Contessa Donatella

Who was playing Kelly at that time?

I know some people, or really knew since it was in the past, who did it, lived on a boat & went around the world several times & courted & married & had 3 children, 3 girls, while they were sailing around the world. Eventually they settled down back on dry land. I always found it amazing that they did it. It is beyond my imagination!

Lucas is Bill Horton's son. Jennifer is Bill Horton's daughter. Lucas & Jennifer are half-siblings. Bill Horton has another son, Mike or Michael. Michael is Jennifer Rose's big brother while Lucas is her baby brother. Nope. Not a bit of it. Oh, it was. Hope was a spoiled brat. Doug was disinclined toward discipline. Julie was in the middle. They weren't like siblings to each other. Julie was an adult before Hope was ever born! It's easier now because Julie seems like a "grand" not an aunt, etc.

Indeed! Maybe Ciara's had time on the water & we just don't know about it but I would bet that Ben is a total landlubber.

And, Nancy. She was with Bonnie when Bonnie showed up.

Stephanie & JOEY! Great, thnx, that clears that up. I have thought for years that that kid's name was JJ. I completely missed that it's Joey. I concur that back in the day Julie & Hope had a contentious relationship of half-sister & step-parent during a time I also think of Hope being a daddy's girl & Doug being lax on discipline. They've long since gotten past any of that old historical stuff but Julie does seem like a 'grand' to kids where she's not really but it hurts nobody. Two nights ago someone posted about the Watergate pre-emptions & I posted that I think then my mother was furious that Addie was pregnant with Hope for something like 19 months & a group gathered while I told about Addie & Ben & Steven. Just a handful of people who never knew about Addie.

Isn't he one of Adrienne & Justin's four sons? Is he soon to be ex-Ben? I hope he's not a failure like Bonnie and Chris Kositchek!

Add in how wonderfully she comes across in her speech and in interviews! She's fantastic!

Yeah, once Hope had gotten her on her cell, she knew she had to go by the house to get the boat key & the marina key, so changing clothes was just a few minutes extra.

And, Julie & Theo went to relieve the babysitters. Julie came to the hospital & to Ben & Ciara's but I bet Theo is still with the twins.

Hot Da*mn! That is one great speech!

That's a very true point & a very scary estimation.

Huge agreement that there's so much more that they can get out of Tamara! I don't want them to waste her! She's far too valuable! Tripp's headed to Seattle where Stephanie & JJ are. Gabi sent the DiMera jet to fetch Theo & JJ from Rio (?) Is this a case of 2 JJs?

Oh, I love Tamara! She is fabulous. Favorite Carly, hmm, tough proposition. I love the original Sarah Joy Brown & TB & now I adore LW's Carly. Oops, I forgot to pick a favorite! I realize there's another Carly. She is forgettable to me. I would prefer for Nancy to find someone else! Maybe she will. I keep having the actor Shawn Christian evoked by this new baby name & that throws me.

Oh, for sure, no worries. I hope Ava has a future. Clyde, meh, I could care less! And, I wonder what they have in mind for Evan.

Well, when you write about your thoughts about different Salemites I think about what you say, just because I do, and consider them, often especially if they are different from my own impressions of the character. And, right now we couldn't be seeing Jan Spears with more different eyeballs! I'll give it the old college try. We are going to have to deal with her because she is now the mother of Shawn Christian Brady!

Now that's what I call High Edit!

I always thought of Evan as "Property of Amanda"

It is! Hysterical. It's worth stupid stuff to get to read it!

If by long term villian we mean buried in a steamer trunk at the bottom of the sea, I could do that!

I'm good with saying bye bye to Jan Spears and to Orpheus. I feel lost with Shawn & Jan Spears. Where are things being left?! Evan, I don't think about at all. What would you do with him? I was personally quite pleased for Julie to mount up & take an attack pose against Jan Spears!

It was ridiculous that so much time went by without being updated, then BOOM things happened & information was imparted & then it was on to new status where Lani had confessed & changed everything. I think fans have been seeing problems with pacing soap-wide for all of 2022. Now on GH that the whole ELQ/Valentin & Ned versus everyone else has exploded a great many more things are now exhausting, too! GH limps along with tons of exposition for weeks & then there's a BOOM. DOOL has got that 7 month lag-time & the rotation of actors on & off. Plain ole ordinary pacing doesn't stand a chance!

Of course you may have just been full up to the bream of sarcasm!

Won't they just send Lani away to prison & we won't see her any more?

Thank you. I see now how I had gotten myself turned around! I'm hoping this is going to be a real mystery.