it's been a while...

rose_ashes · **rose_ashes**

wow.

it certainly has been far too long since i've been here. almost all summer, to be exact. i am so sorry, everyone. i do realize that i have pretty much abandoned all online activities. work, the boyfriend, and the family have been getting in the way of my computer time. darned them. :P haha.

anyway, i just wanted to let you all know that i am back and will be doing my best to catch up on all of the things i have missed. please post and let me know if anything major has gone on!

as far as my life goes... eh, a lot of stuff has gone on. i ended up breaking up with my boyfriend of two years and then getting back together with him. i adopted a dog that had been thrown out of a car on a highway. my parents are in the middle of a nasty custody battle over myself and my two sisters... and there is more drama within my family than i care to explain. lol.

anyhow, i do apologize very very much for my unexplained absence. several people at work have quit or gotten fired, so they have been working me pretty much fulltime. plus the family/ boyfriend trouble and the ongoing fight with depression, and i've found little time for anything anymore. hope you all have been doing well! i look forward to catching up with you.

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7/22/04

Bebi · **Bebi**

Hey don't apologise, you sound like you've been through a really rough time so it's understandable the pc took a back seat

It's great to see you back hun, I really hope everything works out xxx
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vincent · **vincent**

Sometimes in life we must take a break from the things we like.....

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rose_ashes · **rose_ashes**

thanks, guys. i hope everything works out as well. in all honesty, i just really hope my dad doesn't get custody of us, lol. that would be a nightmare at its worst.
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7/22/04

Bebi · **Bebi**

Surely you're old enough to have a say in who you want to live with?
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vincent · **vincent**

Here in Michigan (if I remember right) at the age of 14 a child can choose who they want to spend their time with.....

If I am not being to nosey.....PM me how old you are.
Just curious.
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Bebi · **Bebi**

In the UK if custody is challenged at all they ask the children for their opinion from quite a young age. My husband's daughter is 8 and when we went through court to gain access to see her, they took her wish to have contact with her dad into account.
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rose_ashes · **rose_ashes**

thanks, ger.

and vincent, i am 16... no, you aren't being nosey at all. i'm not too shy about my age, though i hope people still take me seriously knowing that i'm not exactly an adult persay.

my sisters, however, are only 11 and 9. it's them i'm concerned about.
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7/22/04

Bebi · **Bebi**

I understand why you're worried now. I'm presuming you've spoken to your mum and told her you all want to live with her rather than your dad? I'm sure if all three of you along with your mum insist you want to stay with your mum then it should be taken into account.
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What will our world be like in 2050?
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the population in developing countries is growing rapidly. Over the past 50 years, the rate of

increase in population has been fastest in the least developed countries. By 2050, the population of

Africa is expected to reach 1.8 billion, 0.9 billion more than its current population.
Global warming
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A recent research report indicates that it is quite possible that the Earth’s temperature is rising

well above the previous estimate. Such an result would have severe consequences.
A research team from the University of Colorado used satellite data to estimate that the ice sheet

will lose up to 48 cubic miles by 2050. In comparison, a city with the size of Los Angeles uses one

cubic mile of fresh water every year. Ice shelves in the Antarctic will have decreased by more than

7,200 square miles in the next four decades.
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Africa’s rivers face dramatic change that will leave a quarter of the continent severely short of

water by the middle of the century.
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“In those areas where there is already a water shortage, it’s going to have a devastating effect,”

the study says. “If you’re already walking 5 km to the nearest stream to get water, by 2050, it’s

going to mean walking 30 km or moving your whole household closer to the water source.”

Four wheels good, four wheels bad The car has transformed the lives of people, but the planet is

paying too high a price. Today there are 620 million private cars worldwide, to say nothing of buses,

vans and lorries. With current growth trends, that number is expected to reach a staggering three

billion cars worldwide by 2050.

If we continue to burn fossil fuels at current rates, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will

reach 550 ppm (parts per million) by around 2050. This will increase global temperatures between 1.4

and 4.8 by 2050, and sea levels will rise between 0.09 and 0.78 meters.

mako · **mako**

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sarah · **sarah**

You've had a nightmare, but glad you came back here. Good place to be Mr. Green

I think I'm the most recent Mod and have been in and out of things as Geri knows this Friday I am taking over my own pub. I must be mad Smilie_PDT

But hopefully before too long Geri will have posted some photos of her and Becky visiting England (to stay at the pub with me) and as we have a sweet little monkey place nearby, I sense some great photos from said visit big grin

xxx

Stay positive rose_ashes, and really sorry it's been so poo in 2009 Smilie_PDT

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