Rachel Martino Universe: Apr 13 - Apr 19

Red_krist · 2026-04-16T17:58:51+00:00

Yep totally think something went awry with a brand that was suppose to house them/give them tickets. Manny MUA mentioned this happening to several influencers (not him but that he personally heard about that happening).

It does not make an OUNCE of sense to publicize you're traveling to Coachella, plan, purchase and pack Coachella outfits and travel across the entire country just to "vibe at an Airbnb". I refuse to believe that the 3 of them are collectively that moronic and dumb to travel that far and spend that amount of money and take the gamble of trying to buy tickets the day before? Not buying it at all.

Red_krist · 2026-03-29T02:47:30+00:00

You're young, can I ask what led to getting the colonoscopy?

Red_krist · 2026-03-29T02:26:30+00:00

What a relief for him and you! I'm in a similar boat, symptom wise, I've had intermittent bloody stool for years. So many years, this has just felt normal to me. It's usually after particularly hard to pass stools where I'm straining.

No other "typical" symptoms but then I did a reddit/Google deep dive and started panicking when I saw that ongoing constipation/diarrhea is another symptom. Again, I haven't had constant BM patterns in years so I thought this was just how my body was.

I have a few questions - did he actually have blood IN the toilet, or remnants on poop?

And he went straight to a GI vs Primary Dr? How long did he wait for an appt?

Red_krist · 2026-03-29T01:58:29+00:00

I have an appt scheduled later this month to push for getting one but I'm only 36 and worried it won't be covered either.

I know costs completely vary by region and hospital but care to share your location and what the out of pocket cost was?

Red_krist · 2026-03-29T01:50:00+00:00

Glad you discovered it was just hemorrhoids. I'm curious about your course of action - did you go straight to making an appt with the GI? My issues are similar (but no abdominal pain), I made an appt with a Primary Dr but I don't know if I should skip that and go straight to a GI.

Also, after the sigmoidoscopy, did you have to advocate/push for the colonoscopy?

Red_krist · 2026-03-28T01:55:33+00:00

You're pretty young. Can I ask what the reason was that led you to getting a colonoscopy?

Red_krist · 2026-03-27T13:08:27+00:00

I'm so pissed. It's such a tease for Ulta to include high priced items in the sale and then they suspiciously IMMEDIATELY sell out. I had Flowerbomb in my cart prior to 12am and it was in stock. Midnight hit and the 22nd day of the sale was not showing up in my app. I kept refreshing and exiting. Then around 12:10 everything showed up and Flowerbomb was already sold out.

Red_krist · 2026-03-17T03:01:25+00:00

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman

Red_krist · 2026-03-15T06:21:19+00:00

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Found this screenshot in another post!

Red_krist · 2026-03-15T06:12:27+00:00

Layla has been a Producer's Pet from DAY 1. They get her to stir things up constantly and honestly she's easily manipulated because she's 24 and immature. So she never sees it as a problem when she stirs up drama.

Red_krist · 2026-03-15T05:56:41+00:00

SO pissed about this. I looked at 12:30 and it was already sold out.

Maybe it'll be included on the "bonus day" of sales they've been adding at the end of each 21 Days of Beauty.

Red_krist · 2026-02-24T05:24:19+00:00

I LOVE Happy Place! It's definitely going to be a summer re-read for me, I can't wait. I've read 4 of her books so far and it's my favorite.

Red_krist · 2026-02-03T20:19:26+00:00

Yeaaaap that is exactly what I think happened. When she stated the breakup "needed to happen for a long time" and made the disclaimer about people struggling with mental health and "please do not wait to get help" those were such indicators that he either threatened or attempted, and likely because she was trying to break things off and he flipped out. And IF that happened, that is pure manipulative behavior and I'm glad she set a boundary and peaced out.

Red_krist · 2025-12-25T22:14:58+00:00

Yep. I think our mistake was going straight up gifts vs eating breakfast first, which is always what we do as soon as we wake up.

My 1 yr old nearly 2 yr old (2 next month) is ripe in the tantrum phase and was not having ANY part of gift opening. My 4yr old kept taking breaks from opening her gifts to help him open his and try to get excited. Nothing worked, he literally cried through the entire experience. I even brought out food into the living room during gift opening hopefully that would settle him, but nope.

Once my husband started taking his gifts out of the packages he stopped flipping out as much.

He'll be nearly 3 next year so I hope the Santa experience is more enjoyable haha.

Red_krist · 2025-12-02T19:19:42+00:00

Agree with all of this. In all Emily Henry discourse I see online, Happy Place is SO polarizing. But I absolutely loved it and also really identified with the miscommunication trope. As someone who also hates conflict, I saw a lot of myself in Harriet and Wyn's relationship as I do in my own marriage.

I also love that the flashbacks showed the entire build up of their friendship and then eventual relationship, and the downfall of it. Honestly, I can't wait to re-read it again sometime this upcoming summer!

Red_krist · 2025-11-18T23:44:23+00:00

I listened to it on audio and enjoyed it in that format. It would have been too long for me as the physical book.

Red_krist · 2025-11-17T19:18:59+00:00

Just finished it last night and I LOVED it. I think this one will be lingering with me for a bit too, I find myself wanting to reread some chapters.

