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I'm so happy you're pain has decreased. It sounds like your surgery was a success, early days, I know. Here's deeply hoping you continue to heal quickly and with as little discomfort as possible. Thanks so much for letting us know.

Second favorite part of the Show for me today was gloriously chuckling, self-satisfied EJ, playing district attorney as if he was in a high end stakes game of Risk. There's something about Dan leaning in to EJ's joy about being an evil prick that just makes me smile. Total Favorite part of the Show today, though, was Belle, just as joyously, pricking EJ's vengeance balloon and taking all the air out of it. Both of them had a bounce in their step I haven't seen for quite some time. So how exactly does a time capsule, buried in a grave, exactly work? Anyone digging it up in the future is going to look like a grave robber. Not that that's exactly unbelievable in Salem. Also, why would a Horton time capsule now be devoted solely to the memory of Abigail? Or does her annoying personality cancel everyone else out even after death? I was hoping somebody would have remembered to throw her virginity ring in there with the rest of the stuff.

Today's episode made me misplace my snark. The Abbott house, which, as Joimiaroxeu said so well, made me fall into my feelz, along with that Christmas music in the background. Then, Jack's talk with Traci about Dina, and those flashbacks, made me miss the character and her portrayer, Marla Adams, all over again. I didn't always love the storylines they gave to Dina but always loved seeing her onscreen. But, and there's always a but, Claire and Kyle's schmoopy shortcake of a date made me think of mostly of Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein, again. Maybe not exactly the romantic image you want to project, eh, Show? Sticking with that theme, taking advice from Esther is like asking for directions from Igor.

No, I think you got everyone. That list reminds me, though, how did she miss getting with Nick? He's never more than a scene or two between women.

Currently, only Nate, as far as what we've seen.

Uh oh. Claire's doomed. Any soap character who says, out loud, that she "loves her life" is due to go over a waterfall without a barrel.

I don't buy her not crying at other times, either. She must have burst into uncontrollable sobbing after having whateverthehell she was doing with Kyle. He should put more clothes ON when he gets in bed, not take anything off. Speaking of Kyle, Diane must be seeing the wisdom of either having at least two children, or none at all, by now. Let me see if I've got this right....... so Billy Le Rump Muffin goes into some sustained rant, using Jack as a human handkerchief to catch all his exploding bile, telling Jack that he's cut off, barred from the biscuit, denied sinus entry, that he's no longer allowed to sled on the slippery slope of Billy's rocky ski run of a soul and that's supposed to somehow make Jack unhappy?? Jack just got his Get out of Jail Free card! Bill is just as wise as he is sexay. If you're in need of imagining something both mentally grueling and also soul-killingly dull, imagine spending an entire work day with just Nikki, Claire and Esther. I believe that's forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

He always seems permanently depressed. He could lower the temp in a walk in freezer. As for John Paul Lavosier, I just can't with this guy. Ron C., once again, managed to recruit one of the worst, most tic prone actor from OLTL and bring him to Salem. JPL has managed to get even worse from his Llanview days. He makes me yearn for the good old days when people got buried alive in Salem.

Frozendiva, thanks so much for letting us know. Believe me, you've been missed. I second what DisneyBoy said. We're pulling for you!!!

Hey, don't worry about it. What I do know about hair? Except I miss having any. Maybe that shark in Fiji was her stylist?

Agreed. Being part of the Winters gang seems more like punishment detail these days. All that marshmallow talk from Lily about her realizing that working with family was all she really wanted after all, and fulfilling her father's "legacy", whatever the F that means, just shoved her back into the pack of emotionally stunted 40ish year olds in GC who have to live in their families back pockets. I try to like Devon, I really do, and sometimes I succeed. But I think he's always going to be that guy at the party, the one married to a friend of yours, who you can never really figure out what the HELL she sees in him, the one you all take turns talking to because nobody really wants to get stuck with the guy for long. Abby's hair looks great. Oh yeah, one more thing. Billy said to Sally that he'd had a tough day. Doing what, exactly? Was he polishing his nasal walls? Raising his forehead? Opening his own Jaboutique Whinery? Or does he now consider an all day pity party to be a job? If he goes for Phyllis over Sally, Show better insert a laugh track.

