Cupid Stunt

It's not like CAN was running the camera for Nick and GTPhyllis. jk Considering CAN has been primarily raised by nannies, the boy is better off without the fulltime attention of Nick. Clearly TIIC are fine with the Underpants Sexcapades. CAN can exercise his sexual disfunction and abandonment issues in adulthood by exposing his home life in a memoir. I was discussing Sharon in 2015 when she was krazy with a k and knowingly took CAN from dying Ol'Hammertoes arms and continued the lie CAN was her child. You're talking about Sharon in 2021 who never mentions CAN or her MyPolar and gives unsolicited counseling from her concierge therapy and coffee shop. Darvon is written as a blank page; he's a street urchin, he's a musician, he's a billionaire, he's a businessman, he's a lover, he's a liar, he's a widower, he's a philanthropist, he's a dime store philosopher, he's a best friend, he's a sperm donor, he's a baby whisperer, he's a baby poacher, Darvon is busy convincing himself he's the only legitimate parent for Bowie, and is planning to take possession. There's nothing natural about Darvon. He doesn't go to work every day. He has more money than Croesus. He's living with his true love's twin sister, and she's encouraging him to renege on a sperm donation contract so he can have what he wants. Natey Nate Nate Nate Nate Nate thinks Darvon is all about Bowie and Bowie is all about Darvon and to hell with Abby and Chance. Darvon has none of the personal or career concerns that plague Abby or Chance, and has brushed aside the idea that breaking a contract and intruding on his friend's new family is going to cause irreparable harm.

Nope. It took forever for Sharon to admit she wasn't CAN's birthmother, while she used Dylan's desperation to hang on to both Dylan and CAN. She would still be lying about CAN if not forced to confess the truth, with the help of a DNA test. Sharon was crazier than an outhouse rat with MyPolar and in no condition to take care of an infant. Plus, Dylan was already walking out the door toward Witness Protection and the Divorce Express Lane. Nick wasn't the best parental choice, but he had the most stable and consistent childcare for CAN. Atonal was/is still a Genoa City pariah, still dreaming up more revenge fantasies against his family, with Chelsea bringing up the criminal rear -- No one deserves to be dropped into that household. Connor is a manipulative and creepy enough product of Chelz/Atonal. And after all this time, Atonal makes no mention of CAN or attempts to connect with him.

Heavenly Father, attend Your servants Waldo and his family from illness and spiritual ailments through the grace of Your Christ. Grant them patience with Covid-19, and the strength to bear this sickness with submission to Your will. We ask your healing mercy and grant them the return to health. For You are the source of all life and to You we give glory, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.

My dad. And he wishes you a Merry Christmas.

Yes, there is a Santa Claus. And no, COVID-19 won’t stop him It’s not what’s under the tree, it’s who we share it with. I’m so grateful for your generosity, wit, kindness, snark and love. Merry Christmas, Preverts!

