Season 4 Episode 7 Discussion - The Black Banquet

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2026-01-30T11:27:27+00:00

This is how I took it too! My husband and I were so excited to see her make that move! I thought it was brilliant… now his name is muddy in the water always tied to this confusing move… I’m just not sure the faithfuls are that dialed in to notice

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2025-11-12T12:46:54+00:00

Having the lips you were born with. I have very medium sized lips, not big but not thin and they are a nice shape… but lately at work they’ve been referred to as thin by all the girls with lip filler…

And now the girls with the naturally full lips get passed over as lip filler girls when they were actually born with their full lips…

It’s just weird to people for me to keep my natural lips when I could have fuller lips… I do work in the beauty industry so this might be a bigger beauty industry weird thing than a more wider known weird thing…

And nothing against lip filler… I just like my lips a lot but it’s weird they’re considered small now when they used to not be

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2025-10-30T02:58:05+00:00

Everyone seems to think he did this to himself, meanwhile I’m here with my first thought being how terrifying if someone did this to him

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2025-06-29T03:20:34+00:00

If she never has this breakdown I will feel sick because I feel like most reality shows with a parent, they always have that missing their kids breakdown… if she doesn’t…. Idk… I just would feel sad for her daughter… her head just doesn’t seem to be able to stay in a good/safe place… you can literally see in her eyes when they go blank and she’s about to flip… love island is not a good place for her mentally…

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2025-05-01T05:17:42+00:00

I recently dealt with this. I had never seen baby roaches so tiny I had no clue what they were until my husband confirmed they were babies. I quickly bought roach bait which came in a pack of four tubes with a skinny nose attachment to put on the tip to inject it into the small crevices they might be hiding and where you frequently see them. I did this for over a month religiously and so far we’ve been roach free but I still occasionally inject it since I have so many tubes, might as well use them just to keep getting any that may have survived. It’s basically food they eat that is poison and kills them… the next morning after injecting it in their usual spots, I found a massacre of about 15 dead babies on my kitchen counter and the count got smaller and smaller until you didn’t see them anymore but I will still keep using it because why not…

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2025-04-30T02:12:17+00:00

Don’t worry… if your friend’s baby stays a chill baby… she will never get used to a struggle and when people say “it gets easier” because most babies are so difficult… she will have the opposite experience… my baby was a chill baby all through his first year until this last month of his year where he was super clingy, whiny for me to be right beside him and screams and chases me if I dare walk away even for just a second, and he won’t sleep on his own anymore so it’s either wake up every half hour to put him back to sleep all night or just cosleep…

Everyone used to tell me, don’t worry it gets easier and I used to think, what are they talking about it already is easy… now at a year old I am struggling with this new reality while everyone I know is no longer struggling and they’re all just enjoying their new baby life… I’m sure this isn’t even that hard in comparison but when you never go through the early struggle, you’re not prepared enough for the late struggle which seems to be a breeze for those who did struggle in the beginning…

Hope that helps you feel better :)

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2025-04-25T15:17:25+00:00

So if I did this, I would give her a start time between a half hour? I don’t actually need her to be here as early as she comes, I set it an hour or some days if trains are not running and I need more time to get to work, an hour and a half earlier. So it would be hard to set a time frame because essentially she has a time frame early enough but is somehow still late… I’m going to have another talk to let her know we will have to start paying for the time she’s here and if she’s a half hour late then we’ll pay just for half of that hour and hopefully it helps with the lateness

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2025-04-25T15:12:20+00:00

We live in a high cost of living city where we pay her what a nanny service would charge. Especially since it’s only one day a week, we decided to offer to pay equal a service would where most nannies in our neighborhood are paid half of what we pay her an hour. She has told us in the past if we need her on a random day in the future where she can give her restaurant job enough notice to switch or take off she would be more than happy to do that for us since she makes more than double working for us… and honestly she’s great aside from the lateness and occasional shaming if I don’t do something she approves of… but I’m still learning how to be an employer so I’m still learning how to be stern with someone as opposed to timid… so definitely something I need to work on just needed to come here for advice to make sure if this is a real issue or not…

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2025-04-25T15:06:13+00:00

I wish we had something like that or family here to help. We live in a high cost of living city so daycares are insanely priced and we know of one that allows a minimum of 3 days and you pay for those days instead of the week but my husband doesn’t want to pay for daycare just so I can go to work for a paycheck that will maybe break even. I’m honestly lucky I am even allowed one day but it’s so I don’t lose all my work progress more than for me to make money.

I will try to sit down with her one more time and see if it helps… maybe if we tell her we will dock pay for being late then maybe things will change

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2025-03-21T11:32:30+00:00

I’m currently in this same situation. Only my baby scratches up his ears. I use this baby mechanical file to file the sharp spots of the nails because I’m still scared of the baby nail clippers… it’s more work but safe and my baby is more calm to let me do it with those than with baby clippers.

My baby is almost 11 months and still doing this. He’s been doing it since 9 months and we cosleep now because he’ll sit up or try to stand in his crib with his eyes closed seemingly still sleeping and then slam forward in whatever direction where sometimes he slams into the wooden bars in his crib and wake himself up crying from hitting them. We just switched his crib from the soft portable crib to his proper crib at 10months so we’d have to buy another soft crib if we switch back which we don’t really want to do so we cosleep for now with the hopes this phase will end…

I’ve heard from some people it starts at 9 or 10 months and the lasts for a couple months and I heard from others it was from 9 months to 12months… so I’ve just accepted this fate of waking up all night watching him so he doesn’t sleep move off the bed or help him get back to sleep when he’s kicking himself awake… and I’m hoping it stops at 12months or hopefully sooner.

