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Q: ok, I'm 13 and I babysit for this lady who has three kids. One is autistic. She pays me $10. Not an hour. The whole 4-6 hours I babysit. It doesn't seem fair to me but I hate to say something because she is a close friend of my mom and has done many things for our family. Her family doesn't have a whole lot of money either. what should i do?
Ok,
well my first thought would be to just tell her. Come up with a rate that you would want to be charged per hour..ex$4.. So before she pays you bring it up in casual conversation that you charge $.. Something else that migh be a nicer way to approach this subject is by saying you charge like $6 an hour, but trll her that your giving her a 'family' discount and cut the price in half or a dollar or whatever... basically just let her know that you are charging a specific ammount of money. But DONT just walk up to her and say her yea i babysat your kids for 5 hours so pay me more than $10... Since she is a family friend, be sweet and kind to her about it. Im sure she will understand.. If she still doesnt get the picture, always try talking to your mom. Since you said that her and your mom are really close im sure your mom could work some magic!! =]
Hope things work out!!
~April

Q: 14/f IM VERY CONFUSED IF ANY1 IS UP TO TALKING...GUYS OR GIRLS...IM ON AIM..
MY LOVE LIFE IS CRAZY RIGHT NOW!!







heyyy u can always chat with me on aim.. luvchocolatelove.. im here to help =]
~April

Q: Are Crest White Strips healthy to use? Will it do anything bad to your teeth? Or are there any concerns/problems I should know about? Thanks!
I personally dont use them... but my mom does. Yes they are perfectly fine to use, and they have worked wonders on my mom =] It doesnt do anything to your teeth except make them white! As far as i know of my mom hasnt had any problems with it, and my uncles a dentist- he says they are safe andgood to use!!
~April

Q: I am a 14 year old female going into my freshman year in michigan. I have found out that i would like to go into nursing and i would like to be a pediatritian, i am looking for a job that i could do after school at Beaumont Hospital starting off as a filing person then working my way up, i would like this job to last until my senior year of high school or for longer. Would this be possible and if so who should i contact? Please help!
Ok, well i live in CA so hospitaly by me might be different than yours...but anyways, my friend was exactly live you a few years ago. she really wants to persue a career in nursing. she went to our hospital, we have an office, and asked for the director. After a few minutes of talking with the director she came out with a job of caring for the childrens floor. She could have taken a job with filing if she wanted. im pretty sure that the director-or what ever you want to call him- really appreciated her effort and wanting of the job. Since you know you want to do this i would strongly reccomend going on the same path as my friend.
I know its not much to go by... but best of luck! =]

♥ April

Q: do you think that when you make out with someone for the first time they can tell its your first time.. i meen ive hooked up with people before and all but im just curious my friends and i were talking about that
haha.. Some people are born with an awesome 'making out' ability(lol) so thats great for them. Others... not so much, like practice makes perfect.. But I really dont know if people really relise it that much, like im sure if you had hooked up w/ someone before and you were making out with some who hadnt ever, it might cross your mind, but for me id be caught up in the moment.. lol
but yea i think that it really just depends..
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Q: 13/f. going into 8th grade. alright so my parents still treat me like i'm in 3rd grade. i go to bed on 11.30 on weekends & so far this summer [wtf?] and 9.30 for school. i can't talk to any boys on the phone or online, or just in person without my mom being all like ooo you like him or bs like that. my dad doesn't let me go to any sleepovers. or overnight field trips for school. i seriously cant take it... i tried talking to them 39925983 times. what the heck should i do ?? :[
I had the exact same problem when i was your age. my dad did let me go to sleepovers tho...it tooks me a little while but i did everything posible to proove to them that i was growing up. I was always up on time i tried not to talk back, i got good grades, and they were really proud. i decided then i should talk to them again. They actually listened to me then. They got the message that i was growing up. It took a little more time after that.. im talking like a week or too later, and i was alowed to go to parties and stuff. It was really hard, because my parents were really strict about my cerfew, so i stuck with it. Even though i had to be home earlier my parents were grateful that i was making the right decisions, so they pretty much gave me full power.
So im pretty sure that all you need to do is really proove to them that your responsible enough to do other stuff..
hope this helps.. sorry it wasnt much stuff that you could do..
♥ April

Q: i am so confused. i have this friend hes a boy. i am 15/f. i know i have time before i can find my true love but still. liek when im just friends with this boy i have so much fun and i just like like him soooo much. everytime. but when i date him i cant stand him. please help.
ok,
So you love it when your friends with this boy, but when your dating him you cant stand him. I think that this should support a decisiion to be friends with him. I know how hard it can be to have a guy that you really like when your friends, but dating him can be a pain. it will be kinda hard to accept that fact that he isnt the guy for you, but keep him close as a friend. maybe later on if yall are still close, you could consider dating him again, and he wont act wierd, he might mature out of it. So if i were you i would much rather be friends with a boy that i can have the time of my life with, than date him and not enjoy it at all.
Hope it all works out!!
xoxo ~April

