Doing shit alone is THE BEST! Vacations, movies, dining, travelling, these are all things that I have no problem doing alone. Vacations especially, I’m not sure I could go back to vacationing with someone else at this point. (I’ve been married for 15 years, but generally vacation alone except for short weekend getaway…

This infuriates me too! I mean, there's all the "normal" non-fatal pregnancy stuff that is extremely non-trivial and can be temporarily disabling (PUPPP sounds like a goddamn nightmare and I have a friend right now with hyperemesis gravidarum). And then there's shit like pre-eclampsia, HELLP, post-partum…

I don’t think so because they’re basically competing products. If you have a Fitbit and use the Fitbit app, it does all this already.

Vitals is kind of a hate read for me, tbh. Every comments section and 80% of the articles can be boiled down to, “Do you even lift, bro?”

Meanwhile, I assume that everyone is pointing and laughing at the snails pace I run for 30 minutes. *shrug*

Oh, it’s the same where I live, too. This is a NYC (and probably also LA) thing. But there’s a whole lot of NYC people in these comments who seem to be shocked that the only thing that is cheaper in NYC than anywhere else is cheaper due to major unethical shens. Did they think the mayor’s office subsidized mani-pedis…

It doesn’t cost $10 where I live (like you, it’s $35-$40 at the low end for a mani/pedi here) but all the people in the comments here say this is a NYC thing and it’s basically the only thing that is cheaper in NYC than anywhere else. And now they know why. (But apparently they couldn’t intuit why before this article…

I’m a little surprised that anyone is surprised, tbh. I always assumed that this was one of those things where people who use these services know in the back of their minds that paying $10 for 30 minutes of someone’s time + supplies + retail space is not likely to add up to that person making any money. Factor in if…

Wait, hang on, I thought cardio was for losers and never did anyone any good. Pretty sure I read that right here.

I’ve lost 15 lbs since February (and I’m a lady over 40 who has had a child, so all the metabolic cards are stacked against me) using a Fitbit ChargeHR and the LoseIt app. I just ignore the calorie “credit” LoseIt gives me from Fitbit. I stick to the same calorie budget very day, regardless of exercise.

My parents assumed I was up to way more shenanigans than I actually was. They would wink and nudge about stuff and I’d be like... it’s like you guys don’t even know me. I had plenty of friends in high school and was pretty social, they just weren’t the drinking/drugging/partying sort of friends.

Not really? I think on an intellectual level I knew there were probably some girls at my school (Catholic) who were drinking. I definitely knew a few were having sex because they got knocked up (again: Catholic). But I never heard a single thing about a single Big Partay or anything. When you go to a private school in…

I have found my people. Except we didn’t even smoke pot. Laaaaaame. But honestly? Really good times.

Well, I didn’t in high school, so there was no parental subterfuge element to my partying knowledge. But I tore it up my first couple years of college, so everything else is duh.

Pittsburgh is fabulous and has three! three! three! rivers full of glorious running water.

Yeah but being a vegetarian traveling the highways and byways of America, sometimes it’s like a shining beacon of “a meal that doesn’t consist soley of french fries.” If you don’t eat burgers or chicken nuggets, the pickings are slim when traveling in rural/exurban areas.

Yes, that’s what we had as well. They were fantastic. Never denied a claim, excellent customer service.

It got may age exactly right (40). Which almost no one does—universally people tell me I look much younger than I actually am (this is both a blessing and a curse, as a professional woman).

Unless you can get that fund up to $3000 within the first year and only ever need it once, it’s not really comparable. I’ve had a dog with cancer, I’ve had a dog with an undiagnosable ailment (possibly a brain tumor?) that caused him to stop eating and required us to take him to specialists, and that same dog snapped…