B!TC# IT OUT!

[Ashe]

I'm suddenly glad I don't get too personal with people. I feel for you both I really do. :(
Thank you for the sympathy Andrea :). Yes, through my experiences through thirteen years I have realized not to trust people because they will always talk no matter what. There is only one very special friend that I know I can share everything with. As for everyone else, they don't know me -not that I am a loner, I have many other friends- but I don't share the feelings and ideas deep inside of me with them.

[roamingmer]

Friends or acquaintances? Where is the difference? For many people it is sufficient to be part of the crowd; indeed they feel the need to be seen to be normal. I guess if you are willing to consider a mer experience then you already stand out from that crowd. Over time you will always discover who are the true friends; relatives. Those you can trust to tell your inner most thoughts and feelings. They will generally stick with you - or tell you when you are being foolish or arrogant. And people change; that is our very nature. So a close friend 10 years ago may not be the same close friend now; just like you they also have deep inner feelings and perhaps that leads them down different paths.

In the Buddhist sense; try to learn compassion; empathy. Try to understand why they behave; and treat them with kindness even if it feels like they hurt you. Be adult enough to recognise when they need support or distance. But it is tough when young; or realising that the peer groups around you are not what they seemed. It is all life experience.

With regards to the relatives hanging on - well look at it through their jealous eyes. You got the lucky break to a society which they are always being shown on TV / Media in an incorrect light. Watch most American programs and true life is definitely missing; glossed over. No-one wants to watch hardship; so that is never shown... so foreign relatives will just assume the stereotypes. Once again treat with kindness; dont send cash but ask for the bills to be forwarded. Get the hospital to confirm. If they are genuine they will be happy; if they are gambling they will scream and shout and incriminate... and probably try to set up a false deal.

It is often the same with most cultures where people 'hang on'. The genuinely needy will hardly ever scream and shout. Helping / donating through the networks is much easier. Next time you see a homeless person - or someone living in their car. Find out if they would accept a decent meal; or an overnight sleep in a motel. Human generosity when given with love and compassion is much stronger than a bank transfer or few pennies here and there.

[Merrow Fair Isle]

I just don't understand people. It's like they wear bitchiness as a badge of honor. I am so sorry both of you ladies are going through difficult times.

I am always on the recieving end of crap like that. My husband is gorgeous...6'9", built , great eyes, dimples, the whole nine. He is also completely unaffected about all of it. Genuinely the nicest guy you will ever meet. I am 5' 1 " ,and while I am perfrctly content with my looks, I am no supermodel. I'm justyour average girl...but I am akso plus size, a size 18. I am fully aware that I am not what yoh would expect for my huband to be attracted to, but he is. I am one of those blessed women who has a husband she is smitten with , and a husband who absolutely adores everyinch of her and is told as such EVERYday. But I am judged by other women constantly. I her whispers of " what is HE doing with HER" all the time. I have had women, including family, "suggest" that I be more pro-active in losing weight or " eventually, he'll realize he could do better. You want to be your best fof a guy like that." Who are THEY to judge what my best is??!!! I have had women come up and ask me in grocery stores, malls, and at the gym if my "brother" is single, then look shocked when I inform them I am his wife..even going so far as to say " Nuh uh...no way!" to me. Or even worse the very condescending " Wow...good for you. How did you manage THAT???". Like all a womans worth lies in her body. And it's inulting to my husband as well...like a man is incapable in finding beauty in anythung but the standard.


okay!! end rant!!

here is A pic of my pet pig to lighten the mood and end on a good note :)
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[Merrow Fair Isle]

forgive typos..am on my android tablet and for whatever reason I can't go back and correct ...the cursor won't follow directions :)

[SeaGlass Siren]

I disagree about the relatives comment. Sorry but friends and relatives are just titles ... My relatives have never been there for me at all.
Also, for the record I've visited them three times. I'm sorry there is no hardships for them at all. They are living like royalty :/
On a different topic; There is nothing wrong with bein an introvert kalani :)

[Spindrift]

Having grown up with heavy Asian influences I've always been drilled with the fact that I can't call my parents out on what they spend their money on, because it's their money, not mine. Whether they want to blow it on leeching relatives is their own prerogative. They don't ask for my money. And they spend a lot of it on me and my siblings as well.

But yeah, parents of any culture can be annoying. I don't think it's fair to blame it on being Asian. And I know you're only ranting, and it's not a bit deal, but I really resent the fact that you said "Asian cunts". I wouldn't have even noticed if it wasn't bolded though, and I definitely got the wrong idea from your post from a first glance. There are obviously many more social factors that have more relevancy to why you feel your family members are acting unjustly than your genetic and ethnic makeup. I'm sorry that you hate the fact that you're Asian though. That must be really tough.

As for girls in high school. I have loads of stories, haha. I had a guy who I was best friends with since 7th grade. Senior year of high school he finally got himself a girlfriend. She had a friend tell me that I couldn't talk to him anymore and I was like "wtf". But I (stupidly) relented because she was his first gf and all and he was happy. Anyway they weren't staying together after high school and a week or so before graduation he asked to hang out since he didn't even realize that I wasn't "allowed" to talk to him and wanted to see why we had drifted apart. He's a sweet guy - we're still really good friends. But the gf's best friend found out about it and told the entire school that I had been sleeping with him the entire year behind the gf's back. And I still haven't really gotten over it since I didn't have a lot of time to clear my name. I mean, really. If I had wanted to have made a move on him I had like... what, 5 years to do it? Crazy bitches. He was clueless the entire time. I didn't think it was worth telling him.

[SeaGlass Siren]

It's just my way of dealing with it. Not the best but hey lol..

Ive never had any real high school drama because I was always in the drama room and everyone was pretty close w each other. I've never dated anyone from my school. I did hang out w 12 graders in grade nine so I'm assuming no one wanted to touch me for fear of the 12 graders. (it's been 5 years, I'm engaged to one of them lol)

[Ashe]

The thing is ladies, I'm not even in high school yet! Only seventh grade! Now, I don't go to a bad school, actually the best in my area, but that shows you that the snobbiness is getting younger and younger every generation and its only getting worse. I'm not wanting to talk about the issue anymore if that's alright, life is too short to think about people who bring you pain and I like to live my life in simplicity :)

[Spindrift]

Yeah snippy teenagers are a pain. Kalani, you write very well for a seventh grader. And noticeably better than a lot of the other merlings on the board.

[SeaGlass Siren]

Definitely better than I, hahaha x) for the record I thought kalani was in the 12th grade

[Mermaid Wesley]

this thread is old but so what. I hate when people try to force their choices on other people. I cant stand bigots. It makes me want to be violent and i am usually for nonviolence at all costs

[seagirls626]

I hate it when these stupid girls post a thousand pictures of themselves that look EXACTLY THE SAME. And then they put these stupid comments on it like "Fallow your dreams <3" when it has NOTHING to do with fallowing your dreams at all! UGH!
If I EVER do something stupid like that, I want someone to slap me.

[SeaGlass Siren]

I hate it when these stupid girls post a thousand pictures of themselves that look EXACTLY THE SAME. And then they put these stupid comments on it like "Fallow your dreams <3" when it has NOTHING to do with fallowing your dreams at all! UGH!
If I EVER do something stupid like that, I want someone to slap me.

duly noted.

[Mer_Adella]

Okay, so I came into work this morning (its always an interesting topic every different day between boss and workers [non-work related]) And they were talking about how "times have changed" they go on to talk about how kids now a-days don't have respect for elders and grandparents. I am the youngest worker here and my boss asked me if I would ever say "shut up" to my parents or grandparents. I said no. He was shocked. But thats how my parents raised me.

Fast forward 1/2 an hour. My boss sends me to the store to get a few shop supplies.

In the store I witnessed a little girl, about 7 years old, with her mom and a baby in the cart seat in Wal-mart. The little girl was walking around throwing stuff in the cart that she wanted. The mother was protesting saying that she didn't have the money for all these things and she was told that she could have one candy bar at checkout and that was it. The little girl turned around and looked right at her mom and said "fine, I will just ask daddy to buy me this stuff because he loves me more." I was shocked, but then it got worse. The mother looked really hurt and said "I love you just as much, I just can't afford all this stuff A----y". The little girl then plugged her ears and repeated "you dont love me, whatever and shut up" over and over. I listened ,but didn't watch to avoid giving the mother a pitiful look.

In my opinion, I do miss the old days. I don't mean to say that parents need to BEAT their children...that is not what I am saying. I am saying that there was a way of doing things. When kids would act up, the parents would swat them on the butt and sit them in time out. I remember my dad always yelling at me for leaving my toys around my room and how they were always broken. He warned me that if I didn't pick them up every day that he was going to break them all and throw them away. I looked straight at him and said "whatever". He walked out of the room and came back with a large garbage bag and a baseball bat. He smashed three toys and I was rushing aroudn the room picking up all of my toys as fast as I could. Why can't parents do things like that now a days?

My mom is a 1st grade teacher. She has a little girl that thinks that she is the light of the world and should be treated as such. Always thinking that she needs to be first for everything and that no one else matters (like "show and tell" days. there is an order for whose day it is, this little girl thinks that she needs to bring something in that is cooler than what the other kid has and believes that since her item is cooler that the other kid just shouldn't "show" his/her item) My mom wanted to discuss this with the parent. When the mom came in, it was clear that the mother was teaching her daughter that. When my mom started to talk about her concerns with the little girl, the mother would always interrupt and hold her hand up as if to silence my mother.

Does anyone watch duck dynasty? The mother and father (Phil and Kay) are the kind of parents that I want to be. There was an episode on last night that I watched where Phil was basically talking to the camera and said that if his boys didnt listen to what their mother said to do, then they would have to answer to him. Another part was Kay said to her two sons, "Don't make me go find my wooden spoon."

DISCLAIMER::: I do not believe in beating a child....PERIOD. Punching, slapping, throwing, etc things like that are NOT ok with me. My views are also a little asque though. I remember one time when I was three, I crossed a busy intersection (a three lane road) across from my house. No cars were driving on it at the time, so I crossed the road and waved at my mom. (NOTE: I was never hit by a hand or by a belt or any object on my butt at this point in time....and I did some bad things) When she saw me she rushed over, looked both ways and then came and got me. We walked into the house, she turned me around and gave me a resounding "whack" on the butt. I cried because I knew that my mother had never slapped me on the butt before. She told me what I did wrong, what could have happened to me, etc.

Now that I am older, my mother said to me one day that she slapped my butt because it was a lesson. She had never slapped my butt before because she wanted me to know that I had done something REALLY bad, such as endangering my life. And to this day, I never cross a road (walking or driving) without looking both ways three times.

2nd DISCLAIMER::: please understand when I said that I did some bad things earlier I mean things like this (in numerical order)
14months old====learned how to crawl out of my crib. repeatedly climbed onto the railing and rocked back and forth
15months old====took diaper off and pooped on carpet, then "cleaned" it up with my fisher price vacuum
17months old====climbed onto my mothers bathroom counter and used all of her makeup to paint my face, walls and eat
18months old====after the crib thing, I got a water bed, at this time I pulled the plug out and flooded my bedroom on purpose
18months old====pushed screen out of window so I could stick my head out in the thunderstorm outside
18months old====put playdo in the sink and tub drains and turned on the scalding hot water while standing on the toilet singing
3 years old======threw 4 toys at the wall in my room to see which one would cause a bigger hole
3years old======crossed a three lane road and waved to my mother


all that and my mother never spanked me until I crossed the road....
Now please remember that I am not saying that I will beat my kids (if i have any) but I do believe in what my mom did. When a child does something that may endanger their life or another persons they need to know that they have done something very VERY wrong.

sorry for the long rant, but its just been on my mind lately and today was kind of the breaking point after watching that little girl in the store

[Ashe]

^ I totally understand Adella, and completley agree, too! I was just so shocked when you told us about the mother and daughter in the store, that was just horrible! But the thing is, the little girl was raised to think that. Maybe if the parents were a bit more stern on the subject of not being able to afford things sometimes, and not get her whatever she wants when they can afford it, she wouldn't have acted up like that.

[Mermaid Cascada]

Adella I have to agree with you. I'm 14 now and if I ever told my mom or dad to shut up... well lets just say I don't know what would happen because I have never been disrespectful. Lol. My cousin on the other hand loves to tell his parents to shut up and he loves to call them names, but at this point I can't really blame him because his parents don't put a stop to it. In fact, my mom was just telling me that when I was 1 years old I bit her really hard and she bit me back (not hard of course) and from that day I never bit anyone back. I don't think it's a matter of spanking or yelling at them but finding a good discipline method like standing in the corner or something.

[Mer_Adella]

Adella I have to agree with you. I'm 14 now and if I ever told my mom or dad to shut up... well lets just say I don't know what would happen because I have never been disrespectful. Lol. My cousin on the other hand loves to tell his parents to shut up and he loves to call them names, but at this point I can't really blame him because his parents don't put a stop to it. In fact, my mom was just telling me that when I was 1 years old I bit her really hard and she bit me back (not hard of course) and from that day I never bit anyone back. I don't think it's a matter of spanking or yelling at them but finding a good discipline method like standing in the corner or something.

Oh i forgot that my mom did that to me too. I actually bit her right on the ankle. So she bit me on the back of the arm...and let me tell you that that smarts. I learned all sorts of disapline at the daycare I worked at. I watched one lady have trouble with a 6 year old. She wouldn't sit down in a timeout chair. So the other teacher said alright we're going to try something different. She made the little girl stand in the corner of the room and lift one foot off of the ground. She needed to hold that position for one minute (which really isn't all that long, but to a 6 year old it is) if she put her foot down another minute was added. After 3 minutes she was so sad and sorry that she never acted up again.

[Alveric]

I was given to understand, without having to be told or threatened, that I would be gone if I yelled at or struck my mother. My parents would simply make another kid to replace me. As for doing that to my father, it would have been safer to poke a grizzly with a pointy stick.

It was a different era.

[Spindrift]

This is of course, a very situation-based case, but it's possible that the child is just acting out due to familial circumstances like divorce or a situation in which a parent who has never being around suddenly appears and tries to make up for it, etc.
Children can easily pick up on tensions between two adults - more so than people realize. The kid may just be acting out if, for example, the mother was never around as a parent, was never around for the developmental process, etc, and then recently tried to return and make up for it. Of course the child will be upset - they felt betrayed. Acting in that manner would then be considered normal - it's a way the child may have developed to cope with conflicting feelings of hatred, love, betrayal, and confusion.

Of course, it's much easier to say something like, that woman is a pushover and no one knows how to raise children anymore.

I think that in general, many kids across the nation are not being raised properly. But it could be due to circumstances like, the parents having them when they weren't ready, weren't financially stable enough, did drugs, weren't responsible, media/social influences, etc. Or each isolated event could just be that - isolated events that although are coincidentally similar to other isolated events, doesn't necessarily mean that they are related or due to a cause/effect relationship. I don't think it's fair to think that way.

[Mermaid Allie]

This isn't exactly a bitch it out, but here I go. Last year, my freshman year, towards the end of the year, I got really frustrated and stressed with school, and personal problems (my aunt had lung cancer). The culmination of this stress happened one night, June 1st. I was really unhappy because my friends were turning into people I didn't want them to be. One was trying to be a slut, one was clinging to another so terribly that i never got a word in edgewise, and one didn't care about ANYTHING. Like she was so careless about school and everything. it was really annoying. So i talked to my best friend, who actually happened to be the careless one (lets call her beth), about how i was really sick of all the drama throughout the year and how everyone was being such a bitch. I got a bit carried away. It wasn't all that bad, i just said that i was really unhappy with this one girl (who we'll call Mary). Mary was pretending to be a slut and betraying everyone left and right. She ruined my relationship with two of my close guy friends. I decided that I was done with her. All she'd ever been was bossy to me anyways. Beth got beyond pissed, and began to tell everyone that I talked about what I said. I saw every single one of my friends turn on me. I tried to apologize. So much. To no avail. I ran away for about 2 hours, which resulted in my parents getting VERY pissed. Before freshman year, I had no friends. Middle school was hell. Finally in freshman year, i felt, for once, a part of a group of friends. It was a great year, until this incident. Anyways, I just really need some support right now, because its really hard to go through school as a teenager with nobody to talk to, and people that you have nothing in common with at your lunch table. I'm really reminded of this incident tonight, because its charity ball. Its a dance for high schoolers in my city. Last year, we all went together, and it was one of the best nights of my life. I had nobody to go with, and you really can't go alone, its not safe and you look like an idiot. So I'm sitting here, at my computer, alone again with nobody to talk to. Some girls that I thought were my friends didn't invite me to go with them when I dropped hints. I'm shy, so I don't want to outright say, can i go with you? Plus those girls were friends with mary and beth. I just need some support right now because I feel like nobody cares.

[Mermaid Celissa]

Oh gosh, Allie! I'm so sorry! Wanna talk on the ChatBox?

Okay, here's my rant on myself. I hate my attitude. Whenever two of my best friends (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tmT6yhQrQ0 white and yellow shirts) do something irritating or just don't feel like talking to me, I get upset and/or ticked off. But the thing is, it's ME who's irritating. I hate it, but I bother them. Then when they get frustrated with me for it, I get mad at THEM. Ugh. The girl in the yellow in the video is on the forum. If you're reading this, B, sorry I act like that >_<. Also, I am SPOILED. And I HATE being spoiled because I get mad at my dad if we're at Wal-Mart or something and he doesn't buy me something I want. He really can't afford it, but does it anyway. I just hate taking advantage of my dad, I don't want to, but I'm spoiled into it. Anyways. Moo.

[New York Mermaid]

Highly upset at the moment, I've been having on again/off again knee pain in my right knee for a week now. Yesterday my knee kept buckling and i kept losing my balance everywhere. This morning i could barely move my knee and the pain went up to my hip. I went to the doctor for them to do a check and an X-ray, they prescribed me some meds and i got to go to an Orthopedic doctor thursday. December 6th because theres a "chance i tore my meniscus tendon" - and that is not good.

On December 29th, i have a Really Important (i mean their all important, but still) mermaid swim party whose mother is a big time promoter, she even offered to take me on. Im hoping its nothing big.. i really want to do this party.

[Thalassa]

Wow, hard times! Be warned, I might now start sounding like a fortune cookie or something. XP

Allie: Drama is so hard. High school drama just sucks. It's not easy to not worry about it, but it does get better. It's hard to be alone, too, I know. Just know you're not alone...in being alone, does that make sense?

