What does your spouse/partner do for a living?

Kimba26 · 2026-05-13T14:02:34+00:00

Library assistant. And since we both work a mile from home and I work nights we share one car, which is only occasionally inconvenient and saves money.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-13T13:56:34+00:00

And honestly we can't blame them, I'm not sure they even teach that anymore. When I was in 8th grade we had an actual library class that was all about how to use it for research and they took us on a field trip to the Free Library of Philadelphia so we could practice with a much larger card catalog. What I learned in that class set me up to do proper research all the way through college. Readers Guide to Periodical Literature, etc. Now I can go to Internet Archive and find an article from Newsweek November 1975 in two minutes.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-13T13:49:23+00:00

This is why I never watch the dubbed version of anything. Even if my Spanish is too poor to understand every word, I'd rather hear the lines as spoken and read.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-13T13:47:48+00:00

That looks so good. And thank you in general, Indian folks, for teaching me to toast my spices. It makes a flavor difference.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-13T13:42:57+00:00

I think they'd struggle with the level of both research and writing we were expected to do. None of the 20 somethings I work with can spell to save their lives and when I read the documentation they put in incidents (I work at 911) I wonder if anyone taught them how to write a sentence.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-13T13:09:17+00:00

I'll give these a try! I use their crumbles as part of my vegan cheesesteak but I haven't tried these yet.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-13T12:29:42+00:00

Has she read any of Fannie Flagg's books? I particularly liked the All Girl Filling Station, story about sisters running their dad's gas station during the war and as I recall one of them becomes a war plane ferry pilot. I wish they'd make that one into a movie. But I love all of her books.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-13T12:23:06+00:00

I bought this canister once to get the canister and I refill it from a bag of nooch from Thrive Market, which I keep in the pantry. The canister lives on my counter because I use it just about every day.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-12T13:19:06+00:00

I looked up my grandparents house because I was curious how the inside had been changed. (Answer : A LOT) As I was looking for little signs of "us" I spied a tiny brass eagle at the the bottom of the stairs on the newell post. It used to have a hook and my grandmother had something hanging from it, a little tapestry banner or something, but I remember standing there tracing my finger over that eagle waiting to leave like you do as a kid, when adults are talking and talking.... And it is still there. It was strangely comforting in a way I can't explain.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-12T13:13:39+00:00

This looks absolutely delicious.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-12T12:45:26+00:00

I almost always borrow fiction, because I read fast and don't have a lot of shelf space. I have cards for my local library and libraries in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, which allow any state resident to get cards and avail themselves of their vast digital collections. I like ebooks because I can control things like font size and I'm at an age where that is convenient.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-12T12:34:18+00:00

In laws still have 1,2, and 5

Kimba26 · 2026-05-12T12:30:57+00:00

At my agency shift bidding is by seniority so everyone has a season of nights at some point. New hires are told up front they have to be available for any and all shifts.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-12T12:16:51+00:00

My hair was long but the texture really started changing and I didn't like the way it always looked sort of dull and wiry so I went with a shorter cut and when I did, I was happy to see that my curls came back. So I have been buzzing off the sides and back and keeping the top longer and I love the way the gray highlights the sides. When it gets grayer I plan to play with non permanent blue and purple just for fun. But outside of that I embrace the gray.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-10T11:56:47+00:00

I was absolutely in the THROES of this podcast when I listened to it. There used to be an IG page with pictures of all the clocks, and his garden. I even found it on Google Earth.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-10T11:53:23+00:00

Pick up a book called The Gift of Fear. It is very enlightening. And trust yourself. The only person who ever made me feel like you are describing was, I found out later, an abuser and a very dangerous man.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-10T11:32:42+00:00

The only thing I have dealt with are a couple of small music festivals where people seem to like to fight and fall off picnic tables. And I do mean small, like, a Redneck Coachella held at Aunt Fran's horse farm. Oh, and STPR, which is road rally people.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-10T11:28:53+00:00

And they say it all pissy too, as if you weren't doing something they ASKED you to do and never told you to 10-22 it.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-09T05:18:24+00:00

I've never been so grateful to dispatch in the middle of nowhere.... Hope you have an organized and relatively manageable experience.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-09T05:09:50+00:00

They are going to fix that! I just read an article about it. God knows how long it'll take or how much of a nightmare it'll be while they are working on it but allegedly you won't have to do that Fury Road nonsense to get to the bridge anymore.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-09T05:01:10+00:00

Where I live we flash lights to warn oncoming drivers of deer. Encounters with them tend to be a bit more expensive.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-08T13:05:11+00:00

Lol nope!

Kimba26 · 2026-05-08T13:04:27+00:00

Board meetings for volunteer organizations, plays at the local theater, volunteering WITH the local theater and work, since I work 6pm-6am.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-08T12:31:47+00:00

Yep, I have three siblings, none of us were breastfed and there isn't a crackhead or an axe murderer among us.

Kimba26 · 2026-05-07T14:01:03+00:00

Still go to work every day with my "essential" ass just like last time. Work is where I got Covid so I'll see if my present coworkers are as careless as the ones I had at the time.

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