Last Night, I got sucked into the Baby Borrowers

It is a terrible show, but I couldn't stop watching it. Do you ever watch something for like an hour and a half and then suddenly think, oh my gosh it's 8:30, and what the hell am I watching?

So the premise of the show is really stupid. These 5 teenage couples are seriously thinking about having children together (as much as teenagers think seriously about anything) and enter an experiment where they move into a house together and then 5 sets of parents lend their babies to them for 3 and a half days!

What were they thinking? On the one hand, there was a nanny there that watched everything, but she didn't do or say anything unless they were seriously endangering the child. And the parents could watch everything from a house across the street. But why even bring your kid to be taken care of if you are just going to watch everything they do on a TV? I hope they paid those people a lot of money and that they all put the money in college funds for their kids, with an extra $10,000 put aside for the cost of therapy, because these children are going to be ticked off when they find out what happened.

Anyway, some of the teens were awful in the role of parent. There was a girl named Alicea, and she was cursing at the child (who was teething and fussy) and telling him "fine, you can starve to death" when he was having trouble eating. Her reason for having kids as a teen were "we want to be young parents."

I never understand what people mean when they say that. I mean, I understand not wanting to be so old that you can't get down on the floor and play with them, but to a five-year-old, is there really that much difference in having a parent who is 25 or 35? I would venture to say that they don't notice a difference and that their parent always seems old. And I would probably be a lot happier with a parent who had had time to get a degree and makes pretty good money than with a parent who was never there because they had to work two jobs just to make ends meet.

The thing that scares me about this show isn't someone like Alicea. I don't think she will be having kids anytime soon and I think she pretty much ruined her relationship with her boyfriend Cory. So the show did what it was supposed to do. Here is a clip of them fighting over getting up in the middle of night to take care of the baby.

The thing that worries me is someone like Kelly. Kelly and Austin came on the show because they think they are ready for kids. Besides her having a breakdown at the beginning when they made all the girls wear a baby bump

(Austin giggled at her and she got her feelings hurt. Get real girl--you only have to wear it for a couple of days), they actually did really well. They got a baby with a sweet disposition and it all looked pretty easy for them. They did a good job, too. But I'm worried that now they will go out and have a baby and be shocked when it is not all sweetness and light.

But, there is still time for them to decide to not have babies, because next week they will get toddlers. That should do the trick.

Anyway, I watched two hours of this junk last night, and then found myself about halfway into Celebrity Circus (AWFUL) and suddenly, I couldn't fight the urge to find the remote and change it to HGTV before I threw up all over the place. NBC, what the hell are you doing? I'm watching it, but it is like a train wreck. But I guess all that matters to them is that I'm watching it.

I pray that I don't get sucked back into the bad baby borrowers vortex again next week, but chances are I will.

Love,

Elle Bunny

Take on Me!!!

I just had to share this amazing video with you. My best friend Meredith works at a very nice shoe store in the Domain and during their down-time, she and her co-workers Thomas and Mary decided to create this wonderful video.

I think they have a bright future in show business.

I am lucky enough to have the funniest best friend in the whole world.

Enjoy!

Love,

Elle Bunny

Stealing Magnolias

I just thought I would share this with everyone since it made me laugh. If you haven't guessed from the name of my blog, this just so happens to my favorite movie, and it is interesting to see it with a new twist.

Have a great day!

Elle Bunny

Why do I put off getting my nails done?

It is such a pleasurable experience. Somehow, I always put off doing it until my nails are in horrible need of it. I go to a place called Deluxe Nails. Me and my Mom and my sister Meredith followed three ladies there who used to work at a tacky nail place that we loved called Dragon Nails. Deluxe Nails is more uptown, and I'm so glad they made the move. Although it costs a lot more to get my nails done, it is worth it. They have complimentary drinks (I always get a diet coke) and they have large flat screen televisions in every direction possible. In recent months I have been making appointments to see Tuoi specifically, one of the ladies we followed to Deluxe Nails, because she is so sweet. A lot of the other ladies can get kind of crabby and hurt my hands, and I can totally tell that they are talking about me in Vietnamese or Korean(?).
But my favorite part of the experience is the movies they show. They always are playing the best chick flicks. This weekend when I went they were playing one of my all time favorite movies, "The Holiday."

