Rachel

@RachelleDD (823)

Canada

Joined myLot 18 years ago

I live in Newfoundland, Canada, love music of all kinds. Always appreciated the advice I've gotten from MyLot. :)

Rachel's Responses

Weight Loss Journey 2021 - March 15th

Courtney Dutton @MommyOfEli2013 (84324) • Rupert, Idaho 16 Mar 21

Hello again everyone, how are you all doing? Well I hope. Anyways, I am back to share my weight loss journey for the day. Let's start with the weigh in Last (March 11) - 190 Today - 195.6 Yikes...up 5.6 - I know...

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Rachel Determination is half the battle! And you have tons of it!! Good luck!

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I have always wanted to play the guitar

Sheri @tuckersheri (1327) • United States 16 Mar 21

I have always wanted to play the guitar but I never really could because it was so hard to do. I tried to have a teacher teach me but I’m just not that musically inclined so unfortunately I was not able to play the guitar. I like...

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Rachel Sometimes being musically inclined runs in families. It did in mine, I've played guitar since I was 12, self taught. I use to teach it as well. Once you get past the tender fingers, as I believe that is truly the hardest part when first picking up a guitar,...

16 Mar 21

The Heartache

bestie @bestie (3272) • Philippines 16 Mar 21

Not a typical heartache caused by your beloved spouse who passed away. It is a whole different type of heartache from a broken relationship. It is an ache that no one can fathom unless you experience it on your own. The most...

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Rachel My family has had more tragedy and heartache than any one family deserves, having buried siblings at a young age, suffering through countless losses. The only thing that can even begin to lessen this horrible sense of loss you are feeling is time, and in time...

16 Mar 21

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I would never get a tattoo

Sheri @tuckersheri (1327) • United States 16 Mar 21

I would never get a tattoo because of the fact that if I got a tattoo I might regret it later. It is something permanent that you can’t get rid of unless you get it lasered off and I heard that the laser off treatment is very very...

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Rachel I have one tattoo, it holds significant meaning. I knew long before I got it that I would never regret getting it. It represents so much more than some ink under the skin.

16 Mar 21

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I got my tongue pierced at a young age

Sheri @tuckersheri (1327) • United States 16 Mar 21

I got my tongue pierced at a young age and it was really cool at the time but then as I got older I realized that it was kind of dumb that I did it. The reason being is that it does chip your teeth and then it causes dental...

young ring

dental problems

chipping teeth

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Rachel My step-daughter was dead set on having her tongue pierced at 16, she had snake bite piercings. Although it looked cool, it did damage her teeth over time. When she turned 23 she took the piercings out and let it grow over. She says the same thing, that it was...

16 Mar 21

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An enjoyable evening under the stars

Judy Evans @JudyEv (342489) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Mar 21

Last night, we attended an open-air showing of the Australian film ‘Rams’ – a remake of the Icelandic film of the same name. We saw the latter several years ago at the International Film festival held in Bunbury, Western...

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Rachel Looks like a lovely event, picnic table is cute!

13 Mar 21

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My snowglobe

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104628) • United States 11 Mar 21

I would start a collection of these if I could. At the moment I don't really have a feasible place to display them, and snow globes should definitely be displayed. The only one I own at the moment is this one. There's a little...

snow globes

globes

collection

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Rachel I have a half dozen or so snow globes, most from the San Fransisco Music Box Company, a friend of mine from Chicago started sending to me in the early days of our friendship. My favorite one is Phantom of the Opera, I display them on top of my cabinet in my...

11 Mar 21

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What scam calls have taught me

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104628) • United States 11 Mar 21

It's difficult to imagine how scam callers can teach us things, isn't it? Well They Can. For instance, every time I get a scam call it's from a place in North Carolina. Many I know - Swananoa, Burlington, Troy - but there are...

scam calls

callers

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Rachel I got a call a while back, said the IRS were on their way to my home to arrest me for tax evasion, said I owed $1600 bucks, to buy amazon cards, cash cards, to repay the debt. Of course I recognized it as a scam right away, first red flag was IRS is American,...

11 Mar 21

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So many appointments!

Angel @AngelisaQT (1353) • United States 5 Mar 21

I have gotten 2 calls today, one to set up my appointment for the 11th where they will run a scope down my throat to check out my stomach. And then another one just now for a COVID test on the 9th. Then after the appointment on...

