Here I am, Christine! Thanks for thinking of me!

And so glad to hear that you had a wonderful trip to visit with your niece and your family!
Hi Everyone! So sorry that I haven't posted in awhile - just got caught up in "usual summer stuff", including hosting a big 80th Birthday party for my Uncle and 2 belated 45th Birthday parties for my DH! We've been keeping up with AMC, though, of course!
You all are making me jealous (as you do, every year) talking about your plans to attend SSW! I'm sure that you will all have a great time! And........I'll start bothering you all, now, months ahead of time...........PLEASE REMEMBER TO TAKE LOTS OF PICTURES FOR US TO SEE!

One of these years I hope to join you all! We just returned from WDW /
DCL in May and are planning a trip to WDW for my 40th Birthday in January, as well as cruising the Mediterranean on the Magic next July (exactly a year from this week, in fact!

), so unfortunately we won't be able to make it to SSW this year. Maybe next year? Or 2008? Or some time before Greg's killer / "burier" is revealed? (Because at the rate that things are going, with them dragging the "mystery" / investigation out, we MAY NOT know who actually buried / killed Madden until 2008 or 2009!

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I so agree with all of your recent posts with regard to how everyone EXCEPT Josh knows that he is Erica's son / Kendall's brother............and how they really need to tell him, already! I am getting so sick of that storyline and the Madden mystery, as well.
Needless to say, Ditsie drives me insane, every time she's on screen (where's Aprille?

). I always joke to DH that we should take bets on how many words will come out of her mouth before she says "Kate" or how long it will be before she starts whining about "losing her little girl" again! VERY annoying!
I was sort of hoping that Julia and Jamie would "break up" when they had their BIG CONVERSATION, the other day - it still just seems very awkward, seeing the 2 of them together (and not just the age difference - they just don't seem to "go" together). I can't picture her being the same person who was with Noah and who went through all of the tragedies that she did, just putting her nursing career on the line to make out with Jamie in a closet - she used to have more integrity than that!
What's with the annoying caricature-of-a-manager at ConFusion? Very tacky.
I can't believe that Ryan would let a total stranger and her child move in with him - even if it is in the name of helping Erin and making up for his troubled childhood. He's supposedly getting used to being a new Dad and getting his own life back on track after "playing dead" for so long...........I don't understand why he would put himself at risk and take on someone else's problems........except maybe to help get over his feelings for Kendall.
I do like Annie, though, and think that she has potential as a good character. I'm liking Erin more lately, too - now that they've given her more of a fleshed-out personality, motivation, her own storyline, etc. I wish that she would get back together with Aidan, though! Hopefully she will, once the Annie story comes out.
I can't stand Colby!!!! What a brat!!!!! I guess they're making Amanda into a "nice character" now, so they need a new brat in town to terrorize PV or something. In a matter of time, they'll water her down, though, I'm sure - it happens to all of the characters that start out as "brats" / bad girls, eventually: Liza, Dottie, Cecily, Hayley, Gillian, Greenlee, Kendall, Amanda..........!