savannah1985

I'm just now looking at Lauren's wedding pictures. I've never like her but I think she looks so happy and I love her dress.

I have a relative who took Ambien while at the beach to get high and when she came to she was in her car in a mall parking lot 10 miles away. She had driven from La Jolla to Mission Valley, which requires traversing a major freeway interchange in the middle of a weekday. No memory of it whatsoever. Scared the crap out of her. She never took it again. Having said that, I think it was suicide and, IMHO, like a lot of suicides, incredibly selfish.

Well, I went to Hemet today to see my cousin but we didnt drive over to Gold Base because of the rain. However, there is a much better way to see what it looks like. I don't know how to link but if you go to Youtube and type in "gold base", one of the first choices you get is a film taken by a drone camera. It's a few minutes long and flies slowly over the entire base and gives a very good view. If you're looking for "The Hole" at some point you will see two large square buildings with white roofs stuck together. It's pretty unmistakable because the drone flies right over them. One thing you won't see is a human.

Int Base, NEAR Hemet, lol, is on both sides of the road you take to get to it. It used to be that a person would have to go out the gate and cross the road to get to the other side, where LRH's mansion awaits his return, Kool cigarettes and all. The problem was that people were escaping that way. Now there's a tunnel under the road so that a person never is off "church" property. I'm driving up to see my cousin tomorrow and I'm sure we will be checking out the place again, because it drives us nuts that we never see anyone there. My cousin wants to go right up to the guardhouse and see if anyone is in it. I'll let you know if anything happens. Note my name. If you don't hear from me for a while I may be one of them, one of them, one of them.

I've been to Int Base, right outside of Hemet, in San Jacinto. My cousin lives up there. We drive by the guardhouse front gate all the time. We have even stopped and pretended we were having car trouble. The place always looks deserted. I've been by five or six times and have never seen anyone anywhere. And my cousin has gotten herself obsessed so she drives by there all the time and reports she never sees anyone. The front gate is always closed. It all looks well taken care of but you never see anyone doing anything.

Does anyone have any specific information about Marty Rathbun going back to the "church", are there news sites that have reported on this?

Allie's dress reminded me of something Lucy wore on "I Love Lucy." And the neoprene jumpsuit made me think of Eddie Murphy being Gumby on SNL. And Hawwaa's dress looks like a dress my aunt wore to school in 1969 and that she kept all this time. Very colorful and pretty. I liked almost everything this week. That never happens on regular Project Runway.

The winning look reminded me of the terra cotta warriors found buried in China.

What happened to Marty Rathbun? Did I miss something?

My grandma bought Scientology books sometime in the '70s, before I was born, but never read them. She lives in the same house as she did then and still gets stuff in the mail.

I wasn't sure who Geoffrey Lewis is so I looked him up and he's Charlene's dad. (Designing Women) That's what I think of whenever I see him on something.

One of the former scientologists named Tom Devogt (or something like that) said when he got beat up he knew he couldn't fight back because there was almost always someone else around and he feared people would come to Miscaviges' rescue and he (Tom) would get beat up even worse. Everybody, all the men who got beat up, knew that if they fought back, they would be attacked and then definitely sent to the Hole. I read that Shelley Miscavige always had a small first aid kit with her in case it was needed. Be prepared!

I read Mark Headley's book a while back and just re-read it recently. It's not very well written but what he writes about is really interesting. He talks about the events and how last minute everything always was and how they set up the cameras so it always looked like there were a lot of people. When Miscavige told him a event was going to be at the L.A. Colosseum, he freaked because it was way bigger than where they normally held events and it was going to be tough to fill it up. Good camera work and paid actors to fill in the crowds helped. His story about his escape was interesting too. He managed to get out of Int Base on his motorcycle and was edged off the road as he said in the program tonight, and someone called 911. When the police came they ended up escorting him to Hemet and would not leave him until he was out of town in a U-Haul. The officers didn't come right out and say why, they just wouldn't leave him until they were sure he was safe. Being that the only way out of the base is through Hemet, I'm sure the officers were totally aware of attempted escapes. I've been up there, it really is in the middle of nowhere. The other thing is the abortions. I remember thinking "Well, just don't get pregnant" when I was first reading about them. But the thing is, you have pay for birth control yourself and when you get paid as little as they did there's no money for "extras" and nobody's going to let you off base to go to Planned Parenthood. It's all about control.

I loved Leeann's final collection, because of her colors. She also had a blue formal gown that in addition to her wedding dress, was absolute gorgeous, my favorite dress of all the seasons.

I remember Santino's home visit. He took Tim to his married friend's house and while Santino was sitting on the floor talking, the friend's two toddler-type daughters were climbing all over him, they were so comfortable with him and he with them. I thought " Maybe he's not so bad, after all" because even though he was funny, I found it hard to like him after he lied in regard to Kara.