I think this was when Ava was actually introduced to Days, wasn't it? Better minds than mine please correct...... Ava glommed on to Steve when the Brady family was in Ireland and she sabatoged the plane to stop them from flying home to Salem. The plane did take off but started to fail midflight. Before it crashed, Shawn gave his own oxygen mask to Bo to save him and then Shawn died in the crash. I'm barely watching Show since Doug's funeral, other than the last few scenes with KA, and what I've been able to catch of Steve and Kayla. I have little interest in the rest. I did tune in to see somebody, finally, put a bullet into that played out villian, Clyde, so I caught a bit of the rescue of Cat's mother. I just don't care. Maybe that will change but Show, once again, puts all this effort into trying to drum up interest and suspense in the rescue and reconciliation of characters we've either never seen before or seen very little of, like the Greene siblings. They could all disappear tomorrow and I wouldn't care, though I'd miss Aaron's goofy likeability. Cat might be good, I like the actress, but so far I don't see much life between her and Chad and her introduction story has been dreadful IMO. Now, wondering where Abby's body is just seems distasteful, at best. At worse, it indicates that character will probably reappear at some point, which I really don't want. But mostly, I just don't care very much. Good job, Ron C.

Now wasn't that special? Granny Goldbricks had some lowly department store drones bring over oodles and uggles of goodies so Claire can look her part when she starts climbing her way to the top at Chancellor by starting at the top. What an arduous climb it will be! There's the look Granny was going for! Impress those peasants. Victor is the most odious he's been in years. Everyone kowtows to him, at least those unlucky enough to have a blood relationship to him and all that fawning makes them look pretty pathetic. Claire, at least, stood her ground. She also looked about as eager to spend time alone with him as she would a sewer line break. I'm wondering if Claire is going to be the victim of whatever Jordan and Uncle Festus are planning? Are they going to do something that makes her choose between saving Nikki or some other Newman, or Kyle? Will she then end up the victim? Inquiring minds are barely interested. One other thing from today's show. I was disappointed, though not surprised, that Show ultimately made Lily go back to Winters, made it that the Boys Club ultimately knew what was best for the little lady. May they all get a really bad case of jock itch.

I bet her airbag hates her, too. I'm waiting for that weird dolly thingy they've got hanging on the wall at Crimson Lights to climb down one day and strangle Phyllis with her overworked vowels. Another day, another retread of the same shit. In this episode, we even got repeats, a variation on a theme in the SAME episode. In one scene, Sharon says she's going to be hypnotized, Faith, Mariah and Nick express doubts but then agree to go along with it. Then, a few scenes later, Sharon says she's going to be hypnotized, Faith and Nick act like this is news to them, and not good news. Either short term memory loss is now a Genoa City epidemic or they're all toked up beyond belief. I'm sorry, but Ian and Jordan are about as scary as angry shoppers at a Ross Dress for Less Tuesday Senior Discount Day. In fact, I've been far more frightened in the check out lane there than I would be if I saw those two coming at me. Not to be outdone in the "how many times must we see this" department, we had to watch Billy moan and groan again because Jack didn't kiss his booboo and make the pain go away, or in other words, sooth his ruffled feathers with another job he doesn't deserve. It wouldn't so hard to take if he wasn't always so unpleasant about it, and so goddamned rude to Jack. He's as tiresome and entitled as Kyle and sometimes almost as self-centered and self-impressed as that old toad,Victor. Lauren........ I know it's a soap and I know we don't expect reality, but I would love to JUST ONCE, see anyone dressed like Lauren - or Phyllis, for that matter - walk down the main street of a small Wisconsin town. Just once.

No need to apologize, you were just stating some intriguing options if Show hopefully decides to revise this family's origin story away from what was, for many of us, a prolonged and unneeded storyline centered around Konstantin. Being tied to him, at this point, isn't advantageous to these new characters. ETA - If Show goes the route you've outlined, I vote for Steve. It'd fit with the disdain he had for Konstantin from the outset, and would give him something to do. To me, Steve feels underutilized and would give him a focus other than the rarely seen Black Patch.