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Is this a good setup?

http://www.crutchfield.com/app/cart/default.aspx if you can't see, it goes like this 2 JVC Arsenal CS-AW8040 10" subs 1 JVC Arsenal KS-AR7...


 

http://www.crutchfield.com/app/cart/default.aspx

if you can’t see, it goes like this

2 JVC Arsenal CS-AW8040 10" subs
1 JVC Arsenal KS-AR7501D mono amp
1 Ported duel 10" Sound Ordinance BassBunker enclosure
Wiring
and plate frame

My main concerns are if this will sound nice together, will the amp power both subs, and will the enclosure work well with these subs?

Sorry I’m new to all of this and I’m trying to learn quickly

Cliche Christmas dilemma – should he pay up, or am I wrong?

 

Seems cliche that this is happening to me, but here goes-

My boyfriend is usually clueless about Christmas shopping. Typically I have to cart him to the mall and goad him into buying his family gifts. I would volunteer to buy the gifts for him and be reimbursed for the cost, but after 3 years of dating I am not confident to get his family gifts that they would enjoy.

Now before I start, let me say that I know Christmas is about family and not about commercialism. Just so we get that out of the way.

Because I’m not through with university yet, and he makes min. wage, we never really have a lot of cash. However, we are fortunate to have enough this winter to buy gifts for family and each other.
My boyfriend has decided, unbeknownst to me, that he isn’t "doing Christmas" this year. He said he’ll get me something, and that’s it. This makes me extremely uncomfortable as his mother goes out of her way each year to get us nice, thoughtful presents. Both of us.

My thinking goes, I buy gifts for my family members, and he should buy for his. I know what my family members like, and I simply do not have the funds to cover the costs for both families myself (my family is quite large). I told him he should at least get something for his mother and immediate family members, even if we aren’t rich. It makes me feel really uncomfortable to go to Christmas functions with his family knowing he didn’t bother to get them anything. I mean anything – even a card. It is the thought that counts and I just don’t think he cares or thinks that because we aren’t rich he can weasel out of it.

Does anybody have any thoughts on this situation? Has this ever happened to any of you? Any creative ideas of how to fix this situation?

Thanks, and Merry Xmas everyone~
I suppose I should add that I feel doubly responsible for him showing up empty handed, because I am the girl in the relationship, and I almost feel like it’s expected that I have the present situation for the 2 of us under control.

Can someone help with my relationship?

 

My boyfriend and I will have been together for 5 years in August. We just recently had a beautiful little girl together.

I’ll admit for the better part of our relationship, I didn’t help any financially. So I do not blame him if he didn’t have any respect for me then. I was finishing up high school, and I finally got a job 6 months after graduating. Since I finally had money coming in, we moved into a 2 bedroom trailer. (Already knowing I was pregnant) But right before we moved into our own place, he admitted to me that he hadn’t "felt the same for me in quite a while". Knowing the way he felt, we decided that the one year lease of our new place would be a "trial year", and after the lease was up we would see where things were.

Well now I have been working at my job for 6 months. And I think personally I have grown to be a more mature and responsible person. I work, pay bills, clean our house, all while taking care of our one month old baby. (Not saying he doesn’t do the same things)
We have always had some underlying issues with our relationship, that he never want to talk about, but here recently those issues have escalated. I’m not sure if the stress from having a newborn have inflamed them so to speak, or maybe the fact that I am not fully healed from birth so we haven’t had much of a sex life, or maybe a combination of the two. We keep fighting, he says mean things… I want to talk it out, and he "has nothing to say" or "there’s nothing to talk about" as he puts it.

But some examples of our fights… We were at walmart recently and I grabbed a new thing of diaper rash because the baby had soars on her butt and the kind we had wasn’t working. But he asked me how much it cost, I told him the it cost about and immediately he snapped at me and told me "No, put it back" so I snapped back responding with "It’s not only your money, she needs diaper rash cream". Well I guess that wasn’t the nicest way to go about the situation, but that’s the way it played out. So then he continues to tell me no and to put it back, and I continued to argue my side and then threw the diaper rash cream into the cart. We were walking up to the checkout line by this point and he tells me, "to shut up and he CAN kick me out of the house". Then I’m almost in tears, trying to hold them back so we don’t cause a scene in the local walmart. The fight continues on the way home about how he shouldn’t talk to the person he supposedly loves like that. I go straight to our bedroom and cry when we get home, and fall asleep. He comes in there a little while later and apologizes for "being a douche-bag earlier", as he put it. I dropped it there, and forgot about it.
Til’ today we were getting ready to go to town and he was making the baby’s bottles, I tried to give home some constructive advise and he told me to "shut the f*ck up". I was upset and wasn’t hiding it very well, but continued to get ready. While walking past him I had a mad kind of scowl on my face and he asked it I was gonna be pissy all day. So I jumped to him not respecting me, cause if he did he wouldn’t talk to me that way. We leave. But note that I’m not the type of person to just let things be. I kept pushing the fact the he doesn’t respect me. So then he says that I’m being annoying. (Just more fuel on my fire.) So I keep pushing it, an he tells me that he doesn’t respect me and why should he? … you can only imagine how things go from there. Long trip in town getting things done, and I figured I would drop it til’ we get home and then we can talk about our relationship. He started reading a book and said there was nothing to talk about. As if our relationship means nothing to him.

Now I’ve done some google’ing on the topic of a man not respecting the woman, and they say that the guy tends to get "comfortable" and thinks that their partner won’t leave. Well I truly love him and not to mention we have a baby, even more reason to try to fix our relationship. But he insists that there’s nothing wrong with it, I’m just annoying. He only says that because I bug him to try and work on our relationship.

I just want him to respect me and to not say the mean things that he "regrets" later. But if he regrets them, then why would he continue to do so. He won’t talk about Us at all. And I seriously think that if our relationship continues the way it’s going now, that we will either eventually split up or I will tuck my tail between my legs and be unhappy the rest of my life for the sake of our baby girl and the fact that I LOVE him and want to spend the rest of my life with him. But I also want to be happy and respected. Does anyone have any suggestions or input at all? I would greatly appreciate your help.

Labor Halls Suck?

