AMC recasts Bianca.

I'm a daughter, granddaughter, and sister of soap opera watchers. So naturally growing up, I was one too. One of my mother's "soaps" is All My Children, I grew up specifically watching this show. I remember the episode when Bianca came out. This storyline was also close to home for me. I always enjoyed the younger storylines since I was a younger viewer, but when Bianca came out as a teenage lesbian I was 16 years old closeted lesbian.

I watched and followed all her crazy storylines for years, though my adolescence and into my adulthood. I have my favorites (relationships with Maggie and later Reese) and my not so favorites (the rape/pregnancy and Zarf/Zoey bullshit). Whenever I hear about Bianca's return to Pine Valley I always make sure to turn in. 

When the filming of All My Children was moved to Los Angeles recently,  there was speculation that Eden Regal would return as Bianca, since the actress lives there. But alas, Eden was hired on another soap and the thought of Bianca's return quickly went away.

I know re-casts happen often in soaps, but I truly thought of Bianca as one of the un-re-castables. Apparently I was wrong.

We last saw Bianca returning to Paris after patching things up with Reese who she recently married in the first same sex wedding in daytime.

I'm not aware of the circumstances of Bianca's return. But I will give it a chance. There are few gay/lesbian characters on tv, so I have to get my fix when I can. At least they look similar... 

  

And how did I not know this existed? Amazing. Pratt Falls is a blog/webseries that is pro Bianca and discusses the failure of a specific writer at All My Children in regards to the Bianca storylines. Check it out if your a Bianca fan!

rough weekend

Saturdays are my full day to do whatever I want and that's usually sleeping in til 10 or 11. Yes, that's sleeping in. After GF left around 8 am for weekly volunteering, I fell back asleep as usual. I woke up with my phone ringing at about 8:45. I sleepily grabbed my phone and saw GF's name on the screen, although when I answered the phone, a man started speaking. The next hour flew by. I was told GF had an "accident" and was being sent to the ER. I had to ask several times where the hospital was where she was being sent, since there are at least 5 that come to mind in the area. Once I raced to the hospital, parked my car in the appropriate lot, I spent about 10 minutes running around the huge complex because I couldn't figure out where the entrance to the ER was. I walk in, see GF bent over holding her face. As I approach she looked up to me with teary eyes (note: in the almost 7 years together I can count the times I've seen her cry on 1 hand) and told me what happened as she tried to keep herself from crying.

While riding in a golf cart the driver ran into a tree. Let me repeat, the driver drove into a TREE! Really?! Apparently he wasn't looking and since GF was in the back holding up a towel to keep from getting wet from all the rain the night before, she didn't see the tree either. Her face when right into a metal bar on the golf cart, specifically her nose.

After an exam and x-rays, it was confirmed that she broke her nose. She was given instructions and a doctor to call for a follow up and we left. As we left we realized this hospital really sucked. Not once did they ask or check into the fact that she could have had a head injury. She didn't present with any head injury symptoms, but still, if you're coming into the ER I expect they would check things like that.

So we woke up every hour last night to ensure she was okay, just in case she DID have a head injury.

Luckily she's in little pain and is mainly upset about the medical bills and the possibility of having her nose crooked. She states that her nose is her favorite feature and it will look terrible if it's crooked. Even when she called her mom, one of the first things said was "but you're nose is so cute." The swelling has gone down and her eyes are blackening. She really wants to get "raccoon eyes," she says that "if you're going to break your nose, you better get raccoon eyes, it's the only thing that makes it worth it."

Yeah, that's my GF for you.

All seriousness, this was terrifying. It really scared me and I kept it together until long after we got home from the hospital. Yes, it was just a "tragic cart accident" as she calls it, but I never want to get a call like that again.

better safe than sorry

Last weekend I had a night out on the town with some (straight) friends. We had good times, good drinks, good laughs, and good conversation. One convo revolved around the discussion of a previous night out.

On this night a friend and I were out drinking and dancing with some of her friends when a group of (very nice) men came in celebrating a 21st birthday. My friend is very outgoing so of course we ended up talking to them, buying the birthday boy some drinks, just having a good time. Well, the birthday boy decided to take a liking to me even though it was mentioned that I had a "significant other", we danced and talked and when it was obvious that he was going to continue to hit on me I made my way to having a conversation elsewhere.

Back to last weekend, I was asked why I didn't just tell the birthday boy that I was a big lesbian. I responded very seriously that I didn't want myself or anyone else getting physically hurt. My friends thought this was ridiculous and there would be no way someone would freak out about someone being gay so much they would become violent.  I disagree. I currently live in the south where the gays aren't super loved (one can be fired based on sexual orientation in this state with no legal repercussions), and although I live in a "city" which is more likely to be liberal than a rural community and a college town, I still do not think it's safe to tell a complete stranger that I'm gay, especially in a drinking environment.

You just never know how people may react. Just this past New Year's in Buffalo, NY a woman was stabbed in the eye outside a gay club while her and her friends were called horrible names. And that was in a city in a liberal state.

