BB18 - Post Season Blog

Since Big Brother 18 ended last week I wanted to do a recap and see how I did predicting at the end of the season!!

Here is how I ranked them in order of eviction and how they actually went out:

1- Glenn                             Glenn
2- Victor                             Josea
3- Michelle                         Victor
4- Josea                               Bronte
5- Tiffany                            Tiffany
6- Natalie                            Frank
7- Day                                 Day
8- Frank                               Zakiyah
9- Bronte                             Bridgette
10- Bridgette                       Paulie
11- Paulie                            Michelle
12- Zakiyah                        Natalie
12- Nicole                           Corey
13- James                            James
14- Corey                            Paul
15- Paul                               Nicole

I didn't do too bad!! I picked the final 4! However I never in a million year would have bet the Nicole would walk away with the $500,000. Especially when she was sitting next to Paul in the final chairs.

This season wasn't the best as far as game play. Actually in all reality it was quite boring. There weren't any HUGE game moves or blindsides. Day would have been the biggest blindside to Michelle....but that's about it.

Glenn- poor Glenn, out the first day!

Jozea - dear Lord let me never see or hear of him again. Worst BB player in the history of the game.

Victor - I had mad respect for him. When he first went into the house I was scared. He thought he was too cool. But once he was evicted and came back in the game I turned a corner. He deserved to win and I am so glad he was AFP.

Bronte - her voice killed me and really she didn't have much game at all. Out on a math comp.

Tiffany - cry me a river and go back to Florida!

Frank - there was potential but man what a filthy mouth and butt.

Day - LOVED mama Day!! She had some major flaws but she did play a different less emotional game than last time.

Zakiyah - she did really well! Worst thing was aligning with Paulie and then going back to him after his horrible remarks and fighting with Day in the jury.

Bridgette - I just can't get over the Cabbage Patch reference. She did all of Frank's dirty work and was quite annoying.

Paulie - what once was hot is now not. Man did he lose points with the comments he made to the girls. I'm not a feminist at all but that was just rude and disrespectful.

Michelle - I totally underestimated Big Meech. Seriously I ended up loving the cry baby by the end of the season! She was such a superfan!

Natalie - WOW!! She surprised me! Making it to final 5. She had crazy strength and aligning with James helped a ton.

Corey - What a dud..... I feel like my 5 year old could hold a better conversation than this guy.

James - really didn't like your lack of game play this year. I'm not surprised you went out before final 2. But I loved James and Natalie together!

Paul - I will admit I now have a huge crush on Paul. His dry volger humor made this season. But his emotional side also played a huge part in his character. He was quite entertaining on the live feed. He will be in All Stars for sure. I so wish he had won.

Nicole - I can not believe she won. Does she deserve it? I think she does in some aspects. She did a lot of game moves and was never on the block until day what 77? That's impressive. She aligned with the guys and that helped. She was the first woman to win against a man!

Well that the end of BB18! Another summer over. I'm curious to see how this BB fall season is. I think the cast is announced today. I will do another overview of first impressions and see how I do. Until next summer.... or Wednesday!

Biggggg Bruuuuutha!

Wacky Wednesday

Today was the day I've been dreading since September 1...summer break. HA! Yes today was the last day of 3s for Reid. I cannot believe how much he has grown. It baffles me. At the beginning of the year he was still very quiet and hate to say this a little behind on a few things. Now he's calling out letters, spelling names, knows his colors and can write his own name. Is he a genius!? Nope! But he's hilarious, pationate and all boy! 

Here he is the first day and the last day and a picture with his teachers.  He's actually going to miss going to school as much as I will miss sending him! Kid only missed 3 days of school (MWF) this whole year! 

Other happenings around the homestead. Shawn is doing wonderfully on his road to recovery from his first hip replacement. In 1 week he will have the other hip replaced. We will once again be hibernating this weekend to stay healthy and spend as much time as a family before daddy is immobile for a few weeks.

 

Emmy was suppose to have tubes put in her ears yesterday but over the weekend she got the crud. I didn't feel it would be ok to put her under any type of anesthesia with this horrible cough and fever. We will reschedule it in a few weeks. Tomorrow she has her 18 month appointment. She's been hilarious lately and will do anything to make you laugh! 

Tonight was the finale of Survivor! I'm hoping this next season I will do a weekly recap like I am for the Bachelorette and will be for Big Brother. I was thrilled with how tonight turned out. My favorite from day 1, Mike, won!!! Good ole Texas oil man!! They announced the next cast and I am beyond thrilled!! Can't wait. 

Sooooo I did something absolutely crazy! I'm so not the one to party, get drunk and do random things. Not that there is anything wrong with that but I would prefer to stay home with my cat, a glass of wine and do a puzzle. Well that being said I have been under a tremendous amount of stress lately and yesterday when Shawn and I had a day date so I decided to be a little crazy. On a Tuesday afternoon I walked into a tattoo parlor and got a tattoo. WTH!!! I have wanted a tattoo since college but never did it. I was looking on Pinterest and found the perfect one. It represents me in so many ways. It's simple, kind of artsy and a love of mine. Plus it's in remembrance of George, my beloved cat. My mother in law did remind me that most people get their children's names on them rather than a pet, but y'all know I have such a passion for cats and animals this is so fitting! This is by far the craziest thing I have ever done. And it will probably be another 10 years until I do it again, if ever, because this hurt like hell. Haha! My parents are going to freak out. Even at 32 I am still scared of my parents. But it's there...no turning back now. 

That's about it!! Bring on summer!! 

My Two Cents: the Bachelorette night 2 of night 1

WARNING: SPOILERS

Alas night 2. Which totally could have been put into night 1. Just saying. Again I don't edit. 

