TikiPrincess

This has been in the works for three years and you couldn't even bother to run spell check? If you're going to make sooo many mistakes, you should at least write it in 1337, especially since you claim to be "uber." Anyways, welcome to the Xisto forums. Please be sure to pay attention to the rules and don't forget to check out the Xisto Readme. And don't forget: SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, eggs, and bacon is frowned upon. We here prefer quality over quantity, and you, sir, are well past the 5000+ post count.

Ooooh I don't know anyone who's been to the arctic. One of the most obvious choices would be global warming, but narrowing it down to one aspect is difficult. Here are a few that I can think of off the top of my head: glaciers melting how climate change is affecting species migration what adaptations are species making how climate is affecting the jet stream That's all for right now, but I'm sure there are tons more that other people might think of. Good luck, I hope you get the position!

For those of you who may not know, I'm the proud owner of a pit bull. Almost everytime I say what breed of dog I own, I have to defend my choice because these dogs get a pretty bad rap. But I'm okay with that because I know what a loving dog she is. Completely useless as a guard dog but a fantastic family dog! Anyways, my husband and I are rat-sitting this weekend because my mother-in-law doesn't want rats in her house. They're fancy rats that you buy at the pet store. They're kinda pretty. One's white and black, the other one is white and brown. But they're still rats. So you'd think that my "vicious" pitbull would be eyeing them, sniffing them, trying to get at them or whatever. Nope! She takes one whiff of those things and bolts to the other room. My 50lb pitbull was afraid of little 1lb rats. It was absolutely hilarious to see.

Boohbah are these weird things on a Teletubbies like TV show, and they really freak my sister-in-law out. I mean, who wouldn't be freaked out by some blobby, knobbly thingy. So of course my husband has to give one to her for her birthday. And now it just goes back and forth between them, each one trying to hide it in a suitcase or closet or whatever they can find and make sure that the other has it longer. Anyways, we were all in New Orleans for a wedding and my sis-in-law decides to hide it in our suitcase the day she has to fly out. We decided to give the little guy a night out on the town, so here are some pictures documenting his trip. The boohbah flashed to earn his beads. Unfortunately, there's no way to tell the difference between the outside and the inside. Enjoying a beignet at Cafe Du Monde. I'm easily amused

Last night, my friends and I were hanging out at dinner and we eventually got around to gossiping about other friends that weren't there, especially one couple in particular who got married last October. It looks like their marriage is on the rocks, and they're probably headed for a divorce. Only a couple of months after they got married, the wife would come over without him saying that she didn't even know where he was and that he didn't come home last night. Now he's considering a job opportunity in Las Vegas and she told him that if he takes the job, she might meet him there in a year or so, but she hates Vegas and isn't ready to move there right now. They dated for at least three years before they got married, and they knew each other longer than that. They had both dated other people before they got together, so they knew what they wanted from the relationship. And they lived together for a year, so they knew exactly what they were getting into. She wasn't pregnant so they didn't have to get married. Like most people, they thought that they were in love and ready to spend the rest of their lives together. I'm hoping it all works out for them, but I'm not certain that it will. I know from experience that the first year of marriage is probably the hardest. I think mine was especially hard because neither of us had lived with another person. He could afford to live alone when he moved out of his parents house and I lived with my parents until we were married. We commuted to college, so there wasn't a dorm or frat/sorority experience. Even though we dated for a loooong time before we got married, we still had some issues after, but we worked through them. My parents have been married for over thirty years, and there were probably only a handful of kids whose parents were divorced when I was growing up. Now it seems like there are only a handful of kids in the class whose parents are still married. My husband's aunt and uncle got divorced after 25 years of marriage. Divorce rates are rising all over the world, not only in America. It just makes me kinda sad and wonder what's going wrong. Is love alone enough to make a marriage last? In my eyes, it takes so much more than just being in love. When I made the decision to accept my husband's proposal, I thought it through and made the decision with my head as well as my heart, which some people might see a callous. I knew that he would be a good husband and a great father. We share the same interests, have similar beliefs and ideals, similar parenting styles, and the same laid-back attitude towards life. Overall, we respect and love each other. I wasn't head-over-heels in love with him the way that the movies always portray it, but I do love him. It was more of a gradual thing that developed over time, starting out as a fling, then developed into a friendship, and finally into romantic relationship. I can't say that I'm not still attracted to other people, but I'm committed to making this marriage work. I'm an outrageous flirt but I don't do anything that will jeapordize my marriage. Emotions are fleeting and changeable. I'm not saying that a marriage can work without love, but I think there's as much of a chance of that working out as a couple who marry on the basis of love alone without really thinking the decision through or whether they'll feel the same in ten or even five years later.

