ATTENTION!
BIG BROTHER JUNKIES!

Season Eleven starts July 9th.....will you be there? Some of you know how shamelessly addicted Grandma J is to Big Brother. She watches Big Brother After Dark (BBAD) from midnight til three a.m. every night. She used to pay for the 24/7 live feed on the Internet....and yes, you are right, the whole world stops for three months.


I'm sure you are way ahead of the loop and already know the inside scoop, but in case you don't, let me help you.


There are some new twists and turns this year. You can read all about it here.

These are the house guests.



You can read all about them.

“Braden” - “Eye candy” says Grodner. 25yr old surfer dude

“Casey” - the “dad,” 41yr old 5th-grade teacher & DJ

“Chima” - 32yr old freelance journalist

“Jeff” - 30yr old advertising salesman from Chicago, single

“Jordan” - 22yr-old waitress. Young blonde female

“Kevin” - token homosexual male. 29yr old graphic designer

“Laura” - Young brunette female that reminded me of BB8’s Jen

“Lydia” - here’s a BB first: bisexual female. 24yr old make-up artist

“Michele” - the “smart girl,” 27yr old neuroscientist (that’s kinda cool)

“Natalie” - apparently the “tough girl,” 24 yr old Tae Kwon Do champion

“Ronnie” - the “geek,” 30yr old, married, an obsessed gamer (apparently that’s a profession)
with a photographic memory including in-depth details on BB history

“Russell” - the “tough guy,” 24yr old MMA (mixed martial arts) fighter

“Mystery HG” - ohhh. CBS has listed one additional HG spot with a “?” on their site! Could this be you?

THE ONLY 4 MEME

I was tagged by My Second Journal to do The Only 4 Meme. It's an easy one, and I love easy things....simple, uncomplicated...bring it on!

Four places I go to over and over
1. Walmart
2. Walgreen's (do you see a pattern here?)
3. JJ's house
4. The pool

Four people who e-mail me regularly
1. Walmart
2. The Biggest Loser Club (I don't belong, but obviously someone wants me to).
3. John McCain
3. Nick

Four places I would rather be right now
1. Catalina Island
2. Hawaii
3. Beaches of Orange County
4. The slopes of Colorado

Four TV shows/programs that I watch
1. Fox News
2. Big Brother 10 (and BBAD)
3. Survivor
4. The Dog Whisperer

Four things I have for breakfast
1. Coffee
2. English muffin (sourdough)
3. Coffee
4. Pizza

Four animals I like best
1. Dog
2. Dolphins
3. Monkeys
4. Dogs

Four beaches I've been to
1. Huntington Beach (my home town and every beach in Southern California)
2. Cocoa Beach, Florida
3. Hampton Beach, New Hampshire (summer vacations in N E)
4. Mazatlan & Cabo San Lucas MEX.

Tagging 4 people. I'm making this a serve-yourself-buffet to all that want to do it. But I would really like the following Bloggers to give it a whirl.

1. Kim at Heart Shaped Hedges, Because she's my daughter
2. Rebeckah at Life With Kaishon, because I would like you all to meet her
3. Chesapeake Bay Woman at Life in Mathews, because we need to keep her busy.
4. Cortney @ The Cortney Chronicles

Please let me know if you do this easy as pie The Only 4 Meme. Don't forget to visit My Second Journal for a good read, and one of my favorite blogs.

BIG BROTHER 10 UPDATE

Tonight's show revealed Dan Gheesling as the HOH (that's Head of Household for uninterested non fans).

Most of you know by now that Dan is my favorite to win. I think he is smarter than he lets on, and he is a player in the finest sense of the word. Now, I know it seems like the deal Dan made with Ollie by Gollie was a dumb-ass move. I thought so too...but that's Dan's way of playing. He lets everyone think he doesn't know what he's doing.

Look at what's happening? Ollie is acting like he's the greatest player in Big Brother history! He thinks he's scored the coop of the century, by getting Dan to practically give him all the power. Ollie is bragging to everyone, and revealing the three part deal that Dan made with him....the one Dan made with him with the promise that he wouldn't tell anyone...it was between the two of them. See where my theory is going? See why Dan and I were made for each other are so happy that Ollie blew the deal and doesn't realize it?

Now, this week is a double elimination, and with Jerry and Memphis on the block anything can happen. The house is evenly split due to the fact that Dan can't vote unless there is a tie. Right now, if the nominees stay the same, Dan will in fact have to break a tie. The winner of the POV,(that's Power of Veto for the uninformed) could change all that by taking someone off, and Ollie telling Dan to put Keesha up....NOT HAPPENING! Wouldn't it be funny if the winner of the POV used it and Michelle was put up? Especially after Ollie bragged about keeping her safe? Just speculating...not revealing anything.

