hvedra

@hvedra (1619)

Age 54

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Are There Any Drama-Clubs OUTSIDE of School?

Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine @mythociate (21432) • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 8 Feb 13

Yes, but they're more 'professional' (both literally & monetarily)---i.e. you don't "sign-up," but you audition-&-audition-&-audition & win a role maybe 1% of the time and you're on casting-directors' minds and get called-in for...

league

out of school

professional

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hvedra In the UK there are a lot of "Amateur Dramatics" groups. By definintion they are not professional but some do have professional standards whereas others concentrate more on the "Amateur" than they do the "Dramatics" Most you get in by...

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I Stood Up To Them!

Jennifer @LovingMyBabies (85288) • Valdosta, Georgia 9 Jan 13

I usually back down to everyone and let them tell me what I am going to do...Today though was very different. It felt so good too. I am no longer going to be taken advantage of or told what to do. I am grown and people need to...

baby steps

not a door mat anymore

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hvedra It's a good step. You put a boundary in place and as long as they respect that it's good. My problem is that I always put myself last - due to being ignored as a child. I'm always fixing stuff for everyone else and sometimes forget that I have my own needs...

10 Jan 13

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I am afraid to put up the tree!

lilybug @lilybug (21107) • United States 7 Dec 12

We have a kitten that LOVES to climb and jump on things. Everything is a toy. She even has gone so far as to try to climb the floor lamp and knocked it over. At first I was figuring I would need to no put ornaments at the bottom...

cat

christmas

tree

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hvedra You need to anchor the tree somehow. I did this last year and it was okay because we only had two older cats who have lost interest in going totally crazy. However, this year we got another, very young cat so we will be securing the tree as best we can. I am...

7 Dec 12

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Do you keep a pocket diary for manual record of phone numbers?

Sreekala @Sreekala (34312) • India 7 Dec 12

Dear mylotters Recently many of my friends complaints that they either they lost their mobile phone or lost data from it so they could not track their friends including me. You may agree with me,...

manual records

pocket diary

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hvedra I do have some important numbers written down but I think mobile 'phones have made us very lazy. I used to have family and friends numbers memorised but now I could just about tell you which area code they are under!

7 Dec 12

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Do You Want the Poor to Pay More in Taxes and the Rich to Pay LESS?

anniepa @anniepa (27955) • United States 5 Dec 12

Obviously this question is mainly addressed to my conservative friends here on myLot, particularly those of you who have repeatedly mentioned in your posts that around half of all Americans pay no federal income taxes. Actually,...

real class warfare

tax the poor

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hvedra It depends how those included in the survey. If it is half of the entire population, how many of those are children, retired, not working but being supported by a spouse or family who pay taxes and so on? I think if all countries simplified their tax rates...

6 Dec 12

What If?

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 21 Nov 12

If I say that there is no such thing as God people will immediately say "oh yes there is." If I say there is such a thing as God, other people will say "no there isn't"". If I say there might be an god or there might not be a god....

good god

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hvedra I'm a polytheist - believing in the existence of many gods - which throws out most people's arguments. It tends to especially upset atheists because most of them don't believe in _one_ god and it doesn't occur to them that there might be a bunch of them they...

5 Dec 12

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Yay!

Jennifer @LovingMyBabies (85288) • Valdosta, Georgia 4 Dec 12

Today I took the first step towards my goal. I am going on Thursday for a tour of the cosmetology school that I am planning on going to. I start my classes next month. =) I am super excited and cannot wait to start on my new...

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hvedra That's really neat! Are you specialising in something particular or doing general courses to start with?

4 Dec 12

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Vampires vs Werewolves

ctryhnny @ctryhnny (3460) • United States 3 Dec 12

I'm a horror movie fanatic and prefer Vampires over Werewolves. Werewolf with Anthony Hopkins is on my tv right now only because there's nothing else to watch. The movie sux as far as I'm concerned. Vampires are handsome and...

horror

vampires

werewolves

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hvedra I prefer werewolves. Okay so they shed on the furniture but in European folklore they were the defenders of the community and not bad - that came later with the church propaganda. Vampires are really zombies with good PR and fashion sense. I thought...

4 Dec 12

I want only A child not a Husband

iamJB7 @iamJB7 (122) • Philippines 4 Dec 12

I have this thought of not having a husband for the rest of my life. I only wanted to have a child so that someone will be there when I get old. I don't like to live alone. One thing I don't like to have a husband because I know...

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hvedra Plenty of relationships last "'til death do us part" why do you automatically assume that your relationships will break apart before you even have them? It is assumed that children will love their parents forever but this is not the case. When they are...

