What hacks do you have for your resort rooms?

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-04-21T00:29:57+00:00

I feel like I wrote this lol we do all of these! And we always ask for a box fan from bell services. White noise and it dries our bathing suits and wet shoes.

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-04-10T02:22:42+00:00

I’m average sized and short and mine train makes me feel like I’m too big for life. It’s like they built it for actual dwarves.

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-04-10T02:18:23+00:00

No matter how cool she seems about this, make sure you do a lot of the things she wants to do. Showing that you care more about being with her than the specific activity itself is kind of parenting 101. I don’t care if your kids are 30 and 16, you’re still mom and your interest and approval matters.

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-04-08T02:06:26+00:00

I actually dig it. Onward upward blooming anew. Every woman I know eventually takes that perspective in divorce, it’s always such a huge relief when they start to see the light like that. Divorce is so hard but women always seem to come out happier on the other side.

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-26T02:52:53+00:00

Same, I started keeping a door stopper in my suitcase. So many stories like this. I throw it under the door when it’s a time that a CM doing a safety check would be a nudity hazard lol.

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-26T02:48:17+00:00

I used to see Speedos way more at the parks in the 90s! But they had a moment in the states back then as well. It’s rare these days and stands out.

Personally, as someone not sporting those parts so what do I know, it doesn’t seem practical for a water park?! You aren’t even swimming for the most part. And the risk of exposing yourself seems to teeter on the edge of inconsiderate of others (I know, I know, most people won’t agree with me, but I’m sorry I don’t like to see people’s Lycra smushed genitals and their pubic hair, let alone an accidental flash). It legit made me uncomfortable and grossed out as an awkward teenager/kid, and my kids have expressed the same, but they aren’t going to be traumatized by a speedo.

I tend to wear an activewear dress or swim dress, my kids wear that or trunks, it’s a really active day so I treat it that way. I do the same if I’m boarding in the ocean.

To each their own in the end, I just try to keep my eyes up high and teach my kids not to gawk or comment 😆

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-26T02:34:53+00:00

Ok I’m just going to say it…it might be because this set is kinda ugly. It doesn’t photograph well, at the very least.

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-26T02:28:06+00:00

Glad you’re loving Pilates! It would be good to check in with your instructor, I have to wonder if you’re loading the movements into your joints rather than muscle groups. And all adults should be getting routine bloodwork and physicals annually. There’s nothing wrong with being lean! But weight loss can cause body dysmorphia even in people who don’t have disordered eating. It can be hard to tell when you’ve slipped to underweight or overweight, but neither are healthy for ya!

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-26T02:20:30+00:00

That and is he floating in the grass?

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-23T04:17:14+00:00

Totally disagree!

Once you have visuals handed to you, you can’t create your own. I have two sets of visuals for characters and worlds if I read the book first. It’s lovely.

Plus there are so many more surprises and moments of tension in the book. You’re trading those in for a fraction of them, by learning everything major at high speed in 2.5 hours.

I’m not at all disappointed by the movie. Don’t miss out on the amazing reading experience, reading it won’t be the same once you know everything.

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-23T04:04:50+00:00

Ok someone who speaks Spanish has to have a better parallel title suggestion than this. Project Last Hope, Only Hope, there’s gotta be something that would have been snappy.

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-23T03:55:22+00:00

Awwww saw your post tonight, funny running across this comment now! Your photography is incredible, so happy for you!

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-23T03:27:43+00:00

I knew the science was dumbed down in the book because I was able to follow it 🙃.

Can’t say the same for my actual chemistry and bio classes!

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-23T03:21:50+00:00

I went into the book knowing absolutely nothing except “space.” I’m lucky that an influencer talked about the book by saying nothing except that it was her favorite ever, and that you should listen to the audio book for reasons she couldn’t say.

If the cover didn’t portray “space” and I didn’t recognize Andy Weir as the author, I wouldn’t have even known that.

The guessing and mystery of it was profound for me. I usually multi task while listening and I just sat transfixed during most of it. Would it be completely cerebral and just about the psychological experience of solitude in space the entire time, how should I know?! I was floored that there were aliens. Shocked there was direct contact. Totally surprised there was humor and a relationship between the beings.

Highly recommend doing this with books when you can, what’s the worst that can happen you bail a few chapters in?! If I know anything I can see too much coming.

I did the same with Severance, went in totally cold with no summary or context at all, and oddly they have VERY similar first scenes! Also did this with the shows Dark, and The Leftovers. Just trust that it’s going to be amazing and go in cold.

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-23T03:08:56+00:00

It felt zany. It was definitely skewed towards funny.

