Well- I missed the Housewives of NJ this past Sunday and finally caught it today. God bless Teresa- she will never let you down! I think she said the best line since -Is Bitch Better? or even the table flip. She was talking about the weather and she said a Norwegian was coming. She meant Nor'easter. Now I grew up on the Jersey shore and I am well aware of the term. We had at least one or two of these storms every year. They usually aren't as bad as a hurricane-but they are sometimes bad enough to force evacuations from wind and flooding. This just goes to show my fascination with the housewives of Jersey. I mean, how these folks that are so not intelligent live in huge Mansions? It is super puzzling and yet fascinating! Some of my friends think that Melissa and Joe G. are the new heroes of Jersey. I will not give up the title that hold for my favorite housewife- Teresa. She raises 4 little brats and a super big bratty husband and still has time to steal her moms recipes and sell them in a cookbook- BRAVO!
My students are also fascinated with the whole Jersey mystique. They ask me about the Jersey Shore crowd and I say- yes I did witness people like that growing up. There were a lot of Italians at the shore. I even had a friend at college in Atlanta that probably was the original situation. But these housewives seem so familiar- I think I might have waited on a few of them and their families when I was young.
Hope all is well in Jersey after this hurricane blows through. It has been a long time since we had a hurricane up there. My angel sister picked up my mother for the weekend. Thanks god for her!
This is a picture that is similar to my new car. I worked all summer trying to find the perfect car. Unfortunately this was the year of the high-priced used car deal. I finally settled on leasing a new car. It turns out I will spend less and actually pay less for the car when the lease is over than I would have paid for a used car that was three years old. I definitely am worried that I made the wrong choice in leasing,but I have a car that I am giving to my daughter and no trade in so the options were limited. By the way- what color is this? I say beige-the dealer says pepper-white. I guess when you charge so much money for something, you have to make up some fancy color to make it seem like it is really special. I still say it is beige!