Passions Red

Just thought I'd throw a nice picture up to keep the post from being too bland...you should know that I'm going to post up some pictures of Lindsey Hartley aka Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald-Crane for this post because I love her...though Theresa is being an obssesive psycho


I wish Theresa would decide to forget Ethan use all of her scheming to get her kids and a nice divorce settlement..move out of the mansion and get her own place....

The problem with that is the minute Theresa starts to ignore Ethan then he'll be obsessing over her...and I mean more than his stupid fantasies....


JER FREE THERESA AND HER KIDS FROM THE CRANES!!!


Okay so on to the actual topic of discussion: Passions Red...yesterday on the internet and today on Passions they revealed the identity of "Red." That's the mysterious Red in the picture below..Red = red nails [Lame I know]

Passions Red was a storyline that has played out online at http://passionsred.com and onscreen on the Passions television show.

Basically some chick has decided to torture and kill Alistair Crane...they kept her as a mystery character and just had the reveal today

Now this whole thing about her wanting to kill Alistair would be cool if THE ENTIRE TOWN OF HARMONY ALREADY DIDN'T WANT TO AND/OR HAS ALREADY TRIED TO KILL HIM!!!

As a matter of fact, they brought back the long thought dead/lost Crane Matriarch, Katherine, and Lopez-Fitzgerald Patriarch, Martin, back from the dead just so they could kill Alistair. Those two had actually run away together, gotten plastic surgery, moved to Mexico, and pretended to be Aunt and Uncle to the youngest L-F, Paloma, when Pilar [the F-L Matriarch] sent Paloma to live in Mexico....yes it's all very confusing

By the way if you were Martin would you leave all of this:



His wife, Pilar








For this:

Alistair's wife and victim, Katherine






















Worst Decision ever, in my opinion, although I think Martin and Katherine deserve each other seeing how BOTH of them abadoned their children when they left...Martin left Pilar with FIVE KIDS!!! What a jerk!

The point I'm making is that neither of them has sucessfully killed Alistair, nor anyone else who has tried for that matter

The one thing Red has on Alistair is that he apparently thinks she's dead...he attempted to fake her death only to discover she did die...turns out she turned the tables on him and faked her death again to get away from him

Oh yeah this person...we saw their corpse float into the L-F living room during the Tsunami...but considering this is a soap it could have been anothers corpse that she placed in her casket to cover her tracks

Oh yeah this person...was supposedly STABBED TO DEATH BY A FOUR YEAR OLD Sheridan Crane [pictured on the left]...yup guys it's.....

RACHEL....big surprise...NOT....

The most messed of thing about the big reveal though was that if you went to the website to say just review the other 19 chapters before the big reveal on today's show but didn't want to watch Chapter 20 and find out who it was early you would have been screwed because on the top of the page is a big link that says...WHO IS RACHEL! Good job NBC for screwing up the big online reveal....

No, I lied the worse thing about all this is that EVERYONE has been guessing Rachel or Faith for months

I wonder how Theresa did on today's show when she was locked in the nursery with Gwen...I hate Gwen...I heart Theresa...which is weird..but what can I say Gwen is a ***** who tries to steal her rival's children...weirdo..that keeps her in your life genius

Beautiful Kisses
Hipployta

How I spent my Christmas Weekend

Okay I have made it VERY clear that I don't care much for the holidays....normally not a big thing in my house but even less important this year since the hubby is deployed [he deployed while I deployed so I haven't seen him in a LOONNGG time]. To me the holidays just mean days off.

Anywho so on December 24th I still hadn't purchased any gifts and my Parents were driving up from South Carolina to visit me. So that day I was to be devoted to finish my preparations for their visit and buying gifts for the my nieces and my best friend, Mainny, kids...

