Rick

So I filed my taxes a little late this year. Sometime in July I believe. I filed by paper so I had to send in my taxes to the IRS by mail.

Onto my question. I had received my state tax check in the mail a couple days ago.

Having not received the federal, when do you think it will come in? Is there that much of a difference?

I appreciate the help in advance :)

First off, I would consider myself to be a hypochondriac.

One night, a bat flew into my room and flew in circles before flying back out. I figured it was strange and I knew there are bats in my attic, so I paid little attention.

On a night not too long after that, same bat flew into my room and flew in circles. This time I hit it out of the air with my hat. It landed on my bed almost motionless. It was alive I could see it breathing. I scooped it into a bag using a dustpan and a box.

Once in the bag, I slammed it as hard as I could into the side of my dresser. Yes I know that was a bad move, but I wanted the thing gone for good. To my dismay, the bag broke and the bat splattered blood on my dresser and ricocheted off my wall as well. The bat was split open. I used same dustpan as earlier to put it into a new bag and threw it in the trash. I cleaned the blood up with some antibacterial wipes and never made contact to my skin.

But the problem is, I also have a bit of dissociative amnesia and so I forget things. I'm pretty sure I didn't touch it with my hands, could I still have gotten anything from it? And I am pretty sure my young kitten didn't touch it when I briefly left the room.

What do I do?

I hate being a hypochondriac :(

Alright a little about my situation. I have an HP laptop and it works really nice but it's starting to fall apart. It's more my wife's than anything but I use it more often.

I am going to have $654 to spend on a new laptop and I need some assistance. There's a sony Vaio that I really like for 429.99 and it has 4GB of RAM and a 500GB Hard drive. I've also been looking at other HPs, ASUS, and Toshiba.

I want to get the most dependable laptop for my money and something that will last me a long time. Can anyone point me in the right direction here?

Please and thank you :)

I was opening a can of spaghetti Os with a pair of pliers (I didn't have a can opener)

When I took a bite, I felt something slightly poke the back of my throat. I didn't feel it go down or anything, but I want to know if I should be worried.

I have health anxiety, so my body likes to act like its in danger when it may not be.

When do I know I should be worried?

And advice would be great.

We all feel like this sometimes. You know exactly what to say when people ask you for relationship advice, but when you have a problem, you don't know what to do.

Well, I am at that point again.

There's a girl in my life. Her name is Kristina. We've been real cool for a long time, about 5 years+

We even dated for a little while in High School, but her home life got rocky and it ended unfortunately.

The past 5 or so years of my life i have been dreaming of being with her again. She seriously gives me the feeling of 'the one'. I have lived through many of her bad relationships and she has had one kid. Just recently, she broke up with a guy she was with for a while, at the same time that I became single. There is nothing in this world I would not do for her and I have shown her that. As a matter of fact, I am helping her move in a couple weeks and carry all the big stuff.

I brought it to her attention how I felt, and she said, "I will consider if and when the time comes. That's the best i can do :)"

I love her honesty, especially coming from a relationship where I was lied to daily.

So what do you think, can you help me out? A few pointers perhaps?

Anything is better than nothing.

This is my only shot.

Thank you:)

I just about had it with anxiety. I was willing to do almost anything to get rid of it. One day, Sara had some K2 and I asked what it was, and she described it as legal pot that has the same calming effects. Well, that night I just wanted to feel calm for once. What I didnt know, is that you're only supposed to have one or two hits of it and stop. I had about 7 which I know now is waaay too much. I decided to stop and let it kick in and feel the effects.And boy did I feel them.This stuff is intense. I weed, you feel good and think anything is funny. With this stuff, you feel good, but it feels like its forcing you to laugh and kind of feel imprisoned. I was flailing my army and giggling like a retard and started rolling on the bed. I said to sara, "this doesn't feel like real life" and in that single instant, my mind went bonkers. It felt like my brain was on a delay. I could see myself touching spomething, but I wouldnt feel it until a second or two afterwards. I told Sara I didnt feel right and that something was wrong. I had no sense of reality or what even time was. I told her to call an ambulance. The rest I can recall is like snapshots. I remember going to the porch and a cop asked me how long ago I had been smoking it and I really did not have a clue. Sara said half an hour and I was amazed. It felt like hours to me. I was barefoot and started walking to the ambulance. I could not feel cold or pain at all. It was late December and it felt like it was 70 degrees and that i was walking on pillows. I sat on a chair in the ambulance and they took my hear rate. I guess i couldnt make out the letters correctly because I thought the number was 120. So I said "120, not bad, right?" and the paramedic said, no your heart rate is 190. See normally I would have freaked out, but this stuff put me in some different world. Once I laid down son the stretcher, things went from weird, to worse. They were asking me questions and I could answer them fine. They said I was breathing really fast, but to me I was breathing normally. I guess thats how bad I viewed time. I laid my head back and stared at the ceiling lights. Then I lost the ability to talk, hear, or move. I could not feel anything. My vision went away and everything turned bright white. I felt like i was in the process of death, but the calm side and not the panicked side.I do not remember arriving at the hospital.I do not remember getting into the room or the bed in my ER room.I remember looking over at sara and wondering why she was crying so hard. I asked them if i was going to be okay, and they said yes. But everything anyone said felt like a lie to me and that it was a trick to calm me down so I could die peacefully. (Yeah I was pretty messed up.) I remember like feeling like I was in a different world, with me and Sara. Everyone else just faded away. Everything was still pretty bright and I felt like i was laying on a cloud. I remember the nurse making me take potassium pills. I remember signing my discharge papers. What still baffles me today is that I could do everything like I normally can now, but seeing how bad I was, I dont even know how I managed it.I had rapid memory loss....everything that I did seemed to just jump around. Like if i was waiting to do something, I wouldnt remember doing it. Although. Sara was telling me to go to sleep. I was convinced that if i went to sleep, i would slip away and die.But I was in the hospital for a total of three hours. Three hours that felt like half an hour. And I was in the ambulance for 5 minutes. 5 minutes that felt like 4 hours.It took me 5 hours to fall asleep when I got home.Now to today.Today I am a lot better. I still experience what has been described to me as depersonalization or disassociation. I feel like I'm not here and nothing is real. Like I am going through the motions. I am in the process of going to the free clinic to see if they can fix me.Please people. Don't do that stuff. I wouldnt wish that experience upon anyone. It was pure horror and I am still feeling the after effects 4 months later.Thanks for reading my story.

