well, this is my opinion on my LG White Chocolate phone, which I no longer use. I think that'd apply to the Cherry Chocolate, though. : )
Cons:
no external memory card slot
powers off for no reason
no radio
no expandable memory or battery
dropped calls
scratch and finger print prone
difficult to use
average camera quality
buttons are insensitive
Pros:
beautiful and stylish design
small and compact
good mp3
bluetooth
java

I have a super cute one that I ordered from Free People for $24. The one I have and more can be found here: http://search.freepeople.com/?q=ipod
You can also knit little cozies for iPods, and heres a tutorial to make a really adorable monster case: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=76605.0

Hope I helped!

Here are some songs that my cousin knows plays in AE, since she works there:
1. Good Charlotte: Little Things
2. Lily Allen: LDN
3. Cinematics: Break
4. Meg & Dia: Monsters
5. Hourly Radio: Deaf Ears
6. Silversun Pickups: Kissing Families
7. South: You Are One
8. M.I.A.: Boyz
9. Acute: Follow You Home
10. Rooney: When Did Your Heart Go Missing
11. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Can't Stop
12. Mat Kearney: Undeniable
13. Mya ft. Lil' Wayne: Lock U Down
14. Fountains of Wayne: Someone To Love
15. New Atlantic: Wire and Stone
16. Richard X: Finest Dreams
17. Fall Out Boy: Thanks for the Memories
18. Gnarls Barkley: Smiley Faces
19. Kooks: She Moves in Her Own Way
20. Bravery: Time Won't let Me Go
21. Rihanna ft. Jay Z: Umbrella
22. Guster: Fa Fa [Never Be the Same Again]
23. Avril Lavigne: Girlfriend
24. Fratellis: Flathead
25. Cat Empire: The Car Song
26. Test Your Reflex: Pieces of the Sun
27. Eric Prydz v. Floyd: Proper Education
28. Club 8: Saturday Night Engine
29. Hourly Radio: Fear of Standing Upright
30. India.Arie ft. Akon: I Am Not My Hair
31. Simple Plan: I'm Just a Kid
32. Funeral For A Friend: Into Oblivion
33. Paolo Nutini: Last Request
34. Good Charlotte: Dance Floor Anthem [I Don't Want to be in Love]
35. Daddy Yankee ft. Fergie: Impacto Remix
36. We Are the Fury: Now You Know
37. Gwen Stefani ft. Akon: The Sweet Escape
38. Format: The Compromise
39. Cliks: Oh Yeah
40. Sherwood: Song in My Head
41. Mood Ruff: Rocketship
42. Klaxons: Golden Skans
43. Justice: D.A.N.C.E.
44. National: Mistaken for Strangers
45. No More Kings: Sweep the Leg
46. Maximo Park: Our Velocity
47. Gym Class Heroes: Shoot Down the Stars
48. Nelly Furtado: All Good Things [Come to an End]
49. Switchfoot: Awakening
50. Satellite Party: Wish Upon a Dog Star
51. MIA: Sunshowers
52. The Bravery: Honest Mistake
53. Louis XIV: Finding Out True Love is Blind
54. Motion City Soundtrack: Everything is Alright
55. Anberlin: Day Late Friend
56. Foo Fighters: Best of You
57. Missy Elliot: Lose Control
58. Elkland: Apart
59. Bloc Party: Banquet
60. Trey Songz: Gotta Make It
That's all I have. Hope one of those is the one you're looking for. If you need any more songs from any stores, feel free to message me.

You can try websites like americanapparel.com and lulusfashionlounge.com for some really cute stuff that you wouldn't find in say, American Eagle that everybody can see and buy. Those are my two favs. Send me a message if you want some more sites.

I don't think so. You're body forms a habit, and expects it everyday, but doesn't like become dependant on it. You might feel weird going without it, but that'd be natural. I mean, if you're eating Cocoa Puffs with sugar and chocolate milk every morning, then yeah, it's going to be bad for you, but only because the food itself is bad for you, not because you eat it everyday. So yeah, I am 99% sure that eating the same healthy cereal every morning is not bad for you. : )

Wireless Internet. Like in cafes and stuff, they'll have signs that say Wi-Fi and whatever? That's so you can bring in your laptop and use the Internet right there. I think this website will help you:
http://usatoday.jiwire.com/hotspot-connection-before-you-go.htm

I'd go for like an emerald green, like a grass color. That would look SO pretty! I think grey would look nice, but more subtle, you know? Less eye-catching.

