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I'll try to make a long story short, but we moved here last fall, my 16 yr old daughter has been in residential facilities for 2 years. Where we moved from (Vermont) the schools were smaller(around 1000 kids total in the 9th-12th grade school) She would have been going into high school when she went to the facility, but she never really finished 8th grade. I tried to get her into Connections Academy, but that was a huge cluster f$&k and ended up putter her in FLVS for this spring. She didn't do well, not exactly motivated, and we ended up dropping her down to 1 class, which she finished with an A.

She wants to make friends, and I don't blame her, neither of us know anyone here and it's tough. I looked into the smaller schools, I had her more or less enrolled in an all girls school (which is what she's used to from the facilities) and then was told a week after I brought everything in that they were closing less than a month later, so that was a lost cause. I then kept looking and found Richard Millburn Academy which is the smallest of anywhere else I have found. They have summer school so I was hoping to get her enrolled in time for that, but being the end of the school year they never got back to me. It is now (apparently, because I have no idea!) 2 weeks from the beginning of the school year and I haven't heard a damn thing from them.

All I want is for my kiddo to get an actual high school diploma (nothing against GED or anyone who has gotten one, I just know she's more than capable) so she can get a job like she wants, but I have ZERO idea what I should do. I don't want to send her into a huge school when she's spent 2 years with maybe 100 other kids around her, and the schools she always went to had many 100 per grade.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

I (41f) have a friend (also 41f) that was more like an acquaintance for most of my life. Her and I went to the same school since probably kindergarten, and hung out a few times here and there when we were young. A year or so ago we got closer because of a mutual "business" friend had referred me to her. It quickly became a closer friendship, we went to the casino for her 40th birthday, and she took me out for mine. She would come by my house every couple days and just hang out, but she was always asking for things, using my car when she had her own, taking things from my house and later telling me I said she could have it, nothing huge but still things I noticed that were missing.

I sold my house and moved about 1000 miles away almost a year ago. She knew all of this was happening and that I was going to make a decent amount of money off the sale (it wasn't a secret by any means, most everyone I hung out with knew) She asked if I could loan her some money when the sale went through, I actually told her "you ruined the surprise, I was going to send you some money so you could come down and hang on the beach with me". I had planned on maybe $1000, but she asked if she could borrow $2000 to get out of the business that wasn't doing as well anymore. She was also in the midst of moving to another apartment, so was paying rent on 2 places for a month or so. I really have no problem loaning people money, when I have it.

I made up a rather silly contract, saying she would pay me back $100 a month, mostly for my peace of mind that I would get it back. When I say silly I mean funny things in it "if 3 months payment are missed borrower will be subject to Judge Judy's wrath" etc. It had some jokes in there but the bottom line was clear, pay it back or I have the right to sue.

Well it has now been about 8 months and I received ONE payment from her around Christmas time. I've gotten texts here and there from her saying "hey what's up, miss you..." usually with something about she knows she owes money but this and that have happened, blah blah.

Well this morning I woke up to a text from her:

"Hey babe! I can finally come down to see you if you want. I could stay with you?! Let me know"

I'm not very confrontational and like I said, her and I weren't that close. I'm not really quick with good comebacks, and she is literally a very fast talker so I hardly get a word in most of the time. She can be kind of critical sometimes, just saying things like "wow you're bathroom is gross" when I was moving and hadn't cleaned it since my older daughter and ex-step sons lived there (not a bathroom I used a lot since I had a master bath) I no longer have the big 5 bedroom house that I was living in alone for a few months before the sale went though; it is now my husband, our teen daughter and I in a 3 bedroom apartment, 1 bedroom being my office because I work at home. So we really don't have room for anyone to stay here.

I know this may be a dumb question, but how do I nicely ask her for the money back? Especially considering she has the money to take a vacation but can't even give me $100 a month here and there?

tl;dr I loaned a friend money, she hasn't made the payments we agreed to and is now telling me she can come stay at my house for vacation

I have a VERY old iPod, not even sure what model, maybe a classic? It's definitely from 2000-2005. It has a lot of mixes a friend of mine made (probably 2000+ that can't be reproduced), and this is now the ONLY place they exist as his computer crashed back then, probably 2005-2006. I want to get them off before my iPod decides it's just had enough. It already doesn't hold a charge, I always kept it plugged into my car as that's where we used it most. I am scared to death to lose these things. I threw away all the CDs I had in a big house cleanout a while back so I don't have those copies either.

I looked up somewhere that said I should uninstall anything apple on my computer, which I thought I did, then just noticed iTunes, etc in my start menu. My only thought is that I could possibly use my work computer, as that has Ubuntu and has never had iTunes on it, as far as I can tell. I assume when my boss got it he wiped it clean and then installed Ubuntu.

Help! Feels like I'm racing against time with this little box that's been stashed in my purse with a cord that's about to fall apart. I don't even know if I could get the wide charger that goes with it anymore!

I moved to Florida about 6 months ago, was in Palm Coast for a bit and just moved to Daytona Beach 2 months ago. I work at home, live with my (ex) husband (long story) and 16 yr old daughter. I hardly go anywhere other than the store and have ZERO friends! I've worked at home for years so think I've become pretty socially awkward in public, and just don't know what to do with other people anymore!

Any ideas of places to go/things to do alone where I won't feel weird in a corner by myself? lol