Reality Check

To say that I've been slacking on my blogging would be a gross understatement. I don't know why but I guess I've just been consumed in my life... but I'm always able to make time for my favorite reality shows. Last night was the finale of Real Housewives of Orange County. Here are my random thoughts...



1) Lynne and her husband need to get their parenting skills in order. Why are your teenage kids showing up to an event, with grown people, wasted off their asses? This is ridiculous... and is it just me or does Lynne constantly speak as if she's just popped 1 too many pills! Seriously... she's either in her own world or she's popping something extra. I could forgive the slurred words when she just had her face done... but it should be under control. Actually, I think she's still using something from that prescription. I mean, her life totally fell apart and her husband acts delusional and she's trying to be bff's with her daughters... *le sigh* That whole situation is out of control.



2) Gretchen and Slade... where to begin. Well, Slade has been running thru housewives but I hope what he and Gretchen have is genuine but I can't help but notice how Gretchen still rocks the engagement ring she got from Jeff. I'm not sure what the proper engagement ring etiquette is - - but I totally get wearing your ring while you're mourning the loss of your fiance after he passes... but when you're 8 months into your new relationship and seriously throwing around marriage?? I don't know... but I'd say take the ring off.



3) Tamra - Poor Tamra. Her husband is a control freak and poor Simon... his wife signed up for a reality show and a few years into it flipped the script on him. One thing I've learned is to keep your relationship between the two of you and not drag any and everyone with a willing ear into it. If you need to vent, do it with someone that is neutral and not biased. They're in the process of going thru their divorce now so maybe more will come out during the reunion show next week.



4) Alexis - I don't get Alexis. I don't really enjoy her story line and think she's getting thrown into the mix too late in the game. She's the new kid on the block and she comes into the show a few season down the road, toting her bibles and her boobs... and all her housekeepers. She's semi wack to me.



5) Vicki - I love Vicki. With all her "woo hoo's" and talk about work. I love that her marriage is back on track... that she has 2 well adjusted kids. I just like that she's on top of her shit. She's a solid person on my list and her vow renewal in Turks and Caicos was gorgeous.





So, who else was watching?

Reality Wrap-Up

Bad Girl's Club - The girls are off to Vegas and ready to party! They go to see the Thunder From Down Under and in addition to getting invited on stage (Ashley and Amber B.) the guys come to hang with them after the show. Ashley instantly starts acting like a groupie (flashback to last week's episode when she was jocking Joey from Real World Hollywood) and is all over one of the dancers. Feeling a bit threatened and the need to prove that Ashley isn't all that, Amber B. steps in and steals the guys attention. Same shit, different day - - they get into a mini argument and keep it moving. (I must say that I loved how Amber B. pointed out to Ashley that the dude really was just a stripper. Since when are people claiming strippers... male strippers at that? Foolishness...) The next night the ladies are invited on stage to open for the bootleg version of the Pussycat Dolls show. For the most part they did a terrible job and to make matters worse Ashley and Sara flashed the audience. I guess since it's Vegas you're allowed to be as slutty as you want to be. Moving on, the Ambers decide to make their friendship official and go thru with a wedding ceremony. They relunctantly drag the other girls to the chapel with them until (surprise, surprise) the minster refuses to wed them! What a waste of time...

After the show went off 3 of the ladies appeared on the Tyra Show (Sara, Amber M., and Tiff). Tyra is gettin gold because she acts like nobody has ever done anything before in life. She had the ladies on the stage asking them a series of questions and was acting all "shock and awe" over everything. Some of the questions:

1. Have you ever bought anything out of a sex store?

2. Have you ever kissed someone of the same sex?

3. Have you had sex with more than X amount of people?

4. Have you ever flashed your boobs?

The Tyra Show is starting to turn into the grandma show. She really should get out and start living life.

Real Housewives of Orange County - Tamra's mom is 4 weeks into her face lift recovery and we get to see the results. She looks amazing! Seriously, they need to hang out face lifts! They do wonders... Vicki went scrub shopping with her daughter Briana (I actually really like her daughter. She is mature and an RN... I love that she has a real career and isn't freeloading like her tool of a brother). Gretchen's fiance, Jeff, is finally home and out of the hospital after 2 months (sadly we all know that he has passed away since the show started airing...). The ladies all head to Vegas for a women's weekend (I'd say girls but these are grown ass women...). It seems like an alright time. I'm not well versed in how the 40+ crowd likes to party, but it looked like they were having fun. Personally, I would've needed more booze, men, parties, and stilettos to enjoy Vegas but that's just me. lol...

