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i've been writing a story for quite a while but haven't been able to find a good name for the main character. i've been using Jessie as a filler but it doesn't fit very well with her character now so i need some new names!

she's almost 17 years old, has blonde hair and green eyes and physically very fit because she does lots of gym work and combat training. she isn't very open about how she feels most the time and finds it hard to show people she cares about them but she has a very strong protection instinct and uses it to keep them safe. she also has a very black and white view of right and wrong and uses it to play judge and jury with the people she has to find.

a name that's 2-3 syllables would be best and if it has a nickname that would be even better. preferably something that isn't too popular (like in the top 10 names) but also nothing that's too out there because she still needs to be able to blend in.

10 points for best answer! thanks!

i have headaches quite often but i have one almost everyday now and it's really starting to wear me down. i also feel dizzy like the room is spinning around me even though the room around me looks normal. on top of that i feel very nauseous almost all the time, especially if i eat or even smell foods that i usually like.

any ideas what could be wrong with me? there's a small lump on the back of my neck which is quite sensitive but i doubt that's causing it, right? i'd go to the doctor but i'm so busy this week i doubt i'll have the time :/ help?

i was talking to a guy i know today and he was asking me how i was because he knows i haven't been too great lately. we talked for a while and then he said that if i ever need someone to talk i should know that he really cares about me and he called me sweetheart. he's never done anything like that before and i don't really know what to think, i've never heard him say sweetheart or anything similar to that to anyone (not even family or anything) so i don't know whether this is his way of showing he likes me more than a friend or what? from anyone else i wouldn't think much about it but it's really not liking him to be like that with anyone let alone a girl. help??

i met a guy my age on tumblr (if you don't know what it is, it's a bogging website) about a year ago. we became friends very quickly but recently it's started turning into more. we talk to each other almost all the time and i'm getting some really strong feelings for him and he's hinted that he feels the same way about me. the only problem is he lives in Norway and i live in London.

we're both almost at the age where we could travel to see each other but we don't have very much money to do that and we both want to go to university. am i being unrealistic if i think about a relationship between us? i know that in a year or two he will probably move to London to go to university and we'll be living a lot closer together.

i honestly do think there's something between us but i don't know if it will work out or it will just hurt me more if we do break up? help??

My brother's galaxy s2 has a voice announcer that basically says whatever you're doing on your phone all the time. For example, if you start the phone it reads out the time, when you go on to settings it says you're on your settings, it says whatever button you click on, etc. is there anyway to turn this off? It's so annoying and I have no idea how you stop it

my mom is trying for a baby and over the last few days we've been thinking of names but we're still a little stumped over the girls names. these are the names we have so far:

Charlotte Eliza "Charlie"

Kaitlin Sophia "Katie"

Scarlett Olivia

Natalie Morgan "Talie"

Phoebe Grace

Aaliyah Rose

suggestions welcome! rating names and reasons why give you a better chance at BA. thanks!

my mom is trying for another baby and she's asked me to help her out with name suggestions. so far we've got a list together but can't seem to pick a favorite... these are the ones we've got so far:

Lucas James "Luke"

Rory Elijah

Matthew Hunter "Matt"

Spencer Isaac "Spence"

Tristan Jacob

Zachary Ryan "Zac"

Hunter Cody

any suggestions are welcome!

my mom is trying for a baby and is almost certain she's going to name the baby Lucas if it's a boy. i like the name Lucas but almost everyone has said they'd call him Luke or LJ (standing for Lucas James) as a nickname. do you think it would be better to name him Luke because that's what we'll mostly be calling him or name him Lucas so he has the choice of a nickname? thanks!

my mom is currently thinking about trying for a baby with her boyfriend she's been with for 9 years but she can't decide if the age gap would be too big. her oldest child is 25, i'm her youngest and i'm almost 16 so there is quite a big gap. would you say the gap is too big or it doesn't matter because almost all her children are grown up? when do you think an age gap becomes to big for the siblings to get on together? thanks!

i was talking to my best friend today and found out that on the mornings after her mom's boyfriend stays over her mom goes out for an hour or two to do shopping and leaves them in the house. i didn't find this weird because my friend was totally normal about it but when i was talking to my mom about it she said she'd never do something like that. i can sort of understand why but my friend's mom has been with her boyfriend for nearly a year and he's a totally normal guy plus my friend is 15 so she can handle herself pretty well. do you think it's weird? would you leave your daughter with your boyfriend for an hour or so in the morning?

i'm writing a story and it involves a baby that is currently about 3 weeks old but i'm not really sure the extent of what a baby that age can do. i thought that when he was about 3 months he could use a walker/bouncer type thing but i'm not entirely sure if that's right.

at what age would something like this be suitable to use: http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=h...

also when would something like this be suitable: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tb...

thanks!

i've had one email address linked to my phone for a few months and i use it all the time so i thought i'd put the other one on but every time i try and check for new emails it just comes up with 'cannot get mail. the connection to the server failed' but the other email account is working fine so i can't work out what's wrong. they're both on hotmail so is that what might be wrong with it? the first one automatically stored itself under hotmail when i set it up but this one put itself under live.co.uk so does that need changing?

i really need to fix this as i don't use my laptop very often and it's a pain having to keeping it on just to check my emails especially since i've got multiple accounts. i can sign into the account just fine on safari but i'd prefer if it just went straight to my mail box. please help?

i have a character in my story that i've called Ryan pretty much since i thought of the character. i've been working on his character development a little more recently and the name just doesn't sit well for me anymore. so any new names you can come up with would be great.

