TattleTeeny

Cleaning a litter box takes all of a couple of minutes; outside of the occasional forgetting, I really can't come up with a reason that the average cat owner wouldn't/couldn't do it at least once a day. And, if it's one of those "most hated" chores like we all probably have (grocery shopping for me -- screw you, grocery shopping!), it's probably worth the expense of the automatic ones.

Chickadees are so, so, SOOOOOOOO cute!

Oh, I know. But it makes me laugh more than it bugs me. I feel lucky when I find an especially egregious one! Oh my goodness, I totally misunderstood your other post and thought that you’d deliberately given the fur to the birds for their nest! I have plenty of excess cat hair — how can I donate it to birds?!

All of these negatives could (and may) be true about Ariana, but they don't change the fact that Tom is the one who trashed the relationship* and endangered the dog. I don't see how any side in the breakup could be taken but Ariana's, even if you (the universal you) hate everything about her. *Even if the relationship was as bad as Tom says, he still cheated instead of just getting out if it. ETA: Good point by Watch What Crappens re. skewers: Tom (it appears) leaves food and shit out all over the counters regularly.

I didn't sense judging -- sorry if it seemed that way in my reply. I am doing 59 things at once; was trying to be concise, but maybe it came out snippy!

I don't think she's been moping at all. But isn't she, by definition, an angry (validly) scorned woman? That isn't the opposite of moving on, I don't think; someone can be mad and also move on from something. I'm not seeing what the issue is here -- should she not have sex with someone new because she didn't want to have sex with someone old (or someone previous, rather)? I am not saying his feelings are genuine or not -- I dunno -- but maybe being on TV is not a draw for him either way. I wouldn't, even if I had some famous SO. I thought he had some level of "fame" in some shit or another online? Again, I don't know...

Don't worry! Haha, it's like some kind of crazy rule in the universe that if you call out someone's error in writing, you'll probably end up with some kind of typo in said callout. Believe me, I know; I'm a copy editor and it happens all the time.

Haha! I laughed -- it's your own house, James; you're allowed to look out the window!

The bold part -- I'm lost; what exact same thing is being referred to? Ann said to Tom that she was "helping Ariana" with something. This makes me curious: if Ann is paid by Tom, why is she helping Ariana? I mean, I don't care that she is, but I feel like ol' scorekeeper/chore-tallying Tom would! While I agree that keeping leftover food in the bedroom isn't great, it's a separate issue and beside the point; the dog incident is 100% Tom's fault (assuming that the story we have is the truth). Neither Ariana nor the chicken satay shut the dog into the room -- Tom did (after also going in there in the first place; they basically have a mediator running interference when someone wants to walk down a hallway, FFS -- as ridiculous as it is, he probably should have had Ann or someone else handle this AC issue).

I have questions! How much does the event itself cost if just one of the bottles of water costs $1,000? If there is only one bottle of this magical water, what is the point of doing a "tasting" if no one can continue to buy and use it anyway? Why would this backyard event with these people be the place where someone tastes (and/or wastes) their magical water?! Bobby Boucher would have A LOT to say about this!

Haha, tell this to the people on Amazon who answer product questions with, “I don’t know; I returned it” or “I don’t know about the size large; I am a small.” I realized today that the phrase “I’m just gonna steal a fry” is super peevish to me. Not because I am opposed to sharing my fries or anything, just because it’s so stupid. And another is people assuming that my boyfriend isn’t “allowed” to eat meat because I don’t. I don’t know if they’re kidding or what, but it’s annoying.

Oh forgive me, I am being a dope! Shame on me for being a skimmer for "make" (not that it makes much of a difference in this scenario anyway). I stand by the rest of my opinions though.

I don’t see the phrase “making out” in there — a kiss and a makeout are different, not that one is any less or more OK than the other. I’m not going to Google because I just don’t care that much. I still don’t blame her for not telling Katie back then when Katie hated her, or since then in order to not cause drama. But, again, I do understand Katie’s ire as well at being in the dark and being cheated on yet again by Tom, who deserves more of that ire than Scheana does. But it’s still hurtful to the person it was done to, regardless of logic.

I believe the laxatives incident may have been a while ago, maybe even pre-Scandoval.

How do you know? I totally believe that Schwartz would grab and try to kiss Scheana. I don’t blame Katie for being annnoyed, even after all this time, and I also don’t blame Scheana for not saying anything, back then or now.

Why are we assuming they were hers? Maybe they were Tom’s.

Style, yes (or "style" as the case may be; I'm not much of a "neat hair" kind of girl); cut, oh no no no (but when I was little, I did give my sister a truly good new style)! But I do know a bunch of people, trained and otherwise, who are pretty skilled at cutting/trimming their own hair.

Me too now! And "earnest" is the perfect word -- it's always implied to me just a tiny bit of goofiness in an otherwise endearing interaction. He also needs glasses, so maybe he is basing how long I need to see something on how long he needs?

How do we know this? Not important, just curious.

When my boyfriend holds up something to show me, he always holds it up for far longer than I need him to! Sometimes it gets on my nerves. Typing it out here, though, makes me laugh — it’s so dumb and funny the way he stands, frozen with his phone (or whatever it is) held at my eye level. He’s being considerate, I know, but why does he think I need SO LONG to see a picture of his friend’s dog or his new business card or whatever?!

Yes, but it was pageant girls. He talked about walking around wherever he wanted at the pageants he owned, including the locker rooms (or whatever you’d call it for a pageant — “locker room” does not sound right at all, haha!). ETA: I should have said “pageant girls also”; I didn’t mean to imply that he didn’t do this to adult women as well.

If I were the Ariana in the situation, I would definitely want to get away from the Tom ASAP, so I would probably move out. I would also move out if I were the Tom (I could not do that in my actual life though, because it's my place). If they are both paying the expenses, why should she have to leave when he was the one who decided that the life being collectively lived in that house was worthless to him? Also, while it's a bit crazy to have assistants running interference inside of a house, I don't see why she needs to talk to him outside of any absolute necessity. Also also, I dislike Jo and for all I know she is a raging asshole. But this treatment of her makes me feel bad -- especially without any on-camera proof of assholery on her part.

Yup. He stepped out of the relationship, he can move out of the house.

Ugh, in keeping with "reminding" -- a peeve is being perceived as a nag for doing so. You know what? I wouldn't have to "nag" if you just remembered better!

She was very "exasperated mom" in that moment. And also, I gather, a big fan of noodles (takes one to know one!). More, I think. Didn't it say that Rick has been gone for 5 or more years?