| Aug. 21st, 2001 @ 10:38 pm OFF TOPIC LATE NIGHT BLABBING |
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Hello my dear net friends and, well, those evil ones of you as well. (harrumph - Sage crosses his arms over his chest and frowns most fiercely). It has been a little while since I brought you up to speed on what's happening in Sageland, so I'm popping in to catch you up. If you're checking in for the soap gossip, I don't have any really right now, unfortunately, but I will be sure and post some soon, along with my take on the shows.
First off, many of you have asked to see more pics of Amelia The Beautiful, so here are a few:
Click Here to See Amelia!!!
Cam, Alice and the baby have gone back to the East Coast now and the house is super quiet. Amelia got a little jaundiced, but mom is Ms Holistic and knew to sun her a couple of times a day and get her to nurse bunches and she was pink again in no time. Mom is so well versed in natural healing (which is why all this Western Medicine Pharmaceutical Crap she's taking is really upsetting her) that she never ceases to amaze me. Her recent brush with the other side has really left me wondering what in the world we will all do without her! When Dad died, I was still a baby, so she and the girls are really all I've ever known. I can't imagine a life without her here!
She's doing really, really well, mostly due to her strong constitution. She says she just wasn't ready to go yet and has told us a wonderful story about how she bartered with Death to be able to return and in the end, Death skulked off, shaking a fist and vowing to return. Whether she made it up for our benefit, thinks it happened or it really did happen is irrelevant. It was a great story. ;) She claims that she still has another twenty years left in her and knows exactly how and when she will die. She has said this for years and so it really kind of took us by surprise when we came so close to losing her. Even though her health had been on the fritz a bit lately, it never really dawned on us that she could actually go! I tell you, the dawning comes really fast when you hear that damned machine flatline in midconversation! Go hug your mother! Do it now!!
We keep catching her trying to pare down her meds, so we have to make sure she's taking all she's supposed to. She says it makes her unfocused and shaky. I tell her being in her 70's makes her unfocused and shakey and she just snarls at me and barks and pulls at her chain. (Just kidding about that part, but I DID say the 70's thing - snick). She is still too weak to come downstairs and watch the shows with me in the living room like we used to, so I go up with her and take her lunch and a martini (she's had a martini at lunch every day for as long as I can remember - she started using three olives like Katherine Bell at one point and decided it was dumb because she hates olives and stopped) and we watch them together on her little black and white set. She starts to get pretty tired around General Hospital time, so I usually end up watching the last of it alone while she naps. I'd pay big money for her to wake up some day and find RKK or Stephen Nichols giving her a foot massage (she's probably have another heart attack). Hell, I'd pay big money for ME to wake up to the same thing! ;)
The sisters have been a big help, especially Kye who comes over whenever her hubby is around to take the girls. Ginger kept pushing for me to get out of the house, but really, I don't have anywhere to go! I've cut out almost all of the salon appointments because I don't want hoards of people coming by and waking mom. I only do private clientele, but I have a full schedule most afternoons and nights (Sage does NOT do mornings! No, no, no!) I should be able to go back to work in a week or so if she keeps improving as she is. I'm not a club person and other than the clients, I don't really see many people. I've always been a bit of a hermit and I found it to be even more so as I've gotten older. I get really uncomfortable around the population at large and tend to avoid crowds. The part of California where we live is very green and earthy, so I take long walks to breathe the air and get some negative ions from the stream behind our house. Even as a child, I never went out much. Mom and the girls home schooled me until I was in high school and then I went to public schools, which SUCKED out loud. I was really struck by what bafoons most of the people were and the names they called and the way they acted. Really, no class at all. I found a few friends, most of whom I still have good contact with, and we worked hard to disappear into the walls until we graduated.
