Saturday, May 26, 2007
Destilando Amor 5/25/07: "A Crack in the Wall"
Ma leaves for the bedroom, broadly hinting with her expressions of surprise that she doesn't need to hear any more wrong answers. Gavi has the good sense to tell Boring Beni the Benificent that she cannot accept his proposal, since he knows she is still in luuhhv with Rodrigo. Ouch! She tells him she doesn't want to be rude. She loves him greatly, but only as (and here comes the dreaded word) a "friend".
Boring Benificent Beni somehow got the wrong idea from Gavi's letter and fell in love with her after witnessing her strength, her personal growth, and her triumph over so much adversity. It inspired such a love in him for her that he's willing to settle and to hope she grows to love him. However, Gavi has sense enough to save Boring Beni from himself and to spare us from witnessing the snore of a lifetime. (Good girl, Gavil! We knew you had more horse sense than that!)
Later that night back at their apartment, Minnie Mouse, who is tapdancing for sure but still cool as a cuke, insists to Aaron that she really can get pregnant, just not for a few months. Aaron stomps his feet in a classic macho-man tantrum and demands she get pregnant immediately! "You are ruining MY PLANS!" (Aaron, you entertaining rogue, you. Trust me when I say...DON'T PUSH IT with the Minnie Mouse!) "No need to worry about Isadora," she assures him, "since artificial insemination (AI) treatments usually take time and several attempts for fertilzation." Aaron is pacified for the moment in the only way a woman knows will work.
Clarita finally returns and finds Gavi alone at the dinner table. Clarita breathes a sigh of relief when Gavi tells her she turned Boring Beni down. "He left, Ma. I told him that I still have the misfortune to be in love with Rod and so I couldn't accept." Gavi tries to explain to her mother what she has been dealing with since early that morning. "When Rod screamed in my face that he was going to have a child with Isadora, I had the greatest urge to run away and never come back. Then when he came by and started arguing with Benvenuto down below I came down to ask him to leave."
Clarita admits seeing the two of them embracing downstairs through the window. "The poor guy probably got it twisted. I was shocked at what I saw with my own eyes below, and even I got to thinking you and Bambineto....."
"--No! I asked him to do it...." Gavi tells her mother that she felt so badly for Rod after what he'd told her down there. "Those last words had me shuddering, Ma. I was sensing that he was desperate, jealous, sad... thinking that Ben and I were involved somehow......"
Clara imparts a bit of advice that only mothers know how to give and Gavi finally begins to think it over. "Why do you insist on covering the sun with a finger if the two of you still love each other?" Clarita asks.
"--But Ma, how can you say this to me after what he just told me about a child?" Clarita asks, "--and if he really just did it to spite you? He's seeing you going out with another man! He had to be in agony, thinking things are when they really aren't." "--Don't scold me anymore, Ma. Better to ask God to rub the ungrateful man out of my heart." Clarita reminds her, "--God doesn't fulfill impulsive wishes. Neither does he stand the hunchbacked upright."
Early the next morning Rod and Icedora go meet with Dr. Tejeiros, who explains how you arrive at conception through AI and all about the tests that they will both have to submit to. (Oh, puh-leeze!! This is soooo painful to listen to, much less to have to imagine. But, I guess some enquiring minds want to know.......)
Ice, of course, is just beaming. (Gawd!) The monkey-faced slut just grins from ear to ear and asks if Rod can get those tests done that same day. Rod is feeling uncomfortably humbled by this scenario but is valiently trying to hide it as best he can behind a mask of cool composure. "I am fertile. I...had a child...that didn't actually... get born... a couple of years ago. (This whole scene really has the Hubby squirming, poor baby.)
Tajeiros assures them both that if testing proves positive, Rod will not have to do it again. (Promise?) Rod, so obviously thinking along with the rest of us how degrading this all is for him, goes to submit his sample of little mini-me's for the doctor. (Slap me, somebody, please! Wake us all up from this nightmare!)
Back at the office Mariana/Gavi arrives and begins asking for Rod. Elvira says he's at the doctor's office. Mariana is impactada and asks if he's ill. Elvira, who never fails to please, looks up and bluntly tells her to go ask him herself.
Meanwhile at their apartment, Minerva listens from behind her bedroom door as Oily Oñate and Aaron discuss the Trejo situation. "So, tell me. Did either Rodrigo or Mariana ask any questions about the shipment?" "--No, they trust me completely." Then Oily explains to Aaron how Mariana and Rod have signed all the documents without ever realizing what they were doing, mainly because they were continually arguing with each other.
