Mandie Lynn

So i got this bite about 3 days ago. I dont know when i was bit that day, i noticed the bite because i felt a slight sting so i looked at the area and noticed this, at the time it was darker and the white middle was smaller but besides that it looks the same. I know i could not have been bit right then and got that so quickly, but i do know it wasnt there that morning. Anyways at first the middle was hard, like a knot. Now it has evened out and is just an area slightly harder than my other skin. It also doesn't hurt as much now to touch. Anyone know what this could be from? I have tried looking it up for days. And no it is not from hitting something, i did not hit my leg on anything.

I remember filling out a W4 form when I first started my job but this is the second tax time since and I never looked at it or changed it at all. However the whole time I have worked in total (like 2 1/2 yrs) I have supported my fiance completely and was told recently I could claim his as a dependent on my taxes. However when I filled out the W4 forever ago, I didn't know that so I put no dependents. Apparently our W2 forms are being sent in the mail already but I would like to claim him, I wish I knew that two years ago! Is there any way to do that before I get my taxes done or am I just screwed for this whole last year I have supported us both?

There is this guy that I am friends with. We have been "friends" for awhile, over 6 months and a lot of that time he has given me rides to work, my parents, the store etc. because I don't have a car. Apparently he has liked me from when he first met me according to my brother but the fact is I have negative zero attraction/interest in him and am happily engaged. He knows that. Not only have I at one point texted him this, strictly saying that even if me and my fiance didn't work out, I would not pursue a relationship with him and do not flirt with him in any way unless you count friendly talking as flirting. However I think he is just motivated to stick around hoping for me to go with him. He is 31 and has never had sex, never had a gf or anything. I am 20 and my fiance is 21 and we have been together for 5 years now. Anyway I have tried everything I can think of to get him off my back. Yet he still does pushy and creepy things that suggest that he likes me. For example when he is waiting to take me to work and I am getting ready, he will stand there in my doorway and watch me put on make up or whatever I choose to do to the point that I go in my dad's bathroom to get away from him looking at me. He will stand there and watch me and my fiance making out or anything really which makes it really awkward. One time he was watching us kiss in the backseat through the middle mirror...He tries to do everything for me and carry everything for me and then constantly asks me where my

Hey :) I am about 20 yrs old and I consume 1 to 2 cans of Red Bull everyday (8.4 oz). For the past year and a half I have been drinking it pretty regularly, in the beginning a can a day and then eventually 2 cans a day, sometimes three (if I can afford it lol). I have tried to quit drinking it about 6 months ago because I couldn't really afford it in which I lasted about two weeks and gave in because I always felt so tired all day long. My question has many parts, I am really just looking for TRUE advice on drinking it such as long term health effects, short term health effects, and especially if when consumed as I consume it, if it even makes a difference. The reason I say the last part is because I don't feel energy off of it anymore, more of just a want for the taste and the need to drink it to feel "normal" all day. I know that my body is addicted to the caffeine because if a day goes by that I don't have it I usually get a two day migraine (even if I have a red bull the next day!) as well as being very tired and cranky. So if you cared to read this and have any experience or actual knowledge about this, I would love to hear it. However I have used yahoo answers a lot and I am NOT looking for anything like..."Its bad for you, stop" or "Why would you drink that?" so if you have the outlook of a paranoid 3rd grader...please DO NOT answer my question. Thanks!

My fiance and I have been together 4 and a half years, engaged about a year and a half of it. We have been through a lot, just like any committed couple goes through. Recently I told him we needed a break, but then quickly cleared up the situation and we went exactly back to normal. Anyway, the main thing is that I love him, I truly, really do love him and I want our future to work out, I do want things to work for us. I am not interested in anyone else particularly, and like I said I do love him. But at the same time, I feel like I know that he will never be what I truly want in a relationship. Not that he couldn't be but that his personality and attitude would never go to those extents and besides I wouldn't want him to change so much just to please me. We have always been opposites and wanted different things as for careers, jobs, a wedding, somewhat for kids, etc. but I figured it would work out in its own way. I am not some princess that imagines a fairy tale man or something like that, but just small things that I feel he would never do, I want a guy that would do that on his own. As well as that I feel that our relationship from the start was never growing because we got to know each other and liked what we found out, more that I loved him and dedicated myself to our relationship and I assume the same for him. I just feel like I could be so much happier and eventually if he were to find someone more like him, he could be happier too. But at the same time, I know he loves me so much and is terrified of me leaving him (I believe he is scared to be alone) and losing me forever. I don't know if I should hold back and keep hoping and trying to turn this around or if I should try to let go and eventually find someone more compatible for me. It just seems that I may be wasting years of mine and his as well as making it even harder for both of us in the end, if we were to break up. I know this was long and most of you won't even read it, but please give suggestions. Thank you.

