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"And Nina practically offered her a job on Marie Claire, too. Ugh."
For some reason, my editor function isn't working.
To me Nina sounded like she was offering to mentor Ashley to make sure she (Nina) would not be embarrassed by what Ashley on her own would offer Marie Claire. I am sure Nina wants to keep her job at Marie Claire.
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from the website---
The winner of "Project Runway" will receive $100,000 to launch his or her business and a Celebrity Cruises® modern luxury vacation for two to almost anywhere in the world. Sally Beauty will supply a year’s worth of products and the opportunity to consult with Sally Beauty to create a limited edition “FingerPaints” nail color collection. Travel and hotel accommodations to inspiring destinations around the world will be provided by Best Western International and from Mary Kay, the winner will receive an entire year’s worth of beauty products for their fashion shows and professional makeup artist services for their debut show. The winner also receives a 2015 Lexus RC 350 and a complete sewing and crafting studio from Brother Sewing and Embroidery. The winning designer and model will also receive a fashion spread in Marie Claire magazine.
I can't find that the car is only for a year. That seems just really tacky.
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Mr Barb loves oldies music & we went thru a Death song phase (as I called it) when we were younger. "Tell Laura I love her" was included along with "Honey."
The remedy for both of those songs is to sing "Teen Angel." Everyone I knew used to add the line "or somewhere down below,' and sing it over the line about "and am I still your own true love."
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Heidi said she would wear at least one of the dresses.
I thought she said "could" wear one of the dresses, and I knew that meant she never would. But then I am getting old, and I can't always trust my ears. But I still trust my eyes, and I thought there were serious problems with all of them. I thought Edmund had the least problems. I think I am joining the conspiracy theory people on this board and the plus size win was pre-ordained. If they really wanted to push plus-sized design ( and I don't think for a minute that they do), they should have had either an entire season with plus-size designers or at least included 5-7 such designers in the mix with the regular ones.
Ashley--- the only time on the show that I thought she had dressed herself well was when she was shown back in California when Tim came to see her. And I only remember that she looked fine from the top up at the table; I can't recall seeing the entire outfit, but they must have shown it while she was showing her collection. I just don't remember. I just thought she looked much better at home, but maybe it was because she wasn't under the stress of the show. I think she should spend time with Stacy and Clinton. I disliked her blouse at the finale. Her first model reminded my of Anna Nicole when she came onto the runway. The shorts were dreadful, and I cannot believe she glued flowers to the dress. Zac cracked me up about her use of color. Edmund's was black and white, Candice was red and black, and Kelly was mostly that tan color, tan mesh and the white print; Ashley was the only one with a lot of color and the flowers on the head of some models, probably made the colors seem brighter.
Kelly-- I didn't care for the tan mesh look at all, but other than that her collection looked sorta fun, and I could see all of them belonging to the same woman/older teen. And I thought she styled the models appropriately.
Candice--should have stuck to what she did originally. I wanted to see how the dress that she couldn't get into the door turned out. Oh, well....
Edmund--I never thought he would win because he tried out for all the other seasons. That is part of my conspiracy theory.
I will say that everyone's runway looked a lot better in motion than they did in the still pictures.
I think that Edmund probably has the most promising future. And I hope Kelly picks up some investors or is hired to work under another designer. Candice already had a clientele from what I understand so I think she will do fine in her little niche. I think Ashley may do less well unless she gets some serious mentoring, and I hope Nina does what she promised.
And, finally, I want to comment about the prizes; it's funny as much as Heidi repeats them, they didn't really register with me until last night. In my head I was trying to add up the value of the stuff (cars, trip, and the rest of the non-cash item) and realized by the time she pays federal and state taxes on the total value, she won't have much cash left.
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The memorable movie which did NOT have me in tears at the end - in fact I was in total snarkish amusement - was Avatar. I went with a friend when it was newly released. We paid a ton of bucks to see it in 3D. I thought the 3D effects were way cool and the cinematography was great. But the story just struck me as so boring and predictable, that I could not get into it at all. People, that is one bad movie.
