Muffyn

I envision Josh on a kneeler in the prayer closet with a plate of burnt tater tots, half chewed pie crusts and whatever Josie licked and/or spit up.

Wednesday night a friend asked me to watch his daughter for a few hours. His distant cousin had been released from prison and they were having a welcome back party. My friend did not want to bring his daughter because the cousin is difficult to deal with, but he needed to go so he didn’t create any bad blood with this guy. I had never met my friend’s daughter before but I agreed to watch her for a few hours if she could join me while cooking – basically drop her off at my house rather than me going to his house because I had some serious baking and cooking to do. His daughter is really sweet and helped me with the baking. She stirred custards, kneaded dough and really seemed to enjoy learning more about baking. I rarely spend time with kids but we got along really well. Her parents broke up about 6 years ago, and her father is single. Suddenly, out of the blue, his daughter asks me, “Are you and my daddy fucking?” That is an exact quote. Not are you together. Not are you dating. This adorable little girl with a mop of curly black hair and huge brown eyes casually dropped the f-bomb as if it was nothing. I was so shocked. Something about someone young enough that “daddy” seemed perfectly natural for her to say also using fucking really threw me. At the same time, I swear like a sailor. I clean up my language around kids however. I did pull it together enough to explain we are friends only. Given her language choices, I am questioning whether I secretly have a child.

So much this! I hate how they act like they are the only good parents out there, especially when JB and Mechelle are terrible parents, Ben is neither in school nor does he have a job, and Jessa spends so much time taking selfies and posting to social media that it is her full time endeavor. There are so many excellent, involved, responsible parents of different religions and levels of religiosity and, dare I say it, atheists too that these two acting like they are the bestest ever drives me nuts. I guess the things we can guarantee that JB & M passed on to their brood is a superior attitude coupled with a lack of reason to feel so superior. Silly things like drive, ambition for more than self-glorification, interests, and desire for learning be damned. Okay, I'm in a mood.

Corset lady pretty much said on air that she was doing this to increase interest in her youtube channel. So there's our major fame seeker of the week. what a surprise that they didn't do surgery on her. I enjoyed the nose job guy. They showed very little of him. I guess they didn't think he made for great TV. I appreciated that he did not want a tiny nose. He was happy to get the nose he would have had if it had never been broken. As always, Dr. Nassif did a good job of giving him what he wanted. I like that he will create "ethnic" noses. That is, he doesn't feel the need to give everyone a cookie cutter, generic nose. I found the sisters unpleasant. They were just too much to deal with. When the one sister said they were always the girls with the pretty faces who were heavy, I thought, um, not so fast there Sparky. They weren't bad looking but they weren't the prettiest girls at the dance.

Now I'm wondering what we are serving seals stacks of. Pancakes maybe?

There was a lot of retconning about the audience reaction. Suddenly we were all happy to wait three weeks to learn the fate of Schrodinger’s Glenn. People on the forums had already figured out how he would escape. People were frustrated as they sat through two episodes in which this wasn’t resolved. The idea that we would get the experiences of the survivors because we would know what it’s like to wait to learn someone’s fate doesn’t hold up. One way or another, we were waiting at least a week. In show time, how long did Maggie wait before she saw the balloons? Certainly not three weeks. Ken Jeong was pretty funny on the couch. His calling out the portrayal of a psychiatrist was great. Making her so incompetent doesn’t make sense. I cannot imagine a competent adult having to ask how to tell if a wound is infected. Morgan should have been able to tell. Certainly a trained psychiatrist would not need to look it up. Somebody give her some psych meds to prescribe. But otherwise he drank the kool-aid. I wish someone would have acknowledged fan frustration. I felt bad for Steven Yuen having to hide out while this played out. He was enjoyable on TTD.

Yogi2014L, there is nothing like a fundie sighting to make the weekend! Publick schools are almost as bad as pubic schools. Only the school of the dining room table is safe.

I figure since they are so ill-educated if educated at all, they would chase the wrong things. They would probably end up in the middle of a lake or going off a bridge. I could hope they would chase a storm, catch up to it, and go flying a la the wizard of Oz. Duggars, scattered to the corners of the world, trying to find their way home with no concept of geography. Now that could be an interesting show. Unfortunately TLC wouldn't let them starve to death in the wilderness. And if Mechelle got separated from JB, who would she stare at in her stoned, adoring way.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!!!!!!!!!

Dance would seem too much like work. Ben isn't having any of that!

Leighroda, about 15 years ago I was on a business trip. We all stayed at this big conference center, and I had a top floor corner room. About 3 AM the tornado siren went off. It was right outside my room. I checked the hallway and no one was evacuating. Since so many of us weren't from tornado country I don't think people realized what it was. (The guy in the room below me told me the next day he thought they had really strange police sirens.) So I opened the windows and got in the tub. I spent about 15 minutes all cozy (or cramped) in the tub with a towel (kind of like a security blanket). The tornado went by our building causing a little damage to my corner of the building - roof tiles came off and a loose brick fell. Touchdown was 1/2 mile away. I was safe and sound in the tub. I hope your tub keeps you just as safe.

