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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'm going out with my best friend's ( Kaitlyn )ex boyfriend. Now she gave me permission several times to go out with him so its not like I went behind her back to go out with Ross.

Well now she likes Ross again and shes using her popularity to get all of Ross's friends to tell Ross to break up with me and go back out with Kaitlyn. And Kaitlyns starting nasty rumors about me and Ross and is writing shit about me and him all over the stalls in the bathroom. Now usually I wouldn't care; but come on this girl was supposidly my best friend?!

I don't know what to do about all this, Ross and I are both getting sick of this. What if he breaks up with me cause he doesn't want all this drama. I'm afraid of losing him over all this crap and I can't stand that my best friend is completley turning against me. (link)
Have Ross tell her to knock it off. Unless he is liking all the attention this drama is making for him he shouldn't have a problem doing it.

Then you both need to ignore her. A true friend wouldn't be treating you like she is. Let her get that message loud and clear.

It really shouldn't cause you to lose your relationship with Ross. He knows it is her doing it and if he breaks up with you because of her crap, he isn't worth having anyway.

If you haven't already, let all your other friends know what she is up to. It may make her look bad, but hey...she brought in on herself.

Good luck. I hope she gets tired of playing her games soon. :)


do girls like fishin because i want to ask a girl on a date and go fishing in the summer (link)
Sure they do. Lots of girls like fishing, and cars and other things that some consider to be boy things. Go ahead and ask her out.


I have tried this site already and no one has helped me!!!
Please iff you know anything I beg of you to help me...pleAseee!

Someone close to me has a stroke and it's hard for us, her family to keep up all the time.
Some times she says how she wants to go to 'home' wen this is her home. I don't want her to get a next stroke with depression or hypertension so I need some tips or help from ne one who knows about these things....help me please.... (link)
She probably doesn't understand. Hopefully that will get better over time (ask her doctor).

Just try and be patient with her. That's all you can do. You may find yourself repeating things over and over again.

A person who has had a stroke will understandably be depressed to some extent. Their whole life has changed. Can you imagine? It would be hard to deal with.

Her doctor will keep an eye on her for hypertension. May even give her medicine for it if she needs it.

Many people who have had strokes recover to the point where they can function pretty normally. Not all but a lot.

The best way for you to help her is to keep clutter out of her way to prevent her falling. Those kinds of things. A broken hip or other injury just makes it harder to recover.


OK, so two of my good friends were going out. Then the girl dumped the guy. The guy is on my bus and he was absolutley devastaded. So my other friend and I were trying to make him feel better. Then my other friend called his exgirlfriend a whore. Last night I told his exgirlfriend about it and now she wants to confront my other friend. I told her in confidence and asked her not to but she said she won't use my name. I know she won't but what if my friend finds out I told her? How can I stop the exgirlfriend from telling her? (link)
If you have 2 friends in a relationship. The best thing to do is stay out of the middle.

Don't tell one what the other says...broke up or not. Don't allow them to talk bad about the other to you at all.

The damage is done now. Hopefully he won't find out it was you who told.

From now on though don't tattle to them about what the other one said. It just hurts feelings and isn't going to make a difference in the long run. You are the one they all wind up mad at. :)

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I see. I think I would try and talk her out of a confrontation. It won't do any real good. She knows now what the other girl thinks of her, she should really just leave it at that.

If she doesn't though, I would hope she wouldn't slip and say you told her.It could be easy to do that in the heat of an argument.

On the other hand she really shouldn't have said it to you, since she knows you are her friend too.

Try to talk them out of any kind of confrontation. If you can be there at the time maybe you can at least keep it from getting out of hand. Kind of break up any real argument so she doesn't tell.


I am 19, and am nervous about applying for a job. I have no previous experience, and am concerned that most places would rather hire someone younger with no experience b/c they have a good reason not to have experience. I don't want a great job, just like at a video store or somehting. Do I just go ahead and apply? What should I do? (link)
I like ncblondies answer. I too have had to hire people before.

By all means go ahead and apply.

I just want to add to have a good appearance when you go to apply or interview for a job.

You don't have to be dressed up fancy, but be neat and clean. I have had people show up with
ripped up tennis shoes and hair all over the place!

Make a good first impression. :)


ok so ive had my myspace set to public forever and have now decided to make it private where only my friends can see my page. but when i went to set it it wouldnt do it.. how do you set your myspace profile to private??
(link)
http://www.advicenators.com/qview.php?q=414661


i was wondering what buenosaires means?
ill rate 5's for your time ! :] (link)
Buenos Aires the capitol of Argentina means Good Airs in Spanish. :)


Well..the guy I like(who happens to live right across the street from me) is moving in about 2 months. i really like him though! should i ask him out even though hes moving(i dont believe in lost distance relationships...and hes goin 2 colorado, i live in PA) or should i just keep in touch and stay friends? (link)
There is no reason not to have fun with him while he is still here. Of course you run the risk of feeling really bad when he leaves.

