It probably comes as no surprise that I stayed up way too late to watch the finale of “The Bachelorette” and, frankly, by the time it was all over I was just relieved to be put out of my misery. It’s like I can’t turn away, yet I find myself wondering if perhaps there’s a better way to spend an hour and fifteen minutes of my life than sitting in front of the T.V. getting sucked in by all the emotional drama that comes with choosing the person you think you want to marry in a two month time period. Because we all know that two months is all the time you need to really know someone.
Also, I’m very confused as to why Reid showed up wearing white shoes with what appeared to be a suit and an untucked shirt. Don’t get me wrong, it’s better than Ed’s penchant for a tank top but I think it could have been the deciding factor for Jillian.
When Jillian and Ed took what had to be the eleventh helicopter ride of the season, I wondered if maybe they were going to pull out any sort of weaponry and open fire on some wild hogs. I guess that would be a different kind of reality show. A reality show that P would actually watch instead of just mocking my taste in television.
For those of you who weren’t sure if I was serious about the helicopter hunting, let me assure you that I wouldn’t joke about such things. Actually, I would joke about it but some things in life just can’t be made up. In South Texas, the hogs tend to take over because they breed like, well, wild hogs. If their numbers aren’t controlled it could become like a plague of locusts, but with pork. What better way to control them than to take to the air in a risky method of transportation with a pilot who is mentally deranged and flies at 120 mph?
On an entirely different note, the color I used on Caroline’s walls (What? Weren’t we just talking about shooting hogs out of helicopters?) is called Dancing Green by Sherwin Williams. I nearly went with Potpourri Green by Benjamin Moore but got irritated that the hardware store didn’t have any of it available in those miniature trial-size samples and decided I’d show them by just taking my business on down to Sherwin Williams. I have no doubt that Benjamin Moore will forever regret losing all $45 of my business.
The furniture actually arrived yesterday and I spent most of the day ironing a bedskirt, duvet cover and shams. Caroline never ceases to be amazed by the iron because she sees it so rarely. It’s a novelty appliance, much like our toaster that can only be used when it decides to work. I finally got everything set up but want to wait on the “after” pictures until it’s completely finished, plus she’s in there asleep right now and if you think I’d wake her up for a picture then you have underestimated how many times I rebuilt the same Lincoln Log structure over and over again yesterday.
In other news that doesn’t relate at all to anything else I’ve written about, I’m getting my hair cut at 11:00 a.m. As usual I am in a quandry over the bangs vs. no bangs vs. maybe some side-swept bangs issue. These are the issues that keep me up at night.
Well, and wondering why Reid decided to wear those white shoes and couldn’t take the time to tuck in his shirt.
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Bangs are bad. Always. I got them and liked them for about 2 weeks and now they are bad.
I echo what Kathryn said. No on the bangs! Not that it is my hair or anything. And you know, free advice is worth just what you paid for it and all.
Go for the side-swept bangs! They are not really bangs (who invented that word anyway, bangs??). The side-swept version is so cute and sporty (if a little bit of a hassle to keep up with – mine are being restrained with a bobby pin at the moment).
ummm, the older I get, the more I need at least a LITTLE something across my forehead!
I am so glad you brought up Reid’s attire. I was a little confused too…maybe he just wanted to be comfortable on the plane?? I think Ed was probably the best choice for Jillian, but Mr. Shorty Shorts lost me as a fan when he debuted his green shorties and your favorite tank top. I don’t think Kypton (sp?) and Jillian would have lasted, so I’m hoping that she and Ed appear tonight wearing matching Daisy Dukes or something cute.
My husband makes fun of me for watching too. He also enjoys driving out to see his parents in the country and helping the neighbors with their wild hog “situation.” No helicopters though.
Bangs can cover a multitude of problems. Like my hair line (which may or may not be receding toward the back of my neck.) And bad eyebrow seasons. That make you look like a Dancing Leprechaun, which is the paint color you COULD have used.)
I am always torn if I should get side-swept bangs. But if I get them, then they are just in my way half the time. But I do still love them.