 

"Gabriel," the Labor Ready supervisor calls five minutes later. I get up from my chair and learn that there’s work for me, if I want it, unloading auto parts in Staten Island. Pay is .25 an hour. Forgotten is the safety quiz. He hands me gloves, I’m given directions to the site — take the R train to 86th street, and then the S79 bus over the Verrazano Bridge — and walk out the door. It’s 8:45 a.m.

It takes over an hour to get to the store. I walk inside and identify myself as a Labor Ready employee. Two men behind the counter look up. "You’re late, Labor Ready," one of them tells me in an obnoxious voice. "The other guys are already downstairs. Better hope they don’t just send you home."

I walk through the store and down a set of wooden stairs, where five other men are taking auto parts off the shelves and stacking them in grocery carts. "You Labor Ready?" one of them asks, who appears Middle Eastern.

"Yep."

He explains something about taking red boxes down, and I join in.

There are four other men in my work crew, the friendliest being a skinny 18-year-old from East New York that graduated from high school earlier this year. He’s been working with Labor Ready for two months, and while we load up a cart he explains a few things that he feels I should know. "You work at Labor Ready, you’re at the very bottom — you know that right? No way you can work your way up here. See, this place here paying you seven bucks an hour, but they payin’ Labor Ready maybe twice that. We at the bottom."

"So why are you here?" I ask.

He shrugs. "It keeps me awake. Nothing else does that. And why should I go to college? You get out, owe a bunch of money, and you’ll still be working at McDonalds, just like everyone else."

We spend the next six hours moving engine starters among shelves, unloading a truck, and taking inventory. We’re all sweating a bit, but make sure to take numerous impromptu breaks when the supervisor leaves, which he does every hour or so. By the end of the day we meet with our boss, a friendly white man, who tells us he appreciates our work and grants us a few extra hours on our time sheets. For my six hours of work, he writes nine. A nice guy.

By the time we get back to Labor Ready’s office it’s dark outside. My gross pay is .25, but is cut to .40 after taxes. I walk with the teenager from East New York and another worker to a nearby check-cashing place, and am charged one dollar for the transaction. Now I’ve got .40 cash in my wallet.

On the train home I take an inventory of my finances. It cost me two dollars in subway fare to get here, and another four dollars to get to Staten Island and back, then a final two dollars to get home (I could have saved a dollar by purchasing an unlimited card, but I couldn’t have known this at the time that I boarded my first train). So after a 12-hour period spent waiting, traveling and working, my net income for the day is .40 (I don’t blame Labor Ready for the check cashing fee) — and that’s with a boss that tacked on three extra hours. Plus, I was lucky enough to get work. Many times, according to veteran Labor Ready employees, you show up at 5 a.m., wait for hours, and leave with nothing to show for it.

This waiting in the office and staring at the walls — equal parts boredom and desperation — becomes translated in business plan speak as a "flexible workforce." If one is homeless, an addict, recently out of prison, or otherwise having a hard time finding work, Labor Ready offers the chance to earn a little cash. All they ask if that you show up early, sit around for hours, not curse, not be a sleepyhead, not wear baggy pants, leave the bling bling at home, pass the test, travel wherever they send you, pay for that travel, be nice to the boss, not steal anything, and 86 the doo-rags.

The result is a "win-win" for Labor Ready and their temporary employees. I’ve made .40 today. Labor Ready’s revenue was more than billion last year. It’s great to play for a winning team.

Can my husband sue his employer for an accident at work?

 

What happend was, that he was pushing a cart, and he was going through a doorway, these door frames are made of metal since it’s a meat company, i suppose it for easier cleaning… So what happend was that he was pushing the cart through the door, and accidentally was leaning too much on his left side, he thought he was going to make it through, but didn’t, he tried to stop before he went through, but since this cart was carrying 500 lbs of meat, he couldn’t stop it on time. The cart slammed on the frame and pushed his hand to where he ripped the top skin of his hand off, and ripped 3 tendons and chipped a piece of bone. Accidents happen to everybody, and he tried to stop, but the cart was just too heavy. If it was a regular door, it probably would have just bruised his hand, probably peel a little skin, but not to the point of getting 6-8 stitches on his tendons and 40 stitches to close up the wound on his hand. Apparently this door needs something to cover the edge of the razor sharp corner..The doctor also said he will probably need another surgery to remove scar tissue, and therapy to recover movement of 3 of his fingers. The boss doesn’t want him to get the workers comp, because quote "66% of your wage is nothing" He offers him to go back to work, and get his full time wage and do very little work that only requires his good uninjured hand. He has to go back tomorrow otherwise workers comp will kick in.. So my question is, What should my husband do??

what to do if one Wal-mart employee calls social- services everytime I go in.?

 

I thought it was just coincedence, but after the third time, I got mad. It is always the same call: neglect. This last time, the police were called when my daughter wandered over to the next aisle!! I know who she is, by name, and have never met her, but what started it all, one night,late , i was with my kids, and the frozen food aisle was crowded with carts. i asked my daughter,4, to stay close by me, so she wouldn’t get hit by a cart. The woman,with her hubby, was at the other end of the aisle, and immediatly opened her cell, and began to punch numbers. i paid no attention, it wasn’t my business. The police show up, and the woman points to me, I shrug my shoulders, and go out the door. the police did not stop me, and I thought no more of it. Now, 3 monthes later, every time i go in wal-mart, I get a call from social services saying neglect,even though my kids never leave me or my hubby’s side. i havent gone to the manager yet for fear he will side with her & not hear me out.
the woman is a "christian" and she knows I am not one. She does not like me because I do not go to church, and she knows this. I take good care of my kids, BTW, and she likes to mind other’s business.She is a goody-goody, and actually looks for me when I go in. I told hubby i will leave the kids with him, but since he drives cab, at night, when i go, it is often difficult for me to go alone. I live in the South, where people often do not mind their own business, and i have made more than my share of enemies due to my views.
I went in " late" at 9, because at that time, the store is nearly empty and quieter then. that was the night it all started.
and yes, that is all to the story. I did not leave anything out.

Mothers day, is sometimes offbeat, will you C/C please?