The internet was fun because I could socialize without leaving the house. I say WAS fun because I'm a little soured on it as of late. I love all my dear darlings to DEATH, but I was totally unprepared for the dark side of being an ABC soap columnist. I thought what would happen is that I would have a little column where I yakked to my net pals (that'd be you folks) about what's going on with the soaps, who's saying what, who's thinking what, what could happen, what will happen and such and it'd be like girlfriends yammering over liquor and cookies, kind of like me and mom. In fact, I thought of it as being like me and mom times a thousand. It was SOOOO fun hearing from everyone and getting so much e-mail and bantering with all of you, then HE came along. HE being (drum roll please) Evil, evil Maurice Benard. Well, really, I don't know that Maurice Benard is evil, although I wouldn't want to be on his bad side when that bi-polar stuff started kicking in. The situation was evil because I called up my cousin (I won't say who or where, because then some of you will be bugging the crap out of him, plus, he could get fired for telling me what he does) who works on the GH set and said, "Doll, what can you tell me about this whole MB walk out biz?" He checked it out and got back to me and every time he has told me something, it's turned out to be RIGHT. Then Katrina got with her new source that she hooked up with at the luncheon and babam! I put out the MB info. I was TOTALLY unprepared for the wild scrutiny that came out in force! People questioning my reliability, slamming me on message boards (One HAG had the gall to say, "He's fun to read, but I heard not to take him seriously." ??!! Someone ELSE said that I was not RELIABLE!!), and freaking out because my sweet Aida and Laura Gedstern took an opposite stance on the situation!! I was?agog. I had no clue it would ever be brutal. THEN it seemed like it just kept getting deeper. I posted a thingy saying that I knew they had printed something different, but I had other sources and blah blah blah and then I got ANOTHER wave, this one thinking I was discrediting Laura! Whoa! For a little boy who was raised in a Never Never Land of almost zero negativity (except for *that* time of the month around all those wimmin), it was a real shock! Katrina apologized and said she should have better prepared me (damn straight, she should have!!), but I can't blame her. With all the crap I see of people attacking one another on the message boards, I should have figured it would happen. Anyway, I'm just glad that's all in the past and I am going to cringe from now on any time some MB info comes my way. Now he's doing his usual retraction after the fact crap and trying to make us all look like morons. ANYway.
So mom's getting better, the evil and nasty letter writers and posters seem to be temporarily quiet and I'm going to do my best to dig up some dirt during this oddly quiet time. There's not much around on ANY of the three shows I've found!
Also, after a deep conference with Gedstern the other day, I want to tell everyone to be VERY careful of what you take as fact when you are hearing those rumors fly around. Basically, if it sounds like psychotic BS when you read it on a message board or where ever, it probably is, so don't waste your time puzzling whether or not it's true. PLEASE keep your head on straight and remember that everything you hear, until it comes from ABC (read: God's mouth), is gossip, plain and simple. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. There is a big wave of negativity out there that WANTS THEIR WAY, dammit and they aren't happy until they have pulled every dirty trick in the book to get it. I can understand wanting things to change, but this whole militia mentality of burning JFP at the stake (that'd be the GH executive producer) is really weirding me out. I love my GH, but lord, it's just a SHOW, for crying out loud! Eat a few valium, get some sleep, comb your hair, lovey, wash your face, put on your eyebrows and whatever else suffices for your make up and CALM DOWN!! Just kick back and relax and talk with me about the shows as though they really are a fictional town with fictional characters. (Sweet pea, obviously if your hair is already nicely coiffed, you have your eyebrows and you are well filled with valium, I'm not talking to you. I'm only advising those out there who have decided that this is a big CAUSE to rule their life and scrutinize every word anyone says about it rather than having some perspective) When we start taking this all so seriously and it suddenly because Life'sWork instead of entertainment, all of the joy goes out of it. I'll always do my best to give you just the good stuff, but honey, if I have to censor and double check and beat my tidbits to death before I give them to the world for fear that I might get some minor part wrong and be crucified for it by the frothing-mouthed, rabid freak fans, then I'm just not having any fun any more! I want to just talk freely, tell you what I've heard and laugh about it. If that makes me unreliable, then so be it. That's why this is a GOSSIP column and not ABC HEADLINE NEWS!
I'm back to myself again after putting on the armor and going to battle and I will tell you flat out, I'm NOT going into those trenches again. As it says on my intro page, Sage is a lover, not a fighter and I, the peaceful warrior, refuse to play those evil little games again.
I've got to go sit and chant about "all is peace and love" for a few hours, so I'll leave you to your evening, whatever that might be.
Once again I'm?
Feelin' the Love,
Sage |
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