I know McDonald's and Burger King are some but a list of as many as you can think of would be very helpful, especially if there are some that have nothing to do with the restaurant/food industry. Thanks.

My fiance is very picky about what job he wants to work. He is 19 with no work experience but he does have a high school diploma. Anyway, he wants a job that doesn't drug test (a pre-employment drug test would probably be fine but not a job that does surprise or scheduled drug tests), a job that doesn't require very much socialization with customers (he has social anxiety), and a job that will allow him to wear his hat which is like a beanie hat or a job that requires you to wear some sort of hat. As you can imagine, I am having a lot of trouble finding a place that I know will accept all of these things, topping off that he doesn't have any work experience. We really need to move out and get a vehicle, but until he brings in some sort of income, we won't ever be able to do that. If anyone has any knowledge of places even fitting one of these "wants" please give me some answers. Thank you.

I already have my ears pierced, have since I was 10. I want to slowly start stretching my ears, eventually want them to be about 8 mm or 10 mm only. Anyway I am not allowed to wear any type of jewelry at work, even gauges. I really want to get them stretched, but I am not sure if I have to keep a plug in always like when you get your ears pierced or if I can give it some free air and not wear them while at work. So basically my question is, Is there anyway that I can get them stretched and just keep nothing in for a few hours at work and then replace them or no? If no, how long would I have to keep something in for it to heal? Thank you.

I smoke about a pack a day and am 18 years old (female). I would smoke off and on but wasn't addicted between 14-16 and then I became addicted at 16 so smoking for two years. I don't think I am emotionally ready to quit smoking but I do want to better my health. I was wondering if just cutting down (say smoke half the amount) with NO INTENT TO QUIT would help my health any..? Is smoking 6 cigarettes a day just as dangerous as smoking 20? Or is it helpful smoking less? Please don't go into why I should quit or how I am stupid for smoking...I already know. I just wanted to ask this question because I can't find a good answer. Thank you.

I am 18 years old, going on 19 in May. I got my learner's permit in February because my mom wanted me to practice a little more before I got my license. I know that when you are under 18 you have to wait a certain amount of time before you can get your license, but does that apply to those who are over 18? I got my permit in February sometime so I have had it for a couple months. I don't think I have to wait any amount of time but then again I am not sure. I live in North Carolina btw. I have tried looking this up on the DMV site but I can't find out anything. Thanks for any answers.

"The email you entered does not belong to any account." The last time I changed my password was over a week ago and only my fiance knows my password (and he has been asleep all day) so no one I know changed it or anything (and even if they had it wouldn't be saying my email was wrong). Does anyone know why it is doing this? I am pretty pissed right now about this crap. Thank you.

Okay well first off me and my fiance have been through A LOT. We have been together since May 2009, he was my first love and we both lost our V cards to one another. For the first year of our relationship, I did not know he had any kind of gaming addiction because I had never came over his house and he never even told me about it. For the last two years however, a lot has changed. I have lived with him during these years and I notice a lot. The point is that it is drastically changing our relationship for the worse. He used to be soley addicted to an MMORPG called Runescape, he basically mastered that (99 everything plus a lot more) and now he is addicted to an online game called Quake, which he is very good at. But the thing is, we never do anything together. We have gone on one date in three years, he will go out places but that is just so he can drive (he likes to practice driving) and he basically is ready to go home as soon as we get there (unless it involves food). The only times he gets off the game are to use the bathroom, eat (and most of the time he eats while he plays), to drive somewhere, and occasionally to watch a movie. He sleeps an average amount, he will sleep up to 8-10 hours if he is not woken. But if he is woke up after 5 hours, he will usually get on the game instead of go back to sleep. I just recently turned 18, so I am trying to get us jobs and move out, we recently let my family back in our lives so I am trying to re-connect with them as well. When I talk about him getting a job, he says he can't do anything about it because his parents won't take him (he only has his permit but he is 19) but he never asks them to take him. If he let me, I could have us working within a month and out of the house by the end of the summer but I don't think he wants to work. When he is away from his computer, even for the weekend, he usually sleeps a lot. He does try to do other things when he can't get on the computer but he is always wanting to go back on it. I know he doesn't like people, he refuses to work as a cashier or anything that communicates with others too much. He doesn't like talking to anyone besides close family and most of the time he won't even talk to them. He thinks people are always looking at him and he will wear a hat and jacket in 100 degree weather. I don't get it, and I guess I shouldn't because we are opposites. I am 99 percent sure he has social anxiety disorder but he says he doesn't want to be on meds all his life. He won't go to a doctor even because he thinks it is pointless. I know he is addicted to his online games but to me it seems childish. We need to move out and start working and start our lives. It is making me distant from him because we can't talk about anything without him getting mad and I want to do things with him but I never can because he is too busy. I love him and I understand that things like this are not his fault but I don't know what to do. I want to be able to at least hang out with him once or twice a day, him work as well as me and both of use communicate with each other and our families. I see our future as me raising the kids, working, cleaning and cooking while he is on the computer. Is there anything I can do to help him with this? Please help. It is tearing me apart because I don't want to end up in a bad place. Thank you.

