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Animal Kingdom

We went to the Animal Kingdom yesterday. It was a lot of fun, and not too crowded. Disney World is the only place you can see a grown man wearing a Tinkerbell back pack. Here are a couple pictures from the day.

barf

First Antoine and Alexandra (I dont blame you if you have no idea who they are) and now these two?!?!

It should be called the Biggest Loser Hookup Ranch. (thanks to Rachel for finding this)

The Biggest Loser’s Rebecca: In Love with Daniel Wright! - PEOPLE TV Watch

Biggest loser Makeover

Last night we all enjoyed an abbreviated version of The Biggest Loser. In this hour and a half long cry fest, all of the ranchers got makeovers. Tim Gunn and Tabitha (not sure if she has a last name) visited our portly contestants and got them looking good. Rudy told Tabitha that he didn't want his beard to go, then she promptly slapped him in the face with her crusty leather whip and shaved that badboy off. Liz also asked tim gunn if she could wear a raccoon skin vest or fanny pack. Other than those exchanges, the whole makeover montages were pretty bland. Oh and yes, we got to hear all about Rebecca's self proclaimed pretty face.

And like I said, it was a shorted episode, so this is a shortened post. Plus nothing happened so there aint much to write about. Let's jump to the weigh-ins. First Danny goes up and puts up a 12 spot. It was pretty sweet but he is still a 300 pounder. Then Rudy steps to the scale and crushes a 16. It too was pretty sweet but he is still a 300 pounder. Allen drops 5 which is a disappointment. Amanda finally got her act together and blasted a 9. That was the most she had ever lost, and I think she will never match it (only two more episodes before the finale so I feel confident with that prediction). This leaves us with Liz and Rebecca who each lost only 3 pounds. Needless to say, America was not subjected to her drunk leprechaun dance.

In the voting room it was pretty clear who was going to vote for who. Amanda of course wanted Rebecca to stay and Danny would never screw over Liz. This left us with Rudy and Allen. We will never know what Allen put because Rudy sealed the deal and wrote Rebecca. However, when he revealed his choice he gave her a verbal bitch slap. He said that he didn't trust her and that she was dishonest playing both sides of the game. This made the leprechaun very upset. She tried to fight back but Rudy, being the cool customer that he is, kept bringing it back to the vote. Sorry, Rebecca, but you lose.

Jump cut to the Where are they Now segment. Rebecaa lost a lot of weight and ran a half marathon. But in typical fashion she cried for the last 8 miles. Lam3.

In summary, the makeover week was boring except for Rudy being a prick (in a good way) to Rebecca. He could have said nothing, but he wanted to be an asshole....which is totally cool! It's clear that the best makeover of all was to the Biggest Loser. No more Shay, no more Daniel, and no more Rebecca.



Oh and one more thing. If the producers wanted to make this episode a LOT better they would have brought Shay back, then immediately eliminated her in some challenge that involved jumping.

just sayin'

Biggest Loser ZOMG!

Did you watch it last night? Well if you didn't you missed the best episode of the season, if not of ALL TIME. Yeah, Kanye. ALL TIME!!

As we all know I am not a Shay fan for many reasons. Reason the first - she is annoying as hell. Reason the second - she thinks she is better than everyone. Reason the third - never shuts up. So this week the ranchers had a challenge of grabbling tennis balls off of a wall and putting them in a bucket. (Kinda sounds like an activity for cub scouts) Allen (baller) takes the challenge and wins a one point advantage. This was huge because if you were last in the weigh-ins you automatically get sent home. Also, the next two bottom people are up for elimination. Well Allen beats Rebecca (self-proclaimed pretty face.....i'm just not seein' it) and she goes off and pouts for the rest of the episode. Even more reason to get her off the show.

The producers of TBL must have read my post about this show being rigged because they addressed those concerns head-on. There was a five minute segment of Bob and Jillian talking about how Shay "needs" to be on the ranch. Jillian told bob that he needed to focus on her. This, my friends, is total BS. And I think Bob agrees because he politely told Jillian to stuff-it.

Jillian then went on a roid rage and yelled at any contestant that decided to cry. She busted up Rebecca and told her to stop being such a baby loser brat. Then she smacked down shay. It was pretty epic. Jillian definitely had her evil gorilla face on.

Stop CRYING!!! I'm serious! I'm going to rip your face off and eat it like a pizza!!! NAAASH!!!!

Ok, let's get to the main event. The ranchers were taken to the circus because....I have no idea why. But they were taken to the circus. The challenge was to jump through other contestant's hoops 100 times to eliminate them from the competition. The person's whose hoop is the last with out a 100 "jump throughs" wins. And in case you missed this, yes, there were trampolines, and yes it was hilarious! Leading up to the challenge the ranchers were talking how teams have kind of formed between the younger crowd and older crowd. Young Team - Rebecca, Shay, Amanda, and Daniel. I don't like any of them. Old Team - Rudy, Allen, Danny, and Liz. I could do without Liz, but still a solid team.

So Shay talks to Rudy at the beginning of the challenge and forms an alliance saying neither of them would jump through each other's hoop. Rudy, of course said ok. But give me a break. Rudy, the strongest player in the competition pairing with Shay, the most annoying and slow? Hellz nah!