I thought I was the only person in the universe who disliked this movie. We went because son and DIL were in town (they work in film and wanted to see it) and they took the us to see it. I don't get particularly excited over 3D so I was bored, too. We went out to dinner immediately after and didn't even discuss the movie.
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The book and movie of Little Women always makes me cry when Beth dies. Members of my family were unable to figure out why I would re-read it or see the movie again until my daughter came up with the theory that I am hoping by seeing it just one more time, Beth will somehow live. So maybe that's it.
The book and movie of Little Women always makes me cry when Beth dies. Members of my family were unable to figure out why I would re-read it or see the movie again until my daughter came up with the theory that I am hoping by seeing it just one more time, Beth will somehow live. So maybe that's it.
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I don't like the cold. Low thyroid, low blood volume, etc. I can never really get warm in the winter, no matter how many layers I wear. Cold from the inside doesn't go away with another sweater. We were in Europe during the heat wave this summer. Very unusual. Our family said we would rather be uncomfortable hot vs. uncomfortable cold
You can thank my daughter for the heat wave. Anytime she travel she seems to take heat with her. She went to LA to visit her brother once, and they had near record or record highs every day she was there. Her brother has moved to Hotlanta so it is almost always stifling when she visits. She went to Vancouver, and again brought unseasonable weather. She was in Europe for this summer's heat wave, and the summer she spent abroad in England ended up being unusually warm and she had to go buy more sundresses.
My husband, who is from Texas, was amused by an ad when he was stationed in Germany for a product (I would guess laundry or bath soap) that advertised "mild as the summer sun."
I am almost always cold, except if I am very hot.
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What's the yellow goo in the cup on the side of the nasty sundae bowl thingie...and when did Bin start looking so much like Jill's husband?Not that I could pick either one of them out of a lineup...
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It looked like drawn butter.
I think it is a caramel topping for the sundae.
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I'm not sure about how I feel about the necklace Meri got, if it were from adults or the adults told the kids to give it to her, I can see it being an FU... But if it really is from the kids and they really wanted to just do something nice out of appreciation then I'm not going to fault them.
I just can't see it being from the kids on their own. I didn't look that closely at it, but it seemed like it is probably less expensive than the ring in the jewelry commercial just because I don't recall the diamonds being large at all.. I just don't see the kids thinking this up on their own or being able to pay for it. I don't fault the kids at all for this. there should have been gifts to Meri, Janelle, and Christine for their acceptance of Robyn's kids. A gift to Meri for the divorce should have been separate. I just can't stand Robyn so maybe that's why I want to blame her for this and why I think it is an insult to Meri.
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Ugh. The Giving Tree. Or as I call it, The Co-Dependent Tree. That book is a psychiatrist's dream. If you really want to get true insight into Shel Silverstein, get a hold of a copy of Uncle Shelby's Book of ABZ's. One of my all-time favorites. If you're the least bit nostalgic about him, I wouldn't.
I am sorta nostalgic about a few of his poems, but I did not care for "The Giving Tree." My daughter couldn't stand the man who demanded everything from the tree. I think she was about 7 at the time. Then a few weeks later our priest gave a homily comparing Christ to the giving tree which confused her because she thought the tree was nice, but stupid. She called it the story of the selfish boy with his stupid tree.
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You know it really doesn't make any sense that they would give Meri a gift for divorcing Kody. According to them, the legal wife isn't any different than the other wives. So Meri didn't give up anything since they are all the same. If legal marriage is irrelevant then why would it matter if she's the legal wife or one of the spiritual wives?
Well, I would think it would matter to them all even though they might deny it, because it does matter to the "real world." I am sure it gave Meri a sense of security, being the legal wife, although as we have come to see, it was a false sense of security. And the non-legal wives know that they don't have that piece of paper. I guess that's why all the "sealing" is important. I think they have tried to convince themselves that legal marriage is irrelevant, but at the back of their mind and in their hearts, they know that isn't really true.I think the stress of holding those two opposing values is part of the reason they seem so unhappy and often unhinged.