I am 18 and weigh 105 lbs (I think that matters) and I have a very fast metabolism. I am planning to smoke pot for the last time on this upcoming Tuesday. (Today is Sunday.) I have to start putting in job applications soon and some of them may want to interview within 3 days of me putting in the application (this has happened to me before) and obviously I need to pass the drug test. How long will I have to wait until I am able to put applications in? Assume that the day after I put in applications they call me in for interviews and I am drug tested.....(that way I will be totally clean when they do said test). I have been smoking for about two weeks. I used to smoke pot everyday but then I quit (that was back in August 2011). In the past two weeks I have smoked once a day and twice I smoked twice a day. Please give me some good answers because I really need a job and don't want to blow the few options available to me. Thank you.

Okay I will start at the beginning. On Saturday I went to visit my parents and they gave me two garbage bags full of clothes that no one has worn in about two years (they were my old clothes). They had them kept in a outdoor shed but the shed looked pretty clean. Anyway, I brought them home and some of them smelt fine and others smelt gross. I put most of them in the wash right away but I also saw my old prom dress and my sister wanted me to try it on (it wasn't washed yet) and it smelt fine so I did. Well when I was going through the rest of the unwashed clothes I saw just one small bug crawling on my bed. I had never seen such a bug before but it was only one so I didn't worry. It looked like a baby ladybug, blackish with grey or white looking spots on it. It was only the size of a pencil eraser (back of pencil). Anyway since I have tried that dress on, I have been itching. I see no bite spots on my body but I am itching very often. So I guess it must be because I tried on that dress before washing it. Either that or I am stressed/worried/nervous. (I itch bad for some reason when I am any of those and Saturday was the first time I had seen my parents in two years when I ran away also I am moving tomorrow so I am nervous of that.) I can't tell if maybe some kind of itchiness came from that bug or my emotions. Can someone please tell me what kind of bug that was, if it is something to worry about, and how to stop itching?? Please! It would help me so much, I am worried.

Okay on Comcast's website they say that for my address I have a couple options available for internet. One has 6 Mbps download speed and 1 Mbps upload speed for 20 dollars a month and another offer is 8 Mbps download speed and 2 Mbps upload speed for 30 dollars a month. I know that a little b means bits and a big B means bytes. But wouldn't that mean that these offers are slower than dial up internet? I hear Comcast is one of the fastest cable-internet providers in the US. If so, why would they have such slow offers? That is why I think either I am wrong about this or that they worded it incorrectly. If anyone has chose this offer or knows about these things, please answer this. I need pretty fast internet because my husband is a PC gamer and he has to have it really fast so it is very important to me. Thank you.

Hi I am trying to contact Comcast Internet. I am currently living somewhere with Charter Internet but I was going to move to another household and get Comcast there. I want to call or online chat with them about the options available where I live and also ask them exactly what they mean by 6 Mbps download speed and 1 Mbps upload speed but it seems unless I am an account holder I can't talk to them. I want to know these things before I set up an account I have to pay for just in case I decide not to join them. If anyone has had this problem please help. Thank you.

I ran away from an abusive home when I was 16 years old. I am now 18 and I am planning to go see my parents for the first time since I left so that I can get my records. If they had a cop or detective at their house when I went to meet them, could I get charged with anything now that I am 18? They did post me as a run away when I first ran away, so there is proof I did run away. But could I get charged with anything now that I am 18? Please only good answers, my freedom is on the line here.

