I'm Obsessed with the show Horder's

Over the last two weeks, I've become completely obsessed with this show.

I've sort of been on bed rest for the past couple of weeks and besides school work the only programs I'm able to watch is whatever is available on Netflix. I would see this show on cable and sort of bypass it but I'm so sorry I did because it is amazing.  I really didn't realize the mental issues that come along with hoarding.  Many of the hoarders suffered some kind of trauma in their life that triggered their hording tendencies.  I also equated hoarding with hoarding stuff I never really factored things like a person hoarding trash or animals in their home.  The entire process of them seeking therapy and taking the steps to unhoard (not sure if that is a word) their home and gain their life back is completely fascinating me.

My favorite episodes are the trash, pet, and food hoarders.  It just blows my mind why someone would be attached to an empty cereal box, or moldy cheese or would allow 36 rabbits to run free and destroy their home.  I can't wait to start the 2011 season since I've watched all 46 episodes of 2010.

Blog, Blog, Blog...I hate the new look of Blogger.com!  Why mess with something when it was so easy to work with before. Is it just me or do you also find it irritating when all of a sudden what was familiar and easy to use is now unfamiliar and complicated.  They say they make the changes to make the sites more user friendly.  That's Bullish!  This crap is just confusing and designed to piss off the site user.  They add all these features that aren't necessary and the average blogger probably won't use.  At least give us the option of keeping the old format or upgrading this new piece of $h!# format.  I guess by now you can figure out that I'm one of those people who don't mind some changes but hates dramatic changes (like to this site) all at once.  Now that pisses me off! 

I know this is some random rant but I had to get it off my chest because I really hate this type of $h!#

Luggage Wars! The Next Big Auction Reality Show

Have you ever gone on vacation and your luggage didn't make it to your vacation destination?  The entire trip your luggage/suitcase is missing but you proceed anyway with the vacation of your dreams.  A few months go by and you call the airline at least twice a week to see if your item has been found.  Finally they call you to pick up your baggage and you rush right over after work to claim your lost luggage.

However, have you ever wondered what happens to unclaimed luggage? Well their is a new show that shows you.  Thousands of unclaimed luggage from U.S. and International flights from around the globe are auctioned off yearly to the highest bidder.  Just like Storage Wars (where storage companies auction off storage units that have been left unpaid for a period of time), Luggage Wars auction off different types of luggage such as duffel bags, suitcases, and carry-on's without bidders being able to see what is inside each bag up for auction.  Bidders judge the bag by its outward appearance, the airline it was on and the country it came from all in the hopes of hitting the jackpot for some expensive valuables waiting inside the luggage.

Perhaps it’s the troubled economy that has people looking for alternate means of making extra money on the side. Maybe it’s the pure excitement of bidding on a storage unit or a container without knowing for sure what’s inside but Americans are hooked on bidding wars shows.  This show just like Auction Wars, Pawn Stars and Storage Wars is just as exciting and Luggage Wars is slated to be the next big bidding war show phenomenon. 

One young-man (a new bidder) spent $1700 dollars cash on a Louis Vuitton duffel bag only to find a pair of new Chanel shoes worth $800 dollars, $4000 pair of diamond earrings, and an iPad 2.  He definitely made a great purchase and made his investment back and then some.  However, other bidders made high purchases on luggage and made no money because their bags contained just basic travel items (pajamas, underwear, Ipod nano, toiletries) inside.

The show comes on Spike TV which is the man version of Lifetime Television. You will need to check your local cable/satellite network to find out showtimes in your area.  

Really entertaining and interesting to watch and I think you will enjoy it, just as I did!

Find Our Missing on TV One

Find Our Missing hosted by S. Epatha Merkersen (of Law and Order Fame: Is designed to "draw attention" to missing black Americans whose disappearances have mostly gone unnoticed by the national media.  I’ve been watching a similar show on the ID Channel (for last three years) and they may showcase 10 or so episodes each season and maybe one out of the ten missing showcased will be African American.