I am a 21 year old male and I have been going through some odd experiences and hope someone can help me with this. I am not panicked or afraid, I am just confused on what is going on. I have searched hours and hours for some kind of answer, but nothing was exactly what I was going through.

Let's do this.

To start out with, I used to sell and smoke marijuana. This was in 08-09 and since then I have stopped. In about 2011, I started experiencing anxiety and panic attacks because I used to drink a lot of Monster Energy Drinks. I have stopped that too.

For a while afterwards, I was still experiencing anxiety and milder panic attacks. One night, my wife brought home some K2 (which was legal at the time) She said it was a legal form of weed that makes you feel better. I havent done this kind of thing in a couple years, so I decided why not.

After 7 hits i decided to stop and let it kick in. Didn't want to over do it.

Too late.

Who knows how much longer after I stopped, i was laughing uncontrollably, and flailing around like an idiot. It was like being held captive. To shorten it, I ended up in an ambulance, heart rate up to 190bpm, and laying unresponsive and i stopped breathing for a couple minutes.

After a couple potassium pills, i was released on a clean bill of health and sent on my way.

But I did not feel fine.

Nothing felt real to me, Like i was in a dream. My memory was shorter and it was harder to focus. It wore off after a couple days, but still feels like its still there. I feel like i'm just going through the motions. I feel just fine after I wake up, and during the day it gets progressively worse. I feel like im not here, and when i get to thinking about it, it floods my mind in thought.

Sometimes i slightly freak out at the fact that im existing and things are happening... hard to explain that though. It has gotten better, its very mild now. I still feel like my heart could stop at anytime, but my panic attacks are gone. Is it paranoia? Disassociation? Someone please lead me in the right direction here. I am going to be a father soon and I want to be there for my son/ daughter to the fullest.

Just let me know whats going on and a possible solution.

Thanks so much.

So I have been playing guitar hero on the Wii (drums) and I would like to know If i get the drum set for the PS3, will the pedal from the wii kit work on it? I really want to utilize the double pedal.

Thanks in advance :)

So this started to get bad when I had some K2 and got sent to the hospital in December 2011.

Lately I have been feeling like I dont exist, at night before i go to bed I shake or tremble uncontrollably. When I try to sleep sometimes, I dont feel right and it keeps me up. Again, I feel like im not here. On occasion, my left arm will feel slightly numb and my bones in that arm will ache.

Just today, I woke up and I feel weaker than normal. when i got up to walk, i felt like i was going to fall over. I dont know if i have hypochondria or what, but it seriously feels like im going to die.

The numbness in my arm is usually in my shoulder or forearm, not really many more places.

I take a Vegan pill called tranquinol to help me get sleep, and a lot of times i dont get 8 hours like im supposed to because im constantly feeling off all the time.

When I was working, i didnt experience any of this.

I have a kid on the way, and i want to feel normal again so i can give all my attention to my wife in her time of need.

Can someone help me? Please?

I went to King's Cross Station in London, UK to see if I could catch the Hogwarts Express this year. I found the sign for Platform 9 3/4 and ran at the wall as hard as I could. I crashed my cart and bruised my rib. Are they no longer accepting students? I would really love to learn more magic.

Basically I was trying to sleep one night recently and I had this thought. Keeping my eyes open is pretty easy unless tired. Keeping them shut is also pretty easy unless restless.

