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I was so glad to see Barry and his same old goof ball routine. I was glad not to see Dave Hester, and Daryl Sheets is still as obnoxious as usual, Brandon wasn't with him, he's probably doing fine on his own without his dad. I prefer Brandon anytime over Daryl. Still cannot tolerate Rene. Don't really mind Ivy or Kenny. I like Brandy much better without Jared, she made him tolerable and the episode with them bidding against each other was uncomfortable. I like how the other guys are nice to Brandy and willing to help her, even if it's something simple, like pulling down a door. I don't mind Mary and as someone said above, Lisa doesn't have much of a personality, maybe she'll improve with some time. New guy, Lee I think, wasn't very good at estimating, he estimated a bunch of fabric at $2,000! I'm a fabricaholic and that would have to be a lot of silks and microsuede to be worth that much. New and in an upscale fabric store maybe he could get that, at a flea market/swap meet or thrift store, no effing way.

on a layover at O'Hara, I saw my college French teacher dissolve into a shrieking ass. Our plane was delayed, and delayed and delayed and every time there was a fight to KC where there might be stand-by tickets available, the whole flight of people for my flight would race to the boarding gate. I quit after the second time. But I saw this one man who looked familiar but I couldn't place him, he was leading the pack, today, he would be a Karen (I don't really like using that name, but we all know what is meant.) Finally after about his 3rd meltdown, I remembered him. I know he recognized me, but he maybe didn't remember my name. It was 4 or 5 years after college. Our crew was also waiting for the plane, when it finally arrived in Chicago and we took off for KC, they served soft drinks, one of the attendants picked up empty cups and threw them in the bathroom, jumped in her seat and buckled her seatbelt just seconds before the tires hit the runway. Another time, I had a medical emergency on a flight from KC to WDC, it was after the stop in St. Louis that I got really sick. I had a reaction to Compazine that I had been given in KC. My mouth locked open, my head was jerking from side to side. The flight attendants did absolutely nothing, no one gave a shit except my bf. When we landed and got home, my bf's friend picked us up at the airport, then called his mom who said to get me to the ER ASAP! Probably now, that situation would have been helped with an Epi-pen, but I avoid Compazine. Now to my continuing some things from commercials that annoy and irritate. I don't know about people running around in their homes in their underwear, but my sister wants to be naked all the time. She's quite overweight and has always hated clothes. It's so annoying to get up at 3 AM to go to the bathroom and hear from the kitchen, "don't come in here, I'm naked." One time her grandson was living here, had a bunch of teenage (older teenagers, young adults) friend over and they were in the living room, when she announced that she was going in the kitchen naked. One of the boys didn't believe it, so he got up to see. Got the shock of his young life! I haven't told her, but I will not be joining her in 1,000 lb Sisters. And for a pleasant memory, my parents danced, all over the place, any time and all the time. At my mother's funeral, I was sitting with her older brother and only sister and we had "Till I Waltz Again With You" by Theresa Brewer. The 3 of us were holding hands, laughing and crying and quietly talking about my mom and dad were now dancing together again. On their headstone, I had information for my dad put on his side and stuff about my mom on her side and in the middle, "They Dance."

Underwear ad, only saw it once and I was more amused than annoyed. Jammies, I think. Ad was talking about how soft and comfortable and they had pockets! Then the same man who was wearing them pops out of the opening in front and was running his hands over the fabric of the opening. It would fit right in with the "ball ance" guy. After I got through being stunned, I laughed. Now the wearing underwear around the house and the dancing all the time in the house I'll take to small talk.

I enjoy Best Buy's ad with Santa and the Elves. "Nice jammies!" The elves are just having a good time and pay about as much attention to Santa telling them to go to bed as any teenager.

It's been running for years, in the Julia Roberts perfume ad, the song that plays, are they singing, "I have to tase you or I have to phaze you?" All I can think is tasers and phazers from Star Trek shows.