This may be overstating the obvious, but if you are black and if you go missing, your chances of becoming the main focus of a relentless, obsessive, exhaustive discussion by Nancy Grace on CNN is slim to none (or ZERO). This certainly isn't to suggest that all missing white people will get that treatment, but the odds are better than zero and much better if the subject is blond and female.  TV One, to its credit, isn't pointing fingers or griping, and, in fact, notes in their piece when both local media and police coverage was quick and responsive. Pictures on milk carton just aren’t enough anymore to get the missing’s message across but a well produced series like this just might.  So I’m so proud of TV One for being daring enough to put on this show because this is the first time in history that a show is solely dedicated to missing African Americans of all ages, sexual orientation and gender.

The series premiered back in January of 2012 but you can catch all the repeats on TV One on Wednesdays at 10 pm.  I urge everyone to check it out and support this ground breaking new show to return for a second season on TV One.  We need to let the media know that our missing people are just as important as other racial groups.

Below is a short clip from the show on Jaliek Rainwalker (a missing child) who's foster parents are suspected in his disappearance. 

My Reality

Quick Update:
Really hard lately to get my posts in.  My mom was in the hospital battling pneumonia for 2 1/2 weeks then she went on to a physical rehab for 3 weeks (due to her being weak from the pneumonia) and she just got home last Friday only to be back in the hospital today for another 2 days for surgery.  I've been busy taking care of my dad and running back and forth to the hospital to check on mom.  

School work is getting really really really hectic and I'm struggling with the fatigue from being pregnant.  Just tired guys and stressed but I promise to get up to speed with the shows over the weekend and update the blog.  

My schedule is tight but I'll get those RealityTvMePlease posts in this week.

What's shows are on my list this week to blog about:
Real Housewives of Atlanta (Bravo)
Basketball Wives (VHI)
Mob Wives (VHI)
and 
Triple D: Diners, Drive-ins and Dives (Food Network)

My Reality

My Reality is another new section I'm adding to my blog and it chronicles what is going on in my everyday life.


This week has been tough because I'm battling an allergy induced sore throat. This is day 3 and nothing seems to be working so I'm definitely going to the hospital tomorrow so that I'm okay before school starts on Monday.  I'm taking Benadryl elixir for the watery eyes and Tylenol extra strength for the sore throat but there's not much else I can take over-the-counter because I'm pregnant. 
The Benadryl makes me very sleepy so I'm a little behind on my RealityTvMe bogging but I promise to get caught up in the next day couple of days.


I think my next two blog entries will be about Mob Wives and Basketball Wives both highly successful reality shows featured on VHI.

Reality Randomness

This is a new section of my blog I'm introducing called Reality Randomness.  Reality Randomness is just random topics that I want to post to my blog that have nothing to do with reality TV.  Whatever is on my mind that just came out of left field, sometimes the random topics will be serious, other times funny, or silly.  Today on RealityTvMe we are celebrating Reality Randomness!

My mom has been in the hospital for the last two weeks battling pneumonia and issues associated with her diabetes.  She’s been so down about her illnesses and it seems during hospital visits that’s all she focuses on is her dialysis, pneumonia, and her out-of-control diabetes.  So to lighten the mood yesterday, I decided to focus her attention on something other than her illness.  We first got on the topic of sports and that seemed to brighten her spirits quickly and immediately sent my mother into the discussion of the Patriots.  One thing you need to know about my mom is she’s a diehard Patriots and Celtics fan, if you want to get her going then talk about the Patriots and her love for the players (past and present).  As a matter of fact she’s still reeling from the Randy Moss trade from a few years back and the recent Super Bowl loss which she swears we would’ve won if Randy was still there.  Don’t ask me why and I’m not even sure how we got on the topic of the Star Spangled Banner but we did and my sister, mom and I were discussing the top 2 best renditions of the Star Spangled Banner we’ve ever heard in our life. The two selections were easy ones for us, Whitney Houston’s 1991 Super Bowl national anthem and Marvin Gaye’s 1983 All Star Game national anthem but choosing who was number one and two become a heated debate between the three of us.  The battle of the top spot got so heated that even the nurses assigned to my mom’s room got into the mix and casted their vote for the best amongst the two.  My mother and sister thought Whitney Houston then Marvin Gaye and I thought the reverse Marvin Gaye and then Whitney Houston.  Okay let me give you my reason why I put them in that order.