Celissa: A little while ago I realized I wasn't a very good friend when my friend called me on it. I was really upset and first and it almost broke our friendship, but I realized she was right! I started to think about the things I did that weren't what a friend would do. For a while I was really upset with myself and wondered if I even deserved her friendship. But I started working on improving when we're together, and now I'm doing better. I'm not perfect, but better. So don't let yourself get stuck at the "I'm mad at me" stage. Make some small improvements, they'll lead to big changes!

Lanai: Yikes! I'll keep you in my thoughts, sending good wishes. I hope you're able to do your party!

[Mermaid Allie]

I would mermaid celissa, but I have to submit this huge AP European history essay by midnight, and I have yet to revise it. Thank you for your support :))
Awww mermaid Lanai stay strong! You'll do the party don't worry! Just remember RICE Lolol and stretching! that worked great when I had tendonitis!

[New York Mermaid]

thanks for the tip allie,

im being tough about this, just upset cause man this little girl im doing the party for doesnt even know im coming! im the "suprise" for her because their celebrating her birthday and her achievement of getting over her fear of water and learning how to swim!. And she's nuts about mermaids. So i want to do it so bad. I'll keep positive thoughts here. thanks for the good vibes..

[mermaid wolf]

Abbz, Your not annoying. Your my best friend and always have been! I love you like a sister! Even when we hit each other with shovels in pre-school. If i ever act like im mad at you im not, I just have things on my mind that i need to talk about but, just cant say. Your not spoiled. Your amazing, beautiful, talented, have a great voice, The list could go on forever! I love you Abbz! Your special! If anything happened to you i would never be the same. Your a very BIG part of my life! I will always be here for you, through thick and thin, No matter what :).Just know, you can always come to me for anything, even if im not in my brightest mood. Ill be here for you! ;)

[Thalassa]

That's so sweet, Lanai! I can see why you want to do the party so badly. *fingers and fins crossed for you*

[New York Mermaid]

Brace yourself this is going to be a long one,

My sister who has two very spoiled little girls (im serious, 20 gifts per girl, minimum spent $200. each) Who spends $1800 on a bag, $500 bucks on a dance school for my nieces, who hate going. and Buys nothing but "fashion trendy" clothes while she doesnt work and her husband works 2 jobs. Has me at my end rope here. She stole and i mean stole, my mothers identity and bought $1,000 in MACYS and left my mom to pay the bill. My mother is fuming, because she barely has enough money to survive. I even help her when i can. She only does baby sitting jobs (shes 65 yrs old) And is trying to get some money to pay this thing off. Meanwhile my sister is complaining that she doesnt have enough money but spends about 30-40 a night every other night at a nightclub, while her husband works at night. I told my mom to press charges on my sister for doing this, but my mom being my mom she doesnt want to. I cant really help my mom with alot, but when i can I do. . My Sister LOVES to take advantage of everyone and is a cheap.... *not so nice name* Person. This ticks me off so much cause my mom isint in her best at the moment they took off her medicaid and she is sick but refuses to go to the doctor. Im just like so stuck between a rock and a hard place.

My mom did and has done everything she could to help me through my life even insisted help my husband pay for the wedding, when all we asked her to do is pay for her dress. She even helped me get this apartment. She even got super excited when i told her i was doing the mermaid parties (cause she secretly wanted to be a weeki wachee mermaid- and now she has a mermaid in the family lol) She loves to proudly tell everyone Im a mermaid. (shes awesome at word of mouth, because of her i got my first 3 gigs, i cant thank her enough about it) I wish i could help my mom do something and i cant. *Tail lobs angrily*

[Mermaid Crystal]

I HATE RUMORS! I told my PE coach that a kid threw up and then he thought that i threw up. Some people need to clean out their ears once in a while

[Shivice]

So in 2010, I ended up dislocating my kneecap. Thankfully I didn't tear anything, almost but didn't. Last year being in the colorguard for marching band, I was expected to not show any pain when my knee was swollen and irritated. Then some of the team mates come up to me one day and ask me " Stephanie, you shouldn't wear your knee brace because you can see it from under the uniform." Seriously!!? I need it for a reason. Unless you want me needing surgery. Some people don't understand, and it's so frustrating. Ghah!!!

[Mermaid Wesley]

kjegfquyergv my current frustration is with my lil sister. She is 4 years younger than i (freshman in high school) and though i love her to pieces, she is really closed minded. SHe isnt a bigot, but she is nowhere near my level of tolerance. She would not approve of my religious choices ( I am a pagan witch) if she knew about it. BUt that's okay i suppose. She doesn't need to know and I wasnt very liberal at her age either. but the thing that really tics me off is that friday I was on my computer, looking up tail-making tips, and she peeked over my shoulder. There was a photo of someone in a fabric tail on the screen and she asked me what she was doing. I told her that she is wearing a swimmable mermaid tail. she said "weirdo." I was immediately offended, but i knew she didnt mean to insult me so I said "Im thinking about making one. I'm probably going to..." she said "no." thats all. just no. she was disallowing me to make a tail. She decided it was too abnormal and refused to see that it is something I am passionate about. so I tried again and I said "Uh... yes." she said no, shook her head and walked out of the room. WTF?!?!? hkersgrdikvbhealriggv;aeiduhg;ieauhsr i am so pissed! I thought my dad was going to be the hardest to convince. but i hadnt expected my sister to be so cold.... bhscakucvabyvas

[Mermaid Wesley]

So in 2010, I ended up dislocating my kneecap. Thankfully I didn't tear anything, almost but didn't. Last year being in the colorguard for marching band, I was expected to not show any pain when my knee was swollen and irritated. Then some of the team mates come up to me one day and ask me " Stephanie, you shouldn't wear your knee brace because you can see it from under the uniform." Seriously!!? I need it for a reason. Unless you want me needing surgery. Some people don't understand, and it's so frustrating. Ghah!!!

NOT okay >:( but you should explain that if you dont wear it you will need surgery (feel free to exaggerate a little bit) say that you are one misstep away from costly surgery even if its not quite true :)

[Shivice]

NOT okay >:( but you should explain that if you dont wear it you will need surgery (feel free to exaggerate a little bit) say that you are one misstep away from costly surgery even if its not quite true :)

See here's the funny thing, I tell them that and they still don't care. It was like its either my way the highway. Pick a side.

[Mermaid Wesley]

See here's the funny thing, I tell them that and they still don't care. It was like its either my way the highway. Pick a side.

grrrrr people need to be more considerate or im gonna become a siren and drown them for the good of humanity haha jk but also im not kidding.

[SeaGlass Siren]

grrrrr people need to be more considerate or im gonna become a siren and drown them for the good of humanity haha jk but also im not kidding.

do it bro DO IT.

[Mermaid Wesley]

do it bro DO IT.

hahahaha:rotfl:

[Shivice]

Since I live in colorado, you'd have to swim upstream and drown them. ha ha

[Mermaid Wesley]

gonna have to work on my dolphin kick then! ahahahha

[Shivice]

gonna have to work on my dolphin kick then! ahahahha

Better get on it, Oh and you got to be able to jump over a damn depending on what way you go. LOL

[Mer_Adella]

Okay...*big exhale*

so my boyfriend and I just bought our house about 6 months ago. Christmas is coming up so its kind of exciting, first christmas living together, first one in the house, our first tree yada yada yada.
My whole family believes that the greatest gifts you can get are "vintage heirlooms" hand-me-downs but they mean something to us. My great-great-great uncles dining room set that he got when he married his wife (got it as a gift from his sister who died in the chicago fire after mailing it to him) dishes from the same 3xgreat uncle and aunt from their 50th anniversary and so on and so on. it means something to me.

My mom gave me the nativity scene her grandmother had handpainted. On the box was a note written by her step-sister. it said. "Hey, this was left over at the house, so I took it, but now that I see what it is, I figured that you would want it. Oh the angel broke"

Upon reading the note and looking at the first wise man I pulled out carefully, I was so furious because I didn't know what to think or expect. I was blown away. Everything was painted with an artistic flair and beauty. And there at the bottom was an angel that a kid would have in their bedroom. Not even worthy of being in the same box. I am just so mad right now. This nativity set is from the 1950s-1960s.....YOU CAN'T FIND ANOTHER ANGEL THAT IS UNPAINTED. ugh!

[Azurin Luna]

That stinks. :(
how badly broken is it? Sometimes people are able to fix it very nicely

[SeaGlass Siren]

I feel very strongly about this. a friend and i were talking.. well rather "bashing" Harper. and this is what she says

"I would very much like to repeatedly chuck bricks at Harper. As this may be construed as illegal I would potentially settle to chucking eggs or shoes at his face. Siiiigh, so ashamed to call myself Canadian under his rule. Maybe, possibly he should stop selling Canada and our land rights to Chinese corporations, and oh - oh yeah! - entitling them to the right to sue Canada if we even so much as attempt to protect our environment and native peoples lands (because it would hinder the Chinese profits)... May I please end Harper, and his dictatorship now? I'd very much like to end him. :3"

anyway that's today's "beach-fit" summarized about how i feel. she just worded it so perfectly.

[Mer_Adella]

That stinks. :(
how badly broken is it? Sometimes people are able to fix it very nicely

The original Angel apparently was soo broken that she got rid of it completely and put a replacement in the box that shouldn't even belong in there.

[Mer_Adella]

Okay, so I must say that this isn't B*!ching, but its something I have to get off my chest.

My grandmother's funeral and graveside service was today. My Grandfather was the man that wore the cowboy boots and hat and was the man that you didn't cross but you came to if you had problems. He was in a wheelchair today and cried throughout the whole thing (understandable since they were married for 61 years, 5 children, 11 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren). I am a strong woman when needed to be, I never cried for my boyfriend's gpa's funeral because he was crying and needed my strength.

Today was no different. I was strong, I had to do a reading and also gave a euligy (that go a laugh because of my grandmother's fun and stubborn life). I had one comment from my grandfather that did almost make the dam break (he said that he was glad that one grand child of his will carry on the beauty of his wife). But the rest of my aunts looked at me like I was a plague. Finally the open mouthed one said that it was in poor taste that I was a grandchild and not shedding a tear.

Then at the luncheon, one of my grandfather's friends gave him a beer. He was happy to get it and drank it in front of everyone. Then people decided that the grandchildren needed pictures and the children needed pictures with grandpa. My open mouthed aunt forcibly removed the beer from my grandpa's hand saying, "you'll get it back in a minute". I felt so bad for him. Then I decided that I wanted a picture. He was about to hide the beer and I said "Hold it up for the picture grandpa...I always remembered you with a beer and this is no different." He was so amazed and held it proudly.

I got gaff for that from the aunts again. I just needed to vent because I am upset and its all roaming around in my head and heart. I feel bad because I have shed a few tears but not much.

[Spindrift]

As long as your grandfather appreciated what you did then no one else should have a problem with it. It sounds like you handled the situation perfectly. People just need to realize that sometimes other people handle sadness differently.

[Shivice]

As long as your grandfather appreciated what you did then no one else should have a problem with it. It sounds like you handled the situation perfectly. People just need to realize that sometimes other people handle sadness differently.

I totally agree. My younger sisters cat passed away in August, it was hard for her, because it was her cat. Soniia chose her. When she would be at school, someone asked her why she was upset. She said it was because her cat died. Another student barges in on the conversation and tells her, "Well it was only a cat. Its not like it was a family member. Seriously? You need to grow a back bone and some hard skin and get over it. They are just animals anyways, go get another cat, in a week it will be like nothing happened."

My sister comes to me and tells me this. I called the girl up and told what was going on and that she needed to think before she justs blurts anything and everything out of her mouth. She apologized to my sister the next day.

[Usagi]

kjegfquyergv my current frustration is with my lil sister. She is 4 years younger than i (freshman in high school) and though i love her to pieces, she is really closed minded. SHe isnt a bigot, but she is nowhere near my level of tolerance. She would not approve of my religious choices ( I am a pagan witch) if she knew about it. BUt that's okay i suppose. She doesn't need to know and I wasnt very liberal at her age either. but the thing that really tics me off is that friday I was on my computer, looking up tail-making tips, and she peeked over my shoulder. There was a photo of someone in a fabric tail on the screen and she asked me what she was doing. I told her that she is wearing a swimmable mermaid tail. she said "weirdo." I was immediately offended, but i knew she didnt mean to insult me so I said "Im thinking about making one. I'm probably going to..." she said "no." thats all. just no. she was disallowing me to make a tail. She decided it was too abnormal and refused to see that it is something I am passionate about. so I tried again and I said "Uh... yes." she said no, shook her head and walked out of the room. WTF?!?!? hkersgrdikvbhealriggv;aeiduhg;ieauhsr i am so pissed! I thought my dad was going to be the hardest to convince. but i hadnt expected my sister to be so cold.... bhscakucvabyvas

The other day I was talking to le boyfriend's mom and it came up about how I should see a therapist about some stuff, and then she added in, "and maybe you figure out why you want to be a mermaid." (or something like that) like it was wrong or something. And I was just like, "It's completely normal! There's even a whole website about it! With people! That talk to each other!" Normally I don't stick up for myself, but the words just came out. Some people just don't get it. They're no fun ;P

[oceanstar]

I absolutely hate it when people start to misuse their 'powers' and stuff when every they starts to become inmprtant or some thing just cause their job has something with the law and stuff.
I also hate it when people who are older than me starts to talk to me like i am a litle kid just cause they are older and demand respect when they dont respect me.They think ever thing the say is right and love to push blame on others.
I also hate it when people starts to demand certain stuff and all that stupid stuff just cause i am the oldest.Like for instance , talking about getting me married and to what type when i am only currently 15 and i believe that i dont excty choose who i fall in love to,it just happens.
I absolutely hate it when people start to talk rubbish and look down on my hobbies just cause they dont like them and do them.What i do is non of their business and i am certainly not holding a gun to their head and forcing them to like it too.Would it kill them to keep their mouths shut.

[oceanstar]

The other day I was talking to le boyfriend's mom and it came up about how I should see a therapist about some stuff, and then she added in, "and maybe you figure out why you want to be a mermaid." (or something like that) like it was wrong or something. And I was just like, "It's completely normal! There's even a whole website about it! With people! That talk to each other!" Normally I don't stick up for myself, but the words just came out. Some people just don't get it. They're no fun ;P
I get that alot too, espically here in singapore where most people are as open minded as a rock.Its part of being arrogant and close minded i guess to think that something they dosent like and dont really agree on is 'stupid' ,'abnormal' or 'weird' just cause they dont like it or share the same views.Its that 'either your on my side and like me or your weird' or 'either your one of us or you must be mentally ill' theory at work. to put it plainly, people like to create sides, in their opinion/minds, either your from the light (them) or else your one of the 'dark'(others that are not like them). that theory has been at work for centuries and it proberly going to still be therein years to come.my opinion of these people is ,in a simple form, need to grow up and are really mature as a 2 year old kid.

[Usagi]

Now, ladies, let's not argue. Bitching is different than arguing. Instead, let us rejoice over the fact that we live in a country where we can have pizza delivered to our doorstep. Then bitch about all the times they mess up our order!

[seagirls626]

Do those EXACT words refer to you being an idiot?! NO they don't! I NEVER called you an idiot and I NEVER would. It seems to me that YOUR the one calling ME an idiot.

[seagirls626]

I was just saying that it takes time, money, and patience to start your own business! You have the time and the money obviously, but you just need the PATIENCE.

[seagirls626]

You know what? I'm done arguing with you now. Good bye! You just lost a potential customer.

[Elle]

Well that's interesting.....

Anyhoo........cat has fleas. she has been bathed and flea collared. given flea drop (you know that gel that you put on the back of their necks) and she still has fleas!
Why? because next door has 3 cats and 2 dogs all with fleas and they never treat any of them! also there grass in their yard is 1metre tall (I don't know if that makes it worse or doesn't affect it but it looks ugly)
Also! 1 of there dogs has mange!!! I feel so bad for him!!! Even tho he always barks and everything and nothing (keeping us up at night!) but no animal should have to deal with that!

[Odette]

Well that's interesting.....

Anyhoo........cat has fleas. she has been bathed and flea collared. given flea drop (you know that gel that you put on the back of their necks) and she still has fleas!
Why? because next door has 3 cats and 2 dogs all with fleas and they never treat any of them! also there grass in their yard is 1metre tall (I don't know if that makes it worse or doesn't affect it but it looks ugly)
Also! 1 of there dogs has mange!!! I feel so bad for him!!! Even tho he always barks and everything and nothing (keeping us up at night!) but no animal should have to deal with that!
aww,poor kitty!
call animal control. i don't know how it works in Australia, but i'm sure they have laws on animal neglect and abuse. Sarcoptic mange is painful and the dog will need treatment. Demodectic mange is worse. poor things =(
not sure what to do about those fleas though.i haven't seen many fleas cases yet.:thinks:
I'm sorry this is happening to you and the pets

[Dacora]

Well that's interesting.....

Anyhoo........cat has fleas. she has been bathed and flea collared. given flea drop (you know that gel that you put on the back of their necks) and she still has fleas!
Why? because next door has 3 cats and 2 dogs all with fleas and they never treat any of them! also there grass in their yard is 1metre tall (I don't know if that makes it worse or doesn't affect it but it looks ugly)
Also! 1 of there dogs has mange!!! I feel so bad for him!!! Even tho he always barks and everything and nothing (keeping us up at night!) but no animal should have to deal with that!

My neighbors are just like that! I almost had all of the fleas under control then they moved in with their 3 or 4 dogs and infected mine. A mutual neighbor had to move his dog to his moms. Hopefully ill be moving out this year and I'll just shave or trim their hair really short and give them a good flea bath so we can start new. :/

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[-Annwyn-]

Lexia dear, the fact of the matter is that these ladies already have tails made to show to world, and that has been their fin in the door. When customers can see the product in action, it piques their interest. And personally, it's not the fact that it's silicone that interested me, but that they were a different design to what is normally seen around here.

Finfolk are not around to make you feel uncomfortable, nor is any other tailmaker. Don't take it to heart. Observe, learn, be open to criticism and be mature enough to grow from it so you can build a profitable business. I'm very certain your tails will be lovely as well!

[AnnaAbyss]

@mermaid hannah
You just took the words right out of my mouth. Middle school and high school drama is just so freaking ludicrous and stupid. The tears over nothing!!! OH MY GOD! -___- I'm in high school and there's ALWAYS some pointless f-cking drama that girls start (and actually think other people care about) that goes on everyday.

