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Saturday, September 15, 2012
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This week, the family enjoys what’s left of the summer. Sugar Bear, who works 7 days a week, has taken some time off to enjoy being with the family since school and pageants will be starting up in a couple of weeks.
We start with a bit of pageant-related business. They are looking for a new hair piece for Alana and pay a visit to “Shh, It’s a Wig.” The family is very careful to pause between the “Shh” and the “It’s a wig” part. The owner, not so much. Every time she says the name, it sounds like “Shit’s a wig.”
They play around with a bunch of different wigs, and Sugar Bear causes me to giggle when he tries on a mullet.
He actually leaves the store with it. June, in all of her frumpy glory talks about how every wig in the store was a hot mess. They decide to keep looking. The owner of the store wins points when she tries to be diplomatic about interacting with this particular family, and can’t keep a straight face. She has to start over.
A couple of things happen in this scene, the first was Sugar Bear’s reaction to June in a blond wig. Let’s just say that there truly is someone for everyone in this world. He talks about how seeing her in that wig make him feel frisky and how he wants to jump her bones. I immediately gag. Because, as much as I love this family, my mind revolts at the thought of the two of them in any sort of sexual way.
The other thing that really stood out for me, is just how naturally pretty Alana is. I wonder why they don’t do more natural pageants (assuming that “natural” means without makeup) as she is beautiful sans makeup and I think makeup actually does her a disservice.
Also, I love how June describes the wigs as a hot mess while looking like this:
So, June and the girls discuss just how hot it is in Georgia during the summer. Having spent a summer or two in Macon, I can tell you it’s like sitting in a giant bowl of steam. There is no air movement and it’s impossible to describe just how uncomfortable it is. I know how impossible it is to describe, because I have tried numerous times and no one who hasn’t ever been to Macon during the summer, has ever truly gotten just how unbearable it is. The only place that I have ever been that was hotter in July was Columbus, Georgia. But, that may be because I was dumb enough to try to hike 5 miles with my (at the time) gentleman friend (who’s now my husband). Plus, I don’t weigh 300 pounds and never have, so I can just imagine how uncomfortable June is as she says that being “voluptuous” and the heat are two things that just don’t mix.
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I wrote about this when I saw the episodes. I didn’t like the way they just left the stuff all over and went away. I find that totally gross.
@Bobbi, 2 things: 1. We don’t know that they actually left with the stuff still sitting there. 2. It was the local dump, stuff is left just sitting there all the time. Granted, this was not the same as going to the local landfill (which is Athens-speak for the city dump), but, since it is the dump and most visitors are going to leave a much bigger mess, it didn’t occur to me to think it was gross. Aren’t dumps/landfills gross by default?
I love this show! Maybe it’s because I can totally relate to many things they do. I grew up a “poor” kid in North Florida/South Georgia and I can remember being hot and stuck at home. My dad often worked 7 days a week too while mom juggled the budget and looked for free fun. I went without a lot of things, had “sketti” with no meat for dinner more than once, but I wouldn’t change a thing.
What? Sit quitely during fireworks? Noeffingwaay! I have always ooohed and ahhed at fireworks and always will. Everybody around here does.
W are civililized, after all.
i’m so glad i’m not to the only one who was hearing the owner calling the store “sh*t’s a wig.” however, i would agree with that as its name, because i do think june was right, and their wigs WERE all a hot mess.
i don’t think ordering too much is wasteful regardless, as long as you’re taking home leftovers and actually eating them. i order a small salad when we go out 95% of the time, but the times i do get something like indian food or mexican (although these days i get not-salads more often, because my baby-parasite needs more nutrients), i rarely am able to finish even half my plate, but i ALWAYS bring the rest home, and i always consume it in the next few days; i kind-of have a feeling june would take her leftovers home, too.
as much of a polar opposite this family is to mine, i overlook almost everything & think a lot of the ass-backward stuff is kind of cute, BUT that “department store” thing seriously freaked me out … how dirty & icky that is was only reason #2, but my main concern was all the diseases & fleas they’re probably bringing home that way. i really wish they’d stop that. i’m not at all in the outraged camp with this one, but rather in the genuinely concerned at what kinda crap they’re picking up by going through a dumpster. even if they aren’t taking things with them most of the time. i had a bunch of friends in high school who thought they were all punk rock and dumpster dived (because nothing is cooler than a rich kid who got dropped off in his mom’s bmw convertible jumping into a nasty dumpster), i REFUSED to go near them for the rest of the day.
you may as well just gasp & shout to your heart’s content next time if you want to
@PlathAddict The climate there is so bad it ended up in history books!
