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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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Ever Since I started exerscising (about once a day for half an hour) I get really bad stomach aches in the afternoon. But only in the afternoon. I dont know why and this didnt happen before that. (link)
If it's muscle pain then you may be overdoing it.
If you mean you get a stomach ache like your going to throw up, then you are eating or drinking to much water before you do your excersices.:)


I had a pretty bad cold over the weekend, and since then, I haven't had a voice. I've been taking it easy with it, taking medicine and such, but I need my voice back. I'm trying out for choir and I need a voice. Any remedies or medicines that will get my voice back quickly? Please help, I need a miracle. I'll rate for effort. (link)
ok, don't use your voice. I mean at all. If you have to talk whisper so you aren't using your vocal chords.

Drink plenty of fluids. Try tea (yuk) with lemon and honey in it. Or just water is good enough.

Inhale steam from a pot of boiling water. Just boil water in a pan. throw a towel over your head hold it over the steam and breathe. Be careful you don't get to close until your used to it.

last but not least hold warm washcloth to your throat.

Don't know how fast it will heal it up, but it will certainly help it along. Good luck with that choir tryout! :)


ok i had a best friend rachel and we were the bestest of friends then one terrible day she moved and we kept in touch but then she moved to indianna and she never called when she was in indianna and me and her havent called eachother since (we werent mad at eachother) i miss her so much i had a dream i met her again, and i was crying when i found out it was a dream i need help please! i will rate 5's on advices that arent mean! (link)
It's never to late to get in touch with an old friend. Call her or write her.email her whatever.
If it hasn't been to long ago and you don't have her old address send it to the old one and it will get forwarded to her.


Hi, let me start by saying I'm young. 13f and my best friend died. Her brother was hurt really bad and i feel like it was my fault, cuz they were on their way to pic me up when a drunk driver ran into them. My friend died instantly and her brother is expected to die in the next seven-twelve days. I want to say something to him, but I don't know what and if I don't hurry, it might be too late. You can e-mail me at prettymoonbug@hotmail.com (link)
Sorry to hear about your loss. It really wasn't your fault so don't blame yourself.The fault lies in the drunk driver.

You just go and see him and be with him.What to say will come to you when you get there.


okay what if i went out with this guy couple months ago (i broke up with him becasue he cheated on me-he cheats on all his gfs) but then 2months after we broke up we both liked each other and stuff and we made out and now wer best friends and friends with benefits and i REALLY like him but now hes going out with my friend and he likes me but he likes her too (probably more) and we talk on the phone more then they do and stuff and when other people are around he always talks about her i hate it but when its me and him he talks about us and i love it...What do i do?! (link)
I think he is using you for benefits. If you can live with that so be it. But, that's all it is i'm afraid.


My boyfriend dumped me about a week ago and the other night, he realized that it was a bad idea. So he asked me out and we are back together, but I was wondering, is it a good idea? We love and care for each other, but there seems to be some tension still. So yeah. (link)
I suppose you'll have to decide based on what he broke up with you for last week. Did he have a good excuse? Or was it a stupid reason.
Just be sure he is sincere in wanting to work things out.


ok well theres this kid whos graduating supposeably this year and well i reaally like him like love him and well im not aloud to date him because well lets say the my dad is presidist and well the worat part is that hes a ladys man and he flirts but i dont know if he likes me so what should i do because im thise people who are afraid to get hurt but no matter how hard i deny im afrisd that hell have my heart when he leaves and it kills me so go against my family or what plus my brother are the same way and they both go to the same school helppppppppppppppppppppppp (link)
If your dad will not get along with him...chances are good you will get hurt. No matter how wrong he may be, it will put strain on your relationship with this boy. So, that's what you have to decide. Boy or family. Can you live with the problems it will cause.Some can and some can't. It's a decision you'll have to make. Since you don't even know if he likes you or not, you'll need to find that out first too.:)


How do i know if my boyfriend is really interested in me? Also how do i know if he is cheating on me? Please help (link)
You should be able to tell if he is interested by his actions. Does he pay attention to you? Does he treat you good? If so it's probably not a problem.

Intuition is usually pretty good, unless you are the jealous type. If you feel he is cheating then I guess you keep a closer eye on him.

