Portable Folding Hammock

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….

okey, so i have asked this question twice already, and just really want a wide variety of answers. On vacation in August, my bf and i went to the beach. (we were on vacation with his parents and mine who are best friends) he is 17 and i am 16. well, we got into a hammock, and before we knew it we were having sex right there….discreetly, i was on the bottom he was on the top. well my stepmom came looking for us and she found us..she realized what we were doing. she marched us back to the hotel, and there, she and my bf mom yelled at us for what seemed like forever. then my stepmom took me to her hotel room and spanked me. She said that if i was going to act like a child then i would be punished like one…which i totally do not understand cause what child would be doing that? she was super mad, and now she doesn’t trust me like she used to. I mean we were really close, we still are, but not the same as before. she grounded me for weeks and my dad agreed with everything.
we got caught up in the moment and didnt use protection..that made her even madder.

I use the term "friend" loosely, because this girl frustrates me more than anything, and I feel like I have to help her in some way so she doesn’t self destruct.

I met her through a mutual friend while she was 20 weeks pregnant with her son. Now he’s two months old, and I can’t stand how she treats him.

First of all, I had a party for St. Patrick’s Day at my house. I had my mom watch my 9 month old, because of course there was going to be drinking. I invited her and her husband, but I didn’t think they would actually bring their two month old! So they brought him, proceeded to get drunk, and basically passed him off to me (and I had way more to drink than they did). So I fed him, burped him, and put him in my son’s crib, before telling my husband that I was about to go pass out, and had him take over.

Since then, we have been over to their house one time, which was about a week ago. We were there for about 5 hours, and she held her son for MAYBE 5 minutes the entire time. Every time he would act hungry (and I swear to god, she has the most well behaved baby, she has no idea how easy she has it) she would get all bitchy and start pushing her husband to go take care of it.

And then they would argue back and forth for a few monutes until I was just like "Okay! Where’s his formula? I’ll do it." So long story short, I ended up taking care of him all night while I was at their house. She got off her laptop for like 5 minutes.

She’s just so freaking lazy and complains all the time and I just want to chew her out, and tell her "look, Princess, you’re a MOM. It’s about your baby, and not you being on your stupid laptop all damn day." I have nothing against young moms, becuase I am one. However, she’s 18 and I was 20 when mine was born.

I also hate how she sticks her finger on his chin and like forces his mouth to move, pretending to make him talk. He hates it! He stayed in his hammock like 90% of the night when I wasn’t holding him or feeding him.

Anyway…what the heck do I do about this?! She’s having her birthday party in two weeks, and she already told me that she’s not getting a sitter. So her baby is going to around a bunch of drunks. I’m thinking about going, just so I can WATCH him. I’d rather leave my son with my mom for one night so I can take care of her kid. she obviously didn’t learn from MY party. I also offered to babysit for her and not even go to her party. Am I doing the right thing, or should I just NOT do anything anymore?
Perhaps I should have said "Went to bed" instead of passed out. Is that better? At least I have enough common sense to have a sitter for the ONE party I decided to have with my friends. Especially because I am of legal age to drink and she is not? Also, neither of us is breastfeeding. My son will be 10 months soon, I don’t know what her excuse was. Oh yeah "the dog chewed up my breast pump, and nursing hurt my nipples." BOOHOO.

so about 2 years ago my parents bought this really cool mural for me at pbteen. it covers up my entire wall its of a hammock at the beach. it didnt look as good as online and i dont really like it, it looks weird. i told my parents i loved it tho cause they worked really hard to put it up and it was 300$. i want to take it down now and put up a full length mirror and pictures because that will look better. but they probably wont let me since it was so expincive and its not been up very long. i mentioned taking it down
once and my mom freaked she was like absolutly not that thing has not gotten its 300$ worth yet. so how can i convinve my parents to take it down and get a full length mirror for me?

For the past week or so my son has been having full meltdowns in the evening time. We pick him up from the babysitter and he seems to be okay. He’s okay on the ride home in the car and usually falls asleep. Then we get in the house and all hell breaks loose when he wakes up. He’s whining and squirming and straightening/tightening his muscles and trying to stand up. We change him and feed him and about 10-15 minutes after eating he’s whining and starting the whole process over again.

We try everything we can think of to occupy him … putting him in the swing and turning on cartoons, walking him through the house (which works for a little bit), letting him play on his play mat with the objects hanging from above, talking to him, reading to him, etc. Sometimes those things will keep his attention and other days he could care less about them. It really seems the only thing that calms him down is a bottle. When it’s time for him to eat he’s fine … but throws a tantrum after the bottle is gone or if we remove it from his mouth to burp him.

