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I have gone from younggrandma to just yg. Now,
I am using my real name.
I don't think anyone who knows me will have trouble figuring out who that is!


I have been gone a while dealing with things in my own life. I am back now to help once again. Do not expect answers from me that just tell you what you want to hear. Life is to short for nonsense. :)
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I believe I have OCD. I was reading online to look up some symptoms and I seem to meet them all. I am 14/ f and I was wondering how I should bring it up with my mom. I am going to the doctors on Monday for a physical so I can play sports so how should I ask my mom to bring it up? (link)
You bring it up to your doctor. I'm sure the doctor will ask you questions and probably give you a chance to ask your own. Let them know what you are feeling. :)


I am having arthoscopic knee surgery in a week to repair some ligaments. I am 15 .. this is my first surgery. i am soooo nervous! if any of you have had it, or know someone who has had it, could you maybe tell me what to expect? like, how long on crutches, and how much will it hurt? I'm just soooo nervous. thanks (link)
My husband had it done for a torn meniscus. He was there maybe 5 hours. They told him to get crutches but he never used them. He was getting around and back to work in a couple of weeks.

I realize your surgery could be more extensive, but it is really remarkable what the can do these days. His pain was also not bad. They gave him meds but he only used them a couple of days. :)


what does SNM mean? my friends boyfriend used to say it alot and i have no clue what it means. (link)
It is the abbreviation for a lot of things. If you are talking teen boys though, I will go for
Show No Mercy. :)


hey , this is weird for me because im new but ive discovered thta i have pinworms and i would like to no if there is a way to treat them without going to a doctor or even tellin my parents because im kinda scared to how they will react so if there id a way could u please tell me ?? (link)
You need to tell your mom and get to a doctor. Pin worms are contagious. Won't be fun if the entire family catches them! :)


Hi, i have pink eye and i was wondering if it's normal to have like crust around your eye and on your eye lashes when you have it? Thanks in advance. ♥ (link)
Yes it is normal for them to get all crusty and will even crust your eyes shut in the middle of the night! Hopefully you have medication for it because it is hard to get rid of. Also very contagious. :)


OKAY, here it goes...! K, i fell down the stairs at my school last week, on Monday. I dont think i really broke or sprained anything, but i hit my head really hard on the tile floor, and the stairs( i was at the top and fell to the bottom). Now, almost a week later, i feel lightheaded, and dizzy... is it from the fall? should i consult my doctor?! (link)
Yes. Consult your doctor. Head injuries can be strange things and not all injuries show up right away. It may be nothing, but why chance it.
Get it checked out. :)


Is it Pet Smart or Pets Mart?

Seriously that has been making me think all day and I can't find anywhere they tells. (link)
Its down right irritating is what it is.

I think either is probably okay. I call it pet smart myself. :)


how long do they usually live for? in human years, please&thanks;]] (link)
I had a shih tzu for at least 15 years. I was told he was "old" when I adopted him. So they live good long lives. :)


15 / female / Pennsylvania (if that helps with the things-to-put-in-the-box thing)

Hi, I have a penpal from France. We have been sending letters back and forth, and now I want to send a shoebox of American things.

But what kind of things should I put in it?

So far I have:
American Dollar/quarter/etc.
A magazine
Photos

Yeah, that's it. Pretty sad, I know, but I'm clueless. If you could help me think of ideas, that would be great. And I would like it if the objects would have purpose (not like a pack of stickers or stuffed animals).

Thanks a lot!! (link)
I know the kinds of things you are wanting. I think. :)

I can't think of to many but I think a TV guide would be kind of cool. TV shows are different here.

Maybe your hometown newspaper.

You could have her look at the TV guide and send her a video tape of some of the shows she thinks looks interesting.

Not much but could be of help I guess. I sound a little obsessed with TV. :) Oh well!