Thanks for being so supportive! @jlhaslip - heh, it's just hard to get off my lazy butt sometimes! I think I'll try your suggestion of walking to the market instead of driving. It just means that I can't carry as much, which means that I'll have to walk there more often! I just can't do that when I go to Costco. @truefusion - Since I'm only 5', the doctor recommended that my weight be between 105-120. So I'm a little overweight and most of it is belly fat, which is I guess more unhealthy than if it went to another area like hips or thighs or something like that. Plus I'll be at this bachelorette party with hot, young, tall, blonde bombshells that epitomize the California look, and I feel dorky since I'm a little Filipina. Don't get me wrong, I love being me. But to be honest, girls don't get all pretty to impress guys, they do it to impress other girls. Small meaning a bowl of cereal or oatmeal, a 6" sandwich split into two portions for lunch or a half serving of leftovers, and usually a half serving for dinner Daily - it's suggested to eat 3 servings of fruit and 5 servings of vegetables a day. one serving = 1/2 cup I usually get my sandwiches dry and the dressing on the side for salads. I like creamy dressings, but I usually order the balsamic vinagrette instead. Just a can. I don't have any at home, so it's just when eat at our friend's house. She used to walk me instead of the other way around. Obedience school does wonders. I limit my tuna and salmon because of the mercury (I'm assuming that's why you said only 2/week), but tilapia is supposed to be safe. I drink a glass of wine with dinner every once in awhile. If I'm boozin, then I'll mix up a 7&7 or a lemon drop if I want to look trendy. My life is pretty easy and far from stressful at the moment. I could give up drinking entirely, like when I was taking medication, but it's a small pleasure that I partake every once in awhile. Not to mention free since we don't go to bars or clubs, just hang out at our friend's house every week and his bar is fully stocked. People bring their favorite alcohol to stock the bar with and my husband and I bought sodas instead. Thanks for the suggestions! I'll update to let you know if I made any progress.

I didn't think I should drudge up an old topic, but I noticed that no one wrote anything about dyslexia, so I figured I'd add my reply.My husband is dyslexic, which means that he has trouble processing words because the letters get mixed up or appear backwards when he's trying to read. Everything he reads looks similar to the example. But reading takes twice as long for him because his brain works twice as hard to process. It addition, you have to recognize the word in order for your mind to translate it into something that has meaning. If you never knew the correct spelling of the word in the first place, then you wouldn't be able to unscramble the letters into something that your brain recognized.I think words would tend to lose their importance if they weren't spelled the same most of the time. We would have to go back to the pre-literate age of using pictograms and symbols, which would make abstract concepts hard to express. Chinese developed from pictograms and they have over 10,000 characters while English only has 26 letters. Each character represents a different idea, while letters must be formed into words in order to generate meaning.So I think that spelling does matter, especially at the initial stage when you are trying to learn words. And spell-check is ruining spelling in school and limiting vocabulary. Texting is a close second.

Don't know if you've solved this problem, but my husband has a RAZR with Verizon. According to the Verizon website's FAQ, you can download MP3's to your phone using a mini-SD card or bluetooth, but you will not be able to convert them into ringtones. He was really bummed because it's a company phone and they don't allow him to purchase anything for it like ringtones and games. Go figure Hope this helps. edit: bolded

