webduck

@webduck (238)

United States • Age 74

Joined myLot 17 years ago

In order to find out who you are, discover who everyone else is. You're what's left.

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I'm pregnant, and I keep hearing awful birth stories!

astromama @astromama (1221) • United States 12 Feb 07

I would like to hear some uplifting birth stories. I'm 31 weeks pregnant and it seems like birth was just an awful experience for a lot of women. I would like to know what you loved about your labor and/or how it could have been...

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webduck Good wishes for the impending birth of your child. Some people are so rude about telling their birthing stories. I didn't have a bad experience, and so I am going to reply. At the time, I was a small, thin young woman of 20 when our son was born in Germany at...

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Would you buy a home from an owner, and not use a real estate agent?

webduck @webduck (238) • United States 12 Feb 07

I have bought three homes in my life, and sold two of them through real estate agents. The last one I bought from a friend and all we did was use a title office to make sure all the paperwork was in order. It worked out fine and...

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webduck Yes, I heartily agree. We did have an attorney go over the paperwork too, just to make sure we covered all the bases. I think that as people get more savvy about how real estate transactions work, and just what paperwork needs to be done, more and more of them...

12 Feb 07

How many good friends do you have in real-life?

angelhuihui @angelhuihui (264) • China 12 Feb 07

I have only two,and you? A good friend someone who changes your life by being part of it.someone who makes you laugh untill you can't stop;someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world;someone who...

friendship

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webduck I have many good friends. Mostly women, but my best friend is my husband. I can't tell him "everything" though, so I have girlfriends and each one is very precious to me in her own way, for what she brings to the friendship, and what I like about her. My other...

12 Feb 07

Would you buy a home from an owner, and not use a real estate agent?

webduck @webduck (238) • United States 12 Feb 07

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Best place in the US to live?

mamajenn @mamajenn (9) • United States 12 Feb 07

Okay, lets say that you were given $50,000 to start your life somewhere else. Where do you live now? Where would you move to? Why did you pick the state / city that you did? I moved from NJ to WA almost 3 years ago. I moved...

best us city seatle

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webduck Hi there! Glad you moved to WA, although keep the somewhat good weather (in summer) a secret will ya? We don't need more people here. Just kidding. If I had lots of money, I would move to Montana. Western MT isn't bad. Eastern is somewhat more desolate. I live...

12 Feb 07

Intro music for Empire of the Sun

webduck @webduck (238) • United States 8 Feb 07

Empire of the Sun came out in 1987, and yet, I can still hear the music of the choir at the beginning of the movie. Can you still 'hear' it too?

empire of the sun

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webduck It is a movie about WWII and a boy who is seperated from his parents, and how he survives. Steven Spielberg directed it, and as always, he brings the humanity of the characters to life. The boy is played by Christian Bale, and it also has John Malcovich.

12 Feb 07

Spoiled or Attatched?

Sissygrl @Sissygrl (10912) • Canada 11 Feb 07

My daughter is nearly 7 months old and i am having a small problem. She doens't like to be far away from me at all. She has slept with me since she was born and always around me. but now she cannot be out of reach or she cries....

crying baby

spoiled attatched

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webduck Yes, it is hard to hear a baby cry and cry. You probably should never have let her sleep with you from the beginning. Not only is that a dangerous thing to do, but as you can see, now it has become a problem. My son and his wife had this very same problem with...

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Should we teach little boys to cook, clean and other things like that?

vokey9472 @vokey9472 (1486) • United States 11 Feb 07

I have a little boy and he loves to help me. As a stay at home mommy, I cook a lot of foods from scratch, like bake my own bread and stuff. Well, he always wants to help me and I have been teaching him how to do all the things...

clean

cook

little boys

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webduck I taught my son (who is now 35) to cook (including cleaning up as you cook), iron, and clean. He wasn't too good about the cleaning, but that may be a universal dislike by all of us. My son was taught how to sort clothes and do the laundry too. I am sorry to...

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Upstate N.Y. swamped by 8 feet of snow

Idlewild @Idlewild (6090) • United States 11 Feb 07

Yes, you read that correctly- EIGHT FEET. Some towns have gotten 123 and 131 inches,and more may be on the way. Just a month or so ago people in the Northeast were talking about how the winter was unseasonably warm and...

new york

snow

weather

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webduck As of this writing I think it is now 11 feet, right? It is about the amount we get in the mountains here in WA state. I think the weather does go in cycles though, and our sun is also just beginning an 11 year cycle too, so we may be in for more of the same...

