The LOTR trilogy is what turned me from someone who really enjoyed music as my side passion/preferred form of entertainment to someone who became waaaaay more into movies. I had never tried to read LOTR (because I tried to read The Hobbit when I was younger and thought it was so dull) and I didn’t have much of a stake…

I always get charged for a “contact fitting” even though I’ve worn them for 20 years and even when I buy the same kind/brand over and over. I was told i had to have it done in order to be able to get a new prescription and order new contact lenses for the year. My eye exam co-pay is $10, the contact lens fitting is…

Agreed, the movies she makes with her husband’s involvement have been... not good. 

I think it takes a few episodes to really get going, and I feel like you don’t get a sense of the overarching arc for a while (lots of X-Files-esque Monster of the Week episodes, which are fine and fun). And the guys take some time to really settle into their characters. I found Dean to be sort of ridiculous and…

I’ve taught group fitness for 12+ years and done many, many trainings. i wasn’t super into spinning, but I figured it was a worthwhile addition to my repertoire and I needed the continuing education credits for my primary group fitness cert. I did Mad Dogg Spinning back in 2012 and it was one of the best, most…

Thank you for doing what I should have done. 😂  Yeah, I have a kitchenaid mixer that I use for doughs -- that little plastic blade doesn’t look like it could handle much, honestly. 

yeah, to be honest, the plastic blade didn’t look like it could handle much of anything. I have a kitchenaid that I use for bread dough, and sometimes it struggles with thicker dough.

I just got a giant 9-cup food processor and haven’t explored all its uses yet. Do you use the plastic blade for pie dough? This might be a game-changer.

I actually find fall kind of depressing, but I’m definitely in the minority among my friends. The temperatures drop and the leaves start changing, and all it does is remind me of death and that winter is coming, lol. I much prefer spring, and I get ecstatic when temperatures spike up and the buds on trees start…

My thoughts too. Those ‘home movies’ are lengthy scenes and involve a child killing their family in unbelievable ways, which is stressful to watch. I’d think your heart rate would jump and stay up when one of those movies starts, because you’re anticipating what’s coming. I wouldn’t say that definitively makes it the…

Same. Everyone is used to seeing my tuxedo cat jump on my desk and start headbutting me or walking on my keyboard. And if he’s not around, they get concerned!

One of my coworkers (we work at a university) just had a lengthy email exchange with a professor who was basically asking her to put the text from a webpage into a PDF so he could send it to others... she was asking him why he couldn’t just send the link to the webpage, he kept arguing with her and giving strange…

I think I do something similar, in that I’m constantly calculating the fraction/math as a distraction. “OK I’m 20 minutes into this 45-minute cycle ride, so that’s 4/9 of the way through, which is roughly 44.4%” and so on. And as the minutes go on, the math changes, so I’m sort of constantly working out the math in my…

I think it depends on what your goals are and what you enjoy doing (for me, playing basketball or tennis sounds like torture). If you’re working toward achieving a specific goal and actually improving your fitness in a measurable way, then you need to push yourself past what’s comfortable or even fun (though…

I grew up in a relatively well-off family in a poor rural area, and we still didn’t know how to eat healthfully even though we could afford groceries. My mom thought that “healthy” just meant restricting calories. I was a chubby (but active) kid and she put me on a diet when I was in 8th grade. I’d have a post-it note…

I shred mine and add them to my compost, since I don’t have a ton of other “brown” ingredients to add to it, like leaves/grass clippings/etc.

I just did this! I was five years into my current mortgage at 4% interest and decided to investigate refinancing. I checked 15, 20, 25, and 30 year refinance options. The 25/30 could get me a 3.25% interest rate, the 20-year was 3%, and a 15-year was 2.75%. I went with the 20-year, which is cutting five years off my…

I teach group fitness as a side gig (and was an avid powerlifter until, you know, March), but I have zero desire to get back into a gym again. I teach for a university campus rec and I’m lucky that they’ve permanently incorporated virtual fitness into the schedule, so that’s what I’m doing currently. It’s a bummer not…

Same, and what’s funny is I honestly can’t remember if I asked my mom to buy me tampons, or if she just noticed I was stealing them and bought more. But I was a gymnast/cheerleader and began menstruating in the 5th grade. Before that year was up, I was all tampons, all the way. I can remember my friends being grossed…

The bugs and resulting bug bites have been particularly bad where I live this year. I thought it was just me, but most of my friends have talked about getting a ton of bug bites. Of course it could just be because we’re probably outside a lot more?