I think last night was the worst in all the nights that he’s started this new trend. He has started screaming to the top of his lungs in this high pitch tone. As I posted yesterday, he has also started to have a total meltdown at bath time. He has been taking a bath in his little tub (in the net/hammock looking thing) for at least two months, and everything was going just fine. Then he flips out last week and just breaks out into a cryfest as soon as I put him in the water.

What I have noticed is he seems to be very sleepy when he gets home. He rubs his eyes and when I give him the pacifier, his eyes get low and he closes then … and opens them up again … then closes them … and opens them up again. But what I don’t understand is why he’s so tired during this time all of the sudden. I do know he’s staying up longer during the day. My mom has kept him for the past month and he started going to a home daycare this week. Also, he is ALWAYS biting his fists now … or trying to bite on my shoulder … you think he’s teething?

He almost drove me insane yesterday. Any suggestions or ideas? Your help is greatly appreciated.

Last year I bought my mom a hammock from Kroger. A few weeks ago, she left it out in the rain, and when she went to sit on it, it broke. Since her next birthday is just around the corner, I’d like to get her a replacement hammock bed. I can’t seem to find JUST the hammock itself, and NOT the stand. The hammock is a quilted hammock with fringe. The brand is Aldercrest Collections and HD Designs. The hammock bed is about 74" long. I got it at Kroger, and that’s the only place I’ve been able to find similar hammocks, but I cannot locate just the hammock bed without the stand. Please help!!

we keep them out in a tack room (like a shed) outside because my parents can’t stand the smell. We’re not sure what to do with them in the winter though–we live in Connecticut, and our winters have been getting warmer, but I just want to make sure that they’ll be okay.
We have two, and they cuddle up almost every night, just to be with eachother. And hanging from the top of the cage is a hammock, and they have this sleeping- bag-type thing that they carry up themselves and put in the hammock, then crawl in and cuddle up. I think that they’ll be perfectly warm if worse comes to worse, but like I said, I just want to make sure.
Will they be okay?? Or do we need to bring them into the house?
I do clean their cage every other day and bathe them and use de-odorizing sprays so they don’t smell as bed, and my mom doesn’t mind the smell anymore, but my dad is sensitive to animals. That’s why they’re out there.
The tack room is just as warm as in our house–it is definitely between 55 and 75. I’m not sure where though, but they’re fine in there. The girl even gets out sometimes, more than once, and ALWAYS comes back.
Thanks for the advice about the heaters, and I suggested it to my parents, but they said that it’s too expensive to deal with, what with the cost of things rising lately. We just can’t afford heaters, but I’m going to try the natural food, like someone suggested, and hopefully will be able to move them back into the house. Thank you for helping!

ok first of all, my sister is 25 and i’m a 15 year old boy with palm tree decorations in his room which i liked when i was like 7 but now im a teenager and not into it anymore i like girls and privacy. my sisters room is the only room upstairs well my parents dont sleep in the same room because my dad snores too loud and my moms room is downstairs. my sister wants my moms room, i want my sisters room..and you cant hear my dad snoring in my room. but mom just redid the basement to suit her needs….and now she wont trade me so i can trade my sister. im not sure what i could do to convince them both that i should have my sisters room. its the biggest room…i have friends….and a girlfriend….and lots of shit that i just need. anoher thing is my sister is ALWAYS at work and if shes not there she’s at her boyfriends house or coaching her jr. high volleyball team. any ideas. i want a new style of room…but my sister just re-did hers too and added a hammock cuz she loves the beach thing. i want to have posters and stupid stuff and be able to smell up my room without getting yelled at. what should i do. any suggestions?

Ok, this past summer (august) my parents, my sisters, and i went on vacation with my boyfriends family. (my parents and his are best friends) My boyfriend and i went to a hammock that was on the beach and i got in, then he laid on top of me. Well, one thing led to another, and before long he slid my bikini bottoms over to the side, then slid his down a bit and we started having sex. i was swinging the hammock back and forth, then had to stop, tyring not to make much noise, as there were people close by. Well, my stepmom came looking for us, and realized exactly what we were doing. She didnt say anything there, but when we got back to the hotel room she let us have it. i have never seen her or my bf’s mom so angry in my life. my stepmom took me to her hotel room and spanked me.(after i made the mistake of telling her that i was too old to be spanked) i was grounded for a long time, but now she doesn’t trust me, and i really want her too.
i am sixteen, this just happened in august
my stepmom and i used to be very close, we still are, but not in the since that we were. I was sixteen and my bf is 17. He will be 18 soon. we have been going out for a little less than a year, but have been friends for years. my dad and i aren’t very close, and besides, he thinks that it is my stepmoms job to disciplene. tho, he was pretty angry when he found out about this, he still said that it was up to my stepmom on what to do about it. but now my stepmom doesn’t trust me to do anything…and she hasn’t left me alone with my bf since.
and my stepmom found out when we got back home that it hadnt been the first time that i had been with him.