Aaron smiles to himself and tells Oily that putting Rod together with Mariana has worked out even better than he thought for his plans. "You know, Patricio is skittish about this." "--Sir, you do your job and let me do mine. I know what I'm doing." Oily leaves.
Once Oily is gone Minnie asks to know what's going on with Trejo. She has the right, she says, unless Aaron is planning on dumping her. (Wouldn't that be a treat?) So I guess for the meantime he isn't 'cause he tells Minnie Mouse that he made certain business agreements in his cousin's and Mariana's name so he would not be liable. Aaron's name purposely would not be listed on the documents. Unfortunately it will be Rod and Mariana who will be liable, though.
"This should prove to you that Mariana means absolutely nothing to me." Minnie smiles triumphantly. Mariana is one thing, but she wonders why he would put his cousin, Rod, at risk. Aaron rudely reminds her pointing to her forehead, "Gra-Ba-Te-La!" (engrave it) that now the family is split and it is every man for himself, literally. Pleased at this, she tells Aaron that she plans to be his full ally in this little intrigue. They hug and kiss. (Gag me.)
A bit later Gavi is in her office calling again to see if Rod has arrived yet, but he still has not. She begins to worry that he really might be sick.
Rod reappears from the lab, looking shaken, and Ice asks him if he is regretting all of this. (Gawd, I know I am.) He frowns a bit but answers "No." (You're such a bad liar, Rod.)
Trejo arrives for a meeting with Bruno, Aaron and Rod. Mariana greets him and tells him she sympathizes with his regrettable situation and hopes it can be resolved soon. He seems to be in better spirits and is hoping that Aaron will find a way to resolve things. However, once Aaron arrives he coldly tells Trejo not to expect miracles and the men go into the board room for their meeting.
Just then Rod arrives and Gavi asks him five different ways from Sunday if he is sick since Elvira told her he went to see the doctor. Rod is feeling so low that he hardly recognizes or believes in her newfound concern. He tells her that there is nothing wrong and walks off to the business meeting in a daze, contemplating the depths to which he's been forced to sink and to wallow in his despair. Gavi is confused by his change in attitude. (Enough already with playing Lady Ahab, Gaviota. Our Mexican Moby Dick is drowning in a freshwater sea of hopeless resignation. He needs rescuing!)
Bruno and Rod go to get some documents regarding surplus agave crops. Meanwhile Aaron accuses Trejo of carelessness and dragging Montalvo Corporation down with him by asking them to delay their shipments to their clients just to save his sorry rear. Trejo tries to explain he's facing bankruptcy since the CRT took away his distiller's license. He cannot wait out the investigation. Bruno and Rod enter the meeting room just then. They want to see what they can do for Trejo because they have some extra agave they can utilize to help him out till the sanction is lifted.
Trejo is desperate because the banks won't loan him any more money while the sanctions are in place, so he earnestly hands them over the only thing of value left, his client list with all their standing orders. In exchange for a percentage of the net profits he begs them to take it. Both Rod and Bruno are shocked and embarrassed because this would be like robbing him of his clients. Aaron screams at Trejo that it would be illegal. Bruno says this would be practically an impossibility for them.
Aaron is merciless. "The time for doing favors is over! This in not a House of Charity." He calls Trejo a naive old jackass who is paying for his foolishness. "You're jinxed...... Go and take your fall to ruin honorably at least." He stomps out of the room and the meeting is over.
Bruno and Rod are mortified by this painful scene. Bruno apologizes to Trejo and says there is nothing more they can do. Trejo says he has learned his lesson. He won't beg and will at least leave with his dignity in tact, unlike Bruno. He pities Bruno, now a puppet of Aaron's, who has lost his ability to act on his own, hiding instead behind that of his son's. Trejo leaves then in a huff.
Bruno turns to Rod and wonders if his nephew thinks that is true. "Perhaps Aaron could have had something to do with Trejo's problem?" (What could ever make him think that, now? Hmmm?) Rod tries to smooth things over and tells his uncle no, Aaron is simply an aggressively ruthless businessman.
De la Vega, the smarmy new neighbor across the hall, takes another business call in Rod and Ice's apartment. He asks her if he can impose and receive another call there because he still hasn't gotten his phone put in nor replaced his cellular. She says fine. The maid is there so feel free. He watches her with his tongue hanging out as she goes out the door.
