Exclusive: The Truth Behind Teresa Giudice’s Nephew on ‘Housewives’ Reunion

On August 31, 2010 By Michel McDonaldIn Amplify, TVLeave a comment

Did anyone watch the reunion of the New Jersey Housewives last night on Bravo? I watched it twice.

You know I have a strange relationship with these housewives shows. I hate them but I love them lol. I love to hate them lol.

My favorite of all the housewives shows is New Jersey. I didn’t watch the first season for some strange reason and this is the only season that I’ve watched and boy have I been watching it too, sometimes twice. I really love Caroline Manzo. I think she has a good head on her shoulders. She kind of reminds me of my mother (looks, not attitude lol) so that right there gives me a reason to like her even more. She is the mother I wish I had if I could do it over.

I don’t really like Danielle very much but on the other hand, she makes really good tv lol.

I have to wait another week for part 2 of this reunion to see how it all went down.

If you missed the Teresa blowup, click the popeater link to watch the video. I don’t know why Amplify didn’t copy it over.

Amplify’d from www.popeater.com

Exclusive: The Truth Behind Teresa Giudice’s Nephew on ‘Housewives’ Reunion

You saw it, the earth-shaking exchange between Danielle Staub and Teresa Giudice on Monday night’s ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ reunion special. The F-bomb barrage started with a question from Danielle to Teresa: “Did you acknowledge your nephew? Did you?” Teresa replied, “Yeah, of course I did,” but after pausing for a second, she exploded. EXPLODED!

“Danielle doesn’t intimidate me. I don’t care if she stays on the show or not,” Teresa tells me in an exclusive statement regarding the explosive reunion show.

So, what’s the story behind the “nephew” drama? A friend of Teresa’s reveals that what viewers saw was Danielle accusing her co-star of not visiting a nephew in the hospital at his birth. I’m told Teresa was at the hospital when the child was born last April, and that he’s perfectly fine and beautiful.

Teresa was actually confused as to what Danielle was even talking about. But what set her off was the sudden realization that Danielle was dipping her toes into her private business.

“Danielle is obsessed with Teresa. Digging around her extended family,” a family friend tells me. “Danielle brought up a lie about Teresa not visiting her nephew and then Bravo edited it to look more sudden than it was, of course. The best thing to do is just ignore everything Danielle says. That’s what Teresa does.”

The verbal fight, in which Teresa even shoved host (and Bravo exec) Andy Cohen, shocked more than just the viewers. It also blew away other ‘Housewives’ on the stage. WATCH THE MADNESS >>

“Insanity, complete insanity,” is how Caroline Manzo described the scene to me in an exclusive statement . “We filmed for ten hours and by the end of the day, I was speechless. It took me two days to recover, I seriously could not compose a rational thought for hours.”

Rumors have circulated that Teresa would leave the show if Danielle was invited back for another season. However, friends of our favorite housewife tell me that couldn’t be further from the truth.

“I just talked to her and it’s funny but she actually doesn’t care if Danielle comes back for another season or not,” a friend of Teresa’s tells me. “Teresa’s not intimidated or scared of Danielle. She actually thinks Danielle makes good TV and is amusing. If anything, she feels sorry for her. All she has in her life is this show.”

My insider adds, “Teresa, on the other hand, doesn’t spend one second of her time thinking about Danielle.”

Sources confirm that it is the Manzo family that has made it very clear to Bravo that if Danielle stays, they go. Family member Dina Manzo has already quit the show and made it clear she would not be part of anything that involves Danielle, saying publicly that they are worried about their safety and that of their families when Danielle is around.

However, “Teresa doesn’t feel that Danielle is a threat to her family or happiness at all,” an insider tells me. “She’s much tougher than that!”

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Clay’s Restaurant

On August 16, 2009 By Michel McDonaldIn RestaurantLeave a comment

California Avenue IHOP becomes independent eatery

November 28th 2008, IHOP in Bakersfield became Clay’s Restaurant. We’ve been going to that IHOP since 2000 but we don’t always have the money to be regulars. We only go once in awhile. But we actually haven’t been there at all since they changed their name to Clay’s.

Well this morning Darrin wanted to go out for breakfast and the place that he chose was closed for some strange reason. So he said well let’s go to Denny’s. I said that’s too far. He said where do you want to go and I said “well we haven’t been to Clay’s yet” so that’s where we went.

We get there and are seated right away. There was a person we knew who was leaving so Darrin wanted to talk to him before we sat down. Our host had our menu’s sitting open on the table waiting for us which I thought was very nice.