So, hopefully Dan is in the final five! And that of course makes me happy. There is a special event coming up, and I'd like to invite my fellow Big Brother fans and any others who would like to attend. That event is Dan's 25Th birthday! September 1ST is the big day. Be sure and come back to say Happy Birthday to Dan. Wouldn't it be nice if he was the one who got a phone call from home? From his gorgeous girlfriend Monica?

I AM WOMAN HEAR ME SNORE...

My sleep study “sleepover” was something I asked for. Because when you retire and move to Texas you do things like that for excitement.

I wake myself up at night for no apparent reason, except to wake myself up. Once in a while I take advantage of the opportunity to go skinny dipping pee, or grab a snack.

Another reason is people say I snore. I have no documentation, and I wasn't sure I wanted to believe I could do such a thing, and if I did, who cares? But when my oldest granddaughter told me I scare the heck out of her at night, I thought maybe I did snore ….a bit.

So between waking up at night, and scaring the beegeezus out of little kids, I decided to submit myself to the humiliation of having my head all wired up, and a bunch of sadistic medical professional stare at me , watching my every move on a monitor all night.

What’s funny is some people are embarrassed by the whole snoring issue. I’m not one of them. I knew someone who refused to fall asleep on a transcontinental flight that was twelve hours long because she was embarrassed about snoring. Her husband would have to go to another room to get a good night’s sleep more often than naught. It was on the news one day that someone filed a complaint against a neighbor for snoring too loud……loud enough to be a nuisance. This made my unnamed subject paranoid, and we would tease her about her neighbors suing her.…yeah, we were bad.

On one overseas business trip for her husband, she did everything she could to stayed awake on the flight. She feared snoring and waking her fellow travelers on the flight. Once they got to the hotel, she fell asleep, but started snoring. Her husband had an early morning meeting with his superiors, and between jet lag and his wife’s snoring, he was getting ticked. Feeling bad, she wrapped herself in the bedspread, grabbed a pillow and went into the bathroom so her husband could get a few hours of sleep.

The bathroom acoustics were the worst case scenario. The tiled walls just amplified her snoring, making it even louder. Desperate to stop snoring, she decided to stuff toilet paper in her nose….I don’t know where this idea came from, but I’m sure she read somewhere that closing off her nose would stop the snoring. Well she kept packing it in, more tissue, then some more. It was so packed, that when she looked in the mirror, her nostrils where spread out, giving her a look similar to Miss Piggy.

For whatever reason, maybe moisture, or the tissue tearing…..she couldn't get the tissue out. Without all the embarrassing details the bottom line was she had to wake up her husband. She had to wake him up to help her unclog her nose. He wasn't much help…..she had to go to the ER to get the toilet paper out of her nose.

OK Big Brothers fans! Here is a picture of Renny when she was younger. I was holding off showing it to you until they showed her Head of Household pictures. This one wasn't among them.

Are you losing a bit of respect for Renny? Is she purposely playing mind games with her alliance? I'm at a loss trying to figure out what she's thinking. What is your take on her strategy?

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

One of the few pictures I've ever taken that words don't do justice. I took this in the middle of the night from the front seat of a moving car on the way to Disney Paris.

...now for a splash of Big Brother rants.
Please raise your hand if you think Jerry is a total ass! After Dan tells "the Colonal" how much he respects and admires him, which was a stretch and very generous, Jerry rips him a new one! Dan was right, Jerry just bought Dan more sympathy and time. I think Jerry has an inflated ego.

Does anyone think Michelle was a bit over the top trying to pit Keesha against Libra? I mean when someone's down lets gang up and stomp on her.
Don't even get me started on April, the ho with the mo. Right now, Renny and Dan are my favorites. Memphis is nice, but riding the fence.
What's your take? Who's your favorite?

FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY....
then buy Grandma J a new camera

Last night I went to observe my Texas granddaughter's dance lesson.

She's the one who just graduated from middle school, and should be a model.
opposed to the one who just graduated from pre-K. and is a self-made fashion and accessories model.

This was not a routine I was observing, but rather a whole plethora of moves.
You know what I'm talking about...popping,

locking and dropping....chair freeze and baby freeze...
front swipes and corkscrew dips. Brooklyn up-rocking

The two goofs came along. Besides watching the dance moves, they pretty much emptied the vending machines.