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Rachel You need a covid test here in Newfoundland before you can get scope. Just had one recently myself. God awful test, both of them, but necessary. Good luck with all your appointments. :)

5 Mar 21

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Comfortably Dumb: Gladly Not Knowing the Scarcity of Electricity

Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine @mythociate (21432) • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 25 Feb 21

In the modern world, we have a limitless amount of electric energy ... as long as we keep the bills paid and don't damage the equipment we use it with. (You know, just 'plug it in & turn it on.') And that's all we have to...

electricity generation

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Rachel Rates here are high, winter monthly bills reaches $700-$800 a month. It’s my highest bill, in summer, even tho our season is short it will decline to about $200. Newfoundland has many generating stations, the one that supplies our area is a thermal generator...

25 Feb 21

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When Relatives Borrow Money

@n.J @Iam_jauntyjen (5038) 23 Feb 21

It just hurts when a relative borrows money without any intention to pay. Two years ago, my niece, borrowed money from me. Without second thoughts, I lent her the money because she promised to return it as soon as her customer...

money

debt

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Rachel I helped a friend out once, she needed money for Christmas and her kids, I let her borrow $550, to pay back when she could, even $20 a week was fine with me. That was 13 years ago. Her kids are grown now, she works at a bank, but I’ve never gotten anything...

23 Feb 21

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Videos of Food Eating Competitions

Stephannie @stephcjh (38473) • United States 22 Feb 21

I get paid from this one website to watch short videos clips and it has a video on there of this guy who is eating all kinds of food in a food competition. I just watched him eat 6 huge triple stacked hamburgers with two extra...

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Rachel I've seen lots of competitions like that, I think for some it's a controlled bulimia, some stretch their bellies so much that it never shrinks back to normal size. Being too full is such an uncomfortable feeling to. Competition eating probably has a ton of...

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Sad News

Jessica @JESSY3236 (20078) • United States 16 Feb 21

Saturday night into Sunday early morning, my uncle died. He had tested positive for Covid. He had a fever and chills. My mother lived with him and she had a fever and chills. She felt better the next day. But my uncle's fever...

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Rachel So sorry for your loss Jessica. I hope your mom is ok. take care.

16 Feb 21

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Back After A Long Break

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44998) • Preston, England 13 Feb 21

Gosh I have been away much longer than I thought. Thank you to everyone for messages of concern and worry for me. Initially I drifted away as there was very little traffic on Mylot, and in fact there still isn’t really. The...

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Rachel Two time colon cancer survivor, and luckily no colostomy yet, I say yet because I think it's only a matter of time before it hits me again. 28 rounds of radiation, 8 months of chemo. It was a difficult journey to walk for sure. Our family carries a rare gene,...

16 Feb 21

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MY SISTER BETRAYED ME

Oghenekevwe Macbeth @Macbethcomedy (6) 3 Nov 19

I told my sister about my friend secret and she betrayed me by telling my friend, now my friend thinks am a bad person, am confused don't know what to do and am so angry with my sister right now, how do I get my friend back? I...

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Rachel Sorry your sister broke your confidence, but you broke your friends confidence by telling your sister in the first place. Hard lesson learned, your friend feels like they can't trust you, and you feel betrayed because now you can't trust your sister. Good...

7 Nov 19

Cautionary Tale

J.N.R Dutton @jnrdutton (3203) • United States 7 Nov 19

A movie I watched earlier inspired this post. It was a cautionary tale if ever there was one. In it, a girl invited some guy she literally just met on a dating app, to have drinks at her house. If she had thought out her...

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Rachel I find most people are trusting initially, it's like it is hard wired into our being or something, our upbringing, our enviroment. We automatically trust until we get burned.

7 Nov 19

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Trying to swallow horse tablets

Judy Evans @JudyEv (342489) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Nov 19

This is my ‘breakfast’. I don’t usually eat breakfast but I was recently diagnosed with osteoporosis so now I’m taking a calcium and Vitamin D supplement. The tablets would choke a horse they are so big and the only way I can get...

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Rachel Have taken many "horse" pills over the years, i usually just fill my mouth up with water and toss the pill in. It worked for me. :) Vegemite...what does it taste like? I'm up in the way Canadian North, have never even seen Vegemite.

6 Nov 19

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mylot

Maddy @nichole01art (1103) • United States 6 Nov 19

Took some time off of myLot before but now that I'm not as busy as I use to I've been able to spend some time here on myLot and earn some extra money. My mother introduce me to this website, I didn't understood how it work at...

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Rachel I was away from MyLot for years, just recently found my way back. It's refreshing change from facebook where there seems to be so much negativity. I'm enjoying reading peoples post. Welcome back! :)

6 Nov 19

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