farewell GL

Okay I admit it, I watch Guiding Light. Or as of later today, past tense, watched.

I’ve tried other soaps and just none of them even vaguely pull me light Guiding Light always has. It’s an addiction.

I started watching it close to 30 years ago. Thirty. 3. 0.

My mother watched it back then and I would sneak a peek, and eventually got hooked. Luckily I would get home from school just before it started at 3pm everyday so I rarely missed it during it 80’s heyday.

Reva and Josh, Philip and Beth, Tony and Annabelle, Maureen and Ed. Lujack, swoon. Fletcher Reade. Oh my. The bad guys Roger and Alan.

I stopped watching in the mid-late 90s. I just didn’t have time, and there was no such thing as a DVR. But I just couldn’t stay away and started again when I had Josh, and began working from home, and well, got a TIVO. Yup, now you all think soap watching, bon bon eating, stay at home mom. I’m okay with that.

But it’s over. Guiding Light ends today, after 72 years on the air. That just kinda bums me out.

Do I find another soap? Or give up on them forever?

Fess up, you watch one too, right? Was it Guiding Light, or is it one of the many other soaps that sucks you in?

September 18, 2009 | Filed Under tv Tagged ,

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5 Responses to “farewell GL”

  1. Shannon on September 18th, 2009 10:25 am

    I love The Young and The Restless! Thanks to TIVO, I can watch it whenever I want and it never gets old! It is fantastic and terrible and a great way for me to turn my mind off when I have the chance!

  2. mumma boo on September 18th, 2009 5:05 pm

    GL was one of my mom’s favorites. I stopped watching soaps in college when it became apparent that my addiction to Days was ruining my GPA. ;)

  3. moonspun on September 18th, 2009 5:54 pm

    I DID at one point watch General Hospital and Days of Our Lives. But a while ago….they were a bit too…addicting for me!
    Sorry for your GL loss…

  4. Carla on September 18th, 2009 10:54 pm

    I have just been heartsick over the whole thing all week long and have cried everyday except for today, the last one. It was done nice.

  5. Leighann of Multi-Minding Mom on September 21st, 2009 7:35 am

    I watched Young and the Restless and Guiding Light while in college and grad school.

    I also watched for a while after getting my first job. Back then it was a way to decompress when I came home at the end of the workday.

    I haven’t watched a soap opera in 10 years. But I bet if I turned on either one, I would be up to speed within minutes.