There’s a story from back when the companies were getting cranked up and doing business in what’s GA now. This 1 worker they sent called Hernando Cortez got super sick. When he got to where Macon is now. He said it had an evil miasma.
I think there’s a lot of reasons the family makes some people so mad. But they’re complicated. But a lot of it seems to come back to the Honey Bubus being so happy. Specially June.
You’re right she does give maybe a little more credit to some of the viewers. My guess is she thinks since she and Sugar Bear aren’t real sophisticated people, maybe she expected the viewers to be smarter. Just like some of them expected her to be stupider. And less confident.
I don’t know how to put without sounding smug and judgmental, but re: June not marrying any of her children’s daddies, could it be because she would lose public benefits?
@kthxbai, I love everything about your comment. I had no idea Macon’s heat ended up in the history books, but I have absolutely no problem believing it. Plus, “The evil miasma” is the perfect band name – if I actually had a band, or could play an instrument, or sing.
@snowshoecat, I oohh and ahh all the time at fireworks. But, I also restrain myself from jumping up and down and exclaiming how awesome they are during the show. I think it is more from not wanting to disturb the people around me than anything else. It sucks because I always want to yell and exclaim how amazing the show is. And, somewhere along the line, I was taught that type of behavior wasn’t lady-like. Which makes no sense considering how much I drink and swear.
@ellemenop, I understand. Having just gotten over a combination of food poisoning and food allergy this week, I am especially grossed out by that particular moment. But, since June made a point of talking about Crazy Uncle Tony coming home with something more than what he picked out of the dumpster, I don’t think we have to worry about them bringing home parasites – except for that really gross moment when he rolled poor Pumpkin (was it Pumpkin or Chubbs?) in that really nasty looking mattress and making jokes about pigs in a blanket. And, June’s yelling about bed bugs didn’t help matters. But, I wonder if the mattress thing was a total set-up, like the rest of that scene seemed to be.
@MaudTherriault This came up before. They base being eligible on household income. Not if the person is married or not.
So Sugar Bear’s check would count if she applied either way. Unless she could keep it scret that he lives there. But there’s only like 800 people in the town. So it might be problematic. Not to mention now they’re on TV. Which would also count as household income.
You can call them up in that county and find out exactly how many $ in income to be eligible, and how many $ they’d get if they are.
@Maud, it’s a possibility. But, do we know that she is actually on or has been on public benefits? Also, is “public benefits” a British way of saying welfare? Because, if it is, I am totally going to start using it. It sounds so much classier than welfare benefits.
I have my own theories as to why June didn’t marry the other baby daddies. Could it be that they weren’t long lasting relationships? Has there ever been any mention of Anna’s baby daddy?
I didn’t see the show. Did Anna go to the dump? I don’t think she should be around overly germy places.
Girl, I was right there with ya when Juse was talking about the hot mess wig shop while sitting in a living room chair in the front yard… looking for the world like she had been cleaning out the basement all day.
When June is talking to the camera, it is like she is talking to someone she knows. We have all known people whose life style is relatively insane. Talking with them can be a hoot. They make be the craziest one in the room, but damned if they can see it!
At Plath, I do think the British call it benefits. Reminds me of a funny story when I was in younger, in London with my friend, and he met and was hanging with this British guy. Turned out, the guy was living in some sort of shelter or dorm and awaiting public assistance. “Yes”, he said in a British accent (which automatically sounds posh) , “I will get my new apartment when my benefits arrive.” My friend said it took a while before he realized what the guy really meant. “Damn”, he said, “they make welfare look good over here.”
At Plath = @Plath. I’m literally literal.