Jack reminds me of social commentators who repeat the same lie until they actually have convinced themselves the lie is truth. Eventually they persuade enough people, and the lie is codified into gospel. By including Phyllis in every Abbott-related holiday gathering seems to be as much a plan to make her palatable to the Abbott's as it is to convince himself that Phyllis has changed. If only Jack could hear the insincerity, ridicule and treachery in her conversations. Tracy wasn't fooled by Phyl and Ashley will be civil, but they will be candid with their disgust with Phyllis returning to the Abbott Mansion and Jack's bed. And Jack will be determined to defend Phyllis until she makes a fool of him again. Jack has convinced himself the lie that Phyllis has human, loving, altruistic feelings and deserves another 5000 chances to prove it with him on top of her. And into Bowie's Miracle Baby Holy Relic Memory trunk. As much as I liked Daniel fighting Phyllis for control of his own life, walking away from Genoa City and separating himself and Lucy from Phyllis' next manipulation was the perfect end to his story. Leaving Phyllis behind, feeling bereft she had lost Daniel, is her occasional punishment when she chooses to remember Daniel at all. Dumber is the genuine article of Phyllis' parenting and disordered self-indulgence. Phyllis got back exactly what she put into her children. It was an embarrassment of riches for Bowie's first Christmas. By the time he puts on his last Christmas onesie, he will have outgrown them all. How do Tessa and Maria plan to adopt when they still live in a transient hotel, have a variety of misdemeanors in their past, Mariah has played incubator and adoption pushes her all Baby Rabies buttons? <Yipe!> For all the desperate couch boinking between Abby and Chance I expect a true Miracle Baby is in the offing for the reunited couple. Chance will miraculously be shooting with live ammo and Abby will have regrown a working reproductive system. So let it be written by TIIC, so let it be done. Hillary 2.0 keeps pressing the point it will serve Darvon best to position himself more prominently in Bowie's life. And the more the subject is mentioned, the more attractive the prospect is for Darvon. He says he doesn't want to intrude, but Darvon doesn't stop entertaining the idea he is the ideal father for Bowie. It makes no difference to Hillaru 2.0 that she operated as Darvon's lawyer to sign away all his rights and liabilities to the result of his sperm donation to Abby and Chance. Everything is negotiable and subject to change. Hillary 2.0 can show up at the Chancellor Mansion, enjoy the Christmas hospitality of Abby and Chance, knowing she's finagling Darvon to claim Bowie as his son, and not have a tick of self-reproach. Darvon feigns humility, but covets Bowie as he slow walks to completion of his lost Hillary 1.0 relationship and Bowie makes three.

Chance needs something more than wearing out his disapointment/guilt at the dead end GCPD. Paul Williams has disappeared and Det. Rey Rey is busy pouting about Sharon's ex-husband/ex-lovers cutting into his action. Chancellor Industries would be a good respite from the Army/Cop Shop dead zone. There's another possibility for Chance to walk into a key position at Chancellor Industries: If Lily is embroiled in NotBilly's revenge plot public failure. It's exactly the one thing Jill wanted Lily not to do. Jill wanted Lily to temper NotBilly's worst behaviors at Chance Dot Com and that failed, but Lily as a supporting cast member in NotBilly's playacting farce could give the new CEO of Chancellor Industries another NotBilly-generated black-eye, and Jill is not going to appreciate more bad press with Lily's bold-face name front and center. Enter Chance to clean up the mess. It's odd that Atonal is taking a victory lap on less than reliable evidence NotBilly is circling the drain. He used to be a more circumspect gambler, but it could be TIIC setting him up for a faceplant and Victor stops him from being made a fool by his ego. Atonal should have the Newman Black Ops do some reverse investigating on what has been seen versus what can be proved. Bartenders, wait staff, liquor store cashiers, dumpster diving, secret listening devices, neighbors and poker players questioned, bar glasses tested ... The whole shebang. But Atonal is being written getting ahead of the factual evidence, being carried away by the idea he has crushed Genoa City's Village Idiot -- It's a low bar, but most of Atonal's plots and plans fail because hubris and his ego take the lead. Victor has warned him and Sally not to charge ahead -- he believes NotBilly is up to old tricks or the verasity of the damaging videos. Victor's battled NotBilly and the Abbott's forever and knows of what he speaks when it comes to NotBilly's motivation. NotBilly has exonerated himself of Delia's death by hating Atonal. It is one vice NotBilly won't shake off. Without the Atonal-hate, NotBilly would be left to admit his culpability, and he takes no responsibility for anything he lays waste.

(((Ohio))) And Merry Christmas to you and all the Songbirds! Wishing you health and peace for the New Year. Your menu sounds scrumptious! We graze and eat until we're tired the entire holiday, too. <sigh> We're having a birthday party for my sister (Bea) on Christmas Eve. Her favorite meal is Beef Welington, double-stuffed potatoes, roasted root vegetables, divinity salad, corn pudding, Ceasar salad, red velvet cake. I'm in charge of appetizers Christmas Eve and Day (Cut vegetables and buttermilk dressing, fresh fruit, stuffed mushroom caps, empanadas, gallon of Peaches' onion dip and Ruffles, charcuterie/cheese board, with pate', herbed butters, mustards, bread and crackers, Kentucky Hot Brown bites, hot Ruben dip, artichoke and spinach dip, three cheese fondue), and Christmas Day breakfast (apple or rum raisin pannekoekens, ham and cheese egg bake, cinnamon rolls, Danish, cracked wheat toast, jam, fresh fruit, Swiss raclette with fingerling potatoes. We had ThanksChristmas with the Stunt-in-law's and work Christmas party yesterday (deli food, grocery gift cards and bonuses, $8 Pink Elephant). I'll seed my David Hasselhoff Chia Pet for a Rose Parade project. Over the river and through the snowy Sierra Nevada's, Mr. Stunt and I are taking our Christmas show on the road to my parent's this afternoon.

