kaledrina

Sophie is 3 years old. She's my baby and I love her to death, except she's slowly starting picking up a rather annoying habit.

When I pet her, she'll move her head around to start licking me. Once she's in the "gotta clean" mode, she won't stop. I can't keep petting her - she'll lick my hand in the same area for 10min if I let her. Even if I stop petting her, she'll adjust herself to lick my arm.

Other times when petting she'll show no signs of aggression and nip. Sometimes it's love nip, other times she snaps into serious aggression. Even if I immediately stop petting her she'll charge at my arm/elbow and get really darn close to drawing blood.

Help? She's really sweet, spayed, declawed (old owners did so at a young age). She also sucks on her tail but we're working on that... (Old owners weaned her really young too)

I don't like having to punish her and when she's attacking my hand I do the whole "Poke the nose" thing. It doesn't work.

I didn't recycle very much until this week... In one week I had completely filled, by myself, one blue recycling box. Without even thinking about it and with very little effort!

So why don't you? If your workplace doesn't offer recycling, why not demand it?

Plastic bags are estimated to take 500-1500 years to degrade. Why not recycle them? Instead of using plastic water bottles & tossing them, get a water purifier and use a reusable water bottle. Cost is less than $30 and you'll have significantly less garbage.

Why don't you recycle?

Long story short, car accident 1.5 years ago, originally had chiropractic roughly 4 months before the chiropractor let me go ahead and declare "case closed" (without any counseling so I though everything was hunky dory). About 4 months after that the back pain started to slowly increase, as well as neck. Now I'm just in pain all day, all night, no matter what. If its not my back, its my neck, if not the neck, its my back. I went back to a chiropractor and now I feel WORSE. What other options are there? I'm also working with an attorney so there's a brick wall everywhere I turn asking for help. In addition to possible solutions how do I break through legal brick walls and demand treatment? Would a standing MRI be helpful? I had a laying down MRI of my neck, which, surprise, showed nothing. Please I need help before everyone starts calling this psychological and ignoring me.

My boyfriend wants to buy me something cool this Xmas. Like a Wii or PS3. I'm really stuck on deciding. It's the old argument, PS3 is more expensive, Wii is more interactive, and BOTH have limited game selection. If I got a Wii I'd definitely go for Super Paper Mario but thats just one game. $300+ for one game? But then you can download cool stuff... So I get a couple months entertainment and everything stagnates as far as new games go.

And the PS3? I see no games out right now that appeal to me whatsoever. So here's a $400 piece of metal sitting near the TV with nothing to do. The only thing I find interesting is FFXIII but thats got a long time to go.

And Xbox is too shooter/multi/manly war games for me.

All-Natural hm?

Really now?

Since when is taking corn, genetically altered, stewing it with all sorts of chemicals natural? Not to mention High Fructose Corn Syrup is FAR from healthy in any way, fashion, or form?

When are people going to step up and DO something about companies like this lying to us and poisoning us? Aren't there any family-man lawyers that want their family to be healthy? Isn't anyone willing to make the steps necessary to protect Americans from one industry we depend on for health?

Which, in your opinion, are the best? Worst? Again on my crusade for tasty treats without high fructose corn syrup I've tried some natural sodas but I haven't had any luck with good ones.

I really like the taste of Rice Krispies. Not too sweet, light, easy.

But I'm on an anti High Fructose Corn Syrup crusade. That stuff is chemically and genetically modified and doesn't process the same as sugar in the body. Even if its needless hysteria it won't hurt me one bit to avoid it.

Anybody know any alternatives that are HFCS free? And tasty?

Would grey slacks and a navy/dark blue ribbed sweater match? The sweater has a deep V neck so I have a white lacy cami underneath that kind of shows at the top.

I'm going to also wear a black belt and black heels..

It's starting to get stinking cold out. I like to wash my hair in the morning before school but don't want to look like a raggedy anne doll with wet hair anymore. How do you suggest I blow dry my hair while retaining the natural curl and not burning it to nothing?

I want to be able to dress fashionable. You know, like Guess, Express, etc.... But I can't afford that in a long shot. I'm sick of seeing places with low prices like Wet Seal with shirts that fall apart as you try them on. I know you get what you pay for, but geeze.

Anyone have any suggestions other than thriftstores for good, quality, beautiful clothing? (Women's)

I need resources to help me study for my A&P I class. I'm feeling very overwhelmed in just the lab class. My only resources for this stuff is my notes, and the book (book has online CDs but they aren't too effective). Any online resources out there that can get this stuff stuck in my head better?

I want to purchase a new laptop in the near future, but $1000 is stretching my wallet way too much. I want cheap, sturdy, functional, and a little style won't hurt. I use the computer mostly for schoolwork, music, and internet, but I want some potential to play PC games later. I definitely don't want an el-cheapo but I don't need a laptop with a million bells and whistles that I'll never use. I may also be adding linux to the computer so a dual processor is a must.