[SeaGlass Siren]

ayla, my popcorn ran out. can i have some of yours?

Anyway, during the holiday/xmas break there were a bunch of people that kept on having happyholidays vs merry xmas greeting fights. honestly, those fights are so damn pointless :\ but it urks me to no end. SERIOUSLY, it's the holidays! full of good cheer and and goodwill towards men. instead of actually fighting about what the right thing is to say just be f***ing nice to each other >:|

i use both interchangeably and then a few of my friends started arguing about it. GAH. if anyone starts that argument next year again i'll just greet everyone with a f*** you instead of a nice holiday greeting OK?

I didnt wanna post this up during the holidays cuz i didnt wanna bring down the mood.

[Ayla of Duluth]

I have infinite popcorns, everyone can help themselves. :)

[Dacora]

ayla, my popcorn ran out. can i have some of yours?

Anyway, during the holiday/xmas break there were a bunch of people that kept on having happyholidays vs merry xmas greeting fights. honestly, those fights are so damn pointless :\ but it urks me to no end. SERIOUSLY, it's the holidays! full of good cheer and and goodwill towards men. instead of actually fighting about what the right thing is to say just be f***ing nice to each other >:|

i use both interchangeably and then a few of my friends started arguing about it. GAH. if anyone starts that argument next year again i'll just greet everyone with a f*** you instead of a nice holiday greeting OK?

I didnt wanna post this up during the holidays cuz i didnt wanna bring down the mood.

This so much. I just started saying Merry kiss my *ssmas to the people who got all snooty about it. It's sad people get all mean and upset about a stupid greeting during that time of the year. :/

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[Mermaid Margarete]

While working I always say "Happy Holidays" unless the customer says "Merry Christmas" to me first. Unfortunately, while working, you can get in trouble for not being PC... But while off work I'd always say "Merry Christmas"

I'm venting cause I feel like I'm on the verge of a breakdown and all I can do to keep from that happening is keep busy. Which has been easy enough to do cause I just moved at the beginning of this month. HOWEVER somehow I have basically nothing to do this weekend T_T I have a haircut on Saturday and then my 3 hr volunteer shift on Sunday, but that's it! and I'm house sitting for a friend so it's not like I can do apartment cleaning/unpacking anyways >.< I'm really hoping something comes up...

On another note something else I need to get off my chest is my frustration with myself because it's been over a year since a certain guy broke my heart and I'm STILL stuck on him. I think about him more than I care to admit. I miss him more than I should.... and I've been trying SO hard to move on from him (I usually bury myself in work, do something creative to express myself etc etc) but NOTHING has worked... I've literally spent thousands of dollars trying to get over him... but I can't... and I don't know why I can't... Half of me wants to reach out to him... but the other half is saying that spells more "hurt"... what to do? >.<

[SeaGlass Siren]

girl he aint worth it. if he broke your heart why should you care about him when he clearly doesnt about you? find someone else that will treat you like a princess. another thing you can do is love yourself more. treat yourself :)

sorry if this isnt much kelp .__. i was in your position before and that was how i dealt

[Mermaid Margarete]

I treat myself ALL the time... I go to a spa once (if not twice) a month. I even splurge and get treatments (instead of just going there to use their heated pools and element rooms). I do ballet once a week. I swim once a week. I've taken myself on vacations. I created 6 cosplays since he broke my heart... I am desprate to get him out of my head >.< too much in day-to-day life reminds me of him, tho... and I don't know how to change/stop that... I'm talking something as simple as laying in bed after my alarm goes off - cause I used to be a "get up/get out of bed" person, but then his laziness rubbed off on me... Not to mention I just moved about to an apartment that's like 10 mins away from his...T_T

[Dacora]

I treat myself ALL the time... I go to a spa once (if not twice) a month. I even splurge and get treatments (instead of just going there to use their heated pools and element rooms). I do ballet once a week. I swim once a week. I've taken myself on vacations. I created 6 cosplays since he broke my heart... I am desprate to get him out of my head >.< too much in day-to-day life reminds me of him, tho... and I don't know how to change/stop that... I'm talking something as simple as laying in bed after my alarm goes off - cause I used to be a "get up/get out of bed" person, but then his laziness rubbed off on me... Not to mention I just moved about to an apartment that's like 10 mins away from his...T_T

When a guy I was head over hills broke my heart I didn't think I would get over him but I went on a date to get him out of my head and I fell in love not expecting to with a friend who had a crush on me for 6 years. Now we have been together for 2 years and are still going strong. I love him more than I loved the guy who broke my heart! He taught me what true love is.Maybe a rebound date will help. You don't have to fall in love like I did but it's nice when people want to be with you.
Also my animals helped me deal with the pain. I'm not sure how you feel about animals but it hard to beat puppy kisses! And having something to rely on you can give you self worth.

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[Mermaid Margarete]

I've gone on 4 dates this last year (since we seperated) hoping for something to happen... I'm guessing it's really the only thing that will eventually take my mind off him... but I feel... weak? idk... I feel like I shouldn't be trying to "replace" him... then again - I've never had this problem before... usually I move on from a guy in a few months... It's been 13 months now T_T

I'm also hoping to adopt a cat... but I sadly won't be able to afford to until about March. I do volunteer at my local animal shelter, tho, so I can get my kitty-fix once a week.

[Dacora]

I'm sorry dear. :( I know how that feels and its not fun. I hope your kitty will bring you lots of joy. Try thinking of your future kitty a lot. Watch kitty videos on YouTube. Think of names and neat toys to get. Only a few months until March! :D

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[Mermaid Momo]

this happened last year, but I just really need to get this off my chest, the only other person i've ever told is my Grandma. For the last 2 years, i've attended this small anime convention with a friend selling things. I usually spend all year planning what i'm going to sell and i even tell her what i'm selling so that she could maybe plan what she's selling too. But the thing is that she NEVER plans. EVER. and she's always sitting there at the table mean bugging anyone who comes over to buy something from me, or ask for drawing advice. (after the first year we attended this, she actually started commenting on how "mainstream" my art style is or how "girly" and feminine my boys are whenever someone would comment me on something) Last year, a man who was interested in teaming up with me to produce a Dungeons and dragons book (which was actually going to be published by the way) came and talked to me, he looked through my sketch book, had me draw something for him, and even pointed out what he likes the most so i can put those in the DND book. And this friend just sat there looking at her hands, more of glaring should i say and didn't say anything. So when she decided to leave the con an hour early i just thought she was fed up and wanted to go home, and the DND man was also packing up and she offered to help him. Again, me trusting her as a friend just thought she was being nice. I come to find out 2 days later that she told him that I wasn't really interested in his deal and that i don't draw fantasy art very well but would rather go into drawing girl comics and that she'd be a better choice. Here i was, super excited for days waiting for the day we were to meet up to talk about what he wants in the book and she drops this on me.( at least she told me and apologized i guess) so for weeks after that she would be drawing concept art, but here's the thing, she would always ask me: "should i change this? is this good? can you show me how to draw this? how do you do this? he likes the way you do it and i can't do it like you," etc. It got on my nerves! but i didn't say anything and i helped her out because just because she's a bad friend doesn't mean i have to be one too. In the end, he cancelled the project because she wasn't giving him the quality drawings or the "aura" and emotion in her drawings. Karma's a bitch. :)

I just had to post that because the small con is coming around again...and we're sharing a table.again. I just hope she isn't going to be sulking and that she's learned a lesson.

[Odette]

@draggersprez
Are you talking about that one thats a week away?(cuz if you are hopefully i will see you Friday). you could do another table if this year is terrible,though i know they can get pricey,but your friend seems to get easily upset over your success. That's not fair to you and your talent.could also tell her how it makes you feel. =)
i hope this year goes better for ya!

[Mermaid Momo]

@draggersprez
Are you talking about that one thats a week away?(cuz if you are hopefully i will see you Friday). you could do another table if this year is terrible,though i know they can get pricey,but your friend seems to get easily upset over your success. That's not fair to you and your talent.could also tell her how it makes you feel. =)
i hope this year goes better for ya!
thanks. Sadly, I'm not going to be there, but she is. I'm getting up my merch for another one in April. I'm going to try and buy a Saturday ticket for taiyou though.

[Odette]

aww. I have to leave Taiyou Saturday morning for a mermaid gig.maybe next time ;)

[Winged Mermaid]

Wow draggersprez, with friends like that who needs enemies? :/ If you've ever read/watched Peach Girl... I'd say she's a "Sae".

[SeaGlass Siren]

"With fronds like these, who needs anemones!" -Marlin (finding nemo)

[AniaR]

totally Sae!

[Mermaid Momo]

Haha yeah I've read peach girl (that was actually the first thing that came to mind when it happened too, we'll after I sat in my room having throwing myself a pity party of course XD )

[Natalie the Mermaid]

I also hate when people say "no offence" and then follow it up with something seriously offensive. lol OH MY GOSH! Raina I am so with you on that. That is the most annoying thing for me

[Elle]

My stepson got a bubble book from my mum for Christmas. and it has a recipe for making really humongous bubbles. anyway the recipe calls for cornstarch.
we went around a whole heap of different stores today looking for cornstarch and couldn't find it anywhere!!!!!!!
So 2night i've done some googling, and found out that cornstarch is cornflour (the book is American)
So what America calls cornstarch we call cornflour
and what America calls cornflour, we call maizeflour...... :doh:
So i wasted half of my day looking for something under a name that doesn't exist down here!

[Merman Dan]

So i wasted half of my day looking for something under a name that doesn't exist down here!

Yeah, well....
http://blackbirdideas.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/funny-puns-shrimp-on-the-barbie.jpeg

;)

[Elle]

bahahahahaha.......also it's a Prawn.....not a Shrimp.

[Rain]

My stepson got a bubble book from my mum for Christmas. and it has a recipe for making really humongous bubbles. anyway the recipe calls for cornstarch.
we went around a whole heap of different stores today looking for cornstarch and couldn't find it anywhere!!!!!!!
So 2night i've done some googling, and found out that cornstarch is cornflour (the book is American)
So what America calls cornstarch we call cornflour
and what America calls cornflour, we call maizeflour...... :doh:
So i wasted half of my day looking for something under a name that doesn't exist down here!

If you wouldn't mind, I'd like to know the recipe to that big bubble. ;D

[Elle]

The book is called "How to Make Monstrous, Huge, Unbelievably Big Bubbles" by David Stein and comes with a rope wand for making the big bubbles (which you can find at the website http://www.bubblething.com)

The recipes calls for
- 1 clean bucket
-12 Cups of Water
- 1 Cup of dish soap ([yellow]Joy, [blue]Dawn, Fairy and Morning Fresh are the best recommended)
- 1 Cup of Cornstarch (or cornflour if you're an Aussie)
- 2 Tablespoons of baking powder (not baking soda!)

you put it all in, in that order and remember to remove the foam off the top if it forms cos foam is bad for bubbles.

[Merman Dan]

bahahahahaha.......also it's a Prawn.....not a Shrimp.

"I am not a shrimp. I am a king prawn!" - Pepe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mteZUShB1Qo

[AniaR]

I am sick. I have a gig tomorrow with 15 kids in a small pool. I reaaalllllly wish I wasn't sick, lol. But that phone bill wont pay itself!

[Mermaid Celissa]

Google Ads are popping up all over the place, even on this site. In fact, as I'm typing this, I can see an ad at the top of this page! Examples:

On the Forum page:

8666



On a thread:

8667



At the bottom of the same thread:

8668

[MermaidBrittany]

Google Ads are popping up all over the place, even on this site. In fact, as I'm typing this, I can see an ad at the top of this page! Examples:

On the Forum page:

8666



On a thread:

8667



At the bottom of the same thread:

8668

Yeah I know :/ its really irritating is this what happened when the site was down?

[Ashe]

WHAT THE HECK???????? They are everywhere! This hasn't happened before until today... I am really mad right now :mad::mad::mad:

[Mermaid Celissa]

Kalani's post has an ad too?! UGH! I left for KFC, came back and BOOM, ads!!

[MermaidBrittany]

Its not specifically on anyones, they are just random. :/

[Rain]

The book is called "How to Make Monstrous, Huge, Unbelievably Big Bubbles" by David Stein and comes with a rope wand for making the big bubbles (which you can find at the website http://www.bubblething.com)

The recipes calls for
- 1 clean bucket
-12 Cups of Water
- 1 Cup of dish soap ([yellow]Joy, [blue]Dawn, Fairy and Morning Fresh are the best recommended)
- 1 Cup of Cornstarch (or cornflour if you're an Aussie)
- 2 Tablespoons of baking powder (not baking soda!)

you put it all in, in that order and remember to remove the foam off the top if it forms cos foam is bad for bubbles.

Ahh, thank you! I appreciate it.

[Elle]

Update;
apparently 16cups of hot water, 1 cup of dish liquid and 2 Tbs baking powder works better but I haven't tried it yet!

[AniaR]

people, firefox + adblock = no more ads ever on anything. Best way to browse the internet

[MerEmma]

I don't use adblock myself because I prefer to support the google ads and stuff..or something. I saw a video by Hank Green about the ads who explained it really well to why I don't use it...but they also just don't bother me at all, haha.

[ShyMer]

is the site getting paid for the ads? I won't mind it as much then.

[Mermaid Harmony]

yayyyy ad block!!!

[Ashe]

What is Ad Block? I'm so not tech savvy :p

[ButterflyVision]

Adblock is an extension on Firefox that filters content to your specification. In less techie terms: it's a program that you can use if you don't want to see ads on the Internet. I hate the pop up adds that as soon as you enter a site they come up not even related to what your looking at.

[Ashe]

Thank you, ButterflyVision! :)

[Shivice]

So last week I found out that my dog has a cancerous bonetumor. My mom can either amputate his leg, or put him down. He’s between 4-6years of age and has the rest of his life to live. My mom is thinking aboutputting him down. To me, that’s the easy way out. I asked her why would you wantto put him down and she said nothing. I don’t agree with her putting him downwhen he can live out the rest of his life with only 3 legs. I need to get themoney to afford the surgery.

[Azurin Luna]

people, firefox + adblock = no more ads ever on anything. Best way to browse the internet

I don't mind the adds on my pc, but on my iPad it's annoying, do you know if they have something for Safari too?

[Mer_Adella]

its always nice when the first thing coming into work I have to fill out a "small claims" court paper for my boss. Honestly, if he were to call me as a witness, I would tell him to go f**k himself. he wants to take this lady to court bcus she owes him money from 8/23/2012 for work. he has a tractor in his shop that has been here a year and half from a customer. I have to talk to this customer every day when she calls to ask about her tractor. he tells me to tell her that he is working on it, there are problems, he fixed it but its not running right. etc etc. a year and a half!!!! and he wants to use me as a witness for this other case?

[Sammi Ray]

So i got a knock at the door and being rare i answered and it was two Jehovah witnesses.. Asking me if I'm afraid the world is going to end trying to hand me a leaflet..

Look you believe what you want but i am ATHIEST and i'm not interested, the world was supposed to end in december and guess what?

WE ARE STILL HERE. stop pushing religion on to people i can't stand it >< You believe in god, thats fine, but please don't bring it to my front door, Bad enough walking through town having people preaching we are all going to burn in hell if we don't believe in god.. Everyone has their own believes and i will believe in mine!

[Azurin Luna]

I know how that is, I was bothered by different people of different religions in the same week. My bf had enough of it and answered the door the next time they came, cause they always showed up at the same time. He opened the door holding a ritual dagger and a black candle, we never saw them again :P

Another friend from somewhere in the USA also had Jehovah's coming at his door, but as he saw them walking up the path to his door he dropped his towel and opened the door naked. He said it was very effective too.

For me, I just believe in different nature spirits and let all the other people to their own believes

[Sammi Ray]

Hahaha i think the naked thing would only work if you were a man. I believe that too just annoying, i don't push my believes onto people, they can believe what they want. I got told last year the world was going to end by Jehovah witness (STILL HERE) and I don't even bother now i just say i am not interested and close the door because i see the leaflet.

[Elle]

I know how that is, I was bothered by different people of different religions in the same week. My bf had enough of it and answered the door the next time they came, cause they always showed up at the same time. He opened the door holding a ritual dagger and a black candle, we never saw them again :P

Another friend from somewhere in the USA also had Jehovah's coming at his door, but as he saw them walking up the path to his door he dropped his towel and opened the door naked. He said it was very effective too.

For me, I just believe in different nature spirits and let all the other people to their own believes

My fiance has done the nude thing. He saw them coming answered the door in his towel and had his 2 roommates at the time to come up behind him (both female) and ask him to come back to bed and they took his towel.....Apparently highly effective :)

[Mer_Adella]

I was cleaning my uncles house a few years back (him and my aunt were gone to work) and they had a J.W. come to the door. They asked for the owners and I said that they were unavailable "as they were in coupulation together in the shower". They were shocked but then started preaching to me. They kept calling me the "housekeeper". So I played along and when they asked me what I saw in this picture (it was a picture of a firey death with a whole bunch of people, drawn as a cartoon no less) I studied it and answered "I see myself dragging my family, friends, ex-lovers, and complete strangers into the home of my beloved. He has sworn that I am to be his queen when I arrive with at least 1,000 souls. I have 998 right now..." (there were two of them) I just kinda gave them my evil slow smile and they started backing away. I quickly grabbed the smoothy I was drinking and asked them if they wanted a taste. I've never seen someone run so fast! It was hilarious (I am catholic btw, not that it matters, but I thought that my mom would get a kick out of it...she did but couldn't believe that I could be so evil....lol)

[Sammi Ray]

LOL, next time i'll just paint my face red and stick horns on

Yes hello, i'm a bit busy here lol.

[Azurin Luna]

Haha! That's also a good idea. Or open the door wearing a tight leather or latex suit and holding a whip and tell them that you are disturbing the master :P

[Sammi Ray]

LOL. Thats a good one, I'll have to do that next time, but hopefully i wont get bothered, it's never the same people that come round. It's always at a really unpractical time anyway.

