These are the Days of Our Lives
Coordinating schedules with the Musketeers this week has made me a bit nostalgic. I was thinking about the old days…and not just the good old days…the good old Days! Days of Our Lives! I remember walking home from Junior Highschool with the girls, anticipation for the upcoming show at a high, and talking about Bo and Hope and Steve and Kayla….being a sucker for an accent, my candy couple-of-choice was Shane and Kimberly. That Brittish boy is still a good looking man, even if he gave up steamier rolls for playing opposite the likes of Fran Drescher. Still, as much as I crushed on Steve at 11 and 12 years old, sitting here at my computer 25 years later I couldn’t remember much about their lives really. We watched these people daily for so long, and now I had no idea what happened to those fictional families. It’s not a great loss, I’m sure, but it is odd to realize that I can tell you all about the people I’ve read about in books, and even those movies that I somehow find a stolen weekend to watch…I can give you all kinds of details about those short-lived character encounters, but what about the Days of my youth? Nope. Sort of lost in the fogs of time.
As I was listening to my Playlist while doing data entry, a memory sparked. Sitting on the bus with the girls on our way to, I have no idea where, and the love song came over the radio. Aww. All of us melted! It was true love. The real forever love represented in lyrics and melody. Remember that we were 10 years old at the time, and I’m sure the fact that we probably weren’t supposed to be watching shows like that on top of the fact that we were love crazy pre-teens with random misfires of hormones who all fell in love with nearly every decent looking boy on the block, and you might understand why upon hearing that testiment to eros we got excited shivers.
Hmm…headphones on, data entry pauses…what was that song again?
I had to do a google search. After 25 years, I was a little fuzzy, remember?! AH! Friends and Lovers! Right!
I added the song to my playlist with a smile and then thought…I wonder if there’s a video? YouTube, here I come! No true video on file, per se, but so many fans of the show and the couples have created their own cliptastic videos from their favorite episodes. (Some people have way too much time on their hands!) I clicked on one and couldn’t believe the sheer volume of makeup and hair, for BOTH characters, but laughed at the memories again. Ahh…L-shaped sheets. As a marrid woman of a certain age, I’m still surprised that I don’t remember more of these scenes! If tv has only gotton worse morally over the last 25 years, I’m pretty glad that my watching is restricted to Disney and the History channel!
Why the telescope Shane? And why did Kimberly always so confused or trapped?
Another quick detour to Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_and_Kimberly
WHOAH NELLY! Murder, abuse, betrayal, intrigue, marriage, children with questionable paternity…How do I not remember any of this hooey?! He he he. Well, I guess I can see why the show has been on the air since 1965, but, MAN! I can also see how much better my life is for not continuing the teenage crushes on Steve and Patch into the new century! I’m quite happy to have glazed over the strange bits and will move on with a partial memory that cracks me up and makes me smile at the silly me of 1983.
Ahhh…the good old Days!
Okay yes…I had a huge crush on Shane too. But remember when he got amnesia and then somehow (maybe Kimberly left the show???) he ended up with Kayla! Ugh. That ticked me off. And remember Marlena and Roman? How many times did Marlena die? For heavens sake! I watched “Days” clear up till my 1st year of college when I just got too busy. I wandered back in a little during my days of working at Marriott. It was always on during my break. But by then Marlena was possessed by the devil and it was just too idiotic to continue. But honestly, I don’t really dare watch it now….for fear that it might suck me back in again. Cause you know that some of those same characters are still there…even now!
She never knew until much, much later that I had this fixation with a soap opera that I had started watching back in 5th or 6th grade!
And yes, I do remember rushing home after school to watch. But I had to hide it from my mom.
Fun youtube. Made me smile and brought back memories.
I know! The whole thing about dating your ex-wife’s sister? Blech…although…for a little while I think I remember being okay with it because THEY were both nice, and Patch and Kimberly were bad guys at that point. They all deserved each other or something. I cringe in guilt that I know THAT much anymore!
I stopped on IMDB in my search for Kimberly’s name and realized that they list every character and the number of episodes they were in. Marlena is the senior character at this point, I believe, with over a thousand episodes to her credit. It’s crazy! I’m sure some of the characters have been there longer, but she has been played by the same actress for all these years and gets major credits for sticking it out and not dying or coming back with a new face or antyhing.
Crazy!