mamadrama

This is a shot in the dark but there are a lot of us on here from different backgrounds so I thought I'd ask..ANY of you have any experience of working in the legal aspects of the entertainment industry? I've been contacted by a reputable production company about optioning one of my true hauntings for film. Normally they'd go through my agent but since I don't have an agent... I just got the email yesterday. It all checks out-they are who they say they are and I'm not being catfished or anything-but I haven't replied yet because I don't want to say the wrong thing. I know that most works that get optioned never see the screen but I also know that they have to pay me something just for the rights and I am afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing and shooting myself in the foot before I even get started.

Same here. Youngest is 6. The earliest they could tell was at about 18 weeks and even then they warned me that it might be too early to see the gender. I had ultrasounds every week for my youngest (partial placental abruption and they were keeping an eye on it since the previous pregnancy had wound up in a complete abruption and preemie at 31 weeks). There was no seeing the gender at 14, 15, 16, etc. weeks. In fact, the baby only JUST started looking like a "baby" on the u/s at around 12 weeks. Before that, you could see the heartbeat and the basic shape, but limbs weren't quite visible just yet. My guess is that Amber is demanding bloodwork to know. That was something that was never offered to me, although amniocentesis was. (I declined.)

Thanks! I paid $5 for them at a flea market and they are tough fuckers. I'd like to find more! They never did put last week's episode up to buy. I watched it via the link you all provided here. Re: Mirena crash After my son died in his sleep, a woman was "comforting" me by telling me that she understood how I felt because she had "lost a baby, too, in a Mirena crash." She didn't quite realize what had actually gone on in her body. (I won't get into the whole comparison thing.)

Ha ha, thanks! I hate those articles about "things not to wear after X age." They usually include tight-fitting clothes and mini-skirts. I love both and I continue to wear them. I think you should be able to wear whatever you want to, and for that I support Cate and her attire. However, I get the feeling that Cate WANTS to look good but just can't figure out how to make that happen. I wish someone would take an interest in her appearance, take her shopping, help her find things that are suitable for her body type and really teach her how to dress. Hey, maybe that's what she and Tyler can do after they divorce! He and his new beau can help her do her makeup and take her shopping. They might make great friends, just lousy marriage partners.

As someone hitting 40, I feel like my body looks the best it ever has, especially after having 3 kids. Cate's clothes make her look older, heavier, and dowdier than she is. **A peek into THIS almost-40 year old's closet**

When did Boot Camp film again? June? And she says that they didn't get together until after filming, which would make it sometime in July. I, too, think she probably got pregnant earlier in August but even if it WAS the 20th, she got knocked up by someone she'd only been dating for a few weeks. After supposedly being "in love" for "years" with OldMatt. Ugh.

I don't think so.

Is it bad that I am genuinely looking forward to it? God, I am awful. Still, if these people are gonna put their lives on TV for my entertainment...I want to be entertained.

I first did a solo backpacking trip to Europe when I was 20. I didn't have a license back at home, had never driven a car or been anywhere alone, but I spent 3 months traveling through Austria, Germany, Ireland, England, Belgium, France, and Italy. I loved it so much that I became a travel writer for Rough Guides and spent the next 4 years backpacking Europe, reviewing youth hostels and budget restaurants. :-) I eventually made it to Bosnia, Croatia, and Slovenia (LOVE, love, love Bosnia) and wrote a book about my travels. It was my first. I really hope that my own kids take up backpacking and hosteling. It totally changed my world.

She's an early birthday present and is just as sweet as she can be. :-) She came very well trained so the kids have been entertaining themselves making her shake and sit all day. (She's actually 8 months old so she's a very small dog.) I hear you on the cats, though! We have 5 and though I love them all, they can be super destructive. Cats are assholes.

Y'all gotta see my new baby...This is Dixie.

Aw, dude, sorry about that! As @GreatKazu said, we were totally supporting and agreeing with you! Sometimes it's hard to tell that in forums. I went off on someone in my true crime group the other day. I mean, I spent a good hour creating this rather inflammatory post defending my point, only later to realize that she and I were saying the same thing. Oops!

I know I keep harping on "man child", but NOTHING this guy posts or shows display the traits of a mature man. Everything reads "juvenile", from his humor to his inappropriate public fondling, to his inability to have a normal conversation on camera, down to the fact that he doesn't have his own home. But he's from "Malibu" and has a verified Twitter so he's totes okay!

Agreed. I could care less about someone's sexual orientation. If my son came home with a male partner, I'd be thrilled with "my sons." (As long as I liked him, of course.) Huey could be asexual for all I care, there is just something "off" about him that rubs me the wrong way. I don't trust him or his intentions. MattOG's con was easy to see from the beginning. This one's agenda feels more vague.

My gaydar is pinging high with NuMatt. I don't dislike him, yet, but he's done nothing to make me like him either. As a rule, I detest the whole Peter Pan thing that some men have. It is a real turnoff. In the mental hospital attire, Ambular looks downright svelte next to his slovenly self.