 

This will be serious
but also our tomorrow fun
as moms sometimes act delirious

We took her for a Tea room brunch
dressed as if going to a ball
We drank Mimosa’s long past lunch

"What else can we do mom to pay you back?"
You are my girls, I have no greater wishes,
But why not finish up here and head to the Go-Cart track?

"But mom yer pregnant you shouldn’t do that
No worries girls, I will just watch
"Good, at the same time yer small, yer belly is fat.

Laughter ensued.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sad but loving
My dad came home with flowers and a card
Find your joy on this, your special day.
"Dear woman I know some of your life has been hard

raising two wild ones, who taxed your energy
who pushed every ones limits to the edge
pressing boundaries with their synergy

You were always the better father than I."

Parents. Do you spank your kids?

 

This is a confidential forum. You can answer honestly. I saw a kid misbehaving really badly in the grocery store. He was about three and he needed a whack on the seat of his pants. My son told me if his mother had done that she would have been arrested. That he saw a similar thing happened in the grocery store and by the time the lady got her cart and kid to her car the cops were waiting to arrest her. She went to jail and the kid went to Childrens Services all the while screaming "mommy mommy!" Have we as a society taken too many freedoms from ourselves. We follow the teachings of Dr. Spock, but remember, his son committed suicide. So maybe he didn’t know what he was talking about when he taught spare the rod for the sake of the child’s self esteem. What do you think?

How do I buy ANYTHING from the Zara website?

 

I went to the Zara website, browsed through some clothes and actually found something I really liked, so I clicked on it, and then I couldn’t find a "add to cart" option or ANYTHING like that. All there is is a picture of product, the name, a price, and how to wash it. Can I even buy anything from their site or what?

How to deal with Helicopter parents in Adulthood?

 

When I was growing up my mom and granny weren’t like how they are today. I could walk through a small patch of woods to a friends house,walk all over the neighborhood ( was told to never talk to strangers,let them touch me or get near their vehicle) If I fell down and skint my knee, I would just wash it ,put a bandage on and get back outside. Then when I became a teen they started to get a bit overbearing,suddenly it was no friends over to the house,no going to other houses or churches. Then as an adult it was no opening the doors unless one of us is watching (first floor houses) no going outside at night. I’m 29 years old and I can’t even go out of my bedroom without granny standing there,use the bathroom without granny telling me what to do when I get out or even take out the trash without granny watching me.If I cook a microwave dinner she stands in the kitchen watching me. If I turn my bedroom light on after 8 pm she’ll open my door crying saying "are you ok? Why is your lights on" I mean she really does cry. As for mom, when we go grocery shopping she’ll scream my name out loud if I walk out of eye sight (even to the next aisle). It’s embarrassing :( If I put something in the cart,granny will look at it and put it back and won’t say why. If I do buy something to eat,she’ll try to eat it then complain about it being too salty,hard or sugary (she has no teeth) If I spend more than 2 minutes in the bathroom,they’ll open the door. If I’m on my cell,they’ll stand there wanting to know who I’m talking to and want to talk to them.They act like they can’t even do simple stuff like put batteries in the remote .If I take out the trash they want to watch me walk to the end of the drive and talk to them on a cell phone . None of us have any mental problems or disabilities in any sense so how does one deal with helicopter parents in adulthood? btw, I’m 29, they get worst as I get older too :(
They never did this to my other siblings and as for the moving out I really can’t afford to move out I don’t make that much money.
I don’t exactly want to work longer hours for more money nor do I want to get married just to get out.

Thunder Kart go-cart: what part is this?

 

Was riding with son on older thunder kart go kart, 5 hp engine. Weight of both of us 250 pounds probably did this.

The chain "rides" on the same thing like a bike chain, little "teeth" go into and secure the chain. There’s a top smaller one and a bottom really large one that sits next to tire. Don’t know what it’s called (flywheel, maybe?). Anywho, the top part is BENT – again, probably due to our combined weight (way too much). Now I gotta replace it. The smaller "flywheel" piece I’m talking about goes into the engine but the part that "holds" the chain is external to engine (this is the part that’s bent/broken).

What’s the top part called? It holds chain externally but goes into engine. Can a common man replace this?

Is it so crazy to be a germ-o-phobe?

 

This is in response to another question about putting toilet seat covers down for your kids. I proudly put my son in a shopping cart cover, restaurant seat cover and I bring disinfecting wipes with me at all times. I teach him "don’t touch" when we are out in public and many other OCD-type things. I really am shocked at how many parents don’t do these things…lol. My whole family is that way. I know I go overboard a bit but I also know I am not the only one.
Let me clarify… I don’t have a problem with dirt. I have a problem with germs. I live in South Florida where people from all over the world visit year round- more types of germs.
Let me also add that I don’t care about studies of how many germs are where. It feels right to me and I do it- so why does that warrant hostile answers? It was just a simple question!
I forgot to thank all the polite answerers who explained their viewpoints nicely. THANK YOU.

I don’t thumbs down either.

MEN VS. WOMEN FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY…..IS IT?!?

 

Men vs. Women
Some subtle (and some not so subtle) differences
Handwriting:

Men: To their credit, men do not decorate their penmanship. They just chicken-scratch.

Women: Women use scented, colored stationery and they dot the "i" with circles or hearts. Women use ridiculously large loops in the "b" and "g". It is a pain to read a note from a woman. Even when she’s dumping you, she will put a smiley face at the end of the note.

Groceries:

Women: A woman makes a list of things she needs, then goes out to the store and buys those things.

Men: A man waits till the only items left in his fridge are half a lime and a beer. Then he goes grocery shopping. He buys everything that looks good. By the time a man reaches the checkout counter, his cart is packed tighter than the Clampett’s car on Beverly Hillbillies. Of course, this will not stop him from going to the express lane.

Relationships:

Women: When a relationship ends, a woman will cry and pour her heart out to her girlfriends, and she will write a poem titled "All Men Are Idiots". Then she will get on with her life.

Men: A man has a little more trouble letting go. Six months after the break-up, at 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday night, he will call and say, "I just wanted to let you know you ruined my life, and I’ll never forgive you, and I hate you, and you’re a total floozy. But I want you to know that there’s always a chance for us." This is known as the "I Hate You / I Love You" drunken phone call, that 99% of all men have made at least once. There are community colleges that offer courses to help men get over this need.

