Stephanie, I got your package today. Thank you! The outfits are of teh cute!

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Ya know, there's a hidden danger in watching Monty Python's "Scott of the Antarctic" skit not terribly long before bedtime. Which is to say, I just woke myself up from an extremely weird dream in which I was about to thaw out a frozen explorer, in the hopes that he'd be revived and we could find out more about his expedition. And then it got extremely silly.

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And everyone still hates Sami Brady, so I feel like I never stopped watching.

Oh, I am SO glad to hear this. It would make my heart sad if they liked her. Some things need to not change.

I was flipping through the channels yesterday after I realized that our VCR is sad because we haven't used it for so long, and has apparently given up the ghost, so I was unable to watch I Love Lucy reruns. Anyway, I came across Days of Our Lives and almost flipped it on, for old times sake. But, I am bound and determined to get better, and I don't want to get hooked again, so I passed on by. Funny that it should then come up in the thread. That's the hivemind for you.

Aimee, I get paid once a month, and in theory, it works. I pay (or don't pay and make the phone calls letting them know they'll have to wait for next month, which always goes over well) everything, then live on whatever I have left. But, I always seem to find that last week KILLER. Like right now. I have -$11 until tomorrow. Makes it hard to pick up milk and cream.

Oh, and speaking of cutting down, I have to remember to call the phone company again. You know, I really hate these big corporations. They are evil. I've been seeing ads all over the place for a new unlimited phone package. It's EXACTLY the same package as we have, but with a new name (I know this, because I looked it up on their website). It's $20 cheaper a month. $20!!!!!!!! And do they automatically switch it for you? Nope. They hope you don't notice, as they continue to steal from you. Well, I'm smarter than that. They don't want to mess with me. So, today, I will call and pretend to be Emily (she hates making these phone calls) and switch packages and give them a little talking to about their evilosity.

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Stephanie, I got your package today. Thank you! The outfits are of teh cute!

Aah, the 3am post. I remember those. I'm so glad everything made it and, not that she needs stuff to look cute, I'm glad to know they live up to Olivia's cuteness.

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Ugh. I woke up at 6:15 and couldn't get back to sleep. Today's a Tuesday! I don't have to do anything until 3 in the afternoon! (Well, there's some stuff I ought to do before then, but nothing I have to do.)

Oh well. Just watched a cute movie I Tivoed yesterday, plus an old one-reeler about the history of Maryland. (The movie was Adventures in Baltimore, starring a late-teenage Shirley Temple. It was amusing, though nothing great. TCM seems to have been doing a run of "Adventures in..." movies yesterday -- there were three or four in a row with titles like that.)

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...Babysitting?

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Gris - lots of whatever ~ma best supports you for the phone interview.

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And (I watched Days for a LARGE part of my life) I *remember* Chris Kositchek -- and in that fictional incarnation didn't *he* also hook up with Marlena? the woman gets around, I tell you what --

He could have. I don't remember him with Marlena. I remember Chris with Mary Anderson, Amanda Peters (who was played by Mary Frann, the actress who played Bob Newhart's wife on his second sitcom; I think Amanda was married to Greg Peters at some point and involved with Dr. Neil Curtis at some point, but eventually Neil ended up with Liz Chandler, who was played by Gloria Loring). I'm seeing on some webpage that he was also involved with a couple of characters I don't remember, and with Kayla Brady (I mostly remember Kayla with Jack Devereau and Steve Johnson, and later with Shane Donavan, which was too many levels of wrongness).

Marlena came to town as Mickey Horton's therapist. Mickey had a breakdown when he discovered his brother Bill was, biologically, the father of his son with Laura--Mike. Bill raped Laura, so *of course* she was in love with him.

At one point, Marlena was married to Don Craig (a lawyer, played by Jed Allen). This Alex North (Wayne Northrop's character) is claiming he and Marlena were married at some point. I really can't imagine when.

so I find it very confusing that he's back as Roman Brady (and apparently not married to Marlena). And then my years of watching 90210 make me think of him exclusively as Dylan's dad.

Chris was actually a cool character. I think it would have made more sense to bring him back as Chris, and let Marlena get infatuated with him.

Also -- is the actress who played Adrienne Whoever back in the day (she married HOTT Justin Kiriakis) back, but as Mimi's mother? Recycled actors confuse the hell out of me.

Yes. This one pisses me off the most, and I'm not sure why, other than that the Mimi-mother character is just too broad for me to enjoy.

Shawn Douglas is a total cutehead, which makes me feel like a VERY dirty old woman.

Yes.

And Bo and Hope -- I'm going to say it -- are not aging well. Bo needs some sleep, and Hope needs about 15 more pounds to soften her features.

I think Bo looks fine (and possibly foine), but I completely agree about Hope, and she's so darned beautiful, that the emaciated look makes me even angrier. What's happening to Kristian Alfonso's looks is very much what's happening to Maria Shriver's looks. Eat a damned pastry, ladies.

Apparently Alice Horton and Caroline Brady will never die, which is kind of comforting, and kind of creepy. And everyone still hates Sami Brady, so I feel like I never stopped watching.

You know what's craxy? I don't watch it. I haven't watched it since Ben was little, but while my mother was living her the past six months, she watched it. I generally wasn't in the room for more than two minutes at a time, and probably sat and watched a whole episode with her only a dozen times (if) in six months, and I pretty much know everything that's going on.

Bo is kind of supposed to look like hell, right now, storyline-wise, I mean. I don't know if that's what you're seeing, or if I'm missing something else, and just seeing him with my mind's eyes more than my face's eyes.

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Is anybody knowledgeable about washing machines? Mine's not working. I think I broke it when I washed my comforter. It filled with water and won't drain or spin. When I turne the handle to re set it the machine will agitate and then stop.

All the clothes are out of the washing machine, but the water is still in there.

I called my land lady about this and even though my grandmother paid for the fridge and the oven and the washer and the dryer she says I'm responnsible for the washer and dryer. (I'm not going to fight her on this or insist because she kept the rent really low when I moved in. She could probably get double what she's charging me).

Mom's looked at it but she couldn't figure out what was wrong with it and she can't find anything in her DYI books for this.

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I'm so fucked up. I read about Shirley Temple in Baltimore and think what a redball that would be.

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