If they really all believed it (I think some believe it more than others--I think Christine is the truest believer, but Meri, Janelle and Robyn have all been legal wives so I think it is harder for them) then none of them would be legal wives. But don't expect what they do to be logical and make sense.
I think Meri was probably offended (1)at the gift of the necklace which was probably cheaper than the watch (or at least cheaper than the price they pretended the watch cost), and (2) at the meaning of the three diamonds not only representing the three children, but also "past,present, and future" when she is obviously the "past" and Robyn is "present and future." I would have been sorely tempted to hurl it at Kody, but she really couldn't do that with the children near by. If I were Meri, I would never ever wear it.
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Here's what I don't get about people who object to baths (and this is not directed at anyone who posted anti-bath here, just something I've thought about more than a time or two): Most people say they don't take baths because they don't want to sit around in their own filth. How filthy do most of us get in the course of a normal day?! Also, babies (who actually do get filthy multiple times a day AND sit in their own filth!) are routinely given baths, which I think is actually nastier than a grown-up taking a bath. Seriously, I know that baths are the only logical way to clean a baby, but I don't see a bath as that much different than lounging in a pool all day. And I thought it was hilarious when some celebrity said he always uses two washcloths in the shower because he doesn't want to wash his face with the same cloth he used on his butt. I thought, "Then wash your face first!"
I prefer a nice soaking bath, but I turn on the shower right before I get out to rinse off. I remember when I was little and first starting to bathe by myself that my mother told me the order of washing beginning with the face.
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The giving tree is one of the saddest books I never understood why someone felt it was a kids book, but I always cried during " Puff the majic dragon also.I thought I was the only person who cried over "Puff." Still do-- it was on one of the tapes the kids wanted played in the car all the time; I would sing along and cry. Feel the same way about "The Giving Tree" not being a children's book.
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My 70 year-old mother and her 70 year-old friends dressed up and went trick-or-treating for shots of booze. Apparently that's a thing in their (retirement) community. You're never too old, I guess?
I like this; I am getting old, but I would trick or treat for wine and chocolate!
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What she "brought into the family" was exposure to daylight."We must not let in daylight upon magic," wrote Walter Bagehot, of the British monarchy.
Meri brought in the daylight
Well, actually they all did when they decided to be on TLC, but I don't think there was much magic to begin with.
As to the British monarchy, I think they threw open the draperies and let the daylight in the year Charles was invested as Prince of Wales. I remember when I was a teenager there was a documentary about the family which showed him water skiing and his father grilling or otherwise cooking something outdoors. And they have been unable to shut them every since. Before that all we saw were news clips of their doing royal type stuff or maybe a still picture of the Queen with a child. My most vivid memory of QEII was of her standing at the door to the church at Winston Churchill's funeral. The press did follow Princess Margaret some, though.
As to the Browns---
well they have to refer to it as the Kody Brown family as he is the only person connected to everyone else now that Robyn's children have been pulled in. Otherwise, it really is the 4 Brown families who live next door to each other. I do see Meri as being responsible for bringing in "daylight," because she brought in Robyn who is more darkness than daylight, but I digress.... They seemed reasonably content and happy that first season. I cannot recall exactly when Robyn appeared, but I wonder if she would have been added had they been on tv. I just think they have been better off staying away from TLC.
I, too, am suspicious about the "adoption." I think maybe the bio dad gave Kody permission to make certain decisions for the children and sign things on their behalf (like paperwork at school). I am having trouble believing he gave them up for adoption--especially with their going to see him.
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I could care less who trick or treats in my neighborhood. I just like seeing the kids in their costumes. I'm not going to hold it against the kids whose parents bring them there.
I love the kids in their costumes regardless of whether they come in cars or on foot. What we have later in the evening are groups of about 20 teens who look like they are at least 17 and who are not in costume and demand candy not only for themselves but siblings and parents.
Also I notice this year that instead of saying "trick or treat." a lot of the kids just say Happy Halloween. Almost all said "thank you."
