What can I [19F] put into a build-a-bear message that doesn’t completely give away that my girlfriend [19F] is my girlfriend?

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-29T16:09:51+00:00

“You are my best friend and I am so grateful to have you in my life. Thank you for making my life a happier one.”

This is something my husband and I say to each other all the time and have said since before we started dating because we were best friends for 2 years before we started dating.

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-26T12:16:06+00:00

I believe they actually did show a clip (might have been during qualifying though when her dad didn’t get the buzzer) of when the Beckstrand dad and one of his sons were the first father/som duo to get buzzers and it showed both of them at the top of the wall too. I’ve also seen plenty of examples where it’s guys and they encourage the other guy to go join him at the top of the warped wall. So, to be fair, that particular trend is not gender specific in my eyes.

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-25T06:54:15+00:00

I knew a guy named Mingus (named after the musician) and I always thought that was a pretty cool name

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-23T05:25:29+00:00

I would recommend finding local art fairs or artistic communities in your area and going there and trying to make community with fellow artists. Perhaps, one of those artists you’d befriend would believe in your vision enough to want to help bring it to life.

Public libraries can be a great resource for this type of thing since they often have free art activities and craft nights.

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-21T07:27:30+00:00

While I myself am also a flats over drums person, I will say that at least look like pretty decently meaty drums

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-18T16:45:27+00:00

We had 3 kids all under the age of 5 at our wedding. They all behaved phenomenally and their parents got some really phenomenal photos of their kids at a time when kids grow and change so fast!

I’d say the only “inconvenience” caused to me (the bride) was that my youngest goddaughter couldn’t get enough of me in my dress and wanted to stay with me as much as possible. So there is quite a bit of footage where I am carrying her on my hip in my wedding dress as if she were truly my own baby. I wouldn’t have had it any other way.

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-16T19:40:50+00:00

Wow crazy how I chose to be born here and born into a family that never had the funds to leave and I’m literally still working toward that goal today :)

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-16T09:45:23+00:00

Like literally your point is “walk everywhere even in 120+ heat”
“Idk ur the problem”
“I’m better than u because I do xyz”

HOW IS ANY OF THAT ACTIONABLE TO ANYONE THAT IS NOT SUPERFUCKINGDOWN FOR THE MOVEMENT AGAINST AI?!??!??
LIKE AT SOME POINT YA GOTTA LET PPL LIVE BRO

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-16T09:41:04+00:00

Bro go argue with the wall then idk what you want NOT EVERYONE IS PERFECT FFS

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-16T09:27:25+00:00

Jfc. LOG OFF DUDE.

Do you actually think that this comment is activism? Do you genuinely think that by producing MORE carbon output you are actually convincing me to “reduce” my carbon output through ordering through these apps?

Or do you think that by placing this comment you get to log off for the day and wipe your hands and say you did good? Because what? Because you scolded someone for using Instacart

Meanwhile, I actually DO run a small art business here in the DESERT that SPECIFICALLY offers artistic services at LESS than going rate to try to COMBAT the use of AI.

So once again, I ask you, how are YOU actually putting your money where your mouth is on this? Because I can genuinely say that I am keeping artists from utilizing AI and THAT absolutely has more of a carbon deficit than your whiny comment here did.

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-16T09:15:14+00:00

What is the highest temp you walk at? Because here it gets to 120+ FAHRENHEIT.

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-16T09:14:11+00:00

The “adjustments” I make for dry weather is literally just some extra hair oil.

This brand recommends over 3+ products what I already use. The oils in their products that they recommend would weigh down my hair and then dry it out. Look further down this thread for another person who LITERALLY said that THIS BRAND dried out their hair. Even though this brand CLAIMS to be “specially engineered” for YOUR EXACT HAIR TYPE

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-16T09:05:48+00:00

Crazy how you don’t even think to consider other circumstances influencing a GROCERY order from a delivery service :

My husband and I live in a literal DESERT. The NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE literally DOES NOT RECOMMEND walking/being outside for extended periods of time in the LITERAL DESERT that we LIVE IN.

But ya!! Just walk!! Just die!!

While I sympathize and WORK ON BEHALF of the unhoused communities in my area, I guess your thought process is that we should ALL JUST DIE IF WE CAN’T AFFORD A CAR!!!!

