Dolores's Kitchen

Oh. Mah. Gawd. Dolores Catania's kitchen reno before and after looks almost exactly like ours, right down to the gray island! Cool!

Dolores's
Mine

She has great taste. I just adore her and Siggy on RHONJ. Those two are like a couple of regular girls floating around in the sea of drama. They have the same shocked reactions to everything that we're having at home. I hope they stay around.

Lauren declared the Cheeseburger Spaghetti Pie I made last night for the first time to be "a recipe made up by high college students with a bunch of burger ingredients in the fridge." Neither she nor Jeff liked the ketchup that's in it. It tasted good to me, but I agree the sweetness is unexpected, since a more spicy or neutral tomato sauce is typically on pasta. I thought it would be a good alternative to pizza night, but it'll be a no-go!


Saturday 9: Tubular Bells (1973)
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) According to Reader's Digest, The Exorcist is the scariest movie of all time. Have you seen it, and if so, did it scare you?

Yes and yes! It gets my vote for scariest. The Grudge is pretty damn scary as well.

2) The Exorcist has been made into a TV series on Fox, premiering last month. Have you become a fan of any of the season's new shows?

This is Us - the best new drama on TV. From the very first ad, it reminded me of Thirtysomething in a very good way, and I was thrilled to find out later that Ken Olin- Michael on Thirtysomething - is the executive producer. The characters are great. Perfect amount of humor thrown in. Bravo! Also, American Housewife cracks me up. 

3) "Tubular Bells" is a popular ringtone for both Android and iPhone. What's your ringtone?

Night Owl

4) As Halloween approaches, do you watch more scary shows and movies?

Not really.

5) Do you have any recurring nightmares?

I have a recurring one where I am driving and the road starts doing strange things, like going into the ocean, or straight up into the sky, or down in a steep spiral.

6) Have you carved a jack o' lantern this year?

Nope. We don't usually carve one. We did when Lauren was little.

7) Do you like the taste of pumpkin seeds?

Yes! Roasted and salted.

8) What will the trick or treaters who knock on your door get?

They'll get nothing if they knock on the door, because we'll be handing out Kit Kats with Scott-n-Julie's cul-de-sac.

9) A Halloween "let's pretend:" Back in the 1950s, a home in your neighborhood was the site of a gruesome murder/suicide. Relatives retained ownership of the house but declined to live there. During the ensuing decades, a legend grew: The tragic couple haunts the halls. Generations of schoolchildren insist they heard strange sounds and saw curtains often move mysteriously. Now the house is about to be demolished. A local charity is raising money by sponsoring a Halloween sleepover. Would you be willing to stay in this haunted house over night?

Hell to the no.