This show is addicting i got stuck watching a marathon of it the other day. I thougt it would be boring like other realtiy shows that center around family like the Kardasians but it is entertaining. I think it has to do with the fact that i actually like these people. I read all your recaps but i have let to see the one where Sugar Bear takes Alana on a fun outing.
@2muchbravo, that is a very plausible theory. It actually makes more sense than any of the wild theories I have. As for Anna, I’m sure there is plenty out there about her baby’s daddy, I just haven’t looked into it. Mainly, because, I’m just trying to enjoy the family as they are in the first season. However, if there is dirt out there, I will be happy hear about it. I just don’t care enough to do the work to separate the rumor from the truth.
@sharon, I know right!? And what is the deal with TLC’s focus on her sneezing? I feel like there is a joke that I am totally missing out on.
@sarcasatire, you are awesome! What is it about a British accent that makes everything sound so much classier? I truly think that a British person could say anything to me and I would just accept it because the accent is so charming.
@emily, I don’t think Sugar Bear has any say in the outings. I could be totally wrong, but I do think that June dictates what goes on in that household.
@Plath, lots of matriarchies around, and I’m sure theirs is one. Sugar Bear brings home the bacon and Mamma Bear dictates how it is used. That way he doesn’t have to worry about any responsibilities other than bringing it in.
@SarClassy, British accents are very cool. Even Cockney sounds good to our ears, and it’s funny how many products are sold by Brits. Might as well be since we don’t make things here anyway.
Anybody else notice how little Boo Boo looks so much like Papa Sugar Bear? Plath, you seemed to have selected all the phooooh-toes (in a veddy veddy British accent) that played up the resemblance. Good show old girl, good show.
@2muchbravo @PlathAddict said it the best. there truly is someone for everyone in this world
June lucked up and found hers when she was just 24 yrs. All her girls are growing up with a mama and daddy that love them to pieces. And each other. Plus all their other relatives.
If I was her, I wouldn’t give a word of mention to any non factor sperm donors. But she’s nicer than me. In like episode 1 she said they’re not part of their lives.
@ellemenop If you or I went down there I bet we’d get sick as a dog in about a minute. Just from that miasma. But they’re from there. So the same stuff’s not going to make them sick. Like when you go somewhere you haven’t been in a while. And your stomach disagrees with the fruit for the 1st week or 2.
And June’s sensible about it. She won’t let them get in water that’s got the flesh eating sickness in it. Even though a lot of people do. And the few that catch it are usually from somewhere else.
Those kind of dumps are all dry stuff. They don’t put wet garbage in there. It’s not like a city type dumpster that’s got rotten food and who knows what all.
Oh and Mr thxbai says Cortés spelled his name with an s. And acento on the e.
I love the ‘normal’ British accent, the urban/uncultivated(I don’t know what they call it there) accent makes me cringe every time they open their mouths. I was also under the impression they were at a dry trash dump.
@Moli *giggle*
@Kthxy, so true that there is someone for everyone, but it still makes me a bit squeeeee thinking about them.
Best thing for allergies is local honey. It contains all the pollens that irritate us and it’s kinda like a vaccination. Using common sense (which is not common at all since so many people refuse to use it) goes a long way toward keeping people free from catching awful diseases. June has it in abundance allowing or not allowing certain things depending on whether or not they could be harmful.
@Elle, congratulations on the parasite. There’s a lot of that going around. The best diet around for eating out is the take-home container. I bring my own since I have yet to eat a whole dinner out and refuse to deprive myself of something I enjoy just because I can’t finish it at one sitting. Leftovers are my fave lunches, unless hubbycat gets to them first.
Over here the local councils have a day each week where they sell off all the good stuff that has been taken to the dump. It is very well organised. The electric applicances are in one spot, the building materials are in another, toys, clothes etc.
Lots of people go because it is a great place to pick up timber for example for $1.
My friend collects vintage clothes to do fashion parades and she finds lots of old 50′s, 60′s and even older clothes there.
No one thinks of it as “dumpster diving”. We call it recycling.
We have a “chook” (chicken) house made from recycled timber and Mr Dog often finds things for his many projects around our little farm.
Another council initative is once a year everyone puts all the things they want to get rid of on to their footpath (sidewalk?) and it becomes anyones before the council pick it up. They even advertise that it is OK to pick up stuff from outside other peoples’ houses.