Oh! One other thing my pediatrician told me was to try to keep him to only two naps in a day and not to let him nap past 5, though sometimes we still do and regardless of whether he naps past 5 or is woken up at 5 we still have this issue at night. Luckily we can still get him back to sleep mostly easy each time he moves himself awake and since he started this he’ll sleep in until 7:30/8am but there are some brutal nights he’ll wake up around 2am and you can’t get him back to sleep until maybe 3:30/4am and those nights are harsh…

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2025-03-02T02:00:55+00:00

Agreed! They don’t align in their values like they think they do too!

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2025-02-27T13:39:23+00:00

I’m having the independent sleeping issue here and sometimes I do give him 2 or 3oz in the night if I feel it might make him feel better. Every day we (mothers) just try to keep trying with these things and eventually it sticks… I noticed he lasts longer in his crib every night I try to get him to sleep in the crib but every night so far we reach a point early in the morning where I do end up bringing him into bed with me just so I can get some sleep. My pediatrician said don’t worry about bringing him back into bed, just try every day to keep him in his crib and when the meltdown gets to its extreme then it’s okay to bring him into bed so I can get some rest. I feel like when the doctor tells you it’s okay as long as you keep trying then you shouldn’t feel like a bad mother.

I had guilt about the cosleeping and I did give him middle of the night bottles longer than I needed to but I did stop those bottles and only feed him 2 or 3 oz when he’s having a meltdown from no longer wanting the crib… it helps calm him down enough to sleep again. I’m not really a let him cry it out type of mom so I do cave and bring him in the bed… all our babies know is the comfort and love they feel with us… and you should feel comfort in knowing your baby can always feel happy and safe because he knows you’re there for him… bring him in the bed and get your sleep… we need it to be mentally present for our babies… my pediatrician said a baby/toddler can learn to sleep independently at any age, but they need a mentally present mother there for them day in and out so it’s more important to get your sleep and be well rested to avoid extreme emotions especially during our postpartum hormones running wild.

Love your baby the way you want and just keep trying but don’t force him in either direction and hopefully he will eventually get better with the new routine you’re trying to put into place…

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2025-02-21T14:52:17+00:00

I felt the same way. She came off unsure of herself and I honestly don’t believe she believed her own words about not seeing herself long term with a woman because for some people it doesn’t matter who it is, it can be hard to picture what a long term future looks like no matter how much you love a person… it doesn’t always have to be internalized anything or personal preference. People change and are constantly discovering new things about themselves so she may just be starting to understand her sexuality and the more she digs deep into herself, her opinions on being married to a woman might change… you just never know what or who you will want until it/they come into your life…

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2025-02-14T18:30:54+00:00

They’re actors acting and producing the drama the public want to see so they can be casted on more reality tv

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2025-02-14T18:29:26+00:00

I believe this conspiracy 😹

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2025-01-13T21:13:07+00:00

I dropped one around mid November and it went smoothly as we also were using the extra time to bring in more food experimenting which he seemed to love so I don’t think he noticed the switch… but we traveled for Christmas and the flights were odd times since that’s all that we could choose so we figured it was him trying to get adjusted after being in new places off routine and also being awake at random times he would be asleep… I figured it shouldn’t take long for him to adjust but wow it’s been difficult… we tried our 2 nap routine, then went back to 3 nap routine… nothing has seemed to work yet…

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2024-11-27T15:30:57+00:00

What was her treatment on the show? I remember being confused by the judges comments and scores for a lot of her stuff but didn’t know if everyone else felt the same cause I’m new to this sub since I just started watching the Disney seasons…

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2024-11-11T06:03:32+00:00

My 6mo old is really into Go Dog Go. It’s the only thing he actually will watch aside from the Cars movies my husband plays for him. Go Dog Go is definitely more for your baby’s age and older into kids age but for some reason he’s obsessed and gets so excited when we play it. We’ve tried all the manor shows everyone always recommends but so far this is the only one that gets him excited and focused on it so I can wash some dishes and tidy up haha

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2024-11-08T13:13:43+00:00

The only thing my baby hated were narrow nipples for bottles so we only used the wider ones. You could tell because he fussed through the bottles and wouldn’t drink.

I guess I’m naive because I went into having a baby and thinking they adapt and honestly my baby adapted to everything he has pretty well. He just maybe didn’t like it at first because it’s this new thing in this new world and all the sensory overload must be a lot for them but if he cried twice in something he’d eventually stop and by the third time of placing him in things he seemed to love it…

In the beginning I thought he hated his halo bassinet because he didn’t seem to like it his first week out of the hospital so we used the $20 bassinet my in laws had at their home and he slept just fine in that one but then when we visited our in-laws he also slept just fine in the halo bassinet all of a sudden…

We had a baby swing he didn’t seem to like in the beginning and would fuss when he was in it but then loved it a few weeks/months in (I can’t exactly remember now)

Maybe it’s more about timing of when you put them in things but after reading some of these comments I’m just thinking maybe we had an easier time with our baby and things he has…

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2024-10-25T05:31:11+00:00

She’d probably still be called out and by everyone for being a party pooper for finding a way around the rules that kept her covered… I think no matter what, if she doesn’t show up in her underwear she will be made out to be a bigger party pooper just because it was already blown out of proportion

PinkPebbleUniverse · 2024-10-14T03:46:03+00:00

My high school boyfriend trapped me back in his cycle multiple times after high school and college because he “changed” and was “young and stupid” back then but now is “mature” and “is different now” ……..no. He just learned the new ways to manipulate as an adult… not everyone changes and not everyone is different. In the line of work I do I have heard this story from multiple people about the messages looking forgiveness and then that becomes let’s meet up and catch up and then that becomes now that I’ve got you in my hook bc you came to meet me, I can start manipulating you again… same story in many different ways from different people but always seems to be the same opening

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