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I love this idea! I am definately going to start doing it tomorrow....(only because I have a final exam at 8 tomorrow morning and could definately benefit from sleep or it would be tonight!) I think that this will be really helpful in getting things back in order and rebuilding what I let go....Thank you so much!

Thanks Bini~ praying is a bit tough, but I know its necessary. I just feel hypocritical and don't know what to say. For the past while I pray for other people when they need it, but I haven't prayed for myself in a long time....I just need to tell myself "suck it up buttercup" and start talking the the Lord again.....on the "To Do" list for tonight

Thank you dazed and mliff....I just read a really good talk from Edler Scott. It was very helpful....here is the link if you'd like to read it too mliff :) Its kinda a step by step for coming back. It is entitled "finding the way back" LDS.org - Ensign Article - Finding the Way Back

I have so many questions right now its ridiculous. The overall theme of the questions is how do you rebuild faith after sin? I mean, if you sin enough, you kill the spirit and it ceases to be with you all the time (ex. my life). I don't know how to learn/have faith independent of the feelings that the spirit brings. I don't know where to start in the scriptures, or how to build up enough faith to access the powers of the atonement. I have been reading/praying daily...but there is no direction to my reading, its kinda just an "open up the book and see where it ends up" sort of situation. Should I just start at the beginning of the book of mormon and work my way through? study by subjects? And can you learn/ have faith independent of the spirit? At this point, any advice would be helpful, I just so badly want to find the testimony that I once had again. Thanks so much and I hope everyone is having a blessed day!

I did some calculations and I would end up making about 5.75 an hour after taxes...NOT worth the job. So I am going to submit the ss-8 and if i get fired over it...well, I'm not really in much of a worse place anyhow. Is it wrong to do that to a company though knowing that the fines/penalties for falsly classifying employees will hurt them financially? I just hate being taken advantage of and hate when people are financially dishonest.

ok....so I have been looking for a job for a while and finally found one...not at all a glamorous one (i'll be cleaning the homes of extremely, disguistingly wealthy people) but at this point work is work till I finish up my nursing degree. I have some questions regarding taxes though, and I'm not sure what I should do. I was hired as an "independent contractor" but I think that I should be an employee instead. I've been reading through IRS stuff all morning and if I am interpreting it correctly then i am not at all a private contractor. I almost feel like this company is classifying me as an independent contractor to avoid paying taxes themselves...which isn't honest at all, and will end up costing me a lot in the long run. I know I can file the SS-89 form with the IRS and have them determine if I am an employee or contractor, but I'm afraid if I do i'll get fired and I really need the job. So any advice would be great...here are the details on my job: The company has 4 people who do the cleaning, the owner, and then another employee who does the scheduling. We do not get PTO or holiday pay etc or insurance benefits but all work full time. We do not get paid hourly, but rather we get payed a certain amount for each size of home that we clean. The company privdes all of the equipement we need, even the vehicles we drive to get to each home, the only thing we pay for is our uniforms, which are dictated by the company. We are required to work from 8-5 each day, and the company sets up our schedule and gives us a daily itinerary for which homes we clean. The company is payed directly by all clients. and then we get paid by the company each friday. There is no limit on time in the forms I signed. Here is what I signed today: -Independent contractor form stating the company won't be paying any of my taxes -Form saying I can't do any similar work myself, or with another company during and 2 year after ending work with the company -confidentiallity agreement saying I won't tell anyone about the houses we work on If anyone can offer advise as to whether I am correctly classified as an independent contractor or not, and what I should do if I am not than I would very much appreciate it.

just wanted to let everyone know that according to gallup, presidential approval ratings have gone up since the vote last night...so despite what republicans are saying about Americans hating this...there are clearly some who don't, otherwise, ratings would have dropped.

Yes, as a pro-choice individual I firmly believe that a fetus is not at all human, but rather a little bug growing inside the uterus of a woman. How it got there, we do not know, we just know that bugs must be exterminated at all costs. And of course there is no father in the picture, because everyone knows that if a male human and a female human had sex, they'd make a little human, not a parasite which we have already established as the case with pregnancy....There it is, the truth about the entire pro-choice campaign.

Thank you for telling me what my concept of pro-choice is. But unfortunately, you are making a ridiculous assumption and generalization of the thoughts of all of us pro-choicers despite the several responses from others who explain that what you are summing up here is incorrect. I think it is best that people explain their own thoughts and ideals rather than explaining the thoughts and ideals of others, it gets far less messy that way.

Lol personally, Glen Beck boils my blood and I am absolutely disgusted that people see him as a representative of the LDS people and church. On far too many occasions he has been intolerant, inconsiderate, and down right rude and I hate that people associate him with my LDS beliefs. I think that he ought to just call it quits. I, and many other LDS people I know, do not agree with ANYTHING he has to say on his offensive show and don't appreciate him voicing his opinion in such a manner that it makes it look like the opinion of the church......lol anyhow, thats just my little rant on the subject :)

Thank you for your updates sleepless, it gives some of the rest of us hope in the Atonement too :)

For clinical rotations at a local hospital we were all required to get the seasonal flu shot because many of our patients, like nikki said are immuno-compromised. However, there are some people who absolutely cannot get the flu shot....like people who are allergic to eggs for example. Every hospital is required to provide an alternative for such people who provide written documentation from a health care provider. In the hospital that I do clinicals at's case (wow, that was convoluted) anyone who does not get a flu shot for whatever reason is required to where a face mask any time they are in the hospital, not just in patients rooms, but even just roaming the halls between shifts etc.

No they will not send you home, promise. I went to BYU and had a similar situation. And I'm not 100% certain, but I am pretty positive that because of the fact that communication between you and your bishop is confidential he can't tell the school, the only students I know of who were sent home were either caught in the act, admitted to the student judicial commity themselves, or were turned in by other students. There is no reason for you to worry if you have changed. You signed the honor code and at that point it became relevant, not before. So, go talk to the bishop and get it off your chest then all will be well! Thanks for being a good example in turning things around and getting back on track.

lol, amen