My mom is trying to become a interior designer and as a project she is going to design my room to look like i am in the middle of a garden and she wants me to look for flowers but i need your help. as my room will be painted like a garden at sunset, i would like the flowers tie in with a sunset. like morning glories calla roses, or even something that has nothing to do with it but are just unique and pretty like bleeding hearts (this is a real flower) they don’t have to tie in with a sunset though. thank you so much for the help!!!

I have a soon to be 5 year old little brother with down’s. He has the mental capabilities of a 9 month old (according to the professionals), and the physical of a 6 month old I believe (he drags himself around, can’t crawl, does sit up, but can stand on furniture). I have never seen any child with down’s as behind as he is. He doesn’t talk. He can’t say a single word. He’s had physical and speech therapists since he was 1, and since last year he’s also in special ed at the local elementary school.

Here’s why I think he is also autistic: he will bang his head against the wall all day if we let him (we don’t), he will sit there and do stuff like spin the dog’s water bowls for hours, never tires of it, day after day if he is able, my brother accidentally stomped on him with football cleats on (he was running and my little brother had his arm stretched), this broke his skin and he didn’t notice. Just looked at his hand a little, and then continued on. If he hurts us (pulling hair) and we scream, cry out, yell (ouch, not at him), whatever, he will not notice. My one sister is afraid to pick him up because he pulled such a huge chunk of her hair out last year. He just grabbed back there, held on and pulled. My sister was screaming at the top of her lungs and crying and it took two of us to gently pull him off of her. He didn’t notice anything. Yes, his hearing is fine. He is with other special needs children in class and doesn’t acknowledge that they’re even there. He’s never played with another kid, he’s always in his own little world.

I know this is jumpy and all over the place, but I just got in an argument with my mom and she doesn’t think anything’s wrong because she feels that a professional would’ve noticed by now. I’ve met other down’s kids his age and they were singing, talking, walking, etc… I realize that there’s different degrees of down’s, but is what I described about him normal for down’s? I went to this site:

http://www.altonweb.com/cs/downsyndrome/index.htm?page=autism.html

and he matches almost every single thing on that chart for autism (scan down a little, there’s pics displaying symptoms of autism).

Any ideas? I’m just worried about him.
He doesn’t eat real food. He still is on a bottle with a special formula the doctor has him on, because he will not take a spoon, although my mom and the teachers try everyday. He just hasn’t improved in any way in 3 years, except for the fact that he can hold his own bottle now.

I’m 15 and my sister is 11. I can’t leave her alone at home when my parents are out. I was allowed to stay home when I was 11. It’s because my sister is scared. She still cries when my mom has to go to work and leave her home. When she is home alone it’s for no more than 30 minutes. During that time all she’ll do is eat and watch TV. We have a table in between our couch and TV which is almost completely covered with chips, snack wrappers, bowls of cereal, etc. It’s an amazement how she stays skinny. She also has a very slow social life. She rarely goes to friend’s houses. She’s extremely shy in public. Also I get woken up in the middle of the night by her yelling and crying for my dad because she has to go to the bathroom but doesn’t walk the 10 steps in the dark by herself. my dad has to go because she’s so scared is she doesn’t she’ll wet the bed. When I have to watch her at home she’ll start getting bored and singing/making random noises in the house really loudly. I can’t hang out with friends because of her, I’m losing sleep because of her, not to mention the really loud noises are really annoying. Someone please help.

One of my fish, a pink kissing gurami, has been getting bit on by other fish. Her name is Cecilia. She has sugar-like crystals on her fins and body. My Mom says this is probably "ick", a disease that fishes get easy. I know I can get medicine for the water, we will do that tommorrow. The fish that we have in our tank are a green spotted puffer, catfish, a little orange fish (not gold fish), and a female guppy. I know, I know. Horrible combination. I’ve tried to convince my Mom to seperate them, but she won’t. We did have a male beta but he got his fin ripped by another fish. We put him in a bowl alone, but soon he died. What should I do? Does Cecilia have Ick? Should I just get the medicine and forget about it?

My mom went to Tennessee on Sunday, November 21st and came back Tuesday at like 10:30-11:00. Since then, she’s been really sick and keeps losing/regaining her voice and it sounds weak as hell. How could she help heal her voice? I read somewhere, and quite often, that something involving lemon juice helps…? And we have this throat spray in our bathroom. Would that help?

I have many hobbies. That includes watching movies, walking around town with my pooch, bowling and I enjoy singing.
Well my problem is suck at bowling. I only get to do it during bowling club for school. Bowling club lasts 2 months of the year and we only go bowling on wendsdays. Because of my moms money reasons i cant do it very often anyway. I love to sing and listen to music but I am tone deaf. My voice cant go to high or low because it cracks. I am a girl btw. And listening to music, walking, and watching movies isn’t a talent because anyone can do it.
I HAVE TRYED EVERYTHING! I used to play team sports but I quit because the couch flat out told someone upfront of me that me and my 2 best friends were bad at soccer. I did softball but I quit because I was rather the bench warmer or in the outfield. I didn’t have any friends on the team anyway. I tryed track with my best friend and I sucked. There was this girl on the team that yelled at me for doing something wrong and told everyone on the team to call her "boss". Me and my friend didn’t and then she kinda got bitchy towards us. She called me disrespectful and that I was being a ass. Me and my friend told her off. I tryed crosscountry and enjoyed it but was always last. I kept doing it anyway until my friend stopped showing up and left me to run and go to 7 hour meets by my self.
I asked my mom if I had any talents. She told me a talent of mine is being a good friend and daughter. She has to say that. Then when I told her that didnt count she walked outside to smoke. All my friends have a hobby, I sit at home and watch movies all day. I feel like I spend everyday not accomplishing anything. Are there any good things that I could try thats cheap and see if I have talent in it?

