Blech. Weight. I've struggled all my life. Sure I should be more pro-active about it, but at the same time dieting tends to go in fads. I'll get super serious about it for awhile then just go back to normal and put it back on. Lately I've been more conscious about the foods I buy from the store though. I've bought flavored waters with no calories or fat in them and I've been buying pretzels and those flavored rice cakes to munch on as well as trying to get myself wanting to eat more fruit. I'm trying to make changes like that which will hopefully be permanent, instead of calorie counting. I did do that for awhile with sucessful results...but as soon as I stopped I put it back on. :(

I'm hoping the doctor will be able to recommend something as I'm going in Wednesday to discuss blood test results. That will help rule out anything like a thyroid problem.

I was rear-ended a while ago by a girl who didn't have car insurance or a driver's license, and was talking on her cell phone. The light turned green and she rammed on the gas. I had not yet started to go because the car in front of mine had not yet gone...And people who have driver's licenses know...You can't go through the car in front of you...No matter how green the light is. She also had a much nicer car than mine. Her Dad yelled at me when he got to the scene because I had called 911....The girl said she hit her head. Seriously, I wasn't the one who bought his daughter a car and gave her the keys allowing her to drive without having either a license or insurance.

Anyway, when she hit me I slammed my hand into the steering wheel to brace myself..and tore some ligaments in my wrist. I had to wait till my work ended for the school year so I could be out long enough to recover from surgery. I was in a cast for awhile...Not fun...but my wrist is healing nicely:)

I'm sort of the same way Izumi. Changing your diet can be difficult when you're trying to lose weight. And fast food commercials just do not help; I am just saying. :ninja:

Oh my lord, Daria. Teenagers. *shakes head in shame* I still strongly believe that driving tests need to be more strict. My sisters friend, he's sixteen and male. I have NO idea how he got his license. He's always texting (even got into an accident by doing that), drove off the road twice and has been pulled over a plethora of times for not wearing his seat belt, speeding, et cetera.

Sorry to hear some child put you in a cast because they was driving recklessly. Did they pay for the medical bill(s) and car repairs?

Nope....They didn't pay a penny...Because they had no insurance...My insurance paid for some stuff, but not my surgery...Long story there...I basically gave up on trying to get the car insurance to pay because I have good medical insurance. Total I think I paid like a grand for the surgery and some more for therapy.

And...Thanks for the lolly! Now I'll need to make a new ava so I can use it:)

Well I hope it was a damn nice car they just crashed. >.>
I hope it needs a few thousand to fix, and another few hundred for the paint job.

At least you had insurance. I mean, sure it would have been cheaper if the retard didn't rear-end you, but I hope she lost more than you did.

And it's good you called 911. Get the police involved, because since she didn't have insurance or her license, I'm sure she now has to wait longer to get it and has a nice fine.

All I know is that the car was impounded for 30 days...When that happens, you have to pay the place it's impounded a daily fee that is HIGH. She would also have to pay the towing fees. My car was hurt way more than hers was. I had about 3 grand in repairs to the car and my back will never be the same. I have no idea what else happened to her...I don't care...I hope Karma got her good...She had no business behind the wheel of that car, let alone the nerve to "chat it up" on her cell while driving. Her dad is the worst tho...Yelling at me for HIS bad decisions. HE gave her the car, HE didn't insure the car, HE okayed her to drive...Don't yell at me because you think the laws in this country do not apply to you.

I couldn't agree more with you.

I was just hoping that whatever happened to you wasn't nearly as bad as what happened to her.

Agreed...I'm seriously tired of pain...Somehow I doubt much happened to her. I admit, I wonder if the reason she didn't have a license was that she is not here in the US legally. She said she was going to "Work" so she had to be old enough to work....If she was old enough to have one...Why didn't she?

Well if she wasn't here legally, then that'd mean she wasn't working legally.

And if she wasn't working legally, age has nothing to do with it.
If she was here legally, and legally going to work, then she should have had one. No if and or buts.

It could have been for a multitude or reasons though. But still unexcusable.

Exactly...Either way you look at things...There's illegal stuff going on. Stuff that would NOT have happened had people followed rules that were created to keep people like me safe.

That also means that the girl's father is teaching his offspring that rules don't apply to either himself or his family...And that just makes me both angry and ill. He had the NERVE to yell at me...When HIS daughter hit her head, and could have had a concussion or something.

I honestly hope I never see those folks again. I of course have cellphone pics of the entire thing.

You're kidding me. I'm not much to sue people, but I definitely would have done so if I was in your shoes. In the US, you're supposed to have your car insured before you can register it. If they no longer carried insurance on their vehicle, they should still be held liable.

And she most likely will no longer be able to receive her license til she turns eighteen or for a set period of time.

Yeah, I'm in the US...So she was seriously against the law. I actually did sue...But because she had no insurance, my suit ended being against MY car insurance for them to cover what that girl and her family were of course not going to pay. My wrist surgery didn't get included in the lawsuit because I had to wait till the summer to have the surgery or risk being out of work for 2 months...I get paid by the hour...and have summers off...SO I was NOT going to not work just to get that in the lawsuit too.