My house has mice in it and I can't take it anymore. I have only lived in this house for about a year and a half but my boyfriend's family (owners of this house) have lived here about 6 or 7 years and claim they have had mice for the past 5 years. So pretty much 5 years of mice running around. Anyway the only type of "killer" they said to have tried is some bad chemical thing that you put under the house (they eat it and then die). Unfortunately, they are kind of procrastinators and don't do much about even the most important things. So they haven't got any more of this chemical in at least a year and a half (I would remember them getting it). I know there must be a bunch of these mice in the walls and such. You know the saying, "you see one or two but there is probably thousands in the house". In fact I have cleaned out drawers and closets that were pretty much unused and found piles and piles of mouse poop. So I know that there are plenty. Anyway, in the past month, I have been seeing them a whole lot more. The last time I even saw one (before this past month) was about 8 or 9 months ago, and it was only one mouse then and no more after. Now I see about 2 to 4 mice (could be the same one but I doubt it) each day. I look over randomly and one will just be sitting there by a door or right in the middle of the floor! Sometimes I see them running, but usually they are just pausing for a minute and the only reason I see them is because it flickers by my eyes. I see them in my room often as well as my boyfriend's room and the living room. I have seen one go in the bathroom (after it finally climbed out of a bin) and one in the kitchen. Our wiener dog is always sniffing and digging in weird places for the past month or two and whining (he wants to catch them) so I know its not just me. I don't know how to get rid of them because I am only 17 (18 in two days) and it is not my house or my money. The only reason it bugs me more than them I guess is because this is the first house I ever lived in that had mice and also I am to the point where I am wearing shoes 24/7 so I don't run into one over my foot. How can I get rid of them though? Nothing too expensive or anything that will hurt our dog (obviously). Please suggest anything you have tried or would try or at least give me some tips. This is crazy!!

Hi :) Last night I pierced the top of my ear (cartilage) at home by myself. First I pierced it through with a needle but when I took the needle out, the actual earring wouldn't go in easy so instead I put a safety pin through the hole to see if leaving that in would make the hole easier to access. Well it didn't so I ended up just "pushing" the earring through the hole. (I didn't re-pierce because I saw both holes but it hurt really bad.) Anyway the earring I put in my ear is pretty tiny and thin, that is part of the reason I picked that earring. But also my little sister got the middle edge of her ear pierced with that earring so I figured it was a better choice than using something like a claire's earring. (I did clean it.) Anyway I was wondering how long I have to leave that earring in before I can change it? I have heard 6-8 weeks and 6-12 months, also I even heard 3 months....I just want to know the "real" answer because I would like to put a new earring in asap but I want it to heal also. Another thing is my ears are allergic to fake jewelry so I was wondering if this earring will be okay in my ear? Like I said, my little sister's ear got pierced with it at the piercing place so I figure it is hypo allergic....last thing is how to clean it. Is it okay to just clean it once a day with alcohol and spin it a couple times a day? It's weird because I have had different friend's pierce my cartilage before (3 different times) but that was my other ear. This is the first time I did this ear and I really can't remember how long to leave it in or if it will stay clean and safe. I know this is a lot but I worry about these things too much. Btw the reason I pierced it at home is because I live with my bf's family and I felt bad about asking them to take me somewhere even though they don't mind me having that piercing. Thanks for all comments and have a good day :)

I have a Windows 7 laptop. For the past two days, the internet has not worked, instead it says "limited access". I have looked up soo many things on how to fix it, none of them worked. I even had a service man come out here and try to fix it, he said it was a problem with the computer and that he couldn't fix it. When the limited access started, I was doing a scan. I was scanning using Microsoft Security Essentials and then it froze. I couldn't even get to the task manager so I manually shut down the computer. When I turned it back on, limited access was there and has been ever since. About a week or so ago I had a computer guy come and fix my computer because it had been infected with the "Win7" virus and many others according to him. He put Spybot, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and AVG Internet Security 2011 on there and it had slow internet but was working until well two days ago when the above ^ happened. I have tried everything and paid some money already, I want to fix my internet without paying more. I already got another internet modem, so it isn't that. Also no matter what the internet guy did, my ip address says 169.254.79.77 and it won't change. I am not too computer savvy but I have been looking up and trying so many things lately, none of them work and I am tired of it. If anyone has had this problem or specializes in these things, PLEASE HELP ME. Thank you.