Sex:

Women: They prefer 30-40 minutes of foreplay.

Men: They prefer 30-40 seconds of foreplay. Men consider driving back to her place part of the foreplay.

Maturity:

Women: They mature much faster than men. Most 17-year old females can function as adults.

Men: Most 17-year old males are still trading baseball cards and giving each other wedgies after gym class. This is why high school romances rarely work out.

Magazines:

Men: Men’s magazines often feature pictures of naked women. Men are turned on at the sight of a naked woman’s body.

Women: Women’s magazines also feature pictures of naked women. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is lumpy and hairy and should not be seen by the light of day. Most naked men elicit laughter from women.

Bathrooms:

Men: A man has six items in his bathroom — a toothbrush, shaving cream, razor, a bar of Dial soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn.

Women: The average number of items in the typical woman’s bathroom is 437. A man cannot identify most of these items.

Shoes:

Women: When preparing for work, a woman will put on a wool suit, then slip on Reebok sneakers. She will carry her dress shoes in a plastic bag from Saks. When a woman gets to work, she will put on her dress shoes. Five minutes later, she will kick them off because her feet are under the desk.

Men: A man will wear the same pair of shoes all day. Let’s not talk about how many days he’ll wear the same socks.

Cats:

Women: Women love cats.

Men: Men say they love cats, but when women aren’t looking, men kick cats.

Children:

Women: A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and soccer games and romances and best friends and favorite foods and secret fears and hopes and dreams.

Men: A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

Dressing Up:

Women: A woman will dress up to: go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, get the mail.

Men: A man will dress up for: weddings, funerals.

Laundry:

Women: Women do laundry every couple of days.

Men: A man will wear every article of clothing he owns, including his surgical pants (the ones that were hip about eight years ago) before he will do his laundry. When he is finally out of clothes, he will wear a dirty sweatshirt inside out, rent a U-Haul and take his mountain of clothes to the Laundromat. Men always expect to meet beautiful women at the Laundromat. This is a myth perpetuated by reruns of old episodes of "Love American Style."

Eating Out:

Men: When the check comes, each man will each throw in bills, even though it’s only for .50. None of them will have anything smaller, and none will actually admit they want change back.

Women: When the girls get their check, out come the pocket calculators.

Mirrors:

Men: Men are vain and will check themselves out in a mirror.

Women: They are ridiculous; they will check out their reflections in any shiny surface: mirrors, spoons, store windows, bald guys’ heads.

Menopause:

Women: When a woman reaches menopause, she goes through a variety of complicated emotional, psychological, and biological changes. The nature and degree of these changes varies with the individual.

Men: Menopause in a

how much noise does a child need to make before you as the parent should apologize to nearby adults?

 

My baby was pretty quiet on her first airplane ride to visit relatives, except for about 30 seconds of crying as her ears popped. It was loud and in a contained space it sounded louder to me. I apologized to the guy next to us for all the noise when we landed and he acted surprised, and said the baby had behaved very well, seemed happy, so there was no need to apologize.

A bit later my daughter started learning to babble. I was grocery shopping at Costco and babbling back to her and saying mom stuff, like "who is my beautiful baby? ba ba ba!" and so forth. The kid was wide awake and in a really great mood, 6 months old, really smiley, laughing and answering "ba ba ba" back to me in her stroller. You know the stuff, and it’s new to her (our only child) so I was eating it up that she was imitating me. Anyway, a lady told me to try harder to keep the baby quiet because it was bothering her.

I’d say in terms of decibels we were being way quieter than we were on the plane, and Costco is a large, warehouse-style store with large open rows, where sound is absorbed readily. Also, on the plane she was clearly unhappy/in pain, which you’d think would bother people more, whereas in Costco she was making happy baby noises. They were not shrieks at all. It was cooing, laughing, and ba ba ba.

On the plane maybe people behave better toward infants because they know there’s nowhere to go anyway, so they may as well be polite? Or maybe people out grocery shopping tend to be in worse moods on average than people flying to Miami for the weekend? Anyway, what is an acceptable noise level for a baby before you cart them back to the car and try shopping again another day?

What size dirt bike do i need?

 

OK so I am 16, 5’10" and weigh 210 pounds. I am looking to buy a Dirt bike. I have driven 4 wheelers,go carts and mini bikes all my life so i wouldn’t consider myself a total beginner but im am not yet intermediate on a dirt bike. I want a bike that will be fast(60-70 MPH) but i will also use it for trails. The trails aren’t too harsh just mostly flat dirt fields and small bumps and hills. What bike would u recommend ? what size would be good ? 2 or 4 stroke ? THANKS!!!

I just put Honda 90 motorcyle engine on my shopping cart.?

 

Will I be violating any shopping laws when I go down the food aisles? Has anyone else tried speed shopping. My next step is to make it street legal. Wearing my helmet at Safeway really saved my hide when I hit that stack of peach cans.
forgot the a in "just put a Honda…

CHICAGO BEARS! Did quarterback jay cutler wuss out as posted on fox sports? or did folks rush too judgement?

 

Im sure the bears fans and the NFL football buffs alike would like too know the diagnosis on chicago quarterback jay cutlers knee… Im a bears fan and i didnt think they could hang against the packers defensively and cutler is prone too interceptions at times…. too cutlers credit he has taken a beating this year and even with this poor offensive line he still got this team too where they were this year…. but, im not a pro athlete and what is shocking is that pro nfl players like asante samuels and many others tweeted that they were skeptical of cutlers toughness claiming he didnt have a brace on this knee, he didnt leave on a cart nor did he go for x rays. some of those things indicate potential serious injury and none of which occurred, cutler was even pedaling a bike etc… the issue is he could not plant or pive left or right too throw the ball. I for one was shocked that he was surprised that players themselves were tweeting things like if they knee allowed them too even stand upright they woulda been in the game fighting for their team which is commendable. but im wondering if cutler did the team a favor and backed out too give the team a chance as he really was injured and did the public and players alike rush too judgement? this is a hot news piece obviously, just wondering if you thought that cutler " wussed out" like fox sports quoted. I think cutler should have fought on and pushed his team in their whatever it took as this was do or die…. but none of us were in cutlers shoes. i find it peculiar though that he was standing around and not being examined by x rays or hauled off the field, some analysts say they reviewed the previous drives and didnt see any hits causing injury too cutler… ya gotta admit this looks bad on cutlers commitment and willingness too win. if his diagnosis is inconclusive or a sprain? i would imagine that his career is ruined or at least he ll be labelled a trust fund kid….. who knows! whadda you think!

