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Ah, my woefully neglected little blog.  I think perhaps part of the reason I am so forgetful about posting here is that none of my friends are on VOX in real life, nor do they perhaps even know that I am on VOX.  My main reason for creating this blog was originally to replace the LJ that I was considering abandoning in light of my life meltdown that I went through awhile ago.  I wasn't considering deleting the LJ, but I wanted to distance myself from those people that were at the time not friendly towards me.  So, I started this VOX thing and it worked, but it's more graphically-difficult for me to use adequately.  So I stuck with LJ.  And then I decided to make this a more personal journal than anything, since none of my real-life friends read this.  But that failed because introspection isn't something I like to write down.  Plus, my life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it.  And I'd like to keep most of that from the internet.

Then I thought I'd use this as an alternative to the MySpace blog because I only ever to login to MySpace when I get a comment or a message.  But that didn't work either, since I forever forgot to update it.  And now I have this blog and I don't want to NOT use it, so I'm going to make it about soap operas and TV shows, since that's the only thing I don't have a blog for (actually that's a lie, I used to live-recap Days of our Lives and Passions when I was unemployed and it actually worked really well...except that nobody read them and then I got a job...).

So, I thought I'd start with an entry on why I love soap operas.  First, I must point out that I realize that soaps are NOT for everyone.  Some people can't get behind the plot contrivances, the deaths that aren't actual deaths and the sometimes confusing storylines that get dropped or convoluted so badly that you can't even grasp it.  However, soaps are the ultimate in fantasy television.  It's about family, usually, and the thing is, on soaps, no matter how badly a family member screws up or does HORRIBLE things, the family stays together and they love each other (this only applies to the good families.  The villain families, not so much).

Also, the people on soaps live out one of my fantasies: never having to work. Oh, occasionally we see them at some corporate office (almost always as CEO or VP), but most of the time, they are busy running around town, yelling at people or telling them some secret.  They also live in fabulously decorated penthouses and apartments and houses without any source of income.  I mean, Sami Brady on Days has lived in her 3 bedroom 2 bath apartment on the 3rd floor of a nice high-rise building in Downtown Salem for years.  And she only worked somewhere for like 2 years.  And even then, she didn't work so much as walk around plotting and scheming.  How does she afford that apartment?  And same goes for Marlena.  She's a psychiatrist, but hasn't had any patients since 2003.  Yet, she lives in a 2-story penthouse in Downtown Salem.  Now, for reference, let's assume Salem is the size of Dallas (a distinct possibility).  A downtown Dallas penthouse rents for about $3400 a month.  Now, that's a lot of money for someone with no patients and as many ailments and reasons to stay away from work as Marlena has.  But, I guess one could wank it to say that her husband John Black, owner of Basic Black fashion house, pays the bills.  Except he's been dead, alive, brainwashed and addicted to painkillers for the last few years.  Also, Basic Black seemingly hasn't had a new line out since 2003 when Bo and Hope were attacked at the fashion show, kickstarting the "Salem Stalker" storyline.

Anyway, that wasn't so much about why I love soaps, so that'll have to be the next entry.