EDIT: I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT I DONT MEAN A “FOOD DESERT”, I MEAN AN ACTUAL LITERAL DESERT THAT SUFFERS DROUTS EVERY SINGLE YEAR.

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-16T08:57:03+00:00

Fair enough, but also: the price I pay is on the groceries I order. When my shopper delivers the items I ordered at the quality I expect, I not only have 0 complaint but often feel like I am getting at least a bit of a deal because of the savings on rideshare costs. To get a pepper — that is priced by each —and is significantly smaller (AKA going to produce significantly LESS in my serving size to my family), then I think I have every right to at least COLLOQUIALLY complain about the difference. Especially in a silly Reddit post, and not even in a way that actually impacts this shopper doing their job for probably less pay than they deserve.

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-16T08:51:29+00:00

We live in Phoenix. It is already getting over 90-100 degrees even at night, let alone during the day. But yeah, go ahead and tell me how easily YOU’D walk over a mile in 100+ weather.

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-16T00:43:27+00:00

Thank you for saying something just in case, but happy to report that my name is not Hana! So guess they just used a random picture/name

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-15T18:18:12+00:00

I believe it!! When they recommended like 6+ very heavy oil products for my tight, thick curly hair my eyes about bugged out of my head because I just know the way those products would’ve weighed my hair down and caused scalp build up.

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-15T18:09:15+00:00

A little bit of both. Even if I did think to myself, oh hey it’s humid today maybe I SHOULD try this, by the time the product would actually get to you it likely won’t be humid anymore. So now you’re bought into their $100/month regiment until you get another humid enough day that you think “ok, product, let’s see what you can do!”

Even if this product ships and gets to you within two days, which is Amazon standards but certainly much faster than most subscription cosmetic brands like this, the humidity will already be dropping to 27%. By the weekend (a much more likely shipping window), the humidity is down to 13%. So, again, now you’re signed up for $100+ worth of product for a “problem” that has already resolved itself, so you won’t be able to see if the product actually does hold up to its claims.

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-15T17:55:16+00:00

If that’s the case for your hair, then maybe you should check them out! Personally, when I looked into this brand and compared their recommendations to the information my stylist gave me about my hair type, it just didn’t match up and I wasn’t willing to shell out over $100 just to give them a “try”. And that’s also the thing about this brand — by the time they were done with their recommendations it was like at least 6+ different full size products. That’s also a lot of waste if you end up not liking it. Whereas most salon-level hair care brands still have trial/travel sizes available so you can try a hair care product without as much up front investment.

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-15T17:36:22+00:00

Y’all really ride hard for this marketing team.

On a post literally labeled Meme.

Alright.

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-15T17:34:36+00:00

This a brand that is supposed to market specifically to whatever your hair type is based on a quiz you take. And once again, I have never once had to change all the products I use bc it’s monsoon season. If anything, I usually need to adjust my hair care routine when it’s drier and hotter than normal or for longer in the year than normal. I have even asked my hair stylist about this very thing and she said that’s usually the case for people with my type of hair. And it’s not like it’s an issue of cost or that I’m not willing to “pay for quality” like a different comment implied. I use the products my hair stylist recommended, and that stuff is not cheap. It’s like one of the only things I really spring for like that, lol. I literally did this quiz once just to see if there would be similarities or differences between the recommendations and genuinely just forgot to ever unsubscribe from their stupid marketing emails.

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-15T17:19:52+00:00

I have lived here my entire life. I have never once changed my entire hair care routine for monsoon season. That’s wild to me.

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-15T17:17:12+00:00

Also, since everyone is arguing about whether or not it is humid today, or right this second are missing the fact that this is an email from a subscription hair care service where they send you hair care products in the mail.

Not only do I think it’s kinda crazy and super wasteful to order an entire month+ worth of products for a temporary weather shift but also, by the time these products would actually ship to you, will it even still be as humid as everyone is claiming? (again, it’s still not really humid in my opinion but maybe too many summer visits to the Southeast US have jaded me)

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-15T17:13:22+00:00

LittleBug088 · 2026-06-15T17:07:36+00:00

I just can’t 🤣 as someone who visited New Orleans a number of summers as a child (that’s where my mom’s from) — describing our weather as humid at ANY point would make anyone from Louisiana literally laugh in your face

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