We ended up at Jason's Deli, with stuffed baked potatoes and strawberry shortcake to go.

***WARNING...STOP HERE.... if you don't want to see an almost nude waxed male. (I bet everyone looks)

* Big Brother fans....I have a news flash about Jessie..that probably isn't really news to the super sluethes amongst you. Anyway, it seems our Mr. "I can't get enough of loving myself" has been posing nude for quite some time. I don't want to get my little blog rating dropped in the toilet by posting that stuff, but here is a shot I cleaned up with my upscale version of SHARPIE.

A LITTLE SOMETHIN FOR YOU,
A LITTLE SOMETHIN FOR YOU...
and a dash of this and that

I wanted to share a bit of my environment with y'all. You know, show you a bit of the compound....a little at a time. I fear causing a wild stampede, and then on the other hand, I don't want any of you laying pity on me. This could go either way. So we'll start out easy. You've all seen my aqua aerobics with all the goof balls. but here is a picture of the pool without all the riff raff....and clean!

Here is another shot at sunset taken from Grandma J's back patio...or porch, depending on your preference.

And because some of you like to show off your sunsets over the Chesapeake Bay, as you run naked though the woods gaze at the fiddler craps.... here is a random sunset shot from my back porch...sorry about the roof tops and such.

Next I'd like to throw a couple crumbs to my fellow Big Brother fans. Besides the evicted house guests archived at the bottom of the right hand column, I like to document the HOH for you and the nominees with a poll. Because the show is on three nights a week, and I see it three hours before the West Coast fans, I can't post at a decent hour without missing BBAD. Which is on every night for three hours. UNCENSORED.

Here are a few personal takes on the game so far. I started out not liking funky Renny with all her different hats and wigs and her Nawlins accent, that sounds like a funky Brooklyn accent.

But she grows on you. she's 53 and very cool. Not only does she cook and clean (which is a safety net older house guests immediately latch on to)but she's funny...very funny. And she's smart. She's Harvard educated and an ex Saints cheerleader thingy girl. In other words, I like her. she has grown on me and and her too.
Jerry gets on my nerves because he tries to parent everyone. He gives the girls a kiss good night, and it's starting to wear thin.

Keesha, the new HOH reminds me of Daniel from BB8. She's whiny and two-faced. I don't care for the other blond bimbo April the Ho either. Now that's not a personal opinion. There are several YouTubes out there of April and Ollie that rank right up there with hard porn. seriously. Ollie's parents aren't too happy, that's for sure.

Dude? Listen to your folks.

So there you have my take on a few house guests. My opinion might change. Right now if I had to pick a winner? Renny or Memphis. Who would you pick?

BIG BROTHER 10
I can hardly contain myself!

I don't know many people who watch Big Brother...but someone does because it's going into it's tenth season...and I don't have that much clout with anyone at CBS to keep it on the air for a total of five viewers. Two of my daughters watch it, and my old boss, who prefers I don't refer to her that way anymore since we both retired....her rich, me poor.

This season, according to CBS doesn't have a "twist". But it will have it's share of controversy. The house guests bios indicate that there are some strong personal views on religion, politics, sex, cowboys, breast implants and .....well, you get my drift.

Isn't this a great bunch of losers who would do anything for a stipend of $700 (or thereabout) a week? I mean, I'm sure it sounds great for some people to get away from the kids for a bit, or take a breather from that stressful job at Hooters. But would you consider staying away from your kidlets for over three months? The job, yes, but the kids?

Now, if you are a die hard fan, remember one little bit of hypocrisy about the first episode of the season. It was taped before today...or even yesterday. How does Grandma J know? Well hello faithful readers..... take a peak at this photo.

No, they aren't from three seasons ago when Big Brother had a cowboy...take a closer look...there's a friggin 73 year old dude in this picture... and there actually is a cowboy this year too.

And what about this picture Mouseketeers? Not pretty!
and I'd love to know who at Morty's has access to this stuff! I wish I knew why gramps wore a shirt in the pool....his man boobs can't be any worse than the guy down front on the left. I do have to say, I've been screaming for years about the show only having one token person over 40 every year.

It's usually someone who adds a certain amount of spice to the house like Chicken George in season one.
Or more recently Sheila, who tried to join Team Christ last year.

So get on board, and I might do a poll every week the day before the live eviction if enough of you let me know you care are actually gonna be on the Big Brother Express this season.
Of course those of us who don't have to get up every morning can watch BBAD on SHO2! That would be three glorious hours of live feed in to the Big Brother house every night. .....usually after they are pretty much blitzed from playing beer pong.