Do you think I'm being too cautious? I'm sure in some occasions I would maybe feel comfortable telling a stranger this information, but if I'm not comfortable, why should I risk it? I think it's better to be safe than sorry.

heroes vs. villians

I love reality tv, probably one of the biggest guiltiest pleasures ever. When Survivor first came out I resisted so hard to not watch or enjoy it. Since I was a huge Real World viewer, I felt RW was the first real reality show and Survivor was taking this title from them.

Well, RW got trashy (although this season in DC isn't as terrible as it has been) so I got into Survivor, hard core into it. This season is the 20th(!!) season of Survivor and is being dubbed "Heroes vs Villians", bringing back all our loved players and the ones we love to hate.

And boy did they deliver. They brought many of my favs and some of my most hated. My absolute favorite is Stephanie. She has been in two previous seasons of Survivor and is best known for outlasting all her original tribe mates in her first season. I think that's fucking hard core. She is most definitely one of the most popular players to have ever played. The only thing that would make her awesome is if she liked the ladies, but alas we can't get all the hard core chicks. Oh, AND she played lacrosse in college. Kick ass for sure!! Take a look at those arms...

Stop reading now if you don't want to know what happened last week.

This past week, Stephanie was targeted to be voted out after the "Heroes" lost yet another immunity challenge. The angle against her was that she was the remaining member of her original tribe when she was first on the show... um, like I stated previously, that makes her hard core and awesome. But yet others did not see it that way and Stephanie was voted out.

I'm not sure how to feel about this. I will of course continue watching even though though my fav is gone, but I don't know who I should root for. Another of my fav ladies is on as well, but she was against my Stephanie, so I'm torn if I should root for her...

loving some beavers

I recently found this amazing youtube channel, The Beaver Bunch. The premise is every day of the week (Monday-Friday) a different "Beaver" posts on their specified day. Sometimes they have weekly topics that are discussed and sometimes it's just a free for all and they talk about whatever they want to.

I found it via Anything Sarcastic's youtube, which I found via Really? Really?!, which is her vlog on after ellen. Following? Yes? No? Well, it's amazing what you stumble upon while surfing the old internets.

I probs have an internet crush on "Thursday" (see above links of "anything sarcastic" and "Really? Really?!"). I clearly have a thing for long, dark haired beauties. Take a moment.

Back on topic, I'm loving this Beaver Bunch channel. I decided to start watching at the beginning, cause I that's how I roll and feel that I'll be confused or missing something if I watch backwards. I guess I'm neurotic like that.

I'm only in the summer of 2008. Hmm... this is gonna take a while.

The videos I've watched only have posts from Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday up. It appears they have some different or new folk on the newer posts. I'm pretty excited about this. It's only gonna take forever for me to get through it though...

lost hotties/bad asses

Like I said in my previous post, I obsessively love LOST. So, in honor of the beginning of the final season I'm gonna post a little LOST magic.

GF and I have a continual argument over which LOST woman is best.

I tend to lean towards who I loved first. Kate. I've loved her since season 1.

GF enjoys Juliet, who joined LOST in season 3. Not that I don't enjoy me some Juliet, believe me I do. She's actually one of the few blonds (sorry, I just enjoy the dark haired beauties) that I think are super hot. Side note, Elizabeth Mitchell has a big lesbian following since she played gay in Gia (Angelina Jolie's lover) and E.R.

One thing that GF and I can completely agree upon is that the LOST women are much much hotter on the island than off. Which is weird cause they're all dirty and scruffy on the island, while all made up when not on the island. When this was discussed, GF pointed out that they're much more bad ass while on the island (reference juliet above with a gun). Amen, sister. Love me some bad asses!

i guess it's been a while...

So when I created this blog I somehow had more time on my hands and now... I don't. My work has been more intense lately, which I will blame on the weather. 

Now first off, I'm from northern OH, so I know snow. But my current state of residence doesn't see a whole lot of snow. Therefore, when it does snow everyone and their mom is at the store buying up all the milk and bread. Since folks here don't really know how to drive in snow school has been cancelled... a lot. Kids at home create more fighting and crisis all around. That's were I come in. I work in a mental health facility as a case manager for children and youth. So.... I'm gonna blame the weather for my insane amount of working.

Other than working, gf and I have been working through the LOST series. We started watching it during the 3rd season and have watched the past 2 seasons when it actually aired. I love LOST, like obsessive, crazy love. Since I clearly have an obsession, I decided that before the season 6 premiere (final season!) I was going to re-watch ALL the episodes. Sigh, that took a lot of time and it was exciting and exhausting. We finished it up yesterday evening before the premiere. Yay!

For the above stated reasons I have been a bit busy and haven't found time to blog. But now I hope to be more free now that the snow has melted, kids are back in school and having (slightly) less problems, and my crazy LOST marathon is over.

My goal is to blog at least once a week. We'll see how that goes...