I won't go into the nightmare of shopping on Christmas Eve but let me just say I walked in the store at 1145 and went home around 1800 [that 6PM]

After I FINALLY leave the store I stop at my best friend's house and drop her kid's gifts off...I'll come back to them later

So eventually my Parent make it and I cook dinner and we all go to sleep....the next morning I wrap any of the presents that didn't make it to the gift wrapping counter before they closed and let me tell you that was an experience in itself...a very unenjoyable one

So all the gifts are loaded in the car and be go to brave the traffic on the Turnpike. Last year was pretty good so although I was being very negative about the traffic to my Parent, before getting on the turnpike, I was actually pretty hopeful. Well, hope won out in the end because traffic was great up until I got near Newark [exits 13, 13A]. Well it was pretty bad so I did the only thing a sensible driver would do...I cut through once of those openings the cops use into the trucker side of the turnpike.....LOL

Anyway we got there and my nieces weren't there yet so my father [in-law] Carlos and I went over to their Mom's place, my sister [in-law] Monique, to pick them up. I really like Monique so we hung out there for awhile talking while the girls attempted to get dressed. When she told me about how much food she had made and still had I immediately went into "Feed Me" mode.

Apparently she had told her relatives that dinner was at 7pm....no one showed so she put the girls to bed and went to sleep....later on she hears a pounding on the door and goes to see who it is. It's her family...the thing is it was TWO O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING!!! They gave Monique some excuse about traffic in NY to which she responds they can come in but she isn't getting all that food back out.

So let's just say I made out like a bandit...ya'll better know I'm living off of her and my leftovers for quite awhile...no one in this house but me so there is no reason to cook...I usually sustain myself on cereal...

Anyway the girls, Carlos, and myself all head back to their apartment. The girls were going to open our presents [gifts were from the Hubby and myself together of course]. Unfortunately I was shopping as a form of retail therapy and some slight guilt. My husband and I missed both their birthdays due to deployments so I bought gifts for them to make up for that too.



Well this was the result...we only let them actually open one doll each [could you imagine the chaos otherwise??] and their Grandma [Mom in-law Myrna] will determine when they can open other ones after she sees how they handle the current ones

Due to the sheer number of gifts the girls recieved our gifts are staying at my Parents [in-laws] place



The rest of the day was all of us hanging out until Myrna left with her brother and the girls for the family house in the Poconos, which is where their Father lives [Brother in law].

Here are pictures of the rest of the day...as soon as I figure out how to incorporate videos I'll put the short video I made from that day up






The Parents and Myself













My Dads [My Dad and Gabriel's Dad]














My Parents [In-Laws] and Myself

My Nieces and I























My Mothers and I

Beautiful Kisses

Hipployta

My obsession with a wonderful actor, Renee Elise Goldsberry, and a Daytime TV couple: John and Evangeline [Jovan]

The pictures are of the fabulous La Goldsberry

Actresses are called actors to now right?



The actor goes by the name of Renee Elise Goldsberry. She currently airs on One Life To Live [OLTL] as Evangeline Williamson, the best darn lawyer on the east coast. I mentioned her in an earlier posting when I talked about going to see The Color Purple Musical on Broadway. She starred in it as Nettie. Allow me to say that the character of Evangeline is simply fabulous. She is a sucessful career driven lawyer who is scared of relationships and marriage. Renee, or La Goldsberry as her fans have taken to calling her after Soap Sass' Michael Logan, is a wonderful actor who has performed in several entertainment formats from primetime television, film, music, Broadway, and currently daytime television.

Her character Evangeline shares/shared a VERY realistic romance with Lt. John McBain of the Llanview Police Department [LPD], played wonderfully by Michael Easton. They are the RETURN OF THE SUPERCOUPLE, if only OLTL would invest in them and write the appropiate storylines.

From the first moments of them meeting there were sparks...and even now though they are broken up everytime they are on screen together you can SEE the chemistry. I actually watched their relationship grow onscreen. You know all the little parts of a growing relationship like sharing about each other, dating, making love, and even the little affectionate moves you develop. Their relationship was so realistic that sometimes I felt like a voyeur for
watching..which didn't deter me in the least :)

The relationship had many wonderful moments..their first kiss is highlighted in the above photos and to the side...Evangeline kissed John because he challenged and dared her. He wanted to know if she had EVER done anything spontaneous...when she put he off asking why he thought she hadn't he responded that she was stalling because she hadn't. Evangeline said, "Come here," and John scooted over leaning his ear in so she could whisper it to him..but instead she turned his head and kissed him...leaving him stunned to say the least. Evangeline, or Van as she is affectionately called, then announced she had to go to which John responded, "So you're the kiss and run type?" Van just laughed and said, "Apparently so," and left John behind to consider that kiss.

