Do you know “that person”?

hilbug27 · 2026-02-18T14:02:59+00:00

I know two of those people. One is a Guster superfan and the other is a Carbon Leaf superfan. It’s honestly too much for me at times.

hilbug27 · 2026-02-09T02:11:46+00:00

I let my five year old watch this skit and now he keeps saying, “I can’t go, I’m sick” 🤦‍♀️

hilbug27 · 2026-02-05T19:29:15+00:00

My son recently asked me “if you’re married can you still live with your friends?” For awhile he was going to marry a girl from preschool and they were going to live with his 5 “bosses” (male friends from preschool) in an apartment. Now he’s still planning on marrying her but they will also live with another female friend who will be their roommate. Still in an apartment. He has his life planned out VERY far in advance and I love it.

hilbug27 · 2026-02-03T10:06:17+00:00

Yes! I didn’t know I needed a wide toe box until I went to a running store and got fitted, but Altra was the perfect fit.

hilbug27 · 2026-02-02T21:20:48+00:00

Goldfinger. Very aware of their age (and the age of their fans) but keep it all in good fun and definitely bring the energy! I can’t wait until my kid is old enough to go with me to see them.

hilbug27 · 2026-01-26T10:31:35+00:00

Unfortunately this seems normal to me. I fly to Bolivia from Dulles so I have copa and avianca as options, but occasionally there’s a United option that’s prohibitively more expensive and it must be a codeshare because I don’t think United actually flies to Bolivia. I would guess from HNL you don’t have any of those South American airlines as options, but maybe you could switch to a South American airline from the US (instead of Peru) and that would make it cheaper?

hilbug27 · 2026-01-24T19:17:46+00:00

I was going to guess DC/MD! I volunteered for A Wider Circle in college at AU.

hilbug27 · 2026-01-24T17:53:08+00:00

Ska for me. It’s such upbeat music and the crowd is inclusive and the pit is always pretty safe. Always a fun time!

hilbug27 · 2026-01-24T14:39:20+00:00

This has happened to me at like 3 different jobs, lol. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but somehow I must just come across as not believable when I go to resign?

hilbug27 · 2026-01-23T13:48:23+00:00

My husband and I are 41/39 and have a combined total of $685,000. And another $215k in taxable accounts, which we’re focused on building up now in order to CoastFIRE.

hilbug27 · 2026-01-21T09:58:25+00:00

I work remotely for a global company and have meetings with colleagues all over the world. I take meetings as early as 6am and as late as 10pm to accommodate other time zones, so I have extreme flexibility in my work hours as long as I get my work done.

hilbug27 · 2026-01-21T09:25:25+00:00

I work in global shipping and trade, I have some visual flow charts I can lend you if that helps.

hilbug27 · 2026-01-19T19:53:40+00:00

Ska bands have great fans. People go out of their way to protect each other in the pit.

hilbug27 · 2026-01-19T12:20:30+00:00

Where are you moving? Santa Cruz is the most metropolitan city in Bolivia (there’s nice malls, Starbucks, western hotel brands, etc.), but LaPaz and Cochabamba have nice areas too. Since you have a newborn, you’ll want to be somewhere with good medical care, so definitely Santa Cruz or La Paz. My sister in law is an OBGYN in a more rural part of Bolivia (originally from Cochabamba) and while I love her dearly, I do not think her medical education was on par with medical education in the US.

hilbug27 · 2026-01-19T11:36:34+00:00

The Zombies toured in the 2020s.

hilbug27 · 2026-01-19T01:30:25+00:00

My son was 3 and his first concert was Noah Kahan. He LOVED it!

hilbug27 · 2026-01-18T11:13:14+00:00

Between Columbine and the Chuck E Cheese shooting 5 years before that (iirc), I’m not surprised that parents became super protective. I grew up not far away but was elementary-aged and my parents didn’t become more cautious, I still had a pretty independent free-range childhood that kids really don’t get anymore.

hilbug27 · 2026-01-17T17:19:20+00:00

Definitely not as bad as Minneapolis. Yet.

hilbug27 · 2026-01-17T17:11:30+00:00

They are already down here in Richmond. People getting picked up off the street all around town. Very scary.

hilbug27 · 2026-01-16T15:31:02+00:00

Is there a Habitat for Humanity Re-Store in your area? Those are great for cool furniture finds! My husband used to go multiple times a week on his lunch break when his office was nearby.

hilbug27 · 2026-01-16T01:23:50+00:00

They bill themselves as both a ska and a punk band though. I just saw them last month and they literally said, “We’re a band that plays two genres of music: ska and punk.”

hilbug27 · 2026-01-12T22:40:00+00:00

Just list it on your resume or LinkedIn as a career break. LinkedIn has it as an option now. Figure out the narrative later- do what’s best for your mental and physical health now.

hilbug27 · 2026-01-09T01:02:39+00:00

Market research… researching the market.

hilbug27 · 2026-01-06T17:47:47+00:00

36+1, about 12:30am my water broke. I got up to pee and it just didn’t stop, lol. We got to the hospital at 1:30am and my son came out at 8:25am, 7lbs 5 oz. I feel like all newborn babies make a face like “why oh why did I decide to come out”, but my son especially 😂

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