I am going to miss this show.

They so nailed the corporate speak. I too had flashbacks to too many corporate team building seminars. AMH did such a good job as a corporate douchebag. 10K rocked as always and Doc brought the humor. Great episode.

Justin looked like he had moobs at the pitstop. I was starting to think there is something in the water that is causing immediate breast growth in the racers and Phil.

There are plenty of other reasons to avoid looking at John Travolta. The hairpiece alone is horrifying.

Shout out to Denise for running 11 miles in one day in the heat of India. She is becoming stronger as the season progresses. Does she have Empowering Fatigue?

Maybe the guy has some bizarre disorder in which his hair grows at an incredibly rapid pace? Without constant shaving he would look like a wookie. I am thinking random barber at the mat may come into play at the final task. As far as the U-turn goes, I prefer when it happens earlier in the leg. If they reverse the order of the tasks and offer the U-turn, then there is more possibility of the team catching up. We’ve seen that happen in prior seasons when someone really rocks the task and another team fails miserably at the next task or gets lost. The U-turn right before the mat makes it less suspenseful because the team being U-turned has little opportunity to catch up. The other teams are already checking in. My issue this season is that none of the teams are really catching my attention. Justin annoys me so I try to block him out. I did like his partners reaction when he mooing at the cow. He would be exhausting to be around. The paps bicker constantly which is not amusing. I agree with the posters who have said they would be more interesting if they got along some of the time. They just constantly complain. So that gives us three racers who would be more enjoyable if someone gagged them. The cheerleaders and the we’re so sexy schtick has worn thin. I guess the most telling sign for me that I am not invested into any of these teams is that I cannot remember their names and I don’t feel they are worth looking up.

True but they are wrong. After all, there is a guy hanging on the cross in catholic church. I think his name starts with Jesus and ends with Christ, or so I've heard. But I do think the racer meant she was non-denominational Christian. His partner said 5X24=120. He said that was wrong. She broke it down to 5X20=100 and 5X4=20 so the total is 120.

This is the same show that somehow had Derek driving seemingly hundreds of miles out of his way to avoid traffic on the way to SeaTac. Someone on staff really needs to consult a map. It's not like Seatte is so remote that the area is unknown. I cannot stand Jo. She always responds like a three year old. When Meredith told her to go away she did her patented stamp her foot and spin with extra pony tail flounce. While Mer was rude, Jo also interrupted their conversation. Unless she was dealing with an emergency for which she needed Alex's help, she should have at least said excuse me before interrupting. She is right that Alex treats Mer as if she is more important, but that wasn't an example of it. Every time she doesn't immediately get her way, she acts like a petulant child. It's exhausting. Alex deserves better.

Leighroda , I am so sorry for your loss. Being there for the last weeks and taking care of her every need was the greatest gift you could have given her. It is exhausting to a level most people cannot comprehend. While I understand that you feel bad that she took the turn toward the end of life when you were away, you had already given so much. I had a similar situation with my sister. Fortunately, she did have a good deal of support from her husband and her friends. She was diagnosed with throat/mouth cancer. It was diagnosed very late, although that was not understood because they did not do the tests that would have better shown the severity. At her stage only 3% of people last a year. She had surgery and did radiation. I was her Friday afternoon help. I rearranged my work schedule so I would drive from Sacramento to Vallejo, take her to radiation, if she was up to get a meal, run errands, then clean up around the house. I also cooked and froze meals for her and her husband so the people helping her could heat up food rather than cooking and to lessen the load on her husband. And I dropped off groceries, set up her meds, helped her write to people, and talked to her stepkids and nieces to help them understand what was happening. My mother would call her weekly, mainly to cry about how hard it was for her that her daughter was sick. She did not visit or provide any help. My brothers did not even call. Finally, 14 months after she was diagnosed my brother decided he would come out to help since she switched to in home hospice care (he lives in Texas). He does not work. He made a huge deal of deciding when to show up, having me do a ton of research for him on places to stay, etc. He finally showed up the weekend of my birthday. We talked and agreed he would see her every day over the weekend. Instead he spent three hours with her on Friday in which he provided no practical support. He then disappeared. I skipped seeing her that weekend, figuring she was good since he was there. Many of her other support team members took the weekend off for the same reason. A few days later her lungs began filling with fluid. Her friend called me to say she only had a few days left. By the time I got there, she was in and out of consciousness. Our last discussion was her begging for my forgiveness. I can only hope she really heard me telling her there was nothing to be forgiven. She had been a wonderful sister. I too felt guilty for not being there that last weekend that she was conscious. But like you I was exhausted and I thought we had it covered. I still did the cooking. I just needed a break from the emotional drain of caring for her. I expected a grown man to be able to meet his commitment to show up and be helpful. You expected a grown woman to be able to make a phone call. But then I think back to when a friend of mine died. Her sister felt bad that she hadn’t been able to help until very near the end. My friend kept her at a distance and they didn’t live in the same state. I thought about what I said to her and what I would say to you. You were there when she needed you. You helped her in ways that others couldn’t or wouldn’t. From that care, she knew you loved her deeply. We may have missed moments that would have felt better for us, but we helped when needed and provided care and comfort to people in their last days. Even if you do nothing else in life, you have done a great deed. If I believed in heaven, I know you are deserving of it.

