Feline Goddess

Leslie & Lyndsay's kitchen looked more like a 'before' than a brand new one. I hated the dark green. Of course decorative stuff isn't going to add value to a house, but it doesn't mean original artwork shouldn't be incorporated. With that said, the plaster wall art & sculpture were ugly. That's the real sin. Bryan & Sarah's kitchen looked small. Not an easy feat in such a wide-open space. The built-in table instead of a dedicated dining space was a 'no' for me too, Egypt. Mitch & Page's kitchen was okay, but not particularly memorable. The outside of those houses are awful and stand out amongst the others in that community - and not in a good way.

I had a 20 year friendship implode a few years ago. I donated a gold necklace that had been a gift from that ex-friend because I didn't want to keep it or make money from selling it. I just didn't want the bad mojo. The thrift store told me they'd sold it for $150.00.

Mother's Day in England is in March. But even though she's not PK's mother, as she reminded him, she's the mother of his children. Most men make sure their young kids get mommy a card, gift and awful breakfast-in-bed on Mother's Day. Maurico's teeth aren't as blindly white at Mike Johnson's on Married To Real Estate. He's a good looking man, but his shiny, plastic teeth are actually a horrible distraction. Total fail.

My brother-in-law and every dog & cat I've had cremated came back to me in a plastic baggie inside a box. Kyle wants her ashes to coat the inside of a Birkin. It proves how ignorant she is about basic things.

I just found this show yesterday and binged all eight episodes. Marsden asking, 'Which Chris?' was funny - and so was his comment about the X-Men and Jackman.

A friend has a patent and it took her years for it to be awarded and cost her $15,000. Anyone with anything similar just has to have a slight difference in their idea and it doesn't violate an existing patent. My friend found that out the hard way.

My husband said the squirrel had breasts, so he was happy when Carla said the same thing. The turkeys looked like swans - which apparently was the least of Thoa's problems.

The kitchen layout was obviously better than before, but apart from that, I didn't like anything in the episode. The backsplash was a beautiful color, but didn't go with the other colors in the kitchen and family room. I didn't like the grouping of photos in small frames in the family room. Seemed more like a 'before' decorative choice than an 'after' one. The powder room was ugly. The dining room transformed into a relaxing space was nice, but the wallpaper should've been just an accent wall, not the whole room. And again, like the family room, the furniture had a 'thrift store' chucked together vibe. Definitely not up to Hilary's usual standards.

In the flashback they showed Tamra saying that Emily's not a practicing lawyer and she'd introduced herself as a party planner. When Gina was screaming - 'What are the names of my children!' I wish Shannon had said, 'Name mine.' Because I bet Gina couldn't name Stella, Adeline & Sophie. Way too much spackle on everyone except Heather. I did like Gina's hairstyle. So much better than all her talking heads all season. I still say that Heather telling Gina to quit talking about Matt to Travis was good advice. Continuing to drone on about 'what could've been and not the life she anticipated' gives the appearance that she's sorry her marriage imploded instead of it leading to where she is now, which is in a much better place. If she's not careful Travis will eventually take offense at being her apparent second choice. Taylor was not charitable when she was on the BH franchise and pushed Russell to financial ruin and eventual suicide. If Jen wants to be with Ryan and continue to defend him, that's her prerogative. A true friend would hope for the best for her, and be there in case things go south. Two of my kids had to learn the hard way with partners they were warned about. On my son's wedding day, a dozen people including members of his fiancee's own family, told him to leave her at the altar. He ended up being a battered husband, but it still took him a decade to get away from her. My daughter just got out of an abusive relationship and is now in a custody battle over their little girl. She left him several times, but kept getting sucked back in because he'd love bomb her. Hopefully it's finally over.

Condolences to your co-worker. My friend's daughter, son-in-law, 6 year-old grandson & six-week old granddaughter were hit by a drunk driver on Easter Sunday 2021. The six-year old is paralyzed. :(

Oh yeah, forgot it was England and not the US. But even so, her upbringing was much better than Sai and Brynn's. Still doesn't excuse Sai playing 'my childhood was worse than yours' one-upmanship game and bashing Jessel for not being as poor. Sai still rose above it and is earning money and getting designer freebies for posting 'content' on social media. Some people have to get real jobs to pay the bills.

