Boogie Chillen
February 8-9, 2006

LOD:
Kendall to Zach: "... and then you waved that magic Love Wand ..." BWAHAHAHAHA!!! It was supposed to be a serious moment, but that just cracked me up and took me right OUT of the moment :-)

Let me get this straight -- Erica is ON CAMERA doing a promo for the ball and asking for people to call in donations when Greg Madden inserts himself into the scene and asks for a dance. She politely declines in a way that ANYONE watching would understand is a brush- off, but he insists, shows her a big check and says he would see that it got into the right hands if she danced with him, implying no-dancee/no-checkee. So basically, he just blackmailed her into dancing with him -- on live TV. She should have snapped her fingers for bodyguards to haul him away, not caved in to let everyone out in TV land that she can be so easily had.

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LOVED, LOVED, LOVED JaNut's solution as to what to do with the mask- on-a-stick when she didn't feel like holding onto it -- she stuck it down the front of her dress (with the mask part sticking out of the top) -- ROTFLMAO!!!! She is SO resourceful!

How is it that so many people at the ball can overhear so many other people (who are NOT yelling), even when they're on a different FLOOR than they are? With so much music and talking and other background noises, most people wouldn't even be able to hear the person standing right NEXT to them without yelling or talking directly into their ear (with a hand cupped over it).

Ryan is supposed to be such a savvy businessman and he stops at nothing to achieve his goals (i.e., to control every person he sees, particularly if it's a woman), but he (and his sister) show a complete inability to supervise Jonathan OR do anything WHATSOEVER to help rehabilitate him! Jonathan and Lily's love may be sweet, but he is MUCH too old for her and he has shown a SERIOUS lack of self-control in many, MANY situations. Ryan and Erin are so hell- bent on telling him at every opportunity that he's a "good boy" and that he never does anything wrong that they see no reason to ever do more than pat him on the head when he DOES do anything wrong. I'm shocked that Ryan is even trying to tell him that having a relationship with Lily is inappropriate, that Jack will not allow it, and that Jack's wishes should be respected. After all, Lily is a minor and a mentally-challenged one at that.

Why hasn't Ryan put Jonathan in some kind of school or outpatient rehab? He doesn't even see a shrink, as far as we know, and God knows he NEEDS one, if only to help sort through his NEW life challenges, never mind a childhood of abuse and an adulthood of mayhem that he perpetrated on other people. Ryan didn't even seem to know that Jonathan spends time in a life-skills class with Lily. Don't people have to sign up (and PAY) for something like that? Is it like an AA meeting where you can just walk in off the street? Wouldn't some forms have to be filled out? If the attendees need the class in the first place, that's a pretty good indication that there should be some sort of guardian figure that knows they are there. Jonathan only went there in the first place because LILY dragged him in with her one day, not because his family did anything to help him. It just bugs the shit out of me that he is left adrift to sort through everything by himself, day after day and his family let's him do anything he wants with few boundaries or guidelines and they just give in whenever he stomps his feet. Two-year-olds stubbornly want to do everything by themselves, too, but most parents don't LET them do it unless they think the toddler is READY to try (and or learn), and THEN they supervise them.

Robin "the Laverys are HOPELESS" Coutellier