Portable Folding Hammock

okay my situation is pretty complicated. i would really appreciate any help from anybody. heres some background info about me. Im 17 years old. im not the most attractive guy but im not hideous. im a nerd and a jock. because of this, i have no solid group of friends so i dont have many friends. in fact i wouldnt consider any of my "friends" a best friend. i have a hard time talking to girls and i am trult depressed and thinking about killing myself cuz im rarely happy. so here it is.. it started two years ago. on my last day of vacation 2 years ago, me and my cousins met these 3 girls and hung out with them for most of our last day. we all basically picked a girl. the girl i picked had a bf, my luck, of 13 months. at that point i had never kissed anyone. so we sat in a hammock swing until like 11:15 and then we had to go or else our parents were going to kill us, long story, so we got up. i wasnt going to kiss her cuz she had a bf but she kissed me, and we made out for a few minutes. we ended up really liking each other and we continued to text and send cute messages to each other for months after vacation. she truly made me happy which has not happened that often for me since then. then things naturally died off because we live 2 states away (about 2 1/2 hrs by car). turns out that, again this year we went on vacation to the same place at the same time as them (my family goes every year to the same place same time, hers doesnt). but this time, we had a whole week to spend together. i was a little hesitant at first because to my knowledge she had a bf again (different one of like 6 months or so) and i didnt want to be responsible for another breakup (i felt like i was apart of her last one from last vacation). then on the first night of being there we went back to the hammock swing and talked again, and i learned she recently broke up with her bf. so we talked most of the night and then kissed goodbye. the next day was her birthday.. so we walked down the beach to where they were staying and we hung out with them on the beach for most of the day. at first we just sat around in the wet sand and 3 of the 6 of us (my cousin and 2 of the girls, including "mine") started a wet sand fight. the other 3 of us didnt get involved, but "my" girl did hit me 3 or 4 times, and i slightly retaliated.. then we layed under their tent and she continued to dump sand on me and i playfully did the same (we truly act like little kids sometimes) it went well and we had fun. then we went over their house for cake and her birthday. i met her family and it went well. then all 6 of us went downstairs and sat on 2 couches and started to watch a movie, i believe it was bringing down the house. During the movie, we held hands and i rubbed her legs, hands arms, things like that (note, i had never done this before) about 20 min into the movie, one of the groups went outside.. so i laid down with her on the couch, we cuddled up and i can say that i didnt see much more of the movie (well partly because i was on the inside so she covered my view of the tv), we kissed and made out on the couch.. i am really inexperienced as she was my only kisses prior to this. so i wasnt sure what exactly she wanted me to do. so i did start rubbing her breasts then i put my hand down her tank top and felt her breasts and tits and yea. it was a great night and i hope to believe she had fun. so the next night i figured she mightve wanted to take it further. we watched insidious and she was really scared. i felt like since she wasnt interested in the movie she wouldve started kissing me but no. she proceeded to cover her eyes for 80% of the movie and we kissed a few times but only when i told her there were no scary parts coming up. at one point, i think she asked what i was doing when i was rubbing her thighs, idk, do girls like that or no?. later that night she asked me how many girls i had hooked up with, i replied with an explanation of why it was zero, (i have little to no friends, cant talk to girls, am a ghost/depressed) then the next night. we all just sat on their couches and they asked dumb one word answer questions for a few hours and most of them were not directed towards me… for a solid 5-10 min, she asked questions that she knew i couldnt answer (we know a lot about each other). we didnt kiss that night at all, we didnt even kiss goodbye, which was a first for us, even 2 years ago.. the next day, we didnt hang out at all, they claimed they had "family day", their families were weird… but they did walk on the beach towards us to say goodbye during the goodbye, they took pictures, then we hugged and said goodbye, again no kiss…… what i want to know is, where did i go wrong? what could i have done better? did she use me to get over her bf? there is much more to the story but i cant really fit it and its much harder to understand.. thank you for any advice, anything at all

I have an office chair someone gave me and I am trying to get a musty smell out of it, is this possible? I was going to put it outside to air it out. Any other suggestion?

Must be able to support 400lbs between two trees.

I wrote a story for english class. Could you please give me some feedback

I think I have
a good theme- appreasiate what u have
characters
idk about the plot its a flashback
basically what could be better remember I have feelings , but dont kiss my a$$ and tell me it’s really good don’t change anything.

Three months is a long time

I don’t usually have to use up all the money I saved in a week to buy a pop tart. Yet that’s exactly what I did in that crowded Wal-Mart on Third Street. Don’t get me wrong I love pop tarts in fact I think I’m addicted to them. But, somehow I think it’s really sad to actually have to save up money to buy a pop tart from Wal-Mart.

I walked up to the cashier looking down making sure I didn’t step on any lines. It was a habit of mine. I was the only one in the line at the cash register. I had the chocolate chip pop tart in my hand. A tired looking Latina woman in her twenties stood behind a cash register.

“Is that it?” she asked with a bored tone in her voice.

“Yep, don’t see anything else do you?” I said sarcastically.

“Ha, oh you funny. It’ll be two fifty.” She said even more sarcastically than me.

