I'm actually a little jealous of religious people who can make friends at church. I guess I could go to a synagogue since a lot of Jews are atheists anyway (and yes, I have Jewish heritage), but no way would my husband come. I actually used to do that in college from time to time, but never really made friends that…

I so prefer UCs. Much shorter wait, and I've found the doctors to typically be more caring. Maybe because they're not thinking "I've got a guy bleeding to death in the next bed over shut up about your sprained ankle!"

I'm rather exasperated with the Kaiser HMO system. I keep frakkin hurting myself and even though I already have a referral to the physical therapy and ortho departments for one body part, I have to go back to my PCP before they're allowed to look at a new body part. Mercifully I've so far been able to do this all over…

People have brought up microchips and as someone who deals with lost dogs on a damn near daily basis, I wanted to start a separate thread for this... REGISTER THE CHIP!!!!!

I'm a vet at an emergency clinic. When people bring in strays, we always check them for chips (as does the shelter/the pound). The frustrating thing for us is that the majority of the time the chips are either not registered or registered to an outdated address and disconnected phone number, so we still can't find the…

That makes me think of that Seinfeld episode with Janeane Garofalo - "I don't want to date myself! I hate myself!"

I've noticed (in my own life and that of friends) that in the best relationships people grow together and draw each other into their interests. There's things me and my husband did before we met that we do less of now (or not at all), and there's things each of us picked up because of the other person. But it all felt…

I do that too. I regretted unfriending some people when a couple years later I thought "oooh I wonder what that one's up to now... well dang."

Really? I assume it was Raiders fans.

I find it odd that Forbes of all sites would cite the drawback of 1099ing it being having to pay the self-employment tax, but not mention all the tax writeoffs that road opens up to you. The self-employment tax itself is a deduction on your taxes. If you are sufficiently motivated, there's a lot of tax deductions you…

I went to a personal trainer hoping to learn good form to prevent shoulder injury, and now I can't lift my cat. How's that for sucking?

Dude, I had to break up with a trainer and ask for a refund for one prepaid session. It was seriously like a breakup, complete with pleading and everything.

I perform a scientific analysis of a million websites and cull the most common pieces of advice to come up with what may be an approximation of form that won't leave you crippled for life.

Or knees. I'm in month 6 of knee recovery from crappy squats. It sucks.

Huh. I just went to his IMDB and apparently he's done a lot of writing for Jackass. I'm not even sure what to make of that.

Good one :)

I have a lot of cognitive dissonance about it. A lot of players are just not good people, and then there's concussion issue... but god damn the game is fun to watch, and I downright enjoy the completely inappropriate intense anxiety I get about my team winning if the game is close. I don't see myself quitting anytime…

Aaaargh I hate the "oh you should quit your job and travel for x months! You don't have to pay rent in the US then!" thing. Even if I could afford that, which I can't, I have pets. Some people have kids FFS. And hey, didncha know you can get a sooooper cheeeeaaaaap plane ticket with credit card miles? Unless of course…

We get either incredibly serious or the dogs who ate all the chocolate. The latter keeps it very busy some years.

Lots of answers, but I'll throw in mine. I used to be really militant about the Happy Holidays thing and get very annoyed at people telling me "Merry Christmas", but I'm kind of over it and don't care anymore.