It makes no difference here if you are married or not for pensions (welfare). It is worked out on the money coming into the house. The money they are being paid to do the show would be taken into account although some of it would be classed as the childrens’earnings. However, parenting allowance is supposed to be for children and is paid only to a mother’s bank account. The amount you get depends on how many children you have and June would do very well here. You also receive a “baby bonus” when you have a baby which is paid in full if you have a job and in installments if you don’t. It used to be paid in full to everyone but some girls were getting pregnant just to buy a car or whatever and then going on single mothers benefit. So a lot of taxpayers complained and it got changed.
I love this family. They seem to genuinely love their children and sugar bear treats all the kids the same. They also show that it doesn’t take a lot of money (except for the pageants) to have fun.
All I want to say ….having spent summers in Macon, Ga and other places…..that summers in Macon are the HOTTEST ever. EVER.
people on the internet are looking for something to complain about..just yesterday one of the older gosselin girl took a picture of her self wearing kates shoes..the picture show bare legs and feet are in kates shows and people are screaming child abuse..saying kates a bad mom for allowing this picture to be taken and put on twitter and face book.. i love dumpster diving..i go 1 hour ever day and pull bottles and cans out…i make around 60 to 70 dollars aweek…sure sometimes theres maggits..lol..but there god creatures,,i just wipe them off and then turn in the cans…yep!!!! you guess it im from maine!!!! WE LOVE YOU HONEY BOO BOO CHILD!!!
First off, let me say I squeed a bit because…when I drive down to Florida, I always take two days and stay over the first night in Macon, which is halfway. And the BBQ place they eat at looks ALOT like the one I HAVE to eat at when I’m there.
Second…I live in one of the top twenty poorest counties in the country. I grew up in the poorest part of the poorest county. (Think…Next of Kin. There’s like two huge families that live there. It’s Hatfield and McCoys unless we have INTRUDERS!!!!) I really do get the joke. I’m well educated (despite the probably 34,000 typ0s in this post) and have had a successful career in and out of this county for the past almost 20 years….but here’s the story. When I started working where I’ve been for the past ten years, I made a joke about the area I grew up in. Can’t even remember what it was. But all my co-workers just came unglued laughing. Later one told me the boss said they could make no more jokes about that area since it might hurt my feelings…and here I go cracking the first one. I am known to pull a “this is what you expect of me so here you go” stunt even thought I was raised much better. So yeah…I get it.
And that being said…I introduced a coworker to Honey Boo Boo the other day and my favorite part of the experience was watching her back away from her computer monitor when June started sneezing. Like she was going to catch spittle.
@snowshoecat LOL me too. June shouldn’t take it personally though. It’d squick me just as much to think stuff like that about anybody. No matter how pretty I think they are. (My head keeps some old timey ways. Laugh all you want to. I’ll do like June and laugh right along with you!)
I wonder if she might need to take some of their local honey. Maybe the sneezing’s from her being allergic to some kind of pollen or something.
@PlathAddict Maybe she told them about their partial surround sound? (Which was probably just sitting out there. And they didn’t even have to go in the dumpster to get) And out of that they all worked out the department store shopping trip. With everybody riding on Crazy Tony’s ATVs. Because you called Crazy Tony’s number the 1st time they showed him. This is his Moment.
What we do know is Punkin’s clothes don’t come from the dump. A lot of the same tops they all have on you can go see hanging up in the walmart. @snowshoecat can tell you. This is the 2nd show where I’ve recognized actual stuff the cast had got from the walmart. And that’s a real cause for concern.
@alicecarroll13 OMG I saw that! I’m so not a fan of Kate. Or people putting up pics of kids up on the internet. But this wasn’t even her face. It was her feet and legs up to just below her knees I can’t help but wonder about the people that are hollering about it. Are they ghosts?
Because you’d think they’d have all died from apoplexy the 1st week Dance Moms was on.
Add me to the go box list! I bet half the healthy stuff we eat. Like halal meat and fresh veg comes from either take out or order in.
I have a daughter the same age as Alana and the part where she was watching the fireworks made my heart melt!