Q: who sings the spoof to the aaron carter song "i want candy"? (i saw another question like this it's not the same person.) it's like "i want candy (ugh, that candy is such a b*tch.) and it has lyrics like that. anyone know?
This is the closest thing that i could find.. but there are 4 other spoofs check out the link!! But they are kinda retarted...

http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/i.shtml


"I Want Candy" Based on the performance by Aaron Carter
"I Want Panties" Parody by Andrew Darwitan
Actually a crap parody, a junk. But just enjoy it.
I know a girl who's so sexy
She's so hot, she can be b*tch
She's wearing the 'thing' that I desire
Set a vacation on the hotel

(Chorus)
I want panties
I want panties

Go to see Nick when the girl's not here
I don't like the girl, I know
She's my girl, but I don't care on her
"So what?" Nick told me to sneak on her
(Repeat chorus)

Panty on the beach, there's nothing better
And I like panty which it's on her underwear
Some day soon I'll make it mine
Then I'll wear panty all the time
(Repeat chorus)

sorry thats all i could find:(
hope i helped!!

Q: HEy soo is there pushup bras for size A? where can i get one if there is
yes there is. i believe that you can get a push up bra in most departnemt stores that sell bras. im postitve that victorias secret will have something! =] sorry im not very specific..
good luck!!
April

Q: How do you make your eyes look wishful and inviting without the use of makeup?
Well im sure your eyes are beautiful so what ever you do they will look great! sorry i cant give you much avice on this.. but there might be some of those contacts that can make your eyes look like their sparkling.. but i dont think thats really what you want..:(
You could always try fluttering your eyes a lot... it all kinda depends on why and for whom you want your eyes to look inviting! sometimes just staring into someone elses eyes with a kind look can work.
sorry i couldnt help much!
~April

Q: can u give me some examples? srry the website isn't working for me thanks.
sure sorry it isnt working..

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Place notes in your lover's lunch telling him how much you love him.


Page you sweetheart with an I Love You page.


Give her a soft kiss.


Make everyday things special.


Give your love a little note or sending him an e-mail with a poem in it.


Listen to her every word.




Albert Einstein
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."

Anne Dillard
"The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart."

Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but looking outward in the same direction."

Denjamin Disraeli
"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love"

Bette Davis
"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."

C. T. Davis
"One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone."

Charles Dickens
"Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart."



hope those helped ya!!

Q: What does it mean when you whisper sweet nothigs into someones ear? What are you doing? Saying? When do people do it? Why? What do they say [examples]? thanks.
sweet nothings; honeyed words (inconsequential expressions of affection) thats the defination.. sweet nothings are like romantic ways of showing and telling someone that you love and care for them.
this is a link saying some of the sweet nothings most famous phrases
http://www.utahholidayguide.com/valentines/nothings.htm

hope this is what you wanted!!:)

Q: Is there any site on the web that would be able to teach me how to do popular and well known dances such as "Thriller" and/or "The Cotton-Eyed Joe". I know there is always YouTube, but I want a site with many of these tutorials. Don't limit yourself to the examples I have given; those are just guidelines. Thanks!
hey, i know that you said that ya didnt want just youtube.. but thats all i could find.. sorry.. but check out these links and hopefully they will help ya!!

thriller~ http://iamafish.org/archive/2006/05/learn_how_to_do.html

the next link is of a website that is going to break the world record of thriller or something like that.. but one of the buttions on the top of the page says learn the dance.. the pics dont work, but it has some pretty good videos...(sorry youtube again)

http://www.thrilltheworld.com/index.html

sorry but thats all i could find!!:(
good luck!


Q: a couple days ago in school we got out yearbooks. our whole school goes into a room and signs eachothers yearbooks and stuff, it's fun.
so, me and my boyfriend don't really talk and were not very close and the only thing we have done is hugged so far. we have never kissed not even on the cheek or anything and every other couple does. we are both very shy to eachother.
so anyway, we signed eachothers yearbooks. and what he wrote was 'josh xoxo'. does that mean anything? or does that just mean like love ya? thanks.
anna,
well im glad that yall at least signed eachothers yearbooks... did you talk at all or just say hey sign my book??? well i think that he just signed it xoxo like girls sign love ya.. get what im saying?? i think he wrote xoxo because you guys are going out and he was trying to be sweet because he didnt have any other inside jokes or comments to write in your yearbook because yall never talked the whole 3 months that yall have been going out.. i wouldnt get too worked up over just that simple little xoxo... oh and josh?? why did you use the name josh?? do ya like him or something??
oh and i signed walkers yearbook.. thx for finally asking anna out.. keep on talking to her!!...
yep i really wrote that!! he was all i dont get it, and i was like it has meaning to me and anna!!
♥ April