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Omg, I just read something that reminded me of something. Did I hear right that Kody "sealed" the kids into his own family? I wasn't 100% paying attention, but I definitely heard the word "sealed" but I didn't necessarily catch the context, I just saw them putting hands on Dayton and praying. I know they are just kinda doing whatever works for them at this point as far as religion goes, but that just struck me as weird. This is venturing out of trainwreck catagory for me and I'm really not sure I can keep watching. I really feel for all of the kids, the adults chose this shitstorm but they didn't.
yep, that happened. It was Kody and a few other men; I haven't a clue who the others were as I was working the Sunday puzzle during the show and not paying full attention. That bothered me because I would think they had to unseal the kids from the bio dad. Or something. This whole episode was the worst ever.
I married a widower with a son. I think I will take all the pictures of him with his mother and photoshop her out of them and me into them. Or maybe not.....
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Listen carefully....there's also a little sigh from Kody. I DO NOT want to go down the path of thinking he's lining her up for wife #5, but the way this show is edited it sure seems like they want us to think that.
I don't think he is. I think she just has a crush on him, like she might have a crush on a teacher or other adult. It could also be she feels really lost in that huge family so it is her way of getting his attention, and it works. I can't believe I spend time trying to figure out these people.
I would like for TLC to go ahead and pay in advance for an episode or two to be shot in, say, 18 months, and we could see how they were doing without the money from TLC because by then the advance would have been spent, but they would be obligated to film without another payment.
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We're one of the neighborhoods that gets scores of people who don't live in the area. They park at the end of the block ten minutes before the official start time, and they all have bags -- mom, grandma in the wheelchair, the three-week-old baby. That's not trick-or-treating; that's begging. I don't really understand it, since less than half the neighbors hand out candy, and we certainly aren't one of the ritzy areas that hands out full-size candy bars. In recent years, we've had fewer homes participate, in large part because we get maybe five neighborhood kids and a hundred or more who drive in from the city.
We get them, too. I think maybe that's why the neighborhood kids are out from about 5:30 to 7. Then the caravans start to arrive. We are not the richest neighborhood, but we are an historical neighborhood, and maybe people think we are rich because of that. Most of the cars start at the end of the block--we are only 3 blocks long--but seem to drive the kids from house to house almost. I worry that one day there may be a serious accident. I had a pregnant mother --she looked stoned--ask me for water. I was on the porch, and not about to go inside while they hung around for me to hunt up a water bottle. Usually my husband is hanging around, but I think he was watching football. And a bunch of kids wanted some for their dads who were no where in sight! Just as glad it is over for another year.
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Was talking to Mr. lookeyloo about how Halloween has changed. When we were kids back in the day, no one changed the time. We went out in any kind of weather. It didn't usually rain where we lived but sometimes it did. It could get cold though. We carried a pillowcase. We got unwrapped candy or cookies and ate it and nothing happened. No one checked our bag. No one rationed out our candy for health reasons. No one worried about us. Nothing bad ever happened. We weren't scared and neither were our parents.
You sound like me. I don't recall it ever raining too hard to go out when we were kids. I remember times when we thought we would freeze to death, and sometimes we had Indian summer weather. Oops, drat, I mean indigenous people summer. My mom either made a costume or I wore my ballet costumes. I think maybe the oldest kid in the group took a flashlight. Oh, and we had those hot sweaty plastic masks. Most all the households participated. And we felt so grownup to be out at night by ourselves. Maybe one house in 100 had decorations other than a jack-o-lantern and perhaps a ghost made from a bedsheet.
We had about 100 kids this year. I think it was more than usual with it being on a Saturday night. Mostly kids from the neighborhood in lots of Super hero costumes. About 7;30 larger groups of big kids without costumes started coming by, so we turned off the front lights and headed to the back of the house. I was about to run out of candy anyway and was concerned I would run out of candy in the middle of a large group. I have 4 hershey bars remaining plus a few packs of starbursts.