Tricking Victor and Atonal into publishing an article of NotBilly playacting at being a reckless/drunk/gambling/asshole so NotBilly will force them to tell the truth about the Locke-ness expose' debacle when he sues them is the plan? And Lily is 100% behind his scheme. Anything that continues to immolate what's left of Notbilly's dubious reputation and concludes Lily's pretense at being a Master of the Universe at Chancellor Industries is on my Christmas List.

Legend in his own mind. "A Scrub is a guy that thinks he's fine is also known as a busta."

It's still MCE; she's post-maternity refreshed, got a new blow-out and rarin' to go chewing the scenery on another one of Chelsea's nefarious plans reuniting with Atonal and remaking their family for Connor. Of course, Chelsea will scope out if Atonal and Sharon are caput by getting Sharon all riled up to protect Atonal while under questioning. Poor Chloe had so many fashion-forward plans working with Chelsea, and can't believe her dreams of passing off Chelsea's schmatta as haute couture have been pushed down the road. I hope MCE lands better wardrobe; that ombre striped sweater and skirt outfit was seriously fug. Christine having to announce that Your Mission Is Over, and With Your Help didn't seem to placate Chance much. He's as miserable as ever ... Maybe another couch boink with the missus. I have no expectations of story narratives by TIIC. This writing regime hasn't been able to write themselves out of a corner yet. Sudden, clumsy, off-camera endings are the path of least resistance for TIIC. I was interested in the new Rosales family. Rey Rey started out with a usless brother and ex-wife, then wasted pining over Sharon while she was in fuck with and pursuing Atonal. Lola was squandered on Kyle and left in Society's kitchen. Celeste Rosales made a small splash, then went back to Miami. Since married to Sharon, Rey Rey's done very little, except follow dead leads and be manipulated by people he should be ignoring. The sooner Darvon's paternal fantasies meet reality the better. I know what you mean about magically gifted, talented, mature and rational children and/or teenagers (after the typical teenage run in with the law). Faith, Moses, and Connor's emotional manipulation of the adults around them, get on my nerves. Christian, Johnny and Katie seem like the only normal kids on Show, in spite of Nick, NotBilly and Victoria as parents. But there's plenty of time to turn them into sociopaths and drug addicts.

Is NotBilly planning another expose' to render his last retraction moot? Does he plan on taking over what's left of Chance Dot Com and self-publish or is he going to sell the new Locke/Newman article to another media site? It doesn't matter. Lily is supporting his plan, and he's right back to where he was when he gambled and lost Chance Dot Com. Why NotBilly is wasting his time pretending he's circling the drain seems to get Victor and Atonal to drop their guard and he can take advantage of some small c**** in their well-built plan to shut him down. Whatever Victor and Atonal have planned to finish NotBilly off, they better get on with it. It's not okay for either of them to obsess over Bowie, but that's the drama TIIC have written to drag out Abby's Baby Rabies and make a bigger mess of Bowie's life. The difference is that Darvon is better at hiding his opinions and intentions about who's the better parent, where Mariah was publicly crazed, and she admitted it at Bowie's christening. TIIC are setting up Darvon's play for Bowie's custody, that's why Mariah is stuck playing second fiddle to Noah schmooping over Tessa. TIIC can't do anything with the Spain story other than end it so they can push the Bowie custody brouhaha with Chance/Abby/Darvon. I expect Bowie to be sent to SORAS boarding school by next March, returning a teenager with Katie and Johnny, and a new Teen Scene is born since Faith and Moses are wearing chastity belts and memorizing New Testament passages. It looked like Sally to me. And Lily recognized her right away. Of course, NotBilly went out of his way to play the jackass in public. It was so obvious NotBilly was playacting, Sally should suspect NotBilly and Lily were doing it for her benefit. Sally should be handing the bartender a $50 to tell her what NotBilly was drinking. Apple juice should set off alarm bells.

