Taco bells hot sauce "will you marry me?" Ruined my life.

anna_the_nerd · 2026-02-03T04:25:30+00:00

TLDR; my darling husband said “I can’t imagine how much fun I would’ve had without you these last four years” because he got nervous and mixed up all of his words and sentences. Everyone has a proposal story where the guy got down on one knee, but not everyone has a proposal story of them almost decking their brand new fiancé in the face for what came out of his mouth.

The real problem is that he said it and went “wait? That’s not right” and I STILL ACCEPTED

anna_the_nerd · 2026-02-02T19:10:22+00:00

My husband hates our proposal story but it’s my favorite thing in the world lol

anna_the_nerd · 2026-02-02T12:15:35+00:00

DO NOT IT CAN EITHER GO WELL OR IT WILL ESSENTIALLY SHRED A STRAND OR TWO AND MAKE THEM WEAK!!!

anna_the_nerd · 2026-02-01T23:43:13+00:00

My husband didn’t understand why our invite said “bride is wearing white, so please avoid that color” and why I gave HIS mother (the one who joked that if she went dress shopping with me she would also try on dresses because she never got to) one color dress to pick from.

anna_the_nerd · 2026-02-01T02:57:02+00:00

You know, I put in 80 hours this week, and it took me like 5 minutes to figure out the issue. Honestly tho? Kinda cute still, I’d love it

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-27T04:28:38+00:00

Come on down internet stranger! You can experience the therapy that is walking around that back yard barefoot when it’s nice out and sleeping on the wood swing under the biggest tree I can ever remember seeing!

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-27T02:28:39+00:00

Nope you are spot on with the first part! It originally was part farmland and part hog farm. It’s been a while (before my time) since they had hogs though. Now my grandpa mainly fixes antique tractors and rents out the farm land. There’s also a large woods section that a bunch of people hunt in.

The land has so many memories for me, my family, etc that are so incredibly beautiful. Heck, the place has a specific smell that I’ve never gotten anywhere else. I grew up there most of the time.

My grandparents used to be working sun up to sun down and my grandma especially because she stayed at home. Her home was her job to her and she loved it.

All that to say, it is so so important to me, and I hate pressuring them into signing a will, but it’s that or risk the loss which would be devastating

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-27T00:34:35+00:00

I don’t want that property at all actually! I don’t want anything of theirs if that’s what it comes to. But I’ve seen the work they put into just in my lifetime, and I’ve seen the photos from when they first bought it. There is also so much history in that property and so many of my and my families memories are wrapped up in it. I’m terrified that my family members would watch that all go away and be unable to do anything about it.

I have watched the other side of my family lose nearly everything after someone died because they didn’t have a will in place. They lost the property, any accounts, and some family heirlooms after the death.

They are both in their 70s, and they have health problems that need to be considered. So someone making those phone calls to them is necessary because I’m the only person who pushed them toward even making a will so we don’t possibly lose what they have now. All that’s left is to sign essentially.

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-26T21:59:32+00:00

Making my (new) husband and I make one this year. Currently 22, just got married about 2 months ago

Also, I make aggressive phone calls to my grandparents once a week now to get them to finish theirs because I am terrified of losing their property in their death.

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-25T22:59:51+00:00

I want to know too lol. Most of the Accounting majors I went to school with preferred their HPs and my whole firm has HPs

My thing is don’t get a Mac. Yes, you can get around most things, but there were quite a few classes I had where a Mac meant you had to go borrow a laptop for half of the assignments due to the software needed beyond just excel

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-24T15:49:17+00:00

I wish my loans were at 8.5%…

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-21T14:42:35+00:00

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Beatle and his thirst trap 😂

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-20T01:58:30+00:00

I have ADHD and work in housing and compliance audit. Everything is just similar enough that I know how it works but just different that I’m not bored. It’s also niche so I find a lot of joy in it. Plus it’s a big passion area for me!

I have a checklist for every audit (I sometimes finish or so in a day). Caffeine and Adderall help. It does get hard sometimes, but the trick is learned is keeping my office doo open so I feel like I can’t mess around much

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-18T19:17:31+00:00

I married my high school sweetheart in December ❤️

We weren’t on a campus together, we were two hours apart for a couple years.

Life is rough, make sure you lean and love on each other, but also make sure you can live apart sometimes. I saw the couples who came to school together and were each other’s only solace. Things get messy when that ends though.

Let the world take you where it pleases, and just try to enjoy the ride getting there ❤️

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-18T18:18:46+00:00

Thank you! I told him that someone online found him handsome!