This commercial caught my attention because I like The Platters. However, it immediately bugged me because in the black & white flashback, the man is a full head or more taller than the woman. When they flash to full color "today" they're both about the same height. So, either hubby shrank a full 8 or 10 inches, or the guy at the prom isn't her man now. I was just coming to say that! And it's not the Platters, it's the Flamingos and I knew that without looking it up, I love doowop. But the ad for whatever that has someone screeching out "I Got You Babe" really gets on my nerves! It was never a favorite song, but I didn't use to hate it either. The singer? really garbles their words and then screeches. Ugh! Editing to add the one I find amusing, it doesn't necessarily make me irritated or angry. Roman, some sort of erectile disfunction treatment. Young couple are in undies brushing their teeth, apparently getting ready to go and the announcer says, "you know how you're just brushing your teeth and all of a sudden..." Then the young couple starts kissing and one thing leads to another and... Anyway, never in my entire life as a former young person, have I ever gotten turned on by anyone brushing his teeth and decided to jump in the sack that instant. Never.

Been bingeing on CSI on Pluto, still. See a lot of ads for NCIS Hawaii starring Vanessa Lashay. Her voice reminds me of someone, but I can't remember if Simon, Theodore or Alvin.

I have one of those odd names that have a meaning depending on whether I use my name or initials. I do both. I hated my name as a kid, but I love it now. When I got my divorce, the judge barely got the words out about did I want to change my name before I was shouting YES!!! I used to work for a doctor, we had a patient and I will make up a name for her to keep her confidentiality even though it's been nearly 30 years. Her father was named a single syllable name, like Earl, he added an "a" to his name and named her Earla. But even more odd was that Earla was a twin and her twin was named something like Mary. Now, what are the odds that Earla would find a man with the last name of Earl and marry him? She did, I guess when she met him, she decided it was fate, so she was Earla Earl. I'm going to out myself, my name is Barbara A. Friend or B. Friend or B.A. Friend. My parents did not do this to me deliberately, they didn't realize until I was a few years old what they had done. I'm named for my great-grandmother, Barbara Alice. I hated my name as a kid, got teased a lot. Everyone else had names like Smith and Jones. Now, I'm glad I don't have a normal name. I like it. Many years ago, I was a bookkeeper at a restaurant. I signed my personal checking account as Barbara A. and the restaurant's checks as B.A. I had done that since the beginning of my employment there. One time I wrote the rent check and took it to the management office, left and as I was walking away, one of the management staff chased me down yelling, "Is this some kind of a joke?" "No, ma'am, it's my name." Facebook will not allow me to use B.A. I tried and I am entitled to it. I guess I could argue with them, but what's the point?

the tuneless singing that everyone is complaining about on the Volkswagon ad? I keep thinking they're making up their own lyrics and using the tune, Marching to Georgia. I don't even know that song other than a brief snippit in Gone With the Wind, I think. But the song and the singing suck. Wish they'd stop.

this one has been around a while, didn't see it for some time, but I've always hated it and now it's back in rotation. It's from Discover Card, young woman says "I can get ma maonnee!" I want to smack her upside her head. Thank goodness for the mute button. And along similar lines, it's for Everlywell or Everlyhealth or something. I remember the Everly part because I'm a big Everly Brothers fan, may they rest in peace. Young woman lists all the things she could be allergic to and that she could take them all out of her diet and put them back in one at a time or she could find out what's actually the problem. "I'm gonna do that!" It the smug way she says that, that makes me want smack her upside the head.

I have a solution, at least in part, to the problem of AT&T not supporting my old flip phone as of February. They sent me a new and updated flip phone today. I still may consider changing carriers in the near future but I don't have to think about getting and learning a new phone with a data plan.

