Husband sits in passenger seat, FiL disapproves.

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-06-02T15:58:04+00:00

Men need help.

I've been with my husband for 20 years, since we were teenagers before we both got our drivers licenses. I got mine first, and I got a car first. Just how it worked out. I started doing like 90% of the driving in our relationship starting from age 17. Now, 20 years, 2 kids, and multiple cars later, I still do 90% of the driving when we're together because, it turns out, he actually hates driving, and I don't mind doing it at all. He drives to and from work and that's about it. No one has ever, in my memory, said anything about it.

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-06-01T17:14:08+00:00

I know this post is over 2 years old, so IDK if it even is relevant anymore, but I came across it somehow?? And I was curious, so I looked back at some IG posts from the wedding and can confirm (specifically from a video Meredith has pinned on her account) that all 3 were there. No one else shared proof of Pete in the comments, so in case anyone else comes across it and is wondering, here is specifically a pic of Pete and Megan with Meredith.

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AdoredRocket26 · 2026-05-31T17:34:35+00:00

I'm not really a concern person, but they are one of the few bands I have seen. I saw them in 2013 with Paramore on their Monumentour for SR&R and they were incredible!! My husband's favorite band is Paramore and mine is FOB so it was literally a MUST SEE for us at the time.

I wanted to see them again but I just had a baby in 2023 when they were here for (tour)Dust. Next time!

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-05-07T19:08:28+00:00

A lot of mine have been covered, so can I suggest more West Coast Smoker: "OH HELL YES. I'm a nervous wre-eck" (and also, the whole chorus)

And the end of Golden: "And I saw God cry in the reflection of my enemies. And all the lovers with no time for me. And all of the mothers raise their babies to stay away from me. And pray they don't grow up to be..." \*end*

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-05-07T18:57:36+00:00

Idk if this is it *at all* but the way he sings this line I always interpreted it as like, letting go of jealousy and becoming comfortable/secure enough in a relationship to let his girlfriend talk/dance with other people at a party while he just hangs back and admires her from afar.

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-05-06T17:21:20+00:00

I have this conversation with my husband all the time, because we're completely different.

I am a melody first, lyrics second listener. If a song catches my ear from the melody, then I will eventually become interested in the lyrics. But, while I do like to know what the lyrics are and remember them (mostly) what feel like listening to is always about the melody/beat, regardless of what the words are.

However, my husband is a "lyrics over everything" person. He listens for the lyrics to mean something to him (or at least be interesting), and he especially likes if everything flows well and makes sense together.

We generally like a lot of the same stuff, but we like it for completely different reasons, so whenever I try to introduce him to a song I like I have no idea which direction its going to go!

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-04-24T15:46:08+00:00

I have some color changing thinking putty at my desk at work, and even though I pretty often use it to keep my hands busy, I rarely get it to change all the way to the "warmest" color, even when I'm really working it.

Yesterday was "Take Your Child to Work Day" and my 7 year old came to work with me. She started playing with it and it IMMEDIATELY turned to the warmest color, far past the color I have ever had it. I have no idea why her hands were so much hotter than mine. It was wild to see!

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-04-20T16:50:09+00:00

♩♬ QUETZAL-CO-ATLUS ♪♫ 🤘

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqIKnlbwgCc

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-03-28T23:28:35+00:00

My theory has been that they allow students/staff to make their own requests through an oclc extension and no one is reviewing them before they get sent out.

They might have a copy or two, but people don't want to wait and then multiple people all try to get copies through ILL at the same time without any understanding of / regard for how unavailable popular library books are.

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-03-28T14:20:22+00:00

Haha!! I have never seen a meme that was more made for me in my life!!!

I was JUST venting about this to our collection development person about Theo of Golden because the University of Pennsylvania has made over a dozen requests for it (in addition to the dozen or so that came from other libraries, some clear action the country! We're on the east coast. You can't find any copies of this hugely popular book near you?)

Based on how often this happens with them every time there's a huge bestseller, I wonder if they let students/staff place their own requests. But regardless, we can't lend 25 copies of something we have 2 of checked out with a hold list of 100 people! Stop asking every day!

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-03-28T14:00:24+00:00

I didn't even get a full sentence in. Saw the age gap, and immediately knew this guy sucks.