I chose Whitney as number two because her rendition of the national anthem was purely patriotic (which it should be and is suppose to be).  She sang the hell out of the Star Spangled Banner!  When we YouTubed her video on my Smartphone, gosh it brought tears to my eyes.  I know it sounds corny but I felt so proud to be an American and she brought that feeling out of me.  I remember the press and the media going crazy for Whitney’s rendition and again it is a fantastic rendition and one that does deserve respect but the top spot? In true Whitney fashion "Hell to the Naw"!

However, Marvin’s version was pure fucking electric sex, an R&B rendition that just makes you want to party.  This man turned the Star Spangled Banner out!  He brought it to a level of sexiness that I can’t even describe.  He even changed the beat to it (who does that?).  His version sounded like it could be a top ten hit on an R&B or Pop station right now.  I was too young then but if I was the age I am now, I could see myself with a bottle of wine and some lingerie about to get some good loving off his national anthem.  He brought a uniqueness in sound and rhythm that I haven’t heard from any other anthem performance (that I can remember).  He wasn’t trying too hard he was just being Marvin.  What artist say, he had that IT factor, pure charisma, and natural swagger.  Even his physical appearance at the show said he was dressing for a ladies concert not a sports event.  With the mean three piece suit, with the pocket hankie, dark classes, crisp haircut and newly lined beard.  I’ve never seen a national anthem where the ladies are screaming I love you and the people clap like their at a musical concert.  It’s just a beautiful thing to see and again just so DAMN SEXY.  This is why I just have to put Marvin Gaye at number 1 on my list.  

However, if you time in your busy life I hope you can review the two videos and post what you think about the National Anthem performances by Whitney Houston and Marvin Gaye.

  

I found a new Reality TV show tonight called Dooms Day Preppers

I came across this show tonight by accidentally sitting my fat pregnant butt on the Direct TV remote.  The Show is on the National Geographic Channel and the premise of the show is to showcase the lives of ordinary Americans who are prepping for the end of the world as we know it.  They are preparing for things like nuclear devastation, US financial collapse, over population, food or oil shortages.  I've never ever heard of this show and I watch the National Geographic Channel pretty regularly so I was intrigued when I saw it.  It comes on Tuesday nights at 9 pm so tonight's episode was a repeat.


Watching this show I was floored by the dooms day preparation going on.  I mean these people aren't playing around, they mean business when it comes to preparing for the end of the world.  The prepper's are creating self-sustaining compounds that will keep their families afloat (for some) up to 10-15 years.  They're housing warehouse supplies of dry food, water, can goods, paper products like toilet paper, guns and ammunition, making homemade soaps and toothpaste, teaching their children tactical weaponry skills to defend themselves just-in-case the compound/shelter is breached.

Others are creating self-sustaining farms where they are growing their own dairy, meat and vegetables.  They don't use anything from the outside world like electricity, food or even fertilizer and they live like this everyday.  This particular self-sustaining suburbia has linked with another doomsday prepper who is an engineer and he created a vehicle that runs on burning wood. WOW! His purpose for this is that if the world is collapsing around us the fuel supply is going to dry up.  Those of us (the regular folks) are going to be up craps creek because of our dependency on natural fuel supplies that are going to be too expensive to purchase in the collapse or are simply going to run out.