his general description is: 12 years old, medium length blonde/brown hair, hazel eyes. He's new to the school (a school where all the characters in the story live) and usually keeps to himself. He doesn’t say much but he’s got an interesting personality when you get to know him. He’s very fast and good at agility which comes from him being a free runner from an early age. He's got lots of attitude, is very sarcastic and if he doesn't want to do something he won't do it. He’s also slightly short for his age.

he also kind of looks like the boy in this picture: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tb...

i was thinking of quite popular name that's probably quite trendy so something similar in style to Ryan. i was thinking something like Luke or Carter but i'm not too happy with them either.

thanks!

my cousins are 7 and 9 at the moment but will be turning 8 and 10 in September and i've been thinking about allowances for them. up until a month ago they were living with their mom but now they live with me, my mom, brother and sister. they've never had allowances before because they're mom thought it was better to just buy what they wanted but i think it's important for them to understand money management.

at the moment i'm thinking giving them both £5 a week ($7.60). do you think the 10 year old should get more than his brother? i think they're both at a similar age and i wouldn't think they'd need an increase until the older one was 12. what do you think?

so i've had what i thought was a ghost in the house i share with my mom, sister and brother since we moved in her nine years ago. i was six at the time and i grew up thinking it was friendly and never felt scared around it. in the last week it's been more mischievous. it's been hiding stuff then putting them in obvious places, opening the stair gate (for the children i babysit) and me and my sister have been seeing what we think it is.

i was getting pretty annoyed at it because it's just me and my sister staying in the house this week and she was becoming scared and it was opening the stair gate which was dangerous for the kids. i decided i'd tell it to stop and figured it would listen to me.

all i said was it needed to stop opening the stair gate and causing trouble when i started to feel really uncomfortable, like someone bad was standing right behind me. i told it that if it didn't stop i'd make it stop when i felt something cold touch my back then my bedroom door was shut really fast even though there wasn't even a breeze in the room.

after that i felt really scared and uneasy the whole day. things have been banging around upstairs and me and my sister have felt to uncomfortable to go up there now. our cats won't go near the stairs leading upstairs. i'm meant to be babysitting tomorrow but i'm thinking of cancelling because i don't want a child here with all this going on.

did i make it angry? i've always thought of the it as a ghost because it never had any bad intentions towards me but now i'm not so sure. whatever touched me really hated me, i could just tell. if it is just a ghost then why would it change so much? it used to be friendly, my mom told me i used to play with it when i was young. how could it change from something friendly and quiet to noisy and possibly violent. help!?

there's always been a strange about the house. we moved in nine years ago and my brother and i have always thought there might be a ghost. most the time its just noises like people walking round upstairs or doors being slammed which can be annoying but never really scared us. recently whatever it might be is becoming more active and trying to cause trouble.

a few nights ago i was looking for my phone which i knew i'd taken into the room because i'd only been using a few minutes before. i left the room for a few minutes to feed my hamster but when i came back my phone was just placed where i had been sitting like it wanted me to know it had put it there.

the stair gate we have in our living room (for the kids i babysit) keeps opening by itself. it has a really stiff lock so i'm at a loss how it could be opening repeatedly when no one is doing it.

i tried brushing these things off but my sister and i are spending the next few days home alone and she's worried about all the activity. we're used to staying at home so it's not nerves, there's definitely something wrong. for almost the whole day i've been seeing someone out of the corner of my eye. it's not a surprise, i see what i guess is the ghost occasionally. it always disappears before i get a good look so i never thought of it as a threat. early my sister told me she'd seen someone sitting in the corner of the room but when she looked to see there was no one there. i thought she might of imagined it but she described the person perfectly to me and i've never told her about the person.

could the ghost becoming more active for a reason? i can't think of anything triggering it other than i got ill recently and that was just before things started to get weird. is that just a coincidence? please help!

i have a lot of trouble getting to sleep so i usually take a 20-30 minute walk every night around midnight. if my mom knew she'd probably kill me, she's convinced there's murderers around every corner. i mean, i never see anyone out that late in the few months i've been doing it.

would your parents get angry if you walked around outside at night?

i'm 15 and my brother is 22 but he still lives at home with me, my mum and my sister who is 20. in the last couple of weeks he's been acting really inappropriately like making really sexual jokes even though i've told him i don't like it he carries on. this afternoon he had a shower and came into the living room where i was sitting and started talking about REALLY inappropriate stuff so i told him to go away and he flashed me. i'm always embarrassed about stuff like that and it just made me so uncomfortable i had to go to my bedroom and haven't come out since.

whenever i try and explain to my mum or him that i don't like the stuff he does and says they just laugh and say i'm being over sensitive. today when he flashed me i told him to not do it again and he told me i was 'asking for it' which is when i went to my room.

i just feel SO uncomfortable about being around him now. i know i can't avoid him forever but i can't stand living with him. my mum treats him like he's an angel and doesn't plan on him moving out for years. i just hate living with him but there's no way i can leave. help?

i was putting my dogs out in my back garden for them to have a run round when i found a hedgehog out there. i haven't touched it or moved it and my dogs are inside now but i don't know what to do. should i just leave it to go away? it's been alone for 20 minutes but when i went back out it still hadn't moved. it's quite big so i don't think it's a baby but i'm still worried about moving it. should i feed it? it doesn't look hurt so it should have gone by now, right? please help!

my mum and i were dogsitting a German Shepard puppy for a friend of a friend but the owner can't look after him anymore. we already have two border collies who have high energy levels and all the equipment for looking after him but we're having trouble entertaining him. our border collies never took much interest in kong balls but the German Shepard loves them. at the moment we're just stuffing it with regular dog kibble and covering the hole with a slice of ham but we wanna try something more interesting. someone suggested peanut butter but is that healthy for a puppy? thanks! :)