Last noght's eopisode really showed the problem with these panels. It had Jonathan Butler who is very articulate and thoughtful trying to make reasoned arguments, Grace Parra saying nothing of much value, going for laughs, and Jadakiss seeming almost unwilling to speak. I wish Larry had interviewed Jonathan rather than subjecting him to a panel.

Lemur, The houses in your area are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing this link. I own an 1876 Victorian in a historic preservation district and a landmark district. In 1906 much of San Francisco was lost to the fire that was caused by the earthquake. Because of the number of fires, the fire hydrants lost water pressure. There was one hydrant about five blocks from my house that kept working. It is painted gold and there is a ceremony every year to commemorate the fire. A fire line was created at 20th Street in the Mission district. Our neighbor found old photos from the time. My house was the fire line. The upper corner of my house burned. All houses on one side of mine are pre-quake. The other side are post-quake. My house was split into two flats (each floor is an apartment). When the houses were built there was no indoor plumbing. So, as Lemur mentioned, the kitchen and bath are in the back. The two story house has a one-story wet room that was added on to include plumbing; that is the bath for the lower unit. I am having work done on the rental unit. It is so hard to get contractors to respect the age of the building. So many people want to create a modern look. I have updated the electrical and plumbing, replaced the lower roof, rebuilt the decks on the back, remodeled the bathroom and kitchen. I have tried to put in things that are period appropriate and am adding woodwork rather than stripping it. My neighborhood is gentrifying. While we are not allowed to change the footprint of the houses or change the exterior fronts unless we are restoring them closer to the original look, people are being allowed to completely gut the homes. This drives me crazy. My street and our sister street have matching houses that were built in the 1870s and 1880s for teachers. While they were kit houses, they have so many beautiful features. Our rooms are moderate in size. There are beautiful hand carved fireplaces and redwood picture rails. The siding is also redwood. I very much believe if people want a modern house, they should buy one. There is plenty of new construction available or homes from the 1950s on that fit better into a modern style. If they buy one of the historic homes, they should do so to help maintain it. It is possible to modernize for safety and usage without stripping the beauty of these homes. I’ll climb off my soapbox now.

Dr. Nassif drew a penis in Elaine’s forehead. I don’t blame her for not wanting a forehead flap. She already had a horrible looking nose. Having to walk around with a flap of skin hanging off her head would be really difficult. I am tired of people like Blondie. They’re not botched. She has a mental health issue. She is body dysmorphic and needs help not more surgery.

So instead of pizza rat you have pizza cat? I am currently fostering two senior cats whose person lost her housing. She may also be experiencing mild dementia so she will have a very hard time finding a new place that will take her and the cats. When I got the boys they were very underweight. Between the two of them they now eat four cans of food a day plus treats. I don't give them people food because Skinny Pete (I renamed him) has some health issues, but he always tries. He'll jump in my lap and put his paw on my face or sometimes try to put it in my mouth. He will also lick plastic bags if he's really hungry. Readalot, I've gone back to doing some singing on stage rather than karaoke. It had been several years but I did a very successful set in LA a few weeks ago. It was part of a fundraiser for an old friend. I got a standing ovation and, at the after party, I did a two song encore performance. It felt great. Based on that success I am trying to get back into singing more regularly. Dr. Muffyn does not sing at all; that is, unless he wants to imitate a dying moose. It is quite painful. At our karaoke night, he did not put his name on any possible songs. When asked, he'll put it down to not being American.

Unfortunately people with Josh's anti- birth control, sex is evil mentality are more likely to not use condoms, even when they know they are planning to have sex outside of marriage, because bringing a condom means you had the intention to have sex. Of course, being with a prostitute or joining Ashley Madison also means he intended to have sex outside of marriage. But he can still pretend that somehow he just happened to end up with his erect penis falling into a vagina that was not attached to his wife. You now, he tripped while walking and this happened. Dammit! Now I've thought about Josh having sex. There is not enough brain bleach in the world.