I don't know whether my baby is a boy or girl. I should be able to find out December 14th. I'm rooting for a girl. At first I wanted a boy, but the more I think about it, the more freaked out I am about that! What do I know about boys? The way their minds work are frakkin mysteries! And bugs and camping? Eew. I think not. So, while my husband is begging God to give him a boy to play catch with, I'm visioning flowers and fairies... and Soap Operas.
I bet that last little bit... about Soaps... made you look twice, am I right? Well, read on and I shall explain.
I have watched General Hospital my entire life. By entire life, I mean I probably came out of the womb recognizing Luke and Laura Spencer's voices from my mother watching it. My first actual memory of GH was when I was about 5 years old. It was a wedding. Whose? Please, that was 15 years ago, like I remember that!
So, I grew up watching GH. I watched it with my aunt, and then my grandma. I even watched it with my mom when I moved back in with her. When my Goddaughter was a baby, I would have her watch it with me.
When I moved out of my moms at 17 and in with my best friend, we watched it together. She also grew up on it. As did her mother, who watched it with her mom.
To me, watching GH my whole life is a tradition I treasure a great deal. Perhaps it's why I write fan fiction in the first place. Because it's comfy. It's cozy. It reminds me of times when I would throw a pillow across the room in frustration, or laugh till I cry at another memory.
It's a tradition I want a little girl to share with. I want a sweet daughter to watch GH with. I want her to look back, in 20 some odd years, and say that watching soaps with her mom changed her life. It's a wonderful bonding time for girls to get together and cry, laugh, get pissed, or mourn together over close friends who are in their homes an hour a day, five days a week. Call me crazy, but I find it so cool to look over the past 10 years or so, and look the characters have grown, and look at how I've grown.
You're probably wondering why instead of constant blabbing about GG, it's about GH lately here. No, I'm not stopping watching GG or anything. I've been waiting 7 years for my favorite couple to get together. I'm 20. Almost 1/2 of my life has been spent pining for this couple to be together. And now, Liz and Jason are having a baby together. That's what makes it all worth it. Sticking through the lame plots, actor changes, and decades, just to watch your favorite couple get together.
That's why I want a little girl. I want to share a silly little tradition of watching General Hospital with her as we grow together. And someday, I want to watch it with my granddaughter.
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Aw. That's so sweet. That's great. I used to watch Soap Operas with my mom but she stopped watching them so, I ended up stop watching 'cause I was like 7 and didn't know what I was watching, just knew that I liked it, lol. But anyway, I think that's really cool you want to do that if you have a little girl.
Memories like that never fade.
Kelli
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