“Alright sense you asked nicely” I laughed.

I dug around in my pocket until I found a crunched up dollar bill, and a lot of change. I stood there and looked at the money thinking about how just three months ago I could have handed her a ten or a twenty.
(Flashes back three months)

I usually wouldn’t have to worry about anything. Sometimes the biggest problem I’d have was finding out what to wear to school. I’m a sixteen year old guy, about 6”1, and use to come from a middle class family. In my old School I use to go to I looked like everybody else, lightly tanned, have sandy blonde hair, green eyes, and an athletic build. Now I’m the one that stands out and look’s different.

In the suburbs I didn’t have many responsibilities besides take out the trash, and doing the dishes. I could lie out in the hammock all day, and play my light orange acoustic guitar during the summer and not have a thing to worry about. Where I live now all I do is worry. Worry about school, worry about the house, worry about finding a job to help the family, it doesn’t end.

My mom has always said since we got here that Kurt remember we still have each other. She was right where we are now is tough, but it would be much tougher without each other. Ever since my mom got laid of work she’s felt like she’s been dragging the family down, and so has my brother. He’s nineteen now, and taking it the hardest of all of us, he’s been smoking a lot more to relive the stress. Luckily dad has a job, and we get government aid else we’d be kicked out into the streets.

I had a lot of friends when I was living in the suburbs. My best friend Landen was the funniest guy you could ever meet. He’d always be crackin on people whenever you’d see him. He’d always be goofing around. When we, and some friends went to the mall, and saw people talking he’d always fill in what they were saying, and always make us laugh.

I don’t have a lot of friends in the inner city. Most people in my school don’t even give me a chance. They say that they know me, when they haven’t even said two words to me. They know I’m different, and like to point it out saying even the way I talk is different. The only ones who did give me a chance are my only friends here the soccer team. Whenever guys at school would try to mess with me they’d always there to back me up. It doesn’t matter how you speak or where you’re from on that field. Everyone has the same goal on that team which is well…to score goal.

I use to have a car before my parents sold it to pay for the rent, and other bills. It was a red 2002 Ford Mustang Gt. I’d drive it everywhere, and anywhere I could. When Landen , and my other friends would need a ride I’d be the wheelman driving them wherever they wanted. We’d go to parties, concerts, or just cruise around whenever we’d feel like. I remember feeling the most freedom when I was in that car. I could go anywhere all I needed to do was put my foot on the peddle.

The only friend I have in the inner city with a car is Trey, and he’s really sensitive about riding people. With good reason to he doesn’t have insurance on it so he drives at his own risk. He’s a good guy he’d drive me to soccer practice, the store, or even just to pick up girls. He even risks just driving my mom to get groceries, when my dad has the car for work. We still go to all the downtown festivals or whatever’s going down in the city. Compared to the suburbs the city is a thousand times more exciting, the most exciting thing to happen in my neighborhood is someone vandalizes a stop sign.

The Latina women behind the counter looked very annoyed now.

“Hey, estatua is you gonna pay for that or what?”She voiced. ( estatua = statue in Spanish)

I looked up and r
realized there were people waiting behind me in the line. Some of them had a full cart of groceries.
“Huh? ..Ohh my bad I kinda zoned out, what was it …like two fifty?” I announced.
“Yea, and if it’s too hard I can count out that money for you.” She mocked.
“I see you got jokes too”. I jeered.
I looked at the money in my hand one crushed up dollar, five quarters, and a dime. I counted it up again it was two dollars thirty five cents.

okay there was this commercial that they played on the radio…idk if they played it on the tv er not ….but anyway…. it went something like a guy got a new phone….(it might have been an LG phone but im not sure) …and he was talking about how cool it was and his wife kept saying…yeah and it would be perfect for work and stuff like that …then at the very end his wife says again it would be perfect for work wouldn’t it ? and he says back something like "ohhh yeah…then i can send emails from cooler places than my office…like the beach in ma hammock….in ma underwear….."
haha okay so my question is if you know that commercial…could you please write it down for me…haha i know thats like really weird but it would be awesome if you could d that…….thanks!

vk.
i know this sounds sooooooo stupid….
but like if you ever heard it write it down……or if you’ve heard it and remember it write it down and give it to me……
haha im such a dork……

I want to put a hammock in a corner of a room, the only problem is that one wall doesn’t have studs for some odd reason. I really would prefer not to get a hammock stand because they take up soo much space and look out of place.
I guess i could hang it from the ceiling, but the issue of space comes up again. Is there anyway that i can hang it from something else other than a wall?

Which is more likely to break in use,a hammock stretched tightly between 2 trees or one that sags quite a bit? And why?

Only this?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/files.posterous.com/jerrylentz/xJSKl2jaCQwqKLMCvAwEQ8rpqvtsy3ycvPC6Yp8WXr9daVZXWJF7TpXtsPPo/banana-hammock.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJFZAE65UYRT34AOQ&Expires=1311472860&Signature=JkZGn7fJc394l28uEHRE31aMeW0%3D

A week ago, I had a dream that I just can’t shake. The whole time I was never afraid and stayed totally calm and collected, which is strange, since it’s a crazy dream.