Is my marriage headed for divorce?

 

I have been married for 8 years, together for 11. We have 2 small children together, own a small business together. He is the provider, I am only the lowly bookkeeper. Basically I am a stay at home mom, and cart kids around to preschool and dance lessons, and whatever else.

For the last 2 years, I have been made to feel that everything and anything in our lives that has gone wrong is all my fault. He is constantly complaining that I have made mistakes with the business, or God forbid, if I should not get the bookwork up to date in a timely manner, he threatens to take the bookkeeping away from me. (Which has already happened once). He is controlling with money, and only gives ourselves a draw that covers bills and groceries. He has complete disposal of all business credit cards and eats out twice daily with colleagues or friends. He complains that I am frivolous with money, and a big spender. I never spend any money on myself, only for the children. (Clothes, toys, etc.) I have become depressed, and his only response is that when I am down, I bring the rest of the family down.

I am no longer sexually attracted to him, as he has kind of let himself go. I try to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and workout. He works, and drinks, and sleeps… Whenever we are together, I feel physically ill. He gets angry that I cannot reciprocate, and states "something must be wrong" with me, and has made me make appointments with my GYN to get hormone testing. I can’t bring myself to tell him the truth about my feelings. He always shuts me down when I try to speak my mind. I can’t ever remember actual conversations, I only remember feelings that I have felt during those conversations, so he is constantly throwing the wording back in my face. So, therefore, once again, I am wrong.

I know I haven’t been happy for almost 2 years, and I don’t quite know what to do. I have made a list of pro’s and con’s, and there are no pro’s. He is a good father, and the kids love him dearly. I am afraid that I will be damaging the children’s futures by separating, but I don’t know what else to do. Am I entitled to some happiness? Is this really what God has intended for me?

difference between men and women (fairly long)?

 

Handwriting:

Men: To their credit, men do not decorate their penmanship. They just chicken-scratch.

Women: Women use scented, colored stationery and they dot the "i" with circles or hearts. Women use ridiculously large loops in the "b" and "g". It is a pain to read a note from a woman. Even when she’s dumping you, she will put a smiley face at the end of the note.

Groceries:

Women: A woman makes a list of things she needs, then goes out to the store and buys those things.

Men: A man waits till the only items left in his fridge are half a lime and a beer. Then he goes grocery shopping. He buys everything that looks good. By the time a man reaches the checkout counter, his cart is packed tighter than the Clampett’s car on Beverly Hillbillies. Of course, this will not stop him from going to the express lane.

Relationships:

Women: When a relationship ends, a woman will cry and pour her heart out to her girlfriends, and she will write a poem titled "All Men Are Idiots". Then she will get on with her life.

Men: A man has a little more trouble letting go. Six months after the break-up, at 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday night, he will call and say, "I just wanted to let you know you ruined my life, and I’ll never forgive you, and I hate you, and you’re a total floozy. But I want you to know that there’s always a chance for us." This is known as the "I Hate You / I Love You" drunken phone call, that 99% of all men have made at least once. There are community colleges that offer courses to help men get over this need.

Sex:

Women: They prefer 30-40 minutes of foreplay.

Men: They prefer 30-40 seconds of foreplay. Men consider driving back to her place part of the foreplay.

Maturity:

Women: They mature much faster than men. Most 17-year old females can function as adults.

Men: Most 17-year old males are still trading baseball cards and giving each other wedgies after gym class. This is why high school romances rarely work out.

Magazines:

Men: Men’s magazines often feature pictures of naked women. Men are turned on at the sight of a naked woman’s body.

Women: Women’s magazines also feature pictures of naked women. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is lumpy and hairy and should not be seen by the light of day. Most naked men elicit laughter from women.

Bathrooms:

Men: A man has six items in his bathroom — a toothbrush, shaving cream, razor, a bar of Dial soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn.

Women: The average number of items in the typical woman’s bathroom is 437. A man cannot identify most of these items.

Shoes:

Women: When preparing for work, a woman will put on a wool suit, then slip on Reebok sneakers. She will carry her dress shoes in a plastic bag from Saks. When a woman gets to work, she will put on her dress shoes. Five minutes later, she will kick them off because her feet are under the desk.

Men: A man will wear the same pair of shoes all day. Let’s not talk about how many days he’ll wear the same socks.

Cats:

Women: Women love cats.

Men: Men say they love cats, but when women aren’t looking, men kick cats.

Children:

Women: A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and soccer games and romances and best friends and favorite foods and secret fears and hopes and dreams.

Men: A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

Dressing Up:

Women: A woman will dress up to: go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, get the mail.

Men: A man will dress up for: weddings, funerals.

Laundry:

Women: Women do laundry every couple of days.

Men: A man will wear every article of clothing he owns, including his surgical pants (the ones that were hip about eight years ago) before he will do his laundry. When he is finally out of clothes, he will wear a dirty sweatshirt inside out, rent a U-Haul and take his mountain of clothes to the Laundromat. Men always expect to meet beautiful women at the Laundromat. This is a myth perpetuated by reruns of old episodes of "Love American Style."

Eating Out:

Men: When the check comes, each man will each throw in bills, even though it’s only for .50. None of them will have anything smaller, and none will actually admit they want change back.

Women: When the girls get their check, out come the pocket calculators.

Mirrors:

Men: Men are vain and will check themselves out in a mirror.

Women: They are ridiculous; they will check out their reflections in any shiny surface: mirrors, spoons, store windows, bald guys’ heads.

Menopause:

Women: When a woman reaches menopause, she goes through a variety of complicated emotional, psychological, and biological changes. The nature and degree of these changes varies with the individual.