I used to live in an apartment with a young couple with 2 small children living above me. It wasn't too bad except their bedroom was above mine and the headboard of their bed was too close to a wall and during certain times, I could hear the headboard banging against the wall. Most of the time, I could ignore it. But on Valentine's Day, I signed divorce papers and then that night...I turned up my radio loud enough I could ignore what was going on over my head until things got quiet. Shortly after that they moved the bed away from the wall, I was grateful. Then a few months later they moved. I didn't miss them or really care one way or another until a pair of young roommates moved in. Male & female roommates, young 20s, maybe. I think they worked evenings because about the time I went to bed, they came home, stomped up the stairs (next to the bedroom wall) and usually with several friends. Then they turned up the music and stomped around the entire apartment with the entire gang. It never occurred to them that some people had to go to work at 7 AM and needed to go to bed before 3 or 4 AM. There was a noise ordnance that started at 11PM and I had to call the police to get them to stop, but I think they had a lookout because before the officers could go up the stairs, the music stopped. Irritating, inconsiderate brats.

I think it's for PetSmart, I like it the one with people singing, "I'd Do Anything," from Oliver. I like the song and I like seeing the happy pets.

Chessiegal, that's nice to know about the dried Caesar's dressing. Hidden Valley used to have one I loved. I grew up in the midwest and I guess I'm older than the ranch dressing thing because I'd never heard of ranch dressing until I was an adult. It's ok for some things, dipping veggies, but pizza? no way. I'm not a big fan, I grew up with Wishbone Italian, there used to be a restaurant in KC where it originated and they were a customer of my dad's, so that's what we grew up with. Medicare Advantage plans, thank goodness for them. I have one, as far as having to stay in their network, it wasn't a problem for me as I live in a smaller city and there's only one hospital I choose to go to, there were different plans so I picked the one with hospital I prefer, my doctor is connected with that hospital, so not a problem. As far as specialists go, I just go to their website and choose what I need. A story that I was reminded of by a comment in another thread. Earlier this year, I tripped over my dog's leash and fell face down in the kitchen, I skinned my knee and couldn't get up by being on my hands and knees like I do because I'm old and don't have the flexibility I used to have. I yelled for my sister, but I knew she didn't have the strength to pull me up, so I asked her to get the young couple that live with us, they were outside. Everyone came running in the house in less than the time it took to write this, and I had gotten to a sitting position and I was laughing my a$$ off, I looked at them and said, "I've fallen and I can't get up!" All of us were laughing then as they pulled me onto my feet. I told one of the nurses that during one of my hospital stays this year and she had to tell a couple of other nurses. We all laughed.

I'm a reasonably well educated woman and lie/lay defeats me. I really have to think them through. I do better with sit/sat, but have my moments. The one that irritates me is disrespected, to me it's disrespectful and some is being disrespectful to you they are not disrespecting you. It's lazy usage. Having trouble typing tonight, this chromebook is hard enough to keep a sentence going without it jumping all over and inserting random letters in words, but I have 2 large dogs, one of them is lying so close to my arm I can't move it and the other one is jumping around wanting to play with the one trying to sleep. I love them, but they are pains in the a$$. And, I don't feel too good. Have a cold, don't know how I got it, I don't go anywhere. I'll blame my nephew for bringing it home. I've used my Zicam a couple of times today.

I watch CSI on Pluto, I've figured out their schedule, from 2 AM they run Las Vegas for 8 hours, then it's 8 hours of NY, then 8 hours of Las Vegas, then 16 hours of Miami. I don't understand the scheduling, but that's the way it is. I watched the first episode of the new CSI and I forgot to watch the next 2. I don't watch network tv anymore since 2016 with a couple of exceptions. So, I forget what day of the week it is and what time it is and forget to tune in. They've been airing those 3 episodes of CSi: Vegas off and on all weekend. I'm already tired of them. At least during CSI original and surprisingly during NY. I don't know about during Miami, because I find other things to watch when Miami is on. I still haven't figured out the schedules for NY and Vegas, I thought it was 8 hours Vegas, 8 hours NY, 8 hours Vegas, 16 hours Miami, the 8 hours NY, 8 hours Vegas, 8 hours Miami, but then again I have no idea and I'm not going to edit this again! lol