[Thalassa]

Okay. I have too many people in my life that think they know better than ANYONE else. If someone doesn't agree with them they will argue TO THE DEATH to try and get you to change your opinion (usually just saying the same things over and over again), and when you don't they get upset. I'm a gentle soul (as anyone who knows me will attest) and even when I'm annoyed with someone I do my best to be kind or state that I don't agree kindly. I'm sick of hearing: "Fine! I just won't be your friend!" "Fine! I'm leaving the community!" "Fine! I might as well just live alone!" "Well, I'll just never ___________ again!" Thing is, if they would, my life would be a lot less complicated. I wouldn't have to worry about the next backlash for me or for my friend who doesn't agree with them.

I don't agree with you. Get over it. We can have different opinions, life can go on.

I used to be the one who would run after them and try to make amends, but I've done that too much. I've learned that they're NOT really going to leave/never ______/live alone, they're just hurt and want the attention. They want people to apologize to them. And I'm not going to apologize for not agreeing.

[Mermaid Danielle]

I was cleaning my uncles house a few years back (him and my aunt were gone to work) and they had a J.W. come to the door. They asked for the owners and I said that they were unavailable "as they were in coupulation together in the shower". They were shocked but then started preaching to me. They kept calling me the "housekeeper". So I played along and when they asked me what I saw in this picture (it was a picture of a firey death with a whole bunch of people, drawn as a cartoon no less) I studied it and answered "I see myself dragging my family, friends, ex-lovers, and complete strangers into the home of my beloved. He has sworn that I am to be his queen when I arrive with at least 1,000 souls. I have 998 right now..." (there were two of them) I just kinda gave them my evil slow smile and they started backing away. I quickly grabbed the smoothy I was drinking and asked them if they wanted a taste. I've never seen someone run so fast! It was hilarious (I am catholic btw, not that it matters, but I thought that my mom would get a kick out of it...she did but couldn't believe that I could be so evil....lol)

Mer_Adella that is hilarious! Kudos to you for you're quick thinking and improvisation :) Thanks for making me laugh!

[AnnaAbyss]

Okay I've never posted on this thread yet, and I don't usually most often because I feel people will get annoyed...So I'll give it a go. These are the things that have been annoying me heaps lately:
1. The neighbours next door that come down for Christmas holidays. They're a couple who let daughters come down with their husbands and millions of super loud screaming, crying stupid kids every single Christmas. They stay for weeks on end through January. Almost every single day my family and I are woken up by the little monsters of kids jumping on the trampoline. They somehow always manage to hurt themselves then start crying at the top of their lungs, which drives me absolutely nuts (since I severely hate kids, even though I'm a teenager). Thing is, the parents never tell them to be quiet, but they're always there to sook over them when the kids hurt themselves. It's like they're too busy inside talking (which they probably are). I swear, every time these people come down to the coast to stay, they keep having more kids. It's a freaking epidemic! Every since I was a little kid, I remember these bastards coming down and ruining the nice peace and quiet for about a month each year. Because I live in a court, you can hear everything that goes on around you. Stuff just echoes. But this is just the worse family out of all of them. Nearly everyone in our court has their family down for the holidays. Basically as I've gotten older, the Christmas/New Year's crowds just piss me off more and more each year. The beaches are crowded as hell, supermarkets, shopping centres, swimming pools, roads, you freaking name it. You have to stay inside pretty much all day to stay away from the crowds. This is what it's like living near the beach in Australia in the festive season. -facepalm-.

2. People telling me I can't do stuff that I have my mind set on. "Pfft, mermaids are stupid!", "Haha, you want a mermaid tail?! That's so gay." "You'd probably just drown in one", "Sometimes you just can't always get what you want", "Oh my God Anna, why the hell would you want to be a mermaid?! That's for little kids. They're lame as!" "You're just gonna waste your life", "It's just a phase. If she ever actually got one, she'd use it a few times then get sick of it and never use it again." "You'll never make enough money out of that!", "$3000 is a lot of money, sweetie.", "Sometimes you just can't get all the things that you really want".
Thanks for trying to ruin my dreams. I never did that to you when you were starting up your businesses, and I don't say the dreams you want to accomplish are never going to happen!! Why? Because nothing is impossible. If others can do it, I can too. I'm saving my money. I want to get a job. It's not like I'm asking you to spend YOUR money! Why can't I have some control over what I do in my life, instead of being told what to do all the time? I'm not a little kid anymore! Can you not imagine me growing up and having my own life? Well I'll tell you this. I've never know what I wanted to do when I grow up until 8 or so months ago. It seems way out there, but at least I know what I want to do. I don't want to go to Uni and get a degree in whatever, I don't want a normal job like everyone else and one thing I've always been sure of was that I never did! You know I'm weird, stop denying it.
The Internet is really the only place I feel accepted. You can connect with like-minded people and not have to be judged on your interests. Yet they still wonder and complain why I use my computer so much...
So enough with the rude, snide and patronizing comments and let me be who I want to be.

~Sorry about the long rants. These things have been bugging me for so long and I needed to get them off my chest. I just feel down lately. :(

[Thalassa]

Aww, Anna. *gives virtual cookies* I know what you mean. Sometimes things just build and build and you just have to get them out. Journaling works okay, but sometimes since you're the only one who sees it and you're already stewing about it...it's ineffective. I'm so glad this forum has a place for us to vent.

As for the mermaid naysayers, it does make life difficult. "Mermaid" isn't usually on the mundane job-list. But if this is your dream, go for it and show them how awesome you are! PS what kind of tail do you plan to get?

[Elle]

Okay. I have too many people in my life that think they know better than ANYONE else. If someone doesn't agree with them they will argue TO THE DEATH to try and get you to change your opinion (usually just saying the same things over and over again), and when you don't they get upset. I'm a gentle soul (as anyone who knows me will attest) and even when I'm annoyed with someone I do my best to be kind or state that I don't agree kindly. I'm sick of hearing: "Fine! I just won't be your friend!" "Fine! I'm leaving the community!" "Fine! I might as well just live alone!" "Well, I'll just never ___________ again!" Thing is, if they would, my life would be a lot less complicated. I wouldn't have to worry about the next backlash for me or for my friend who doesn't agree with them.

I don't agree with you. Get over it. We can have different opinions, life can go on.

I used to be the one who would run after them and try to make amends, but I've done that too much. I've learned that they're NOT really going to leave/never ______/live alone, they're just hurt and want the attention. They want people to apologize to them. And I'm not going to apologize for not agreeing.


*HUGS*
I know exactly what your talking about.
It was all a bit over the top and just looked like a reason to throw a hissy fit if you ask me.
I deal with this too much in life to have to come on here and deal with it all again :( Some people just seem to need that attention whether it's good attention or bad attention
Don't let it get you down :)

[Ashe]

Aww, hugs and cookies and hot cocoa to everyone! I'm sorry you all are having bad times :(

[AnnaAbyss]

@Thalassa
Nawh, thanks xD ~dips cookies in tea~. I want to be a mermaid performer like Mermaid Melissa... -blush-. I know it sounds really 'out there', but I want to get a Merbellas performance tail. I'm old enough to get job now and I want to make it happen. Don't usually make New Year's resolutions but I think this is it. :D A kid I know worked pretty much every week and earned $1000 from washing dishes! Haha.

[Thalassa]

LOL it doesn't sound out there to me, Anna. My merbella's performance tail should be here in March, if all goes well. I totally understand wanting one, they're GORGEOUS! Save up, it's a long process and sometimes you want to SCREAM with impatience (especially when you see the lovely goodies on her Facebook, lol) but it's definitely possible, eventually. I'd love to be a mermaid performer, mostly with kids because I love interacting with them. I'm afraid I'm not enough of a publicist or swimmer to ever be up to Melissa's level, and I'm not much of an activist...but I love to do this and I'll keep on. ;-)

[Thalassa]

Another mini-frustration: I need Ambien so my brain will shut off at night. It's a lot better than staying up hours trying to get to sleep. But I don't like some of the side effects. Some are fun in a dizzying sort of way...but the side effect I hate worst is that I buy at least one dumb iPhone app each time I take the meds, and I usually don't remember anything about it in the morning. It's not a big thing, but it's concerning that. I'm spending money asleep. :-S

[Mermaid Melanie]

the most annoying thing in my life - my neighbours rebuild. i moved in in March they started work in march its now jan 2013 and its still getting worked on sometimes past legal work hours and i have to go out on the balcony like a crazy woman screaming at them about immigration and the police to get them to go home .... its making me go grey :/

[AnnaAbyss]

Wow, lucky you! Can't wait to see what it looks like. :D They're so gorgeous. Damn you Facebook news feed showing me all these beautiful pictures of tails! Should see the faces of people when they walk past my computer screen. They're weirded out. XD

[Elle]

My dad bought my fiance and I a parasail/jetski combo, and we booked it for today.
It got cancelled due to the fact that there are 30km winds where we where go to, (they don't go over 15km winds) :(

[AniaR]

Thalassa, I take Elavil for my bladder illness, ADHD, and insomnia. I love it because it helps with all those things as well as anxiety and pain. BUT it makes me dizzy like I'm drunk! There are actual times in the day where I turn to my boyfriend and say, "I feel drunk" because the dizziness and motion blur gets that bad. I've tried fiddling with the dosage with no real lessening of the effects. But it helps with way too many things for me to not take it! SO I GET THAT! I hate that drugs have sooo many side effects

[SeaGlass Siren]

Ok. so chinese new year is rolling around sooner than i had hoped.

what urks me every year is that children demand "lucky money" from the elders, without wishing them good health/prosperity/luck/lots of love for the new year. call me old fashioned but you gotta earn that money, not demand it. :| also its hella disrespectful. (traditionally you always have to wish them with SOMETHING before you even get the money, otherwise you dont receive it at all)

what also urks me is that every year i go to a vietnamese festival to celebrate chinese new year. Harper (our lousy prime minister) issues "red pockets/envelopes" with chocolate candy inside and a nice laminated card with him and his family wishing us for a prosperous/happy/blahblah new year.

seriously? thats what my tax money is being put into? i get that he's being nice to our people BUT! THAT'S NOT NECESSARY. you want us to believe you're a good prime minister you've got to show it. protect our land! don't bribe us with twodollar chocolate candies from the dollarstore!

RAGE.

i also hate it when some parents take your money :\ come on, you already GET money from working. i feel so bad for the kid. it happened to my boyfriend when he was a kid. every year his parents would take his money when he was supposed to keep it but he didnt know. when he found out in his midteens he had a "beach-fit." he earned that money! it was rightfully his!

or when parents take their kids money in general (money earned from work and saved up).

RAGE.

[Gem Stone]

My brother is AAARGHGJTIEIEFNFNEHGGHR!!!!!!!! He's just so inconsiderate and rude and loud and obnoxious and pushy! he is NEVER wrong, allowed to do whatever he wants, doesn't have to listen to anyone because it's just not worth his time, and he NEVER knocks when entering my room! AND when he does knock, he knocks and walks right in, door shut or not. he never shuts the shower curtain or bathroom door when showering, or peeing so I have to keep my eyes averted EVERY time I walk pass the bathroom and he's in there. I was taking a nap on the way home from work and my mother says my name to wake me up, AND HE KICKS THE BACK OF MY SEAT! Now normally, I would just yell and leave it at that. but when he hit my seat, he broke my newly made star fish headband! and then had the gall to say 'it was a weak headband. I didn't break it'. I wanted to slap him but I didn't for fear I would kill him!!!!! he's just so AALFIFNGKDNTGIRTJRNFNJE! and then while I'm trying to fix my headband he walks in (no knocking) and asks a favor of me! and he still didn't even acknowledge that he broke my headband that I worked hard on! I can't believe him sometimes! and I absolutely HATE it when my family treats me like I'm an idiot! like my mom tells me the same thing over and over because I 'might have missed it' or didn't know to start with. I wasn't ignoring you and I'm not stupid, so stop treating me like I'm an invalid. I just get so tired of being treated like I'm too young, too small, too old, too naïve, too smart, too dumb, too this, too that, for EVERYTHING! they remind me how to drive everytime I go home from work, to work, to the store, or anywhere! angry rant over. thank you for your attention. go back to your daily lives (waves hand like Obi Wan)

[Azurin Luna]

Ouch, that's annoying. I would say that it's time to move out so you can show them you can take care of yourself. I don't know your situation though, so you might well not be able too. As for your door problem, can't you lock your door?
I couldn't look my door at home when I lived with my parents, but I took the door handle off so they weren't able to enter it :P

[Sammi Ray]

Just to add to the J.W post i made. I spoke to my friend today and she has two kids. The doorbell rand and a couple of j.w's at the door and her little ones ran towarfsthe door as she opened it. So as she turned towards the kids and bent down facing her kids to stop them from getting out, she let out a rip roaring fart in their direction. I thought this was highly hilarious. Needless to say i think they were just as embarrassed as her.

Moral of the story - flatulence is the key. No words need to be spoken lololol

[Alveric]

She should have stood up, cocked her head and said, "Didst thou speak, oh toothless oracle?"

[ShyMer]

so my hubby found out today that his bosses are not happy with his lateness and calling out sick too often. he told me before that his boss was pretty relaxed about when he had to be there, but I had a nagging feeling that maybe he shouldn't use that too often.
It sounds like they want to fire him. They said if he shows up late, takes too long at lunch, or calls out within the next six months, he'll be out. He's pretty shaken up about it.

I think the whole situation is a bit strange, and probably due to the president pressuring his boss. He works as the only programmer for a brick company, and the board is made up of a bunch of older gentlemen who don't like this "newfangled internet stuff", and probably don't care so much about his abilities. Maybe he misread his boss's cues. I don't know why all of the sudden they would be making a big deal out of something that wasn't considered a problem before.

In any case, I'm going to be making him get up on time from now on and making him go to work, seeing as I can't trust him to feel these situations out for himself like I thought he could. I don't have a steady job, but I substitute teach, and can get another sub job at another county as well. We have family we could live with in a pinch, and he can probably get his Costco job back too. It's scary though. I don't want him to end his first professional job on such a poor note.

I know everything will work out on the long run, and it could be way worse, but I'm a little scared.

[Gem Stone]

Ouch, that's annoying. I would say that it's time to move out so you can show them you can take care of yourself. I don't know your situation though, so you might well not be able too. As for your door problem, can't you lock your door?
I couldn't look my door at home when I lived with my parents, but I took the door handle off so they weren't able to enter it :P

My door slides, no handle. And my family doesn't believe in locking doors in the house in case of an emergency we have to be able to reach each other. A locked door stands in the way.

[Sammi Ray]

She should have stood up, cocked her head and said, "Didst thou speak, oh toothless oracle?"

Oh my god, i nearly peed a little XD That's amazing! Hahaha

[seagirls626]

Ok, so I've had this on my mind for a while, and I need to get it out there. I HATE how people think that men are the superior sex. I just HATE IT. I hate how people say that "God" is a man. WHY SHOULD IT BE A MAN? Why not a woman? Where did people get the idea that men should rule in the first place? I mean, sure, they can be naturally physically stronger than women, but, now I'm not saying that men are stupid or anything, but women can be mentally stronger than men most of the time. Not all men, but most think that women are mentally weaker because women can be very emotional. But that does NOT make us weaker! I also hate how there are NO female religious leaders at all! So far, they have ALL been men! and why hasn't there been a female president in America yet? I just don't get it! I swear, when I turn 35, I am running for president and no one can talk me out of it! HA! I would also LOVE to see women stand up to men one day. We are strong and powerful and we should show those men who think that they rule who's boss!

[-Annwyn-]

Ok, so I've had this on my mind for a while, and I need to get it out there. I HATE how people think that men are the superior sex. I just HATE IT. I hate how people say that "God" is a man. WHY SHOULD IT BE A MAN? Why not a woman? Where did people get the idea that men should rule in the first place? I mean, sure, they can be naturally physically stronger than women, but, now I'm not saying that men are stupid or anything, but women can be mentally stronger than men most of the time. Not all men, but most think that women are mentally weaker because women can be very emotional. But that does NOT make us weaker! I also hate how there are NO female religious leaders at all! So far, they have ALL been men! and why hasn't there been a female president in America yet? I just don't get it! I swear, when I turn 35, I am running for president and no one can talk me out of it! HA! I would also LOVE to see women stand up to men one day. We are strong and powerful and we should show those men who think that they rule who's boss!


Ummmmm, I think you need to do just even a tiny bit of research. Two seconds into google I found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_religious_leaders

and this springs to mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihd7ofrwQX0


"I hate how people say that "God" is a man..." Which God are you referring to? Pikki Woki? Thor? Loki? Dionysus? Yahweh?

[Tasha Mermaid]

crocs and uggh boots. :/

hahaha ugg boots are BIG overe here in Australia (which is odd seeming we are a boiling hot country) i dont mind wearing them if they are not made of sheep skin and wool but im more a cute rainbow bed socks kinda girl xD

[Tasha Mermaid]

Ok for me, the biggest would be about me being Pagan and not christian.
I honestly can not stand people who think they have the right to throw their religious views down my throat, i do not do that to them and i should be given the same respect. I am NOT evil, i do NOT worship "the devil" and why, well because the devil is a christian belief, Pagans do not believe in that, we are a nature loving belief and if conserving mother earth is evil then yeah i guess i am!!!

Then there is the fact i am a natural blonde, for some reason it is like every god damn person seems to think that i have yet to hear every blonde joke, seriously THEY ARE OLD, i do not bleach my hair so thus my brain cells are not dead.
I am intelligent and i hate being degraded because some idiot bimbo girls decide to dye their hair blonde and act like brainless idiots, besides look at the most intelligent races in the world, the Norwegians and they are blonde !!!

Oh people who cant shut cupboards annoy the hell out of me.

People who type like they never spent a day in school.

Girls who think they have a right to try and steal your man or feel the need to degrade their friends to gain the attention of guys.

Oh and girls who are thin complaining that they are fat, i mean seriously stop complaining start loving yourself.

People who feel the need to "remind" you that you are fat, like i have somehow forgotten it since i last looked in the mirror -_-

ok that is a little rant from me :P

[seagirls626]

Oh, sorry I wasn't very specific. I meant females who made up a religion. I know that there are female religious leaders in general, but no females have made up a religion that people follow.

