DaphneCat

He was CALLING her asking when she was coming. She CHOSE not to come. If she would have shown up at ANY time before Russ was supposed to leave she could MAYBE have made an excuse. As it was, she was being deliberately rude.

She has been married to him long enough to know she was supposed to be on time - she was given the specifics of how the timing was supposed to work (unless you are trying to say she is THAT stupid.) He was CALLING her asking when she was coming and she STILL came very late. She was being deliberately rude just so SHE could take offense at people leaving. It MIGHT have been acceptable for her to show up 15(or so) minutes late for the socializing under the excuse she wanted people to get a chance to connect only with Russ but for her to DELIBERATELY wait until she actually made Russ late for his tee time (she showed up AFTER the socialization time) and then complain because people left was beyond the pale. This was not cultural differences this was Paola pissed because no one chose to fawn all over her once she actually deigned to arrive.

Yes, it's pretty funny that EVERYONE was making her in to some sort of saint while she was dead. Kinda not like that in real life huh? If she died again, she could go back to being a saint again. By the way, once you SIGNED A DIRECTIVE naming Chloe as Holly's guardian there wasn't much ANYONE could have done. "Deathbed directions" mean squat in a court of law. YOU are responsible for what happened - no one else.

Come on, ALL this misery. You KNOW we got a vow to God coming. I'm trying to tell myself that Nicole has some reason she's being such a bitch to everyone - like it's all part of some plan. But they better let us in on it soon because this is REALLY getting old. I'm guessing tomorrow she starts yelling at the UPS guy after reaming out the bagger at the grocery store for not protecting her child.

I knew someone who used that term more than 15 years ago. Maybe she isn't quite as current as she thinks?

So when Emily Ann(?) sang her new single I had absolutely no memory of who she was. NONE. There have been several contestants over the years I still remember - even ones who didn't win. It seemed they had a much higher caliber of talent before. Is the talent pool getting that shallow or are they targeting more teeny boppers and country dudes to audition? Hey all, I just realized tonight one of the guys is named Dexter! It's the semi-finals and I'm finally learning the names. No, uh-uh, all the country guys didn't run together - not even a little bit.

I think they should limit the teams coming out of the blinds - I'd prefer 6 but would take 8. As you said, get rid of the saves and steals - especially the judges picks/save when they go live. If they can't get the vote one week are they REALLY going to get it the next? Tonight was terrible! It was pretty sad when they all had to tell long-haired kid who's name I can't remember that he was REALLY off pitch. Pretty much said the same thing to Gyth ("wasn't your technically best" or some such way of saying that really sucked.) Still can't really tell the other men on Blake's team apart. Kim did herself the most good by actually just singing tonight. Maelyn and Shawn were both good. How pathetic is it that this is the semi-final and most of the "performers" are this unmemorable?

This picture is proof that Lulano CANNOT design clothes proportionately. Meri's arms are NOT disproportionately bigger than the rest of her but the sleeves on that shirt are, again, way too tight. The bust is tight-ish while the waist has extra fabric. Was this shirt designed for a bowling pin with sticks for arms?

Exactly. Maybe there ARE "influencers" who really care about their causes (at least for this week) but I really think most of them are "Look at me. I'm SOOOOO socially committed. Of course I, you know, don't have to have a real job where I must balance my carbon footprint against all the challenges of actually supporting myself." I think the Kardashians are some of the most egregious examples of this - as rich as they are one of them got push back for hawking one of those diarrhea causing supplements too. At least most of Mariah's posts aren't actually harmful. Once things get hard most of these people will go back to doing the same (or worse) than those of us who aren't "woke" - fake emotional support animals anyone? And yes, she WILL go eat the expensive brunch!

I tend to cut the girls a little more slack in that I think it will take longer for them to find their way. They were all young to mid-teens when their parents became less involved with the church (I think they were still pretty heavily in the church right up until they left Lehi.) Imagine living the first 14-16 years of your life being told your ETERNAL SOUL depends on getting a man, settling for only a small part of that man, and popping out as many children as possible. Add to that, many of the women you saw growing up ONLY had MLM's as an option - they simply had too many children to be able to get a full time job - even with the help of a sister wife you had a good relationship with. Even though you might intellectually know that women can have good careers and don't need to do this crap the message you heard all your life still resonates. Hopefully Maddie has had enough exposure to the rest of the world that she is starting to move away from that mindset (we'll see if she starts hawking some other kind of crap after giving up Lulano.) I think it will be harder for the older girls to get there. Hopefully, the younger ones haven't been quite so indoctrinated.

See I think she's not really any worse than any other wanna be influencer. Certainly not better, but not significantly worse. Rather than blathering on about fashions, or decluttering or other trendy things she's blathering on about her "personal journey." We all knew those people when we were young (maybe we still do) - those oh so righteous people who cared more for the earth, animals, women's rights, gay rights, social justice, etc. than the rest of us unevolved humans. They just didn't have social media to expose it to the entire world.