Keeping Ubah's phone as a payback prank was lame, but Erin should've left it in the car. Ubah overreacted. It could've be so much worse - the phone could've been lost for much longer or even forever. I thought it was cute when Jenna said she was ready to pick out rings with Brynn, but she'd make her sign a pre-nup because she wasn't getting everything. Who's Sai influencing? Because none of her outfits are worthy of being copied. I preferred Erin's white lace top & ripped denim shorts. Her lace dress was cute too. Jessel says she didn't get any help from her parents, then in the next moment said they paid for her college. That's a huge gift as most people carry student debt for decades. During the $20 versus negative $498 argument, I did like Ubah saying it's not a competition, you were all broke.

Whatever happened to having taste? BY RACHEL TASHJIAN The Real Housewives franchise presents wealth as a uniform experience with occasional regional specialties. The ladies from one city may go shopping at a megamall, while in another they prefer browsing designer clothes outdoors. But nearly every housewife loves a sheath dress, a Gucci handbag and sitting down to lunch to resolve their differences. (It always backfires.) The conformity of the show is what makes the presence of Jenna Lyons, who reinvented J. Crew in the 2000s with an explosive aesthetic of cubicle-bound glamour meets Prada weirdness, so intriguing. She made her debut on the series, which ran from 2008 to 2021 with many recurring cast members, in the 2023 reboot that saw the network scrap the original cast. When her “Real Housewives of New York City” castmates arrive in the Hamptons in a black Escalade, she pulls up to the driveway in a banker blue vintage Mercedes sedan. While her castmates are content to frolic in the awkwardly oversized beige expanse of one cast member’s Hamptons home, Lyons escapes to her own Hamptons house — a 1,200-square-foot bungalow in art world enclave Amagansett that contrasts delectably with her host’s five-bed, seven-bathroom remodel. The others favor form-fitting clothes from a familiar set of designers; Lyons wears boyish blazers with no bra underneath, glittering Miu Miu button-ups, oversize glasses and funky lipstick. Her style — not simply her clothes but her apartment, her self-presentation and even her blunt but enchanting conversational style — is so inimitable that the other housewives are left practically speechless when they first see Lyons’s closet, chockablock with Phoebe Philo-era Celine, Alessandro Michele-era Gucci, countless vintage jeans and well-loved Prada coats. In one episode, two of them descended into giggles playing dress-up in the closet — these women, we are asked to believe, are some of New York’s richest and most powerful figures, suddenly seeming like two school nerds invited to the rich and popular girl’s house. It’s a reminder of what made Lyons’s tenure at J. Crew stand out for so many women: Jenna Lyons has taste. The rest of the article: https://apple.news/ADC-4id-TQLK0B0SBfhedJA

I’m watching the end of season 2 episode 5 titled Steam Dream about a basement and the wife looks just like Drew Barrymore. She even sounds like her.

It reminded me of the bed set-up for the four grandparents in the movie Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory.

I was wondering the same thing. The judges keep harping on about the view, but not much of it's available through those little windows. I'm not impressed by any of the rooms so far. There's not one idea I'd want to steal for my own home. Bryan and Sarah seem to be having a hard time choosing a winner - and not because they're all so good, but because someone has to win.

This has been explained multiple times. It takes a long time to terminate a bio parents rights. Rachel couldn't have adopted Jaiden the moment she met John, or even right after they got married in 2017. It took my cousin nearly a decade and $50,000 in legal fees to terminate her son's bio father's parental rights. And he was in and out of jail (for theft, threatening people with a gun & domestic violence) he couldn't pass a drug test, failed to pay child support (they couldn't garnish his wages because he couldn't hold a job) and didn't even really want to see his child. Jaiden's adoption just happened to be what was going on in their lives at the time of filming and not something done on a whim for a storyline. My niece married a man with two children whose mother wasn't involved. She was happy to play step-mommy until she had her own kids - and then the older two became persona non-gratis just as I predicted. So kudos to Rachel for not brushing Jaiden aside once she had biological children and even reassuring him that he was just as important as the girls.