You can always stay friends though. The internet makes the world pretty small. :)


I like this guy and yesterday my best friend told him I like him. Last night my best friend told me that when he asked him if he liked me he said i dont know and my best friend asked him yes or no and he said i dont know maybe. So I'm just woundering, if some one says maybe does that mean you have a good chance? (link)
I think so long as he didn't say no you have a chance. Try talking to him if you are able to. Just be friendly and smile at him every chance you get. :)

Good luck!


omg okay so i was on buddypic.com and i clicked on a site thinking it was a picture but it went to my myspace and said that a cancellation was going to be sent to my email.. meaning that i said i was going to cancel it but i didnt mean to do that! so is my myspace going to be dleted?!!? because it said that i had to follow the instructions in order to delete it so do you think it will be dleted?! (link)
No don't worry.

They will send a link to your email. You have to click on the link to actually cancel anything.

Just delete the mail without clicking on anything and nothing will change. :)


who sings that song that goes "Sara beth is scared to death" i dont know the rest...
thanks (link)
The song is "Skin" by Rascal Flatts.


14/f.. I had sex with my boyfreind about 3 or 4 weeks ago and the condom broke!! I took 3 pregnency tests without my parents knowing and they were all positve!! so i think i'm pregent how could i tell my parents? HELP
I'll rate 5 (link)
I would just tell your mom. Let her deal with letting your dad know.

Moms seem to take the news a lot better than dads.

Tell her sometime when it is just the two of you. Make sure you have plenty of private time so you don't get interrupted. :)


My boyfriend and I are making wedding plans and we're debating whether to invite any of my relatives. You see, my entire family, with the (possible) exception of my father, loathes my boyfriend and makes no secret of it. Throughout my four-year relationship with him various relatives of mine have talked about him behind his back, illegally looked up confidential information about him and spread it around, made up outright lies about him in an effort to alienate me from him (my favorite slander was that he was riddled with VD and lying to me about it), and basically tried to ruin his career and his life. My mother admitted to me that she "hated" him -- I invited him to a family Christmas party a few years ago and he was told to "get lost" and was all but thrown out of the house.

Naturally, I don't really care to have these people witness our marriage. Certainly my boyfriend doesn't want it. He ought to be nominated for sainthood for being civil to them all this time, even when they were insulting him to his face. But he doesn't like their actions any more than I do.

The thing is, though, my family hates my boyfriend and not me. They adore me -- they just express their love in a very destructive way. I know if I refused to invite the lot to the wedding, they would be deeply hurt by the slight and would probably never forgive me. One solution is to elope, thereby inviting no one. But my boyfriend's family has been wonderfully supportive and we want them to witness our nuptials.

Part of me thinks: who cares if I hurt my family, they've hurt me horribly by their cruel behavior over the last four years. But I am not without heart and, as I said, they do love me. Just in the wrong way.

Do I invite them and hope they are nice when they show up, or do I not invite any of them, thereby assuring their hurt and consequent complaints for decades? (link)
You have a real sweetheart. You really know he loves you don't you? That is great.

I'd elope. But that's just me and what I would do even in the best of situations. So I can't be objective enough about that.

I do have some thoughts for you. You can do with them what you like. :)

Your wedding day is all about you guys. It is your day. It should be special. You want it to be memorable, but not for all the wrong reasons.

I think you should meet with any close relatives you would invite individually. Including your parents.

You tell them you are marrying this man who you love. He has shown his love for you by putting up with their bullshit for your sake. Tell them you want to know right now before you waste any time, Can you come to my wedding and act civilised? Tell them to be very honest about their answers.

Let them know that if they can't, much as it will hurt you, you will NOT ruin you and your husbands wedding day by constantly worrying what is going on behind your backs. So if they can't behave, you will regretfully, be unable to have them at your wedding. Let them know this is YOUR decision and not your fiances. No sense in giving them more ammo.

You should feel better since you gave them the opportunity to be civilised even if only for a day. They need not hold it against you since the decision is basically theirs to make.

If you think they may pull something, have a couple of large friends keep an eye on the situation in a nice way and put the brakes on it before you even notice!

