Aquarius

Hee! Let's guess which one 100% of the men choose!

Because it would never occur to anyone to ask men to stress over whether or not they feel worthy enough to walk through the "Beautiful" door. Like yogurt, that's just for us women.

It is the same technique. The ingredients are different. Shampoos are essentially soaps, with detergents that strip the oil from your hair. Wen and other "cleansing conditioners" like it do not have detergents. Essentially your hair is cleaned by a friction method, where you work the conditioner through with your fingers, and sort of scrub gently. Your hair isn't stripped of its oils but the dirt is cleaned. Works like a charm. I've been doing it for years now to improve the waviness and overall condition of my hair, and it has. I don't have frizzy waves any more. Of course, I just use Tres Semme Naturals, which I get at my grocery store for $4.99 for a 25 fluid ounces.

Yum! Cheeseburger flavored yogurt! I'm stopping on my way home and picking up some Yoplait.

Ooooh, but so . . . PIONEER!

Oh my word, that's one of the ones that drives me crazy!! Who just SHOVES a q-tip into his ear as far as it will go?

I wonder how Ree's BFF Hy feels about not being on the Good Friday delivery list. You'd think she'd make the top three, being as they've been besties in their families for generations. (I've never been sure how that worked). My husband and I got quite a chuckle from the whole "We're having an Easter potluck at church. Everyone brings their A-game. So I thought I'd just whip up this recipe we all learned to make in grade school!"

So do I! But it's only because we're gifted - hee. http://www.2ndfirstlook.com/2012/09/gary-larson.html Muffyn, your whole post is awesome, but that line is stellar!

I love Pati's Mexican Table! I was bummed when Create stopped airing it so frequently. It took me a while to get used to her voice but now it doesn't bother me, except when she has her kids on. Then she gets so SCREEECHY!

I don't know how he keeps from doing that, to be honest.

I gotta say. Someone bullies me into dropping my bid on a perfectly lovely antique table, they better serve me something waaayyyyyy better than pasty boiled salmon, rice and champagne mixed with PEAS (!). I love roasted asparagus and hollandaise, but it can't hold its own with all that set on perfectly lovely antique table I gave up. No way. Because - PEAS (!) In a drink!!

Dance Moms. I avoid people like that in real life, why the hell would I want to watch them as entertainment?

I've never tried Ree's recipe, but I frequently roast green beans. They are delicious! I'm sure the bacon will only help. Enjoy!

Agreed! And it doesn't help that I have an irrational hatred of Jane Krakowski.

I agree with this. And I think in the beginning maybe Norma really DID think it was okay. It's interesting to me that Caleb said something like "she was always the smart one, when she found out isn't wasn't right she told me we couldn't do it anymore." I think there is a world of grey area between painting Norma as a 13-year-old temptress, and a girl trapped in a warped family that is so starved for love and attention that she might sexually experiment with her brother. At 13 years of age I didn't know everything about sex, but I certainly did know about it, and it was around that age that my experimenting began. Norma is known to cross an appropriate line frequently with Norman. So I can't completely dismiss the idea that might have happened in her past as well, during a time she was craving comfort and didn't fully understand even where the line was. I don't think considering those possibilities in the context of this show, with all its warped depictions of male/female familial relationships, is necessarily a reflection of rape culture. I am in now way BLAMING Norma in my scenario. I'm just saying . . . I can see where something different might have happened.

I said it upthread, but I'll repeat it, because for some reason it makes me sad that Giada and Todd are divorcing. I really hope they just drifted apart. It happens. I hope the rest of it is just plain rumors.

Oh, yes, we can. But we straight women usually aren't when talking with other women, even about sex. Thanks for that link. If you think about the difference between the new ads and the old ones, I think what they mean by "targeted to women" becomes clear. The old Viagra ads were about virility. Motorcycles, cowboys, sportscars, horses. The new Viagra ads are about romance. Which is just supposed to sucker us women in. Regardless of who is delivering the romance, apparently.

It might not making it any less annoying, but they are actually calling them "pips".

Or my guess is gagged by the Food Network until that happens.

Nope, not kidding. She's (supposedly) on a bowling team called the Bowlerinas. They all have nicknames embroidered into their pink bowling shirts (Nancy is "King Pin"). I don't know if they always do this or it was special for the "tournament" they made it into, but they showed up at the lanes with pink tutus over their bowling clothes. I hope the whole thing was just for the show. I really do.

Arrrgh. The airplane episode. I even know the name - "The Fed Baron" - because I will avoid that episode any time it is on. Seeing Nancy in the back of that plane, with everything, um, flying against the wind - just no. No, no, no, no! As for the Bowlerina episode. The stuffed French toast looked kind of interesting. Sour cherries and almonds are probably a pretty good pairing. It never occurred to me to make my own coffee liqueur because I have known since I reached drinking age (many moons ago) that I can buy it in a liquor store. But hers did look interesting, if a little sugary. And wowza, that was a lot of food. Any one of those dishes alone would have made a decent brunch. Now, while not nearly as bad as seeing Nancy's chest smashed up into her chin, I have to say I also don't need to see Nancy in a tutu. Like, ever again.

I'm thankful for this! I saw waaayyyy more of the hide and hair of that boy during his season than I ever needed to see in my lifetime.

So, Ree makes a raspberry fool, which looks pretty in its martini glass and sounds pretty good for anyone who likes whipped cream, which I do. Then she promises to show me some amazing variations while she crushes ladyfingers or whatever. I can make it with strawberries. (Just substitute strawberries for the raspberries.) I can make it with blueberries. (Just substitute blueberries for the raspberries.) The she tells me - WAIT FOR IT, THIS IS THE BEST , you won't believe this one - I can do the same damn thing with BLACKBERRIES! How??? Just substitute blackberries for the raspberries. All this is accompanied by very helpful footage of the actual berries being substituted. In case I didn't understand the concept. Wow. Those desserts weren't the only fools in this episode.

Good point about the scars. But also I'm thinking Julie is not a returnee, based on the fact that the police officer knew her back then. When she showed up at Julie's door, Jule said something like "You haven't been to see me in seven years." The officer said something like "You asked me not to." I hope that would have been a different conversation if Julie had died and come back.

Yes to Sara Gilbert being Darlene! Even with the obvious difference in her real-life personality, all I see on The Talk is Darlene. Her sister Melissa will always be Laura Ingalls to me. Valerie Bertinelli will always be Barbara Cooper. She's all over the Food Network these days and it's strange because I don't think I'd ever heard Barbara express any interest in cooking. LOL. Janes Leeves will always be Daphne Moon from Frasier. And Wendie Malick will always be Nina Van Horn from Just Shoot Me. Let's just say Hot In Cleveland is a very disorienting experience for me. John Wesley Shipp will always be Kelly Nelson from Guiding Light. Meg Ryan will always be Betsy Stewart from As the World Turns, no matter what she does to her face. To me, the late Leonard Nimoy was always the creepy narration from In Search Of.