1. A lecture from your dad v. a lecture from your mom?

2. Being chased by a tiger v. Being chased by a bear?

3. Sleeping on a hammock v. sleeping on the beach?

4. Having ,000 in stocks v. Having ,000 in savings?

5. Driving a mercedes at 100 mph v. driving a lexus at 100 mph

6. Going tanning at a tanning salon v. the beach

7. FINALLY==>What did you have for your last meal?

Ok, i asked this question in the Family section, but i was wondering about some thoughts from the parenting section as well..
I am 16 and in august of this year my family and my bf family went on vacation. (our parents have been friends for a long time) well, my bf and i went to the beach and got in a hammock, me on bottom and him on top. pretty soon he had my swimsuit bottoms pushed to the side, and his slid down. Not long after we were having sex. well, my stepmom came down to the beach and was looking for us. she found us and realized what we were doing. she didn’t say anything there, but when we got to the hotel room where my bf’s mom was, they both started yelling at us. then my stepmom took me to her hotel room, and spanked me. (it wasnt the first time that we had had sex) she grounded me, & still barely lets me do anything. She doesnt trust me anymore, and i want her to. we were really close until this, i mean, we still are, but not like we used to be.
is she ever going to trust me again? she found out after we got back home that it hadn’t been the first time that my bf and i had been together, and that made her even madder, but i am afraid to talk to her about it. i know that she loves me, and i love her, but i have disappointed her and dont know what to do about it
we didnt use protection, i mean we were on the beach and it just kinda happened. as for her ‘tanning my hide’ as she calls it, she said if i was going to act like a child then i would be punished like one, which i dont understand cause, what child is gonna have sex on the beach? I mean i truly dont understand that one.

I am 20, living at home during college.
I got a hammock at the beginning of the summer as a gift. Over the summer it proceeded to rain a lot, so I never got to use the hammock much. Now its getting to be fall and soon its going to be getting cold and such and I don’t want my hammock stand to rust or get nasty and rusty but I also do wanna take it down and not be able to use it over the next 6 months.

I want to stick it in my room. I have a chair in there that just gets used to throw my clothes on and I want something I can actually use to chill and relax on.

My mom already said no before because she doesn’t think it’ll fit but I plan on rearranging my room to make room for everything.

So if I am the one cleaning my room and moving stuff around then whats the big deal?
She just doesn’t want me to.
She thinks it isn’t going to fit.

BUT
I have already done most the cleaning and rearranging of the furniture. She should be happy she is getting an extra chair to sit in the living room and I am thinking about giving my tv to my bother.

My mom had this crochet book. It was the alphabet and each letter would have a different little kid. For example H, would have a kid on a hammock, A could have a kid at a lemonade stand. Sorry, if I’m not explaining it well.
She lost the book several years ago. I’ve been trying to find it online, but so far i haven’t found anything.

If you even know the name of the book, please let me now.

Thank you
I meant to put cross stitch, not crochet. Sorry

It’s for my mom’s birthday, she wanted one since I can remember!

my mom said it would be less expensive to make a hammock of our own for my fuzzies(ferrets), and we don’t know where to find a pattern for it.

My mom thinks my idea is stupid. BTW, I have a small room sort of, and I LOVE space. Right now I have no space….
mom’s idea- just keep your bed and dress it up (but I have no idea how to dress it up as a sea theme, any ideas?)
my idea – since its a beach theme, in a corner put a net hammock and put pillows, fancy covers, and cushions on it.

ANY IDEAS?????

I feel like every time I put one up it is dismantled within a day or two. I have tried putting Eyelets into the corners but they still chew it. Any suggestions for the best thing to hang the hammock with? Should I use stronger fabric than fleece? I know not to use towels.

When my dogs chew their dog beds my mom puts a tiny bit of tobasco sauce around on the edges. I feel like that would be a bad idea with rats though. Ideas please!