My dad, sister, aunt and I were standing by a shopping center. Some scientists were drilling a hole to the center of the earth, and we were standing about 50 feet from the hole with a crowd of people, wondering if they reached yet.

Suddenly, there was an earthquake. We 4 grabbed each other and started running. My aunt twisted her ankle, but we helped her to a hammock near her house, then continued running home.

We get to my parents’ house, and my mom has some bags prepared for us with clothing and food. My cell phone is dead. I look outside the window, and can see the river. The sky is sunset. There is an airplane falling slowly from the sky some distance away, broken into 4 pieces, and I’m just watching, wondering about the people that were on that plane. Satellites and towers are falling from the sky now too, crashing into buildings and skysrapers around us, but not hurting us specifically. There were some boats in the water with people on them, I guess escaping as well.

We leave the house and get on a yellow school bus, evacuating the city with others, some driving, most are walking. I remember a book I left at home (not forgot, but changed my mind about bringing, and I don’t know what book it was!!), so I said I would go back and meet up with them, since traffic was slow and we were still so close. I go to my house, and get a phone call on the landline from my youngest sister (not the one I was standing with at the beginning), who has stopped back over to my parent’s house for something as well. She says she found a folder addressed to me with a message I should read. I tell her to bring it with her and I’ll meet her on the bus, but wake up just as I hang up.
I don’t regularly watch TV, and I can’t remember the last time I sat down and actually watched a movie beginning to end, so it shouldn’t have much to do with the dream. I have not taken a test lately, but my job has been super stressful. I don’t know whether to quit or to stay, but my nerves/health are starting to get affected. I have been seriously thinking about going back to school too.

Becuase I just asked a question about Smackdown and chair shots to the head and you said it was a spoiler but sorry cuz I didnt realise Smackdown starts later in the US because in Ireland the main event is on right now

I need a playlist for those summer nights at the beach, swinging in a hammock with your girlfriend, feel good music. I like rock, reggae, hiphop whatever you can throw at me!
The only request is that it isn’t in Top 40 rotation. I don’t want a radio playlist.

Thank you!!!

at 2pm?

Or a flat, warm Old Swillwaukee in the hot sun while horseflies relentlessly bite you while you’re trying to fix the fence?

Anyone, anyone?

I’m heading to Costa Rica in a few weeks and I want to put together a couple hours worth of good beach/tropical kind of music. I’m talking things like steel guitar/drums, instrumentals, maybe some spanish type stuff. Basically anything that comes to mind when you imagine sitting in a hammock on the beach. Similar to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0xoMhCT-7A (Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole – "What A Wonderful World")
Any particular artists to look at for this? I’m not familiar with international music at all.

so i have 2 female pet rats which are around 9 months old now, and they smell really bad. ive tried everything, i clean their cage out twice a week because they smell so much. they are litter tray trained as well so I change that once a day. I also bath them once a week because they smell. oh and i change their bedding and wash their hammock regularly as well.. and they still seem to stink.. am i doing something wrong or does anyone have any suggestions that can help me. I use a pet store disinfectant when I clean them out as well.

and because i keep them in my room in a large cage, the smell is really noticeablee and i cant stand the smell. i dont want to get rid of them either because there my little babies haha!! PLEASE HELP

a girl weighing 620 N sits in the middle of a 2.8 long hammock which sags 1.2m below the point of support.

I know there’s lots of them online but I want to see it before buying it, does anyone know a store that sells them in Los Angeles? I don’t like the ones with a stand, I want something I can hang on my trees outside. I saw them at target but I don’t like the kind they have I want something more like a Mexican style ones.

I’m not looking for Beach Boys (even though I do love them), I’m looking for songs that would be absolutely perfect for laying in a hammock on a tropical beach, on a lazy day, just sipping some pink lemonade. Examples would be "I’m Yours" by Jason Mraz or "Constellations" by Jack Johnson. Anything like that.

I want to hang a hammock in my room but I’m not sure how to go about hanging it. Was thinking of finding some studs in the ceiling and hanging it from their but not sure if it will work. Any suggestions or ideas are appreciated.

i just got a female rat from a local petstore (she and her litter mates were much healthier looking than petco and petsmart rats) i know they need a friend but my mom hardly allowed me to get one. i have had her for 3-4 days and she will let me hold her, she has groomed my finger, and she fell asleep next to me last night…but when i go to the cage she does not come to me, i have to reach in and gently grab her to get her out, the only food she will eat directly from me is yogurt on a spoon, but she wont take anything else from me. she also is very energetic outside the cage, sniffing everything and climbing around, but when i put here inside, she hardly moves, she will climb up to her hammock, or go inside her house, but other than that she hardly moves, and if she is walking somewhere, will sometimes randomly stand still for a bit….is she just new and nervous?? and if i can hold her without objection, why wont she come to me or take food???? sorry for rambling on but i am just a bit confused… 8-]
useful answers only please. and yes, i am sure rats find all humans weird lookin. 8-]
thanks, i have watched those videos, and did follow the first few steps…but what if she wont take food from you, and doesnt get at all excited when she sees food??? and she doesnt act scared when i hold her, she sniffs around and climbs my hands….