cutepenguin

@cutepenguin (6431)

Canada • Age 45

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My boyfriend from overseas is coming! :)

secretbear @secretbear (19448) • Philippines 27 Apr 13

My boyfriend from the US is finally going to visit me and meet me for the first time! :p We've been going steady for three months now and he was finally able to secure a 10-day vacation from work just yesterday. Hurray! :D I'm...

boyfriend

foreign boyfriend

long distance relationship

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cutepenguin That's exciting! Are there any nice hikes or walks nearby? Those can be nice even in wet weather 9although I don't know how wet your rainy season is).

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Too much work

BannedHelsing @BannedHelsing (693) • Philippines 24 Apr 13

It's been over a month when my partner here in our office passed away and yet the HR have not yet replaced him. For over a month now, I am doing jobs for two people. It is taking toll now. I feel tired and unappreciated. I think I...

jobs

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cutepenguin I would ask for someone to be hired. It is too much to be doing the work of 2 people. For a long time at my husband's work, his section was short staffed because they did not replace an employee who took another job. It made everyone else have to work more and...

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Do you wear the spects while sleeping?

smilywomen @surekharathi (14146) • India 25 Dec 12

I notice most of the persons sleep but not remover their spectacles from their eyes the forget because of more tired and suddenly sleep. But it may be break when we move left and right I think the person should be first duty is...

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cutepenguin I don't wear my glasses to sleep. I think I'd bend them and they wouldn't fit as well (my glasses would be very difficult to break). I don't watch tv or do things that would cause me to drift off to sleep in the evening, so I haven't accidentally fallen asleep...

24 Apr 13

Father claims they were Framed!

lelin1123 @lelin1123 (15595) • Puerto Rico 19 Apr 13

I can't believe that the father of these two bombers of the Boston Marathon is claiming that his sons are being framed. How after all the evidence could he really think this. I know he must be devastated, I can understand that;...

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cutepenguin I think it's pretty normal to be in denial about something like this. Emotionally it would be very difficult to think that your own children would do something like this, and so your brain would come up with all kinds of ways to avoid thinking it was true. I...

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My Surgery Was A Success!!

Nature Yogi Marco Andre @DragonflyKingdom (288) • United States 19 Apr 13

This is just an update to my other post about having surgery. Everything went fine, I could even walk the same day. The real problem was sitting upright because it was in between the lower stomach and upper inner thigh area. It's...

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cutepenguin It's great that your surgery went so well and you got a good result on the cyst! It must be hard to not be able to move much, it's amazing how much you use muscles that you don't even think about normally, isn't it?

20 Apr 13

I don't know what to do anymore...

courtknee525 @courtknee525 (3742) • United States 19 Apr 13

Some of you may know my boyfriend is in the army, is in Korea, and is supposed to come back in May to visit. Ever since he left I've been looking forward to him coming back for my 21st birthday and that's what has been making my...

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cutepenguin I think I'd actually be more concerned about the comment "he's always angry and takes it out on me". Long distance relationships are hard but are you sure you'd be that great of a couple if he was around? Angry people aren't very pleasant. It's too bad that...

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Good luck is important in life

maximax8 @maximax8 (31046) • United Kingdom 19 Apr 13

Today I signed into my email account once I got up. Yes at 5.40 this morning my local council school admissions sent me an email giving my daughter an ofter at my choice of primary school. It is the same school my disabled son...

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cutepenguin That's great that your daughter got into the school of your choice. It does seem like a lot of life is based on good luck. It's hard to think like this because it would be better if life was based on something we can control, but a lot of things are just...

20 Apr 13

Why are Bad Habits so Hard to Break?

GreenMoo @GreenMoo (11834) 19 Apr 13

Why can't I stop biting my nails? I've done it most of my life, and, despite all my best efforts to stop, I still do it. Other people can't stay away from cigarettes, or being late, or cream cakes, or whatever. So why are...

habit

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cutepenguin I've managed to stop eating so much chocolate, but I had to do it with a friend. It's really hard to break habits, so I've tried a lot of different methods. So far, for me, it's best to just quit things - I can't let myself even do it a little bit. Of course,...

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how many languages do you know? and do we have to know to survive?

scubapro @scubapro (1051) • Gifu, Japan 19 Apr 13

i can talk english,german turkish and japanese. my mother language is turkish but i learned english and the other 2 language too. it was really useful to know new languages. i was working with english and american people before...

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cutepenguin I can only really speak English. I know a little bit of a few other languages that I learned in school, but unfortunately not enough to really survive.

20 Apr 13

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staying away from tooo negative people

jazel_juan @jazel_juan (15746) • Philippines 18 Apr 13

If there is one thing i would change this year that would be staying away from negative people... in where i am right now, i am surrounded by people who always complain they don't have money - i don't have too but sometimes...

