Maggie's Mouthful
by Maggie (Maggie13@bellsouth.net)


I have a new obsession. There I said it. O-b-s-e-s-s-i-o-n.
I never thought I'd love a show the way I love LnC, I never thought
I'd print out pictures, search out fan sites, read message boards,
or try to figure out how to turn a bitmap into an icon for
anything other than the love of Dean.

I was wrong. Not even, oops, missed a spot kind of wrong, more like
Y2K adjust your computers, re-launch your programs, hold everything, the
world stops at 9pm, kind of wrong.

You see it all started at 8pm, I was watching a little Novela (Spanish
soap) called, uhm, "The Usurper" (Good girl takes bad woman's
place, saves family business, cures family troubles, falls in love
with bad woman's husband and.....well, you get the idea....)
Well, I was Ms. Happy-Go-Lucky having fun at 8 always ignoring the previews
for "The Lie--La Mentira" at 9pm (on Univision, in case you are wondering).

Then one day, Veronica and Demetrio (Vero is like Truth in Italian
apparently and Demeter is the goddess of home and hearth and the guy is an
Agricultural Engineer, nifty eh?) were having an argument, tuned in for 5
minutes. The next day, maybe 10 minutes, then I said to myself, Oh! that's
too much TV, just forget that 9 O'clock thing.
I mean it's not as if I don't have columns to write or bags to pack, or 50
other things I could be doing.

So, I'm in New York in a hotel room calling my mom to check in right? It's
a little after 9, I have Party of Five in the background as I dial. My mom
picks up the phone (after she hears it's me, ofcourse, far be it from her
to actually *answer* the phone before the answering machine does its duty).
And my mother, who has never watched a soap opera of her own free will in
the history of her ever-so-lovely life tells me, and I quote,
"Oh! can't talk now, he has a gun!"
exasperated me-- "Huh?"
"He has a gun! and they are arguing, go put it on NOW"

That was it. And it's all my mother's fault. You see, Demetrio married
Veronica
to avenge his brother's death only thing is she had nothing to do with it.
He then fell
head over heels in love with her right about the time he shattered her
heart in a million little pieces. He is now in
I-must-win-her-back-or-die-mode and it's just *loads* of fun!

(Oh, and the gun thing, in case you are concerned, turned out just fine,
*she* actually gave him the gun because she was really mad and said
fine, if you want to kill me, here. just get your revenge over with,
because I'm
not going to live like this anymore---she left, he found out the truth,
went after
her to beg for forgiveness and is still groveling)

And how exactly is this related to Lois and Clark you might be asking
yourself
right about. . . now. Well, because *everything* is, isn't it? :o)
But I've already babbled enough as it is so I'll skip the Soulmates lecture
and go straight to the quotes.

There is this evil girl who is very materialistic and they are trying
to give her a bad time (think Mindy Church combined with Lana Lang,
*very* annoying). They are all out to dinner and her husband tells her
he is giving up his inheritance and moving to the country.
Demetrio lives in the country and has a huge hacienda where they
make Tequila, the evil girl thinks she'll live in the equivalent
of a Mansion, and asks what her house will be like.
Demetrio tells her, Oh, don't worry, your house
will be fine. It has no floor and the roof is, well,
gone with the wind, but don't you worry, You'll love it!

Kind of hard to translate, but in Spanish, it was better than
Frasier!

In another Episode Demetrio finds out from some Hospital
papers that his wife, Veronica, is pregnant. They are still
estranged so he goes to her office to see her.

He asks her if she didn't notice anything out of the
ordinary in the Tests they took at the hospital. She says no.
He says well, here are the test results. She says thank you.
He asks her if she knows what she has, she says, I don't have
anything, I feel great, are you finished yet?

He says there is something the tests found that interests
him greatly. She says, Oh, really? (first season Lois has *nothing*
on this girl!)

Then he says, with a sneaky looking kind of smile, well, don't you
crave anything? Like an ice cream, or a chocolate cake? Because I sure
do. Veronica, we're pregnant.

That was *so* sweet. Wrote my whole column just to get to that little
quote!

Hope you all found it as waffy as I did...................