Dawn Is Me

I think …

that Andy Soroka’s mom should stop reading this blog. She should probably stop reading Gina’s blog, too.

From what I’ve learned, that would make everybody feel much better.

For the record (warning: incipient statement of the blindingly obvious), nobody has any power to stop me from writing exactly what I like here. Not my husband or my kids or my distant relatives or my friends or my neighbors or my Congressional representatives or my kids friends or my kids friends parents or even my dead mother.

Sorry, it just can’t be done.

Besides, nothing here is intentionally malicious. So, if my neighbors (and I use the term loosely) don’t have enough of a life to be able to put my little blog into perspective, well … fuck ‘em!

(All of which vividly illustrates that the kind of control issues that often interfere with healthy human relationships — a significant issue for people with codependent personality disorders — is usually learned behavior.)

Well, evidently because it’s just really hard to do if you’re a Turning Teen.

I haven’t been writing much about them but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been spinning like tops, bless their little hearts. There’s a lot that’s going on away from prying public eyes (in part because they found the glare of the soap opera spotlight to be just too much for their sensitive little souls) and, while I do know some of it, I’m not going to write about too much of it since what I’ve heard has been top secret confidential.

Scooter Libby I’m not.

What I can tell you is that some things of significance hadn’t changed at all from last May/June, in spite of the very major drama that happened back then. Again, lots of action behind the scenes, in ephemeral, non-linkable forms (via AIM and what not).

Then again, there has also been a couple of recent blow-ups, though, that became totally public when Gina blew a gasket on her blog.

So much for top secret behind closed doors moving and shaking.

And, as difficult as it is for me to chew on my tongue, I’m not going to comment right now. There are those who don’t know much but feel free to talk. There are those who know more but also know better.

And I’m very proud of my Gina. Not only is she a good kid, she’s a smart one, too.

Have you been pining away out there in Blog land since September, waiting for another episode of your favorite soap opera? (What’s wrong with her? It’s October, already!)

Well, wait no more. Tonight, we have another exciting episode of everybody’s favorite: As the Teen Turns.

When last we left our Turning Teens, Gina and Brian were dating, Kasedy and Tracy were courting trouble, Andy was poised to start being stupid again, and Steve was MIA.

Steve is still MIA, at least as far as this writer is concerned. I don’t know if I should consider this as ego fodder or if I should cry myself to sleep at night, but I seem to have single-handedly chased Steve out of the blogosphere.

Or maybe it wasn’t just me. For angstfully Turning Teens, putting yourself out there like you do when you’re blogging can be a hazardous thing to do.

Gina and Brian are no longer an item. I think that lasted for about a week. Now both are swinging and single again, although it’s unclear how happy they are about it. Brian is preoccupied: he’s cold and he broke his hand again, not necessarily in that order.

As for Gina, she says, “Who needs love? I’ve got soccer!”

She’s also got Andy, whether she wants him or not. Andy seems to be competing for the drama queen award –and gender be damned! I guess he wants to see what happens when Gina really gets pissed off. Other than that, he’s joined the working world with a gig at the local supermarket and I’ve never seen anybody who looked cuter in a blue apron.

Not much in the way of high drama at this point but, after all, it’s only October. Things are simmering, as they sometimes do. We may yet get an explosion of some kind before the year is out.

So, stay tuned … for the next exciting episode of As the Teen Turns!