yourmomiseasy

I was dreading what I thought was going to be a whole episode of detox, but was pleasantly surprised. This was actually a pretty good episode. I hope Mike doesn't end up blowing Paul and the Boss's operation next week.

Right? It even makes the showering at his place seem normal. Everything about her that was weird is normal now. I want to rewatch all the episodes with this new information, but I think I'm going to wait until after the season finale and binge watch the whole season.

The strong and growing refers to the kids, not the tally of kids. As far as their sales totals remaining the same for 20+ years, I've got nothing, maybe it is the shitty marketing. I like adult gummy vitamins. I don't eat a lot of candy, so it is kind of like a justifiable splurge to have a gummy vitamin.

Things I'm so not interested in include watching Mike detox. It's actually pretty high on that list. I hope it isn't a large chunk of tonight's episode.

I was surprised at the ballet scene and assumed that Angela was not as innocent as she seemed and involved in the hack somehow and Darlene and Angela were playing/manipulating Elliot and maybe Angela was the one that suggested actually getting him involved. This train of thought also put her framing her boyfriend for the Allsafe hack in a new light. So I was blown away at the sister reveal. I'm assuming she used the small fork to break her water, hence it becoming bloody. I don't know how the trauma would be explained away at the hospital though.

As soon as I saw Ray looking at the freeway sign that he was going to exit and see his stupid kid and it would lead to his death. It was so stupid of him. He should have known there'd be people staking the kid out waiting for him to show. I think he's averaged at least 2 movies per year since he got out of rehab. A lot of them are just smaller productions and dramas rather than big blockbusters. The dirty cops/Black Mountain guys were staking out the school hoping that Ray would be dumb enough to come by. They were probably watching his house, his ex-wife's house, and his dad's house too. While he was off saluting his kid they put the tracker on his car and I assume cut a hose or gas line, causing the large puddle that alerted him to the presence of the tracker. I assume they were trying to sabotage the car so it would break down quickly and they wouldn't have to follow him all day, so I don't know how he got up to the forest since he was in the middle of the valley. Ray also told Ani to take all the documents etc. and give it to the reporter that was doing the piece in Vinci.

I've only seen it in one store in person. I always just order from the Zoya website. The info on the site is usually pretty accurate, but you can also google for swatches of the color you're interested in, there are tons of nail polish blogs and most of them seem to swatch Zoya. I like to look at the blog swatches because they usually have indoor, outdoor, flash, no flash, etc. You can also order color spoons from the site and when you place a polish order they always include the spoons for the current collections. the spoons are little swatches that look like fake nails and you can hold them over your nail to see how a color will look with your skintone.

Both Zoya and Elevation work well for me. Zoya stays on the longer of the two, it goes forever without chipping, especially if you use their base and top coat. If you sign up for the Zoya mailing list they send out a lot of specials and promo codes.

This Zoya might be a decent dupe: http://www.zoya.com/content/item/Zoya/Zoya_Nail_Polish_Jana_ZP564.html This Elevation one is another good option: http://elevationpolish.bigcartel.com/product/colline-du-charf Both of those might be darker than you're looking for though. I have a few other mauve/lilac leaning taupey nudes, but I'm too lazy to go look and see what they are. Julep uses the same shaped bottles. I haven't tipped one over yet, but I don't like them. I do like the shape for storage though.

Let me start by saying I do not like Bethenny. At all. So it kind of pains me to defend her, but the difference there is Bethenny isn't going around trumpeting about how she's a changed person and throwing parties so people can celebrate it. Ramona is. And Bethenny is right, Ramona has not changed at all except her adding dog in heat to her list of bad behaviors. That's something you should outgrow/be taught not to do around 3 years old. There's nothing okay or excusable about going through life like an overgrown toddler. I've never seen a gun in LHR (I'm assuming that's where Carole and Dorinda flew into). I've seen plenty of National Guard soldiers carrying giant guns at airports in the US. I feel much more likely to get shot at LAX (my usual airport) than any airport I've been to in Western Europe, and honestly, I'm more concerned with catching a disease than a bullet at LAX. It isn't like they were travelling somewhere crazy, it was London, a place that both Carole and Dorinda had lived in the past.

Thank you. I must have missed that due to not being able to pay attention to Frank's monologues.

If the bond between a mother and her biological child is so special that it can't ever be replicated, then there's no reason for the mother to be jealous of or hurt over the step-mother having a good relationship with the child.

None of the other characters being in Abby's scenes made her easier to ignore though. As someone that deals with migraines, tmj, and unrelated chronic pain, I didn't find her relatable or feel sorry for her, so I'm assuming those without personal experience with any of those didn't empathize too strongly and fear that we'll end up going down the bad path. I hope not though.

Just because I don't remember what she looks like, doesn't mean I couldn't follow what Ray and Ani laid out. They detailed it piece by piece. I guess we're going to have to just disagree on what a leap is.

I'm in no way saying it is an expertly crafted story, just that no viewer leaps need be made when the 2 leads that aren't dead spell everything out in detail on screen.