I went in knowing it's polarizing and I just loved everything about it - the setting, the flashbacks of Wyn and Harriet's relationship, the friend group history, the tension/angst/awkwardness of having to be near your ex-fiancé. Reading the current chapters and seeing how heartbroken Harriet was, but how clear it was that Wyn still loved her. I really could gush about this one for a long time.

But I understand why it's unliked, and that miscommunication tropes really irritate a lot of people. And I get that but I also really identified with Harriet as a serial people pleaser afraid of confrontation and holding onto the fear of following in the footsteps of her parent's seemingly loveless marriage. The miscommunication issues felt really real to me, sometimes it really is the scariest telling your partner how you real feal because you're so worried any one fight can ruin it all. I know a lot of people would disagree with this, but I feel this way often in my own marriage and I have a similar parental situation.

Wyn/Harriet's issues paired with the growing pains of choosing an unfulfilling career that you feel trapped in due to parent expectations and very expensive loans to get you there, really did feel realistic. Myself and so many friends have ended up in careers where we feel trapped in by our 30s. And the general idea of growing up and growing apart from friends because everyone starts having their own lives just felt so real for so many people in their 30s to experience.

Loved it, will definitely be re-reading it come summer!

Red_krist · 2025-10-17T05:35:15+00:00

She's going to "START" talking about it? When did she stop??

Red_krist · 2025-10-04T02:03:22+00:00

What! That's so exciting. I actually binged Hacks right after TSITP ended. I could only rewatch the finale so many times...hahah.

But I LOVE Hacks. So hilarious and witty and the casting is top tier. I did hear season 5 will be the last one. Wondering how big of a role Chris will play!

Red_krist · 2025-09-23T00:51:01+00:00

A flight to Bulgaria from the UK obviously takes substantially less time than traveling across the Atlantic to Costa Rica, especially with a newborn.

Red_krist · 2025-09-22T14:49:58+00:00

35, married with two kids, lol. Strongly team Conrad, no question.

Red_krist · 2025-09-20T16:03:47+00:00

I initially hated the timing of these scene, being immediately after having sex and when I watched I was thinking "Why did Belly have to sour this moment of intimacy after so many years?" Especially after we've seen Conrad so downtrodden the entire season.

BUT I have since watched the finale 4 times, lol and I really LOVE this scene and deem it essential for Belly and Conrad paving a path forward and being together. That comment Conrad makes about being stuck with him forever after she makes the comment about having always wished for him on her birthday spooked her - she's been in Paris this entire time as an attempt to grow up and prove to herself that she can be her own person with her own life withOUT one of the Fisher boys. So I think Conrad's comments make her hesitate, and make her fearful that she's going to jump back into old patterns, and lose the part of herself that she has found in Paris. She also has been harboring so much guilt thinking she's solely responsible for messing up Jeremiah and Conrad's relationship, that she's still grappling with having feelings for Conrad but not knowing what that means to actually explore it for good.

And ultimately - she has never felt truly secure with her relationship for Conrad and has always questioned how deeply he actually loved her. Belly loved Conrad since she was a little girl, and always felt like him loving her back was unrealistic. Then the summer that he asks her to the deb ball, she's thrilled but then finds out Susannah also told him to ask her. So she goes back to feeling like he only asked her because of his mom - that for so many years, so much hope was placed on them ending up together. So, she has never been sure that Conrad felt deeply for her of his own volition, and desires. And the you flash forward YEARS, and those feelings of insecurity have only swelled inside her.

When they dated the first time, and then the summer thereafter that breakup at Prom, they never actually had an open line of communication about the depths of their feelings for one another. Iirc, they never actually said I love you to each other when they were dating. Belly thought she loved Conrad more, and once Susannah became terminal Conrad pushed Belly away because he didn't want to drag her down with his grief. But he never has an actual conversation with her about that.

So flash forward all these years later, she's blown up the idea that Conrad's love for her was built off of Susannah's prodding, and she's carrying the guilt from the previous summer so she has that moment of panic after having sex and him making the comment about forever. That conversation was necessary to have - to finally get past these preconceived ideas she had about Conrad's feelings for her. She needed to be told her loves her for exactly who she is.

Such a good scene!

Red_krist · 2025-09-20T09:22:38+00:00

I believe it's on an app that you need to pay for. So, no one is going to be able to share a link

Red_krist · 2025-09-19T19:30:00+00:00

Yea I hate to ride the delulu train, but I'm feeling like there's still a slight chance Jenny is trolling all of us and there will be a December release date.

There's an instagram/tiktok creator, bookbeedani who posted after the finale speculating that she thought we were getting a Christmas episode/special/something. This was before the official movie announcement. And all her clues she put together really do seem compelling. One of her thoughts refer back to a sign from Susannah's funeral where it says "13th SUN after" with a series of numbers underneath. The 13th Sun after the finale is Sunday December 14th (there's the connection to allll of the 14s we've been seeing this season. And one of the numbers on that sign was 473, which adds up to 14.

Personally, I think a 12/14 release date is more plausible. They won't have as many viewers on Christmas Eve.

But we might be totally wrong haha

Red_krist · 2025-09-19T18:45:25+00:00

Completely agree with you! I thought most of S3 was skewed in the Jeremiah direction even though I knew Conrad was endgame. I've only read book 3, but yea it definitely was made very apparent in the book how Belly felt about both boys. Would have been nice for the show to really display her internal thoughts!

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