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Getting fatter and fatter

tecchigurl @tecchigurl (672) • Philippines 3 Dec 12

Help my fellow mylotters! I'm getting several comments already. Most people are not intentionally trying to put pressure on me but most of them said that I am gaining weight. I don't want to gain any more weight. Huhuhu... But I...

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hvedra There could be a number of factors at play here. Your desire to eat may be indicitive of food addiction (yes, you can be addicted) or a food intolerance that is causing you to eat. If we are intolerant to a food or ingredient we sometimes crave it because when...

3 Dec 12

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am i bad or what???

asliah @asliah (11137) • Philippines 3 Dec 12

greetings to all of you guys,i think i am crazy because i still hacking the account of my ex boyfriend,hacking i mean i still know the password of my ex so i can easily browse his Facebook account,and my reason is if he already...

browse

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hvedra You have lost control of yourself haven't you? If he kept contacting you and telling you everything about himself, his life and making you listen, how would you feel about that? What are you hoping for? That he will be sad and miserable? What if he...

3 Dec 12

What Do You Think about Keeping Your Private Life Off of Facebook?

Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine @mythociate (21432) • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 30 Nov 12

On her FB-page, my mom 'shared' an image of a sign that said, "The Only Privacy Notice You Need about Facebook: If It's Private, Don't Put It On Facebook!" That's good for her generation and for most of my generation; but for...

new generation

private life

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hvedra FB and other social networking sites can be useful as a kind of on-going notice board but people forget that it is public no matter what your privacy settings - because someone could copy and share whatever you put up. That said, it is often those who are...

3 Dec 12

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my daughter wants to be a vegetarian

3SnuggleBunnies @3SnuggleBunnies (16374) • United States 2 Dec 12

For some time a lady at work had been complaining about her child becoming a vegetarian however her child is a teenager. The other week my 7yr old decides she wants to be a vegetarian that sometimes eats meat. I haven't figured...

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hvedra I think you need to find out why your daughter wants to be vegetarian. It could be she simply doesn't like meat. She might be upset at the thought of eating an animal. It might be some outside influence like another kid at school or some celebrity she likes...

3 Dec 12

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Do You Really Have To Always Complain?

Jennifer @LovingMyBabies (85288) • Valdosta, Georgia 18 Nov 12

So, it is really annoying to me how some women (not all) complain every single time I am on Facebook about their children. They complain every single day about their child whining or not behaving or not being able to go out...

annoying

children

parents complaining

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hvedra I am happily childfree and I've often asked the same question! I've seen a lot of parents who complain about their kids, complain AT their kids and don't even seem to like their kids. If you look at most of what they complain about the fault isn't with the...

29 Nov 12

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Why can't more parents be like this.....

trisha27 @trisha27 (3494) • United States 28 Nov 12

I was watching this youtube video with my husband, although it was funny and the little girl was so scared. I really have to say that this dad did the right thing by what he did. I wish more parents where like that. My husband was...

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hvedra He obviously loves his daughter, I hope she'll be able to understand later why he did what he did. I'm not saying I lived like a nun when I was a teenager but what girls get up to now is horrifying. They get literally used and abused because...

29 Nov 12

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What is our world coming to.....

trisha27 @trisha27 (3494) • United States 28 Nov 12

People are killing other people over stupid stuff. My husband and I was watching this youtube video is was a news broadcasting that actually happened in a town that is not to far from my hometown. This lady killed her husband...

murder

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hvedra It was probably the thing that triggered her but unless she's got real issues then it was probably other underlying reasons that were the real cause. If she's got a newborn she could have been suffering post natal depression. I wish the media wouldn't try to...

29 Nov 12

Hand-me-downs or bargain clothes that you were thankful for and ones that you

writersedge @writersedge (22563) • United States 26 Nov 12

were not really thankful for? I liked most of the clothes that I got as hand me downs. But every once in a while there was one I could live without. A pepto-bismo pink long coat. How I hated that thing! But a dog attacked...

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hvedra I guess the dog had the same view of the coat you did. I didn't get a lot of hand-me downs. Not because we were rich or anything just that there was no one in the family of a similar age to me. Most of our neighbours did as we did and wore...

27 Nov 12

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For ladies: What if a man wolf whistles on you?

Shavkat @Shavkat (140051) • Philippines 26 Nov 12

A wolf whistle is the way a man compliments the physical attributes of a woman. There are two sides of notion will laid in cards on regards to wolf whistling the ladies. Some women will feel disrespected, it is impolite actuation...

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hvedra It is at best unthinking. When I go out of the house I go out of the house for MY reasons. I do not go out to be subjected to the opinions and attentions of someone I don't know who thinks he has some kind of right to comment on my appearance AS IF I EXIST TO...

27 Nov 12