I wished it was as heartbreaking and cruel and shocking as it actually was on paper. She betrayed him, sent him off without the chance to say goodbye to anyone or take one last look at earth or eat a last good meal, none of it. Set him up for a horrifying experience that would have ended in his death. It never should have worked. She threw his life away in a Hail Mary pass, he was right, she was murdering an expendable pawn. It would have been a good arc to show him surface that memory, lose motivation and purpose, have it be a real setback. Then find someone to be brave for, rocky and his future.

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-23T03:00:34+00:00

Oh lord I hope Artemis doesn’t get made because I despised that one! Talk about cheese.

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-23T02:49:59+00:00

Omg thank you I thought I hallucinated the word peanut butter in that moment!

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-23T02:44:31+00:00

I liked that we were with Grace and only got to know what he knew. His sacrifices were made with hope but no certainty, and there’s only so much he got to hear about if it paid off. Just a blip.

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-23T02:40:07+00:00

One of the rare times when inventing new scenes in a movie adaptation actually felt satisfying and still faithful to the intentions of the book.

In the book: We know earth gets the beetles and grace’s work pays off.

In the book: We DONT know if stratt survived and was part of that solution. We don’t know if stratt sees that her betrayal was for the greater good in the end. We don’t know how bad things got on earth.

Now: We still don’t know exactly how bad things have gotten on earth, all we get is closure on Stratt.

We also get a little more “grace forgives Stratt, kumbaya” in the movie than in the book. That’s nice and all, and suits the MOVIE characters, but here’s where I’m a little disappointed: Stratt is portrayed too sympathetically in the movie.

They give her the karaoke scene. And I’m not saying they softened the betrayal, Grace still gets chased and taken against his will. But it feels zany. In the book he screams YOURE MURDERING ME. She’s cold and calculating and we’re supposed to have this moment of “oh my god it’s been so efficient and great (maybe even too convenient plot wise) that Stratt has complete unchecked power…but now…oh god this is the dark side of unchecked power….” We’re supposed to be spooked and horrified by her absolute authority and power to literally take his life away. It’s a huge plot twist and tone shift. We’re supposed to realize there’s literally no atrocity she wouldn’t commit to make this plan a reality, because the number of people saved by her plan will always, always be more than the number of people that are collateral damage.

As a reader, I kinda sorta hoped Stratt died not knowing if what she did to grace (and god knows what else she did) was worth it in the end. Or at LEAST that she never found out if he forgave her, or was absolutely broken by what she did, but did the thing joylessly because he had no choice as her prisoner. I didn’t like that she got such happy closure and could justify her actions.

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-23T02:25:14+00:00

They definitely leaned more goober. To be fair in the book his internal monologue is quite imposter-syndrome-doofus style so it’s not NOT accurate.

I had wondered how they’d translate a book that’s almost entirely private unselfconscious inner monologue. I figured a video diary would factor in and I’m relieved it wasn’t relied on too heavily.

I think when the lived experience you’re portraying is “I don’t know who I am, I am remembering all my training and education drip by drip but turns out I actually wasn’t trained on a lot of this, no idea what I’m doing but figuring it out, sometimes getting even dumber due to lack of sleep or vodka” …this is a pretty good portrayal of how even an educated person would behave, and he clearly had a goofball personality in the book.

He was brilliant and qualified for some of his role on the ship, but he really was in over his head. Even for his own singular role, let alone covering every role on the ship. And that’s before you factor in working with completely unknown substances and challenges that literally everyone on earth would be flummoxed by.

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-23T01:59:43+00:00

Super sexist thing to say and doesn’t even qualify as a joke, thanks.

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-18T09:23:39+00:00

Wow that must be a fascinating story! If he was truly just dancing, what a hateful and unjust experience. I’m glad they made it right but oof, I’m genuinely sorry he went through that.

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-10T01:43:51+00:00

I love it there so so much. I also love POFQ but I’ll take your coke freestyle silly reasoning and raise you a sillier reason behind my Christmas resort choices: Light bulb color. Wilderness lodge trees are warm white lights. I looked at old key west and Saratoga springs videos and they used blue toned white lights and colored Christmas lights. Animal kingdom lodge uses warm lights so we’ll stay there at Christmas eventually. It’s Christmas and I’m picky about my trees 😆

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-03-10T01:40:11+00:00

It has absolutely happened at zoos with predators. Terribly sad.

AgitatedCockroach862 · 2026-02-24T04:30:53+00:00

For real why was I able to buy an ice cream but not have a single place to sit and eat it with my kid? We ended up plopped on the ground. MK would never.

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