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She is stuck in a horrible situation and unable to get herself out so she was looking for an escape route, or at least to get back Kody and Robyn for what she feels they did to her. I can't blame her, poor thing. I really hope she doesn't let them force-feed her the kool aid when it all comes out and go back to that sorry relationship. I wish that for Janelle and Christine, too.
I guess they can't leave until they have another man to seal them. I don't understand all this about getting to heaven thru your husband or whatever it is. I was always taught there is no marriage in heaven. But I can see how that belief would keep them together when they would rather be apart. All of this just seems so screwy to me--Janelle divorcing Meri's brother and then "marrying" Meri's husband. Yuck. Meri divorcing Kody in favor of Robyn. Double yuck.
I am ready for this show to go off the air.
Also I wonder if the kids would have been so eager to be adopted--or Kody to adopt them-- were they not on television.
Did I mention I was ready for this show to go away forever?
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They probably didn't show us the photo she had the artist alter of Meri and Kody's wedding, where she had herself drawn in Meri's place!
That wouldn't surprise me in the least.
I am glad I was not the only one appalled by by the revisionist history. It reminded me of my classes in communism in high school (yep, I am ancient) where we discussed how the communists would alter the pictures in history books. The picture of Kody as a young father to the three he "adopted" was very creepy. I actually wonder if the kids in years to come will find it not only strange, but cruel. I don't know that the children understand adoption very well. I understand they get the "good" aspect of it as being "real" Browns, but I think they not understand that it totally breaks them off from their real dad. Except this is non-reality reality tv, so it looks as though they have some sort of weird arrangement to remain in their bio dad's life.
This family tree imagery is getting on my nerves; I guess that's what Christine was trying to achieve with her wet cement. I guess she got everyone in time. What I missed was where the original hand in cement was done--I thought they said Montana or Wyoming or some place other than Utah, which is what I expected.
Also I cannot watch a complete episode of this so I was channel surfing a bit; when I returned the kids were returning from a trip and now I find out it was Robyn's kids who had been to see their recently replaced father. I worry about her children. I can sort of understand their wanting to be Browns. This is not like many families where two divorced parents each with children marry. Robyn's kids are thrown in with 3 more families that are pretending to be one happy family and probably did feel a lot like outsiders.
I can't remember how old Robyn so I can't figure out if she is young enough to have two more children after this pregnancy. Sometimes I get the feeling Kody wants 20 children so he can have one more than JimBob Duggar. Now that I mention this I might actually watch an episode of the Brown family meeting the Duggars.
I was actually creeped out by all five adults. Janelle seemed hyper --or at least for her. Christine seems to be trying too hard, and Meri.... I don't for a minute believe Meri came up with the divorce idea on her own. She may think she did, but I am sure there was a lot of strong hints and suggestions from Robyn and Kody who didn't want to be seen as the ones who pushed the divorce idea because they knew the viewers would find that to be repulsive. And as I said the revisionist family history they were all celebrating lowered my opinion of them even further.
Oh, and I totally forgot to mention the blessing over the children. Were they not blessed by their own dad already? oh, I forgot, he doesn't count anymore.
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Detours have both members doing them, so she would've had to do it with him.
Thanks! I haven't watched this show since the first few seasons, and I can't remember the rules at all.
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I think James Earl should have tried the shellfish detour. I would think his experiences in medical school would give him cutting skills. Or did his mother have to do it this time?
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S14.E14: Finale, Part 2
in Project Runway
"Actually, I think that giving them a free lease to a car is better than actually winning a car, especially a luxury car like a Lexus. The winners have to pay taxes on all the prizes, and the sale tax on a Lexus may be more than they can afford. That car is at least $50,000.00, so depending on where the winner lives, taxes, insurance, etc. on that alone, could be prohibitive."
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I agree about the taxes, although I had not figured the sales tax on the car into my estimate. I figured the FMV of the non-cash items plus the cash would result in enough federal and state (California, I think has a relatively high rate) to consume most or all of the cash award. Not sure how they figure the fair market value of the Marie Clair spread.