Ever since I can remember, my cousin has been my best friend. Her parents lived a few hours away from us, my brother and her brother are around the same age and she and I are about 9 months apart, so our families would get together on weekends and stuff. When her mom and dad got divorced, her mom brought the family to our home and stayed with us for a couple months before moving to Norther California, about 6 hours away. But we would still spend a couple weeks with them every summer and trade off holidays, like going up there for Thanksgiving and they would come down for Christmas. After we graduated from high school, we spent almost the entire summer together. I even invited her to grad night instead of my boyfriend! We went on a road trip and I helped her move into her dorm. Her university is about 45 min - 1 hour away, so I thought we'd hang out every weekend and stuff. But we didn't, mostly because I didn't know how to drive and she didn't have a car. We just kinda drifted apart, but I still had this feeling that she'd always be there for me if I needed her. I even hooked her up with my other best friend and they were together for 6 years or something like that. All that happened, though, was that I hardly ever saw either of my best friends. When I got married, there was no question in my mind who my Maid of Honor would be. She had just started dating this @$$hole, and they got into a fight over the phone at my bachelorette party! Strike 2 against him. (Strike 1 because he can never be as good to her as my best friend was.) I finally met the guy when we all went to Vegas a few months later. I think I was the annoying one at the time because I didn't like him to begin with and I wouldn't let them stay alone in the room and have a little privacy. But seriously, it was the room her mom and step-dad were using. Can't they control their hormones for a weekend? 3 days tops that they would have to go without having sex, is that too much to ask? So yeah, our first meeting went badly and neither he nor I could stand to be around the other. They get into petty little arguments all the time and she's doubted his faithfulness because she found pictures of girls' butts on his camera phone. And he's always grabbing and groping her in public. I'm not opposed to a little PDA, but they take it a little over the top sometimes. At first, I was the only one who disliked him, but now her sister, who defended him most of the time, and brother and most of our aunts and uncles all agree that he doesn't treat her with the respect that she deserves. Ever since she got with him, our relationship has been strained. When she got engaged, I promised that I would stop disrespecting him when we go out. I didn't promise to like him, I just promised that I would try to not hate him. And he's less annoying when he doesn't have to be the center of attention all the time or sulking about the fact that her ex-boyfriend gets invited to some of our parties because he still happens to be friends with me, my brother, and her brother. But she's starting to take on some really bad habits and traits. She dresses and acts all slutty because he treats her that way. She's always been a flirt, but she didn't act like a ****. Now she wears skirts that barely cover the top of her thighs and low-cut tops that she's almost popping out of. And she's developed this "poor me" attitude and this paranoia about people talking about her. Seriously, it's like she thinks that the rest of us have nothing better to do than discuss her life. Then she has the gall to say that she's done with me and trying to repair whatever's left of our friendship because I said that I was disappointed in her because she threw a tantrum when her mom suggested that she and her fiance sleep in separate rooms when we visit the Philippines because it's a different culture and it is uncommon for couples to live together before they get married. She goes on and on about how she doesn't care what people think, she'll do whatever she wants because she's an adult. I'm sorry, but age is just a number. If you want to be treated like an adult, then freaking act like an adult instead of throwing a tantrum like a spoiled child. She's not the same person she used to be. When we were growing up, she used to be the good, respectful daughter and I used to be the wild child who ran off with my boyfriend and sulked at family parties because I had to be forced to go. But we're in our late 20s now and I've grown up since then. I don't demand respect, I earn it by giving respect and helping out while she's sleeping until noon on a daily basis and can't hold down a job for more than 6 months. Before the incident, she said she wanted to try to re-connect and so I opened up, I sent long, expressive e-mails about my life and my feelings about almost everything, from a non-aggressive center, trying to keep it tactful and rational. I have this habit of blurting out my opinions in less than helpful ways when I'm emotional, so I prefer writing things out so that we can actually move past the hurt and towards change. But she's completely different and is all about the instant gratification and responding in the moment. So I bare my soul to her and get very little back. When I offer to meet with her after I think she's had time to process my words, she's too busy and can't be bothered. So much for her wanting to repair this relationship. And she thinks that I care if she's "written me off" or that she says she's done with me? *@#! her is all I have to say.