Enter Chris Harrison again. Totally felt like the last rose ceremony when you are waiting to see who gets out of the limo first....and it's.... Britt. Sorry Britt these men don't want to date you. You're 15 hours as the bachelorette in the mansion are over. ::cue tears in a limo:: 

Congratulations: KAITLYN! 

(Cat is finally out of the bag. Well at least for the people who don't look online!) 

Chris informs her they will still have a rose cocktail party and rose ceremony. The men start immediately switching back to they have to seek out the girl! And we are back to normal! 

Small talk. Small talk. And then comes the dentist swooping in. I didn't realize he was that cute. Maybe I was distracted because he came in in the cupcake on wheels. First kiss. Ok I'm not against kissing on the first date. However I may be a little against kissing within the first ohhhh 10 minutes that you've talked to someone. Just putting that out there. BTW major chemistry. 

Then Shawn. Ohhh Shawn. I may have accidentally said those words out loud and my real Shawn asked what?! Oops!! Anyway. I swoon. And they kiss. BTW more chemistry. AND he gets the first impression rose! BAM! 

Then the rose ceremony. I'm just not a fan of the ceremony the first night. I don't know these guys and they all just run together. Shawn, Dentist or not Shawn, not Dentist. So it ends and they toast. On to new adventures. 

Did anyone else see when they were leaving after the rose ceremony that it was morning?!? Ha that's one long cocktail party!! 

Then we come to the sneak peak of the season. Normally it's all lovey dovey kissing, falling in love and then a little drama. FREEZE. This season is awkward. No seriously. The previews made me uncomfortable. First off Nick. Ew. Really Kaitlyn? WHY DO GIRLS LIKE JERKS? Just putting that out there. Did she not watch Andi's season? 

Then we get the whole sex thing thrown in our faces. Whoa. Ok we all know they have sex in the fantasy suite. If you think they don't then excuse me your time machine is ready to take you back to 1950. Dude they have sex. Bob slept with like 6 girls on his season. I don't know why they are making a big deal about it. But it did seem like the producers stopped it or interrupted something. Guess we will have to find out. 

From the previews we will have a lot of fighting, sex and man tears. Should be interesting!! 

Until next Monday! 

My Two Cents: bachelorette night 1 (spoilers)

WARNING: SPOILERS. Reader beware! 

Oh Chris Harrison you grace my TV again on Monday nights, I missed you! Tonight's premier brought new emotions out of me. I was actually curious more about how things were going to play out with 2 Bachelorettes. To be honest I think this concept hurt the show. 

With my two cents here is what I thought about the first night:  awkward. I hated it. I do not like change. I was too busy watching how the ladies were reacting to each other to when the men got out of the limo that I don't remember any of them, except Shawn. Making them vote is too much like Survivor. Plus the ones who wanted the other girl and now going to be taking the spots of other men who wanted that girl. It's all just plan awkward! Here's my breakdown. 

First the men. Ok the opening packages left me a little underwhelmed. Seriously, a hot fireman....no wait a stripper. Dude you have a law degree and you're stripping? Ew. The weird yoga dude feeling energies. Ew. Not looking good. 

Then we re-meet the girls and what went wrong with Chris. Blah blah blah. It's kind of a fast forward section. We already know what happened. Granted new people haven't seen it because they have been living under a rock. Everyone who cares about this show knows. Anyway I'm not editing! 

When the limos finally arrive and both girls get out to meet Chris it immediately gets awkward. Cut the air with a knife awkward. I do believe they said awkward a million times. Thank goodness i wasn't in a drinking game for that word. Maybe drunk guy was playing all along!!! 

Then the men start arriving and when they get out of the limo they pick between who to say hi to first. There really wasn't any other way of doing this, but seriously it hurt to watch. It totally showed everyone going to Britt first with Kaitly standing there all .... awkward. Some of the guys even went back and forth saying the same things. Awkward. Then the gifts. The stupid little gifts. They only brought one so hmmm who do they give it to? Awkward. The whole thing just was weird. Not a fan. 

Will say the ones who impressed me were Shawn ...ok he's the only name I remember! Hahaha!! There of course were the crazy guys. The guy with the helium balloons, the cupcake dentist, the "carpool" was pretty clever. I did like the hockey puck sexual induendo! HA! Over all nothing that stood out...except Shawn! 

The cocktail party. Same old thing. This time however it wasn't really the guys trying to talk to the bachelorette rather the bachelorette trying to talk to all the guys. Very mind blowing twist. Awkward. A couple highlights I thought. Shawn. 

This drawing was so cute and so is Shawn. See it's ok for me to say this because my husband's name is Shawn and I love Shawn. My husband. 😂🙈

Another funny was this drawing brought by ....not Shawn. Haha totally forgot his name. Anyway the drawing is what matters. This will forever be burned into my memory! 

Unfortunately Harrison didn't ride in on his dinosaur to explain how this was going to work. He did say that the men would be voting for who would stay or go. Why are they trying to mix Survivor in is beyond me. And seriously you have to vote with roses? In a rose shaped cut out? 

PS anyone else find it creepy that the boxes put off energy for this guy to know which to choose?!? 

The Drunk

Everyone who is in the know knows that these cocktail parties go ALL night. Sometimes the rose ceremony isn't until the predawn hours. Drinks are flowing. There is always, always, ALWAYS the one who is over served. And again that happens. Not Shawn drank way too much and became uber jerk. Ummm he called the Bachelorettes hoes and grabbed Kaitlyn's bum. Not cool dude. Although watching him fall OUT of the pool was entertaining and awkward. 

Of course we ended the show not knowing who the bachelorette is. Harrison was seen counting the red roses and walking to inform the ladies.  ....to be continued. Awkward.