My friend is doing drugs a lot. She smokes weed every day and does ecstacy a few times a week. I have talked to her about it a lot, and she's not going to change. I don't know if I should tell her mom or do something else. So what should I do? (link)
You can't talk to a drug user. That drug is way more important than you are. Talk to her mom. If that doesn't work, then like someone said before me...keep telling people until someone listens.
Better a friend who is mad at you then a dead one. Right? Go tell someone. :)


i love my best friend to death and I REALLY dont want to disobey her trust. see a while ago she told me all this stuff about how she has another world she can escape 2 and sometimes she feels like she doesnt know who she is. she sometimes even, she says, forgets her name. shes already tried talking to her parents and a therapist, and her parents have tried giving her pills. all of it, she says, just make her feel worse, like shes insane. she has a lot of friends, gets good grades, in whole leads a very normal life and acts perfectly normal. we didn't mention this for a while, but over the weekend i went down with her family to the beach. saturday night she started randomly dancing in the sand, running and spazzing randomly all over the place, inchined way to close to the firework display just so, as she put it, she could be close to the sea, and wrote the name's of random people we no in the sand. all of this is very unlike her, and i at the time half-jokingly asked her "if she was here as herself" she wudnt answer me for a while and then very quietly said "who else would i be" and then wouldnt answer any more questions. later that night i asked what was going on and she wouldnt tell me. one of our other friends was there, who doesnt no everything i no and said shes fine stop overreacting. iasked her if she "promised" she was fine (promise is our trust word) and she wouldnt promise. i tried talking her into talking to me cuz i just wanted to help, I didnt want her to go through whatever it was alone. she wouldnt say anything. the next morning everything was back to normal. i dont know what to do and i cant tell anyone because i REALLY REALLY REALLY cant betray her trust like that. please help. (link)
As much as I know you want to help her and still keep quiet about her behavior you just can't. It isn't helping her at all and that is just way to much responsibility for you to carry around on your shoulders.

You cannot be her keeper. You can't babysit her 24/7. She needs help you aren't able to provide.
Tell whoever will listen. Hopefully she will get the professional help she desperately needs.

And don't feel guilty. She may get mad at first but in the long run she will see you helped her. :)


my best friend just told me shes bi. i always kind of thought that because she always tries stuff with me and our friends. it makes us uncomfortable and we always tell her to stop. but now she told me that me and another one of our friends turned her bi...and its creeping me out. i dont want to be a bad friend and stop talking to her, especially because we have to spend the next week together at camp, but after that i'm probably going to hang out with her less. i'm not trying to be rude and judge her, but that just really freaks me out. please dont tell me i am being a bad friend, because thats not what im asking. i need to no how i can make it seem less weird when im around her for the next week at camp, and how i can not talk to her as much after camp without it being obvious that the reason is because she is bi. and also my whole family thinks shes annoying and i do too, and although she is one of my best friends i have always thought about maybe trying to make more friends in high school next year and not really talking to her that much anymore. so it wouldnt be a big deal if we werent as great of friends i think. sorry if that sounds mean. but please help me!!! thanks. btw im 14/f (link)
You're not being rude, she is. Nobody has the right to make you uncomfortable around them like shes doing. Male, female, straight, Gay or Bi.

Same rules apply to all. You don't sound mean and you have every right to choose to hang out with friends who do not make you feel uncomfortable. :)


I'm dating my bestfriends older sisters ex-boyfriend lets just call my bestfriend Kay. I want to tell her, but she might tell her sister lets call her Amanda. Should i tell "Kay" or should I keep it a secret until everyone knows? And what if "Kay" doesn't want to be friends anymore. Oh yeah and i'm the young one in the relationship. (link)
You should tell Kay about it. If her sister finds out and doesn't like then its really just to bad. They didn't work out and people need to move on.

If you just let Kay find out from others your friendship is going to suffer. She will wonder why you didn't tell her yourself. She will be mad that she found out after everyone else already knew about it.

If Kay doesn't like it then its to bad. Unless you intend to drop your boyfriend because she has a fit about it don't let it worry you. She will get over it eventually if shes any kind of friend. :)


17/f.

My friends birthday is on monday and she's turning 18. They all want to go to a hooka bar. She said you don't have to do it, its just fun going down and watching people do it.

I've never been to a hooka bar so I don't know much about it. I know what it is, but is it bad for you? Also, I don't know if my parents will be up for it so how do I tell them. If I go I probably won't do it anyways but my parents won't believe me probably. And anyways, I'm unsure about going. How old do you have to be to go? How old do you have to be to do it? Is it bad for you? What should I tell my parents? (link)
It is simply a tobacco bar. Smoking is allowed.
So if you are old enough to smoke cigarettes you can smoke there. If you aren't old enough and don't smoke, then you will probably not have a good time.