It is really cheesy and romantic and I just love it, and if you haven't checked it out, you should. The time before that, they were playing "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days."

When I got married, we planned a special girls day on the Wednesday before the wedding, which just so happened to be my Mom's birthday. We had a wonderful brunch, then went to Deluxe Nails and had our nails done and got pedicures. Now I love Mr. Bunny's Mom more than life itself, but she and her younger son stayed in Mr. Bunny's apartment for two weeks leading up to the wedding. It was a little bit too much togetherness, and the Bunnies were going crazy. Mr Bunny had to work ridiculous hours leading up to the wedding so that we could take our honeymoon, so guess who got to spend the majority of the time with her, and also drive her around in the Bunnymobile? That's right, you guessed it, moi.

So there we were at Deluxe nails, My Mom, My sister, My future mother-in-law, and one of my bridesmaids, Lindsey. And they are all pampering us and it is so nice. Lindsey starts beating on her chair and I wonder what on earth she is doing until she gets my attention and says so quietly that only I can hear it, "Oh my gosh, look at what movie they are putting on." When I realized what movie it was my sister and I exchanged a look and it was all I could do not to laugh. It had been a stressful week and I still wonder today if they put that particular movie on to make me stop and laugh. You might be wondering what movie they put on.

It was "Monster-in-law."

Have a great day!

Love,

Elle Bunny

Aunt Jackie, you're awesome!

I love the show Roseanne. I didn't like it as a kid, but when I got older I became addicted to the reruns. The best episodes are on Halloween. My favorite character is Aunt Jackie, because you get to see her character change so much on the show. She did a really wonderful job in the episode where she has to leave an abusive relationship.

Interestingly enough, Laurie Metcalf, the actress who plays Aunt Jackie is now married in real life to the guy who played Fisher, her abusive boyfriend on the show. They have a ranch in Idaho.

In recent years she has been in the Broadway play November with Nathan Lane, she had a role on Desperate Housewives, was in the movie Stop Loss, and also guest-starred on the Big Bang Theory, a television show starring David from Roseanne.
Here are a few of my favorite clips.




Enjoy and have a wonderful weekend!
Love,
Elle Bunny

Bye Bye Bye

I miss the days of *NSync. I wish they would have a reunion. I still love them, but I wonder, when did it get to be a thing that I was obsessed with as a kid? When did I stop being obsessed? Who knows when the shift occurred, but I still find myself doing the dance moves in the car when I hear one of there songs. Me and my friend Meredith were talking the other day about how we are pleasantly surprised at how well Joey Fatone has done. Growing up, we always thought that the success stories after *NSync would be Justin (who of course has done pretty well for himself) and JC. When is the last time you heard anything from him? Anyway, here is a video to help take you back to a different time and place.

Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood

I have to say, I am truly addicted to Tori Spelling's reality show. It is really good. Last night, she was dealing with a lot of insecurities because Dean's scuba instructor was a cute 21 year old girl. Dean says she just has to trust him and she feels like she can't because when they fell in love they were both married to other people. Tori seems to be wondering if there maybe some truth in that old adage, if he will cheat with you, he will eventually cheat on you. She has a point there.
But seriously, Dean took her on the boat for his dive to show her that there wasn't anything to worry about, and then Kim the scuba girl starts flirting with him and making sexual innuendos. Tori was all sea sick and pregnant the whole time. It was so terrible, it seemed like something that would happen to me. I really felt sorry for poor Tori.

But all is well that ends well, and things are pretty good for them right now. They just had a baby girl named Stella (hasn't aired on the show yet, but is on the cover of a magazine) who is just precious, they seem to be very happily married and Liam is just adorable.

I am happy for Tori that she has a sweet little family now. I always feel like God finds extra special people to make up the family of someone like Tori who has such a difficult mother.

On a sad note, Mimi La Rue, Tori's precious dog just died.

That was a really cute dog and was even featured on the back of Tori's book sTori Telling. Which was a really interesting book. I don't think I will ever feel the same way about Shannon Doherty after reading that book, she seemed really mean. Of course, everyone has always said that, but I had chosen to believe she was just misunderstood. But Tori's book really made me feel like she was very manipulative.
Anyway, if you haven't watched this show, you should. They are much more interesting than you would expect and I promise you won't ever hear anyone yell "Donna Martin Graduates!"