Are you sure they are both supposed to be from So Cal? I assumed that Frank was not because he was locked in a basement as a child and we don't have those. I've lived in the LA area my entire life and have seen exactly one basement and it wasn't even a real basement, it was just a little dig out for the hot water heater, it didn't even have real walls -- known as a California Basement. I've got nothing to explain Ray though. His manner of talking and clothing choices scream that he's from somewhere else, but his dad was LAPD, so I would assume he grew up in So Cal. Given all the muckity-mucks at the party, they could probably put an APB out without calling in any outside cops. They are probably just using the APB to find and kill her, so it isn't like they'd need to collect evidence and build a solid case. I don't know that the viewers really have to make a giant leap when the main characters spell it out in detail on screen for them. I don't remember the girl they are taking about being in any episodes, but I know she was working for Caspere in a city office and met Ani on the movie set because Ray said so. I also know that Laura is the orphan's name and the girl gave her name as Laura at the sex parties, but used Erica at work from that same conversation and that Ani thinks they might be the same person due to her holding the photographs next to each other and asking Ray what he thinks, during that same conversation. For all I know, Ani and Ray are totally wrong, but I do know that that's their current theory due to the conversation that was shown on screen. There are blue diamonds that were stolen in a robbery. We've only seen pictures of them. In this episode, Frank went to talk to a diamond dealer to set up converting stolen money into regualr non-blue diamonds in order to have something that holds its value and is easily transportable so he can smuggle them with him when he flees. He is planning on stealing $12M from Oslip (the Russian/Israeli guy that horned in on his action) when Oslip gives the money to the Catalyst group. The deal between Oslip and the Catalyst group is taking place at night and in cash because it is a shady deal and electronic transfers of that size are how you get caught.

I laughed so hard at Dog coming back now that Abby's gone. Smart dog.

They were whatever blackwater-y team that Paul used to work for. His old friend that he hooked up with was there and said that the private security firm only had one client now and that client is Catalyst Group (The shell company buying up all the corridor land).

Gusti and Ari are both such caricatures, but they might be my favorite people on this show right now. It seems like things moved along this episode, but I was bored.

I thought they showed that he'd watched TV and dozed off and he seemed pretty bored, so I assumed he'd been in the room watching the girl for a long time and it was the next day when he got the soda, but I don't remember noticing if it was night or day when he went outside.

I don't for a minute think that Terry pulls in over $7M/year, but that number made the math easy for me and I didn't feel like going harder. I thought $150k was a relatable number for the other end of the equation -- that's a pretty decent living in most places in the country, and a $1000 purchase seemed like a good threshold on that end too. Given those two numbers and the $49k, I derived the $7.5M number. So, if someone making $7.5M would probably need to think about a $50k necklace, someone with Terry's lesser income probably would too. I'm sure as a successful plastic surgeon in Orange County and as someone with their own TV show, he makes a decent amount of money, but that doesn't mean Heather can just impulse buy a $50k necklace in a tourist trap.

Let's say Terry and Heather are pulling in $7.5M a year. That makes $49k to them the same as $1k to someone making $150k/year. Even though you can afford it, it isn't exactly impulse buy range for something as useless as a necklace. Because it is a far smarter move to leverage the bank's money at sub 4% interest rate and earn higher returns putting your $10mil to work for you -- there's also the tax advantages of carrying a mortgage to a certain point. I never wonder if the Beadors or Vanderpumps are carrying a mortgage, I assume they are.

Shannon sniffing the pizza was gross. I wouldn't want to eat it after her face being all down in it. She really is a joyless wet blanket and no fun at all. I can't like her just because she seems like such a downer and she's actually kind of a bitch in her talking heads -- and not in a funny way, so I don't know about her being so nice. I believe that Meghan is really trying to figure out how to be a good stepmother to Haley. It's a hard relationship to navigate, especially with their ages being so close, Jimmy being so absent, and everything that Haley is going through. I think she screws up a lot and a lot of what is shown is just for the show, but I do believe there is some sincerity and she is trying. I also think Jimmy might just be uncomfortable with the cameras, he seemed a lot nice when we just heard him on the phone. Vicky has no redeemable qualities. I don't even know what to say about her because she sucks so much. I don't think I actually like anyone on this show, so I don't know why I have been watching. I think most people, especially in California, have a bigger mortgage than they do savings. If I pooled all of my liquid assets I could almost pay off my mortgage, but why would I? Given the current economic climate it makes more sense to continue earning at a higher rate on my investments than I'm paying in mortgage interest, plus if anything happens I'd rather be able to tap into the cash. That being said, my actual savings account (not my investments), which I could live on for about a year, is less than 20% of what I carry on my mortgage. Anyone that can save up $400k to buy a house outright isn't going to want to live in a $400k house (I think that's about the median house price in So Cal). It's Medi-Cal, the California state program.

I think Ari called the dad when he realized he was being set up -- as he was holding the match to light the motel on fire. I don't speak Armenian though, so I didn't understand what was said on the call, but he seemed kinda pissed. He then led Paul into the room at the Sahara(?) and they sat in there while the dad found the girl and tortured and killed the guy. It sounded like the dad called in to someone on the take and had a search run for the plates on the guy's car, which seems a little far fetched. The timeline also seems suspect since I think Charlie said that Paul and Ari had only been in the room for an hour.

I wasn't paying enough attention so I can't say for sure which highway they were on. I know it was seventy-something, but I'm not sure if it was 73 or 74. 73 is the toll road and is nice and well lit and modern with wide lanes, shoulders, and call boxes, etc. 74 would be scary as shit to be stuck on at night. It is dark and winds through trees and up and down a mountain and has little or no shoulder in most parts and people haul ass on it. There have been a ton of fatal accidents on it and it is one of the most dangerous highways in the state.