Let's get into the thick of it right away because I'm tired of all the "we're going to kick their asses" talk. I swear, is it not like 40% of every episode?. "They're going down," "Bring it on," "We're gonna bring it," "We can take it all." It's all the same bullshit, and it's all you hear.

Puck and Ellen. I remember very clearly thinking, "The only time I bet I'm in this show is eating this soup between Ellen and Puck." I sat there giggling with my head down while they bickered, and as a eye witness to the whole conversation, I have to say that what you saw was what happened. Tonya, Ellen, and I were sitting around bullshitting about nothing because we had a lot of free time over there when Puck came and sat down and started talking about the wedding. I had very little opinion on the fact that he was televising his wedding. I know I wouldn't do it for myself, but I was in no way offended that it was his choice. It's Puck, and I don't know Puck very well. I know that he loves attention. Correction - the man absolutely needs it. I have not had a single conversation with him because talking to Puck (at least in that setting) is never what can be considered a conversation. You would need more than one person conversing for that. Puck likes to talk and he likes an audience. If you were in a ten foot radius of Puck, he would make you listen to his stories, his thoughts, his ideas, his rants. If you were not in the mood or if you were talking to someone else, the two of you would literally have to move somewhere else. One time when we were all on a bus going or coming from somewhere, Ruthie timed Puck on how long he could go without talking and making people listen. In a 20 minute bus ride, he only lasted 32 seconds without talking.

Anyway, he came over and started talking about the place that he found for his wedding and Ellen attacked him. I could understand it if Ellen was curious as to why he would have his wedding without his family or friends from home there, or any of Bettie's friends and family for that matter, but it is not Ellen's business. I can understand if she had her opinion and talked to us about it, but why did she attack Puck about it? So, she picked a fight, which was indeed a "brutal mistake." Not because Puck is anything to be afraid of, but because now you have to deal with his shit, and that's never fun. She was being very rude, and of course Puck is rude, but he did NOT pick a fight. The fight went on a lot longer than what you saw, and it was filled to the rim with the most childish bickering I have ever seen. Puck made continuous comments about her ass being on her chest. Ellen told him he was a failure. He would make these weird sounds that were supposed to be like, "This is what you sound like," and she would imitate them back. Then she'd make sounds and he'd imitate that. I couldn't really believe what was going on. She then attacked his lifestyle, saying he hasn't accomplished anything. He went on about how he had a house and whatever else, and she said how she owned an apartment, or something, which isn't true, so I'm a little fuzzy about all that. It went on and on for a few minutes, and Puck left. Tonya then said, "All I can say, Ellen, is that you dish it out as much as you take it." I have to say, I agree with Tonya. I don't know what she was thinking. Colin made a comment on his site about having respect for Ellen for standing up to Puck, something that none of the girls have the balls to do. I heard a comment like that somewhere else while I was in Jamaica, and I remember being offended. Ellen was not brave, smart, or strong by being a bitch to Puck. Not in anyway. One thing you have to realize is that the only way to win a fight against a person who wants attention is to ignore them. It's a simple fact. Like when little sisters antagonize their older sisters and they get all angry and upset, their parents reply to the older sister who complains to them, "Why do you let her bother you? Don't you see she's just trying to get a reaction out of you? Ignore her," but you ALWAYS think you'll win if you fight back. You don't. Puck wants to piss you off, it gives him the opportunity to be Puck. He needs and wants that kind of camera time to be an asshole because viewers love that, and he'll get 10 times the speaking engagments now because people want him to come to their schools to bitch about Ellen. Ellen picked a fight, and his eyes filled with dollar signs. This is not an insult to Puck. He is a businessman in his own surreal way, and he was doing very good business sitting on that lounge chair that day.

Building the houses: Wow, this was all out of order. Just completely. Let me begin by saying that when I tied the flag around the pole, Melissa started screaming because we were the first to do it. Everyone else was building their houses, guys included, and we thought we had just won the mission for the girls. THAT's why we were excited.