So we order and our food comes, I ordered the #6 2 eggs, 3 bacon, 3 sausage, hash browns and pancakes. Darrin ordered chicken fried steak with gravy, eggs, hash browns and toast.

I can’t speak for him but he didn’t complain about his food. My food was pretty good. The sausage was different though, it wasn’t over cooked and wrinkly, it was a nice light shade of brown and it was smooth. The bacon was also very flat and smooth and it tasted good. The pancakes were smaller but I guess they can’t sell pancakes that look exactly like IHOP’s so they just made them smaller. The hash browns weren’t crispy which is IHOP’s signature hash browns but that was fine. It was still good. Normally scrambled eggs are 1 solid color but mine weren’t mixed completely so you could see the yellow and white. That’s not a bad thing, the eggs were good but it was just different.

Our waitress was Donna and she was a very nice woman. We asked her if the business has suffered since they changed their name to Clay’s and she said that there aren’t as many customers as when they were IHOP but the customers are coming back. I can say that I would definitely come back because the food was very good.

Clay’s Restaurant is located at 1530 California Ave. in Bakersfield, CA. There are also other Clay’s, I just know about this one and the one over by Valley Plaza on Ming. I would recommend Clay’s and I give them 5 stars.

WordPress Update

On June 25, 2009 By Michel McDonaldIn BlogLeave a comment

If anyone tried visiting my blog today they may have noticed that it wasn’t accessible. I was trying yet again to update my WordPress blog to the next version which is supposed to be better. I really don’t care about the new features, what I care about is getting that stupid notice at the top of the screen off. Also one of my plugins is telling me that it won’t work until I update WP to 2.8.

One of the things that I was told to do before updating is to deactivate all my plugins before attempting to update and for some strange reason that keeps slipping my mind. I don’t know why but I’ve deactivated EVERYTHING so that I may proceed. If it doesn’t work again then screw it, I will just deal with my plugins not working and with that warning at the top of my control panel.

UPDATE: Ok, I finally got it all working again and the upgrade is installed. Here is what happened. I am a hard headed idiot who cannot follow directions that’s what happened.

The first time I tried doing the upgrade I read the full instructions and at the very beginning it said clear as day “deactivate all your plugins first” so what do I do? I don’t deactivate all my plugins, I just proceed with the upgrade. Then I had to delete it all and reupload my backup then I tried upgrading again WITHOUT deactivating my plugins then again it didn’t work so I had to delete it all and reupload my backups.

So today I did the same exact thing lol. Finally after I made the above post I did it again lol. Then after I reuploaded everything AGAIN I decided to deactivate all my plugins and did the upgrade and it worked. However, as I was reactivating plugins things started going south again so I was luckily able to click back and deactivate them. So I went and reactivated them one at a time while looking at the blog site in another tab, I kept hitting the refresh button to make sure it was all working. There were a few plugins that I lost that were not compatible with WordPress 2.8 but I don’t mind.

Those plugins are:

Global Translator which I can find another one that will work for those who read my blog but do not speak english.
Custom Smilies… what? I can’t smile in my posts anymore? Well I’m gonna have to find some new ones then aren’t I?
Flickr – This actually didn’t cause any issues but I just never use it so I got rid of it.
WordPress Greet Box – This is something that would greet my visitors from any website they came from like for example if you came here from Google it would say hi google person or whatever it would say lol. Yeah, I don’t need that.

So that’s it. I’m going to try to get number 1 and 2 back soon.

Wheel Fixed

On June 1, 2009 By Michel McDonaldIn BikeLeave a comment

Well I had to bring my back wheel to Snider’s today to have them tighten the freewheel (the thing that holds the chain and has different gears) but it wasn’t that it needed to be tightened, the tech guy said that they all wobble like that. So I told him about the cracking sounds and so he looked at it and said that the problem is that the metal in the screw that holds the ball bearings in place is worn down and so they had to replace the rod and ball bearings altogether. That was only $18.

I’m so glad it wasn’t that much money. I would rather just have them fix the issue than have to spend $25 or $30 on all the tools needed to screw the freewheel tighter just to have it still have the same old problem lol.

That’s why I shouldn’t try to diagnose my own problems because I don’t know jack about that dren.

Chips cousins girlfriend Venda drove me there and ended up buying me a rear rack and a pair of gloves for my birthday which I so didn’t want her to do because the gloves themselves were $40 and the rack was $25. After I got my wheel on I tried to install the rack and they didn’t supply any screws darnit. Plus there are no holes in the frame for the top bars to go into so I have to return the rack and get a different one.