Men: Menopause in a man provokes a uniform reaction – he buys aviator glasses, a snazzy French cap and leather driving gloves, and goes shopping for a Porsche.

The Phone:

Men: Men see the telephone as a communication tool. They use the telephone to send short messages to other people.

Women: A woman can visit her girlfriend for two weeks, and upon returning home, she will call the same friend and they will talk for three hours.

Richard Gere:

Women: Women like Richard Gere because he is sexy in a dangerous way.

Men: Men hate Richard Gere because he reminds them of that slick guy who works at the health club and dates only married women.

Madonna:

Same as above, but reversed. Same reason.

Toys:

Women: Little girls love to play with toys. Then when they reach the age of 11 or 12, they lose interest.

Men: Men never grow out of their toy obsession. As they get older, their toys simply become more expensive, silly and impractical. Examples of men’s toys: little miniature TVs. Car phones. Complicated juicers and blenders. Graphic equalizers. Small robots that serve cocktails on command. Video games. Anything that blinks, beeps, and requires at least 6 "D" batteries to operate.

Cameras:

Men: Men take photography very seriously. They’ll shell out 00 for state of the art equipment, and build dark rooms and take photography classes.

Women: Women purchase Kodak Instamatics. Of course, women always end up taking better pictures.

Locker Rooms:

Men: In the locker room men talk about three things: money, football, and women. They exaggerate about money, they don’t know football nearly as well as they think they do, and they fabricate stories about women.

Women: They talk about one thing in the locker room – sex. And not in abstract terms, either. They are extremely graphic and technical, and they never lie.

Movies:

Women: Every actress in the history of movies has had to do a nude scene. This is because every movie in the history of movies has been produced by a man.

Men: The only actor who has ever appeared nude in the movies is Richard Gere. This is another reason why men hate him.

Jewelry:

Women: Women look nice when they wear jewelry.

Men: A man can get away with wearing one ring and that’s it. Any more than that and he will look like a lounge singer named Vic.

Conversation:

Men: Men need a good disagreement to get talking. For instance, "Wow, great movie." or "What are you, nuts? No REAL cop would have an Uzi that size."

Women: Women, not having this problem, try to initiate conversations with men by saying something agreeable: "That garden by the roadside looks lovely." "Mm hmm." Pause. "That was a good restaurant last night, wasn’t it?" "Yeah." Pause. And so on.

Leg Warmers:

Women: Leg warmers are sexy. A woman, even if she’s walking the dog or doing the dishes, is allowed to wear leg warmers. She can wear them any time she wants.

Men: A man can only wear leg warmers if he is auditioning for the "Gimme the Ball" number in "A Chorus Line."

Friends:

Women: Women on a girls’ night out talk the whole time.

Men: Men on a boy’s night out say about twenty words all night, most of which are "Pass the Doritos" or "got any more beer?"

Restrooms:

Women: Women use restrooms as social lounges. Women who’ve never met will leave a restroom giggling together like old friends. Women also go to the restroom in packs, at least two women at a time excuse themselves to use the restroom.

Men: Men use restrooms for purely biological reasons. Men in a restrooms will never speak a word to each other. And never in the history of the world has a man excused himself from a restaurant table by saying, "Hey, Tom, I was just about to take a leak. Do you want to join me?"

I found some kind of glitch on skatewarehouse.com?

 

Basically you buy a deck and check the "apply griptape" option. Then you go to your shopping cart and delete the griptape (which cost 3.99) and the deck and the "$-3.99 free grip tape" should be still there. You can keep doing this and i have it to about "$-300". So then I bought things that would’ve cost me about 0 and when i checked out It told me the price was . I am tempted to buy all this stuff for only but i won’t. I’m just now skeptical of this website because they have these glitches and should i still buy stuff from this site?

Grocers: Do you think the current Dannon Lite & Fit ad with fem SCARFING product in aisle sends BAD MESSAGE?

 

Dannon Yogurt has a TV ad for it’s "Lite & Fit" single serve yogurt product, showing a young-looking blonde female shopping with a cart in the grocery store. When she happens by some Lite & Fit yogurt, she can’t help herself, opens it, and immediately SCARFS IT ALL DOWN….then looks around to see if anyone saw her as she smiles a slightly guilty but devilish smile.

It’s called PILFERAGE…also known as STEALING. And while it may be fun or even funny to the kids and even adults who do it (as this ad promotes), it is very expensive to grocers and ultimately every shopper in the form of higher prices on everything to make up for what was stolen.

What is shocking about this Dannon ad is how they make this young blonde shopper look so cute and appealing…as if this little trick were something eveyone should do if they’ve never tried it before, i.e. eating groceries in the grocery store aisle before you’ve bought them. The Dannon people COULD have included a quick clip at the end, showing the blonde paying for the empty yogurt pack at check-out — but NOOOOOO!!! That would be TOO RESPONSIBLE, now wouldn’t it?

You don’t have to be a grocer or grocery store employee to respond to this question in that pilferage affects everyone. And in these days of rising food prices, this is one unacceptable behavior that CAN be reduced if everyone gets with the program. Why does Dannon feel it operates outside the normal range of legally acceptable behavior in promoting, in essense, shop lifting?

Did you catch this particular point when you saw this ad? And did it bother you even a bit? And how many kids now are going to copy cat this behavior, their now seeing even an ADULT scarfing down food or quick eats at the grocery store?
To Responder "Do Not Buy a Kia": Your charge for me to not be supposedly cynical of Dannon Yogurt (and I’m not) is humorously ironic, given your VERY NAME here on Yahoo! Answers which charges people to not buy a particular brand of car. In your support of pilfirage at the grocery store just because so many others do it, you basicly support shop lifting and don’t care that you yourself pay for it in terms of higher prices. Or did you think it through quite that far?

Stepson and stepdaughter getting sick every visit they are with us for the last two months..help!?

