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I haven't seen this mentioned yet, but these recently discovered underwear modeling pics of Cody have confirmed me to that there is in fact a God and He cares about rewarding man-loving "Big Brother" viewers.

Part of me wants to hate Heather. But then I remember she has condemned herself to a life that involves regular sex with Terry DuBrow and I realize that karma has already taken care of her.

My take is that Heather observed two things: 1) Tamra and Vicki were getting chilly towards her 2) Tamra and Vicki took an instant liking to Shannon. I think Heather was threatened by the notion that Shannon might take her place in the veteran trio and got way overly defensive about minor things like who-is-sitting-where at the dinner table.

I know I am going straight to hell, but I am absolutely loving that Lisa's balloon is getting deflated a bit. The Beverly Hills ladies clearly were not clever enough to succeed in exposing the "real" Lisa, but at least now someone other than Pinky gets the last laugh. Even though I don't love any of the other cast members per se, I believed their gripes about Lisa. I hope this somehow makes it onto the show.

Because I am totally shallow, I checked out the videos of the guys who looked remotely cute - was actually pleasantly surprised that Zach, Cody and Caleb all seem pretty well-spoken and good-natured. No Judds that could barely put a sentence together. Of course, everything changes once they're in the house but I am cautiously optimistic at this point.

OMG seeing Terry standing there in the background like the stealth drama queen that he is made my skin crawl. I don't ever buy any of his "niceness" - all I have to do is remember the way he snickered with Slade over how good Lauri was in bed at that siesta last year and I am reminded that he is such a covert sleazeball.

But it was so classic Vicki! "I don't want you thinking I would every be chriping about you behind your back - because I was!" On what planet does this make sense? I would never, ever gossip about you - except for the fact that I did - so, don't ever think I would - but I am sorry for doing so - but now I am apologizing, so I didn't really!

I actually felt for Briana during the speech about doctors without borders. Not because that is the biggest sob story in the world. But because I do feel like she had this adventuresome spirit and that Vicki really stomped a lot of it out of her. And now, here she is, making these decisions almost out of spite against her mother - "I'm going to elope with Ryan! I'm going to move to Oklahoma with my kids!" I think Brianna is stifling so much rage and passive-aggressively acting out and making choices that she is going to regret so deeply 18 years down the line. I know technically Vicki didn't stop Briana from doing anything she wanted to do, but as someone who grew up with a hysterical narcissist like Vicki, I can say from experience that it can take a lot of deep, deep personal work to come to understand that you have a right to your own life. I don't think Briana even understands how angry she is at Vicki. It's really painful to watch her throw her life into this horrible marriage. Vicki herself is the one to say, "If you act this way in front of the cameras, what are you doing behind closed doors?" And we have seen Vicki MELT DOWN on camera, so I can only imagine how she has behaved towards her kids behind closed doors. That kind of rage leaves a mark. If she ever screamed at Briana and Ryan the way she screamed at Tamra or Gretchen, that is flat-out abusive.