I don't know...Is it horrid that I hope that girl and her family got some kind of hell for the whole thing?

I thought it was highly un-legal not to have insurance! If you get in an accident here in Michigan, and it's your fault and you're not insured you are liable to pay for any costs incurred and you're liable to get sued.

Seriously that father should of gotten a ticket too for letting his daughter drive in the first place like that. Jeez. *shakes head*

I would have slapped her around if she was my daughter. Though, I'm be wondering why my daughter with no license was driving my car, haha. Man - I think some of it's the parents fault, for raising their children that way. I can understand that nowadays teenagers are just so rebellious and completely give themselves to peer pressure. She probably wasn't even sorry, was she?

Yah. I think some parents need their head examined...Like the Ex. She took the kids out swimming two days in a row without sunscreen. Of course both of them got horribly burnt. I've half a mind to give her a piece of my mind for being so incredibly stupid. I wish I would of taken photographs of their parched backs and kept them on record for the CPA. One of these days I'll have enough crap to get her rights taken away from her...I swear.

Edit: Sorry Daria for stealing the show. Just her idiocy astounds me. Of course she only got pregnant because she thought that was the only way he'd stay with her. Let me just say one thing - if that thought ever crosses your mind ladies, take advice from me and slap yourself and get real. Children will never 'fix' a broken relationship. They exasperate it.

Um, I honestly think the "Daddy" bought the car FOR his daughter...He was not the least bit surprised to see her driving it. I do believe he gave her the car and he chose not to insure it. I have no idea if my insurance company was ever able to get a penny outa that family. I am in AZ and it is just as illegal to drive without insurance here...

Izumi, I agree with you whole heartedly. Kids should not be born with "jobs" such as keeping two people together. That is completely unfair of the parents to expect that of their children. I've seen girls do that before, and it just isn't pretty.

I wish children weren't glamorized by our society. They are a ton of HARD work and are both frustrating and exhausting. That's not the side you see on TV. You see the "Ohh I love my baaayyybbbeee" side only..and it's just NOT real. Kids are such a HUGE commitment...I hate how people just trivialize the gravity of how much they change your world.

I doubt that'd count for anything though. I mean, my when I was little and my father had custody of me - he'd take me swimming and he never suggested sun block at all. I was always burning while swimming at the river/lake/dam/canal. I think it's just a part of being a kid. But since it does lead to skin cancer. :sweat: Then I suppose...

Heh...heh. That whole woman staying with guy because of a child. That's why my stepmother is with my father. :/ She's 24 and he's 45. *gag*

ew. a gibuhwai.

u kno u lyk eet bby. ;)

It's irresponsible, especially since the girl is very fair skinned and burns really easy. I think the excuse she used was she didn't have any sunscreen and her aunt left hers at home...but ironically remembered to put it on before she went out with them. *rolls eyes* It's probably more likely she 'couldn't afford' it. She lives with her fiance who owns the house and pays the bills, so that is total and utter BS.

Now I know why she can't get a job. I'm surprised she even knows how to get out of bed in the mornings. Seriously, people like her should of been sterilized at birth. She's truly the one and only person in this life I would like to see karma bite her in the ass.

ew. noz.

My step-father says the same about my father; and my stepmother the same about my mother. Even though they're all great people with their flaws. I suppose their messed up in the head a bit as well. :/ Anyway, I don't mean this in a bad way, but I hope you don't talk that way about her in front of the children. I hated that my parents did it to me. It messed me up. :( So bad, that just a few weeks ago when my father actually said something nice about my mother (for the first time ever) - I think I was the happiest I had ever been in my entire life. Even though they hate each other, I can't stand them talking shit about one another. It really screws the children up. That goes for step-parents talking about my real parents, too - and whatnot.

*shoves gold down wish's throat* well u dew nao, missy! ;<

:: dies of suffocation ::

thx a lot jennifers.

Oh no Jenny. I don't say bad things in front of her. She knows I don't like her mom and she frustrates me when it comes to these things but I don't belittle her in front of her kids. I love her kids too much to do that. I come online and rant and rave to get it off my chest.

yew welcome! ^-^;

Izumi, that's good then. Not that you would; but my stepmother told us she would never talk bad about my mother. Then one day when Wendy and I got into an argument, she dragged trash talk about my mother into it. Of course, she doesn't know anything about mother than what my father tells her. And that of course isn't ever anything good. So yeah...that's the day I flipped out (if any of you recall me telling you the story some time ago). I busted my mirror and it cut my chin, lip and hands up. Then I pretty much socked her a punch, heh.

I understand it can probably be hard being a step-parent though. Especially if you end up having kids of your own with the guy that already has children from a previous marriage. You're more inclined to show your own blood-related children attention. Wendy shower her children with everything (I'd like to say their spoiled brats, for only being three and four years of age). And she pushes us aside like we're nothing. And what's worse, is she's formed her own little family with my father and her two children. Excluding us basically. Then again, my mother does that too - with her stepchildren; she doesn't really try to make favor with them. But I talked to her about it and she's definitely decided to put more effort into being there for them. Since their own mother is a slob, druggie, et cetera.

Everyone needs their parents. And all this talk is making me miss my mommy. :gonk: