They're blowing out my Light

I am really upset that my all time favorite show ever, The Guiding Light, is going off the air. I know ya'll are thinking, it's just a soap opera. But think of it like a book you are really into, you don't want the story to end. However, on Friday, September 18 (while I'm on my way to WDW) CBS will air the final episode of my story.

I have been watching as long as I can remember. Some of my favorite characters were on in the 1980s, like Roger & Holly. And Nola.

I mean I feel like I know the Bauer, Spaulding, Chamberlain, Reardon, Raines, Lewis & Cooper families. In fact, some of the things that happen on the show kind of remind me of things that on go around here in our extended social circle. The writers also share my love of using family names for the children. Marah, Shanye, Coop. A family friend's son played young James a couple of years ago, he's Sass's age & now James is 18.

Guiding Light has been on radio/TV for 72 years. And they are cancelling it. And replacing it with Wayne Brady's version of Let's Make a Deal. Who is in charge at CBS? Obama? Cancel Bold & the Beautiful, now there's some crazy folks. Plus, there's not enough families involved in the story lines.

Ever since the Semi-Slacker House got a DVR, I have been recording the show, even if I'm home, but I won't watch it till the children are in bed & R's watching TV in the living room. I have to concentrate (and lately cry) so I can remember every detail.

I know some of you have to be as loyal a viewer as me, so let's take a trip down memory lane.
Do ya'll remember...

*when Phillip, Rick, Beth & Mindy were the best of friends?
*when Reva was married to Alan (old Alan, he died IRL)
*San Cristabel
*Reva's white beach house (I loved that house!)
*Amish country
*Roxie & Rusty
*that Lizzie had cancer as a child
*I remember when Shanye Lewis was born & now he's almost as old as me.
*when Dinah came home from being in the circus
*when Cross Creek was far away from Springfield
*all 7 of Reva's husbands & many weddings -Lewis, Lewis, Spaulding, Lewis, Winslow, Cooper, Lewis, Lewis, O'Neill
*Harley & Dylan

I could go on forever, but my absolute favorite episode ever was the one where Reva jumped into a fountain & baptized herself, The Slut of Springfield. My second favorite is the wedding of Reva & Josh when Reva came up in the rowboat dressed like a Southern belle with that wide brim hat. Obviously, I love Reva. She's been a tramp, Amish, dead (a few times), cloned, a princess, 2 of her former step-son's wife, talk show host, psychic & a cancer survivor. What will I do without some Reva Drama, which is much better than Mama Drama, in my life?

Since ya'll took my little walk down memory lane, here's a little Guiding Light quiz & if someone can answer of these they will win a wonderful surprise!

1. What is Blake first name & how was she conceived?
2. Which is the oldest family on the show?
3. Name all Reva's children & their fathers.
4. Harley's full name.
5. Where was the last place Reva "died"?
6. Which character was a newspaper reporter?
7. Who brought Reva to Springfield?

Told ya'll I'd been watching forever.

If anyone from CBS is reading this, could ya'll at least release a DVD box set of the best episodes.