[Elle]

hahaha ugg boots are BIG overe here in Australia (which is odd seeming we are a boiling hot country) i dont mind wearing them if they are not made of sheep skin and wool but im more a cute rainbow bed socks kinda girl xD

Ugg boots are Australian (that's why they're big)
But we were stupid and apparently sold the rights to them to the US (go figure) If my Uggs aren't sheep skin I don't wear them :)

My rant
I HATE OUR PRIME MINISTER!!!! Miss Julia Gillard is going to make it law (that's right as in you are legal allowed to) That churches and religions have the right to freely discriminate against Same Sex couples and the LGBTI community! OMG!!!!!! AS IF THERE WASN'T ENOUGH HATE IN THIS WORLD ALREADY!!!!!

big ball of sad and angry right now

[Ayla of Duluth]

My rant
I HATE OUR PRIME MINISTER!!!! Miss Julia Gillard is going to make it law (that's right as in you are legal allowed to) That churches and religions have the right to freely discriminate against Same Sex couples and the LGBTI community! OMG!!!!!! AS IF THERE WASN'T ENOUGH HATE IN THIS WORLD ALREADY!!!!!
I don't think its about hate as much as it is about religion. Personally, I feel like if the LGBTQ community is against your religion, fine. You don't have to offer your services, you don't have to accept them into your church, etc. Because that is your personal belief and it is your place of worship and sanctuary. There are many other churches however that freely accept the LGBTQ community, and all you have to do is keep your eye out for them. I personally think that if it is a religious place, that the religion should be respected, as it is not always a matter of hate in the community. I think all that Miss Gillard is trying to do is protect those people in a way. Discrimination in any other place however, is wrong in my opinion.

Anyways.
So as you may know, I was recently granted permission to use one of the pools at my local hotel to practice swimming in my mermaid tail. Well yesterday I was there and I was supposed to meet my friend there who was going to be my spotter/swim partner. I had told the general manager of the hotel that I would not swim if I didn't have an assistant with me. So anyways, I get to the hotel when the pool is empty. I get in the water and put my tail on and all that jazz. At this point I'm actually waiting for a journalist from the local newspaper to show up and interview me and take pictures for the paper. I figured I could swim while she was there even if my friend wasn't with me because she needed pictures and I'm the only one in the pool, so if I needed help, I would obviously have someone's attention at all times. Interview went great.

At this time there is actually a hockey team from Michigan or something in the lobby of the hotel. Around 20 kids and 50 adults were staying here.

So here I am with the pool to myself until 4, when suddenly a girl from the hockey team comes to check out the pool and she sees me splashing around on the stairs in the shallow end. Next thing I know, all 20 kids are swarming me, asking questions, etc. They're teenagers, so I don't try to fool them. I told them where I got my tail and all that jazz.

Fast forward to about a half hour later. The hockey team parents all come in with food and drinks and whatnot for some sort of poolside party thing they were going to keep busy with while the kids swam. This is where it gets confusing. The teenagers from earlier weren't in the pool area. Instead I'm being swarmed by ten year olds, who are at that stage where they experiment with trying to be popular, snobby, all that stupid jazz. [Note my assistant/friend still hadn't shown up, I've been at the pool for about an hour and a half now.]

Anyways, these kids were BRUTAL. They were all girls, again, around 10 or 11 years old. They don't believe in mermaids anymore. So instead of me entertaining the kids by being a mermaid, I spent the next two hours trying to get away from them. They were shouting at me, chanting "fake fake fake," calling me a liar, poking, prodding, and ripping at my tail, and at one point, five of these girls had grabbed my fluke up near the ankles and were trying to pull my tail off of me. If I hadn't been holding onto the railing, they would have dragged me into the deep end of the pool. I was still wearing the shell belt Raven had made for me as I hadn't gotten a chance to take it off after the photos hoot with the news journalist. The girls ripped ALL the shells off my belt and ran off with them, hiding them in the chaos of the party going on with the parents. I did my best to be persistent, to stay in character, telling the girls that I was real and that if they didn't believe in me, fine. At one point, I had to snap at a girl because she came right up to my face and was acting a bitch, wagging her finger at me, rolling her eyes, and calling me names, saying her mom told her that mermaids aren't real. I looked her dead in the eyes and said she was being very rude and she needed to leave me alone. I was not in the mood to deal with her after she was one of the girls who contributed to ripping apart my shell belt.

This whole time, I was trying to figure out how I'm possibly going to get out of the pool area without taking my tail off. Much to my dismay, there is no ramp from the pool area to the lobby, so my mermaid wagon isn't an option. My dad was my next thought as maybe he could carry me out, but my tail gets waterlogged and doesn't drain very easily, so along with 140 pounds of me, and a 20 pound tail, there's also like 10 pounds of water that gets stuck in the foot area of my tail. Way too much for him to carry. He threw out his back a few years ago and he's 65 years old so he can't even pick me up without my tail on. I ended up scooting myself across the deck to the shower area where my dad held up a towel to guard me from prying eyes. I quickly got changed and on my way out, I heard all the girls start screaming again, "SEE I TOLD YOU SHE WAS FAKE, SHE'S A LIAR MERMAIDS DON'T EXIST" blah blah blah. I felt like I was being laughed out of the room. I didn't even make it out of the hotel before I burst into tears. Even the employees at the front desk sympathized with me and said how horrible the kids staying at their hotel can be, because it's a very high end hotel and all the spoiled kids with rich parents stay there.

Anyways, just needed to get that off my chest. I feel like if I had just had an assistant, it would have gone much better. Perhaps the kids wouldn't have targeted me so much if I hadn't been alone. And maybe my assistant could have been strong enough to haul me out of the pool area with my tail on. I don't know. But I've posted an ad on craigslist looking for a volunteer assistant to come with me whenever I need to swim. Idk if anyone will take me up on the offer, but they will get paid if they assist me during paid gigs. We'll see.

[Tasha Mermaid]

Ugg boots are Australian (that's why they're big)
But we were stupid and apparently sold the rights to them to the US (go figure) If my Uggs aren't sheep skin I don't wear them :)

My rant
I HATE OUR PRIME MINISTER!!!! Miss Julia Gillard is going to make it law (that's right as in you are legal allowed to) That churches and religions have the right to freely discriminate against Same Sex couples and the LGBTI community! OMG!!!!!! AS IF THERE WASN'T ENOUGH HATE IN THIS WORLD ALREADY!!!!!

big ball of sad and angry right now


YES when i found out that she is giving churches full right to discriminate i was VERY pissed, ALOT of my best friends are LGBT not to mention my fiance's younger brother and my younger brother. They already see so much hate and i am over religious people telling them how dirty, unnatural and wrong they are, and now Gillard has given them protection to keep doing this, i find that disgusting. Besides how can it be "unnatural" when there are gays in the animal world.....i find that to be something that people refuse to comprehend.

[-Annwyn-]

YES when i found out that she is giving churches full right to discriminate i was VERY pissed, ALOT of my best friends are LGBT not to mention my fiance's younger brother and my younger brother. They already see so much hate and i am over religious people telling them how dirty, unnatural and wrong they are, and now Gillard has given them protection to keep doing this, i find that disgusting. Besides how can it be "unnatural" when there are gays in the animal world.....i find that to be something that people refuse to comprehend.


I understand why she would be hated but I think it's the wrong avenue to take. Sure, I dislike out PM's Judgements, but Abbot is the opposition, so it's a case of retard/ turd sandwich.
Personally, I see all this injustice occuring, and instead of directing hatred, I put even more positive energy into supporting LGBT and ally causes.

That said, given all this happening, I am grateful that I live in a country where all the main squabbling is about this, and the country is not being bombed into rubble. At the present, LGBT, women, elderly, youth, men, disabled, multi-racial are all tolerated on a social level as a whole. We just need some fine tuning :)

[ButterflyVision]

Anyways.
So as you may know, I was recently granted permission to use one of the pools at my local hotel to practice swimming in my mermaid tail. Well yesterday I was there and I was supposed to meet my friend there who was going to be my spotter/swim partner. I had told the general manager of the hotel that I would not swim if I didn't have an assistant with me. So anyways, I get to the hotel when the pool is empty. I get in the water and put my tail on and all that jazz. At this point I'm actually waiting for a journalist from the local newspaper to show up and interview me and take pictures for the paper. I figured I could swim while she was there even if my friend wasn't with me because she needed pictures and I'm the only one in the pool, so if I needed help, I would obviously have someone's attention at all times. Interview went great.

At this time there is actually a hockey team from Michigan or something in the lobby of the hotel. Around 20 kids and 50 adults were staying here.

So here I am with the pool to myself until 4, when suddenly a girl from the hockey team comes to check out the pool and she sees me splashing around on the stairs in the shallow end. Next thing I know, all 20 kids are swarming me, asking questions, etc. They're teenagers, so I don't try to fool them. I told them where I got my tail and all that jazz.

Fast forward to about a half hour later. The hockey team parents all come in with food and drinks and whatnot for some sort of poolside party thing they were going to keep busy with while the kids swam. This is where it gets confusing. The teenagers from earlier weren't in the pool area. Instead I'm being swarmed by ten year olds, who are at that stage where they experiment with trying to be popular, snobby, all that stupid jazz. [Note my assistant/friend still hadn't shown up, I've been at the pool for about an hour and a half now.]

Anyways, these kids were BRUTAL. They were all girls, again, around 10 or 11 years old. They don't believe in mermaids anymore. So instead of me entertaining the kids by being a mermaid, I spent the next two hours trying to get away from them. They were shouting at me, chanting "fake fake fake," calling me a liar, poking, prodding, and ripping at my tail, and at one point, five of these girls had grabbed my fluke up near the ankles and were trying to pull my tail off of me. If I hadn't been holding onto the railing, they would have dragged me into the deep end of the pool. I was still wearing the shell belt Raven had made for me as I hadn't gotten a chance to take it off after the photos hoot with the news journalist. The girls ripped ALL the shells off my belt and ran off with them, hiding them in the chaos of the party going on with the parents. I did my best to be persistent, to stay in character, telling the girls that I was real and that if they didn't believe in me, fine. At one point, I had to snap at a girl because she came right up to my face and was acting a bitch, wagging her finger at me, rolling her eyes, and calling me names, saying her mom told her that mermaids aren't real. I looked her dead in the eyes and said she was being very rude and she needed to leave me alone. I was not in the mood to deal with her after she was one of the girls who contributed to ripping apart my shell belt.

This whole time, I was trying to figure out how I'm possibly going to get out of the pool area without taking my tail off. Much to my dismay, there is no ramp from the pool area to the lobby, so my mermaid wagon isn't an option. My dad was my next thought as maybe he could carry me out, but my tail gets waterlogged and doesn't drain very easily, so along with 140 pounds of me, and a 20 pound tail, there's also like 10 pounds of water that gets stuck in the foot area of my tail. Way too much for him to carry. He threw out his back a few years ago and he's 65 years old so he can't even pick me up without my tail on. I ended up scooting myself across the deck to the shower area where my dad held up a towel to guard me from prying eyes. I quickly got changed and on my way out, I heard all the girls start screaming again, "SEE I TOLD YOU SHE WAS FAKE, SHE'S A LIAR MERMAIDS DON'T EXIST" blah blah blah. I felt like I was being laughed out of the room. I didn't even make it out of the hotel before I burst into tears. Even the employees at the front desk sympathized with me and said how horrible the kids staying at their hotel can be, because it's a very high end hotel and all the spoiled kids with rich parents stay there.

Anyways, just needed to get that off my chest. I feel like if I had just had an assistant, it would have gone much better. Perhaps the kids wouldn't have targeted me so much if I hadn't been alone. And maybe my assistant could have been strong enough to haul me out of the pool area with my tail on. I don't know. But I've posted an ad on craigslist looking for a volunteer assistant to come with me whenever I need to swim. Idk if anyone will take me up on the offer, but they will get paid if they assist me during paid gigs. We'll see.

Omg I'm so sorry to hear what happened. Some kids can be so mean. What about the parents? Werent they there? I know that I wouldn't have been very nice. I like children that are nice. Sure it's one thing to be respectful and state the opinion you don't believe in mers but to start being destructive. Oh no. I probably would hit one of them with my fluke and been like 'oops sorry. Reflex. You know just flipping my fins.' I can't really deal with rude children. I live in a 'spare the rod, spoil the child kind of society' to this day I don't like doing anything wrong or derespecting my mom because I still have the child-like fear of her wrath. What those girls did was wrong. Hopefully somewhere in their growth they will learn better. And I hope you get a good assistant too. :)

[Ayla of Duluth]

Omg I'm so sorry to hear what happened. Some kids can be so mean. What about the parents? Werent they there? I know that I wouldn't have been very nice. I like children that are nice. Sure it's one thing to be respectful and state the opinion you don't believe in mers but to start being destructive. Oh no. I probably would hit one of them with my fluke and been like 'oops sorry. Reflex. You know just flipping my fins.' I can't really deal with rude children. I live in a 'spare the rod, spoil the child kind of society' to this day I don't like doing anything wrong or derespecting my mom because I still have the child-like fear of her wrath. What those girls did was wrong. Hopefully somewhere in their growth they will learn better. And I hope you get a good assistant too. :)
The parents were there. It was an entire hockey team and every kid had at least one parent present, so there were around 50 total adults for 20ish kids. At one point I tried to get one adult's attention, and I told her that the kids were being rowdy and if she could tell the kids' parents to come talk to them, it'd be great, she just went back to the other parents and continued her conversation.
As for whacking the kids with my fluke, well, they did plenty of that themselves. They had this obsession with trying to lift my fluke out of the water and since its silicone, its slippery and would slip right out of their hands and hit them on the head or face. I honestly couldn't do anything to avert it if I tried, the darn thing weighs 20 pounds so I can't even lift it out of the water myself. But I guess after they had had enough of whacking themselves in the face with my fluke, they then started grabbing it and trying to yank it off me. I didn't want to hurt them or anything but I wanted to make it almost impossible for them to hold on to it so I would flop it around furiously so they couldn't get a grip on it.

While I was walking out of the pool area, I had a thought burning in my mind, I hope to death that every last one of those kids lays awake at night with the guilt of how badly they treated me. And maybe one day when they've had enough of their guilt ridden insomnia, they'll come back and apologize for what they did. It'll probably never happen, but a mer can hope.

[Ashe]

Wow. I am so sorry, Ayla! That's horrible :(

[Mermaid Summer]

Thank you, thank you oh so much for making me work valentine's night. First you don't believe I have a doctors appointment then second you put me on night shift KNOWING I am the only person on staff who has a long term partner. I had to give up my anniversary because you needed me so bad.
You sit there and wonder why you have such a high turn over rate, well lets see. The hour are crazy and the pay is horrible.

[Mermaid Summer]

Oh and if I want to spend 3,000 on a mermaid tail, it is my choice. One of my husband's friend's wife spends hundreds on tanning and clothes that she only wears once. Hey different strokes, different folks but laughing at me over what I choose is childish.

[Tasha Mermaid]

The parents were there. It was an entire hockey team and every kid had at least one parent present, so there were around 50 total adults for 20ish kids. At one point I tried to get one adult's attention, and I told her that the kids were being rowdy and if she could tell the kids' parents to come talk to them, it'd be great, she just went back to the other parents and continued her conversation.
As for whacking the kids with my fluke, well, they did plenty of that themselves. They had this obsession with trying to lift my fluke out of the water and since its silicone, its slippery and would slip right out of their hands and hit them on the head or face. I honestly couldn't do anything to avert it if I tried, the darn thing weighs 20 pounds so I can't even lift it out of the water myself. But I guess after they had had enough of whacking themselves in the face with my fluke, they then started grabbing it and trying to yank it off me. I didn't want to hurt them or anything but I wanted to make it almost impossible for them to hold on to it so I would flop it around furiously so they couldn't get a grip on it.

While I was walking out of the pool area, I had a thought burning in my mind, I hope to death that every last one of those kids lays awake at night with the guilt of how badly they treated me. And maybe one day when they've had enough of their guilt ridden insomnia, they'll come back and apologize for what they did. It'll probably never happen, but a mer can hope.

I am so so sorry that happened to you, how embarrassing, daunting and scary. Those kids are horrible human being that need a good slap across their faces (im aussie we dont deal well with assholes sorry about the language) this just infuriates me, i think you stayed very calm, i would not have. As for the parents, well i am disgusted in them, stupid rich idiots think they can say and do whatever they like grr *splashes tail furiously*
I hope you are ok, that was so horrible :'(

[Tasha Mermaid]

I understand why she would be hated but I think it's the wrong avenue to take. Sure, I dislike out PM's Judgements, but Abbot is the opposition, so it's a case of retard/ turd sandwich.
Personally, I see all this injustice occuring, and instead of directing hatred, I put even more positive energy into supporting LGBT and ally causes.

That said, given all this happening, I am grateful that I live in a country where all the main squabbling is about this, and the country is not being bombed into rubble. At the present, LGBT, women, elderly, youth, men, disabled, multi-racial are all tolerated on a social level as a whole. We just need some fine tuning :)

Oh i dont hate her, and i do the same i am always supporting the LGBT causes, but that doesnt mean i cant think what she has done is horrible.
I cant wait for the day that people see everyone as equal

[Tasha Mermaid]

Oh and if I want to spend 3,000 on a mermaid tail, it is my choice. One of my husband's friend's wife spends hundreds on tanning and clothes that she only wears once. Hey different strokes, different folks but laughing at me over what I choose is childish.


Oh i understand that one, i always have people tell me that what i choose to spend my money on is stupid (like my $200 on crystals, as i use them for everything with their energies) yet i know people who spend alot more on a pair of shoes that are worn once, and somehow their buy is seen as "acceptable" yet mine is "outrageous"

By the way your boss is just rude, that isn't fair, my fiance's work is the same with him, im sorry you have such a awful boss, you should be able to spend the day of love with the one you love :( hugs sweety

[Ayla of Duluth]

I am so so sorry that happened to you, how embarrassing, daunting and scary. Those kids are horrible human being that need a good slap across their faces (im aussie we dont deal well with assholes sorry about the language) this just infuriates me, i think you stayed very calm, i would not have. As for the parents, well i am disgusted in them, stupid rich idiots think they can say and do whatever they like grr *splashes tail furiously*
I hope you are ok, that was so horrible :'(
I was surprised I was able to keep my temper with the kids so well. When it comes to snotty little self entitled shits like them, I usually snap very quickly, but I was able to keep my cool right up until I basically yelled at the ballsy girl who was wagging her finger and being sarcastic at me with a MAJOR attitude problem. I'm glad my fluke weighed too much for me to pull it out of the water, otherwise she would have gotten a swift blow to the head. [Disclaimer: I don't condone beating children but I certainly DO condone knocking them off their pedestal when they get out of line, even if it takes a little whack every now and then. Spanking is healthy.]