Q: me and my boy friend aren't very close and we never really talk and when we do it's during class and it's about stupid stuff. i really want him to kiss me before school ends for the summer, because the only thing we have done is hugged. i try to get him to no that i want to kiss him by writing 'i love josh' on my hands and stuff. also my friends write zaps (a zap is like a dare that you write on your hand and if you look at it before a certian time you have to do it) on my hands really big that say 'kiss walker!' and i don't no what else to do! he is really shy so i don't think he will do it and i could never do it cause i am to chicken. please help! thanks!
people right that you love josh??(do you like him now 2?) thats very intresting anna... my advice for you has and will always be TALK WITH HIM!!! you guys never talk, so why on earth would he want to kiss you if yall never even say hi... TALK TALK TALK!! i think that your bestest move would to be to talk to him and move on from there, because your relationship with him is kinda on the line because you NEVER EVER TALK WITH HIM!! try it..
love ya much~
♥ April~

Q: ok, so im the only one out of all me friends that doesnt have a bf. I really wish that i oculd but im tooo scared to ask a guy out, and most of the guys just consider me a friend anyway.. also my mom forbids me to go out with any one yet anyhow... but i just feel...

any advice on how to get me out of my self pitty?? or get a bf??

oh and im 12/f

ok, well i know excatly how you feel, i was in the same place you were in a couple of years ago.. i relised that 12 is way way to young to date anyone, so i would focus on being the bestest friend possible to the guys. You will enjoy having guys as friends in the long run insted of them as your bfs. As for your friends.. well how many relationships last longer than uh.. 2 months?? not very many.. and its not like your thinking about spending the rest of your life with these guys, so wouldnt you rather have these guys as your freinds in the long run, so when the time comes for you to be able to date, you could have some close guy freinds to choose?? If you were to go out with them now, you might loose them as a friend or as anything forever! i would totally start off the day with a smile knowing that i will have nice and longlasting friendships instead of a relationship with someone that could be gone in an instant. Dont be sad or depressed!! Remember guys arent worth your tears!!!
hope this helps!!

Q: i have the razor and i just got it yesterday
and i have 500 nights and wekends minutes
i have 499 left
so i used mine
but i have no more anytime minutes
what time does the night and weekend minutes start for cingular!?
thanks
It starts at 7 pm for cingular!!
hope i helped!!
& enjoy your new phone!!!!!!

Q: okay i was wondering wat do u tell the difference of just likin someone or flirting?
Okk, well just liking someone is like having a crush.. flirting is like expressing that you have a crush on that person.. if that makes any sence! lol... How do ya know if ya like someone? well i personally think that its when someone is stuck in your head, and you cant get them out, and you want to spend a whole lot if not all of your time with that someone. Flirting is often described as casual conversation with a romantic touch, but there doesnt to be any speaking involved.. but there of coarse can and most likely will at some point..
hope this is what you wanted!!

Q: i don't really ever talk to my boyfriend and i'm moving, so i want to break up mith him. i am really shy so i can't go up to him and do it, so i am going to write him a note. i was just wondereing if this was alright... and by the way the ___ is just that i don't want to say the names on this, i really had them written in the note:
dear _____,
i am so glad i got to no you this year! i had such a great time! i was so incredibly happy when you asked me out, you don't even no. i so wish that our relationship could mature and we could have more fun memories of eachother, but sadly, it can't. i still like you and think you're like the hottest guy on the planet, but i'm moving. i'm still gonna live in ____ but i'm not going to this school any more and i'm not going to your high school either. i just don't think it would work out very well if we still went out. i'm so sorry and i hope we can still be friends. i wish it didn't have to be this way but i can't change it. i am so so so sorry.
with love, ____
p.s. you never emailed me




so do u think this is alright? please let me no anything i need to add or take away pronto!
Okk, i no i havent talked to you in forever, but i had no idea that you were moving this year!! I think that this is a great and very kind way to break up with _ _ _ _ _ _. Im sure that he wont be hurt by it at all, and im glad that your finally taking my advice and breaking up with him!! but not dealing with this, we need to talk, so when ya get this could you please call me??

but i definantly think that you wrote him a very nice, sweet and kind note that says everything!!
luv ya much,
♥ April~

Q: what is that movie called with brad pitt and angelina jolie.. where they are married i think.. and they are spys??
thanks 4 your help!!!
reply soon!!!
Mr. and Mrs. Smith!
hope i helped ya!!

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