The Bachelor Jason-Women Tell All

I'm always ticked a little when the bachelor series is interrupted by a whole two hours of women scorned coming to air out their dirty laundry on tv, holding off showing the finale for a whole another week. But what was really good with this Women Tell All episode, was the all too brief segment of bachelor/bachelorette flunkies finding love after the series ended. And it's true America, we have it here, drum roll please! Jesse and DeAnna are no longer together! Did we ever think they were going to last? DeAnna is like a filet Mignon (with Greek salad) and Jesse is like chicken fried steak. That has got to be the most unlikeliest pairing of the bachelorette in ABC history. Yep, Jesse and Holly (from the bachelor London) are now a pair. Holly is so giddy in love as she so happily announces, "He's taken girls!" Another odd pairing is the DeAnna rejected Fred, our favorite puppy finding love with Noelle another London bachelor castoff and they look really serious. Fred even dropped the M word during this brief hearts and flowers inspired segment. Apparently I guess there is a lot of co-mingling of rejected bachelors and bachelorettes after the reunion shows. Looks like the reality show flunkies have better luck with the rejected suitors than the winners do.

Nothing new with the rejects from this series. Same old dirty laundry. Chris Hanson did ask our favorite Jillian if she would consider doing this again, to which she replied, "You have to slay a lot of dragons to find your prince". So maybe she is eluding to the fact that she might just do a bachelorette series if she's in charge.

ABC always manages to squeeze in every bachelor show the one success story ABC wears like it's the holy grail of the franchise, Trista and Ryan, who are expecting baby number two, a girl, in a few weeks. Ok I'm jealous. They have such the charmed life. Ryan still writes poetry and Trista seems pretty content, and who wouldn't be after the fairy tale ending which I'm afraid bachelor Jason won't find in this series. Too bad DeAnna didn't pick him to begin with, maybe things would have been different for both of them, (I'm still holding out hope!) Oh, one more thing, the Jason rejected Natalie is still a dumb blond!-Single D

Adventures in Seattle

My husband & I decided to go visit our niece Katie, or as she prefers, Kat who lives in Seattle. As the date approached, I had to ask, remind me why we are going to Seattle in February? Because the tickets are $45.00. Yes, that is a no brainer! $45 bucks anywhere is a bargain these days and not likely to be repeated during tourist season in Seattle or anywhere else for that matter. Anyway, I get there Thursday night expecting rain, wind, locust, everything but sun and low and behold! On Friday morning I was awakened by sunshine! It was still cold but sunny. My feelings about this cold, rainy, damp town were beginning to lift. We were staying downtown at the Hyatt Grand (I highly recommend it) not wanting to impose on two college kids. Our niece came over and gave us the tour of the water front with Pike's Place farmer's market being the focus of our tour. That place is fantastic. Even if you are not a shopper, like me, you will be! Besides being a farmer's market, local artists showcase their wares. It's a little chilly since it's all outdoors but it's so crowded you hardly notice. We were trying to decide where to have lunch but by the time we got through the market we were full from all of the free samples. Cheeses, jams and jellies, fruits and bread, I even tried chocolate pasta. Yes that's right, chocolate pasta. I'm still trying to figure out what kind of sauce you put on something like that.

Later that night, we met Kat at her favorite watering hole, Kells Irish Pub. My husband being Irish was all over that! The singers were terrible but managed to belt out a few good tunes and the beer was flowing. Kat became a VIP and got us all free drinks, go Kat! Before you knew it, two big guys were yelling for everyone to get out! Living in Las Vegas, you tend to forget that other cities have a last call. So it was off to the hotel for us. Kat and her friends had wisely taken a taxi and went off to home. We called her the next morning but she was a little under the weather (she was hanging big time!) and I congratulated myself on having outlasted a 22 year old! I'm not really gloating because I know that probably won't happen again anytime soon.

With Kat not feeling up to playing tour guide, we were on our own. So it was off to the Space Needle. The only thing I wanted to see in Seattle, besides Kat, was Mt. Rainier. Thankfully the weather cooperated for a second day and I was able to see it from the Space Needle. It cost us $30 for the two of us, but I saw the mountain. Never mind that we saw it for free on the shuttle back to the airport, but who knew!?

Seattle was fun. There were still a lot of tourists so I can't even begin to imagine how it is in the summer. I guess everyone else took advantage of the Southwest sale. I highly recommend taking the Underground or the Underworld tours, very interesting. They are the same tour with different stories and the Underworld tour comes with a cocktail, always a plus! The Space Needle was pretty cool too, the telescopes were free and I was able to see the Sleepless in Seattle house. I was hoping to see the bachelor's house, which I'm sure was rented just for the show, but that's a different blog. Thanks Kat, we had a wonderful time! Love you! Aunt Donna (Double D)

Gone Country-USS Bataan

I'm guessing that John Rich is thinking that the TV audience is having way too much fun with this country jaunt into silliness on his Gone Country show and that now is the time for some serious seriousness to legitimize his show. Wrong! This episode he takes the crew on a jet ride to NY only for them to find themselves once off the plane onto another mode of transportation, a Marine transport, the USS Bataan aircraft carrier. Little do they know they will be performing the songs they picked at random back at the ranch in front of the political likes of then Senator Hillary Clinton and ex-President Bush. Aw crap could be heard the collective sigh from the group. And they thought this was going to be all fun. One high for the singing group however, Tara singing of all things "Coal Miner's Daughter" managed to showcase her unknown until then a pretty good singing voice. Who knew she could really sing? I thought she was there just to look pretty. Shelia E. had the guys in uniform drooling and George Clinton embarrassed himself and John Rich singing and forgetting the lyrics to a Johnny Cash song. Was he sleeping? Er George that is? I can never tell, his eyes are so puffy. Next the group met with the soliders for a little Q & A which managed to get all down, heavy and sad; you know the war thing. Now don't get me wrong. I'm totally behind our guys in the service, it's just that when I watch Gone Country, I want silliness, I want grease pig races, stock car races, country BBQ and to laugh my bony ass off. I want contestants embarrassing themselves, acting silly and doing outrageous things. If I wanted to be sobered up on touching stories and cry in my soup, I would watch the Hallmark Channel. Come on JR, let's get back to the country and let the contestants get their redneck on. Nice touch when Mickey Dolenz was singing and ex-President Bush decides to land his helicopter. What a way to make an entrance. Didn't mother Barbara teach him you only enter a concert between acts? -Single D