In tonight's episode they had a guy who created this weapon called the Croval.  His purpose for creating the weapon is that sooner or later no matter what you do as a prepper or non-prepper your going to run out of bullets for your gun so you need to have a weapon that you can use to protect yourself and your doomsday bunker/suburbia/compound.  This thing is straight BADASS! It takes 13 different tools and turns it into just one.  Think of it as a cross between a shovel, Rambo knife, hammer, bayonet, saw, machete, pick ax, crowbar, etc.. and it only weighs 5 pounds.  It will literally will cut through almost anything.  The prepper who created it in this episode tested out his new weapon on a pig because from what he says a pig's flesh is the closest thing we have to human flesh.


The whole show was really interesting so I think I'm going to start checking it out (when I can) but here is a quick clip of the Croval weapon. I wasn't able to find the clip on Youtube so I'm going to post a link to National Geographic's short clip of the Croval here.  In order to view it just cut and paste the link into your address bar.

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/national-geographic-channel/shows/doomsday-preppers/ngc-the-croval/

Looking at the show definitely makes me start thinking about preparing for the worst (maybe not on that level but at least something).  What do you think, should we (regular folk) start making some kind of preparation for a doomsday?  Let me know what you think.

The Premise of the Bad Girls Club Show:

The Premise of the Bad Girls Club show is that seven girls are thrown into a mansion under one roof.  Roommates are from all different backgrounds, with different personalities, and all with some kind of behavioral or physiological issue.  Each is supposed to be there to learn from their experience at the Bad Girls Club.  To help them grow to be normal functioning young ladies in society.  Hopefully by seeing how other girls like them behave, each would realize how badly they act and will then change their bad ways/out-of-control lifestyle.  However, the show has changed a bit over time (this is season 8) most of them appear on the show to make a celebrity name for themselves and make a little bit of money by doing public appearances and spin-off shows like Bad Girls Love Games (where 50 men compete for the hearts of 3 former Bad Girls Club Cast members).

A Response to a Friends ?

I talked with my girlfriend from North Carolina yesterday and as girlfriends we were getting caught up with each other’s lives especially now she’s so far away.  Since moving to North Carolina I don’t get a chance to see or talk with her everyday but we try and make an effort to talk at least once a twice every few weeks.  After we chit-chatted about the husbands, crazy kids and the demands of work and school our conversation quickly turns to reality shows.  Since she admitted she’s been working countless hours of overtime and missed the last two episodes of the show I was trying to get her up to speed on what’s happening with the new season of Basketball Wives.  Basketball Wives is one of the shows I know she and I both watch and enjoy.  We both get a kick out of Shaunie O’Neil (Shaq’s ex-wife) and her group of basketball ex's crazy antics.  Our favorite, Tammy Roman a former roommate on the 1993 reality show, The Real World Los Angeles on MTV and former wife of NBA player Kenny Anderson is just a loudmouth, tell it like it is, feisty, know-it-all.  She so reminds me of my mother’s sister Aunt Joanne and Tessa’s grandmother Lil May.  Let’s just say these women (May, Joanne and Tammy) don’t play if they don’t like something you will hear about it (whether you want to or not)!    

Like me Tess is a full-time mother and professional working woman so Reality TV is one of our common bonds (so I thought).  After discussing the opening season of Basketball Wives I tried to move on to a few more shows like Top Chef, Real Housewives of Atlanta, and Kim and Kourtney Take New York.  These were shows we had talked about before (at least in past seasons) or referenced we were going to watch in the near future so it actually irritated me quite a bit when again she wasn’t up on what’s going on in the shows (I thought this was our thing).  I said to her “I thought you watched these shows?”And she replied “every once in a while but it’s not something I do on a regular”.  Then the phone got awkwardly silent for a few moments so much so that I thought we got disconnected for a second.  Then she asked, why do you watch so much realty TV, it’s like all you watch?  First, I thought to myself…that’s sooo not true!  Her tone almost made me feel ashamed like I was watching too much porn or something.  Then I felt like I had to justify why I like and watch something to my best friend when I thought this was one of the things we had in common.  Something I thought she shared passion for as well but I guess I was wrong.  I defensively answered “because I just do”!  I made some BS excuse about my youngest needed to take his bath and got off the phone.  The conversion with Tess left me feeling judged like I was some idiot box that couldn’t comprehend anything but low brow television entertainment.  I sat there washing my child in the tub he’s chatting away about the bad kids who don’t listen in his class and I was trying to listen (well not really).  I was thinking to myself of course I watch other television programming but reality TV is something I really enjoy and I don’t think I should feel guilty about that.  As I’m drying off the little one and putting on pajamas I kept asking myself, why do I watch so much realty TV? 