So I did a little side job delivering flowers for Secretary's Week and Mother's Day and earned a bit of money. I'm going to be going to a bachelorette party at the end of August, and I really don't want to stick out as the fat cow there. My goal is to lose 15 lbs which should put me right in my target body weight range, somewhere between 110 and 120 lbs. As incentive, I handed my hard-earned money to my husband and told him to give it back to me when I've lost the weight. So far, I've lost about 4-5 lbs. in the last 2 weeks, but since August is coming up, I think I need to step it up. And I'd appreciate your suggestions. Here's what my routine has been so far: Eating 3-4 small meals a day. Eating more vegetables and limiting my fruits to 3 or 4 servings of fresh fruit rather than fruit juice or smoothies. The only fast food I eat is a sandwich or a salad from Togo's or Subway. Drinking more water and less soda. I usually only have soda 2-3 times a week. Walking my dog every morning for about 30 min. I'm trying to eat more fish and less of other meats. It's mostly chicken and fish for me, sometimes some ground beef in the spaghetti sauce. Cut back my alcohol to 2-3 glasses a week. I hate doing it, but they're empty calories that I can't afford. So I just concentrate on drinking hard liquor instead of beer. I've tried doing some pilates videos, but I've got screws and plates holding my elbow in place, so it hurts to lay on my elbows. I'm also not as flexible since I had the accident (you should see me trying to hold a phone to my ear, it's hilarious). I enrolled in a swimming course for 6 weeks that starts in July, but that's only once a week.I refuse to cut carbs out of my diet. Not only do I love them, but I think that they're necessary for our bodies as I mentioned in another post. I guess I could eat less of the simple carbs like white bread and eat more of the complex carbs like whole wheat pasta. And my weaknesses have been ice cream and cheese. I've tried to control my ice cream craving by buying Dibs, which are little half inch bon bon thingies, and shoving the carton in the back of the freezer so that I have to move everything to get it out. I've also made myself eat just one tiny half inch square, then go away for at least half an hour before I can get another one. Usually the craving passes and I've only eaten about 7 in the last 3 months. But I have dessert when we have get togethers with our friends, so I've definitely had more ice cream than that. The weakness that I can't get a hold of is cheese. I love cheese on almost everything. I'll have tomato and cheese on toast as a midmorning snack, then more cheese in my sandwich for lunch and there's usually something at dinner that I can eat with cheese. My biggest goal here is not just to lose the weight, but to develop a healthy lifestyle so that I can keep the weight off. But I really do want to have my money back so I can spend it at the bachelorette party. So help me win my bet and post your suggestions here! Thank you very much!

That's interesting about the glucosamine, sheepdog. When my dog had surgery on her knee, the doctor prescribed glucosamine tablets for her recovery and said it would help with her recovery and strengthen her joints. I noticed the supplements at Costco and decided to pick them up there since it was much cheaper than pet meds. I started taking it too since I had surgery on my elbow last year after a really bad accident. I noticed that there's less pain and stiffness in my arm. When we forget to give our dog her pills or only do it once a day, she does tend to limp and hobble around a bit. Not that it would stop her from running all over the yard.On the news today, there was a segment about echinacea. Apparently, research has shown that people are less prone to developing a cold and usually recover from a cold at least a day faster than those who didn't take it. I thought that was pretty interesting because previous reports said that echinacea isn't effective.

Haha! I decided to dig this up since I recently had the pleasure of meeting Mike in his post-mod days. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia: Actually, Saint Michael shouldn't even be a saint since he's technically an archangel, so he doesn't really deserve to be canonized. He's already a higher being than the rest of us lowly humans. He's far too nice to be PURE EVIL, but with a little training, he could be evil enough to lick my boots!

Forgot to add a few and since no post count, I'll be lazy and not edit.Serenity is awesome!Labyrinth and Dark Crystal are great. Can't get enough of those evil muppets.

Anthropologists have shown that most nomadic tribes were matriarchal, that is ruled by a woman. She would make all the important decisions regarding the tribe, such as when to move, where to go, and what jobs people would do. Through Judaism, some tribes became patriarchal, and this patriarchal culture has persisted through the Western world and spread through imperialism and colonialism. (Note: I am not undermining or attacking any religion, I am stating a fact that certain religions, in fact many religions, are patriarchal and tend to favor men over women.) Other tribes continued to be matriarchal until the discovery of agriculture and the rise of settlements. Men began to take control of the settlements and women's roles became undervalued and their role in the community grew smaller and smaller. Women in the US and many other countries have been fighting for equality: an equal voice in legislature, equal pay at jobs, and equal rights to the benefits that men are entitled to. They've countered the arguments about genetic and mental inferiority through science and proven their ability to compete at the same level as men in almost every field. Yet the actualization of equality is still far from our reach. Despite the fact that women and men are nearly the same physically, the fact remains that our bodies are different. The presence of a womb does make us different from men and able to do something which they cannot, whether we choose to use it or not. Other studies in psychology have shown that most women do process things differently than men. Women are known to be better at multi-tasking than most men, who must process things one at a time rather than all at once. Whether it's conditioning or biological, the fact remains that there are differences between men and women, so can the two sexes ever really be considered equal?