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What was your longest relationship?

ezzrssi @ezzrssi (11188) • Italy 10 Feb 07

are you actually in love?

relationships

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webduck My longest relationship has lasted 36 years, (37 in 2007) so do I get a prize? LOL Just kidding. I think that after three and a half decades together you better at least like each other. It hasn't always been a picnic. I don't know that I am still in love, but...

12 Feb 07

saycee @saycee (112) • Malaysia 11 Feb 07

I have been searching for those legitimate companies online that do really pay their members for few years. I ever tried the followings with my comments: 1 HYIP and Doubler program (for sure 99.9% from them are scam). You can...

making money online

paying site

scam sites

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webduck There are some sites where you actually can make money. Not a lot, but one is Pay Per Post. I have made over $100 there in in the past month. If you are a writer at all, you might try Constant Comment. I make a little money now and then doing Amazon...

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I Do Not Understand This...

byfaithonly @byfaithonly (10698) • United States 11 Feb 07

A few days ago I posted a sincere discussion here asking for people of different religions on mylot to explain their religious beliefs. I have been very surprised at the results so far. 3 Christians - different denominations 3...

beliefs

discussions

religions

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webduck Asking about the religion and then about praying is like asking what kind of car someone has, and then about what they like about driving it. It's easier for people to explain how they like something or do something like praying than it is to explain their...

12 Feb 07

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Underappreciation of Fathers

Leca @lecanis (16647) • Murfreesboro, Tennessee 11 Feb 07

I was thinking about this today because once again I had someone express surprise to me that my husband spends so much time with our son. Not only does my husband spend a lot of time with our son, he spends far more time with him...

parenting

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webduck I think times are changing, and it is still the majority of men that work and the women who know more about the lives of the children. Your situation is just different, and all you can do is state the truth to anyone who asks questions. Just say, "Dustin's...

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Are the oil companies and car companies working together????

nw1911guy @nw1911guy (1131) • United States 8 Feb 07

I was reading a site recently and there was mention made that the oil companies and car companies don't want us to have more efficient cars and clean burning oil. Why? Well the cars would last longer and the oil companies wouldn't...

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webduck It sounds completely plausible to me. I mean the collusion. Why wouldn't they? They both have something to gain. I don't think I would put an additive in my car, unless it was something well-known and widely used. You know darn well that they have the ability...

8 Feb 07

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Now it stopped "playing with our earnings

Lecaro @Lecaro (1100) • Romania 8 Feb 07

How much have you lost? i lost 54 cents :((

mylot

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webduck I don't think I have lost anything..yet. I only have almost $6 though. :) For sure, not getting rich in myLot.

8 Feb 07

Why do battered women stay with their husband?

Thomas73 @Thomas73 (1467) • Switzerland 8 Feb 07

This really amazes me. I know several women -- one of them being very close to my heart -- who are abused physically and mentally, beaten, humiliated, treated like absolute dirt -- and this even in front of their children! -- by...

abusive partner

battered women

marital violence

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webduck My mom was a battered wife, and I would beg her to leave my dad and get a divorce. I think she looked into it, but she couldn't do it because she didn't think she could take care of my brother and I. You don't just leave. You have to have a safety net, and in...

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What method do you use to keep track of your appointments?

kgwat70 @kgwat70 (13388) • United States 7 Feb 07

Do you use a regular monthly planner like in this picture? Do you use a PDA? Some people prefer using the calendar in their cell phones or in their email program? Which do you prefer and why? I use a regular monthly planner...

appointments

calendar

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webduck I only work at home, so all of my appointments are kept in Outlook's calendar. I like it though, and it saves having to scribble something on the paper calendar. It also reminds me ahead of time with a message. Can't beat that!

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Intro music for Empire of the Sun

webduck @webduck (238) • United States 8 Feb 07

Empire of the Sun came out in 1987, and yet, I can still hear the music of the choir at the beginning of the movie. Can you still 'hear' it too?

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Anyone Had One Of The Old Dial Around Telephones?

devideddi @devideddi (1435) • United States 6 Feb 07

Phones have sure come a long way! We had a phone that had the round dial on the front of the phone and boy is that hard to dial slow and silently when you are trying to hide the fact that you're on the phone. My sister and I...

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webduck Ah, the good old days. Dial-up has a whole other meaning to those of us who remember the dial phones. Heck, I remember when pay phone calls were 10 cents and you went in a little wooden booth with a bi-fold door and there was a nice little wooden seat. As for...

7 Feb 07