I started thinking about all of my personal issues and the never ending mounds of responsibility that I’ve acquired over the last 4 years.  Not many people outside of my family and really close circle of friends really know what’s really going on in my personal life.  Not only am I a full-time mother (with my third child on the way), student, wife but I’m also one of two caregivers for my disabled parents.  I say the care giving job is part-time but really that ish is a full-time job.  Back in 2006 my mother started going blind due to her diabetes being out of control.  Her eyesight got so bad so quick that that in 2008 she was forced to retire because she couldn’t see to perform her job.  For a few years it was my mother who was the sick one on top of being blind, having diabetes, she has high blood pressure, and heart issues.  We never worried about my dad because he was strong, active, ornery, confident, mobile, still about his wits.  Then all of a sudden in 2009 my father got seriously ill, all at the same time my dad (also a diabetic) had a heart attack, stroke, and kidney failure.  My family wasn’t sure he was going to make it but somehow he pulled through with the help of several months of family support, hospital care, and rehab stay.  A year later my dad had a small sore on his foot and he was so afraid of being hospitalized again that he didn’t let anyone know.  Diabetics don’t heal as quickly as everyone else so a minor cut or scrape if not properly cleaned and cared for can become infected with gangrene and require amputation.  Well that’s what happened to my father, from an infection from a small cut on his big toe it caused him to lose his leg, his foot and toes.  He’s an amputee from the calf down and he hasn’t been the same man since the illnesses and amputation has taken over his life.

I can’t begin to tell you how stressful taking care of two fairly young parents can be.  Not only do I come on Tuesdays and Thursday’s to help clean their home, I also manage all of their finances.  I pay the mortgage, cable, rehab bills, real-estate taxes, life insurance, all utilities, bank deposits, cell phone bills, food shopping, credit card bills, landscaping and handyman work, etc…  Sometime it’s so stressful I need an escape and Reality TV provides that escape for me.  I need entertainment where I don’t have to analyze anything to let my brain relax and my body release.  To see other people go through their real life drama and so I can be relieved from mine own.  Maybe for just an hour I’m living the life through those I watch.  The Real Housewives are ultra rich women with big houses, shiny things, and a pampered life.  Watching the Real Housewives of ATL somehow I share in their pampered life.  As I watch the show I’m right alongside Phaedra, Ne-Ne, Kandy, Sheree, and Cynthia on their luxury African Safari vacation.  I don’t think about how I’m going to finish two papers by Friday, pick my dad up from Dialysis, force my mom to eat after she takes her insulin, balance their personal bills and still have enough for the mortgage, give my husband and kids the attention they need and deal with morning sickness.  There are times I don’t think I look attractive because of baby weight gain so I pop on a little RuPaul’s Drag Race and watch the men transform into divas and serve up a side of Fierce!  I love to hear RuPaul say “the time has come for you to lip-sync for your life and don’t Fu%k it up”.  Ru always helps me shake off the baby weight blues.  There are men in his competition over400 pounds that deliver gorgeousness each episode, this show just make me feel good and smile .