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cutepenguin I'm trying to be more positive, but lately I think I have been the complaining one. I think I'll try to be more positive in my speech and if I have a problem, to just state it for what it is instead of whining.

19 Apr 13

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Dealing with Family Members that Don't Follow Through

Shellyann36 @Shellyann36 (11384) • United States 18 Apr 13

I have a cousin that lives near me. She is only 15 minutes away and is the relative that lives closest to me. Well back in early March she asked me if I could get her daughter off of the bus in the afternoon at my house on the...

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cutepenguin I have a cousin who is a bit like this. She's gotten better in that she will make arrangements for things like this, but she is still frustrating in that she wants free childcare for her daughter but never reciprocates for family members (but is always willing...

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girl_thinking @girl_thinking (1959) • Philippines 19 Apr 13

I have just deleted a friend here in mylot. Why did I delete her? Because she makes a lot of discussions. As in A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS. Discussions which she never even reply to when people respond. Normally,...

deleted

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cutepenguin I do end up with a lot of email in my inbox that is about discussions people have started. The odd thing, I find, is that I don't think I get notified about every one, just a lot of them, and it seems to always be the same few people. I kind of ignore it and...

19 Apr 13

This month has been good as money goes.

marguicha @marguicha (223720) • Chile 19 Apr 13

As I have told you, I not only need to save for my vacations in August, but also I have to leave a little money every month just in case the washing machine decides to end its useful life. I had it repaired but I don`t trust that...

money

online earning

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cutepenguin I had been doing well with my regular job, but everything has been cut back by quite a bit because my husband changed jobs and so his hours changed. It's been a tough month, actually.

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Preserving food items by drying under hot sun.

roshigo58 @roshigo58 (4859) • Pune, India 19 Apr 13

Hi, Here in our city weather is very hot. Many people bring some grains like wheat, jawar,peanuts and many items on wholesale. They spread them on terrace for drying so that they can preserve them for the long time. Potato chips...

troubling birds

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cutepenguin We can only do that here for a couple of months in the summer because it's just too humid or wet here the rest of the year. I can speed up the process by using a sun oven, though. Usually I just use an electric food dehydrator though.

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I don't think I am going to have any income for awhile!

Brooke @o2bnocn (2992) • United States 19 Apr 13

So recently I received some bad news that I was hitting the limit for my school. I won't be allowed to borrow anymore after a certain amount. I will probably have to come up with the rest of the money for the classes to finish. I...

income

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cutepenguin How frustrating. I'm not sure how you're going to work this out, but do keep trying - I remember a point in my life where it felt like nothing was happening and I was just digging myself into debt and getting trapped, but I kept trying to find more work and it...

19 Apr 13

Can you become successful whilst in a relationship?

SilverMiles @SilverMiles (12) • United States 19 Apr 13

I was wondering if it was possible to reach success while you are in a relationship. I feel like even you could be, it would be extremely difficult to do. You have to find time to focus on yourself, but at the same time not...

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cutepenguin I think being in a relationship can make it easier to become successful, but it depends on the relationship and on the career. If you have to travel a lot, I think being in a relationship can make it harder to focus on your career.

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Saving money on food

Brooke @o2bnocn (2992) • United States 16 Apr 13

Food can be a very expensive bill nowadays. There are numerous times when I go to the grocery store and check out to hear that my bill is almost doubled what I expected. Here are some of the things that I have noticed can help...

food

groceries

saving money

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cutepenguin We try not to buy too much processed foods but to be honest have sort of lost track of any sort of food budget. We don't impulse shop though - we have a plan for the meals we are going to have and just buy those things, and then we stock up on things that we...

19 Apr 13

Would you quit?

Brooke @o2bnocn (2992) • United States 19 Apr 13

About a year ago I had a babysitting job. My cousin needed a babysitter, and I was looking for some income. I was going to start babysitting for her. I agreed to get paid $100 a week no matter what. Which meant if she came and...

babysitting

money

work

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cutepenguin I would have quit as well. I understand not being able to afford to pay a lot, but it doesn't make you responsible for her child even when you are not there. And parents should provide bug spray and food for their children. It is too bad this didn't work...

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i am back to using the physical keyboard

hotsummer @hotsummer (13837) • Philippines 19 Apr 13

i purchased a otg cable for my tablet nexus 7. i have discovered i can use it to connect a physical keyboard and so i am able to use actually. i was really surprised this is really aa nice purchase. before i was thinking of buying...

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cutepenguin I find the touch screen keyboard not as nice as a physical keyboard, myself. You don't get the same feedback that you do from a physical keyboard. Still, the touchscreen is pretty handy.

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