Apart from the pregnant 15 year old ( but i guess thats not that scandals?!) June seems to have the best interest of her kids at heart. I am the same age at June and I cannot fathom keeping it all together with 4 kids and starting so young. Her kids are clean. her house is clean, she watches out for them,budgets/coupons to provide,she has a stable relationship with Sugar bear. She doesn’t need to marry him. He seems to enjoy taking care of the girls.
I look back on the very beginning of jon and kate +8 and I liked them then too,then that completely changed. I hope June can ride this phenomenon for 14 out of the 15 minnutes and not head in that direction.
@plathaddict — it was pumpkin; that child is crazy, though! i do thing the mattress bit could’ve been a set-up, now that you mention it … i also thought they gnats HAD to be a set-up, which i think you also mentioned in that recap.
@kthxbai — another good theory; immunity does go a long way. kind of like my immunity to really spicy food.
i didn’t know there were dumps that only had dry things, by the way. i always figured a dump is a dump is a dump! i learn the oddest things reading these recaps and the comments that stem thereof. 
@snowshoecat — and now for the truly useful thing i’ve learned so far here; i am going to have to try this local honey thing. i’m allergic to everything and am always covered in hives. however, because i’m a grumpy old man disguised as a young adult female, i refuse to do things like see allergists, so no one has ever told me this. oh, and i never even thought to bring my own container to a restaurant; i like that idea. i feel like i’m constantly throwing away disposable containers. see, snowshoecat, you have taught me so much thanks, indirectly, to honey boo boo!
I have not watched the episode since I can’t find it online but I still love the recaps. The PSA to June is spot on without being mean but keeping it informative. Also, the whole part about gardening, hilarious but so true.
Dump digging is not specific to any part of the country. When I go to the dump to get rid of things, there are guys there going through huge pile of stuff the bulldozer pushes to the side. This is a huge pile of mixed crap (sometimes literally crap is there because gardeners drop their stuff as well) that is being misted with water to keep the dust down. There is also an unwritten rule of the dump that if you have nicer stuff, you don’t toss it over the edge but put it on the wall so someone else could take it if they wanted it. The dump also collects cool signs/posters/art to decorate the outside of the hazardous material collection section. And this is in a rather posh section of California.
Alana’s reaction to fireworks is what everyone thinks, it’s just as you grow up you train yourself to keep those thoughts in your head and only let ohhhhs and ahhhs to come out. Maybe that is just me because I freakin’ love fireworks. Love to the point that if I had crazy wealth I would totally have my own firework show on my birthday every year.
I went to the local landfill a few weeks ago. They had different areas for different kinds of stuff ie chemicals, electronics, etc. With other stuff you just backed up your car up to a wall and pitched your stuff over. A plow came by every so often and pushed it all to one side. They had signs that said “No picking” or something like that. I saw people tossing stuff that looked pretty nice over the wall. It’s a shame really. I like it when people take their usable stuff to consignment stores or salvation army.
We have weekly trash pick up so this was just dry stuff.
@Elle, so glad to know my comments were educational. I’m a teacher and just can’t seem to know when to stop.
From their official facebook page. “sorry I have updated in a few days sorry we have been very busy had the media junket yesterday and as alot of u know sugarbear has had a 4 wheeler wreck while we was out mud bogging 2 wks ago today it was his leg it was just badly bruised and then for the last wk it git infected we was doing alot of antibiotics and daily trips to doc then yesterday the doc put him in the hospital to get iv antibiotics and in the am we will have a mri and a small surgery maybe nothing major thank god cause he is a diabetic I will answer private messages when I can bobbie our family friend that helps with the page will answer what she can and I get back to yall thanks again for the support …”
Good G-d, he’s diabetic and she feeds him sketti? If they spent just $40 a week on produce, they could have a much, much healthier diet.
@lenoru — can’t diabetics eat pasta? in controlled portions, granted, but i’m pretty sure every time i’ve been in treatment there was at least one diabetic girl, and they all had to eat mostly the same stuff we did, except sometimes in different portions, and mostly none of the desserts they made us eat. and i think some of them had to take sugar pills and mandatory snack (which not everyone had to do; just certain people but always the diabetics). my memory could be spotty, but i really do think i remember them having to eat pasta when that was the meal ….
