awrittensin

@awrittensin (14)

United States • Age 40

Joined myLot 17 years ago

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Interracial and Intercultural Relationships

velvetprinzess @velvetprinzess (1064) • Singapore 3 Mar 07

Has anyone here been involved in interracial and intercultural relationships before? What were your experiences like? How did you cope with and try to bridge the differences? I'd love to hear your stories.

intercultural

interracial

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awrittensin I am white, and my husband is Chinese-American. We live in the midwestern town that has a very small Asian (or non-white at all for that matter) population. We've never experienced direct discrimination or racism, but some people we've come across have really...

4 Mar 07

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I want to hear about your cat..

enchantedleppard @enchantedleppard (1541) • United States 4 Mar 07

I love my little critters very much.. I have four of them. Each have their own personality and they are very different from one another. We always thought our cats were so unique until we watched some funny videos online and...

cats

characteristics

names

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awrittensin I love my cats, I really do feel like they are my children. My husband and I have two kitties, and they're both about 3 years old. We have a male orange tabby named Sherlock. We named him this because he is always investigating, curious and getting into some...

4 Mar 07

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Children should not be allowed to watch TV!

Sawsen @Sawsen (793) • United States 4 Mar 07

I am a firm believer that children should not be allowed to watch TV. Sometimes it gets so upsetting to see these children wasting hours of their day watching TV and doing nothing that is stimulating their minds. I believe there...

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awrittensin I think another factor in this discussion is that television is a little different now than it was, say, ten years ago. I watched tons of TV as a kid - I was the youngest of 4 and there was a huge age gap between me and my siblings, and both my parents worked...

4 Mar 07

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Kids make messes. It's who they are. Get over it.

kbkbooks @kbkbooks (7022) • Canada 4 Mar 07

My mother was constantly after my kids when they were little. She was always washing faces and wiping tables. It didn't matter if they were done doing whatever they were in the middle of or not. My neighbor couldn't stand sending...

children

dirt

messes

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awrittensin Kids are kids, but I do think that at a certain age (as soon as they can understand) they need to learn how to respect their own, and other's things. For example, I might not care if my kid jumped into a pile of mud and got all muddy, but if they ran inside...

4 Mar 07

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March 4th- In honor of a good friend

brendalee @brendalee (6082) • United States 4 Mar 07

It was on this day four years ago that I lost one of my best friends in a tragic fire. Also killed was her husband and the next door neighbors; a young couple and their 8 month old baby girl. My freind was known by many as Grandma...

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awrittensin I'm very sorry to hear about this.... everyone should make sure to check their smoke alarm batteries every 6 months!!

4 Mar 07

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To Those Born before 1986

Withoutwings @Withoutwings (6992) • United States 1 Dec 06

Do you think that these are true? Do you agree? What other thoughts do you have on these issues? What are your thoughts on the younger generation. (From a forwarded email) "According to today's regulators and bureaucrats,...

billy joel

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awrittensin Well, I was born in 1983 so I would agree with about half of the stuff on the list - there were tons of "dangers" around but I never got seriously hurt. No one had latches on the cabinet under the sink so I wouldn't drink the Drano. I had no desire or...

4 Mar 07

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How much debt do you have?

Married2aMarine @Married2aMarine (1273) • United States 4 Mar 07

My husband and I are aiming hard to being debt-free by the end of this year. It's hard cos' we started off with approx. 15K debts and we've worked it down to just 5K in 2 years! It took a lot of sacrifices but we're glad we...

debt

finance

money

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awrittensin I have approx. 13K left in school loans, but other than that my husband and i have no credit card debt, car payments, etc. The only thing we have is "good debt", which is the mortgage on our house. That probably won't be paid off for at least 20-30 years so I...

4 Mar 07

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If someone provoke you... Do you react or ignore them?

Aussies2007 @Aussies2007 (5336) • Australia 3 Mar 07

Many people like provoking other people on purpose to obtain a reaction. The best way to deal with those people is not to react... and they will go away. Easier say than done... as for most people... the natural instinct is to...

natural instinct

provoke

reaction

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awrittensin I can generally tell when someone is just jacking around and trying to get a reaction from me, so if that is the case I can usually ignore them and let it go. But if someone personally insults me I sometimes have a hard time letting go, and I will definitely...

4 Mar 07

Do you sleep NAKED?

lordwarwizard @lordwarwizard (35747) • Singapore 4 Mar 07

I just came across this website www.sleepnaked.org . It is interesting in that it advises people to sleep in the nude. You can check out the site yourself but I will just do a quick summary below. 3 main benefits: - Comfort...

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awrittensin I go in cycles with sleeping naked - sometimes in the summertime I will sleep naked if it is too hot, but it took me a long time to even get to the point where I could sleep naked! It was actually uncomfortable for me at first. I think I was too aware that I...

4 Mar 07

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