Like a mouse, Darvon is playing the opportunist, making it his job to father Bowie because he thinks Chance is unstable and guilt-ridden, poisoning Bowie's life. Darvon has essentially vowed to assume control over the one thing Chance seems to take joy in, the nurturing of his son. Like Mariah, Darvon assumes he's the only person that has Bowie's best interests at heart and is determined to pressure his way into a custodial position. With Abby jibbering her concern for her husband to Darvon, and Chance handing Darvon every reason to doubt his mental state, When listening to Darvon cooing that he'll be there with Bowie all the time, I doubt Abby or Chance understand the gravity of Darvon's information gathering or what his promise to Bowie actually mean.

Hi there LongtimeYRfan, Crashcourse and madfortv!

Sally.

Ingo Rademacher sues ABC over vaccine mandate

Just got my booster shot. The nanotech download is complete.

It's the same people writing for Y&R.

Creating a situation where Tessa and Noah successfully mate for impregnation would be a carefully calculated, premeditated plan on Mariah's part. And would be a pathetically Soapy choice for TIIC to take Mariah on her sacred journey to have a baby to replace Bowie to fix her emotionally warped life. It would crush Mariah if Tessa and Noah unite, fall in like, because they actually care about each other. Replacement Bowie will live with them, and Mariah's manipulations would be for nothing. If TIIC want to further degrade Mariah, as they have with other characters, that would do it. I've hated how Mariah has been written as an incubator, a victim of her maternity to Bowie and hormonally unbalanced. Why make Abby's stupid Baby Rabies story worse by debilitating Mariah's character too? For irrational reasons, Mariah cannot wait a year before getting pregative again, and tries to strongarm Tessa into having a baby. Tessa declines, but Mariah is not appeased. They have no home to care for a baby, and don't appear to be looking for one. Why not find a place to live and prepare that for a child and then get pregnant? What's the hurry, other than being in a hormonal and emotional storm because Mariah obsessed with Bowie? With Noah, I was hoping Mariah would have the wherewithal to see Noah was wooing Tessa and have her call him out for his crass and inappropriate behavior. Tessa needs to be informed that Noah still has feelz for her, and to be less personal with him.

‘The Young and the Restless’: 3 Reasons the Show Isn’t as Good as It Used to Be

I thought when Lily was talking with Darvon about the Chance Dot Com/NotBilly debacle, someone would suggest Darvon throw some cash in that direction. But it was <crickets>. A renamed Chance Dot Com might expand on merchandizing what Darvon has already in place at his recording company (Is that under the Hamilton/Winters corporate umbrella?). It's hard to say. Darvon doesn't appear to spend much time spinning the grindstone of billionaire corporate stuff. If something is work-related it happens in a restaurant or off his coffee table; he has no office at GCAC any longer and never refers to any member of staff. Darvon actually doing something not related to ministering to his flock at the Church of the Magic 8 Ball, ruminating about Bowie or fucking Hillary 2.0 would be a 180° change from how TIIC have been writing his character for years. <Shudder> Noah doesn't care that she's in a relationship with Mariah as long as he gets positive reinforcement from the oblivious Tessa. Noah's also got Darvon and Sharon on board with his working with Tessa -- More encouragement. Noah is becoming more enamored with Tessa and pursues contact with her regularly; he's all compliments and praise about her music. Mariah has an inkling that there's something going on but might be dismissing it because she's been emotionally off kilter for so long she doesn't know the difference between reality and emotionally-driven imaginings -- Good thing Mariah's working at Jabot where her faulty decision-making processes won't matter.

The one time you saw shades of Hillary 1.0 was when Hillz 2.0 was howling at Sutton for attempting to record damaging statements for his trial. She's still the image of Hillary 1.0, and Darvon's romance with his former wife's twin sister is still oogy. I also don't appreciate how she tries to up-sell Darvon on using her to pursue legal avenues to force what his desires are with Bowie's parental custody.