The only thing I can come up with is that Reid was in such a hurry to get to Jillian he forgot to tuck in his shirt and change his shoes.
Ed’s man tank top and tiny green swim trunks scare me and I was revolted to see the same outfit again last night.
Hey Reid, it’s TV, stop by wardrobe and make-up before you “pull a lot of strings” to get back to Julia.
Ed, I just really like you, I have watched you a total of 45 whole minutes on TV, but you seem to have Julia’s same quirkiness. I am certain she will be dressing him post haste.
Why oh why do I watch. My hubby mocks me so!
NO!!! NO BANGS!!!! It’s not time yet! Hold out, eventually it will be the trend again, but really, NOW it will be a huge regret!!
I’ll tell you why: Reid was trying to be all J.Crew but didn’t QUITE get it right. Kind of like one of the Orange County Housewives attempting high fashion Couture. Although, I must say that why a 30 year old girl would pick out someone with too much man boobage that wears skimpier shorts than Lady Gaga (and tank tops!) over someone who makes her LAUGH, is beyond me. You’d think she learned some crucial life lessons by now.
Oh, and unless you absolutely can’t sleep at night because you lack bangs, I wouldn’t get them. Maaybe long side-swept ones (like Jillian’s!) but not full on bangs. Too high maintenance. And let’s face it, right now you’re preocupied with things like ironing and house decorating.
I, too, was scratching my head when Reid showed up in tennis shoes. I love Reid! LOVE him.
But why? It made it so difficult for me to concentrate on what he was saying. Except the part where he reminds her that he’s four years old in the emotional department. And then I loved him even more.
Poor Reid.
Hey ABC, trying to turn this show into porn?? WHAT were you thinking with all the volcano “eruption” talk? Did we really need that? It’s bad enough we know the intimate details of Jillian’s relationships or lack thereof with E.D., I mean Ed, but that was a bit much.
So Jillian needed a sign from God about what she should do. Yea, that usually happens right after a couple of months of steamy, hot making out sessions with multiple men.
Okay, through ranting. I’ll be back tonight for ATFR. Because I’m that hooked.
Get the bangs! Get them! I got bangs about a month ago and it changed my hairs life. I love them and they really are not much more work than not having bangs. I was worried because I had thin hair, but somehow my hairdresser worked some magic and voila lovely bangs. Get the bangs!
I recently found your blog off of a friend. She said “Allison you have to read this blog because she is from SA.” I have had fun reading.
I love room before and afters. I am getting ready to re-do 2 rooms in our house, so I am always up for new ideas.
I’m curious to know where you get your hair cut here. I have found a girl at La Cantera, but I’m always curious of a new recommendation!
oh, heres my blog
allisonmullins.blogspot.com
While I do not have bangs and cannot speak from personal experience, I did encourage my best friend to get them, and BANG! did they ever make her over! She got them cut right before she had to see her ex-boyfriend at my wedding, and he was surely regretting letting her go since she looked H-O-T. I say try it out. If you don’t like them, you can grow them out later. Life is too short to not give things a try at least once (says the girl who chopped 8 inches off her hair and LOVES it).
I also must admit that reading your blog has encouraged me to watch the Bachelorette, and I snuggled up on my couch last night with a glass of wine to watch it all go down. Can we please talk about the fact that Ed looks JUST LIKE Denny Duquette from Grey’s Anatomy (played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, also of P.S. I Love You fame). I am forever in love with Denny Duquette, so I had to like Ed, but didn’t he come off a little soft? I’ll be curious to see what happens tonight.
Please…please allow P to be a guest host and tell us (me) more about his adventures shooting hogs out of a helicopter. Jack flies and wants me to be able to do this (ha)…I’ll keep you posted as I wonder how to hold on for dear life and shoot a gun at the same time
Cannot wait to see Caroline’s finished room. I know you are so proud of your work!
