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.)
Gris - lots of whatever ~ma best supports you for the phone interview.
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.
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.
I'm so fucked up.
I read about Shirley Temple in Baltimore and think what a redball that would be.
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.
I can't remember the comic who did the routine (Tom Lehrer? Tom-somebody) about soaps and how you could be away for a year and tune back into the same conversation only 30 seconds later. It's amazing how you can keep up, without watching.
I'm loving the DOOL remeniscence. I was totally hooked for a few years but have not seen an ep in maybe a decade. Wayne Northrop used to make my knees all wobbly. I can still see his quirky, flat footed (character choice?) walk in my minds eye. Man, I had a HARD crush on him.
Most washers won't spin or drain when the lid is open, askye. There's a little switch on the back of that lid that tells the machine that the lid is closed, kind of like the switch that turns your refrigerator light on. You can check that and see if it's engaging. After that, it's a belt or something, and, at least for me, in the hands of a repairperson.
I only really watched DOOL when they had the one actress playing 3 or 4 different characters. I think triplets were involved and one was a man at the very end. It was very entertaining and I always thought the actress did a good job of playing the fake pretending to be the real person. The show took it way over the top, but it was a much better, more entertaining storyline than, say, Reva on Guiding Light dying and then being cloned and aged up and then died and then -- wait! Reva 's not dead she's been living with the Amish! (After her car went off the bridge in Key West... I don't remember how she got from washing up on the shore of Florida to New England).
Thanks Ginger I'll try that. If that doesn't work I need to bail out the water in the washer. And i'm not looking forward to that at all!