[Mermaid Summer]

Oh i understand that one, i always have people tell me that what i choose to spend my money on is stupid (like my $200 on crystals, as i use them for everything with their energies) yet i know people who spend alot more on a pair of shoes that are worn once, and somehow their buy is seen as "acceptable" yet mine is "outrageous"

By the way your boss is just rude, that isn't fair, my fiance's work is the same with him, im sorry you have such a awful boss, you should be able to spend the day of love with the one you love :( hugs sweety

I wish we could get some crystals for the house. It would be nice. I know it is dumb but I can't wait to get my doctor's note and be like "ha! I wasn't lying"

[Tasha Mermaid]

I was surprised I was able to keep my temper with the kids so well. When it comes to snotty little self entitled shits like them, I usually snap very quickly, but I was able to keep my cool right up until I basically yelled at the ballsy girl who was wagging her finger and being sarcastic at me with a MAJOR attitude problem. I'm glad my fluke weighed too much for me to pull it out of the water, otherwise she would have gotten a swift blow to the head. [Disclaimer: I don't condone beating children but I certainly DO condone knocking them off their pedestal when they get out of line, even if it takes a little whack every now and then. Spanking is healthy.]

hahaha while reading what happened to you all i pictured was hitting them over the head with your fluke, even if it meant taking it off to get a better hold of it (it was quite comical what was going through my mind almost cartoonish) but knowing my extremely sarcastic nature (i can be an utter angel but get on my bad side and your nightmares are more friendly) i would most likley of battered my eyelashes tilted my head to the side, smiles and "overly nicely" said "well i guess were ALL cant be a beautiful mermaid, some of us are just PLAIN humans, oh well must suck to be so jealous, dont worry darling i am SURE you are beautiful in your own way"

Ok so i can be a bit of a bitch when pushed lol

[Tasha Mermaid]

I wish we could get some crystals for the house. It would be nice. I know it is dumb but I can't wait to get my doctor's note and be like "ha! I wasn't lying"

Oh you should, crystals have amazing energies, i use them for crystal healing and alot of other practises.....perhaps i can send you a few small ones :)
I say do it, that ought to teach them for being petty over you being sick

[Ayla of Duluth]

hahaha while reading what happened to you all i pictured was hitting them over the head with your fluke, even if it meant taking it off to get a better hold of it (it was quite comical what was going through my mind almost cartoonish) but knowing my extremely sarcastic nature (i can be an utter angel but get on my bad side and your nightmares are more friendly) i would most likley of battered my eyelashes tilted my head to the side, smiles and "overly nicely" said "well i guess were ALL cant be a beautiful mermaid, some of us are just PLAIN humans, oh well must suck to be so jealous, dont worry darling i am SURE you are beautiful in your own way"

Ok so i can be a bit of a bitch when pushed lol
She did that stereotypical popular girl thing where she puts her hands on her hips, cocks her head, makes that little click sound that girls do when they're about to say something idiotic, and the whole time she was telling me about the things her mom said, her head was moving from side to side to emphasize damn near every word she was saying, and she was rolling her eyes so much I thought her retinas were going to detach. I sat there in shock for a split second before I gave her the same position, mimicked her movements exactly, and I basically told her that her mother doesn't know everything and that she's really stupid for believing everything her mother told her. I had to catch myself twice, once when I almost called her a bitch, [I wanted to say "you're being a little bitch" and instead I said "You're being EXTREMELY rude"] and another time when I almost told her that Santa wasn't real. I kind of regret not telling her that, with the way she was acting, you'd think she doesn't believe in Santa anyways.

I really don't mind if kids don't believe I'm real. But one thing I wish the non believers would realize is that they could be near someone who does believe in mermaids, and it hurts them extremely when they hear that person continuously try to disprove me. There was a very shy girl at the pool that day, she was only about 4 or 5 years old. She saw me when she came in, [and I think she was even the girl who went and told everyone there was a mermaid in the pool] and she sat on the shallow end stairs with me. She never talked much, but I asked her her name and I told her I was called Ayla. She said she believes in mermaids and she knows I'm real. Then she got out of the pool. She never came back, but she was always around on the deck, and I would sneak around the edge of the water and whenever she looked my way, I'd squirt water at her from my mouth. It made her laugh and her mom thanked me for paying attention to her because she was so shy.

The whole time these kids were yelling at me, I was watching for the little girl, and when she came close, I'd have to swim away to draw these mean kids away from her so she wouldn't hear them saying I'm fake. I had to stay away from her to protect her tiny little feelings. :( feltbadman.jpg.

[Tasha Mermaid]

She did that stereotypical popular girl thing where she puts her hands on her hips, cocks her head, makes that little click sound that girls do when they're about to say something idiotic, and the whole time she was telling me about the things her mom said, her head was moving from side to side to emphasize damn near every word she was saying, and she was rolling her eyes so much I thought her retinas were going to detach. I sat there in shock for a split second before I gave her the same position, mimicked her movements exactly, and I basically told her that her mother doesn't know everything and that she's really stupid for believing everything her mother told her. I had to catch myself twice, once when I almost called her a bitch, [I wanted to say "you're being a little bitch" and instead I said "You're being EXTREMELY rude"] and another time when I almost told her that Santa wasn't real. I kind of regret not telling her that, with the way she was acting, you'd think she doesn't believe in Santa anyways.

I really don't mind if kids don't believe I'm real. But one thing I wish the non believers would realize is that they could be near someone who does believe in mermaids, and it hurts them extremely when they hear that person continuously try to disprove me. There was a very shy girl at the pool that day, she was only about 4 or 5 years old. She saw me when she came in, [and I think she was even the girl who went and told everyone there was a mermaid in the pool] and she sat on the shallow end stairs with me. She never talked much, but I asked her her name and I told her I was called Ayla. She said she believes in mermaids and she knows I'm real. Then she got out of the pool. She never came back, but she was always around on the deck, and I would sneak around the edge of the water and whenever she looked my way, I'd squirt water at her from my mouth. It made her laugh and her mom thanked me for paying attention to her because she was so shy.

The whole time these kids were yelling at me, I was watching for the little girl, and when she came close, I'd have to swim away to draw these mean kids away from her so she wouldn't hear them saying I'm fake. I had to stay away from her to protect her tiny little feelings. :( feltbadman.jpg.


WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE IS NO SANTA :-O lol, sorry had to xD

You know that is EXACTLY why i dont like people saying things like that, they ruin the magic for those who do believe, that poor little girl would of been so hurt that they would say that and would of cried (to which i think this bitch would of laughed) i really do think it comes down to a jealousy thing, think about it....she most probably gets the full attention and here you are, a mermaid none the less.

[spottedcatfish]

Ayla, Your story breaks my heart. One question I have is why weren't the parents doing anything to stop these bitchy girls from harassing you. This is harassment an punishable by law here in the U.S. You could sue the hotel for allowing such bad behavior towards one of their guests (even if you are not staying there, you are considered a guest because of the use of their pool). But it is expensive to file a claim and go through that process. The hotel stall should have helped you more though and ordered those children out of the pool. Sorry that this happened. :(

[Winged Mermaid]

The parents were there. It was an entire hockey team and every kid had at least one parent present, so there were around 50 total adults for 20ish kids. At one point I tried to get one adult's attention, and I told her that the kids were being rowdy and if she could tell the kids' parents to come talk to them, it'd be great, she just went back to the other parents and continued her conversation.


That whole ordeal is just AWFUL!! I'm so sorry Ayla! :( I agree that that is harassment and destruction of personal property, and they could be held accountable under the law for that. Even if they are minors, their parents could be held responsible. Absolutely unacceptable! I would not stand for that. I give you big props for keeping your cool like that. I would have taken off the tail and marched straight up to the parents and demanded compensation for my damaged property (the belt) and gotten security if they refused. Also remind them that what their kids were doing were physical harassment and that legal action could be taken. When people disrespect me like that I don't keep my cool in terms of letting it go and hoping they'll stop. I do think that in a situation you need to be calm but stern with your voice. Being sweet-voiced with people like that will not get you anywhere. Physical harassment and destruction of property crosses a line- you should realize that, and that it is not okay and that you should not just try to deal or shrug it off.

If you don't have someone with you, or even if you do, I think it would be a good idea to have something that could help you if this kind of situation arises again. The first thing that comes to mind is a whistle. Life guards have them, I think you should too. More times than not, you are not capable of getting out of the pool to handle situations. Something like that would get the kids attention and let them know you are serious. If they don't, then one long loud blow could get the attention of everyone in the room, which means the parents. Repeated long blows could get the attention of someone at the front desk, meaning potentially security.

[ButterflyVision]

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I really don't mind if kids don't believe I'm real. But one thing I wish the non believers would realize is that they could be near someone who does believe in mermaids, and it hurts them extremely when they hear that person continuously try to disprove me. There was a very shy girl at the pool that day, she was only about 4 or 5 years old. She saw me when she came in, [and I think she was even the girl who went and told everyone there was a mermaid in the pool] and she sat on the shallow end stairs with me. She never talked much, but I asked her her name and I told her I was called Ayla. She said she believes in mermaids and she knows I'm real. Then she got out of the pool. She never came back, but she was always around on the deck, and I would sneak around the edge of the water and whenever she looked my way, I'd squirt water at her from my mouth. It made her laugh and her mom thanked me for paying attention to her because she was so shy.

The whole time these kids were yelling at me, I was watching for the little girl, and when she came close, I'd have to swim away to draw these mean kids away from her so she wouldn't hear them saying I'm fake. I had to stay away from her to protect her tiny little feelings. :( feltbadman.jpg. Awe. At least the little girl was one good thing and you got to make her happy. It just goes to show that kids when young don't understand difference, or race, or status. If a Person is nice, it's immediate friendship. Hate is a taught feeling. It isn't until a child is introduced to learned things of the grown up world when they question what they believe and act a certain way because they think it's ok or no one has told them otherwise. And the little girl who kept professing what her mother told her, one day she will realiz her mother is not always right. Anyway kudos to the little girl. Childlike faith is so beautiful.

[Ayla of Duluth]

I love working with the Radisson so I'm not going to take any legal action on them. After all, they were the ones who granted me permission to swim because I assured them they would be free of any liability. If I had any muse whatsoever, I'd probably take legal action against the parents, if I had known who they were.
I just chalked it up to a particularly nasty group of kids that day. Also it was my first time working with the kids so for me the biggest issue was getting out of my tail without anyone seeing. Once I figure that out, everything should be easy going. I'll most likely only wear the fishnet belt for photo shoots now, I have one or two other belts I can try out as well.

[Elle]

I'm sunburnt! on my knees and my forehead.....it sucks!

that is all

[Mermaid Summer]

Oh you should, crystals have amazing energies, i use them for crystal healing and alot of other practises.....perhaps i can send you a few small ones :)
I say do it, that ought to teach them for being petty over you being sick

Have any recommendations for good luck and well being, I want to get a couple to put in the house. My husband and I want to put a couple around the house.

[AniaR]

Can I just whine for a minute that I still can't find work in my field? I'm having a realllllly stressful day and I just wanna cry. I know it's got nothing to do with me or my skills, there is literally no jobs. I've been venting with friends in the same position and we all just feel like we have no choice but to move. I love where I live. I have myself established as a mermaid, all my friends and family are here, my specialist is here for my illness too. I feel like everything else in my life is great but I just can't find work. Anything I can find is min wage, it wont pay my bills, and I'd have to give up mermaid stuff. I make more money doing mermaid stuff on a weekend than I do in a week of min wage work. It's just not enough when it comes to student loan and some of my bills. Been doing everything I can to expand my mermaid stuff, which is slowly going well. It's just, if I wanted to be a full time mermaid I would of saved a bit of money first you know? Just tired. I put so much into my education and experiences, and I feel like It's no different than if I just graduated high school and did nothing else.

*sigh* I try to be a happy bubbily person, I think today just wore me a little thin is all. Just needed to vent.

[New York Mermaid]

Oh no Raina, I hope it get better for you, i know finding work is hard enough especially through this rescession, being sick never helps at all :(

[seagirls626]

Ugg boots are Australian (that's why they're big)
But we were stupid and apparently sold the rights to them to the US (go figure) If my Uggs aren't sheep skin I don't wear them :)

My rant
I HATE OUR PRIME MINISTER!!!! Miss Julia Gillard is going to make it law (that's right as in you are legal allowed to) That churches and religions have the right to freely discriminate against Same Sex couples and the LGBTI community! OMG!!!!!! AS IF THERE WASN'T ENOUGH HATE IN THIS WORLD ALREADY!!!!!

big ball of sad and angry right now

I find it kind of strange that these ministers want to discriminate same sex marriage when the Bible says "Judge not less ye be judged" or something like that.

[AniaR]

[quote]I find it kind of strange that these ministers want to discriminate same sex marriage when the Bible says "Judge not less ye be judged" or something like that.[quote]

Our prime minister just lifted every law and rule that protects all bodies of water in Canada, so he could continue with the pipeline and not be arrested for polluting them! Hence the idlenomore movement.

[seagirls626]

ARGH!!!! That's just wrong! Why should one person with one opinion have the power to do that?! Well, they'll learn one day when his water tastes like sewage.

[AniaR]

I know right? I thought we had a democracy in Canada, apparently we have a dictatorship.

[Alveric]

It's the parliamentary system. It has its strengths: more quick to respond to the will of the majority, less gridlock (which we're notorious for).

Unfortunately, so long as the PM can command a majority, he/she can do what he/she damn well pleases.

[Elle]

I find it kind of strange that these ministers want to discriminate same sex marriage when the Bible says "Judge not less ye be judged" or something like that.

Something like that "treat unto others as you would have them treat unto you" (18 years of Irish Catholic-ness there for you). But they seem to get special allowances for people they don't like and when someone sets a country back by saying "yes we'll keep your really old rules that say gays are terrible people" I think it's bull shit

And for whoever thinks i'm a bit of a bitch for 'having a go at religion'
I wasn't having a go at religion, be as religious as you want!!!! I have an issue with a self proclaimed atheist, who isn't married (and as a result) living in sin with her boyfriend (or rather de-facto partner), can think she has any right to say ANYTHING about how marriage is a sacred religious whatever (she doesn't use the term whatever but she does use sacred and religious) between a man and a women.


GGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

I THINK I'LL MOVE TO CANADA!

[spottedcatfish]

Can I just whine for a minute that I still can't find work in my field? I'm having a realllllly stressful day and I just wanna cry. I know it's got nothing to do with me or my skills, there is literally no jobs. I've been venting with friends in the same position and we all just feel like we have no choice but to move. I love where I live. I have myself established as a mermaid, all my friends and family are here, my specialist is here for my illness too. I feel like everything else in my life is great but I just can't find work. Anything I can find is min wage, it wont pay my bills, and I'd have to give up mermaid stuff. I make more money doing mermaid stuff on a weekend than I do in a week of min wage work. It's just not enough when it comes to student loan and some of my bills. Been doing everything I can to expand my mermaid stuff, which is slowly going well. It's just, if I wanted to be a full time mermaid I would of saved a bit of money first you know? Just tired. I put so much into my education and experiences, and I feel like It's no different than if I just graduated high school and did nothing else.

*sigh* I try to be a happy bubbily person, I think today just wore me a little thin is all. Just needed to vent.

You hit the nail on the head, with my fears of graduating either at the end of this year, or by next Spring 2014. They say that the U.S Economy will get better by 2014, but looking at where it is now, with the Fiscal Cliff and other economic/political issues, we may become a republic of China before the year is over! Yeah I'm really scared to graduate. The employment rate is steadily increasing but not enough. However I will do my best to gain employment, even if I have to move to another country, for a better life. Because where this nation is headed, is down a very steep cliff, if they don't get their act together. :( I'm guessing employment may be a bit better next year, but who knows. Anything could happen.

[SeaGlass Siren]

lol thankyou ayla ;p you beat me to it.

[SeaGlass Siren]

[quote]I find it kind of strange that these ministers want to discriminate same sex marriage when the Bible says "Judge not less ye be judged" or something like that.[quote]

Our prime minister just lifted every law and rule that protects all bodies of water in Canada, so he could continue with the pipeline and not be arrested for polluting them! Hence the idlenomore movement.

on saturday he showed up to a vietnamese festival for chinese new year. i'm not joking either. he was trying to gain favour with us. :\

[Mermaid Summer]

Okay I am sorry ,I hate it that you get to go to college. I hate hate hate it, I want to go. I want to so go so bad but because I have bills and I live on my own. I can't! It not fair that you first got offered the manager BECAUSE YOU KISSED ASS.

My sales are better, I know more about the product yet I didn't get it because I requested that I get more training.


PANGAEA broke into Laurasia and Gondwana.

[Mermaid Cascada]

One more thing... I don't know what to do... My sister is bullying me. I was running with a sharpened pencil (I know... I know lol) and my sister decided to trip meh -.-. Let's just say the pencil ended up less than an inch from my face and I'm a very lucky girl lol. She also beats me up everyday... there my rant is over.

[SeaGlass Siren]

Did you talk to mother dearest, cascada?

[SeaGlass Siren]

Yes I pledge allegiance to the drama bulldozer.

[Mermaid Cascada]

Andrea: Yes, she said don't run with pencils and don't aggravate you're sister....

[SeaGlass Siren]

I smack my head at her.. How does she allow that behavior?

[Mermaid Cascada]

Let's just say that my mom deals with my sister so much shes sick of her lol

[SeaGlass Siren]

Lol...


Anyway my turn to bitch:

My bride to be's mother is stressing her out and constantly guilt tripping her. I have no idea how to help ESP since I'm maid of honour, and ESP since it not my Place to be butting into a family's affairs. And honestly it's stressing me out too :(

[Winged Mermaid]

Just to clarify: This topic is for bitching out frustrations of every day life. If you want to bitch about mermaid drama, take it to the Soapbubble Opera thread.

B!tch Out thread (http://mernetwork.com/index/showthread.php?1913): frustrations of every day life
Soapbubble Opera (http://mernetwork.com/index/showthread.php?1679-%28%28-The-Soapbubble-Opera-Drama-Bubble-%29%29) thread: venting about mermaid/community drama and frustrations. (I even stickied it for this purpose last year.)
Drama thread (http://mernetwork.com/index/showthread.php?1513-The-Drama-Thread-%28WARNING-DRAMA-AHEAD%29): Where I move dramatic posts when a topic gets off topic with needless drama

Hope that clears up any confusion :) On that note, this recent stuff is going to the Soap Opera thread. *cue bulldozer* :bulldozer:

[Mermaid Cascada]

lol I love the bulldozer

[AniaR]

One of these days Iona's gonna use that truck on me. It's going to come right through the screen. "Bad Raina! Bad!" lol :) thanks for the clarification.

