SHOCKING! Not really shocking, but I thought they’d make it one year.

I can’t help it, I love these shows. I think they fill the niche that soaps used to. It started out being an exposé of Coto de Caza, a gated town near where I grew up. All the worst people I knew in HS lived there, so I watched and I haven’t stopped! My job requires a lot of really long, late nights so I’ll have these…

I won’t ever quit RHONY.

Christuffah!

I never had any bad experiences, either. Annoying radio choices or a weird driving route when a driver thought they were getting around traffic, but nothing bad. I also made a point of never going by myself, though.

In America? No. I didn’t realize how much disdain American culture has for children until I traveled to other countries with my kids. In the other countries I’ve been to my kids were welcomed by warm strangers wherever we went. Here if a stranger is alerted to their existence in public I’m met with a dirty look. And…

Sort of. Back in ‘99-’00 there was a carpool system in the East Bay for people who commuted into San Francisco. It was called Casual Carpool and was literally just a line of people at one corner and a line of cars. Drivers needed the carpool to avoid the bridge-crossing fare, and riders would get a free ride into the…

OMG the kids and the basketballs afterward.

I thought for a moment that it was even the same house used in both shows, but I don’t think so.

I don’t even understand what his hairline is. It looks like his face is molded over doll hair.

I liked it, and laughed out loud several times throughout. And the music was dead-on and transported me right back to college.

“On a Wednesday?!”

Yeah, I feel for anyone with addiction issues, but I also feel good about myself that I’ve never had to say “the truth will come out” about anything in my life.

Yeah, that was really horrible.

And some of those places are not even cheap! I’ve seen episodes where the tiny house can run $80,000. And it won’t increase in value like a traditional home, so it seems like a bad investment.

I mean, the pioneers managed to have lots of kids with one-room houses.

Oh that commercial is the worst.

But, she didn’t use it incorrectly. It was a description of quickly opening and closing her car doors to mimic the flapping an elephant does with it’s ears. Clapping means applause, yes, but it also means hitting hard things together to make a sound, or clapping shoes together to clean mud off them, etc. Brinkley was…

Doesn’t is just mean they opened and closed the card doors quickly? Like, clapped shut?

It is so weird. I remember learning about this phenomenon back in a college anthropology/sociology class.