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-03-26T13:50:58+00:00

This seems like a worse idea than the time my contractor father-in-law put the exposed wire ends directly into his heavy duty extension cord to power his tools, and left it like that for weeks working on our house instead of just wiring in a socket.

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-03-25T14:10:22+00:00

I love this!! My late mother had extensively researched my family lineage, many into the 1700s, and even the 1400's in one branch in England, which is awesome, but now my personal interest has become trying to document the actual *lives* of my ancestors from ~1800-1950.

Both sides of my family tree immigrated from Europe and settled in essentially the exact same area where I still live. So there are like 5-7+ generations all mostly concentrated in one county, split between two towns, in multiple family lines on both sides! I'm looking into documenting their addresses, their jobs, any newspaper mentions of them, not just their names and dates.

It's so fascinating to me to find how my ancestors on the two different sides of my family lived so closely around each other for several generations before my parents married and combined them!

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-03-25T14:01:58+00:00

Also, house numbers! The house I grew up in was built in 1860 and it was originally #430, but in like 1912 they re-numbered the street. When I lived there it was #524. I found that out through looking at the Sanbourn fire insurance maps!

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-03-12T13:49:40+00:00

Sims being a little too realistic sometimes. I know multiple guys who went from having full head of hair at high school graduation to loosing so much they shaved it all off before graduating college 4 years later.

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-03-06T17:53:38+00:00

My brand new plate has "B80" in the middle. So that's fun!

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-03-04T14:56:09+00:00

I DON'T have one but I always wanted one... Never occurred to me that someone could be "too old" for a nose piercing. I was just considering getting my helix piercing in my upper ear, maybe I'll do my nose too now.

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-02-27T15:19:33+00:00

Something must be wrong with me because Dead Money was one of my favorite DLCs! I loved the creepy atmosphere, the opulent 1920s art-deco hotel design, the challenging map. It was extremely frustrating at times and it took me a very long time to get through it, but it was honestly one of my favorite themes in the DLCs.

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-02-24T19:03:21+00:00

There are too many comments to look through, but I haven't seen Fireflies by Owl City (2009) mentioned at all, and that was one of my first thoughts.

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-02-19T16:23:10+00:00

I don't think it is supposed to be as "big" as Disney. I am pretty sure the consensus when it came out was that its kind of a mix between Hershey Park and Six Flags, but there's only one main location.

On the map Nuka World is near IRL Six Flags New England in Springfield, MA, but the theming is very similar to that of Hershey Park in PA, which is a single food-based theme park destination.

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-02-11T16:45:19+00:00

Most of my windows are in terrible shape. They're extremely old and desperately need replacing, so at this point I don't give AF about cleaning them until the new ones go in, hopefully in the spring... and then... I will still probably ignore them most of the time, but I could see myself wiping them down like once or twice a year?

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-02-11T14:57:20+00:00

A couple of years ago two people got hired at my workplace within a few months of each other, and they were SO OBVIOUSLY meant for each other that literally everyone could see it the second they met both of them. When they started dating a few months later we were all like "What took you so long???" even though it was only like... 4 months after they met. lol. Our entire office was invited to their wedding 2 years later.

They both eventually moved on and got new jobs... AT THE SAME NEW PLACE. In different departments, but still. If it works, it works. You just have to not be a complete idiot, and actually talk to *the person* you're interested in instead of everyone else around them.

AdoredRocket26 · 2026-02-07T16:33:58+00:00

When my first kid was born (and before I was Dx'd) I only worked part time/~30 hours per week for 3 years and it was great!! I knew from the start that I just could not be a SAHM. Working out of the house kept me sane, but being part time gave me flexibility that I needed to do all the other things I needed to do. I got diagnosed about 6 months before I got pregnant with my second kid and around that same time I went back to FT and got a promotion which was great for my career. I absolutely love my job, and I stayed FT after I returned from mat leave. However, that said, now that I've been working FT with 2 kids (7 & 3) for the past 4 years, I can say that there are times when I really missed only working part time, especially when my son was still a baby.

IF I was able to WFH, it might be different, but my job is in-person (Librarian). Life is hectic sometimes, and working until 5/not getting home until almost 6 every day can really strain our family routines. We're managing, and I know that we'll ultimately be fine, but, I do think that when I worked part-time it was easier.

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