Sometimes my anger is at its boiling point because I feel like in my parents I have two additional kids that are stubborn and don't listen.  Don’t get me wrong I love my parents and I do what I do for them because I love them and I’m their daughter.  But ask yourself how many 37 year olds are taking care of their 59 and 61 year old young parents.  I feel like sometimes I don’t get a break because they’re so ill and require so much time and attention.  I surely can’t ask mom to watch the kids for me while I hang out.  She can’t even do the most basic action without falling or hurting herself.  How is my mom going to cook for the kids or call for pizza when she can’t see? I’m also afraid she’ll let her sugar dip too low (this happens when diabetics don't eat shortly after taking their insulin) and pass out with my children right there.  So I need the Mob Wives famous cat fights to get my aggression down and out.  Watching these women fight on this show is way better than taking it (my frustration with so many responsibilities) out on my family members.  My kids don’t deserve to be snapped at because I’m stressed over Nana and Papa’s bills and health my parents don’t deserved to be snapped at because I’m stressed about school and illnesses they didn’t ask for.  Plus sometimes it’s just nice to see that the rich and fab have drama just like everybody else.

Now you’re probably saying if she’s your girlfriend wouldn’t she know about your parents issues? Yes but I don’t think she’s associated my inner peace and release with watching reality TV.  Honestly I really didn’t make the connection until she asked me last night why I watch so much reality TV.  Some say reality TV really isn’t real, I really don’t care, as long as it gives me the escape, release and balance I need in my everyday life then I’ll keep on watching.

Bad Girls Club Season 8: New Elease on Life

Last Week the 6 original girls make a pack to attacked Elease, the new girl to try and get her out of the house quick. But Elease is a tough chick she’s definitely maintaining her ground and not taking any of the girls’ bull ish.  After a few days of torture Erica, Gia, Amy and Demetria (aka MiMi) are starting to respect Elease for sticking up for herself and not being a chump and running away but the twins want to keep the drama going.  They call the girls out saying they’re acting fake for not sticking to the plan and they plan on getting Elease out the house with or without their help.

I'm going to say this...UMM they really need to let it go!  Elease is nobody’s chump and I got a feeling the twins are about to get a much needed and overdue ass whipping!  I'm saying it first right here at RealityTvMe.

Here is a clip of Elease vs. the entire BGC house. 

All I'm going to say is 6 on 1 not cool.

Braxton Family Values - Drama Drama and More Drama!

Quick update on the show: Drama, Drama and more Drama for the Braxton Sisters.

Trina and Gabe, her husband has officially separated…Not a Shocker!  After a year of therapy for Gabe’s cheating ways Trina has caught her husband cheating again with some random woman online.  She found a video of him and the woman and they engaged in cybersex but here is the kicker, the woman was trying to blackmail Gabe on the sex video she had of him.  WOW! After that information, Trina made it clear to Gabe they’re separated and she’s taking off her ring and making arrangements to move on.

I feel you Trina, you can't allow Gabe to keep cheating and taking him back.  Sometimes you just have to cut your losses especially when you've done all you can to save the marriage.

Tamar is having a rough time dealing with Vince being sick; for once she’s taking care of someone else besides herself.  Vince and Tamar were in NY on Lady Gaga business and during their stay Vince was rushed to the hospital for pain in his back and legs.  Only to find out that he has some kind of blood clots that is threatening his life.  The family flies into NY for a few days to give support to Tamar and Vince.  I’m hoping the big Teddy pulls through, I love Vince.   In this episode you definitely get to see the love between Tamar and Vince and know how much they really love each other (especially those who think Ta married Vince for money).

A clip of Trina and Tamar's drama this week!

Spoiler for Next week, somebody in the Braxton Family is getting married.