(oh, and the last time was less than two years ago, so i can’t even chalk that up to changing nutritional studies, really … unless there’s been some crazy major breakthrough in that time period)
@ellemenop You’re right. It’s just a starch like any other. So you wouldn’t pile your plate up with it. Or eat it and bread at the same time. But a regular amount doesn’t kill you instantly. At least it hasn’t yet.
PlathAddict: I want to thank you for your recap. I think you were right on with your observations and even your assessment of June’s health. I LOVE her. I love that she is confident. I love that she loves her kids. I love that she is just being herself and what in the world is wrong with that? I have family in Georgia, Alabama, Florida and have driven back roads and seen some things. One that stands out and still makes me laugh, is a mobile home with a flatbed truck, replete with ferns sticking out out of the front bumper, that was being used as a front porch. No lie. I was born and raised in CA, so this was not something I was accustomed to seeing. These people are simply living and doing the best they can with what they have. And they are having fun doing it! I cannot adore Honey Boo Boo more. Talk about a kid who is blissfully unaware and unconcerned with money or things, she’s is the epitome of an innocent kid just being a kid. June is cute in her way and Sugar Bear makes me melt with how much he loves his lady. The older girls are just as lovely, and all of them are being a family. The affection they have for each other is enviable. I think the intolerant masses need to step off their high horse and live and let live. We cannot all be doctors and lawyers and, thankfully, assholes.
Just putting this out there-when I was a kid, in the 70s, it was a huge event to hop in the station wagon and go to the dumps. Every once in a while you found a discarded toy that your parents wouldn’t have bought and it was freeeee! My brothers and I loved doing this. And WE were a middle class Long Island family, not rednecks from the sticks.
I’m running on the assumption that he has type 2 diabetes. Of course he can eat it, he still needs carbs, as many as anyone else. With type two diabetes, the disease worsens as the body is subjected to more extreme highs. My husband has type 2 diabetes, and just by making sure he only gets 2 or so servings of carbs with each meal, and making sure they’re whole grain and everything else is relatively low GI, his symptoms gone. He’s still diabetic, but for now, he does not need meds, and if he walked into a new doctor’s office and didn’t divulge his history, they wouldn’t be able to diagnose him today. This is huge. It means the disease is on hold in his life. A big bowl of sketti (I’m assuming not whole grain, since it costs more) smothered in margarine and ketchup is a lot of carbs at once, and also very high on the glycemic index. Not only that, but to take in all the hydrogenated fats in the margarine and the saturated fats in the ground meat, it’s really a double whammy. There are so many diseases that run hand in hand with type two diabetes, so someone with type two diabetes should be very mindful of what goes on their plate. At some point they can’t up the pills, and a patient will be put on insulin.
If it really is type 2, than there is so much they could be doing to improve his health. Veggies would go a long way. He seems too young to me to be hospitalized for wound care.
Sugar pills and mandatory snacks would be for someone with type one diabetes. Someone with type one diabetes isn’t just measuring what goes in their mouth, but also what is going on in their blood. Their blood glucose levels are much more volatile and can easily drop too low. Thus the pills and mandatory snacks. Parents of diabetic kids have to test them in the middle of the night and feed them juice and pills accordingly. (They are higher on the GI and hit the blood stream quicker, plus kids are more likely to finish the whole portion.)
@Lenoru Why would there be margarine in it?
LOL, you haven’t seen the episode yet.
In episode eight, June makes “Sketti”. She boasts that it is an old family recipe and one of the things she cooks on her $90/week food for a family of six budget. She boils the spaghetti noodles, then heats a big hunk of margarine with ketchup in the microwave and mixes it together. It looked like more margarine than ketchup. They also showed a big pan of browned ground meat, but she never said what kind, and it never showed them mixing it in.
That sketti sounds disgusting! Ketchup + margarine is *not* a recipe.
The meat was probably ground Darlene. (I’m not watching this show, but I do read the recaps.)
There was a new episode? I thought this was the last episode. Awww now I have to wait for the repeat.
It was episode eight. Tonight there is supposed to be a three hour long outtake show.
@Lenoru That’s great about your husband! But just in case anybody’s lurking that doesn’t know. That doesn’t happen to a whole lot of people.