So here's the jist of my problem. I'll be chatting on AIM and running Azureus in the background (dl and uploading), usually watching a series at the same time. Really great double tasking. Well everytime I have Azureus and AIM running simultaneously (more often with aim in the bg)... AIM consistently disconnects and reconnects, usually in 3 minute intervals. How do I prevent this from happening, its really irritating when I have important convos happening and I'd like to be able to run Azureus at the same time.

I turn 20 this year and I'm sick of being a couch potato. I'm 5'1" and 98lbs, haven't been very physically active in recent years but in PE and such I was in really good shape. The only thing that worries me is my back and neck are messed up from a car accident but otherwise I just wonder if I'm just too old now! I'm assuming I am, and if so, any other recreational dancing for someone my age with that same emphasis on grace, etc?

So I was about to buy some of those apples pies to go on a picnic with some friends... I glanced at the ingredients to see if it had high fructose corn syrup and found something that completely disgusted me.

Animal ingredients. I can't remember exactly, but I was appaled when the word "beef" was clearly printed on that ingredient list. Something like animal and vegetable shortenings (beef, etc etc)

This was... an apple pie. With "beef" being in the ingredients list. Now, I'm not one of those consumers who checks every ingredient label but did so on a whim (especially since noticing how EVERYTHING has high fructose corn syrup)...

I'm absolutely disgusted. What do you think about that?

I've had my aquarium for about 6 months now, its a 45-50g aquarium which is a FOWLR set up. The inhabitants include a pair of false clowns, a canary wrasse, scooter blenny (fat off of brine shrimp), a brown clown goby, and a green spotted puffer. Poor puffer, his growth is stunted from his previous 10g tank so he's just a bit bigger than the female clown. I reaaaaaaally want a dwarf angelfish (cherub preferably) and want to make sure I'm not pushing the limits of my tank.

However! I do have a really wonderful skimmer (gets full after 3 days), a biowheel filter, and a homemade sump in the works for all those lovely pods and added filtration. I wish I just had $100k to dedicate to fish, however... life sucks! Doesn't work that way. I'm pretty sure a Dwarf Angel would be fine, if I got one thats roughly 2" max. Opinions? I'm stricken with "I WANT ALL OF THEM" sickness, I suppose!

For no reason whatsoever, yesterday evening my right forearm started itching pretty bad. I can't think of anything to cause it and I did the usual... I put on my Vaseline Deep Moisture lotion which is 30% vaseline and usually helps at the first go. Well I ended up putting it on 3 more times over night, waking up in my sleep to find me scratching to bleeding point. Its all the way around my arm. Under my wrist to the top where the skin is thicker. I went to work this afternoon and put on some Aquaphor Advanced Therapy (41% vaseline!) and it did absolutely nothing. I figured allergic reaction to a wool shirt I wore a couple days ago and dealt with it and tried not itching.

Well its been over 24 hours and its been itching, and I'm not lying, CONSTANTLY. No relief. I looked closely and its just really dry, and on my wrist where that little bone sticks out the skin is like a lizards - starting to peel/crack. I rubbed on TONS of Aquaphor and nothing! It continues and I've changed 3 times.

What do all those numbers mean exactly? I know how to pick out the meat and such, but why that system of numbers?

I need an extremely detailed "how-to" on converting my SWFO tank to a reef tank. This is a dream for the future, I've seen pricetags on many of the required items, so I'm doing as much research as I can now. My tank is 45g with base rock and fake corals in it and I'd love to switch to a reef tank, however doing research on it has scared me to death. I know its more than adding 40lbs of liverock and letting it grow... Its a big, long, dramatic and expensive process to get to. I have no knowledge on the lighting requirements whatsoever, or what Kalkwasser is exactly. I'd like to just have a ncie detailed instruction on what I'd need to do. The tank's family includes a green spotted puffer, a pair of clownfish, 3 bumblebee gobies, a scooter blenny (and he eats too!), 2 citron clown gobies, and a canary wrasse. The cleanup team includes 3 hermit crabs and a turbo snail, which have somehow managed to escape puffer's voracious appetite. There's also a chocolate chip starfish hanging out too.

I've gone to Starbucks plenty of times... but for some reason the Frappuccinos usually end up making my boyfriend and I sick, even the lattes. I have the belief that their dairy is being handled wrong and I know complaining to a store manager won't help, its at different Starbucks and I don't feel like complaining in vain - they're not going to change much. How do I alert an inspecion agency, business watch group, or something to these? Or do I have to go to the doctor and get an actual diagnosis before someone does something?

The sickness is just stomach cramping, shakes, fever, and my personal "plumbing" starts to malfunction a bit. I'm attributing it to poor handling of dairy, since their teas and other things don't make me sick.