Reality Wrap-Up

Bad Girls Club - There's a new roommate! Ashley (21, Seattle) is the newest addition to the Bad Girls house and the ladies don't plan on giving her a warm welcome. Living up to their petty nature, they lock all the doors in the house and make Ashley wait outside. She finally figures out that she can walk around the back and gets in thru the patio. There is an awkward reception by the girls but Amber M. takes it upon herself to show Ashley around the house. Immediately, Ashely takes a liking to the Ambers and the division in the house continues to grow. Tiff, Ailea, Boston and Sarah start referring to themselves as the "fab 4" (not so sure what's fab about the 4 of them together) and seem kinda lame as they keep to themselves in the club, at restaurants, and around the house.

**sidenote: does anyone else think that the relationship between Ailea and her 50-something boyfriend is a strange mixture of creepy/cute?? He insists on them having an emotional connection and they have not been physical with one another yet. It's funny to watch him be kinda old. He comes over and just wants to lay around and talk! lol...**

While out eating, Joey (Real World Hollywood) walks by and Ashley flips into groupie mode (Real World castmates get groupies??? I'm puzzled by this...) She gives him her number and they end up hooking up later at the club and then the house. She insists that they didn't have sex because she "thinks he has a girlfriend" but that they did "pretty much everything else"... she then turns to the camera and says "Hi Joey's Girlfriend" and waves. Wow. The girls host a casino night at their house which threw me for a loop since the only people that seemed to come were Kevin (the 50-something guy Ailea met online and has been dating) and Greg (the miniature, muscle head that Amber M. has been hanging with). This was one of the most boring casino nights I've ever seen. Halfway thru the casino night diasaster, Ashley makes an announcement that they're going to Vegas the next morning. Everyone is really excited and for good reason... they get a chance to drink and party in Vegas and get out of their house!!!

Real Housewives of OC - It must be said that Jeana has the rudest sons ever. Those kids need to not just be slapped across the face (as Vicki suggested) but like, completely knocked out!!! While in Chicago, Vicki and Jeana went to her oldest son Shane's minor league baseball game (Kane County Cougars). Shane was a total prick to his mother and Vicki and with a few colorful words let them know that he didn't want them there. I just want to say that it's a sad thing to watch someone be mistreated by their kids. I think that Jeana created little monsters by allowing her estranged husband to treat her so poorly for so many years. These children grew up in that dysfunction and are repeating what they saw. Back in Orange County, the women are doing the typical things OC housewives do - play tennis, host cocktail parties, take your parents to get a face lift.. the usual. I am starting to like Lynne more and more. Her and Gretchen really balance out the other housewives and are a great addition to the show. The rest of the show was kind of a blur of pointless, random things... but like always, you can read more in their blogs

Reality Wrap-Up

Bad Girls Club - The 2 Ambers cook up the idea to prank the rest of the house by pretending that Taniesha (season 2 castmate) is the new roomie. After finding out that Taniesha would be at a local radio show, the Ambers head down to the station and crash the interview. They bring Taniesha back to the house and she plays along with the charade. Tiffany seems the most uneasy about the possibility of having Taniesha in the house. She states that she may have "met her match." I was actually excited about the idea that Taniesha could come back into the house. I loved her over-the-top theatrics in season 2 and was counting on her to breathe some life into the season 3 house. After Taniesha leaves the girls head to the beach and get a surf lesson. The Ambers are back to acting like sluts and has anyone else picked up on the fact that that Amber M. is a lowkey hoe? lol... When she was at the club that night she takes this guy into the bathroom and tries to give him a blow job... only to accidentally use her teeth. The funny part is when they come out of the bathroom she asks if it was good for the guy and he says "not so much"! Ouch! That seriously has to hurt. To give bad head... and then to make all that effort in a dirty club bathroom AND have the guy say it was bad in front of all your friends! Womp womp. The episode ends with Amber B. getting sloppy drunk and puking everywhere and the other girls getting into a fight in the back of the limo. I'm not sure what they were even fighting about but Boston was in the mix. She's a bit wack to me. I don't get her... nor is she interesting enough to put any effort into understanding.