Sorry to make a tangent. It’s just that there’s so much of it. Specially in USA. And of course everybody wants to not have to take the pills or insulin.
The positive side is people wanting to eat a better diet.
The problematic side is the 1s that try to do it on their own. And decide they don’t need to go to the doctor anymore. Or stick their finger. Because it’s a tricky sickness. That can also be a Honey Badger. That can decide tomorrow it doesn’t give a fuck what a healthy diet you started eating.
Plus depending on your blood you might’ve just as well been born with it. Even if it doesn’t show up till you’re grown. No matter what you eat. Or if you do exercises. Specially if any of your people were African or NDN. Counting Latin America. What’s worse is the complications can sneak up on you. And they’re a hot mess pile of nasty. Some you don’t even want to know.
So everybody should totally try to do so good with their better diet they don’t need pills or insulin. But keep going to the doctor and checking their blood while they’re working on it. And let the doctor be the 1 that tells you when you can quit taking it. And what your better diet needs to be.
That way you’ve at least got a better chance of keeping it at just plain diabetes. Which I promise you. Anybody that’s got the complications would just love to have.
Last thing and I’ll STFU. There aren’t any supplements that cure diabetes. Or take the place of insulin or pills.
No matter how much $ their MLM says you can make selling them from home. Or how many people they’ve got posting to blogs.
Here’s some amends for my sermon.
TLC to air Here Comes Honey Boo Boo family-sized episodes tonight with unseen footage – 3 hr marathon!
@kthxbai
Totally! My husband is hispanic and nearly half his friends have type two diabetes.
Most of them still believe they can get it from drinking a tall glass of water while pissed off or scared.
And sort of like anti depressants, many of them think once they feel better, they don’t need it. Or that it’s not so bad, they can keep eating/drinking how ever, and take a little pill.
Not to mention how many have told my DH that his doctor is lying, there’s no way he’s diabetic. They’re blood glucose is never as low as his, so he can’t be diabetic. (This is back when his fasting blood glucose was around 130, now it’s almost always in the nineties.)
My husband started out on the meds when he was first diagnosed, but he immediately changed his diet and added exercise and had to be taken off within months because his blood glucose kept falling so low.
Knowing what faces our kids, we are very careful about food choices, and we keep the conversation going. Luckily there is no diabetes on my side of the family, but as I understand it, both his parents and nearly all of his siblings have been diagnosed with it, so there is a very good chance our kids will be living with it at some point, too.
I wanted to wait until the recap about the “Sketti” episode, but I might forget so… I wanted to post the rest of the “Sketti Recipe” that I observed on the show and you might forget…
Important part of “Sketti” recipe…
To see if you “sketti” has boiled long enough, get several handfuls of the “sketti” out of the pot and throw it all over the room. If it sticks, you can drain the “sketti” and use it. Please. Feel free to gobble “sketti” off of said wall with family and friends while serving this dish. (Chewing with mouth wide open is not required, but it is preferred.) IF it doesn’t stick, we have no answer because so far it has always stuck. So there.
For extra flavor and that “secret ingredient” taste… if there is a young child around 6 or 7 anywhere in your vicinity, please… have them walk all over your kitchen counters barefoot while you are cooking. If the child has just finished walking though the yard and the dog has been in the yard… well… YAY! (Rolling around on the counter is good too. Who knows what kind of tasty bits are hiding in those clothes???)
(I posted this on another webpage, too. But, I wanted to share it with you guys just in case you tried the recipe and no one liked it… you probably forgot to do the part about the feet on the counter… right?)
OK, is there any reason to actually watch the 3 hour marathon? Like am I going to be blown away or change my mind about anything? Because, I don’t want to have to sit through 6 episodes that I have already seen for 7 extra minutes of footage. So, just let me know if it’s stuff I can find on the interwebs or if I should make myself sit through the repeats.
okay, wtf, i didn’t hear about this outtake show??? was it yesterday? my dvr didn’t pick it up, and i have it set to record the show at any time as long as it’s a new episode. or were they technically old episodes with added stuff?
