Yes, this. I got married and had a huge income jump in the same year, and I earn nearly double what my husband does, and I do some 1099 work in addition to my job, and my paycheck varies each week. It's a recipe for disaster if both of us didn't deliberately overpay. In higher income brackets, if you put married on…

Your 100k sounds so small to me :(

That drives me crazy. Yes, yes, I can just ignore it, but it feels kinda insulting and people who don't like sports and advertise this tend to really behave like they're just above it all and sports fans are total philistines. Sports is entertainment like anything else. People like movies, tv, monster truck rallies,…

Peyton why you always gotta do that in playoffs?!

These high-stakes games are often blowouts, in various sports. My school really likes to do this in basketball - kick everybody's ass, get to the Final Four or the championship game and be like "never mind!" It's a psychological thing I think. Also if a team gains momentum as early as the Seahawks did, it can be…

Well this certainly sounds better than having them frozen off with liquid nitrogen from a spray can. Although I tried a number of other home remedies before going that route, and the suckers kept multiplying instead. After 4(!) excruciatingly painful doctor visits, I have much more aesthetically pleasing slight scars…

That actually makes a lot of sense. I know some people who hurt their knees doing dance, and I'm guessing they were doing what you're describing (forcing turnout with knees not tracking over feet). My own problems started with my knees falling inwards of my feet when squatting, which I've been correcting with PT. They…

Hey, do you have any sense of how those barre type workouts are for people with terrible knees who aren't flexible? I need to do something and I don't like yoga :(

He hardly ever seems to be mentioned in all this. Amanda is likely to escape the prison sentence on account of her US citizenship, but he has no such recourse, and yeah, is completely SOL unless he can swing another appeal.

Oh, Italian justice system. Never change. Actually, PLEASE FUCKING CHANGE.

I'm a vet and I had about the same reaction. We have no sense of appropriate dinner conversation. A long time ago, my now husband interrupted a story with "we're eating, sweetie!" and I said "uh, you chose to date a vet student. You're going to have to get over it." He's put up with all my stories ever since.

I'm a vet and I have yet to encounter a tampon, but I believe you. I think my worst experience was a septic abdomen - it was a ruptured pyometra and when I opened the abdomen it smelled like a cat abscess inside the body cavity and I just about threw up in my mask. Partially from the smell but partially from the very…

Oooh, just noticed your avatar is a Redwings logo! Awesome! Hope you heal soon.

Ugh, burpees. There's so many things that go into proper form on a burpee, but everyone (including myself) just kind flails around in an approximation of what it's supposed to be.

At the time this show was on I was driving this ridiculous Camry I paid $200 for and fantasized about getting it on the show. Even if it would have made no sense to put tvs into it. I just loved the idea of having my horrendous car on tv.

I LOOOOOVE the first two seasons of TVD. I started watching it expecting to hatewatch, and totally fell in love after about 6 episodes. I actually recently stopped watching it; it starts a slow decline in season 3 and I'm kind of over it, but for a while it's fantastic. It looked like Twilight: The Series, but it's so…

Yeah, one BIG positive for Kaiser is I do have very easy unfettered access to my PCP. I could send her pictures of a rash if I wanted to, and I'm sure many people do. Kaiser is weird though - you pay them, and you see their doctors. It's not quite the same as a typical third party payment but more of a membership in…

I dunno, my husband plays rec hockey, and he's not truly friends with any of those guys. They go for drinks occasionally, and meet at the bar every once in a while, but they're not people we'd call to help us move, you know? I guess it's good casual socializing for him, but I don't even know any of these people.

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!"