 

Ok I have two step children who are 5 (girl) and almost 7 (boy) that visit my husband and I every other week. I think its a horrendous arrangement for the two kids. The boy is the only one in school, but now since I have finished student teaching and my husband has been working third shift I have been spending more time with the step children than their father did while I was finishing school. I have wanted to get a job but my husband makes it impossible because his son needs to be driven to school and picked up every day because the kid doesnt go to school in our district (thanks to his mother). My husband makes accusations to me like like "If you wanted to be a mother, you need to be a mother to all the children," meaning I shouldnt get upset about having to cart his kids every where, which i have done ever so graciously. We have a 1 year old son together and I am due to give birth to another child (girl) in may. I think its an unfair statement considering he leaves the sole responsibility for his children on me.

Any ways, the kids have been puking and having diarrhea shortly after they get to our house every time now for the last four visits which have been a span of about 2 months (every other week though). They puke in their beds or poop in the middle of the night every where. I think they are emotionally troubled and have allergy problems that are maybe draining into their stomach. Sometimes they get sick before going to bed too.

At first I thought this was a flu bug for a couple of times…but it seems like a repeated thing. One kid gets sick first and is fine the next day, and then the other one gets sick a day or two later and appears fine the next day. I have cleaned and sanitized their rooms and washed their things inside and out. I dont know how much more I can take! I have not gotten angry with them but i really feel there is a psychological issue going on with them and that they need help but my husband does not agree and their mother is an idiot.

There mother says they have not been getting sick at her house which makes me think that the kids dont want to be at our house most likely cuz their father ignores them mostly because he is working and sleeping constantly.

I think that they need to be with us less often even if their mother is a piece of crap alcoholic. I am not saying I don’t want them but they act like they don’t want to be here because they are always sullen and withdrawn. The kids’ mother is still their mother and they seem to want to be there instead of here. Their mother told me to ask them if they wanted to come home early (my husband blamed me for their answer) and they were wishy washy saying yes, no, yes, no and then finally saying yes. I think they are afraid to make anyone mad.

My husband just thinks that Im a problem and I dont want them around but I truly think they need help. They are sullen and withdrawn and can never give straight answers about anything. And the five year old cries if you ask her why she does ANYTHING whether it was something good or bad. She also cut her self with a razor inside while i was at school and her dad was fixing a vehicle outdoors and put safety pins in my sons play pen.

The six year old puked chunks in his bed the other night and climbed down from his bunk covered in puke to supposedly come tell me he puked but did not come in my room he just called my name (this is what he told me when i asked) so of course i did not hear it. He layed down in the middle of our living room face down in his puke covered shirt and i discovered him because I had to change our one year old in the middle of the night. I was not happy about that at all, but I was nice him and explained that he needed to come in the room actually shake my arm or something. He cried too. I just dont know what to do about the behaviors that are being displayed.

I have suggested counseling to my husband and their mother but neither agree. I dont know what to do. I have even tried showing more love and support to them by hugging them and saying i love you more often. I just dont know what to do. I have been with their father for almost three years, so the arrangement is not new to them. Any suggestions?!
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They eat healthy food at our house and their mother says they eat healthy food at her place too so i do not know what could be the issue. Their doctor even told me that she thinks they pyschological issues and that they need counseling. My husband and their mother wont agree to it because they are in denial.

how to care for such a baby puppy?

 

Well my fiance and I were walking into wal mart yesterday morning to get some stuff, and there was a guy with a sign that said "Christmas puppies for sale" so of course I stop to look… he had a cart full of 8 tan and white puppies that can’t be older than 5 weeks old even though he said 8 weeks. i went inside to do my shopping and when I came back out he was down to 5… of course I took one.

the puppy is adorable, he eats dry puppy chow fine, but cries A LOT.. I just gave him a bowl of warm milk and he lapped it up vigorously and is now sound asleep doing the little puppy grunting.

he walks, but wobbles as he wags his little tail.

The guy said he is a lab mix, but he looks like a pit puppy to me.. at least 80 percent pit. I gave the guy for him, he had 4 others when i left, i wish i could have taken them All. I am hoping they all got good homes, when i took mine, there was a crowd of about 20 people around him and the cart.

This guy was a scum bag ghetto thug just wanting money.. i couldn’t walk away without helping 1 of them.. he had them in a shopping cart with a blanket in with them… they were all huddled up together and kids/adults were poking and prodding at them, grabbing them up and putting them down like they were stuffed animals on a display shelf.

SO, I do not have the money to go and buy this puppy the puppy milk and bottles. I am caring for 5 other dogs and 5 cats. I just have a huge heart and couldn’t leave wal mart yesterday without helping at least 1 of these puppies.

What should I do??.. he seems to be doing ok.. he sleeps/eats/plays/poops/and pees just fine. I have him in a puppy bed which is inside a rectangular laundry basket with a big stuffed teddy bear,a heating pad on low, and a blanket. He slept in it last night all night and got up at 5am to eat/potty.

am i doing ok??.. I am wanting to keep him as does my fiance.. he is a little fighter and just the cutest thing.

Here is a photo of him..

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42/MarineWifey19/puppy1-1.jpg

thanks.
and for everyone telling me to give him to a shelter or rescue, no i will not. He is better off with me than in a kennel all day where he could wind up dead.

I am home all day everyday and he will be with me at all times, i have a lot of time on my hands to care for him.
Animal hoarder?? I think not, but nice try.

Animal hoarders DO NOT take care of their pets and live in squaler conditions.

I DID live in an RV but as i stated then, it was TEMPORAIRY. I am now in a huge 4 bedroom home with basement, and HUGE fenced in backyard.. so shush!

I also have cash in my wallet, and 2 credit/bank cards as well if you MUST know.

I have christmas shopping to do for a family of 7! also more pets to care for!.. I will PROBABLY go ahead and buy the puppy milk replacer since he seems to need it and i do know that cows milk isn’t the greatest, but in a pinch its NOT going to KILL him to have a couple bowls of it.

A lot of you are dense and down right RUDE and think you are much wiser and better than everyone else…NEWSFLASH: You aren’t and you definetly aren’t perfect or gods gift to the animal world.
Animal hoarder?? I think not, but nice try.

Animal hoarders DO NOT take care of their pets and live in squaler conditions.

I DID live in an RV but as i stated then, it was TEMPORAIRY. I am now in a huge 4 bedroom home with basement, and HUGE fenced in backyard.. so shush!