Blessings today and always,
Kaye
Matthew 21:22
I agree – his white shoes looked ridiculous! No wonder she turned him down
I got side-swept bangs about a year ago….loved them for 2 weeks, then hated them for the 6 months it took to grew them out. As soon as they were ALMOST grown out, I thought, hey–maybe I should do the side-swept bangs again? They looked really cute. Did it again, and am in my 4th months of growing them out…again. My advice: if having hair in your eyes bugs you, and you don’t have time to go in every few weeks for a bang trim, then DON’T DO IT!!!! Resist the cute-ness.
I’m just going to suggest going ahead and pulling the trigger and getting the side-swept bangs. #1, you’re ALWAYS going to be in a quandry about them if you don’t just go for it. #2, if you don’t like them, you won’t have to suffer the FULL grow-out period like you would if you cut full-on bangs. #3, they’re really cute and will really freshen up your hairstyle. Then in the fall, grow them back out!
I cut my bangs full-on and I wish wish wish I’d only gone for the side-swept look. That’s actually the way I’m styling them now. I thought Jillian’s haircut was presh.
Amen and amen, sister. Misery. Pure misery is what that show was last night. And I couldn’t figure out Reid’s style choices either. Craziness, I tell you.
On the bangs issue . . . I’ve had them my entire life until just now. Why, at the age of 46, I’ve decided to grow out my bangs is beyond me, but you can ask my sister who suggested it. Anyway, I can’t help you make up your mind, but I can tell you that next weekend at She Speaks you’ll be able to recognize me as the woman with her not-quite-yet-grown-out-bangs flopping in her face. UGH.
Girl, you have never been happy with bangs. Please update us on you Dead Coke,
and tell us if you’ve found a repalcemnet winner. Luv your blog, Holly
I have short hair and bangs…at least 3 times I have talked my hairdresser into giving me the side swept bang look. Every time, after a few months I tell her I hate it and want to go back to my regular bangs. She now does not allow me to look at any pictures of side swept bangs and refuses to listen to me if I say I want them.
Reid dressed like he was 17 and trying too hard. Are they now going to allow people that are sent home by the bachelor and/or bachelorette to come back? Will this now be the norm? Hmmmm…..
Ed had my vote until the green trunks and tank tops kept showing up.
Kypton was more in tune with the kind of guy I would have been attracted to “in my youth”. Did you count the 8 pack….ooo-la-la. No tank top or untucked shirt for him….him NOT wearing any shirt at all was the highlight of the finale for me!!
i was routing for Kiptyn and was very confused by Reid’s attired. I was like, get this joker off the show so we can continue. he wasn’t even wearing a suit! just some random pants with a jacket almost the same color. hello! does he not know he’s on national TV? whatever.
Ed was my favorite until the green shorts controversy. So much so that when Jill met up with Kyptin last night I said “oh, what manly blue swimming trunks he has.”
I’m done with the Bachelor/ette. Or so I say again.
When I saw Reid I thought he must have just walked off the plane or something. Bless his heart. At least he was having a good hair day. Jillian had to be the most emotionally toyed with Bachelorette ever. I kind of felt bad for her by the end.
can’t believe she picked ed. (and btw, I loved commenter, rena’s, E.D./Ed play on words. classic. and yes, the volcano eruption was way too overthetop. reid was my first choice, I just love when he wears his cute glasses, but why oh why did he have to wear those white tennis shoes?!?!
I am so with you on Reid…I think maybe he was going for the Hawaiian themed look, plus, he was trying to show her he was laid back, and not too stiff to say the “L” word. I am so glad Ed won, hopefully he won’t disappoint us! I am sure you will be watching tonight too
I have a side swept bang and I like them. It gives me the forehead coverage that I desire without that bang look, if you know what I mean, and I’m sure you do.
Exactly!
I said the same thing when Reid got out of the (minivan??) car. “Duuuude, you can NOT pull off this look.” But then again, I’ve never been a Reid fan. He seemed too wimpy, too wishy washy, too clingy and emotionally needy.