[SeaGlass Siren]

I doth pledge alliegence to Sir Bulldozer the First of the house of Drama, duke of mernetwork, earl of grey tea, and machinery of heavy duty.

[Ashe]

I enjoy this bulldozer. It's my new best friend.
^ ok, that was a random inside joke so if none of you found that funny, no worries most of you didn't :P

[Morticia Mermaid]

Just to clarify: This topic is for bitching out frustrations of every day life. If you want to bitch about mermaid drama, take it to the Soapbubble Opera thread.

B!tch Out thread (http://mernetwork.com/index/showthread.php?1913): frustrations of every day life
Soapbubble Opera (http://mernetwork.com/index/showthread.php?1679-%28%28-The-Soapbubble-Opera-Drama-Bubble-%29%29) thread: venting about mermaid/community drama and frustrations. (I even stickied it for this purpose last year.)
Drama thread (http://mernetwork.com/index/showthread.php?1513-The-Drama-Thread-%28WARNING-DRAMA-AHEAD%29): Where I move dramatic posts when a topic gets off topic with needless drama

Hope that clears up any confusion :) On that note, this recent stuff is going to the Soap Opera thread. *cue bulldozer* :bulldozer:

Thanks for clarifying Iona

[Dacora]

I went and looked at my brothers betta today, he has mild fin rot, under fed and something is up with the slime coat. I am livid right now, on the verge of tears. I am the only one who changes the fishes water or takes care of it. I don't have the time to take care of this fish on top of my animals,school,trying to find work and what little of a social life I have. I confronted my brother about it and I got yelled at by my mom. It made me so mad, she had the never to blame me because I didn't buy him a light after the other one broke. You cant force me to take care of YOUR responsibility!!
Now if I forget to clean the kitty litter or I am late to feed the dogs she yells at me, but if I get just a little bit upset about the lack of care my brother gives his fish my head gets ripped off.

So now I get to use what little time I have now on nursing the poor guy back to health. After that I am going to find him a new home. I cant deal with the thought that the poor thing is suffering under the same roof that I am under.
Just, UGHGHHHAFDFAD!!!!

[Ashe]

Oh, my gosh that is horrifying!!! I can't even... just :( But I know how you feel, hun. Last summer a friend of mine was talking to me about her betta and how she didn't want to take care of it anymore, so I was kinda shocked by that, so I said that I would gladly take it! (yay, Kalani to the rescue!) When I got to her house, she had the betta in a suitable size glass tank... but it smelt. Like crazy bad! I didn't say anything but took the little guy and a couple tank decor and headed off. But when I looked closer, I almost wanted to cry, really! I was on the verge of tears! The poor little boy had popeye, finrot, swimbladder, you name it!!! I quickly put him in a new tank under a lamp, and it looked like he had some sort of disorder: the whole left side of his face is all huge and bloated and pushed up, and his eye is insanely small. I washed out the tank decor in my sink and there was just green algae peeling off of it and it was just plain gross :( Anyways, the little fish, who I named Oliver, has this weird issue where he always floats up to the top of his bowl and just stays perfectly still, like he's dead and it's kinda creepy, but no worries cause once you lightly tap on the glass he's all up and moving around :) I love my little Oliver even though he isn't the prettiest fish to most people, he's perfect to me :) And I reversed his finrot, popeye, and even the swimbladder, (which many fish don't survive so that was a win) and now he's happy, somewhat healthy, and very much alive :)

[Elle]

My Monster-in-Law!!!! She has never had anything nice to say about me, (and she's said some really rude comments about me [to my face], that I'm not going to share cos it's really not user friendly)

Any way, we (my fiance and I) are planning our wedding for the end of the year and from the start she's had issues cos she wouldn't sit anywhere near her ex-husband (fair enuff), but then it turned into she couldn't be anywhere near him for the entire night, then she wouldn't sit with her mother or sister, then any of my fiance's brothers, or people she didn't know and then certain people wouldn't be allowed to make speeches because of her ruling :doh:

But now she's running away to the other side of the country. And she has stolen money of my brother-in-law for her plane ticket and keeps calling us cos apparently the money she took wasn't enough for her ticket.
I'm so over her shit!

[Dacora]

My Monster-in-Law!!!! She has never had anything nice to say about me, (and she's said some really rude comments about me [to my face], that I'm not going to share cos it's really not user friendly)

Any way, we (my fiance and I) are planning our wedding for the end of the year and from the start she's had issues cos she wouldn't sit anywhere near her ex-husband (fair enuff), but then it turned into she couldn't be anywhere near him for the entire night, then she wouldn't sit with her mother or sister, then any of my fiance's brothers, or people she didn't know and then certain people wouldn't be allowed to make speeches because of her ruling :doh:

But now she's running away to the other side of the country. And she has stolen money of my brother-in-law for her plane ticket and keeps calling us cos apparently the money she took wasn't enough for her ticket.
I'm so over her shit!

Dude.... What... The.... Fudge.
I know I'm going to have issues at my and my bf's wedding with his parents since they are divorced and have some drama,but jeez that is nuts. I'm sorry you have to deal with that. O.o

Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2

[Ayla of Duluth]

What is up with crazy mother in laws? And it really is only the mother in laws, I never hear about father in laws doing crazy stunts like that.

[New York Mermaid]

okay insomnia day 4.. this is enough now. I havent slept properly in 4 days if i take my anti anxiety pills it'll mess with my appetite. I dont win *hides in corner*

@Ayla my dad was not happy about my engagement (to my husband') he tried to bribe with me with.. oh so many things i needed at that time (being a poor college student and all) but after my husand showed my father he was going to stick by me through thick and thin (it took me collapsing from a seizure at school where my husband risked his job for leaving cause of emergency to sho my dad).. my dad let it go and accepted my husband into the family.. 8 going on 9 years in sept..

[AnnaAbyss]

@Kalani
I know this is going to sound pretty crazy but if you have a fish that's suffering from swim bladder, you can fix it by feeding them mushed peas. xD We did that with my sister's goldfish and he was fine again! ^.^ I don't know if you already knew that though.
@Dacora
That's so sad! I hope little fishy gets better soon <3 It's really sad having sick animals, no matter what size they are. Hopefully this will help. I searched up 'betta fish fin rot'. http://www.bettatalk.com/betta_diseases.htm

[seagirls626]

Ok, so right now I'm pissed with my sister. I was making seanut butter cups (like my sea slang?) when my 9 year old sister asked to help. I said she could so she got right to work. The problem was, she kept on putting in too much chocolate into the muffin tins. I asked her nicely to stop, so she "stopped". A couple minutes later, I realized that she was STILL putting in too much chocolate so I showed her how to do it. She yelled at me and ended up taking a big spoon full of chocolate into the bathroom to eat. When she came back, I asked her where the chocolate was. She didn't say anything, so I asked her if she ate it. She yelled at me again, and I told her that she couldn't make them anymore because she wouldn't listen and she was eating all the chocolate. This made her really mad for some reason. She yelled at me some more, called me a terrible big sister, and then threatened to kill me with a hundred knives. She then tried to take one of the knives I was using on the table, and she almost stabbed me. I yelled at her and told her that this was unacceptable. She said "Your not my mom dumb ass!". By this time, my mom had come out of her room to see what was going on. I told her, and she ended up comforting MY SISTER. Not the one who almost got stabbed in the heart, the almost killer! WTF?!
I'm just REALLY pissed right now! My sister has always been violent and threatened to kill me, (she even almost threw a chair at me once) but this was just going too far. I mean, she almost STABBED me for crying out loud! All just because I wouldn't let her make seanut butter cups. SEANUT BUTTER CUPS. I ALMOST GOT KILLED OVER SEANUT BUTTER CUPS. What was REALLY scary was that afterwards, she threatened to stab me in my sleep because I wouldn't let her have a seanut butter cup because they weren't ready! UUUUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!!!!
I have come down to the conclusion that my sister needs anger management class.

[ButterflyVision]

That is horrible. My mom would never go for that. She is young. First she shouldn't be cursing or threatening you. Where did she even learn that from? Have you told your mother what she's done? Mothers can get through to children easier because children see them as the adult to listen to. My mom spanked me so I mostly tried to do nice things. ( everyone has different parenting methods so I'm not saying you should take this route) unfortunately kids learn to hide things and look innocent when parents come around. I suggest trying to talk to your sister. Yeah she is young but sometimes they understand and actually care. But If this continues you need to tell your parents. Young ones are the future. How they are raised effects how they think of what's right and wrong. Either you or parents can change how she thinks. (even if some kids are stubborn)

[MerEmma]

Your sister probably just felt a rush of hormones...I hate the word hormones, lol, but I've felt really, really violent before and even done things like that before at her age. I see your side totally though, too.

[SeaGlass Siren]

All of you... Need big Internet hugs. :hugs:

[Taniira]

thenicestplaceontheinter.net (http://thenicestplaceontheinter.net)

[MerEmma]

I'm really irritated that I can't figure out the facebook password so I can deactivate it again after accidentally reactivating it. >_>

[Winged Mermaid]

If my account has been suspended can an admin please contact me through email or facebook and inform me as to why. Or if it's just the site messing up, can someone let me know?

Glad we got that sorted! That was totally my bad. This is why I let Malinghi handle the technical aspects of this stuff- I end up crossing wires then someone has to tell me that I broke something, haha. In the future if something happens if you could post in the "Help and Support" thread. Posting there will catch our attention better as well (this post could have gotten buried here). Also if PMs don't work for any reason, remember we have a contact us page at the bottom of the page, and the mernetwork@gmail.com email :)

[Morticia Mermaid]

Glad we got that sorted! That was totally my bad. This is why I let Malinghi handle the technical aspects of this stuff- I end up crossing wires then someone has to tell me that I broke something, haha. In the future if something happens if you could post in the "Help and Support" thread. Posting there will catch our attention better as well (this post could have gotten buried here). Also if PMs don't work for any reason, remember we have a contact us page at the bottom of the page, and the mernetwork@gmail.com email :)

Thanks Iona. Was wondering what I did and if I did something :headdesk: I deleted my rant since the problem was fixed :)

[Elle]

I just fell down 10 steps, I slipped down them cos it was wet. Now I have a big bruise on my butt, another on my back and down my arm (where I tried to grab the railing)

[Azurin Luna]

Ouch i know how that is, I once fell from the top of the stairs and hit every step with my butt on my way down. I couldn't sit for a day because of my blue butt :P

why does our stupid heating system go in error every time why try to take a shower? It's freezing outside and we like to get warm :(

[Ashe]

thenicestplaceontheinter.net (http://thenicestplaceontheinter.net)
That was...awesome. :group hug: And I did do the mushed peas trick for the little fishie, and it worked super well :)

[Dacora]

Today my "mother" told me that I would soon find my self living elsewhere because I used a plastic bag to transport a dying fish so my dad could kill it. A fish that SHE and her golden child where supposed to take care of instead they let it die. She has been sich a bi*** to me these past few years. Not long ago I came home from my boyfriends house and she told me " I wish you would go back and stay there" and I cant count how many times I have heard her say that if she could she would go back in time and not have conceived me. Honestly at this point I don't care if she kicks me out, the only thing that is keeping me here are my animals and no money to get a place to live. All she wants is a bigger room for her perfect little boy. The child she actually wanted. I cant take staying here anymore, my 18 years here are up and I'm done with it all....

[Ayla of Duluth]

Yesterday I had my first gig at a casino resort. The arrangement was for me to get there, change in the changing room, and have the client take my stuff up to their room to keep it safe until the gig was over. Well they didn't know the jacket hanging next to my purse was mine. just before I'm ready to get out of the pool, one of the parents who was chaperoning the party went in there and saw my jacket. [again, not knowing it was mine.] By the time I got in the changing room, it was gone. Someone had stolen it. It had my iphone with a ton of private info on it, it had my pay for the gig, and a bunch of my business cards. The thief had about a 5 minute window to grab my jacket and run. I'm most upset about my chapstick. both my chapsticks were in my jacket pocket because one was almost finished and the second one was brand new.

so we go to the front desk who basically says that unless someone turns it in, there's nothing they can do. we go to the security guard because he can radio all of the other guards to spread the word. He says that even if they did see someone walking around with my jacket, they can't do anything because they don't have proof that it's mine. When I told him my business cards with my name and number were in the jacket pocket, he said they aren't legally allowed to search anyone. So if I saw the thief wearing my jacket, there would be absolutely nothing I could do about it. They could walk right up to me, shake my hand and introduce themselves while wearing it and I wouldn't be able to do a damn thing about it.

what kind of a security system is that?

So now I have no phone, which means I'm most likely missing calls from potential clients. I posted a note on all my websites saying that my phone was stolen and to contact me via email, and now all I can do is hope that they see the notes.

[Mermaid Momo]

Is it a smartphone? If it was you may be able to track it. I don't know exactly how you do it but I think you use your phone number or something. That's also the reason why I lock my phone so if its ever stolen, the thief won't be able to get into it that easily and whenever anyone gets into the Internet or any aps my phone transmits its location.
I really hope someone returns your phone and business cards soon with little or no damage done.

[Ayla of Duluth]

Is it a smartphone? If it was you may be able to track it. I don't know exactly how you do it but I think you use your phone number or something. That's also the reason why I lock my phone so if its ever stolen, the thief won't be able to get into it that easily and whenever anyone gets into the Internet or any aps my phone transmits its location.
I really hope someone returns your phone and business cards soon with little or no damage done.

I have the app called "find my iphone" installed on it. it lets me remotely lock down the phone and erase all the data the second they try to plug it into their computer, so it basically becomes a useless paperweight. it also had a password lock on the phone.

[Ashe]

Today my "mother" told me that I would soon find my self living elsewhere because I used a plastic bag to transport a dying fish so my dad could kill it. A fish that SHE and her golden child where supposed to take care of instead they let it die. She has been sich a bi*** to me these past few years. Not long ago I came home from my boyfriends house and she told me " I wish you would go back and stay there" and I cant count how many times I have heard her say that if she could she would go back in time and not have conceived me. Honestly at this point I don't care if she kicks me out, the only thing that is keeping me here are my animals and no money to get a place to live. All she wants is a bigger room for her perfect little boy. The child she actually wanted. I cant take staying here anymore, my 18 years here are up and I'm done with it all....
Oh gosh, I am so sorry! Genuinely sorry, Dacora! I really don't know what to say besides that I really feel for you, and wish you the best of luck for whatever happens next. Just keep on doing what makes you happy and let no one stop you! You'll get through this, I'm sure :) <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 :hug:

[Thalassa]

I'm sorry, Dacora! I wish I could help you in some way, but know you have my sympathy and I'm sending all good wishes your way.

[Dacora]

Thank you guys for the nice words and good wishes, it does mean a lot. Ill be graduating this year and I will get a job and be out. If everything works out according to plan my boyfriend may move in with me.

[Rain]

Thank you guys for the nice words and good wishes, it does mean a lot. Ill be graduating this year and I will get a job and be out. If everything works out according to plan my boyfriend may move in with me.

;D That's good to hear. If you need a job, maybe there is a career center near the area you live at? I have one near me and they are helping me find a job right now. I'm with this program called the 'Out of Youth Program' and you get 120 hours to work at any place you want (as long as the company you want to work at agrees with it) and you work 120 hours for free for them (but the out of youth program pays you, so you get money either way) and by the time the 120 hours are up, they should hire you after the 120 hours are up if they have open positions and they like the way you work. I was working at marshalls first but, they didn't have any open positions, so I stopped at 50 hours, and I'm going to move the rest of my 70 hours to an indoor pool (since it's winter) if they have open positions ;D. And I know what you mean, it can be very rude and annoying if your mother keeps telling you to leave the house. My mom has tried to kick me out 3 times already. x.x

[Sea Pearl]

Our neighbor's dog are kept outside in the back yard most of the time and they just wont stop barking 24/7. Don't get me wrong...I love dogs, but it sometimes fees like a little too much.

Sorry just had to rant out there.

[Usagi]

Ugh, dogs. My boyfriend's dogs ate my goddamn boot (bearpaws). They were the only black ones I had and I wore them with everything. My boyfriend keeps offering to buy me new ones any time it come up (this happened Saturday), but I just keep telling him it's too expensive and that it's my fault for leaving them there overnight. Sometimes I wish I was more aggressive. -_- it really pisses me off whenever I think about it!

[Winged Mermaid]

Remember guys, if you want to vent about mermaid drama, it goes in this other thread (http://mernetwork.com/index/showthread.php?1679), not this one.

[Mermaid Pickles]

I'm having a rant moment before I up and go to work here. I REAAAALLLLY hate it when I go to work (I work at a daycare), and a parent comes up and asks if I'm allowed to be in a different classroom than the school age kids. I mean sure, if my hair's down I look younger, but I'm nineteen, for heaven's sake! GEEZ people. ANyway, there's my rant. Rwawrgh.

[EnidDarkWater]

I always LOVE being blamed for crap i didn't do. No surprise to any one my other half has a temper and today it exploded over checks he couldn't find. He apparently had them in the back of his jeans and the beginning of the month and never got around to depositing them and since i do laundry obviously it's my fault they are missing.never mind that i dig through every single pocket on his pants cause i know he's always got crap in them and always put it all in the same place but never saw any checks.our the fact that those jeans have been through the wash how many times now this month and he just now thought of it. Ever have those moments where you hate the person you love

[AniaR]

Ugh, my bf is constantly after me for scraping my teeth on my fork. I don't do it on purpose, and I've tried to not do it but what he doesn't understand is that I have way too many crooked teeth in a very small mouth. It's pretty much impossible. I have enough stupid food related stuff to worry about in a day with all my allergies, don't start haggling me cuz my teeth OCCASIONALLY scrape. Go eat by yourself :p I didn't even KNOW this was even an issue people have until I met him. I just always ate and never paid any attention. it's like, really, I just walked in the door and you're going to fight with me about how I eat my food? Here's a book in your face. lol

[Mermaid Melusinah]

LIKING EVERYTHING AND SHARING NOTHING IS NON-PRODUCTIVE!!!! *epic flails* \\\\\(>_<)/////
>:O It takes 2 seconds to hit that like button people! you know how long it takes to hit (and preform) the share action?! literally 3. ONE second more! building a fan base is HARD. We can only do so much! We literally CANT do it without fan help and support....