Real Housewives of Orange County - I tried watching this episode and really had no clue what was going on. I was glad to see that Gretchen didn't have anything happen with Tamra's creepy 23yo son, Ryan. The ladies also went to Fred Segal to design their own perfume. While in the store they came across overpriced vibrators that were the size of one of your fingers...length and width! How sad... and they tried to encrust one with diamonds. No amount of diamonds could ever make a vibrator the size of your finger a worthwhile thing. What else - - Vicki fell down after receiving an award at her Letip meeting. That was slightly funny. Lately Vicki has been coming off like a major bitch so I didn't mind seeing her eat it briefly. This epsidoe was fairly low key for me. I have discovered that the women blog on the Bravo TV website about each episode. I'm a Gretchen fan. She is so energetic and positive... a great thing for the show! I urge everyone to check out the blogs and get some more insight into the women that entertain us for an hour every Tuesday night.

Reality Wrap-Up

Bad Girls Club (Oxygen) - Let's see... the episode starts with the girls needing to come up on some cash so they head to a lingerie store where they're told they'll be picking their favorite outfit and then walking Hollywood Blvd. - - all to see who can generate the most business for the store. The winner will get $300! Kayla tries to buy her way into the winner's spot but thru hard rock Amber M. won fair and square. Later on, the girls do their usual MO of going out but this time to a black club. During the course of the night the Ambers are apparently choked out in the bathroom by a group of dykes and of course run back to their castmates and let them know what happened. Immediately Tiffany and Kayla go into "I wish a bitch would" mode. The girls all blow up, exchange their fair share of "bitches", "hoes", and "fuck yous" and end the night being kicked out of the club, shoved into their limo and ushered home. Tiffany instantly feels bad because Marcus, the slightly wack guy she's been talking to, saw a different side of her (she was throwing up her chi-town C's while standing on top of the limo...yes, ON TOP OF THE LIMO and cursing all types of people out). Marcus tells her that he needs to take another call and that's the end of that. I must add that in the beginning of the show she called her boyfriend Skeet (Umm...no comment on that nickname) and asked what he was doing... his answer: "Rolling this blunt and cleaning my gat" (**CRICKETS**) I've never understood the appeal that hood ass guys like that have to some women. That answer alone screams hood ass operation to me. What else - - Oh yeah, Kayla and Amber M. get into a fight in the car (Kayla thru the first punch, Amber instigated the fight) and ends up packing her bags and going home... not because she was told to go home, asked to go home, or even sat down and talked about the situation to the other girls. She left on her own and I was happy to see her exit. She's been extremely immature during the show and it'll be nice to see someone else that isn't as much of a pathetic train wreck fill her shoes..which brings me to the teaser we saw at the end of the episode... it looks like TANIESHA is back! What? I'm not sure if she's just visiting or if she comes bearing gifts (and by gifts I'm referring to luggage...lol...) so I'll stay tuned to next week's episode and fill everyone in!

Real Housewives of Orange County (Bravo) - I like Gretchen. I think that she's young, full of personality, beautiful and that intimidates most of the other women. Tamra throws a dinner party at her house (after completing an etiquette course which was suggested to her by her husband) and her main goal is to get Gretchen wasted. According to Tamra she wants to get Gretchen "wasted. naked wasted." I think that this was definitely a way to sabotage Gretchen and get her to act a fool. Tamra's son Ryan (23yo) was all over Gretchen and who can blame him? But Gretchen, despite seeming extremely wasted managed to blurt out to Ryan that she couldn't hook up because she was "engaged to a really great man" and then we were hit with the "to be continued"... I don't think anything will happen between the two...but of course I'll be watching next week to see how the story plays out. On another note, I couldn't stop noticing Vicki's face the entire dinner. She was so out of her element and uncomfortable with Gretchen's drunken state. I think the real issue is that Vicki isn't getting laid by her husband (Don - pictured left) and with Gretchen at the table (drunk and beautiful) all of the men were blushing and trying their best to not give her all of their attention. I'm "Team Gretchen" and want to see how her character develops on the show!