Big Brother Wrap-Up

OMG last night's Big Brother was CRAZY! Where my BB14 fans at?! I'm so into this season, rooting for so many people. Last night, Julie Chen revealed (SPOILER ALERT!) that America voted to give the coaches the chance to decide whether they want to enter the competition and reset the game. Of course, they did! At least Dan, Janelle, and Britney did! I like to think that Boogie was just super curious which ex-players might have returned to the game next week, maybe even hoping that Dr. Will would be back. Anyway, I'm super happy for this new twist because it meant that NO ONE got evicted last night, meaning Frank is still in the game! He is such a sweetie. I just want his alliances to finally work out. I would love to see more of a bromance between Frank and Shane.

 The episode ended with the endurance HOH competition with all of the players holding on to the side of a pirate's ship. The ship was tilted and moving around and of course, bad weather came quickly to the houseguests.

I'm so pumped for Sunday's ep to see who won HOH! There are so many possibilities and this game is just gonna get more and more interesting. Also, can I just say how much I love that Britney did her impression of Joe's angry voice? She is so funny and I miss the way she always used to make fun of Rachel. Tequilaaaaa!

 

Omg or when poor Brit had to be handcuffed to the other half of Brenchal (back in season 12) for 24 hours and he had to take a chum bath every hour on the hour?! Ah that was great TV.

I'm watching the show on a bit of a delay since I can't watch it live here. I still can't get over how fun the houseguests Spin the Bottle party was the other night! Ow ow! Get it houseguests! Apparently the livefeeds were cray cray with streaking and many more kisses than they showed on TV.

 

Yuck. Ashley, come on! That's just way too much.

 

This season is awesome! And it's just about to get even crazier! I love that almost everyone is really playing the game (well, except Jen. What are you doing girl?) and even silly, funny, blonde Ashley was forced to play this week! Hopefully I'll see Sunday's show on Monday morning. Until then, are you a Big Brother fan?! If you're not (yet), then sit your butt down and catch up on this season. Perfect time to start watching and get hooked on this awesome summer show!  

Who do you think will win HOH this week?! 

How do you feel about the coaches playing the game now as players?

A Clean Home is a Happy Home!

In a field of poppies in Poland

That's what my sister always says when she's cleaning, in a high pitched, sing-songy voice and for me, it couldn't be more true! This weekend we finally had the chance to really settle in to our new place (and unpack!) and I think we made a really good decision to stay in Zagreb. Since the weather was pretty crummy and cold we were able to get the apartment straightened up and we're a happy home. So happy in fact, that for some reason, I've been waking up early (without any need to be up!) with tons of energy. T-Slav says he likes it better when I was sleeping instead of bouncing off the walls while he's getting ready for work, but hey what can I do! I even went running yesterday, which I haven't done in forever. But when you're up that early, you can run along the beautiful streets of Zagreb, through pretty parks, and up and down some stairs without fear of too many Zagrebians looking at you like you're crazy for exercising on the street. I'm guessing this cooled down weather is the cause for my sudden burst in work-out motivation, definitely not complaining though! We'll be at the warm seaside soon enough :)

So, I've been getting to know our new neighborhood, the cafes around the corner, and the bars down the street and for the first time in my life, I feel like I have finally understood why people are coffee snobs. I've never been a coffee snob (or water snob or anything like that), I don't have a preferred brand or anything. Even so called "bad" coffee can be made good by putting some milk in it for me. Anyway, this cafe next to our apartment has quickly opened my eyes up to really good coffee. It's really espresso with milk (as all coffees are here in Croatia!) but man, I cannot get over how awesome this place is. It's called Cafe Pjer and it was the place closest to us that I could find with free wi-fi. It's obviously a neighborhood favorite of a lot of people, judging by the number of people I here all the time. The service is fantastic. Any place that has an owner who's willing to guide me to the closest outlet so I could plug in my laptop (instead of giving me the evil eye like most places would!), well you know it has to be awesome! So I'm blogging live from Cafe Pjer right now. And it's making not having Internet at home yet slightly better :)

My view right now at Cafe Pjer in Tresnjavka

So happy Monday everyone!

And the thing you should know about me, is that I really mean it. I love counting down to random occasions. Anyone remember back in the day, freshman year of college, going to J&H on Sunday night for 4th Meal (which should have been called Munchies Meal, it was just nachos and pizza and burgers and I can't even remember what else. I mean, you didn't go to 4th Meal unless you were under the influence). So this one time, a whole big crew of us went for 4th meal and we were causing a bit of a ruckus. 4th Meal only went from 8pm-12am and we'd always try to come in at 11:45pm and try to get them to keep the good stuff out still. So, as I was saying, I love celebrations and decided we should count down until midnight like you do on New Year's. Only thing was, the next day was Monday. So we counted down and all yelled, "Happy Monday!" at midnight. Shenanigans. Amazing. That's what makes paying student loans back worth it. Remembering really fun and crazy college moments. T for Temple U baby!

I'm pretty sure this is from that night - flashback!