so am I, but apparently we are going to lose them in the next few months because of some bs called 5G. AT&T has notified me that as of February they will no longer support my little flip phone. I don't know what to do, I do not want and cannot afford to pay for a phone with a data plan. Can't do a government phone because there's only one per address and my sister has it. Wouldn't want that anyway when I listen to her screaming at the phone because it's screwed up again. I haven't been on here much due to my PC being knocked on the floor and is a mess, we're working on the problem with HP, in the meantime, a very dear friend of mine sent me a new Chromebook so I can still be on FB. She said Best Buy was practically giving them away and they are $119. But I haven't mastered using it. It goes to weird places on me, I can't figure out how to copy and paste more than a word or two, And spellcheck defeats me. I'm trying to catch up on reading my favorite threads but have a long way to go. And to refer to an above topic, I don't mind "passed away," but when I see someone write, "so and so past" I get frustrated.

Is her butt for real or is that plastic surgery? Every time I see that commercial I think, no - she couldn't have been born with that ginormous butt. I was. But I hate those commercials. Especially when she's talking about not finding underwear to suit her and so she cut and dyed stuff. I mean really! Can you picture Kim in the kitchen boiling water and putting some Dritz dye in pots and bowls all over the kitchen table? over the past several weeks I've been bingeing on CSI original and NY on Pluto, when Miami comes on I watch Discovery and Science. But there's an ad on there that runs frequently (don't they all?) for Cox Home Life. The ad has 2 pre teens watching a scary movie in a dark house alone. They hear a noise and the boy grabs the device and says something about Cox Home Life turn on the driveway lights. Except it took me about a dozen listens to figure out the Cox Home Life part. Not very good on their part that their narrator can't enunciate clearly enough for viewers to know what he's talking about. Spelling errors are mine alone, just got this Chromebook and I haven't figured out how toe correct spelling when I'm not sure of the correct spelling. I really have gotten dependent on the computer to tell me.

I read the obits every day. I know what you are saying about if you knew them well, you would know they are dead, but sometimes I see obits of people that I cared about or their family members and I may be a little too far out of the loop for anyone to think of contacting me, Um, that's how I found out my ex husband had died. I read his obituary. My stepdaughter left a message for me with the office of the apartment complex I lived in, he had lived and worked there, I didn't have a phone at the time. No one told me. I was in complete shock. I went to his memorial service, I'm glad I went, but I got so angry with his bar buddies giving the eulogy, that my friends sitting with me had to hold me in my seat. Even the deacon doing the service talked about his first wife and there was no mention of me. To be fair, the deacon was the father-in-law of my stepdaughter, her parents had been married 16 years and we were only married 6. I've spoken to my step-daughter once since then. Not on bad terms, just things happened and we went our separate ways. But what I enjoyed was the father-in-law did the service. There was no way on this earth that my ex wanted that. He didn't like Daryl (I think that was his name) and after his first wife's funeral, which Daryl also did, we promised he would not do services for us. I win! He won't be doing my service, if I have one.

I know this isn't show related, but it's Tia related. I know several here follow her on FB and I do, but sometimes with FB people you follow just disappear for several weeks/months and that's happened with Tia lately for me. I did see a recent post where she said something about someone getting in the way of the cameraman. So from that I gathered they were shooting again, I would have looked it up, but my computer got knocked off the table by one of my pitbulls and was on the fritz, I'm using my old computer until I can get something sorted about the new one. But enough of that, on FB, did anyone see the video Tia posted of her listening to a woman caller? It was hilarious. The woman was going on and on about dogs and training and Tia very clearly did not agree with a lot the woman was saying. It was so something I do when I'm listening to my brother rant and rave or talk about cars. I am glad they are shooting again and will be back on the air. AT&T doesn't always make the best decisions.

the thing is, different antibiotics treat different things. Earlier this year, I had a UTI and an infected tooth, I was on 2 different kinds of antibiotics. There is a hilarious book by Bill Fitzhugh, it might be Heart Seizure, or it might be Cross Dressing, it's been a few years since I read most of his books, but they are a hoot and a half. Highly recommend them. But in whichever book it is, there is a character that gets a venereal disease, he's a thief, and in one of his robberies, he picks up an antibiotic for something else, it does not take care of his venereal disease and it's quite funny in a very sick way how he disintegrates. I have a very dark sense of humor, I worked in psych hospitals for several years.

