Seeking God Knows What

I started watching Days of Our Lives one summer about 14 years ago when my parents went to Europe for work my dad was doing on a international trade agreement for tropical woods and I was stuck home watching my youngest sister and couldn’t drive yet.

Obviously during the school year I could never watch it except on vacations but when I went to college, my roommate and I had an arrangement with the girls across the hall where they would tape it-their tv had better picture quality via “rabbit ears”- and we would watch it together after our classes. We were so obsessed with it that we bought soap opera fan magazines and created a “Days” wall by plastering cut out pictures to our dorm room wall. I still have pictures of the wall and nearly every square inch was covered with the pictures.

I’ve watched it on and off over the years, depending on work schedules and so on. I hadn’t watched it in ages until a couple of weeks ago when Widget was still sleeping at 1 PM and I flipped it on. I had to laugh because one of the story lines is exactly the same as it was when I first started watching it with Austin, Carrie, Sami and Lucas - each secretly wanting one person but “stuck” with another. Some things never change!