J's killing it again. Another Soap old wife's tale that babies are adult barometers of their emotional state. It's being used to stir dissention in Darvon and Mariah, both people very busy convincing themselves they are the more rational assessors of who's better able to parent Bowie. Their negative personal opinion of Abby and Chance's abilities validate their Baby Rabies. This will end badly when Darvon decides to act on his own biological interests. Death happens. Sickness happens, Broken promises and wounded feelz happen. Broken crockery, failed relationships and divorce happen. Business failures happen. Selfish, reckless parents acting badly happen. Shit happens and you can't shield your children from it, so it's best to teach them how to deal with disappointment. Darvon's history was one long sob story until he won the billionaire lottery. And since then, he's not done much. Hamilton/Winters is just talk, a name, a few phone calls, and a coffee table work area. His involvement with Nick in the Hope Springs Eternal charity is all talk. Bowie in the condo spent most of his time in the living room bassinette or touching vignettes to show Darvon has parental capabilities. He's still scanning the horizon for a legitimate excuse to take possession of Bowie, with Hillary 2.0s rabid assistance. Abby's caught herself into a Happy Family trap that doesn't allow much room for Chance's PTSD/survivor's guilt/depression. She wasn't able to deal with Mariah going off the rails over Bowie, and now Chance is dragging himself through the motions of her expectations and living in a town he's not particularly familiar with. And Genoa City has its own expectations, some are waiting for him to fall apart in order to take advantage. TIIC of Y&R are generally inept at story-telling, and kid/baby SLs can be an anchor on the progress of some Soaps. Handing them over to nannies, then to be sent to SORAS boarding school is all too common. I expect Victoria and NotBilly's children to return as hormonal teenagers when next we see them. Other than their disgusting relationship history, forcing their egotism on others, elevator fucking, bickering, spoiling for fights, video games and sport-related stories was all they had. I never expected anything more from either of them. Phyllis burned so many bridges with Daniel, I expect video chats and phone messages are as close as Daniel cares to be with his mother.

Because we don't see any of these conversations, it sounds like Abby's talking out of her hat on their security situation. It's not hard to believe that the threat of Spanish terrorists will dissipate like the threat of Stitch returning to menace Mariah and Bowie. They are so well suited to each other, it's unfortunate that TIIC are needlessly inserting Noah into their relationship because he's not over whatever happened to him in London and is inflating a fantasy romance with Tessa. For a former street person, it's odd Tessa hasn't noticed Noah is being overly attentive and complimentary toward her ... Grooming Tessa that he's a safe person to turn to while Mariah's hypervigilance is up and down, like in a prize fight with her emotions over Bowie. Mariah has the least manipulated facial features and photographs beautifully. Her skin is luminous in HD makeup. I am tired of her wearing browns and rust colors. Yeah, she said that. And at that point in the episode it was amusing, but toward the end Abby was listening to Chance talk to Nina and heard him repeat the same ineffectual phrases that he was 'fine.' People don't fake depression. They fake being fine. Whether Chance and Abby understand it or not, they have been glossing over his underlying disappointment in himself and the stigma of admitting he failed his men and mission. I think Abby finally realized that Chance's mental health/feelings of guilt were more substantial, and his ability to return to his old life was in doubt. The decorator recommended to assist us with the home we were building (Santa Monica home was destroyed in the 1994 Northridge earthquake) had a Master of Architecture and former movie set designer. She was very talented and was a great help when I needed it most. Shingles? Tinnitus? Sand in the lube? C-Span Capitol Riot Commision hearings? Hillary 2.0 complimenting and praising Phyllis that she's worthy of pursuing a relationship with Jack one more time? Gaaa! They were horrible together! Considering how much Nick enjoys holding grudges, it's hard to imagine that he's over her lying and betraying him so she could run off with her ill-gotten spoils from Fenmore's. Or is that history best brushed aside so TIIC can write another story arc that make no sense at all with two actors so inept no one gives a tinker's dam if they succeed or fail.