For those who have reached a certain age and their bodies are starting to betray them, I've learned a big lesson about UTIs. Mid week before Labor Day, I felt one come on. I couldn't go to the doctor until Tuesday after Labor Day, had a dentist appt. on Friday, I felt pretty much fine except when I went to the bathroom. Saturday, I was sick, fever, chills, nausea. Got so bad, I asked my sister to call for an ambulance. I learned my lesson the last time I went to the hospital, thinking I was just going to the ER and would come home, so I had my sister get me some clean underwear, socks and tee shirt and grabbed my phone/Kindle charger. Forgot my hair brush though, next time it goes in the bag too. When the ambulance arrived and I talked to the EMTs for about a minute, they led me out and put me inside. Got to the hospital about 7 PM, there was no room available, so I had to wait in the waiting room, I did my urine sample, finally saw a doctor about 9, they were concerned about the infection moving into my kidney, there were reasons for this concern which they discussed with me. They ordered a CT scan, I had that about an hour later and finally about 11 PM, I was moved to a room in the ER, saw another doctor and she told me they were admitting me as soon as a bed was available. Got into a room about 5 AM, just in time to get breakfast! I was there until Monday evening, blood tests had improved and they had figured out the type of infection and the best antibiotic for it, so they wanted me out of there before I picked up anything else (Covid, I tested negative.) My point is that the hospital is so crowded with Covid patients. In the ER there were gurneys with people on them in the hallways, and those same people were still there when I went back into the ER at 11 PM, I think they were dead and they didn't have a place to put them. I didn't ask. Oddly enough, the waiting room at the ER only had about half a dozen people waiting on a Saturday night when they are usually packed. But several of the staff I spoke to in the 2 days I was there told me they had had Covid. It's not a joke. I didn't want to go to the hospital because I knew they are stressed but I was so sick, I've seen my PCP and she said I did the right thing. In fact, my doctor's office is operating with a skeleton staff, they have a lot of employees out sick with Covid. It took almost 2 weeks to get my follow-up appt for the hospitalization. So the other thing I've learned is that UTIs can present differently in older people, I'm 71. Sometimes there are no symptoms, but if I start having the same symptoms again, I'm to get into the doctor asap. Mine had moved into one kidney which is why I was so sick so quickly.

Would someone please stuff that stupid gecko into his stupid flat tire and drive around the block? Editing for additional thoughts after reading 5 pages. I thought the guy said something about "is that what that smell is?" Benadryl was a miracle drug for several years, then I reached that certain age, and I cannot use it any more. I can't tell exactly what that certain age is, but it happens to many people. Remember commercials about restless legs medications? Benadryl gives me restless muscles all over the body and insomnia. So be careful about taking it when you reach that certain age. I refuse to go to the ER of one hospital in town because when I was there for a brain aneurysm, they wouldn't listen to me when I said no Benadryl.

thank you peaches and crazy. I always liked him in Law & Order.

Seeing an ad lately for Smirnoff something in a can. I don't pay much attention and since I don't drink any alcoholic products, I don't know the difference between them nor do I want to. But anyway, the ad has an actor that looks and sounds so familiar. Does anyone know if it's Anthony Anderson who played Det. Bernard on Law & Order. The actor in the ad has a gap in his front upper teeth just like Mr. Anderson, a gap in the teeth is not so easy to change like a hair style or shaving or growing a beard.