Patti

but his last day is February 16th, according to soaps.com.

now maybe they can remove Justin’s nose from Hope’s butt.  I love Wally Kurth, but Justin and Hope….absolutely not.  Besides, it’s obvious that Hope does not share his feelings and is trying to let him down easy, but like a bothersome little gnat, he just won’t go away.  Maybe Adrienne will snap him back into reality.  But, in all likelihood, they will wait until Hope gets so fed up, disgusted and distraught that she decides, ‘what the hell,’ and falls into Justin’s waiting arms….just in time for Adrienne to walk through the door.

to Stefano a while back that he (E.J.) had everything put in his name when Stefano was in a coma, and that everything Stefano owned, including the mansion, was now in E.J.’s name.  Of course, IRL that could never happen without an irrevocable power of attorney giving E.J. the right to do as he wished with Stefano’s property should he become incapacitated and unable to handle his own affairs.  But, I remember E.J. telling Stefano that a few months back.  Of course, Stefano probably reversed E.J.’s power by putting Kate’s name on  everything when they wed and he had his new will drawn up.  So,  wouldn’t that be a good enough reason for Stefano to be laughing so heartily when he got the eviction notice, because perhaps he, and he alone, knows that he corrected the ownership situation when he married Kate; that, plus the fact that he suspected  E.J. was turning on him?  That would certainly make my day.  Then, he could throw E.J. out on his royal rump, and that would just make me smile from ear to ear.

for Ciara’s actions.  She may be only 5 years old, but she knows what has been happening between her parents.  They’ve both been using her in a tug-of-war to satisfy their own selfish needs, and it is slowly destroying this child.  Children her age may be somewhat resilient to certain bad situations, but when that situation rips away their security blanket, in this case the two people Ciara loves most in the entire world, the repercussion that follows is often devastating to the child.  I feel so sorry for Ciara, and if she does spiral out of control, both Bo and Hope will have to start pointing the finger of guilt in the right direction….the mirror.  As for Carly, if she really wanted to leave, the needy *itch would and should have before her careless disregard for Ciara’s meltdown ever reached this point.  She knew Ciara didn’t want her there; instead she put this baby’s feelings aside because she IS weak and needy, and honestly, all three of them disgust me.

with Vivian was the infamous Mr. Lee.  What does everyone think Mr. Lee prepared for her, so very very quickly, I might add.  Does anyone think it could be that the antique necklace Viv is loaning to Melanie will either contain, or perhaps be laced with, some type of poison?  Whatever it was, it was certainly much smaller than a breadbox, so I’m guessing some sort of poisoned item that will give a whole new meaning to "something old, something new…….".

because I read where he now is going to fake her death just so that he can keep control of the situation.  What a piece of work he is.  He’s much worse than Stefano, IMO.  I just wish they would write Stefano the way he used to be (without the sci-fi actions, of course), because they have turned him into a mere shadow of what he once was.  E.J. would never get away with what he is doing if they brought the old Phoenix back.  Joe M. can’t be pleased, I would think.

Mia says she is there to say thank you. The DA is clueless, "Chad told me you were out of his life."

"Chad invited me to Vancouver,"  "I just wanted to say thank you."

(I would have to take that as not only an invitation, but an acceptance as well.  She knew exactly what she was doing and what his reaction would be.)