I don't believe the truce and promise to try and get along that some them proclaimed at the very end. They just spent hours screaming and calling each other the nastiest names and throwing out accusations, but now they're gonna 'move forward' ? (I hate that phrase) Yeah, not buying it. The only thing about a Tre & Looney spin-off that would be remotely interesting would be waiting for the inevitable implosion. They'll burn out fast. Tre was looking for someone who treated her better than Juicy Joe, which - let's be honest, was a low bar - and she found it in Looney who's love bombing her. He'll get tired of constantly catering to her ego and total control over her will probably bore him once it's been achieved. I'm pretty sure Gia and her sisters have been sucked in just like their dim-witted mother. I hope Zia Joe & Aunt Melissa can forgive them once they emerge from being love bubble adjacent. Looney's attempt to walk-back the Nonno's PJs comment was a massive failure. Either you did wear his jammies or you lied about it. I always thought that statement was really odd. Why would the girls feel safe because he wore their dead grandpa's PJs? I didn't like Looney going over to Rachel and telling her she's a good mother. Dude, she doesn't need your approval. I'm not buying all the times he attempts to tongue bathe someone. It's so incredibly phony. I bet there's a lot of eye-rolling as soon as he walks away. Delores was not happy with Paulie's comments about marriage. She seems to be pushing hard for a ring. If he gives her one, it'll just be to shut her up and they'll be engaged forever. I don't get the obsession with being married - and I've been happily married for 43 years. No matter what Frank claims, he's still butt hurt about being replaced as the #1 man in Delores' life. In some ways, I don't blame him as it came across that he was used as the 'go to' guy until whenever she had a new boyfriend. If she wanted to set boundaries, that should've been done a couple of decades ago. They have had an unconventional divorce (they stayed good friends) and now she seems to want to toss that away. Hang in there, Frank because I don't think she & Paulie are going the distance and she'll eventually get fed up with being strung along and dump him ala David. Jennifer was such a non-entity in part three, that I have nothing to say about her - except I doubt everything is now wonderful in the Aydin house. Maybe she's not bitching at Bill so much and that's achieved a small measure of peace. Bill seems to adhere to the 'cheaper to keep her' ideology. It's expensive to run two households. At least the pool house is on the same property and isn't costing him extra money and probably nicer than any bachelor pad he'd get in some sad apartment complex for divorced men. (See Niles in 'Fraiser' or Kirk Van Houten from 'The Simpsons'.)

Rachel explained it on WWHL. She married John in 2017 and Jaiden (spelled it wrong in my initial post) thought it meant he was adopted. They did consult an attorney who told them it would be expensive and complicated - because the birth mother's rights would have to be terminated. You can't just adopt someone else's child. Or lots of step parents would do it. And as long as Jaiden considered Rachel his mom, the paperwork was really just a formality. Maybe he started to press the issue or ask questions as got older and that's why they decided to move forward with formalizing an adoption. Also, they probably had to wait a certain amount of time for it to be considered abandonment for John to file the paperwork to terminate the bio mother's parental rights. Lots of housewives have ridiculous storylines, I think the Fuda's sharing their adoption journey isn't one of them. As for wondering why they're bothering to do it when Jaiden is sixteen ... it's obviously his wish to make it official, so it doesn't matter that he's almost an adult.

Tre confessing that she’s got a thing for Channing Tatum seems a bit more inappropriate for a married woman than Mel’s joke about drunk dialing an ex. Maybe that’s why Looney Tunes is shirtless so often … he’s pretending to be Magic Mike. Good for Dolores for confirming that Rachel had been wanting to adopt Jayden for years and it wasn’t just for a storyline. Regardless of how their marriage ended, Marge and Jan remained good friends, which says a lot. Jacqueline’s text was on point. Dolores has regained some of the weight she lost on Ozempic, just like Jackie said people will do once they stop taking it. Jackie looks healthier and must be doing well conquering her eating disorder because she didn’t seem freaked out about gaining weight, and in fact seemed happy with the way she looks now. So good for her. James Gandolfini is not the ‘get’ Jen Fessler thinks it is. So Bill is still spending time in the pool house and hasn’t made any effort to be a part of his family’s life. My husband has a stressful job but he doesn’t hide from us when he gets home. Danielle was used by Tre and Jen but is all over social media hanging out with them. I wonder if that’s because she’s basically burned the bridge with the others?