Sometimes I take a step back and wonder what an outsider would think of MY life and interactions with my kids. I mean, obviously I'm a perfect Pinterest-worthy parent but, you know...haters gonna hate. :-P Seriously, though, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt when I can. Tyler has been shown to have a short fuse. Makes me wonder what he's like off camera. Considering what those kids grew up with, and the fact that they've never had real counseling for it...Still. That's just speculation at this point. He truly may have just been having a bad day and almost never does that. Hard to say with these shows. (Jenelle, on the other hand, I have zero trouble believing that she and David are awful and scary parents-to the point where Other Grandma is even stepping in. Now that's scary crap._

I see this a lot on other boards, people wondering if CPS should be called. Over on the "90 Day Fiance" board, there's a dumbass named Nicole who's dating a Moroccan named Azzan. Nicole has a toddler, May, and is threatening her parents (the grandpaents of May) that she'll take the toddler and move to Morocco if his visa isn't approved. Nicole is an asshat who leaves the majority of the childrearing to her mother. She has no business parenting that child full time (she really is that bad), much less taking her to a foreign country, away from everything she knows. People on that board are like, "Someone should call CPS!" Why? She may have no business uprooting May and moving there but it's still her RIGHT. And thank God it is. The day that the government starts determining when and where we're allowed to travel to and live with our children is going to be a sorry day indeed. (Now, on the other hand, if her mom wants to step in and prove that Nicole is an unfit mother and neglectful of her child, I would totally support that. my point is that CPS can't be called in just because someone we don't like is making what we think is a bad decision.) You are correct in that there is a difference between dysfunctional parenting, or even the "culture" of a home, and actual abuse. On my first day on the job our boss was like, "Seeing or hearing the parents screaming at the kids is not a sign of abuse. That may just be the way their household culture works-everyone yells. You may not agree with it, but that's not for us to decide. Now, if they're yelling at the kids and telling them that they are worthless, that they deserve to die, etc. then that is a different story. That crosses over into emotional abuse." CPS is eye-deep in cases. Too few workers and too many families in need. As you said, they only intervene in extreme situations. Injury to the child would almost have to occur first and, even then, they may not open a case. I worked with some families who lived in absolutely vile conditions, the kids suffering from obvious neglect, and they were still in the home (the kids). It takes a LOT to get CPS involved and even more to get the kids removed.

The 40 year olds I know dress MUCH better than that. I am 37 myself and I wouldn't be caught dead in anything Cate wears. Ooh! Thanks for the reminder! Something else I can buy and open on my new "crap I bought from trashy reality stars" You Tube channel! Not sure what I can do with it, though... Plug up the opening and use it as a candy dish for Halloween?

Wasn't the blind item from 2016? (I mean, I still think he's cheating on her now, though...)

That's what I thought too. Damn, I am getting cynical. I'm still trying to figure out of the Kardashian "robbery" was real.

Crap! I hope she didn't buy up all my loot! Count me in as someone who had a soft spot for Anna Nicole. I have a soft spot for Marilyn, too, and it pisses me off that Amber, in her own demented way, has "laid claim" to her. She better lay off Priscilla Presley, that's all I'm saying.

I was a "family therapist" (later changed to a "crisis intervention specialist") for a Family Preservation Unit of a nonprofit community-based organization. Social workers from the state referred clients to us who were at risk for having their children removed and we worked (in-home, 10 hours per week) with them to help them make the changes they needed to get the state off their backs. I did not have a license, though I did have extensive training, but I was basically a social worker. They could call it whatever they wanted but we were social workers. We even appeared in court with the families in lieu of their on-going SWs and the judges and attorneys didn't always know the difference. I hated that job. Actually LOVED the families I worked with. (Well, a few were kinda scary.) But I HATED the bureaucracy. Literally! ;-) Ha ha, I dig it. My only complaint with Simon is that his comebacks weren't snappier or wittier. I wanted Tyler to get it GOOD.

I'm in the mountains in the south east, about as far away from civilization as one can get...If it's not on Netflix or Hulu, I generally don't get it. :-)

If I looked that GOOD having sex, period, I'd do it. I have this strong feeling that while in my head I am porn star perfect, in real life I look like a flailing monkey with Bell's palsy.

Buddies! I think I have found my new calling...I am going to order items from "celebrities" who have started their own "businesses" and review them on YouTube. Things That Matter nightshirts (seriously what man is going to wear those fugly things?), Forever 'Ho rompers, whatever hell poop tea Leah has on offer, Jenelle's #MomHigh shirts, Kim Kardashian's rib breakers, etc. It will be glorious. I have zero experience in this area so I can't be of help, but didn't want you to think that I was ignoring your post since I posted right after you... :-) I am wondering, though, about renting in the new place instead of buying right away? That would take at least some of the pressure off and give you the chance to get to know the area better.