As the title says!

I FINALLY, FINALLY GOT TO WATCH THE EPISODE after a week of waiting!

Skip the post if you don’t watch the show.

This is a play-by-play of my reactions as I am watching it.

Oh and don’t judge me. I love this kind of reality TV and I am not ashamed to admit it.

I am not into The Bachelor, or Dancing with the Stars, but I am into ANTM (America’s Next Top Model), Top Chef and Hell’s Kitchen.

This is my crack.

Some of them are really skinny, but that’s to be expected.

It is supposed to be modeling after all.

Still.

I kind of want to stuff a delicious juicy bacon-laden sandwich in their hands and make them eat the whole thing.

The girl who likes blood sorta creeps me out

“Tyra, let me be totally clear with you.

No where, I repeat, NO WHERE in my contract does it say I am ever agreeing to clean up any blood on set, mm’kay?”

The Purdy Puerto Rican

I am liking this girl

Right on.

She also dated a racing car superstar – Dale E. Jr. but didn’t want to be known as “Dale E. Jr’s Girlfriend”.

By the way, Oreo is totally coming up with some new snacks!? What’s with this Cakester thing?

And those little sipper roll-up things with icing sugar inside that you use to drink milk with then eat the straw after??

The Asians have been doing that for years for all little Asian kids, and they went and punked the recipe.

This one “Fo” (short for Felicia) is cute as button.

She’s a mix of Mexican & Black. SUPER cute as a button. Am so glad she made it into the house.

Nom.

Her name makes me think of “PHO” as in “Fuh“, the Vietnamese noodle dish.

It is not pronounced “FOH” or “FAH”, it’s “FUH”, as per esteemed Guest Judge Chef Ming Tsai on Top Chef.

This is how we fight in the hood, y’all

Seriously?

Toes?

Hands in the face?

Hemophiliac up there was waiting for some BLOOD, bitches!

That’s all I have. I’m happy with all of them in the house except for that bitchy Sandra.

Why is there always a bitch on these things? And why is she (almost) always a black girl?

That is total stereotyping and as Tyra has said before: “I don’t want to cast another black bitch”…

So far, so good. I think the series is going to be fun (as usual).

As usual I have a quick commentary about one thing I generally dislike about this show other than Tyra’s over acting (okay, I feel the tomatoes being lined up in anticipation) and my gripe is that they put girls on there that just can NOT work in the fashion industry.

They don’t even have a shred of a shred of a chance.

Karl Lagerfeld once said that these ANTM girls (no matter how tall and pretty) would never walk in a top fashion show like Chanel or become his muse the way Coco Rocha has. They just… won’t ever reach those pinnacles, as per the Kaiser.

Models (no matter how perfect they seem to us), already get criticized for the SLIGHTEST things, like bad skin, a slightly wonky leg, their weight being 120 pounds instead of 110 pounds, their hair being too curly, or not curly enough, their breasts being too small or too big, or not round enough.

It goes on and on and on and they’ve all developed thick skins as a result of it and these different-from-the-industry-norm girls are quite sensitive for the most part (which is understandable).

So how do these girls with physical disabilities expect to book high fashion jobs? If they don’t expect to be a top super model or anything but a unique model, then by all means, strut away.

Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s great that they’re giving hope and are inspirations to others.. but it’s false hope and to me, it’s JUST as bad as not having any hope at all.

I don’t have the answer, but the fashion & entertainment business is just really fickle and picky, no matter how good and charitable we want to all be.

Those are just the facts of life.

I am going to New York.. in TWO WEEKS!

Turns out, BF (who is on contract right now) has a short window of a week, and he saw how excited I was about heading to New York, and how much I was planning to make sure that I’d hit all the spots and do all the things I wanted to do — being a first time tourist to the Big Apple.

So, we’re flying in the middle of the week to avoid the beginning of the week rush of business travelers, staying 2 free nights a the Marriott then switching to a new hotel that is charging a low rate of $80 USD a night and staying for 2 more nights. $80!!!

On top of that, our tickets are booked, and since my last estimate of $500 CAD per round trip ticket, we managed to buy our tickets for $380, at a low discounted rate of $120.

Man, I hate to say this in fear of being heartless, but recession pricing ROCKS. (Karma will also tell you that I am planning on spending some hard earned cash in NYC to help stimulate the economy).

So we’re going for 4 nights, 5 days instead of 2 nights, 3 days. *breathes sigh of relief*

I am making a list of ALL the stores/neighbourhoods I want to visit (I really did read all of your comments, put them in Word and then sorted out all the attractions & ranked them).

So far, with just flight & hotel, I am looking at $450 tax included for almost a full week in NYC, not including food, entertainment or shopping.

Which means more money to do what I want!

I just hope the weather co-operates and gives us lots of sunshine and wonderful weather.

I am thinking of switching web hosts. I do not really use mine now, but they raised their prices from a low, low rate of $2.95 to a teaser rate of $2.95 for 6 months and then $15.99 A MONTH!

I gotta get out of them soon, the teaser rate ends in a couple of months so I am shopping for one right now.

That is ridiculous.

I only use web hosting just to do quick transfers between family and friends for super quick and cheap. I am not really planning on moving Fabulously “Broke” in the City into its own URL, but I would like to have that option if it ever arose.

Anyway, it is time for some quick searching on prices, and I came across Web Hosting Geeks which is a site that offers webhosting reviews. By the way, I do recall hearing their name before. Although, maybe I am thinking of Best Buy’s Geek Squad.

I like that they give the Top 10 Web Hosters and the fact that they have the prices per month and whether they give free web domain hosting or not, right up front and center without my having to search for it.

They even have a blog that talks about all of these fancy technical acronyms for what SEM means and so on.

If you are shopping for a web hoster the way I am, they’re worth a look at least.