So, here's the deal with that mission: It was quite a mess. There is one judge that can call time on the houses. What happens is, you finish your house, you tie the flag around the pole, Johnny comes over, stops time on your house, checks to make sure everything is right, and that's it. Here's the problem with that, if pair 14 finishes, then pair 2, then pair 8, all within seconds, their time is not called until Johnny gets over there to make sure the house is okay. So, time is still clicking on your clock while you wait for the judge, even though your house is done. This is where the screaming for Johnny was coming in. Now, there were 16 pairs (I think that's right) - 16 houses to be built. That giant pile had exactly the amount of timber pieces for those 16 houses, and there were no additional pieces. This is a very important fact to remember. Melissa and I "finished" our house first, and Johnny came by and said our house was not right. There were short pieces, medium, long, and long with extra notches (these notches pieces used only at two specific parts of the house.) Technically, these look like the normal long pieces, and the house can stand perfectly fine with these two confused, but Johnny noticed we had a notches piece where there shouldn't have been one. He has our clock continue as we scramble to the center pile to find the long pieces without notches. We can't find it. Why? Because other people are building their houses wrongly as well, and our time will continue on our house until Johnny realizes whose houses are built wrong too. So, there is basically nothing you can do. You sit there, time adding up on your house, while other people are using the pieces you need. This is important because at this point, nearly all of the guys houses are built. Yes, they would have won this one anyway because they really were all getting built before ours, but the point is, Dan's house that has been finished with a short time on it is sitting there with a wrong piece on it. While his house has NO time adding onto it because Johnny hasn't found his mistake yet, MY house is clocking minute after minute because I can't find the piece I need. Does this make sense? (Dan's just an example, I don't know which guys' houses had the wrong pieces.) So, the girls get stumped. So, Ruthie runs into the guys houses who have been finished and looks for flaws. She finds TWO guys' houses that have the notches that we were looking for. So, Johnny starts the clock back up on that house, the guy switches with the girls, and he may have gotten a total of 5 seconds added to his time of 4 minutes, while we have a time of 20 minutes because Johnny KNEW OUR houses were wrong, but didn't know THEIR houses were wrong. The girls paid for Johnny's mistakes, and the guys cleared the board with the highest points for having the "shortest times" even though they may have spend 40 minutes of unclocked time with a house not correctly built.

This caused HUGE controversy. If there were extra parts, no one would have to rely on other people for their own house. The problems were entirely that of Johnny's and productions. We complained because now people were being sent home who may not have deserved to go because if the judging was done correctly, they wouldn't have had so much time on their clocks. After a day of fighting with production about it, our producer took full responsibility for the mistake and acknowledged that the mission was poorly put together. We were given the option to do it again with all our own parts in a pile in front of each individual houses or to scrap it and vote off two people for the next mission (I think). We didn't want to do any of these. We knew how to build the houses already, Colin was injured, and it just seemed like a lost cause. So, Glays and Eric J. went home, and that was the end of it.

The rules of the mission -

1. You cannot have more than four spare pieces at your building area at one time (so you don't hog them all).
2. You cannot carry more than two pieces in your arms when running to and from the center pile.
3. You cannot touch the other pieces of another group's parts.

All these rules were clearly stated in the beginning and if broken are grounds for elimination of this mission, which gives you and your partner 0 points. The third rule is stated so that you don't have a group of people building one house, and so that you can't hand your spare pieces to the house next to you, giving each other unfair advantages. If I had a piece that the house next to me needed and I didn't, I'd have to bring it to the center, and tell them to go get it. Ayanna is Rachel's partner. If Ayanna touched Ellen's house, Rachel and Ayanna would receive 0 points, which is exactly what Rachel was saying in scene.

Ellen, you and I get along well, but you have to know that in this episode, you are full of shit. Not a team player? Rachel is the biggest team player you can possibly get. Ruthie tries to defend Rachel by discussing the rules with Ellen, and Ellen responds that it's all total crap. I have to say, this seriously pisses me off. Watching Ellen in these interviews talk about Rachel not helping her out makes my blood boil. Ellen, you can't build a fucking house. Accept the fact that you completely sucked at this one, and stop blaming Rachel because she could do it better than you and wasn't willing to get disqualified for you. ARGH!

Seeing this shit is really interesting. I had NO idea that anyone would even consider talking about voting Rachel off. Rachel rocks.

Well, that's all for this one. Next week - more of Puck being an ass, more fighting with Ellen, more clips of Lori maybe once or twice in the background eating something. <laughing>. Anne and I should have gotten into a huge fight for fun. Okay, hope this wasn't too terribly boring for ya.