/end rant....

in all seriousness... this just irks me all the dang time....

*breathes deeply and goes back to the depths*

[Dacora]

Ugh, my bf is constantly after me for scraping my teeth on my fork. I don't do it on purpose, and I've tried to not do it but what he doesn't understand is that I have way too many crooked teeth in a very small mouth. It's pretty much impossible. I have enough stupid food related stuff to worry about in a day with all my allergies, don't start haggling me cuz my teeth OCCASIONALLY scrape. Go eat by yourself :p I didn't even KNOW this was even an issue people have until I met him. I just always ate and never paid any attention. it's like, really, I just walked in the door and you're going to fight with me about how I eat my food? Here's a book in your face. lol

My bf freaks out beacuse he can hear me chew. I can't even hear me chew but he does. I have had to go to another room to eat a snack so he don't freak out. It's very funny at times.


My dog got out today and got hit by a car. :/ The person didn't even stop to let our neighbor know they hit a dog infront of their house. He had been dead for an hour or two when my mom called to tell us he was on the side of the road.... I'm also worried about my older dog. I kept the two together for warmth,so they don't get lonely and they where mom and son. Now she has to be alone at night. I'll be playing with her more so she won't get lonely but still....

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[Mermaid Pickles]

O.o One of my coworkers was mad today because I put my hair in a ponytail. So weird. But anyway, I just gave her a very Vulcan look and passed, saying "odd that you'd be mad about that." And she just shrugged, and we went our separate ways.

On another note: Your poor dog. T^T Now I'm sad.

[Usagi]

LIKING EVERYTHING AND SHARING NOTHING IS NON-PRODUCTIVE!!!! *epic flails* \\\\\(>_<)/////
>:O It takes 2 seconds to hit that like button people! you know how long it takes to hit (and preform) the share action?! literally 3. ONE second more! building a fan base is HARD. We can only do so much! We literally CANT do it without fan help and support....

/end rant....

in all seriousness... this just irks me all the dang time....

*breathes deeply and goes back to the depths*

If you wanna build a fanbase, come OUT of the depths! Haha but I know what you mean..went on a page-liking spree yesterday to be supportive of other mers, and thought, "Maybe they'll be supportive of me and like my page!" but no. lol but that's okay, patience is key to everything, right? (:

[Mermaid Melusinah]

If you wanna build a fanbase, come OUT of the depths! Haha but I know what you mean..went on a page-liking spree yesterday to be supportive of other mers, and thought, "Maybe they'll be supportive of me and like my page!" but no. lol but that's okay, patience is key to everything, right? (:

BEEN out of the depths... Just posted a reminder about the raffle that we are doing. I know its patience... its frustrating. This isnt my first page trying to get likes for. (have a hairbow page as well) Either way, the page is Shadow Fancy (https://www.facebook.com/ShadowFantasyCreations) ^_^ Please let me see your link! I am always looking for other mers to support and will gladly give a like ^_^

[Usagi]

Oh, I already have the page liked! Haha I haven't seen anything recently, though. I don't think you can do the "add to interests" thing on mobile. And I don't know if I liked it on my personal or my page..heck, I might have even done both! lol this phone really stinks when it comes to facebook-y things. Once I get on a computer, I'll be sure to put it on my list! I think Lexi (Anna Norris?) liked my page. http://www.Facebook.com/mermaidkelby

[Winged Mermaid]

You really gotta work your ass off to get a good fan base. It's not as easy as most people think. A lot of it is posting things that people want to share, and doing that constantly. That usually means pictures and videos. As far as I've seen, most of the growth you get is through content that a fan shares then a friend of that fan sees and likes enough to go like the page (not just the content) as well. With the "one extra click is too many" mentality that we see on the internet, it's hard to grab people enough to get them to make those two extra clicks to actually like a page. Sad as it is :/

[AniaR]

FB fans also don't determine your level of success FYI. lol I dont book the majority of my gigs through FB :p

[Ashe]

Ugh, my bf is constantly after me for scraping my teeth on my fork. I don't do it on purpose, and I've tried to not do it but what he doesn't understand is that I have way too many crooked teeth in a very small mouth. It's pretty much impossible. I have enough stupid food related stuff to worry about in a day with all my allergies, don't start haggling me cuz my teeth OCCASIONALLY scrape. Go eat by yourself :p I didn't even KNOW this was even an issue people have until I met him. I just always ate and never paid any attention. it's like, really, I just walked in the door and you're going to fight with me about how I eat my food? Here's a book in your face. lol


Gaaahhh! Remind me to never eat with you, Raina. :P I have the same problem as your boyfriend, probably worse. The thing is, it HURTS! At least if you have it as bad as I do. Metal scraping against teeth and plates hurts for some reason, it's so weird!! And as I'm typing this, my dad is scraping his fork against his plate and I'm cringing like crazy >_<

[drucilla]

Gaaahhh! Remind me to never eat with you, Raina. :P I have the same problem as your boyfriend, probably worse. The thing is, it HURTS! At least if you have it as bad as I do. Metal scraping against teeth and plates hurts for some reason, it's so weird!! And as I'm typing this, my dad is scraping his fork against his plate and I'm cringing like crazy >_<

I know what you mean I have the same issue with that also when the vaccume hose is sucking up stuff off of wood flooring that (to me) is worse than the metal on dishes and teeth.

[Ashe]

I know what you mean I have the same issue with that also when the vaccume hose is sucking up stuff off of wood flooring that (to me) is worse than the metal on dishes and teeth.
Really? That's one i've never heard before :P

[drucilla]

I hope I'm not the only one. That particular noise kills me I cringe just thinking about it.

[Mermaid Summer]

I am not sorry I am not perfect! I not a size 2 and I don't want to be. I wish you could how much it hurts me to hear "should you be eating that?" "If you really want do memaiding, I think it be better to lose at lest 20 pounds." or her favorite "Ariel didn't have bad skin!"

I did the beauty pageants, I did Disney, I did everything you wanted me to do. I am sick of being of trying to be perfect. Yes I need to lose like 10 pounds but I am doing it on my terms.

And if I want to get another tattoo, I damn well will and I am getting my tongue split too. Stop trying to control everything >.<

NO, Cody and I are not having kids soon, Yes still with Cody, yes still married, No your not coming to the service. Because I know you and you make me a push over and have a second wedding.

[SeaGlass Siren]

I missed the one episode of David tuttera's my fair wedding where he does a phantom of the opera themed wedding. Whyyy ;-; I tried youtubing and going onto their website but I can't find it... (firstworldproblems)

[SeaGlass Siren]

K. you know what irks me?

Saturday i got my last wisdom tooth out. extra meds and antibiotics because they had to go into my sinus to remove my tooth. I am instructed to rest for 3 days when i get home. i tell me mom, she goes "ok."

Guess what? Put away groceries, fold and put away laundry.
On Sunday, before actually taking my pain medication and eating, i sweep the house, swiffer thrice, FOLD MY MOTHER'S BED, make pickled vegetables (which involves exerting force and packing it tight into a huge jar. Then AFTER taking meds: put away groceries again, bring down heavy load of laundry, hand everyones jackets because for some reason everyone is fucking (pardon language here) lazy when i need to be resting, clean table, put laundry in the dryer and fold and put away laundry once more, DID THE DISHES TWICE (full sink mind you)
TODAY: Bring down heavy laundry (seriously, i don't even make much laundry since i wear my outside clothes back-to-back and a pair of pajamas for one week, but somehow everyday there's always a load to be brought down...SERIOUSLY!), RESWEEP, swiffer thrice again, bring up my mother's heavy nail polish collection from the basement.. TAKE USELESS MODELING PICTURES FOR MY MOTHER'S FACEBOOK., helped her with her facebook AGAIN. Put away lawn chair that she brought out for no reason bring down a large tub of water to empty out in the laundry room's sink and put away said heavy nail polish collection... and i feel my damn sutures open. DAFAQ!

and because of the meds i was drowsy and i dropped gardening fliers on my foot so when i tried to scream, my gum started bleeding. WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK.

And you wanna know what the stupid part about all this is? she CLAIMS i am lazy, and spoiled, sleep in until 12 (wtf not even. i wake up at 8 to help her do chores!), AND take bubble baths (I have NEVER in my fucking life taken a bubble bath. and even if i could, it is not in my nature to waste water. i only take 15 minute showers.) talk about delusional.

and when i try to speak i get yelled at for "talking back, being disrespectful, dishonour." what bull!

and later i have to pick my niece up from school. in the cold. when i should be resting.

[Mermaid Tasia]

Gotta love it! I like my Super Mario 3, but if guy go on about CoD and stuff my "end phrase" (that makes them go away) is "Wow, that game puts me to sleep."

[drucilla]

[QUOTE=mermaidandrea;58402]K. you know what irks me?[QUOTE]
Love that word, irks it just rolls of the tongue doesn't it? Irks, irks, irks, irks. I can say that all day *practices in sexy voice* (fails completely) lol

[xXMillieXx]

I hate shopping for tops/dresses/cosplay stuff/etc. It's a big headache. My sizes are 36" bust and a 25" waist, but nooooo, if you wanna get a 36" bust then you must have a 28" waist. So, as always, if I find a top that fits perfectly around the waist, it's too small for my bust, or vise versa. I hope I'm not getting into the TMI thing, but being a DD also makes it a lot harder to find things. xP

[Ashe]

^ ughhh! I have the same exact problem with finding jeans. They are either too long, or too short, or too tight, or too loose. It's horrible!! :O

[ShyMer]

and how come all pants seem to be made with the assumption that we have no waists? I'm curvy, not just fat. i need to wear clothes too :/

also i feel like denim used for women's jeans is really flimsy stuff. what is up with that?

[xXMillieXx]

I know how that goes. xP I've got a longer torso and shorter legs, it's annoying for me to find a good pair of jeans that actually fits. And pockets! I'm sorry, but I love my pockets, I love deep back pockets that I can stick my phone in. Why is it the fashion to have no pockets? :(

[Azurin Luna]

Same goes for me, I've long legs. Even the pants with extra long legs are still to short :( I need to wear skater pants so my pant legs are long enough, not that I mind those, they are cool. Also when getting a nice pair of pants my hips are always to wide, which makes me have to go up 2 sizes so my waist is looking ackward cause I don't need the extra space there

[AnnaAbyss]

OH MY GOD, YAY! So happy it worked! :'D

[Elle]

So my friend wants to move forward in her life and get a career. counseling, nursing, teaching, or bookkeeping
Her cousin went on a big rant about the current shortage of nursing jobs and went off at anyone who said she should do it. She then made some racial comments in regards to nursing in outback towns (with large indigenous populations).
their uncle told said cousin not to be racist and not talk about what she knew nothing about. I had the gall to like the comment and got in trouble for it.

As a student nurse, i get educated on cultural safety and equality as part of my course.
Am I in the wrong here? Isn't it a good thing that I don't like racism?

[Dacora]

So my friend wants to move forward in her life and get a career. counseling, nursing, teaching, or bookkeeping
Her cousin went on a big rant about the current shortage of nursing jobs and went off at anyone who said she should do it. She then made some racial comments in regards to nursing in outback towns (with large indigenous populations).
their uncle told said cousin not to be racist and not talk about what she knew nothing about. I had the gall to like the comment and got in trouble for it.

As a student nurse, i get educated on cultural safety and equality as part of my course.
Am I in the wrong here? Isn't it a good thing that I don't like racism?

I don't see how you are wrong. I would have done the same and asked who pissed in her cheerios.
I hate it when people try and tell people that they shouldn't do what they want in their lives.
Two of my great uncles tried to tell me that being a vet was a bad choice. That it was hard to get a job as a vet and not many vet clinics hire people beacuse there is not a good "market" for vet jobs.
I told them its what I want to do, its what I am called to do. My heart and soul is in it and NO ONE will tell me that I can't. If you don't like it then get over it, its my life. One uncle has never brought it up again and the other respects me for standing up for myself and not letting people getting me down.

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[Kanti]

I hate it whenever I take time out of my own schedule to do something for someone and they
turn around and COMPLAIN about that it's not done well or that they don't like it, etc.
Usually whenever my parents throw a party at the house I stay up after they go to sleep and clean
everything so they don't have to. I usually put all the dishes away, wash beer cans, mop the floors,
whatever the extent of the damage it lol. Sometimes my mom will have the nerve to complain that
I didn't do a good job on cleaning the floor or that I left a couple dishes out and it's like "wow that's
a weird way of saying thank-you I've never heard before". And mind you, these usually aren't
parties for me or anything, they're parties for THEM. My mom always says "If you do something you
may as well do it right" and that's fine but don't COMPLAIN at me, you can just tell me I missed
something.
I guess this also pertains to youtube videos and tutorials. Writing a tutorial isn't easy/fast and I put
it upon myself to make a youtube video and explain things. I've actually gotten emails/PMs/comments
from people who will literally get MAD at me for not explaining something or that I didn't have a good
enough example, etc. It's literally like, you know that video is free for you to watch? You know that I'm
literally being generous enough to explain things that I DON'T HAVE TO and you expect it from me?
Well, you not only expect it but you have the nerve to get mad at me? I don't mind questions at all, it's
the selfish freaking attitude of thinking you paid for me to write something for you when in reality I did
it just fucking because.

[Kanti]

So my friend wants to move forward in her life and get a career. counseling, nursing, teaching, or bookkeeping
Her cousin went on a big rant about the current shortage of nursing jobs and went off at anyone who said she should do it. She then made some racial comments in regards to nursing in outback towns (with large indigenous populations).
their uncle told said cousin not to be racist and not talk about what she knew nothing about. I had the gall to like the comment and got in trouble for it.

As a student nurse, i get educated on cultural safety and equality as part of my course.
Am I in the wrong here? Isn't it a good thing that I don't like racism?

Racist people are the piss in the gene pool. It's so outdated and ignorant as fuck.
You also got in trouble for it? By who? That's sort of dumb. Whoever it was should make sure their
head is screwed in straight.

[Mermaid Celissa]

So my dad's always had lung problems. About a week ago he finally went to go check out whatever it is, because it literally keeps him from breathing sometimes. Yesterday, he was diagnosed with a disease called "Idiopathic Pulminary Fibrosis" which is basically scarring of the lungs, making them tight and limiting your breathing. On several reports about pulm fib online, I found that most patients only live three to five years after being diagnosed, unless they happen to get a lung transplant. The doctors are doing tests on his body to make sure it's healthy enough to get a transplant, but even after that they have to find compatible lungs to replace his, and there's a list too, so who knows how long it will be until he gets what he needs. I can't imagine what losing a parent would be like, I'm really scared and worried.

[MermaidBrittany]

My friend just recently moved out of her house and into a hotel room with her dogs(they JUST got a new puppy!?!!! What the#&%$!!!!), mom, step-dad, 10 yr old sister, 15yr old sister, and 19 year old sister(who is going into the military in 2 days whew). I can't really asses their situation because they seem to go out to eat every night and my friend says that they just moved out because the landlord was a terrible person and would do nothing for their living conditions. So i don't really know where they are in terms of financial stability. However, i told my mom and she has tried to help out with whatever she can.. We just bought her THREE pairs of shoes because she didn't have any that fit or that were in good condition. She also lets her stay over on weekend (which stretches my patients quite a bit) and invites her for dinner whenever we can, and even pay for school functions and gives rides. She hardly ever says thank you!!!! I am soo tired of helping and not getting a simple thank you for me or my family! I really do want to help but when she is so unappreciative its hard to be enthusiastic about helping.
I understand she is in a hard situation which is why my family is helping her in the first place, but really? Not even a thank you? Its just SO frustrating!

[spottedcatfish]

Some of you have seen this on my facebook, but I decided to re-post it here. I feel like I am going deaf, and I have no way to stop or cure my problem. I have been dealing with an ear infection in my left ear, caused by a flu I had on the 30th of January. Unfortunately, this ear infection has left me with a temporary (I hope) loss of hearing in my left ear, however I am also deaf in my right ear, which I have dealt with all my life. So to have the sensation of suddenly losing my hearing in a night in the only ear I have, was a very frightening and scary experience for me. Since then I have seen two doctors about my ear, and it was concluded that the infection was a viral one, cause by the flu (which I already knew) AND I was in antibiotics to help my ear infection, but now my diagnosis is to keep it on heat, and give it some TLC and it will go away on it's own! Unfortunately I can't go swimming till then. So I hope this ear thing clears up soon. I kind of feel like I'm walking in a bubble... it's very easy to wander off, and daydream, if I can't hear things around me.

[Elle]

Racist people are the piss in the gene pool. It's so outdated and ignorant as fuck.
You also got in trouble for it? By who? That's sort of dumb. Whoever it was should make sure their
head is screwed in straight.


I got in trouble by my friend. not the cousin or the uncle, but my friend. I was told I had no right to like the post her uncle put up telling her cousin to stop being racist. needless to say it gave me the shits :(

[SeaGlass Siren]

i got yelled at for asking about who opened MY mail. on chinese new year i got kicked out of the house for 5 hours and got yelled at for no reason (my mother shoved my niece away, literally. she pushed her. and made her cry. all of a sudden she's yelling at ME and kicking me out of the house. wtf)

[AniaR]

Imma just leave this here,,,

http://24.media.tumblr.com/bc9f60be3e7d025e5e74c20779196193/tumblr_mhanleYZLF1ri1opso1_500.gif

[SeaGlass Siren]

LOL maroon 5??

[seagirls626]

Ok, so my sister and I are going over to our friend's house (my friend's little sister is my little sister's friend) for a sleepover tonight. Imma just call my friend Carly and my sister's friend Laya. So Carly is really nice and all, but Laya is a bit of a know-it-all. My little sister, Oona, is super sweet to her friends, but when it comes to Laya, she gets frustrated. Laya always ALWAYS has to be right no matter WHAT the situation, even if it's something she doesn't even know about! This really upsets me, and my sister. The worst thing is, whenever she HAS to be right, she'll say "No! Your wrong!". She says it right in front of her mom! I mean, who lets their kid say that?! UGH!!!
Another thing is, about her sister, she's obsessed with this band, MCR. It's SUPER annoying! She doesn't stop talking about it! She was better last time I saw her, but still.

Edit: I meant that she being obsessed with MCR is annoying. The band isn't annoying.