Oh happy day!!!

Growing up with a sister that is 11 years older than you often leads to being introduced to things that you probably shouldn't be introduced to at such a young age. Back in 1990 when Sister #1 was 16 years old our house was TPed, by her friends I assume because Sister #2 was only 7 and I was just 5. Being the smart business woman that she is, Sister #1 thought it a great idea to convince her little sisters that she would pay them to clean up the toilet paper that we could reach. I had lawn duty. The monetary value of all my five year old hard work? A nickel.

When I was 10, Sister #1 informed me that I was old enough to learn how to do her laundry because I could finally reach the knobs on the machine. That led to the world of fold and distribute, which isn't a fun world in the least.

The fun thing that the sister introduced me to, and that I have clung to ever since, was soap operas. Often when I was little, we would sit in her room and watch tv together while she painted my nails with hot pink peel off nail polish. Funny the things you remember. While they dried, depending on the time of day, I'd catch glimpses of 90210 or Melrose Place or Days of Our Lives or General Hospital. The first time that I can remember watching the daytime soaps was when I was about 6 years old and I got home from school and General Hospital was on. That was back in 1991 when the mob didn't control the whole show, when Jagger and Karen and Brenda were all best friends and Sonny still owned his night club, not the Coffee Warehouse.
I can't tell you everything that happened in the interim years, or the correct way it happened, but I can remember almost every scene from my favorite couples. Every generation has their most memorables and favorites, for some that's, the now defunct, Luke and Laura. Others it might be Steve and Audrey Harding. Personally, I have two, L&L2, otherwise known as Liz and Lucky, and Liason, AKA Liz and Jason. They both come with contingency plans. Liz and Lucky were only Liz and Lucky when Jonathan Jackson was playing Lucky. They are, and will always be, the original and my favorite, but since JJ went off the canvas I turned into a lover of Liason. Mostly because TPTB and the writers turned Lucky into a joke so I needed somebody for my favorite girl.

The Lucky Spencer that I grew up with, and can now relive thanks to the power of youtube, was impulsive, often going on cons with his father, lived in a boxcar until he moved to a shotty apartment, was completely in love with Elizabeth Webber and sang, albeit a horrible song, but sang nonetheless. Since his 'death' on the show back in '99, Lucky has turned into a bumbling idiot of a cop (something that NEVER would've happened with the old Lucky because he HATED cops), adulterer drug addict. He turned into somebody that I, as a fan, couldn't stand behind. It was an injustice to the character that had been built, and to the actors that came after JJ, and to the fans that grew to love him.

Hopefully, after a very long time, that is about to change. The news today, rumoured for weeks and finally confirmed, is that Jonathan Jackson is coming back to portray the boy grown into a man that I've loved since I was 8 years old. There's a lot of speculation and worry going around about the fact that just because we get our favorite portrayer back doesn't mean that the terrible writing is going to magically fix itself. Maybe it will and maybe it won't, but it sure as shit makes it a lot easier to do flashbacks. Now, when Liz and Lucky get married, again times 3, they can flashback to their first kiss and date and skip the other weddings that really didn't count any way.

We'll see in November if the chemistry is still there between my two favorite people, but if not then I'll just have to pretend for the sake of JJ. He's just too perfect to hate.