jennblevins

I dressed up as a suffragette for Halloween one year, and I think that’s pretty much the exact skirt I wore, except it was longer on me.

Phil and Jessica have mentioned doing filming recently on social media (as of mid-May), so maybe it’s just not ready yet?

Well, the Ancient Aliens Live tour has finally found its way to my city, so I’ve purchased tickets. Has anyone here been to one of these? I have no idea what to expect, other than no legroom (according to reviews of the venue).

Worse yet, there’s a restaurant near my old office called Fry Guys. I keep wondering why anyone would care that an employee at a fast food place in a tourist area had an affair.

I live in Washington state and have a two-level counter, as does one of my cousins, so it’s not just a Texas thing. I think it may be an age-of-house thing? It’s clear to me that our kitchen was remodeled about 15 years ago to open it up and put in the two-level counter, and as a result, our kitchen has all of one upper cabinet. I don’t care how much people say they want open kitchens, that’s just not enough storage!

(Bolding mine.) There’s no shame in half-assing a hobby if that’s all you have the time, money, or interest for. There is shame in letting other people support your family while sending all your money on your hobbies … and still sucking at them. Shame on so many levels.

There’s a Hilton commercial that I’ve seen a few times where a family of 5 (2 parents, 3 kids) request but fail to receive connecting rooms at a creepy motel. (“They’re across the courtyard. Well, it’s more of an alley. But nobody’s living in it anymore.”) One of the scenes involves the parents standing in front of their window, gesturing and mouthing “Lock the door” to the kids across the alley, who see but don’t understand the message. a) Did people stop living in the alley because of the rampaging werewolves? If not, why can’t one of the parents go over and tell the kids to lock the door? b) Oldest kid appears to be a teenager. If she’s old enough to stay with her two siblings alone in a motel room overnight, she probably has a cell phone. Just call her! c) Or you could have, you know, told them to lock the door before you split up into your respective rooms … d) Not to mention about a dozen other possible methods of contact (like holding up a sign). Or the fact that you’d think the teenager might have been creeped out enough to already have locked the door. (Or just locked it because that’s what you do.) e) Even before any of these became a problem, wouldn’t most reasonable people decide to spit things up so that each room had a parent in it, if the motel is that creepy? Don’t get me wrong, connecting rooms are great, but there’s no need to exaggerate the ineptitude of your customers to infomercial-like levels in order to demonstrate that!

Maybe Izzy is getting to the age where Derick actually has memories of doing things with his father at the same age, and thus has been thinking about his father more, hence the name.

Michelle needs to think outside the box … surely she could have died, been revived, and then died again once or twice! Bring it up to 20 at least!

I’ve had two different guys try variations of this line on me, and both times it baffled me why they thought saying it would suddenly make me go “Oh, well, in that case, I’m perfectly happy to sit here at home while you go put all your effort into attracting someone else.” The second time, I came thisclose to telling him no one man’s salary could ever keep up with my shopping habit, so he’d surely be okay with my finding another man to fill in where he couldn’t. But I broke up with him instead. Apparently the correct answer would have been to roll with it, and then go on TV?

Can’t imagine why they’re having trouble finding women who want to sign up for inclusion in these relationships …

This probably says more about my taste in music than anything about Anna, but ever since Josh got shipped off to Texas, I’ve been picturing her as the woman in the Midnight Special song, showing up (in clothing distinctive enough to be identified by prisoners looking out the window) to pointlessly pester the warden about turning her man loose. I’ll be imagining the “don’t you know who I am?” line as part of this, now, making it even funnier.

I’ve been to a couple of weddings where there were actual toy figures on the cake — superheroes, Playmobil people, Han and Leia. Of course, they all had cake, too, which puts them ahead of Jessa’s.

I assume Josh didn’t go because either a) they knew he couldn’t hack it and would be revealed as a whiny baby rather than a stoic crown prince, or b) he was busy in some variety of Jesus Jail at the time. JD was probably too busy actually being useful to spend that much time away from the family. No idea about Jed.

Is there a difference, for fundies?

Maybe if it were pink camouflage, based on the (tiny number of) people I know from there.

I’m not defending Jill, but a lot of phones can take pictures while locked. A co-worker of mine SEVERLY injured his knee while bowling, to the extent that he actually needed physical therapy. Sadly, it appears Jill escaped that …

Geometry can be helpful in knitting and baking, too — not that Jill would ever let Phillip do women’s work or anything where he might be able to snag some food.

I also thought the awning wasn’t much of an improvement, and that money would have been better spent on … something. I liked the kitchen, though, and I didn’t mind the painted floors. It looked like there was some sort of basement (there was a door to it next to the stairs from the deck), so maybe there was a laundry area down there? There was also a detached garage, but it was so detached that it would be awfully annoying to take the laundry over there, so probably not in the garage. It seemed like this house had a really great location, so convenient to the college and the hospital. I’m really beginning to wonder if we’ll get any house-eating rhododendrons this seasons, though. So far two houses didn’t have any at all, and two had only slightly-overgrown ones, just nibbling at a walkway here or there. It’s kind of disappointing.

I guess I wasn’t thinking of a full kitchen in the basement — just something slightly less bar-like, maybe with a few upper cabinets, a larger sink, and a mini-fridge instead of a wine cooler. (I grew up reasonably near the house in the episode — maybe this sort of thing is a local oddity?) They posted more pictures on Instagram … apparently there’s a sauna and a hot tub, too.

I’m surprised that they didn’t add something closer to a full kitchen in the basement — it could have been set up as a rental apartment or a space for an elderly parent or some such. ETA: @CruiseDiva , they mentioned on their Instagram that there was a bathroom in the basement.

I thought they mentioned Jeff fixing the beam issues, but I guess they didn’t show it since the twins couldn’t find a way to ham it up? I think they really missed out on the potential to add a second bathroom - even just a powder room. The “mud room” seemed oddly placed, to me — it looked like the door opened up to the middle of the backyard, not likely a place they’ll be coming in from that often? That said, I liked the tile choices in this episode. I hope the house isn’t too noisy, with US2 that close. On the plus side, they’re further from the prison and closer to Fred Meyer. I was disappointed by the lack of house-eating rhododendrons in this episode, though. I was hoping for some good ones to start the season!

What Derick wants to do with his degree and what he actually ends up doing may be two entirely different things, thankfully. It’s not like he has a particularly good track record of following through on anything other than graduating from things. I do give him credit for that, but he’s neither an accountant, nor a missionary, nor an employee of Cross Church at the moment (despite his attempts at those), so I’m not particularly confident that he’ll find a way to use his law degree to do anything other than be annoying online. Maybe he’ll go back to school and become an MD-JD.

Sadly, yes, judging by my trip to the eye doctor’s on Friday.

Someone needs to send her one of those shirts that says “Our Founding Fathers were East Coast Liberals.” ETA: perhaps she would prefer to be in Soviet Russia, where eyebrows groom you?