On the Lacoste site they have striped polos, but none of them are pink and green. This is because the show aired last year, and the website collection is from this and next year. So you're probably going to be hard-pressed to find a new polo like the one you want. But the other ones they have a really pretty and nice; why don't you try one of those? If you really want that shirt, you're best bet would be like eBay or Amazon or 1stdibs.com or something of the sort, but even then you're probably going to have a tough time finding it.

Well, I don't know what "train" means, but whoring someone is like adding them as like random friends across the Internet. Like there used to be this thing on MySpace where on a person's page it would say "Whore Me". Like you don't know them, but just add them as your friend. I tried looking for it, but I only got that definition with the seven guys and the one girl. Hope I helped a bit though.

It was scheduled to come out last July, but it looks like they haven't rescheduled its release yet. Keep yourself posted with info which you can find easily on Amazon.

Sometimes shots are given in the muscle of your arm, or right in the pressure points, where it will leave a painful sensation longer than a shot that was given in a place with less nerve endings. I don't know if it's necessary to shoot it into muscle points; you should ask the nurse that you have.

I don't have any personal experience with iTouch, but I would think that you would. I am actually pretty sure you can. If you can access the Internet on iTouch, you should be able the access any websites you would like. So yes.

Hi, could you not rate this, but I have this same problem, and I was wondering if you could give me the one of better answers you get with this. I just thought I'd ask you to give me one of the answers you get because I have this same issue! Thanks.

You can distress places like the knees by placing a block of wood or a brick on the back of the knee, and rub sandpaper, a Dremel tool or even a cheese grater on the front of it. You can use this on any place on the jeans, actually. For drips, just sort of drip paint onto the jeans. Kind of simple, actually, like dip a paintbrush into paint and hold it over the places so it drips. You can also mix bleach with vinegar (so the bleach doesn't keep on eating away at the fabric) and dab it on the the corners of the jeans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts#Skeptical_analysis

If you are actually concerned, I would suggest seeing your priest or minister or clergyman to perform a blessing upon the house. If you want, you can bring in someone like a parapsychologist or something. I would just leave it alone; I don't believe in ghosts. I couldn't know right here whether you had a ghost; it would probably depend on what you feel when you enter. Those guys on TV and stuff say that you only truly know there's a ghost when you are in the prescence of it. But like I said, I don't believe in it. You probably do; and that's probably why you think there's ghost. If I was in your house, I don't think I would hear or see anything ghost-like because I don't believe in them.

WebMD:
http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/understanding-hernia-treatment

It sound fairly serious to me, but you should check it out with your doctor.

Your parents won't let you have a boyfriend? That's weird, esp. for a 15-year-old. Just act like it's no biggie and it wouldn't bother you if she told them. It's a classic trick; it won't be blackmail anymore, so she'll become tired with it, and leave it alone. Try talking to her about other things, just casual small talk. I hope this works for you, because this always works for me with my sister. Good luck.

Well, yeah... but that's gonna be the same as just throwing it in a landfill with all that other good stuff. Try your local dump. My dump has a recycling place with a huge dumpster where you put junk mail, used papers, et cetera. But only recycle papers that don't have like spaghetti sauce or anything on them. Try that.

Happy 2008! My name is Dana for those of you who don't know, and I obviously love to give advice, because if I didn't, I wouldn't be here. I will pick at anyone who doesn't bother to capitalize their "I"'s or the beginnings of sentences. Proper grammar and spelling is very important to me. bcuz it Just loooks soooo sloppie when u type lyke this. So a word to the wise, and for the majority of you that it doesn't apply to, think about it, and watch yourself. Second of all, I will never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever write something that is not true. So therefore I am always right. So stand down and accept it. (Note: that also means that my "opinions" are actual facts. At least the ones I bother to write.)

Never ask me anything about how fat you are or love life. Cliched, I know, but I am heartless when it comes to the truth. If you don't know what to do with your cheating boyfriend that you still love, go ask someone else since I could not care less. Seriously.

Have a nice day!
Love,
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