queenanne

To be fair, it's possible the Susie Spurgeon is written as actual dense history, whereas the Roloffs is probably written with the gushing, breathless depth of "Waiting for Prince Charming". Once I walked past a restaurant sandwich board on the street for one of those upscale diner-type restaurants, advertising its daily special of "Mussocka". Me: "Um, if they know you can't spell "Moussaka", do you think patrons really want to be eating it?"

He'll have to be, to counteract that name...! I think we may have discussed this before, but IMO the Bateses are no good at naming. You had might as well have called him "Jailer".

I wanted a vomiting status icon for that but there was none, lol. I’ve been mad for years at whatever Olympic color commentators made ‘medal’ into a verb. The first time somebody said ‘he/she is poised to medal,’ I was confused before I was enraged. I thought they said ‘meddle’. I said ‘what? You mean like Tonya Harding?’

My guess would be that he signed up for something like Stitch Fix or Nordstrom's Trunk Club, where this is one of the things they ask for ("do you have any style aspirations? add them to your Pinterest/other account to give your stylist some ideas").

That's a cute, well-composed picture of her and Izzy. They look like they might be actually enjoying each other's company for a change.

The bedroom makeover reminds me of some of those rental apartments you glimpse when they go tracking down the poverty-level people featured on "Cops", albeit clean; whereas usually the criminal renters make it look pretty obvious they are running a crack house. Possibly a dorm room. What it does not look like, is cozy.

I would be hard pressed not to turn around and say "Will you fucking stop hovering at my back and staring, lady? I know you're there. It would be impossible not to know you're there!"

When in doubt, I just open up a browser, Google some version of it ("symbol for currency"; "Euro sign", etc.); and highlight-copy-paste the resulting version from the browser into my word processing program. Copy-paste is your friend! I've received attachments at work, formatted in such a way that nobody can do anything with them if they need a printed copy on paper, like Uber and Etsy receipts; I just highlight "all text", copy, and paste into MS Word.

*blushing* I love the smell of clean laundry when the machine exhaust leaks out onto the street/hallway, myself. It in fact makes me a trifle giddy with the aura of spring. The side entrance to my dormitory building senior year of college was right next to the laundry room, and that was a rare treat as someone was almost always doing laundry. Sometimes if you come upon me passing by a laundry room, you can see me just standing still huffing it rapturously on the breeze, lol. Also, we have a couple NYC YMCA's, with pools at basement/street level that perfume the area with chlorine; walking by these, too, always gives me a little visceral giddiness thinking about summer.

Strictly speaking, I doubt she's learned her lesson about the "twins" tease, because she's tried it out both of the times she was pregnant (Spurgeon and Henry); and for some reason I think she was even on camera tantalizing us that maybe Izzy in utero was twins.

This is well worth the sidebar into OT-ness, I promise: back in college in the 90's, I once passed a young black girl on the street in NYC. On her young frame, she was proudly sporting a Janet Jackson tour tee shirt, with the legend: "That's the Way Love Go's" (sic). I had to fight back the urge with all the willpower I possessed, not to tap her on the shoulder and say "Uh, girlfriend, anyone who can spell is going to know you never went to that concert, and thus ruin the cred you are trying to maintain by buying this bootleg shirt." A colleague was also bragging at their skill at picking knockoff purses on Canal Street that look "just like" the real thing; and thrust that then-ubiquitous LVMH purse at me. Unfortunately for her claim, the brown leather square that was facing me, quite plainly read "Louis Vitton" (sic) and not "Vuitton"; so I'd say there are some flaws inherent in her chooser.

I find the lashes to be a fashion don't. I mean, the idea is for them to be lush, not to clump together - Kaylee's clump, IMO, because they've been laden down with three ladies' worth of mascara. I feel like many women I see with false eyelashes, they let the thicket of augmentation speak for itself, without simultaneously caking the lashes in mascara.

Is it possible it’s because some things about the bride are then new to you, as opposed to drivel that you can probably recite just like the Duggars about the Duggar women?

I think it depends. I know one of those neurotic narcissistic type women, and she absolutely put every step of her potty training "struggles" on FB. Another woman I know who also does not like this frenemy, asked me "Is all this rewarding normal? I asked a friend of mine with a child in kindergarten at the moment, and she said "I think we took him to the store and let him pick out a single toy; but no, there was no step-by-step recounting of the process, "he broke down and took grapes"." (Frenemy is also the same woman who once forced her then-boyfriend, now-husband to intervene in an on-street verbal altercation between a female stranger and her own boyfriend, and cried in the street after it was over; so you get the idea of what type of tiresome woman she is in general.)

Honestly, why does TLC keep them on the air? Just think of the lost interest value inherent in making the littles keep quiet.

On the bright side, it's better written than I would ever have expected from a product of the educational system of JillR...

I remember an attorney once telling me ‘Most lawyers are in fact poor writers, and in many firms this generally results in there being one poor talented sucker functioning as the ‘designated writer’, whom everyone then piles on to write their briefs and memos’.

Yeah, I tried to study it for a lib. sci. paper and the information said ‘YouTube tries hard to hide its algorithm’. There’s also something about the effect of fully watching a clip versus starting and stopping, with the latter being worth less, or maybe nothing. YT also takes it upon themselves to periodically roll back the counter to remove partial views, so a watch count can drop considerably.

I think her chances are good especially if she doesn’t think she needs to use eyebrow pencil. I have naturally good if large eyebrows myself which I never bother penciling, and on the rare occasions I tidy them up, the beautician thinks I groom them regularly. ‘No; it’s just genetics.’

Well, there are cosmetology training programs; and then again, there are "cosmetology training programs"... guess we know which one Danielle went through!

Oh, I'm pretty sure that even more frustratingly, he was actually trying to sound it out and figure it out visually; because this is the kind of thing that interests me, and I was really listening to and looking at the text upside down. Izzy, as far as I could tell, was just following the natural rhyme scheme of what the author literally wrote ("plop" does indeed look like "glop" to a beginning reader; that is in fact how I twigged to reading at age 2.5, watching that section of the Electric Company where they ran through the entire segment of "C" + "AT" = "CAT"; "R" + "AT" = "RAT"); and giving a good old elementary school try to *actually* reading the book. I certainly wouldn't describe it as "making it up", which to me, would be more like "and then Sam ran down the road and jumped up on the back of an elephant", but then again I've gleaned more about phonics, child behavior, and a number of other subjects just going through school for other subjects plus life; than Jill clearly has being raised amongst a family which should technically have always contained a kid learning to read. *I* would have said, "Now, you're just guessing, Israel. Look at the word again."

Happily it looks like the boys are shaping up to have plenty of physical courage. That swing strikes me as a little high, strictly speaking, but Sam clearly isn't scared of it; and we've already seen him figuring out how to climb on the table, lol.

The eye area is lighter because Danielle troweled on a mass of spackle to hide either red or black under eye circles, for that ever popular ‘raccoon mask’ look. Mine look funky no matter what combination of pressed powder, foundation, colored highlights or coverup I use they shine through.

See, now I was thinking ‘Really? Has ‘the hot one’ always had that bad a nose?’ Plus there’s so much hilighter on it I swear I studied her for several minutes trying to figure out if it was, in fact, lavender.

Maybe Jackson is compassionate, and thinks too much hearing everyone else call Michelle "Mom" all day long will be depressing to Tyler, as he's not a son? Maybe he thinks saying "aunt" is more inclusionary for the outlier.