Girl in a Cardigan

She did a AmaWaterways river cruise episode on the Rhine in an earlier season of Places to Love: https://samantha-brown.com/episodes/season-2-2/rhine-river-cruise/ I assumed it was SponCon since they are a sponsor mentioned before her show on my PBS station. It was still an interesting episode, but it didn't make me any more likely to take a river cruise with them. 🤷‍♀️ Edited to add: She's also done an Alaskan cruise with Holland America that I've been meaning to watch. I did an Alaskan cruise of the Inside Passage on a different cruise line in 2023, and I wanted to see how our trips differed. From her website post, it seems that HA is also a sponsor of this show, it was another sponcon. I appreciate her hustle and ability to get a free vacay for her family by doing an episode for her show.

But like, she's an adult who could just...go to college now, right? I mean, there's nothing stopping her from taking one or more community college classes if she actually wanted to learn something. Sure, it's sad that she doesn't know more than the average college student right now, but the solution to that is staring her in the face and it makes me sadder that she won't do it.

My first thought was how gross that bathmat looks. Like if you aren't going to wash it regularly, maybe doing have a white one? But yes, also completely forgot this kid existed. 😂

Literally thought this too! I know this episode was two hours long, but it felt like FOREVER. I never want to hear Courtney's voice or Jer's stupid cat noises again. Glad Natasha made it to the finale because she fucked up one thing, but Courtney has been consistently bad for weeks. Making something that tastes good, but looks like shit is not what this competition is about. Like Rafi, I'm baffled by everything Steven does, but I guess it's working for him (except when it doesn't). Hoping he gets sent home in the preheat with Jer, and I can see Natasha, Rafi, and Rolf battled it out for the champion.

Wow, it's hard to believe in the last four years, Brennan has been cut from DCC and now has two kids - life goes by so fast!

I've also seen on GBBO, that when bakers have an injury/cut/bandage on their hand for whatever reason, they'll wear a glove to cover it up to keep the bandage in place and prevent any slippage or loss of bandage. So that may be why a baker only has it on one hand.

I wondered if they would change anything up from Thunderstruck since it became the TikTok dance of the summer after the Netflix show, but that answers that LOL!

Now they gotta get the rest of the gang back together - no Arrested Development reboot nonsense where no one's in the same room at the same time!

Simone's bit with Elmo and wanting a photo with Rocko was HILARIOUS! I have no idea how she kept it straight there 🤣

It doesn’t seem like many precautions are in place. Yesterday, I happened to catch his semi in prime time and he was wearing a surgical mask in the ready room but he pulled it off and lined up and everything without it (so a more confined and close with everyone space with no mask. 🤦🏽‍♀️) I hope he’s doing okay, but I’m really not okay with any athlete putting other athletes at risk like that. Maybe there’s more ventilation in the ready room than I think and maybe the other athletes in the room knew about it, but it just feels really inconsiderate at the very least to have active Covid in a room like that unmasked.

Yeah, I feel awful for Barbosu - an inquiry on the last routine is hard. And after her teammate's inquiry was rejected, that's even harder. WOW!

LOL, just kidding! Jordan Chiles's inquiry was accept and SHE'S the Bronze medalist! OMG! THIS FINAL WAS WILD!!

And just like we all predicted, it's Gold for Andrade, Silver for Simone, and Bronze for Barbosu! Wow, what a final!

Kishi and Barbosu tied for 8th on both E-score (first tie break) and D-score (second tie-break) in qualifying. So they're both in.

A nice antidote to that commercial is this one I just noticed from Comcast: