Maharincess

I hated the low rise trend. Trying to buy a normal pair of jeans that didn't make your butt crack show was impossible back then. The zippers just kept getting smaller and smaller. I don't like the skinny jeans either, especially on guys. I'm definitely a jeans and t-shirt person, I have jeans that I've had for years and years and I still wear them. They are probably horribly out of style but they fit, look good and are comfortable, that's all I care about. I'm average height and very thin with a long torso, it's hard to find jeans that for me well. My closet has a section for wedding/funeral clothes. I have dresses and heels but most of my closet is full of jeans.

I didn't mean to make you cry! I'm sorry. I just like sharing her story so people can see that a lot of these "difficult" dogs are just scared. I hate to think of what would have happened to my girl if I hadn't taken her. She was named the rescue's success dog of the year!

I'm Norwegian and am as pale as Casper and am always told that I "need some color". I don't lay out in the sun, I refuse to use those skin cancer tombs known as the tanning bed and the spray tans look ridiculous. I use sunscreen when I go out. Why do people think they need to tan? It's not worth it to me.

My brother does this. He even puts an apostrophe in the word always. Seeing a man his age write alway's drives me crazy. Another grammar peeve of mine is people who think alot is a word. Which leads me to one of my biggest pet peeves ever INITIALS.. What are FIOS?

I feel like some of my brain cells died every time I watched Tammy and her daughters. Between Lindsay constantly talking about the "pitchers" taken of her and Tammy talking about her "relay ship" with Duff, I was screaming at the TV for them to learn to speak properly. Speaking of Duff, holy shit I've never seen a more whiny, needy man in my life.

Is there a reason you always call him Minty?

I haven't posted in this thread but have loved seeing your pictures and reading your pet stories. I'd like to tell you about Kaylee. She's an almost 7 year old Border Collie. I adopted her from the BC rescue on 4/19/13. I had lost my BC Harley and swore I'd never get another dog. It just hurt too damn bad at the end. I went to the rescue site just to look, Kaylee's picture was the first picture on the first page. She's a red Border Collie and what they call split face so I noticed her look first. I looked at a few more pages of pictures but kept going back to her. Those big, sad brown eyes spoke to me. I noticed the name the rescue had given her. It was the same nickname I've been calling my husband since the day we met. It was an omen. I already had an approved application on file so I made an appointment to go meet her. She had been severely abused. A lot of her teeth are broken and missing from abuse and neglect, she has burn scars on her stomach, she had broken bones that weren't treated and didn't heal properly. When she was found at the shelter they said the only way she could have gotten into the area where she was found was to be thrown over an 8 foot fence. She was also skin and bones. The rescue said that she had been looked at many times and adopted once but brought back because she snapped at somebody. She didn't bite, she just snapped. Because of that they would only adopt her out to somebody with Border Collie experience and training experience. I had to have her. She was so timid and so terrified that she wouldn't move. We had to crate her to get her to my house. My bedroom has doors that lead to a small fenced area. I put a big square table near the door and draped blankets over it (think kid's fort). I made her a bed under the table and put her food and water under there. She had a comfy bed, food water and could go out as she pleased. She didn't always make it outside and she peed a lot out of fear. Then I just left her alone for a few days. I'd go about my normal routine and just narrated everything I did, talking to her in a soft voice. If I got too close she'd back into the corner of her fort and growl. She would only go outside if I wasn't around. After a couple of weeks I started pulling the blanket back a bit and talk to her and toss her treats. She would just stare at me with those sad eyes like she was waiting for me to hurt her. I just kept talking. That went on for weeks. Each day I'd get a little closer to her. The growling eventually stopped after a couple of months. I just kept getting on the floor and talking and giving treats. One day after she had been with us for about 4 months I got down on the floor to talk to her. She was staring at me like usual but then she started scooting closer to me. Not too close but closer than ever before. The next day she got a little closer. About a week later I handed her a treat. She would never take food out of my hands but this day she took it from me. She went right back and hid but we had progress!! After about 6 months I got on the floor like I usually did and I heard a thumping noise. She wagged her tail at me! It may not sound like much but I cried my eyes out. About a week later she scooted over to me and put her paw on my foot. A couple of days later, she put her head on my leg. I'm trying to stay calm so I don't scare her but inside I'm jumping up and down and cheering. At this point I her tail wags a little every time she sees me. I go in the room one day and instead of hiding under her table she's asleep on the bed. I got on the bed with her and we cuddled for an hour. It was probably a full year or more before she completely trusted us. It was worth every second. So many times people would tell me to give up on her. I refused to give up. I knew there was a great dog in there, she was just terrified. Everybody she knew had hurt her. She just needed to feel safe and know that nobody would ever hurt her again. Today Kaylee is a happy, healthy confident dog who loves everybody she meets. She's still timid around new people at first but once she sees that I'm ok with somebody, she's fine with them too. Watching this beautiful girl go from a terrified, beaten down dog into the happy confident girl she is today has been one of the best experiences of my life. She can't get enough of being touched. She's always wanting to be petted, hugged, kissed and loved on. My theory is that she's never been touched in a loving way before and she's making up for lost time. I'm more than happy to oblige her. She's the sweetest, most cuddly dog I've ever known. I hope that I'm making up for the horror she's suffered through in her early years.

I read it four times and am still confused. It sounds like my Uncle and the name David. My uncle was Dave, my cousin Davey, his son Little Davey then my other cousin married a David and he had a David Jr. We ended up with about 6 or 7 Davids in the family.