If you can't trust him then you need to let him go. Otherwise you will both be miserable.You can ask him but, if he is then he will probably not tell the truth anyway. Don't jump on him unless you knnow for sure though. Good luck


My boyfriend is at his dads for spring break and his dad lives 3 hrs away from here. I am finding it really hard to get him off my mind. I just lay around thinking of him and waiting for him to call me. But he only calls me late so he wont get in trouble. What can i do to pass the time and get him off my mind?
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Hang out with your girlfriends. Talk about him a lot. wait for him to call. He will be back soon :)


ok, so a guy i know and love is stareing at me now that i have boobs... but what if thats all he likes me for? i want to love him , but i dont want him to break my heart. (link)
it wouold be nice if some guys would give you some advice on this one wouldn't it!?

I don't know what the fascination is but all guys young and old alike just love boobs. They don't care how big or small, Live or in pictures.
Maybe because they don't have any....They just love them!

So, If he likes you he probably likes you for your personality but he's still going to look at your boobs. Older guys have a little better control about it, but those young guys in hormonal overload....don't worry about it. No diffrent than him thinking you have a pretty face when you think about it. Just tell him to pick his tongue up off the floor and take you out on a date! :)

PS: you don't have to let him touch.:)


I'm hooking up with this guy, and I don't know if he's hooking up with other girls or not. We're not in a relationship or anything, but I would just like to know if he's with other girls or not. I don't want to straight out ask him, and i don't want to involve my friends, so is there a way I could get him to tell me without straight out asking him "are you hooking up with other girls?" All advice is appreciated. Thanks all! (link)
In this day and age you have every right to know his past and/or current history. Same as he should want to know yours. So I don't think you would be out of line if you asked him.:)


I broke up with my b/f a few days ago. One of my best guy friends ask me out then. I said yea, because I thought that I liked him and I didn't wanna hurt him. But now that I'm going out with him I'm not sure if I really like him. It kinda feels like oh I liked it better when we were friends when I could just say I love you all the time and he'd tell me the same thing. I don't know what to do now. Does anyone have any advice or had the same problem and what did you do? (link)
You only went out once! You can either give it another try and see if things change, or just tell him you like him as a friend and want to keep it that way. Don't wait long though because you'll hurt his feelings if you let it go undecided to long. :)


There's this guy I met about a month and a half ago that I really like. When I met him we discovered that we had the exact same interests and my friends kept telling me to go for it, but I didn't want to make the first move. Nothing happened that night but he seemed a little bit interested in me. Then 2 days later he got my screen name from a friend and we talked a little bit. My friend asked him if he liked me and he said he didn't know yet because we had just met. Then a couple days later he told me he wanted to do something with me that weekend and people who are friends with him kept asking me if I liked him. I thought that meant he liked me. We didn't end up doing anything until like 2 weeks ago. So I hung out with him and we completely got along and we had fun. The problem was that he seemed to be more touchy with all of the other girls there than me. I feel a little bit crazy about it, but I really want things to work out with him. So pretty much he keeps saying things to me that make him seem interested and get me excited, but he also says things that make it seem to me like he just wants to be friends. Another problem is he was away for a week and so I couldn't talk to him and then he came home and we haven't talked much since the last time we saw each other. If he had feelings for me he might have gotten over them since it's been so long. How can I tell if he likes me? (link)
A week isn't all that long.If you want to know how he feels just ask him. Tell him he's sending you mixed signals and you just want to know where you stand with him. Maybe he does only want
to be friends but, it wouold be nice to know for sure!:)


Ok...

im dating this guy its gonna be 2 years soon...but hes really jelous like he always think im flriting with every guy i talk to..and i had this best friend we'll call him tyler..well since me and my boyfriend are fighting alot about the flirting thing im hanging arould tyler more and i think im starting to like him more than a friend but i still love my boyfriend and im extremly confused..i need some help fast!

thanks if ur advice isnt mean ill rate all 5's (link)
I'm gonna say date Tyler.

Someone who is going to be jealous everytime you so much as look at someone else is probably not going to change very easily. You can try talking to him but some guys are just that way. It's already causing fights and i'm afraid it will just get worse.Very hard to deal with that type day after day.