@lenoru — they were all type 1, then, because i know all the diabetic girls had nurses come into their rooms to test them in the middle of the night, like you said. it looked really overwhelming; being in eating disorder treatment while having to manage diabetes.
@Sharon, i will never look at “sketti” the same way ever again.
Plath, I so agree about picturing June and Sugar Bear having hot monkey love…
I just put this in the forum. But decided to put it here too. If you google around there are news stories where reporters have witnessed Alana reading her fan mail. Out loud. 1 said she just needed help when she got to the word Australia.
so what? my sister couldn’t pronounce “sparkly necklace” until she was 10, and she’s at fordham as a pre-med minoring in french.
@ellemenop So my guess is mosst 7 yr olds would need more help with random fan mail. I should’ve said what reminded me was when somebody in the forum mentioned Eden Wood. During her show it came out that she can’t read.
LOL I need to practice typing a complete thought. If somebody ever wanted 1 or the other of them for a commercial or something. Alana can read her sides. And talk plain. So she’d have a leg up even though Eden’s got more beauty walk training.
@ kthxbai
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! I had not known that Eden Wood was not able to read at 7 years old. That is one of the sadest things I have ever heard about her mom and dad. Those are two messed up parents. DAMITALL!!!!!!!!!! It makes ya want to scream.
kids develop their skills (in all sorts of areas) at different rates. my other sister’s kindergarten teacher told my mother that my sister was, essentially, stupid, and she’d never be able to learn a second language or do well in school, but she is fluent in both english in spanish, andsince around 2nd grade kicked major ass at school AND sports … she was the kind of kid their siblings (like me!) hate because they set the standard so damn high, lol. i do think a lot of 7-year-olds would need some help with reading fan mail, especially when they come across words they may not use often (i didn’t move to the u.s. permanently until i was 12 or 13, so i don’t know what they are teaching kids in 1st grade here regarding geography, but based on my middle & high school american-taught geography experiences, i don’t think she’s coming across the word “australia” all that often).
@ellemenop I’m glad your sister didn’t let ignorant people stop her. Oh and I messed up again! Alana’s just 6. I don’t know if she’s started school yet. I’ve got a feeling whether she has or not she learned to read at home though.
@Sharon It got talked about here a good bit. Which was how come reading about Alana reading made me think of Eden.
With Eden I never got the idea it had to do with her abilities or anything about how she is. Just that her mom’s focused so much on her pageant training. And trying to get her into show business. That she sort of let stuff like talking plain and reading go begging.
It kind of reminded me of when Kim on RHOA went to the singing coach. And when they told her she needed to learn her notes she got mad. Because she wanted to be a country singing star. Not study music notes.
Alana is seven, as of last month.
And I’m with you. That’s really impressive she is reading so well. My DS can’t read at seven. He gets flustered and gives up easily. I’m not worried though, because once it clicks, I know he’ll do great.
I’m sorry… I didn’t mean to imply that a 7 year old who can read is ignorant. Kids all learn at different rates. I taught Kindergarten for 5 years. Every year I would have 1 or 2 kids who would just ZOOOOOMMMMMM at the reading. Some were as young as 4. Some children, by the end of their kindergarten year were close to 6 and still could not recognize the first letter of their own name. I never pushed any of them. I encouraged them as much as I could.
But, considering how much Mickie Wood and her husband spent on pageants, they could have spent some money (and TIME) on helping her to learn to read.
I lost the link. But Hollywood Reporter’s saying there will be a season 2. And they’ll get $8K an episode. I hope that part’s not true. They should get way more than that. For all TLC’s making off of them. $8K a piece would still be unfair. Plus a bigger location fee. For shooting at their actual house.
Micki Wood must be so mad. Eden’s show was a dud. And here comes Honey Bubu beating the Kardashians in the ratings. And getting fan mail from Australia.
@kthxbai — i agree, and i also hope they’re going to pay them more than that. god knows horrible people like snooki would NEVER appear on an episode for that, and i doubt she needs the money.
speaking of jersey shore, and completely unrelated to honey boo boo, i think it’s hilarious that pauly d still is a featured “star” dj at the pool at harrah’s in atlantic city. we go down to ac at least twice a month and every time, they still have posters and billboard for him — does anyone actually care???