I have had a few friends in my life with MS and I can't say that being super skinny was a major symptom....nor being dumb as a stump, but heck, I'm not a doctor so what do I know ;oP I love the SS said it can't happen...maybe they need to read or watch the news? LOL I would love to be on a HW show. I'm picturing my life as I sit now...I'm in a paint stained shirt with dirty jeans on (gardening and painting while DS was at school) but I do have on a lovely pair of ruby ear rings :oP DS is out in the center hall of (what they would picture as a fabulous mansion on a HW episode) our old victorian and has just had a major 3 car pile up....This means the mansion is full of torn up cardboard as his cars were all boxes... HE's wearing a paint stained pair of designer jeans, a bat man tee shirt (with paint...what do they do at kindergarten? Dip them in paint) and skull and heart boots while screaming at the top of his lungs for an amballance (spelled as he says it). The dog just barfed up the dinner he stole from the cat...the cat is whining about his lack of dinner (I'll refeed him) and there is a herd of deer in the back 40 pooping all over the yard (this housewife will soon be chasing them out with a hose). Ahhh the romance of the real world....it would be quite a show :oP Anyone else want to be on it? heh heh

It seems like they "take turns" being the mean girl on every season. When this season started it looked like it was going to be Kyle, but she went back to being her self. On the after show, on at 10:00, here, Kyle & her luscious Hubs were on and said Kim went into rehab and is no longer with Ken. When Taylor's husband committed suicide, Bravo said they were going to edit so he was treated with respect, but, to me it seemed like they bashed him in almost every episode. Adriannne (sp>) sure turned into a busy, nosey...know-it-all this season. It seemed like she was sticking her nose into every situation, like at Kyles White Party, when Kyle was going to have to tell Taylor & hubs they couldnt stay, then last night at the table when Taylor along with her shrink were trying to apologize and explain, she was monopolizing the conversation. why am I watching this??? Help.....I need a life!!!!!!

The Perkiomenville Auction is still going -- every Monday year round. There are still dealers and the auction part. There are far fewer dealers than there used to be -- I would recommend if you are going to have a far drive to go on a holiday weekend like memorial day or labor day as that is the only time the auction is really hopping anymore. (Though the first few nice Mondays of spring are also bound to be crowded.) The deaers also don't seem to start as early as they used to -- used to be most dealers were there and set up by dawn. Now if I get there at 7 or 8 it is still empty -- people are rolling in to set up when I am leaving at 9. Again, though, the holiday weekends are an exception -- best to be early those days. I did figure out the auction tables thing - yes, you can pick through things left behind. Technically, though, I think you are supposed to offer money to the woman collecting money for the auctioneer for what you take -- I have seen her yell at people. But there are always a ton of people taking stuff and not being very subtle about it (they bring boxes and tote bags and load up) and no one seems to pay. I'm pretty sure that what gets left behind gets tossed unless the consignor comes back to get it (and most of it is like mildewy clothes and moldy books, etc. that you know no one is coming back for) so I guess it is better that people take it than it goes in a landfill somewhere. I have also bid on things at the auction - it is exactly like I described above - a crowd of people standing around an unorganized pile of stuff, while the auctioneer holds something up. Bidding usually starts at a dollar. The winning bidder hands over cash and puts his new item in a pile -- by the end of the auction, there are piles of people's wins all over the place. I have seen some really nice furniture go for very cheap (most of the other bidders are dealers looking to buy low for a profit, so it is not hard to outbid them if it is something you want for yourself.) But I have also seen them auction TOTAL junk -- furniture that is moldy or falling apart, broken glass patio tables, etc. In fact one day they auctioned a plastic covered cat litterbox that still had litter and cat poop in it. No, I am not kidding and no it did not sell LOL! I think they literally load the truck up at a house cleanout and bring it directly to the auction as is -- thus the litterbox full of poop etc. At one point, I was waiting around to bid on one oak schoolhouse chair that matched my kitchen chairs. The lot before it was 4 kind of ugly folding chairs from the 40s. When those didn't get bids, the auctioneer added my oak chair to the lot. I was the only bidder and got all 5 chairs for a dollar. I had no use for the 4 folding chairs and when a guy next to me saw that I was planning to leave them behind, he asked if he could have them and I gave them to him. I ended up with another chair for my kitchen table for the sum total of $1 and he ended up with 4 free folding chairs. So anyhow, that might be more than you wanted to know but there you go.

I also watched and I have a different take. I realized that none of the housewives had seen the edited version of the show until it aired to all of us. In other words they watched along with us and as the tapes of Danielle saying things like "My posse had guns, I dress my dogs in animal skins unlike Teresa, FU to Caroline's son"....etc. They had not seen all the shots of Danielle talking to the camera about the way she felt about them and their families. So they were ready for the reunion. Now was the chance for them to bring up all the behind the scenes remarks that Danielle made. Remember they had not been together for 1 year. I was shocked to hear that Caroline said the father of that sick child had NEVER received any money from Danielle!! And we know her gun-carrying thugs had not paid for tickets. I always suspected that was a staged happening just for camera time. As the anger came out from the others Danielle sits there and denies that she said anything at all about the acquisitions the others said. I think Teresa was boiling over and just flipped out right off the bat! When it comes to her family she is a Mama-bear. She does need anger management classes (lol) but I honestly don't trust one word out of Danielle's mouth. (She never answers the question asked, she just cocks her head and gives that sh-- eaten grin.) I feel pity for her and her kids. It's so sad that they were dragged into her "stuff" all season. She should be ashamed of herself because that was her choice to have them filmed, but then again that gives her more camera time and unfortunately I think that's what she's all about. I think they will all be glad when the second reunion show is done. It has really been a dozy of a season. And yes, I'm addicted. I promise to join a support group, right after the next show. lol