I'm 15. I met my boyfriend (alias Jake) through a really close guyfriend of mine that is also good friends with him. They live 2 hrs. away; he can drive, I can't, I see him twice a month on average. I love Jake dearly, I have for the past 5 (give or take) months, but sometimes I feel as if he doesn't think I love him as much as he does me. It's like he really and truly thinks I'm too good for him, which is totally untrue (I'm not-I actually cheated on him a couple of months ago;I didn't mean anything by it, but I was really bad for doing it). Jake's the kind of kid that will let me win all little arguments before they turn into fights because he loves me too much to make me unhappy. I am crazy about Jake, and I need advice on how to let him know and believe it! He's probably tired of all the lyrics I send him, his are much better. I'm going to see him this weekend in a play. PLEASE give me some ideas! (link)
You know long distance romance is really hard. It will be hard for you to make him understand anything you say simply because he isn't there to see you all the time.

You just keep reassuring him. There isn't much more you can do. Seems like you keep in touch and everything already. Maybe you can try and encourage him to come and visit more often. It will probably be easier once school is out. :)


My car has recently strared to squeal/screach when I break. It's not all the time, mostly when I am in traffic. I assumed I needed break pads, so I had a friend check them, and they are fine. She assumed I have a "hard spot" in the pad. Could this be the cause? What else could it be? (link)
Take it to a mechanic if you don't know someone that can help you. Doesn't necessarily have to be the brake pads. There are other thing's in there that could be rubbing on something.It has fluid in it doesn't it?

Girl's can know about cars without being dykes or whatever nonsense was said earlier. Some of us can even drag race our cars as well as work on them.So don't even listen to that kind of talk.:)


well, there is this guy at school and he is really nice and such and i like him but i dont know if he likes me. sometimes when we are talkin he will just randomly sign off or if i say hi then he signs off...but other times he says hi to me and makes jokes about stuff and acts really nice. i dont get it and i dont know if he likes me or not. should i ask him or not? please help! (link)
Next time he is talking and joking you might just ask him. I'd at least ask him about the randomly signing off thing. Maybe someone came into room that he didn't want to see your conversation. :)


Hey, Advicenators!
I injured the ligiments, tendons, nerves in my right knee along with the hamstring. I used to be able to jog a mile in 12 minutes (uphill) without my knee hurting. I could run the mile (uphill) in seven minutes without my knee hurting. Now, I have a hard time jogging four hundred yards! I'm taking it 'slow', walking.. blah.. but, I'm now walking about three miles (once again, uphill) every day, and I can jog about 400 yards (you got it, uphill) without pain.. but I want to be as good - or better - as I was before I hurt my knee.
I stretch before I exercise, and I walk a little more than a mile three times a day, and I jog half a mile once a day. I love swimming, but it's still a little cool for that. How can I get my knee in top condition for this summer, swimming and such?
Thanks! (link)
Sound's to me as if you are doing ok! You have been improving steadily. Just keep up what you are doing. Be sure you warm up good (as if you don't already know that).Especially if it's cold.


What foods should you eat before exercising (sports that include running)? Also, what can you do to minimize cramps?!

Thanks in advance! (link)
I don't recommend eating to much before you exercise. to help prevent cramps make sure you drink plenty of water during the day...just not a lot right prior to. It will make you sick if you eat or drink much before.

I have also heard that tomato juice helps cramps, but have never tried it.


ok well i hope you can answer ouestions well mine are about sex and well my body #1 the first time tou have sex does it hurt #2 do you still feel it when you wear a condom #3 ok well is it normal for me to feel wet when well im excited #4 is it normal to be scared. and well people call me prude because well im 16-17 and the only thing ive done was kiss please help (link)
1.It does hurt a little for some girls but not everyone.Probably depends on the experience of the guy more than anything.

2.Not sure what you need on number 2. Do you still feel pain? Same as no condom. Can the guy feel it? It may not be as good as no condom for him, I'm sure it isn't. BUt, don't fall for that line because there are to many diseases out there for him to go without.Not to mention you need all the pregnancy protection you can get.

3.Yes it sure is.

4. Yes it is normal to be scared.And your sex life should be private so it's nobody elses business if you have or haven't had sex. If they want to call you a prude just let them. You will have a much better experience if you wait for that special guy anyway. :)




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