AidaLily

@AidaLily (1450)

United States • Age 37

Joined myLot 14 years ago

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How it all got started.... and a few other things....

AidaLily @AidaLily (1450) • United States 1 May 13

How did this happen? What were they thinking when they made this site? Well I have the story... The conversation went as follows. (note parody granted there might be truth to this who knows) A: How are we going to improve the...

parody

truth

a goodbye

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Balance

AidaLily @AidaLily (1450) • United States 25 Apr 13

Our politicians in the U.S. are masters at changing up stories, sweet talking and lying to "fan" bases, dividing the nation and pointing fingers at the other guy. They push these things on to their constituents except the...

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Benefits to Parenthood

AidaLily @AidaLily (1450) • United States 17 Apr 13

Warning: Long post! I was asked a strange question today from a woman at the family center who is considering having children. The question probably isn't that strange but she asked me "What exactly are the benefits to...

benefits

investment

parenthood

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Can most women not take a joke? (mini-rant)

AidaLily @AidaLily (1450) • United States 28 Mar 13

My husband and I went to something our local family center was having for the parents. One of the young women there was talking about getting married and everyone was making different jokes about being married, and my husband just...

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D-I-Y hurting job creation and economic growth?

AidaLily @AidaLily (1450) • United States 28 Mar 13

[i]Now this is a political discussion in the essence it is speaking of the American economy, however... this is not a partisan discussion meaning the government will be taken as a whole and posts about how so and so did this and...

economy

job creation

small business

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Pleasantly Surprised

AidaLily @AidaLily (1450) • United States 25 Feb 13

A few weeks ago, I got a random email for a survey. It looked like one of the survey sites I had signed up for in the past and decided 'Hey why not?'. The survey promised a $10 Visa Gift card for successful completion of the...

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Healthcare and College

AidaLily @AidaLily (1450) • United States 22 Feb 13

[i]This is meant to be a serious discussion with no real push towards either side of the political spectrum. It is more a discussion about what people think may help to fix the problem not their issues with politics hence why it...

college

connection

healthcare

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Today's Client... and their idea

AidaLily @AidaLily (1450) • United States 22 Feb 13

As I have stated before on mylot, I help people with their budgets and some other financial decisions as well. If clients are married or committed to each other and see me together then they are one client. Today, I had a...

client

idea

prepaid cards

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Do you think colleges should be sued?

AidaLily @AidaLily (1450) • United States 14 Feb 13

In a conversation earlier with a friend who goes to college in Arkansas, she believes that colleges should be sued and held responsible for outrageous student loan debt in the U.S. Her reasons are that these schools already...

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Are most Americans truly incapable of budget adjustments on their own?

AidaLily @AidaLily (1450) • United States 13 Jan 13

I am asking this question after being rudely awakened today at seven-thirty in the morning by a screaming and hysterical client of mine. After spending twenty minutes on the phone with them, I just told them to come over at 8:30...

adjustments

budgets

payroll taxes

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They BOTH do it.

AidaLily @AidaLily (1450) • United States 3 Jan 13

Everyone currently is worried about the amount of spending the government is doing and different ways to cut the debt down by stopping the spending. However, they tend to each say things that do NOT help stop the wasteful...

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New Year's Resolutions

AidaLily @AidaLily (1450) • United States 26 Dec 12

And so it is that time of year again and many people are making New Year's Resolutions in which sadly a large number of people will give up their resolutions or break them within the first 4 - 6 months of the New Year. Having...

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Legal "Drug Pushers"

AidaLily @AidaLily (1450) • United States 26 Oct 12

Today I was speaking with a few classmates in our schools chat system and one of the women there was talking about this new drug that came out that her doctor put her on. She explained that the doctor said it was new on the market...

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Winter and Spring

AidaLily @AidaLily (1450) • United States 24 Oct 12

These relationships are full of double standards. If a younger male dates an older woman, then his friends (usually in the secondary and post secondary education years) find it great. Most people wouldn't bat much of an eye...

older and younger

relationships

winter and spring

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