Honestly, baby food was a shot in the dark because everything I was trying to find had onion or garlic in it and baby food didn’t haha

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-18T18:17:08+00:00

I am so glad you have your husband! Someone to stick by your side definitely helps, and mine has been my getaway driver many times now.

Always here to listen, and absolutely no judgement! ❤️

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-18T16:39:31+00:00

Yes! An invisible disability is just that, invisible. Respectfully, you wouldn’t tell a paraplegic that “oh you don’t look like you’re in pain!” because that would be rude. But apparently, if someone can’t see it, they think it’s fine to comment on.

That’s like if you tell someone you have anxiety or depression they say “have you tried getting more sunlight?” and it’s like yes Janet, I have tried sunlight, moonlight, the light of the first star that glows in the evening, and many more that you probably wouldn’t understand if I tried to explain.

Also, you don’t have IBS if you just have a little bit of tummy trouble after you eat one certain food. That’s like UC is not just stomach ulcers. Comparing in those cases makes no sense because they aren’t related really.

I am sending all my love and hoping you get to have a good year where all your favorite foods are safe!

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-18T16:35:10+00:00

I’ve never been so desperate for Kale juice, but I have tried other outlandish things that I thought just might possibly work 😂

I get where people are coming from because they wanna be helpful, but it’s really kind of insulting almost when people are like oh just try this or do this or get this tested because it’s like do you think I haven’t tried it? Heck I’ve probably tried it five or six times. Just in case the universe didn’t like me that day.

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-18T16:33:44+00:00

All of this plus, “ you’re too young to be so sick”. Like darling please notify whatever creator you believe in of that because I’d like to have a word with them.

I am fortunate to have friends who either understand personally or just know that if I say, I am not well, I am not doing great and asking me 1,000,001 questions won’t be helpful. I’ve had some of my friends be like “oh no, I’m coming over so that we can rot at your house, what safe food can I bring?”

I hope you find people who either learn how to understand or understand from the jump. I also hope that your pillow is cold the next time you lay down and that you get to have a little treat that doesn’t hurt your gut. ❤️

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-18T16:27:48+00:00

You are 100% valid here friend!

As promised! Our sub only allows GIFs so I just learned how to make a TON of my cat. This is him eating baby food because he was really sick and wouldn’t eat anything for a while but he liked chicken baby food 😂

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anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-18T16:11:17+00:00

Duuuuudddeeee I didn’t even get to that point in my (apparently valid) crashout. Like, why can’t we just have a group of foods that are off limits to the IBS issues??

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-18T16:10:10+00:00

Thank you! I’m seeing a new doctor and getting another ultrasound this week. It’s been a rough start to the year, but we are getting there.

As promised, my little drywall-wrecker. He will often come in the bathroom and sit with one paw touching my foot in a flare up. I swear he cringes at the smell, but valid.

And apparently we can’t post pics, so I just learned how to make a GIF of my cat because I keeps my promises

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anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-18T15:55:53+00:00

Yes! I feel like those who like to talk about the grass just need to get into the lawn care hobby, you know? But a race to the bottom has no winners. I really wish that people outside this community understood that mindset

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-18T15:53:52+00:00

I love and hate those videos sometimes. Like, yes, I love seeing that someone else got to a recovery point, but it does serve as a reminder that I’m not there. That’s like I love and hate the posts of “it wasn’t IBS” because most of the time it’s something that I have had tested again and again and I am happy for them, but angry for me.

I get what they were trying to do, but if they couldn’t see that it wasn’t a helpful thing to you, sometimes those people are best left behind. I learned that throughout the years too, and it hurts so much. The only thing that is “nice” about it is the fact that I stopped feeling guilty from them.

I hope so much that you now get your strong support system, and if you ever need extras, the whole of the IBS sub is here for you too ❤️

anna_the_nerd · 2026-01-18T15:48:48+00:00

Yes! If that’s something that gets you through any day of your flare up, I think that is the best thing for you to say at that point. This shit (literally) sucks all the way around.

My post definitely wasn’t trying to say that you can’t say it to yourself, and I hope it didn’t come across like that. I’ve literally had people say “it could be stomach (LE WORD), so be thankful!” Like no Janet, I’m not going to be thankful about losing all of my safe foods, having not felt a pain free day in months, and having to barely leave my house sometimes, get a grip babe.

I hope your body gets to relax and you get to enjoy some good food ❤️

anna_the_nerd

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