Even the men aren't doing so great under Warren Jeffs right now. Because he is in prison and can't rape little girls, he decreed that none of the faithful should be having sex, at all. Wonder how many people are actually going to follow that. Think there will be a few "wonder how that happened babies showing up?"

I really think that was her rather clumsy way of acknowledging that the whole thing was an epic fail. She had a vision and completely f'ed it up. She even admitted it was a good thing she had immunity as it was the worst thing on the runway. I'm not really a fan of her style but I much prefer it if a designer can just admit everything went wrong rather than trying to defend some atrocity.

Um.... Scrabble is usually played with a board. Do they all just sit around with scrabble tiles and make words? And she says Mykelti doesn't know how to play? It doesn't seem like any of them actually know how to play scrabble. Maybe they should try candyland?

Exactly. And I would guess when they were young they saw other plyg mothers doing this to try to earn money while taking care of their many children also. Of course they think this is what everyone does - especially after you get married.

I think Sonia was mostly pissed because the "codpiece" was the first thing they commented on and it was her idea. I get it, she was trying to collaborate and that wasn't her role but for him not to even acknowledge it wasn't his idea originally probably bit. She then took a little thing and really blew it up. That said, I want to see ONE challenge where Garo does NOT do some variation on a corset. I get having a "signature" but he is veering REALLY close to cliché here. I keep thinking back several seasons where they have had to design for babies and children. Would he seriously put a corset on a baby? The way they were editing Sebastien I originally thought the were going to use it as an excuse to get rid of him because it was obvious he was not in to the challenge from the get-go. Fortunately, half of Sebastien is still better than all of several of the others.

We had to pay a very tiny fee for an appraisal - there is no fee to have it and not use it. Ours is good for 10 years - we can draw on it any time. They, like all the rest of the Browns, live their life on social media. If they were buying expensive things or going on expensive trips, etc. we would probably know.

Having a HELOC and USING a HELOC are two different things. We have one and have never used it - it is there in case we need it. Do we know they used it?

The venue came up with something different so it's kind of like comparing apples to kumquats. They didn't actually order 4000 street tacos they ordered X amount of something else and ran out of food. But you're right - they didn't order enough food.

Yum, now I want Mexican food. You are probably not a big eater - and there probably wasn't guac and chips (or margaritas😰). I think Tony was trying to be generous - not considering some of the guests were small people or children - probably overestimating by about 1/5 to 1/4 the amount really needed,

Maybe that's why Meri got mad at Maddie. Maybe she thought Maddie should have tried harder to recruit Christine and Mykelti - more money for her.

I don't know how it works with this MLM but once you sign up under someone, I think you are their recruit whether you like it or not. I'm not sure you have a choice about whether or not that person gets a percentage of the people you sign up - I think it's company policy and Meri will get the commission. Someone posted the "structure" and it's very convoluted. Maybe Meri wanted Christine and Mykelti to sign up under her directly so she would get MORE commission and instead they signed up under Maddie - giving Meri less.

They originally wanted a taco truck but the venue wouldn't allow it. I guess they really wanted that venue and compromised on the taco truck Many people (I'm not trying to pick on you) have commented on the 4000 tacos. When I was in Mexico my friend and I went to a place where we were served very tiny tacos - it would have taken at least 3 of these to equal what we thing of as a taco - so when Tony was saying plan on 10 for each guest, that would have been the equivalent of someone going to a restaurant and ordering one order of tacos - which many times is 3 tacos on the plate. I think these are what Tony had in mind - NOT the plate the venue ended up supplying. That plate of "chicken cordon bleu" looks disgusting. I hope it tasted better than it looked.

I really think he thought he was being funny with the loan comment (he's tried to make other "jokes" that fell flat too). In the end, I would guess their wedding was actually cheaper than Aspyns - I don't think they had booze at theirs. I think they figured they weren't going to use their entire budget for the wedding so they figured out a way to get the same amount as Madison use the difference for a honeymoon.

For some reason unknown to the rest of us, Ted has the hots for Hope. He's hoping to break them up so he can get with her. I had such high hopes for him in the beginning, when he came and immediately started revealing everyone's skeletons but ever since he came back from the island, he's been ruined. While I'm not a huge fan of Rafe and think Rope has ZERO chemistry, Hope's lame ass "I'm tired of being sad" makes me root for Rafe. Stop it, show! Hope is sad because she NEEDS a man at her beck and call 24/7 worshipping at her feet and Rafe hasn't been doing that lately. I love when Zander's in smart ass mode. I'd probably hate him around all the time though because they'd probably have him fall in love with some shrew and be ruined like most of the men in Salem