Andy said that Marge tried to get Laura on the show - and they still don't want her, even though as her ex-friend it would be more interesting. He also verified that Joe & Mel didn't campaign to be on the show as Tre has always claimed. Although Luis did try to get on TV via one of the housewives. Alexia didn't fall for his BS, but Tre did. I wonder how she feels about being his second choice? Tre tried to claim Joe & Mel never included her when they went out and then after the photos were shown, she said that she invited herself. I don't believe her. If they didn't want her to go with them, all they had to do was not tell her about their plans. I do believe Mel that Tre uses them when it's convenient. The Guidice dorters have always trash-mouthed whoever their mom is upset with. Props to Mel for telling Antonia that she's not bringing her into the fight between the adults. Tre's hair looks the best it ever has. I hope she gets the Vicky Gunvalson treatment and is aufed off *her* show. And she can take Jennifer Aydin with her. Danielle went from 100 to zero pretty quickly in regards to Rachel. But too late because all those vile things spewed out and it's a little hard to take it back. Rachel agreeing to a truce was nice of her considering what happened. If Paulie has been separated for 14 years, he's basically single. I'm sure his wife has also dated during that time. They probably never felt it was necessary - but now that Paulie wants to make it official with Dolores, he has to legally end the marriage. I know someone who's still not divorced despite having a baby with another woman. David & Frank still being roomies might be financially beneficial for both of them. According to Delores, David works a lot, so he & Frank most likely aren't tripping over each other. What's the big deal about Brittany sleeping over occasionally?

Marge should not have even gone to the ceremony if she felt so strongly about not celebrating them. Boycotting the reception was pointless. Jen Fessler got her mac & cheese during the cocktail hour, so I'm sure she was okay with leaving early. The circus acts were too tacky for that beautiful venue. I thought I was watching My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. Not only was Tre's Marge Simpson hairstyle awful, but the extensions actually looked quite cheap. And considering a lot of people's reaction to it (at the wedding and on message boards) she really wasted her money. The ceremony dress was nice, but the reception dress was a hot mess. It looked like lingerie for a porno. In regards to so many Bravolebrities being there ... if Megan Markle can have celebs at her wedding that she's never met, so can Tre. Gia is the prettiest one of Tre's daughters. Gabriella has a very rectangular face, Audriana has weird features and Milania has never been pretty and that hasn't changed as she's gotten older. The dresses were a beautiful color. They do seem like they've blended their families nicely, so I'll give them that. Joe & Mel posting their own party on social media was petty, but here's a thought Louis ... just ignore it. You let them win by being affected by it. Also petty, Tre constantly mentioning her 'chosen family'. We get it, you've replaced your actual family - Joe, Mel, Cathy, Rich & Rosie. But if you ever break up with Louis, his family will drop you like a hot rock (even the mother-in-law who seemed to like you) and probably badmouth you all over social media. I still think some of scenes from the show will be used on a future episode of Dateline. Congrats to Delores for being friends with Tre for 38 years. She deserves a medal. As so many of the men were bright red, I'm assuming they're all sunburned and it's not their usual natural color. Except Louis whose shade of red varies depending on his mood.

My neighbor who was slim anyway is using it for weight loss. She injects herself daily. She’s lost too much though and actually looks like she has a terminal illness. But she’s convinced she looks fabulous and isn’t planning on stopping.

I didn’t see a floor drain in the wet room.

I realize these events are really just an excuse to gather all the housewives together in one space, because otherwise there's no point in inviting people to a fundraiser who probably aren't going to donate. Although I did like Kyle saying maybe she'll just mail a check. Yes, please do that. Was the cute dentist the only one who actually contributed anything? If the doctor who was the founder of that charity was a sperm donor who produced six kids, he ain't that popular, Dorit. Dorit's fake boobs looked awful in that Cavalli. Vintage Cavalli. Asher couldn't attend because he was doing a VR concert. Probably for an audience of his daughter's stuffed animals. Kathy liked the calligraphy on the placecards even though she couldn't read the name. Melissa Etheridge sucked. Sorry. And what's with all the fangirling? Every time they encounter a (real) celebrity they act like it's the second coming of Christ. I do understand Diana wanting a sibling for her daughter, but why not adopt? Diana is Asher's #1 fan - and she should be. Just stop trying to make everyone else a fan. Glad to see Sutton holding her own with Lisa. Companies that pick up dog poop are a big thing here in Arizona. A lot of the rescue groups utilize them because they also deodorize the yard, which helps with the smell and any potential diseases like coccidia, ghardia and parvo.