They say it takes more muscles to frown than to smile, but what is technically harder to do: Keep your eyes open or closed?

For starters I would like to say anything obviously negative and not relating to the question will be reported. This is a serious question.

I am a male, age of 21. I got married at the age of 19. Yes I know that's too early and there's a story behind it. My girlfriend at the time, Sara was 15. I would have never had anything to do with her if I knew she was that age. From the beginning she told me she was 17, and I can live with the 2 year difference.

Our relationship got more intimate and we had sex on the 4th of July of last year. A couple weeks later, she started acting different. She was pregnant. When we took her to the hospital, the inpatient nurse asked her birthday. she said ___/___/94. I was like that can't be right.

So the relationship started off with a lie.

Fast forward to about May of this year. We had been married for about 8 months at that time and things seemed to be going well. We moved an hour out of town and settled there. I was working at a temp agency until i could find something full time.

The time came where we had to move back home with her parents for the time being. Eventually something just wasn't the same. She started wanting to be at her friends all the time. Taking MY car out every night. If I didn't let her, she called me a selfish asshole and became a big fight. The ****** up part was, when I wanted to leave she had to go, or she would literally cry.

This went on and on for three or so months when I finally said I had it. I was thinking of divorce and I just wanted to leave. My dad and other family told me to move and divorce her, so I did. I moved 6 hours south as a matter of fact. She begged me not to go. Begged me to stay. Said that she would change.

But.

Something in my mind was telling me that it was all a lie. Something was saying that something wasn't right here. So I got my stuff and I left.

I have been down here for almost two weeks. At first she said she wanted to come down and stay; blah blah blah. I said no. I came down here for a reason, but I would consider it. Then I logged into Facebook for the first time since being here. Her profile showed she was in a relationship with Brandon something. I was infuriated. I asked her what was going on. She said she clicked in a relationship on accident and that brandon was some gay guy she put on there for shits and giggles.

Again.

Something didnt seem right, so I blocked her. I got tired of her ****.

This brings me to today. A mutual friend on fb tells me that she had posted pictures of her kissing this brandon and bragging about him since I blocked her.

Ladies. Why on earth would somebody do this? I am still legally married to her...and everything that she has said about me that I am the love her life...just...doesn't make sense now. Please give me an idea. I don't know what happened. I even told her I was going to leave her if she kept it up. She barely did anything to stop me.

I'm married, and recently i've been having a few issues.

My wife whines and cries whenever i try to leave; or wants to go with.

But when she leaves shes perfectly fine with leaving.

Why is this? I hate the double standard...

Thanks in advance

Okay so for the past few days I have been sick with a cold. No flu or flu-like symptoms, just a lot of runny nose, sore throat, and now coughing.

Ever since I had this cold, my left arm (around the elbow/forearm) has been slightly numb or sore.

Is this normal? A also sleep with my left arm behind my head at times.

Is there anything else it could be? Thank you for your time.

so im still new and still getting used to the cards and abilities and whatnot.

I need help building a deck, this is what i got so far..

http://www.mtgdeckbuilder.net/Decks/ViewDeck/18615...

please help anyway you can, i have just over 1000 cards to work with

Thanks =]

Hero of Bladehold

Creature - Human Knight 3/4, 2WW (4)

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.)

Whenever Hero of Bladehold attacks, put two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield tapped and attacking.

I was just wondering why this particular card was a Mythic Rare when I have rares that are better.

And how about this one...?

Ghave, Guru of Spores

Legendary Creature - Fungus Shaman 0/0, 2WBG (5)

Ghave, Guru of Spores enters the battlefield with five +1/+1 counters on it.

{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature

Please let me know how these cards are good, I apoligize if they're too obvious lol I'm learning.

~Oak

I know Jace was banned, but I still hoped to get it in a booster or fat pack. Is it still possible to get? Why was it banned anyway? I'm new to magic btw, so try to be detailed please :D

There are two guys standing in line to be interviewed for a job. One man is wearing a nice suit and tie, the other is wearing all he has...a slightly dirtied polo and khakis with a hole in the knee. The man wearing the suit comes from a rich family and he never finished school. The other man worked his whole life and has just enough money to support his family and not enough for fancy clothes. The man in the suit is at his first interview ever and the other man has held numerous management positions in the past.

Who would you be likely to hire? Does proper clothes make the difference?

I want to know this because it is loosely based on me. I have a lot of skills for the job I am applying for, but not the best clothes in the world. It does not affect my ability to perform. I just don't want to be not hired because of clothes.

Thanks for your opinions :)

So I have had some bit of anxiety in the recent past, and I used to feel the pulse in my neck frequently.

Recently the thought came to mind; is there an ideal pressure you feel when taking your pulse? Sometimes I can feel it beating hard in my neck, when other times I can barely feel it at all.

I am not a cardiologist by any means, so my apologies if it seems dumb =]

Thank you