I liked Ed from the beginning and yes, I even liked him through the dreaded green shorts and tank top debacle. But having ABC and the Bachelorette discussing your problems in the bedroom? *faint*
My prediction: Kiptyn will be the next Bachelor. And I will watch. Oh, how I will watch.
And bangs? I too have struggled with this all my life. I had the side swept bangs up until last week, when, in a desperate “having a bad hair day” moment, I grabbed the scissors and cut my bangs! They make me look youthful, but I hover on the edge of “do they make me look TOO youthful,” like, do they suck the sexy out?
Next week, when I go to my hairdresser for a highlight/lowlight, she’s going to give me “the look” and I’ll cower in her chair and whisper, “please fix this.”
I love my bangs…took the plunge a while ago. did the sideway bangs for a while…i do both with mine…sideways and down. it can totally change a hair cut for someone like me who has long hair and refuses to go above my shoulders ever again! so i say go for it…yes reid confused me and i was uncomfortable watching him open up to her and propose…i mean really…how much rejection can one take? i liked ed and hope they make it…but like you said 2 months….right…
I went without bangs for about 10 years…3 years ago I took the plunge and it took those 10 years right back off. I will never go back!
I just went on a 6 day trip with my boyfriend & came to this realization. It’s one thing for The Bachelorette to travel to far away locales & MEET UP with the guys there but the real test would be to travel together. Sure 20 hours of no sleep, airport layovers, red eye flights, parking shuttles and security checks isn’t as romantic as a helicopter ride but they do reveal some things about your relationship. For example, he can order all the whole wheat bagels he wants but after a 6 hour flight, I’m getting the chocolate glazed donut!!
I had to do the bangs to cover the massive “five head” I’ve got going on.
Reid didn’t look like he was taking the situation seriously with the untucked shirt and the tennis shoes.
Was Ed circling the island while that conversation was taking place??
Thank you for the commentary on Reid’s clothing choice. I couldn’t focus on what he was saying, I was so overtaken with bewilderment over his wardrobe choice. You are going to ask the woman of your dreams to marry you and this is what you pull out of the closet. It almost made up for it when he had to hop into the back of a mini-van instead of a limo. Almost.
Side swept bangs are nice. I recently was forced to make the same choice you are facing. I put it off for months. Months to long. It wasn’t until I was at lunch with a friend and she gave me a necklace. I said “here take a picture of me with it on” using my iphone. “Oh my” I thought. On the way home I called and made an appointment. I did get bangs that are sorta side swept, a little color and three months later people are still making comments. I think they are all in on it, never wanting me to go back to the 1960′s look. Trust your hairdresser at the beauty parlor or better yet go to a stylist at a salon.
oh my but Reid’s shoes bugged me the ENTIRE time. It’s like it was all I could look at. No wonder she rejected him. Well that and the fact that she had already sent him home, so it wasn’t the best move on his part trying to come back . . .
I always regret the bangs afterward so choose wisely!! I can’t wait to see the after pics! Benjamin Moore will never be the same!
Your randomness is just to funny and is exactly what I needed this morning.
I am going to get a hair cut soon and I am going short. I can’t seem to get happy with my hair these days, so I am going for it.
As for your hair…..couldn’t tell ya.
My husband would love to shoot hogs from a helicopter!!!!!
Number 1: I actually felt like the green paint in Caroline’s room was in fact inspired by Ed’s “mankini” shorts. Secondly, the commenter who said Ed looks just like Denny Duquette is EXACTLY right!!! I had been trying to put my finger on it this whole season and that’s who it is! And thirdly, I don’t care if Reid wore a garbage bag with shoulder pads and white flip-flops, he is a DOLL and I am madly nuts about him. You can be sure, if my husband ever dies, I WILL BE searching for Reid.
(Though, of course, I hope that never happens. And especially hope that if he WERE to die unexpectedly, the authorities would never find this blog and then suspect me as a killer. Because I’m not. Even for Reid.) I do think Ed and Jillian will make it. Don’t think she and Kypton would have. But Reid, oh Reid. How sad for you.