Well in July 2005 John and Evangeline split up...due to John's inability to verbally express the words, I Love You. Now I hate this because he has shown he loves her non-verbally in so many other ways BUT Van needs to the words. It's funny because until this time every other time Van tried to break up with John he would manage to keep her but not this time.

In reality it was the decision of The Power That Be [TPTB] at OLTL to split John and Evangeline and put John with their annoying interloper Natalie. [Before I give the reasoning behind this please remember it is a soap] Back in 2003 John got the newlywed Cristian and Natalie Vega to come to Las Vegas for Natalie to play in a pool tournament for John. Now I'm a little fuzzy on the details [because the storyline was REALLY boring and I tuned out] but John was really a FBI agent and the tournament was a sting operation. Unfortunately it turned out badly, Natalie was kidnapped, and Cris ended up trading his life for Natalie's. Everyone assumed Cristian was dead and Natalie "hated" John for awhile but then she started chasing after him [she was interested in him before she and Cris got married in Atlantic City so this was expected]. Allow me to stress the fact that she was chasing the man she blamed for the death of her husband a few months [if that] after the husband's death. John and Evangeline get together in the Summer of 2004 and soon after Natalie decides that she and John are soulmates and tirelessly tries to come between John and Evangeline without much sucess. Now in late 2004 Cris pops back up apparently back from the dead but with amnesia issues...then it comes out that Cris is an imposter who was changed to look like Cris via plastic surgery [his entire body] and brainwashed to murder Antonio Vega [his supposed brother] and Augustico Santi [Antonio's real brother. He pulled the cord on Tico's life support and was sent to jail for life...BUT John and Evangeline had been suspicious of Cris and had an illegal DNA test done. Turns out Cris is really Cris...just brainwashed to believe otherwise and John runs to prison to confront Cris with the information. Cris makes John promise not to tell anyone so his family and Natalie can live their lives thinking Cris was a good man and not a murder.

The end result is that Van gets tired of John's inability to open up and allow her in and dumps him for good in June 9, 2005 despite his pleas. John continues to reject Natalie and pursue Evangeline. During all this a serial killer copying the Killing Club novel has been killing people around Llanview...Natalie [rather stupidly] decides to fake a kidnapping by the killer to get John's attention [he suffers from an EXTREME savior complex...dude has issues] which allows the killer to kidnap Evangeline from her Woman of the Year awards dinner and then Natalie from her mother's home. [Isn't it cute how John McBain signs her poster to say Evangeline I'm Coming For You]

End result they get rescued, Evangeline continues to reject John, and he decides to protect Natalie [from herself] by being with her. Unfortunatly to make John and Natalie's relationship possible they had to destroy the character of John [it is blantant character assassination]. It seems that since the breakup this guy has been spiraling down like talking to his dead Dad's ghost for instance and not washing his behind. Natalie continues to act as his enabler concerning his savior complex AND he appears to have become a full blown alcoholic. Okay so now we have That Man [he is no longer John McBain to me so I refer to his as That Man is NOT John McBain] in a relationship with the delusional Natalie; who walks around saying things like we're happy, John loves me, and John chose me over Evangeline...um she's happy, John's just there, John have NEVER told anyone he loves them and in fact told Natalie that he didn't love her, and Evangeline dumped John and rejected him several times; which is a setup for Evangeline to find out about the DNA test and get upset over the fact that Cris was brainwashed and illegally imprisoned. End result is that in November we discover Carlo Hesser brainwashed Cris and Natalie finds out that That Man and Cristian hid the truth from her. Evangeline is acting to get Cris released from prison and is distancing herself from That Man and his issues.