Congratulations & Have a beautiful wedding. :)



I realy realy need some help. My friend has been cutting herself, and i don't know what to do to help stop her. She did stop, when she was dating this guy, she said "he made me feel beautful". I realy realy want to help her, but i don't kno how. I tried to get stop, but she won't listen to me. Also she's not afriad of cutting herself, because one of her friends, friend died from cutting herself, and my friend kno's this. I realy realy want to help her stop. But i don't kno how.
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!! (link)
Here is a web site that tells how to deal with a friend who cuts. I think it will have some good ideas for you. :)

http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/problems/friend_cuts.html


All of my About Me in my Advicenator profile got deleted!! It took me soooo long!!! Do you know how to get it back!? I'll rate supa good please. (link)
You will probably have to rewrite it. :(

You have to be real careful that when you update and hit submit button it gets finished up before you move on.

That may not be what happened to you but it has happened to me a couple of times. Especially if you are using dial up.

Sorry about that. I understand your frustration believe me. :)


ok my dad wasnt home so i snuck a reeses peanut butter cup, even though i wasnt supposed to have one and i dropped it and my dog ate it...is he going to die? please help me i am so scared right now...hes a wire fox terrior, 1 year old and weighs about 18-20 pounds if that helps...please help me danielle (link)
I think your dog will survive eating a peanut butter cup. I wouldn't make a habit of letting him have chocolate because it can truly cause health problems for them, but he'll be alright.

I had a greyhound eat 4 grand kids worth of chocolate Santa's and various other chocolate Christmas candy a few years ago. She came through it fine. The kids learned never to leave their Christmas stockings where the dog could get hold of them.

She left them the healthy apples and oranges though. :)


f/15
i was just shaving my down stairs which isnt anything i havent down before and when i was drying off i noticed i a huge bump on the lips of my vagina! what the hell is it??? its like hugee maybe a pea size or bit bigger! it doesnt stick out too much though its a lil bit red but i think it was there before i shaved thats just when i noticed it! i havent done anything of a sexual natural for about 6 months now so it cant be anything to do with that and i dont finger myself.. could anyone tell me what the hell it is? it doesnt hurt unless u push on it!?!?!?! (link)
It is probably a boil or sebaceous cyst of some sort. They can become painful. If it does heat will draw it to a head. They usually break by themselves.

Put simply, they are like a giant pimple. Don't push on it, that may make it sore. If it isn't hurting, just leave it alone.

Here is a site that has information on them just in case you should need it. Oh, and it isn't add or anything to worry about. Had you not shaved it may have gone unnoticed. :)

http://www.medicinenet.com/boils/article.htm


I am 20. When I was almost 15, I was a bridesmaid in my only sister's wedding. I didn't really want to be, as my sister and I don't get along, but she wanted me in her wedding because it's "traditional" to have your sister as a bridesmaid. As a bridesmaid, I was outfitted with a butt-ugly uncomfortable dress to wear. After the ceremony was over, I promptly gave it to Goodwill.

Periodically since then, my sister has asked for the dress back, claiming she wants to borrow it herself or loan it to a friend. I have never had the nerve to tell her what I did with the dress and have always claimed I "lost" it. The question came up again recently and my sister kind of exploded and demanded to know how the dress could have been "lost" for nearly six years. She actually went to my room and began digging through my dresser drawers and closet (without my permission), trying to find the dress. I told my mother about it all later and confessed what had really happend to the dress and she was horrified that I had given it away.

This is really a two-prong question:

1. Was it wrong for me to give away the dress? I was under the impression that it was mine to do as I liked with -- no one indicated that it was only on loan -- and I had no use for it. I always give away possessions I don't want anymore, it was not a reflection on my sister or her wedding.
2. Should I, after all this time, finally tell my sister what I did with the dress? I believe she suspects the truth by now anyway. (link)
I think it would really put the subject to rest once and for all. If she had wanted it back she should have made it clear from the start.

I don't see why you would have been expected to keep an ugly dress forever. As I said, she could have mentioned wanting it back were that the case. She probably should have known that you had a tendency to get rid of clutter.

You are probably right in thinking she already has her suspicions. Confess and get it over with. :)


is heart burn like under you sternum or in your heart? (link)
Both your heart and heartburn are under your sternum. It is the bone that runs between your ribs.

Heartburn though has nothing to do with your heart. It is stomach acid that backs up into the lower part of your esophagus. It causes a nasty burning sensation. It can be very uncomfortable. :)


is being gay a chemical imbalence?? remember:I AM NOT GAY!!!!!!!! (please keep in mind my name has nothing to do with my gender-male- :) (link)
There are arguments on all sides of this issue. I personally feel it is probably something that is in you from birth.

No need to tell everyone that your name has nothing to do with your gender. Your name does not show up when you ask questions. If you would like to change your name, email dangernerd and ask. ;)




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