The competition started and Liz and Daniel were quickly eliminated. Next went Allen and Amanda. Then Rebecca got tossed. So we were left with Rudy, Danny, and Shay. Naturally, rudy and danny went tag team to eliminate shay because she is the enemy. Shay started spouting off at Rudy (yeah, at Rudy!) saying he was a jerk and liar blah blah blah. Rudy stood up for himself because he is a badass and basically told shay to shut her pie hole. It was awesome. And Shay cried.

Rudy won immunity which was huge because he definitely would have been below the yellow line.

At weigh-ins Shay dropped an amazing 17 lbs!!!! Too bad Danny did too. Liz dropped 12 and Allen 10 (plus the 1 for winning the first game, so 11). Now this was crazy! Allen barely edged shay by .02%!! That 1 pound he got for winning saved his bacon! Daniel lost the weigh-in so he was immediately sent home shifting the balance of power to the Old Team. Wooohooo!!!

In the elimination room Shay was sent home over Amanda. The daniel/shay elimination combo was epic. FTW!!!

even more New York pictures

More New York Pictures

Here are some more pictures from our trip to New York. They are in no particular order.

It was tough to get a good picture of this statue because there were tons of people hanging on it. There were also a good number of people getting their pictures taken at the other end of the bull. Nothing beats a picture of you with with a big brass bull butt (and balls).



Street performers that did all kinds of flips. They will probably audition for America's Got Talent. This was over by the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.

The Arch near NYU.

Laura in front of Madison Square Park

This squirrel was the size of badger. He jumped up on the fence hoping to get some Cheetos, but I didn't have any so I just took a couple pictures of him. He wasn't amused, so he shot me the bird and ran off. Kind of an asshole if you ask me.

Me with one hot momma! Let Freedom Ring, Bitchiz!!!!1

Laura in the winter wonderland section of the Macy's store.

Time Square

Let's talk some TBL

Last night's episode was pretty terrible. The gang went to Washington DC to do their part to get America fit again. Wow, that sounds like a ton of fun! So the first challenge was to see who could get the most people to the Washington monument for a workout with Bob and Jillian. The ranchers handed out stickers to people on the street and lured them in with free subway. Fat Daniel was recognized by some of the people on the street from his appearance last season. So right away he thought he was hot stuff and started preaching about changing your life and living a healthy life style. Too bad he was talking to a bunch of skinny girls who were all like, "That's super interesting, but we are active, and we do eat right.....How did you get so big?"


Liz (who is that?), yeah Liz, the 48 year old grandma won the challenge. She was so proud of herself. She kept pumping herself up in the interviews, it got pretty annoying. I turned to Laura and asked, "How many raccoons do you think she has eaten in her lifetime?" Because based on her nasty country slang, and her crappy one liners, I would say its gotta be over 27.


The show continues on and the ranchers goto the White House and make a salad.....awesome. Then they meet a couple of Senators (not important ones) and they tell them how it sucks to be such a whale. The senators politely nod their head and feed them lines about how they will increase funding for healthy living initiatives. Rebecca does her tag line of saying she is just a pretty face (by now we all know this is bullsh1t) in front of the Senators to get more camera face time. It was a pathetic showing, fo sho.


Ok, I cant do this anymore. This episode was just such a waste of time. Spoiler - Rebecca wins the challenge then does her stupid clapping leprechaun dance. She wins immunity then drops 7ish pounds and again does the stupid clapping leprechaun dance. Shay drops 9 lbs and praises herself relentlessly. She eventually got hungry and rolled off the scale. Oh, and congrats to Shay for dropping below 400 lbs. You are an inspiration to us all. Seeing you accomplish that makes us all believe we, one day, can weigh less than a pregnant walrus. Thanks Shay!


Back to the summary. Everybody put up huge number expect for Tracy and Liz. They went up for elimination and, what do you know, Tracy got sent packing. The only interesting thing about the vote was shay voting for Liz. Shay hated Tracy. I see a Liz lead vendetta on Shay. Perhaps the first biggest loser boxing match? If that's the case, for whatever boxing analogy you come up with, Shay is definitely Butterbean.

It's pretty clear that this episode of Biggest Loser reached an all new level of suck, but the preview for next weeks episode looked awesome. The preview showed Shay crying (nothing out of the ordinary) and pleading with the other ranchers. This suggests that she will be below the yellow line. Now, the producers could be showing a clip from an earlier episode when she was up for elimination, I don't know, but I sure hope not.

Prediction - Next week they will send two people home. I believe they need to speed this thing up a little bit. (Update - The preview said they will eliminate two, so nothing new here) People to fall below the yellow line will be Shay and Rebecca with Rebecca getting sent home. I don't think shay will leave because the producers want her there and I never get what I want with this show.

a few pictures from NYC

Here are some pictures from our trip to New York last weekend. This set is from Friday when we walked all over Midtown. We started our day with the NBC Studio tour which was pretty cool. From there we walked through central park, time square, and grand central station. I will post some more pictures later.

Rockefeller Center as seen on 30 Rock

Matt Lauer dressed as Luke Skywalker. cough cough dork cough!!!!

Laura on 50th Street with Radio City Music Hall in the background.

The top of the Chrysler building

St. Patrick's Cathedral

More of St. Patrick's Cathedral

Oh, even more of St. Patrick's Cathedral

Not sure what building this is, but it had a cool reflection. There were several of this style with the curved base. This particular building was near the Plaza across from Central Park.

Part of the famous Radio City Music Hall sign.

Grand Central Station