Who is Betty Draper? Meth users tweak.

I know this has been said but it can't be said enough. My heart goes out to all of you who are survivors of sexual abuse. Your strength is an inspiration. The grandma part of me wishes I could gather you all up, give you all hugs and help heal your pain. I'm sending big, warm grandma hugs to all of you.

I said after the first episode of the season that Ryan's eyes look like my brother's eyes after he's been up tweaking for a few days and I still think so. His eyes have the look of somebody on coke or meth to me. He's also looking like he's lost weight recently. I hope I'm wrong but he isn't looking or acting the same.

I somehow missed Simon letting his fingers do the walking. My dog had to go out, thankfully it must have been when they showed that. Thanks doggy!!

I just realized that those things in Maci's ears are big holes! I always thought that she was just attached to ugly black earrings. I never noticed they were those big hole gauge thingamajigs. Ew. Why? Why would somebody want to do that? It's so gross when they take the ring thingys out and their ear lobes are flippity flapping all over the place. How did I never notice that those ugly black earrings were holes?

I have no shame in it either. Kid is ugly. That's just how kids are. The medicine kicks in and they are fine for a while, then they drop again. Ryan looks like a tweaker. I don't think there's anything wrong with Maci and Taylor buying a house together. A marriage license doesn't mean everything. Means nothing to me. Almost 3 decades together and we aren't married and have no plans to be. And we've bought a few houses together. I have no experience with adoption but in my opinion Carly shouldn't meet members of her birth family until she's much older (if her parents want her to meet them at all). I just think at this age it would be so confusing to her. You just know that April and Kim would both tell her that they are her grandmas. In her world, she already has grandparents. I think she should be at least 12 and have a decent grasp of the whole adoption thing before she meets any of her birth family. I hate how Tyler keeps saying that Carly has never met Kim and April like its a given that they will. He sounds like Theresa and Brandon are keeping the "grandmas" waiting. Like I said I have no personal experience with this so maybe I'm way off but that's how I feel about it. Holy shit, I agree with meisje, this episode was more like an hour of commercials with a few minutes of show thrown in.

My kids are grown and moved out and I still won't turn my ringer off at night. I love how Amber said she woke up from a nap to the missed calls from Gary. It was 11 am, nobody takes a nap at 11 am. She was still sleeping from the night before. I just can't stand Amber. I'd rather watch Farrah on a loop than to watch Amber. I wanted to smack her when she was talking about the "hell" she's gone through. Everything she listed as her "hell" was all of her own making. Screw you Amber. You don't know what hell really is. April looks exactly the same ti me. Usually when people get clean they look better after a while. And if she's still drinking she isn't clean. Why do I watch this show when all it does is piss me off?

That's how I started, with the app. My son bought me the Kindle for my birthday. I still love real books but being house bound the Kindle has become my best friend. I can lie in bed, buy books and read them without leaving my room. Sorry. I quoted the wrong comment. I should have quoted the one about the app.

You only have to worry when they come "threw" the window.

I got it on my Kindle for $7.

I have to take a minute to thank you for having an indoor cat. I get so sick of these so called responsible pet owners who let their cats roam free. This should probably be in Pet Peeves but I hate owners who don't keep their cats inside. They think its ok for their cats to use other people's yards as their litter boxes, kill birds and other small animals and potentially get hit by a car. Their excuse is that their cats want to go out and its "hard" to keep them inside. Bull crap. All of my cats have been indoor cats and they've been just fine.

How does she go on all of these trips when she has a baby? Did she already give up custody of this one too?

Hell yeah, my flowers are dying because I can't water them like I used to.Peeve for today: People who when asked a question say absolutely instead of yes. "Would you like a cup of coffee" "Absolutely" "Nice day isn't it" "Absolutely"

I'm the same way. People think its ok to always tell me to eat something and I'm too skinny. I had a guy put a bunch of boxes of Twinkies in my shopping cart once and he said "I'm begging you to go home and eat these". It makes me so mad. Would they put a bunch of green veggies in the cart of an obese person and tell them they're too fat? My mother-in-law is extremely overweight and she's the worst one. Always telling me that I look sick. I'm aware of how thin I am, believe me I try to put on weight. I once ate ice cream every night before bed and made a milkshake every morning for a month. I lost 3 pounds. Im also sick of people telling me how "lucky" I am and how they wish they had that problem. Yeah because it's fun to be humiliated in the grocery store. I'm glad I'm not the only one it happens to.

FaithsMum, mine was abusive and controlling too. I did marrt him though, I was young and stupid just like he wanted. I grew up after I had my kids. I didn't want my daughter to think being abused was normal in a relationship and didn't want my son to grow up to be an abuser. I escaped one night when my kids were 2 and an infant. He died a few months later. I agree that Ryan never gave Maci much thought. I think his plan was to play with the young virgin and then move on to another one. I just watched her 16 and Pregnant today. Ryan never had any interest in Maci or Bentley. Maci kept referring to herself as an over achiever, either she was full of shit or Teen Mom ruined her.

That happened a lot at my old house. They included a small rock inside the bag with the papers so they could throw them from the car windows. You have to drive up a hill on a road that isn't visible from the main road to get to my house now. I don't get ads like that now but we still get the occasional Mormon or Jehovah witness up here. Usually super early in the morning. I'm polite if they're polite. If they get pushy I remind them that they're trespassing on a private road.

I read Tracy's book. She may have done those things but she was still just a kid.