Watch This: Real Housewives of Melbourne

Are the current catfights of all the different Real Housewife Tribes across America getting a bit old to you?  Even when they bring in new ladies into the mix, it's still lacks the freshness of the first few seasons. I'm over Vicki in Orange County and am afraid of Ramona in NYC cause all they do is yell at people. Ok, well, I will never tire of Teresa and Melissa from New Jersey, but Teresa's probably going to jail, so she's not going to be around for much longer to enjoy.

If your answer to my aforementioned question was "yes" than do I have a gift for you? A gift from down under (no not my panties). It's The Real Housewives of Melbourne and they are amazing. They are a caricature of the American Real Housewives- only sparklier, more botoxed, more made-up, and with cute accents and I love them so much. The ladies still backstab and side eye each other, like true ladies do, but it's all just much more fun. They don't really have much going on, but like to have parties so that they can create drama that will make for good television. One girl's a psychic who's married to a world famous rockstar (read: drummer from Silverchair) and has created a catchphrase "shine shine shine" which doesn't make sense for about 75% of the context in which she uses it. Another girl is an uptight business woman married to a plastic surgeon (and befittingly has the worst appearing skin and plastic surgery of the bunch). They are all super-botoxed and all confess a deep love of shopping for expensive things and drinking champagne. What's not to love about these women?

My favorite character is Gina. She's a barrister and she will remind you several times that it's her job to seek the truth so she's telling the truth with her truthiness and can detect non-truths cause she's a barrister. She also thinks that psychics are demonic. And she wears a touch too much make-up. And she will cut you...with the truth.
 

Read This: Eleanor and Park

Have you read this book yet? It's certainly not a new release, it came out in 2013 and Dreamworks has already bought the rights to make it into a movie with the author, Rainbow Rowell, as the screenwriter. I'm not really into the young adult genre. I didn't looooove the Hunger Games and have never read the Divergent series. But this one is different. It takes place in 1980's Omaha and features two high school students who fall in love on the school bus. Eleanor is a chubby redhead from a very dysfunctional, low income, domestic abuse-riddled family who is the new kid at school. She sits with Park, a half-Korean loner who loves comics and punk music and is at odds with his machismo, tough-guy father, on the bus. Slowly they bond over comic books and music and eventually fall in love. It's the sweetest book. Rowell makes you feel like you are 16 again and you are falling in love again for the first time with her language and descriptions and avoidance of cliches. I devoured this book and mourned its ending. You should too!

Watch This....Southern Charm

Are ya'll as obsessed with Southern Charm on Bravo as I am? God, I LOOOOVE it- just like I love cobblestone streets, polo, gas lamps, and old money...you know, stuff you can only get in Charleston!!!

So for those unfortunate souls who have yet to tune in...let me catch you up. The show takes place in Charleston, SC. It follows around a bunch of single people, but focuses more on the men, cause let's be honest- they are more dysfunctional and therefore, more entertaining. The men range in age from their late 20's to 50. The dirtiest bird of them all is Thomas Ravenel who is the former Treasurer of South Carolina before he went to jail for selling coke. Thomas comes from and old, rich, political family. He thinks he's a southern gentlemen, but he's really just a super sketch ball. There are other guys who are also rich, don't really work much (except for Craig, who's a lawyer and seems rather put together). The main women of the show- Jenna (who plays the "against type" southern woman and has a modified mohawk) and Cameran (who was on the Real World San Diego and is a total peach) are refreshingly normal and don't back stab each other or air their dirty skanky laundry on air...they leave that to the men.

The star of the show is not even a main cast member. Her name is Kathryn and we are told over and over that she comes from two powerful South Carolina political families (which should mean something, but this isn't 1854 so...not really). Kathryn, aged 21, is slutty, immature, most-likely illiterate, and sounds like she is on qualudes when she speaks. She becomes a major player in the story line thanks to her sluttiness, her relationship with the 50 year old Thomas, and her pregnancy scare secondary to his sperm. The best part about Kathryn is that she is really immature, but thinks she is super mature and put together. She pretends that she's the "lady of the house" at Thomas's home and clearly wants to marry for money...despite an almost 30 year age gap. She's pretty much an asshole with zero insight....who also wears the most ridiculous fake eyelashes. Kathryn is everything you would ever want from a Bravo reality star.

Here's a clip. Kathryn lacks the understanding of what "chivalry" means.

Site News

It's been pretty obvious to everyone that my blogging has been pretty lame lately...and by lame, I mean, absent. Sorry. With a new house, new obsession with decorating said house and reading boring DIY blogs, and a busy toddler who doesn't just sit on the ground like a cute, cuddly purse while I ignore her for a few hours while updating my blog I just don't have as much time or energy as I once had.  Waaaaa, poor me!!!!

So, I've decided that I will make a concerted effort to do a once a week-ish bloggarrhea to re-cap the week and whatever else I want to blog about. I'm very doubtful that I will be updating the same day per week based on my inability to do anything on any sort of schedule.

Thanks for sticking around. I'll post on Facebook via the PopCrush page when I do my weekly-ish blogging to make things a bit easier.

Happy Snarking!!