Oh this is way way funny. I watched the show last night for the first time since the very beginning when there were 25 guys–of course I skipped to Discovery channel everytime they started talking sexy or making out (which is half the show anyway right?)… And hubby rolled his eyes thru the entire thing, once again. Here is my impression: Ed looks like Raymond’s older brother off Everybody Loves Raymond. And he’s hairy. Let me warn ya Jilly girl, it’ll only get hairier. And he needs to stop borrowing his clothes from Jillian’s closet. THose little green shorts would be much cuter on her. Kiptyn talks WAY too much for a man. he blubbers on. and on. And we get the idea, ABC, the man has abs and no chest hair. Please, can you show him running on the beach in slow motion one more time? Ok, and then Reed comes back? Out of a minivan? With no socks on and white shoes? I was waiting for Ed to show up the whole time Jilly was huggin on Reed.
And flashback, the in-laws asking what Kiptyn liked to do to relax when he got home from work… The truth is, girl, all men only want to lay in their underwear on the couch and have supper brought to them once they get home from work.
Just wait and see.
No bangs, and boy am I glad I’m not the only one whose kids see the iron and wonder what it’s for!
What was the deal with all those shirtless shots of Kiptyn during the “getting ready”montage? Not that I minded, I’m just sayin. I think they were trying to pimp him, I mean pump him up as the next bachelor. Anywho, I am with you, Big Mama, as far as finally being put out of my misery (other than after the final rose tonight, of course). Ugh!
I felt the same way about last night’s Bachelorette episode. I watched it, well, because I’ve come this far so why not, but I was already over it. Will I be watching the After the Rose tonight? Of course I will.
Bangs, the Bachelorette, annoyed with limited swatch supplies….we are so alike.
Reid was sad. Kipton got out by the hair on his chinny chin chin.
What do I watch that show? Shooting pigs might get my son to stop taunting me.
E.D. I mean Ed. So funny! Some people are so quick.
Ed looks like Greg Brady. I couldn’t take him seriously.
Once Kiptyn was sent home, I could barely watch anymore!
I debated the whole bangs/no bangs thing for about a week and then got them cut and LOVE them! Get them long enough to tuck behind your ear and then you only have to use a clip when you are doing something where it’s really annoying for them to come out from behind your ear. I love Caroline’s new green walls – green’s my favorite color!
PS – the iron is quite magical in our house too. We only use it for ironing Perler bead crafts!
Oh…ABC is so smart! They hook us…I thought to myself many times last night, how strange can one show get?? I still remember the days of Trista and Ryan…I have been a loyal follower (not by choice, but by mere addiction) since the beginning. I liked those simple shows so much better than the more recent ones. Honestly, how many times this season did one of the guys “come back” to make an appearance??? Also, my vote is that the whole ordeal with Reid happened because HE WILL be the next Bachelor…MARK MY WORDS! That, my friend, is why ABC is so smart. They worked him right into that last show so that everyone would say, “oooo…poor Reid…he needs to find someone nice, oh WAIT…let’s make him the next BACHELOR!!” Well, we will see tonight because we all know that we must see the AFTER THE FINAL ROSE…dundundun….
Big Mama,
I think you should go for the bangs. If you don’t like them you can always clip them back and that’s a cute look too! Plus they grow out fast. And you can trim them yourself when they start to get too long. HOWEVER, I am from Oklahoma and sometimes the humidity just kills my bangs; I’m assuming Texas isn’t much better. That could be a deciding factor as well…. Oh just do it! You’ll never know if you like them if you don’t get them!
Good luck!
Melissa in OK
1. I love my bangs. Love, love, love them. They are long and sweep to the side. And I love them.
2. Until recently I taught intro American Government at UT. Since the Leg was in session, I made my students go watch a hearing and write a paper about it for one of their assignments. One of them went to a hearing on the bill that made it legal to hunt those feral hogs from helicopters. It was just about the funniest thing ever – apparently there was actually a debate. Not that your P or anyone else really needed a law to go take care of it…
I just have to tell you that I was gone for five days with no internet access and when I came home there were approximately 150 blog posts in my Google reader. While I hit the “mark all as read” button for all the blogs but my dear friends, I had to come back and read yours this evening. I am so glad I did because it is posts like this one that make me smile.