–Edit: I got the rear rack on. I had some old brakes that I kept for some strange reason. I just couldn’t throw them away lol. Can you say pack rat? Anyway, those fit on the bottom so I don’t need those screws now. But the top still didn’t fit so I went into the tool shed and there was a roll of this metal with holes in it so I cut a piece the size I needed, wrapped it around the seat post and took some bolts and washers and nuts and screwed them to the top of the rack. Then I took another bolt with washer and nut and screwed the piece of metal together tight so it doesn’t go anywhere. See? I am handy once in awhile lol. It is secure enough now that I don’t have to worry. End Edit–

The gloves on the other hand are really good. I didn’t realize that I needed these gloves instead of just any regular glove because these are specifically meant for people with Carpel Tunnel Syndrome which I have. This is what it says on the cardboard that the gloves were attached to:

Patented Technology
With technology designed by Dr. A Robert Spitzer, a neurologist, Spenco® cycling gloves feature a unique, patented groove over the carpel tunnel nerve that channels away pressure and road shock to reduce hand numbness and fatigue.

So that’s what I needed all along. Every time I ride my hands get numb with the gloves I wear now and even without the gloves and I have to shake both my hands (not at the same time of course lol) to shake the numbness out. So thank you Vedra and Venda for the new gloves.

Bike Tire PSI

On May 29, 2009 By Michel McDonaldIn BikeLeave a comment

I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’ve had bicycles since I was a kid and I’ve always had to fill them with air when they get low and I’ve never had an issue with following directions when it comes to how much PSI to put in them. I’ve only been putting 20 PSI in my tires. It clearly says on there 40 MINIMUM! LOL I don’t know why I’ve only been putting 20 in.

I think it goes back to when I first got this bike, I bought a pump but the tire gauge that I have meant for a car wasn’t worth didley because it was saying that it was too low then I would pump too much air in the tire and pop it. So when I first started riding again last year I bought a new pump with a gauge on it and for some strange reason was only putting in 20. Well, I think 2 weeks ago I started putting in 30 but it still wasn’t enough. And during my ride it goes down from 30 back to 20! UGH!

Ok so I’ve put 40 in both and so in the morning hopefully they are still at 40 lol. The night I started putting 30 in I woke up the next day to ride and it was completely flat.

Oh and my back tire isn’t true either, it’s wobbly. I don’t think it’s bent though but I am going to have to buy the tools to tighten the cassette because I think it’s loose. I’ve been hearing/feeling this clicking that is concerning me. So I need the tools to tighten the cassette and a spokes tool to tighten those too because I think they might be the reason it’s not true.

I hate having to spend so much money on such a cheap Wal-Mart bike hehe. If it were an expensive bike then fine, no problem, bring on the expense of tools but it’s not. With all the money I’ve spent on tools just to maintain this stupid bike I could have bought another one. Then again I wouldn’t be able to maintain that one either lol.

New Crafts

On December 15, 2008 By Michel McDonaldIn craftsLeave a comment

I haven’t been able to do crafts since around November or December 2007 because my hands would get numb and I would even feel some pain when crocheting in my wrists so I was forced to give it up. Not too long after that I was diagnosed with carpel tunnel syndrome after harping on my doctor every time I went 3 visits in a row. He told me it’s probably carpel tunnel but sent me to a neurologist to get a proper diagnosis.

Ever since then I haven’t been able to do any crafts at all. I’ve had to wear wrist straps every night to bed which helps for some strange reason. Also not doing any crafts helped too. I still type because I don’t feel that I can use voice recognition because when I do talk my voice is carried into the living room so nothing is private.

Since I haven’t been doing ANY form of crafts I’ve been going nuts. Last week I picked up a crochet hook and some yarn and started crocheting. I’ve actually done a good amount of a new blanket. I went looking in my closet to see if I had more of the avocado color but instead I found these embroidery Christmas stockings that were given to me last year that I knew I couldn’t do. I gave 1 a chance and so for the last 2 evenings I’ve been working on it and I have to say it’s not as hard as I thought they would be. I’m actually having fun with it.

My left hand has been getting numb while holding it and my right hand was getting a little bit of pain here and there and so when I get the numbness and pain I stop for a while. This stocking obviously will not be finished within the next week and half so I’m going to just keep working on it at my own pace and hopefully it will be done by next year.

There are 3 stockings (below) and I would eventually like to have them all done but I gotta do baby steps here lol. 1 at a time for now.