You may as well tell your parents because you will probably come home smelling like an ashtray.
You won't notice but they sure will.

From what I have read they were started because
so many places these days don't allow smoking. It is a place for smokers to go hang out. Nothing
dramatic about it.

Smoking of course causes all kinds of nasty things according to our government. So depending on your point of view you can be harmed by the smoke. You would have to be of age to smoke. So at least 18. If they serve drinks, probably 21. :)


Ok, so my best friend is with her second boyfriend ever. The first one only lasted a couple weeks and it wasn't really serious. She has been with the one she's with now since December. Well, they are wicked, wicked serious about each other and I've come to accept that and even be happy for her because she's finally happy again. But this has kinda started to get too far. Her boyfriend asked her to marry him when they become of age and she pretty much said yes. I guess I'm kinda concerned that she's throwing her life away over her second boyfriend. But the major problem with me comes from the age. I'm only 14/f, she's same as me, and he's 15/m. It freaks out alotof our friends because true love at this age is so rare. Do I talk to her or just stay out of it? Am I just jealous? (link)
I'm sure it is only concern. You know what though? If it isn't meant to be it will fizzle out way before they are "of age".

So, to keep the friendship in good shape just don't bring it up. If she does, just say thats nice and change the subject whenever possible. It will all take care of itself. You never know what might happen. :)


what does bamf mean (link)
Well heres what the wiki says it is. :)

Wikipedia
bamf
Bamf is an interjection / onomatopoeia. "Bamf" in the Marvel Universe relates to the X-Men character Nightcrawler and the resulting sound he makes when he transports himself. The sound is caused by air rushing into the area where Nightcrawler's body once was.

"Bamf", outside of the X-Men world, is used mostly by comic book fans or any other person who knows about Nightcrawler. It can be used as an expression meaning "All of a sudden".

For example: "I was walking down the street when BAMF! I dropped a tomato!"

Other meanings
Comedian Dane Cook is believed to have coined the acronym, BAMF as being "Bad Ass Mother Fucker" even though influential punk band Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers released an album entitled LAMF thirty years prior to this.

Also short for [1], or bamf.com

"BaMF69" is an Australian band originating in 1998 out of Wollongong. http://members.tripod.com/BaMF69/

This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)



Me and my mom are very open with eachother and she was telling me a lot of stuff. She's 44 now and during her whole life she's NEVER worn a thong, never shaved her pussy, never fingered anyone or gave anyone a handjob or blow job, never masturbated, only made out with someone 3 times, and she's only had sex 2 times in her whole life and those 2 times were when me and my sister were born. I can't believe it because my mom seems like the type that was a slut when she was younger, no offence to her but its the truth. I wear thongs regularly and shes never even tried one on. I really think shes prude. Do you people agree with me? (link)
Thongs are relatively new. Most people over the age of 30 don't appreciate that "I have something in my butt crack" feeling.

Not long ago a woman was considered an adult if she had pubic hair. Bikini line shaving suddenly turned into "lets shave the whole area and look 13". So that isn't at all strange either.

As far as the sex things go....I would have a hard time believing her answers. But, I don't know her. I don't think your mom is necessarily a prude.


How did you get that gold star!? (link)
I'm a paid member. Paid members get gold stars and other nifty perks.

If interested, here is the link.

http://www.advicenators.com/paidaccounts.php


16f
my mom caught me mastubating and watching porn and now i'm crying and i'm mad and i don't know what to do.... i feel awful... i cant stop crying i think i'm gonna cut myself... dammit i dont know what else to do!!! please help me i'm not some emo kid but im considering killing myself... (link)
You're embarrassed. Don't kill yourself because of that. Chances are you mother was embarrassed too. Don't cut either. Have a talk with your mom.
Won't be easy for either of you but try and do it anyway. :)


i am a 45 year old woman and i have been with my husband for 10 years and married 3 of the 10. i have not been in love with my husband for a long time ( almost a year) and i meat a man that i am falling for but he told me last night that we are fuck buddies but i wantto know how i can get him to fall in love with me (link)
If there is no feelings for your husband by all means end the relationship. Don't make yourself and him miserable.

However, I doubt the fuck buddy will ever be more than that. You may see him as a means to escape a loveless marriage but he isn't going to be the answer either. Sorry & good luck with whatever you decide. :)




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