Yeah, no. That is terrible. :(

It’s the STUPIDEST allergy!

Fiat AND an animal shelter? YOU RULE.

I am allergic to the most RIDICULOUS things. Lamb, coconut, shrimp, guinea pigs, pineapple. I am also seriously allergic to animal dander, and almost everything that you can breathe in. Sometimes, just for funsies, the membranes over my eyeballs swell up so badly that I have a hard time closing my eyes. Before I knew…

Ok. But I have found some really quality instruction at a local place. I’m not even kidding. The girl who taught morning yoga at my local LA Fitness also was an instructor at a really good/high-end yoga studio two towns over. And as a devout Cathe fan (and ex-gymnast), I know from good step and bad step, and have…

I think this needs to be defined. Because it sounds...off...to me.

I can kind of get behind the unlimited thing. It’s the $99/10 that baffles me. As in, it baffles me because that is not something that I would ever sign up for. I mean, I still think that the price for the unlimited classes is BEYOND COMPREHENSION, because I can pay 1/3 of that per month for a really nice gym with…

You’re not wrong. But it’s the $99/month thing that I can’t fathom. What happens if you want to take more than 10 classes per month? Do you pay extra? If you want to work out 4x a week, is it $200? Or are you only limited to that flat ten?

Sure, but I was even blow away by the original price of $99 for ten classes. THAT’S the groundwork I can’t wrap my head around.

It’s ok. You’re still cool. :D

I have some very well-behaved dogs.

Well, that wasn’t my intention. I just can’t wrap my head around willingly paying that much money for something, and then getting upset because it costs that much money.

How about you not be a jerk to me because I have a different opinion from you?

Fiat drivers FTW! Mine’s bright yellow. Stick shift, natch. ;)

Yeah, it’s not like A: I live in the sticks with only cows for company and B: I have no knowledge of Life In The Big City.

So what I’m hearing is that people are paying to be seen. Because otherwise, you can spend that money on a bicycle and hit Central Park as often as you’d like, no?

Let me ask you this: what, then, is the allure of paying $200/month for fitness? So that the user can say s/he goes there? To be seen? Or is it because there are no options available, which I refuse to believe. You can’t tell me that there aren’t moderately-priced gyms in NYC - I know, because my BFF lives there,…

Ok, please, PLEASE don’t lambaste me for this, but I really hope that her parents had no idea what was going on. Because if they did, and didn’t pull her out of school/confront this head on/DO something to help, they are as much to blame for this poor girl’s death as the school is.

I was, too. This was the late ‘80s/early ‘90s, and it shaped who I became, and I hate that. I couldn’t not go to school, because my dad taught there. I begged my parents - BEGGED THEM - to let me graduate early, or go to another school, but they just thought I was being dramatic. At 17, I turned to self-harm and…

Wait, what?