I also have cash in my wallet, and 2 credit/bank cards as well if you MUST know.

I have christmas shopping to do for a family of 7! also more pets to care for!.. I will PROBABLY go ahead and buy the puppy milk replacer since he seems to need it and i do know that cows milk isn’t the greatest, but in a pinch its NOT going to KILL him to have a couple bowls of it.

A lot of you are dense and down right RUDE and think you are much wiser and better than everyone else…NEWSFLASH: You aren’t and you definetly aren’t perfect or gods gift to the animal world.

Stepchildren sick every time they visit for the last two months? help!?

 

Ok I have two step children who are 5 (girl) and almost 7 (boy) that visit my husband and I every other week. I think its a horrendous arrangement for the two kids. The boy is the only one in school, but now since I have finished student teaching and my husband has been working third shift I have been spending more time with the step children than their father did while I was finishing school. I have wanted to get a job but my husband makes it impossible because his son needs to be driven to school and picked up every day because the kid doesnt go to school in our district (thanks to his mother). My husband makes accusations to me like like "If you wanted to be a mother, you need to be a mother to all the children," meaning I shouldnt get upset about having to cart his kids every where, which i have done ever so graciously. We have a 1 year old son together and I am due to give birth to another child (girl) in may. I think its an unfair statement considering he leaves the sole responsibility for his children on me.

Any ways, the kids have been puking and having diarrhea shortly after they get to our house every time now for the last four visits which have been a span of about 2 months (every other week though). They puke in their beds or poop in the middle of the night every where. I think they are emotionally troubled and have allergy problems that are maybe draining into their stomach. Sometimes they get sick before going to bed too.

At first I thought this was a flu bug for a couple of times…but it seems like a repeated thing. One kid gets sick first and is fine the next day, and then the other one gets sick a day or two later and appears fine the next day. I have cleaned and sanitized their rooms and washed their things inside and out. I dont know how much more I can take! I have not gotten angry with them but i really feel there is a psychological issue going on with them and that they need help but my husband does not agree and their mother is an idiot.

There mother says they have not been getting sick at her house which makes me think that the kids dont want to be at our house most likely cuz their father ignores them mostly because he is working and sleeping constantly.

I think that they need to be with us less often even if their mother is a piece of crap alcoholic. I am not saying I don’t want them but they act like they don’t want to be here because they are always sullen and withdrawn. The kids’ mother is still their mother and they seem to want to be there instead of here. Their mother told me to ask them if they wanted to come home early (my husband blamed me for their answer) and they were wishy washy saying yes, no, yes, no and then finally saying yes. I think they are afraid to make anyone mad.

My husband just thinks that Im a problem and I dont want them around but I truly think they need help. They are sullen and withdrawn and can never give straight answers about anything. And the five year old cries if you ask her why she does ANYTHING whether it was something good or bad. She also cut her self with a razor inside while i was at school and her dad was fixing a vehicle outdoors and put safety pins in my sons play pen.

The six year old puked chunks in his bed the other night and climbed down from his bunk covered in puke to supposedly come tell me he puked but did not come in my room he just called my name (this is what he told me when i asked) so of course i did not hear it. He layed down in the middle of our living room face down in his puke covered shirt and i discovered him because I had to change our one year old in the middle of the night. I was not happy about that at all, but I was nice him and explained that he needed to come in the room actually shake my arm or something. He cried too. I just dont know what to do about the behaviors that are being displayed.

I have suggested counseling to my husband and their mother but neither agree. I dont know what to do. I have even tried showing more love and support to them by hugging them and saying i love you more often. I just dont know what to do. I have been with their father for almost three years, so the arrangement is not new to them. Any suggestions?!

They eat healthy food at our house and their mother says they eat healthy food at her place too so i do not know what could be the issue. Their doctor even told me that she thinks they pyschological issues and that they need counseling. My husband and their mother wont agree to it because they are in denial.
yes pen i see your point-the kids’ parents were never married though. and the kids’ father (my husband) does get angry at me in front of them when he thinks i am being unfair such as getting after them for pushing their brother etc. maybe i am a bit harsh at times but i will not tolerate them being a bully to my son…cripes the girl already put safety pins in my sons play pen and my husband just said she had middle child syndrome…hello….i find it extreme and that they need counseling. they are obviously not in the right mind set. Also, I have let the kids know that when i do get upset about things that it does not mean that i dont love them and it does not mean that it is necessarily their fault. their father yells at me in front of them and i have explained over and over that this is inappropriate and also they aer not allowed to watch bad tv when im around but their father and mother does not care….do u understand the problems that i have to deal with..its all too much!

i want an opinion on the Wireless Mini Guitar Retractable for the wii and ps2/ps3?

 

I have seen it on amazon.com and i wanted to buy it. i wanted to buy this as a second guitar for Rockband 2 and also a guitar that works with Guitar Smash Hits. For those wii guitar experts, you know that the Rockband 2 Fender Stratocaster doesn’t work with GH: Smash Hits or several other GH games. Anyways I either buy the GH 3 Wireless Les Paul guitar or the Wireless Mini Guitar Retractable. i want to buy the Wireless Mini Guitar Retractable because
1. i have no guitar for my ps2
2. I’m on a short "budget" and it is about as cheap as they get brand AND new with free shipping :D
3. wii guitars that work for most GH and RB games are rare.
4. like i said my RB 2 guitar doesn’t work with my GH Smash Hits.
5. it is quote, (Guitar Hero & Rock Band series compatible)
The only reason i like the wireless Les Paul is because it works with most RB and GH games and it so far has had a lot of good reviews from many people. The Wireless Mini Guitar Retractable, on the other hand, has very little but positive reviews except for a delay flaw. But the Les Paul is used and i can’t afford a new one for around 64$ on amazon.com. Please help me out because i don’t know which to choose. For more information on the Wireless Mini Guitar Retractable go to

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B002NBSA0G/ref=ord_cart_shr?_encoding=UTF8&m=A3BVFOU06EC1JZ&v=glance

and

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=276801

p.s. The used Les Paul and the Wireless Mini Guitar Retractable are both around 50$ which is about my "budget"