No bangs. Remember what your hubby said.
I got bangs in January, they are still not long enough to put behind my ears for a long period of time and when I pin them up sometimes my hair wings out and I look like a Texas longhorn. There may be other issues besides the bangs, but it’s a factor.
I thought I reccognized the color. We went with the potpourri green for my sons nursery. Fun fact – it’s the same color as the walls in the land of nod catalog “womb with a view” nursery. I know bc I asked. Love the blog. You make me laugh.
love love love the green….
just painted my laundry room a nice aqua blue..calming, I need all the peaceful help I can get while tackling the never ending pile of dirty clothes!
Re: the iron
Back before Christmas, my son, then 4, was at my mother-in-laws house. She got out the iron and ironing board and began to slave over a long sleeve shirt. My son, asked, ” gi gi, what is that thing and what are you doing?
I believe that question alone spoke to my feelings for ironing.
Love the green!
When my daughter was 10 (she is 40 now)
we were cleaning out the linen closet and she found the iron….”wow mom what is this?” I explained to her what it was for and she was facinated!!! It was so old it only had cotton, silk and wool settings.
For her 11th birthday she spent her own money on a steam iron….yep….a steam iron and she began ironing EVERYTHING…
and she still does!!!
God Bless, Pam, South Bend
I liked Ed a lot, but I can’t understand why he kept wearing those awful tank tops and shorty shorts. Put it away Ed, put it away!
I’m thinking you’ve probably already gotten your hair cut by now… but I still vote for the Side Swoop Bang. That’s what I tend to do, and then if you get annoyed you can just do the side-bump-clip-thing with a boppy pen.
And Reid. He had my vote all along, but those shoes… really? I thought about you as soon as I saw them and was waiting for you to mention it when I started reading this post. Funny!
Let us know about your hair cut!
I had the same thoughts about Reid’s shoes as soon as he stepped out of the mini-van???!! I think they were full justification for sending home again~ lol. It had to be love with Jillian and Ed because only love can get past that tank top and short shorts. So, don’t make us wonder for long…..did you do the bangs or not?? And I am having a terrible sense of dejavous’ (sp?) because I think we had this same conversation RE: bangs about two months ago. lol!
I don’t get it: just saw clips from the Bachorlette on AM news. WHY would people want to watch a manufactured relationship that includes “the AM after” of them having sex together without marriage, & now they will live together for 12-18 mo. before getting married. The morality of God’s plan for intimacy only in marriage has been thrown out like garbage & “we” invite the garbage of filth into our homes by watching. it is time for those of us who love God to turn off the garbage, to love what God loves, & hate what God hates.
Sadly, but not surprisingly, statistics show that the divorce rate for couples who live together before marriage is half again higher than for those who do not. BUT for those who have already done that…. God is the God of second chances! So you just have to work that much harder. Marriage IS work but SO worth it!
So WHAT to watch? At our house it is Food network, HGTV, Animal Planet, National Geographic, Sports, Fox News (limited), Discovery Health (my old nursing background creeping out), Hallmark (though you have to be selective there sometimes too); that pretty well covers our viewing. We read a lot!
I have to tell you about a conversation I had with my huz after your post with Caroline about bangs or not. It’s been an age since then but life’s been busy (all three of my married children have had one health issue or another this summer and I’ve been a rut into I-10, I-35 and Hwy 6 going from Katy to Austin to Fort Worth the past 2-3 months). Anyhoo,I was reading that post out loud and we had a bit of a laugh about it. Then my husband turns to me, gets this REALLY serious look on his face and solemnly announces, “For the record, if YOU’RE ever wondering, I prefer NO BANGS!”
It’s so great when a man opens up about the deep inner workings of his brain and emotions…
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