Bad Girls Club Season 8 "Jenna takes on the house" (Episodes 3)

Episode 3: Jenna's Leaves the Club
A Quick rundown on what happened with Jenna.  Last week it all started with the bad girls' went out to a bar to hang out and drink.  The night started out okay but tension soon started to build with the group of ladies when Jenna met a guy and after the club she was taking a little too long to get a number. The girls didn't like her taking up so much time so they started bitchin about it.  They decided to leave Jenna's @$$ parking lot pimpin at the club with the guy she was talking to at the club.  Soon after the Bad Girls Limo arrives home and Jenna is right behind them with the guy she met.  Now really late or should I say early in the morning Jenna and her guest are making a ridiculous amount of noise and the roommates start coming out of the woodwork like roaches to voice their complaints. Jenna goes crazy as the girls bombard her with thier complaints and she starts busting up the house and is taken to a hotel to cool off for the night.

The girls at this point have had a enough of Jenna's BS and decide to provoke her to get a reaction so she will have no choice but to fight and leave the house. So the next day Erica, the twins and Gia decide to dump all her stuff over the banister onto the floor (clothes, shoes,  make-up, curling iron, tooth brush...all of it), cut-up girlfriend's extensions, and throw her bed into the pool.  Not cool but that's the Bad Girls Club!

Of course like any person would, Jenna goes crazy after finding her stuff destroyed and her bed in the pool.  She falls right into the girls trap and tries to rip off the faces of Erica, the twins and Gia all at the same time and goes down, let's just say she gets her @$$ kicked and still ends kicked out of the house.

I must say that Jenna was a little annoying and not one of my favorites but I didn't think she deserved getting kicked out the club in season 8. I just think that the girls (Erica, Danni/Danielle "the twins" and Gia) didn't like her and just wanted her gone.  Personally I think Amy should've gone home before Jenna.  The first night this bad girl was fighting with Gia, fighting with Demitria, arguing with the twins.  However, I think Amy makes for a better show/TV than Jenna so I can see why she had to go. 

As Swizz Beatz says "On To To The Next One"! 
In episode 4 we meet the newest member of the Bad Girls Club, Elease!  Let's see if this chick can stand up to the ladies and stick it out to the end.

This clip is the start of Jenna's downfall in the house.

Braxton’s Family Value – “Desert Divas Episode” 2-2-12

Tonight was another heated family therapy session with Dr. Sherry and the 5 sisters (Toni, Trina, Towanda, Traci and Tamar). 

In therapy Traci was unfairly targeted by Toni regarding her weight gain.  Traci is the tallest and thickest out of the 5 sisters; most of the other sisters are really petite in stature.  Her body isn’t structured like the other girls and she carries her weight different (hips, thighs and face) but yet and still Tony was acting like Traci was obese and that she looked just absolutely horrible (which isn’t the case) in appearance.  I really liked Toni Braxton before the show started and I still do but not as much as I like her other sisters.  Sometimes I feel like Toni is too bitchy and acts like she's better than her little sisters because of her star status.  I find her personality boring and her attitude about her sisters, the show and their joint business ventures very poor.  Her appearance on the show has definitely turned me off from her as a person.

Trina painfully tells Towanda in therapy that she and her family have to move out and find their own place to live because their presence at Trina's is causing drama between she and her husband Gabe.  Their marriage is on rocky soil already due to Gabe’s numerous infidelities over the years and Towanda and her husband are causing even more friction between Trina and her husband.

After therapy, tonight the girls decide to go to a retreat together in Arizona to reconnect as sisters and stop the bickering.  Again, Toni doesn’t participate in most of the outings and does her own diva thing…AGAIN! Disappointing because the other 4 who did participate all agreed it was a great bonding experience that Toni missed out on.  Toni decides to go to the spa instead of horseback riding and gun slinging with the girls, she’s so whack.  I wish she'd get present with the sisters and the show this season.

Tamar, the baby and the most vocal sister (I love her) is married to Vince Herbert, he’s the super manager of Lady GaGa and other high profile recording artist.  She is the only one who puts Toni on blast for not living up to her end of the bargain of coming together as sisters and not participating in the sister events.  I'm going to pull a Tamar saying right now...Toni's attitude is NOTHOT.COM.