My mom suggested for me to have my birthday party at a bowling alley. They have games, glow in the dark bowling, normal bowling, and laser tag. I just wanted to know if that’s still considered ‘cool’. I just want to know if the birthday party will embarass me in any way because i went to joe’s crab shack last year for my birthday, thinking it would be fine, and I was put in a fairy costume and I had to dance around while they sang happy birthday to me. No joke. My mom has it on her camera and i cant seem to get her to get rid of it. So please tell me that i wont be embarassed by that kind of thing or the bowling alley employees will sing to me or anything. I HATE when employees sing to me :/

k. so i went and got an x ray from my humerus fracture that wasnt healing. the bone was kinda falling towards my body (2 ends of bone not touching yet), and the doc gave me some pillow thing to prop it up, but i think he left it on too long…and it over corrected so now its angled. (the bones are touching now) its not terrible, just a little bent.

he says ill have full use of my arm if i just leave it. it will just be a minor cosmetic defect, and im in so much pain i wanna leave it if what he says is true, i just wanna get the healing process done with. my mom demands a second opinion because she said that sounds ridiculous so we’re going to another doc next wednesday.

my question is..do you guys think what he’s saying sounds correct?
if not, are there any non-surgical methods for fixing this other than a very painful refracture and reset?

or do you think that maybe they can somehow gradually push it back in?

any advice appreciated.
thanks

The icing was made from scalded milk, black walnuts, and powder sugar. My mom gave me my dad’s cookbook but the recipe was gone. It was my favorite childhood cake.

I saw on the internet where someone did a test on the use of Bells in bear country. It seems not only would the sound of a waterfall, or river, or wind, possibly cover-up the sound of the bells, the bears paid no mind to the bells. Like they said they ignored them. I decided to take a bicycle squeeze bulb horn, and toot now and then. I believe it’s louder. Also, I have the opinion if anything gets the bears attention, it would be stepping on sticks, and bears don’t like not knowing what is breaking the sticks, and making that sound. It could be another dangerous bear like a bore that might attack mom’s cubs.

a Sony camcorder, a Tommy billfold with 0.00 in it, A Bose radio and leather rolling luggage.

I got two bars of soap ( I swear ), two crystal bowls that my mom has had forever (hello dust), some ice cream bowls (fifty cents), Estee Lauder Christmas Makeup package (which was good, except as soon as I opened it she said,"Let me see if I like any of the colors. I may want some", and a knockoff Coach purse that she paid no more than .00 for. I even told her, "mom, this is fake" and she goes, "no, it’s one of the new ones.

I wanted to cry. Am I being a big baby and should I just let it go or should I be super Pi$$ed? I kinda got over it a few hours later. But thinking of it ticks me off.

She was put there by her mom, who was embarassed by the girl because she was dumpy and awkward. The girl was bright and friendly. I remember one scene where she was in a padded room with another patient singing "Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries". I don’t know anyone in it.

I’m trying to find a relaxation spa (the kind of spas where you get facials & massages) in Las Vegas for my mom & I to go to (for mothers day)

do you guys have any ideas?

by the way, im thirteen. so please find a spa appropriate for me & my mom .

I need a small sidearm that packs a punch but is quite and has little kick. (I’m terrified of loud noises so it absolutely has to be relatively quite.) I currently own a Taurus Spectrum Blue Titanium .38 revolver I got for a wedding present (Yeah, my husband is a hick…*sneers* My Mom’s mouth bout fell out of her head not only when I told her but when she saw the ugly thing.) but I can’t stand it because it’s hammerless and I like having that option. I’ve owned several revolvers but I’m thinking of moving away from that…Any suggestions? Thanks…

Oh, and I’m putting this Q in Home & Garden because it’s the closest thing I could come up with…(i.e. home protection) Sorry for the inconvienience…
LOL @ Desert Eagle…Mmmmm…I said "quite" mm-kay? Thanks…

I started having a weird skin problem 4 years ago. I started getting these weird oozing pimple-like things on my forehead and back that would form into little skin ulcers that ooze and hurt. They are about the size of pimples, but they’re not pussy in the way pimples are and they take a long time to heal. I rarely get pimples on my face or anywhere else. Nobody in my family has problems with acne, and that’s not what I have. Although my mom was told that she had eczema. I do have problems with itching when I touch animals or grass, but the raw sores on my head don’t really itch, just hurt. I started to notice they were induced by shampoo I was using. I started using natural shampoos. All the bumps and ulcers on my back disappeared. I still get some on my forehead from time to time.
What does this sound like?