What's really sad about all this is that there is NO CHEMISTY between That Man and Natalie...they come across more as siblings than lovers. There was none of the affection and obvious caring that existed between John and Evangeline. Basically Natalie wanted what John and Evangeline had and what she got was completely different and rather pathetic. On the ABC Message Boards [ABC MB] we've taken to refering to their relationship not at Jolie [shorthand for John and Natalie like how John and Evangeline are Jovan] but Jokie..because it's a Joke. Their loves scenes are TERRIBLE...and all you can do is laugh at them really..it is so sad that a beautiful man like Michael Easton is being subjected to that relationship and we the viewer have to watch it...I just THANK GOD that Jokie is over and almost done...and Evangeline is being moved out of their orbit and focusing in on her cases.

Jovan has been put asunder and the question is can it be put back together better than before?

These sites have clips documenting the Jovan relationship, some fanfiction sites, and some websites devoted to Renee Elise Goldsberry and Michael Easton

http://cliptrip.thoughtsopolis.com/olclips01.htm

http://www.spikeluver.com/JoVan/index.php?PHPSESSID=aa40e0bd864d5104d688bbecedf6c5e2

http://jrsgirl.tvheaven.com/Spotlite/spotlite1.html

http://jrsgirl.tvheaven.com/Spotlite/spotlight1.html

http://simplyreneedot.com/

http://s7.invisionfree.com/Luminous/index.php?act=idx

http://p105.ezboard.com/bundeniablejovan2

http://www.amethystpublishing.com/Jovanclips.htm

http://niklovr.tvheaven.com/JoVan/fanfiction.htm

http://www.michael-easton.net/tvzone/oltl/oltl.html

http://www.filmmagic.com/ItemListing.aspx?cgl=152250&str=50792&styp=clbi&navtyp=gls

Beautiful Kisses

Hipployta

Happy Religious or Pagan Holiday or Festivity of Your Choice ;)

Well that just about covers all my bases doesn't it. Typically the holiday/vacation season isn't taken seriously in my family..even less so this year. I'm not taking ANY vacation time from work during the holidays AND I'm attending Winter Session at Rutgers which starts on December 23rd [my last final for fall semester is December 20 so no break]. The Winter Session class is five days a week from 1800 to 2200 [for all you folks who need help that 6PM to 10PM] and doesn't end until January 13 [Spring semester starts January 18].

The only people I plan on buying anything for is any relations under the age of 18...and even then probably only the small children...

I'm not a Scrooge per se but I am a bit cynical about the monetary and predatory nature of the holiday season. Seriously a mall can be a scary place if you wait until the thick of the holiday season to go shopping. Even worse is if a store has a limited supply of some hot toy and people are lining up waiting for the store to open **shudder** scary...

Also not into the decorations thing...setting holiday decorations up to take them down a month later? Please, I'd probably leave it up until it came time to to use them again...next year

But hey my husband and I can pretend to be festive with the best of them and we've got the holiday cards to prove it...now if we could just decide which picture to use we'd be good to go

Got Rutgers

I think the shirt says it all...don't you?

Butterfly Kisses

Hipployta 

Right Now I'm sitting in class

And I have no idea what's going on. The class is called "The Crusades" and it's a cross-listed history and middle eastern studies class. The class has been very interesting but of late we have been doing media presentations. There are 10 media groups and each group seems to take the entire class for its presentation. Mind you class lasts from 1810 to 1930 so that is quite a feat. My own group took until a minute AFTER class ended to do our presentation.


Back to my point about not knowing what's going on...each group gets some sort of film to contrast against the reality of the Crusades. The current group's presentation is about the film Saladin which I have never seen nor heard of. The group seems interesting enough however I was really boared at work and am probably going to let my mind wonder. Heck class just started and I'm already posting on my blog aren't I....I already know that I'm going to the ABC Message Board [ABC MB] next because I've developed a serious obsession with that board.

So after class I'm still being a bum; I am back to the laptop

My Laptop Background

I was just looking at my laptop and was staring at my current background thinking man I miss these guys...then someone on the ABC MB asks what we have on our background so I decided to throw this out there

This was taken at a boat party on the Thames River in London..it was a good time even if it was a bit crowded...




Here's some more pictures from that night











Kisses
Hipployta