Dani visits Rod at the office before leaving to go back to New York. She gets to play therapist. Lying on his couch, Rod tells her how at first finding out that Mariana was really Gavi was a blessing, but now he's consumed with jealousy. "Well, what did she tell you? Where is the great love you swore to each other?" "--She says she was deceived because I married Isadora. Well, that's a hopeless situation now. Look, Isadora wants a child and as soon as she is ready she's going to go through with the insemination--" "--No! No! No! That is stupidity!" Dani warns him.
"--Well, I have to...to stop chasing Gaviota. It is the only basis for the child--" "--No! Are you sure she really is dating another man?" "--Of course! Clearly! An Italian. I hate thinking she's got a lover, but.....--"
"--But are you sure of this? Did she tell you this?" "--I've seen them! You tell me. What would you think? He comes by work to pick you up. He sends you flowers. He writes you little messages with romantic words. He takes you back to your apartment. Even gets on with the doorkeeper. And trails after you."
Dani counters,"That doesn't mean she's having a romantic relationship with him!" Rod is emphatic."--What are you saying? Every time she goes out with him she dresses up, looking beautiful; she hugs him and kisses him. Each time he comes to her house its as if it's his own!" Rod becomes enraged at this thought. "She's going to bed with him! Who knows how many others! You should see her at the cocktail parties. All the men gather around her and flirt with her. She answers back to them, smiles for them! Her diary is filled with men's names! She is not Gaviota anymore. She has changed into...'Mariana Franco, a woman of the world.'" He gets so worked up he tries to convince himself and Dani that Gavi never really loved him and probably never did get pregnant at all, just lied about it to get back at him. Dani rolls her eyes at this.
Meantime, after two long years, Gavi curiously begins singing at her computer as she types. "Ay! Gaviota!..." A picture appears on her screen as she remembers the two of them kissing so passionately the night they made love. She smiles at the thought. "Oh, if you only knew. If you only knew how much I love you, Rodrigo."
Rod despondently continues his story. "She even gave me back the watch I gave her and told me she didn't love me anymore. I have to latch onto something to keep from falling further into the abyss." "--But a child is not the way to free yourself from an inconvenient love. You made a big mistake getting married," Dani replies. "Put yourself in her shoes." The woman felt deceived and betrayed. After all he did marry someone else and that had to be difficult to swallow. "It is a way for her to defend against the love she is feeling for you."
There are tears in his eyes. "If I told her I am going to get a divorce and marry her...." (Making progress here.....) Dani counters, "Love is an event. It isn't good reasoning." She explains that he needs to talk to her face to face and ask her again if she's really involved with the other guy or not. "If she asks me not to ask about her personal life?"
"--You got off to a bad start and both of you are suffering because of it. Don't make another mistake. It would put an end to her love forever. Think about it." She leaves him. He is shattered and in tears. Rod has finally, most definitely hit bottom. The only way is up from here. The only question is: will it be in a dead man's float or by swimming up alive......
Over latés Minnie tells Isa that she believes Rod is in love with Mariana Franco, though Ice doesn't want to believe it. "Mariana isn't my rival. The real danger for me is Gaviota!" However, Icedora must have figured Minnie was on to something because a bit later Minnie gets to listen in while she calls Rod to see "...what time you're going to get home, my love... Oh. Is there a CRT function this evening? ... Are you going with Mariana?" He says yes there is and yes she will be there, and reluctantly he tells her where it will be. Ice hangs up and Minnie says she knows exactly where the place is.
Gavi takes a call from Beni as Rod comes by her door to ask her to come to his office about something. He is certain who it is. He hears her reluctantly say something about having a prior committment. She notices how disheveled he looks as he tucks back in his shirt. He purposely interrupts her call two or three times and then leaves.
James comes by Grammy P's to speak to Sofia that morning. He apologizes for his bad behavior and leading her on when she was visiting at the ranch earlier. He says he tried to explain in his letter, but she spits back that she tore it up without reading it. He tells her he truly loves Acacia and so he has decided to stay in Jalisco, with her. Sofia kicks him out and tells him never to come back again. He leaves. She screams in frustration and a large plate of cosmic justice is now served.
Rod tells Mariana that he's already decided who will be heading up the new school of tasting experts: his best friend, James. This scares her because he might know who she is. "You know this puts me at risk!! Who else in your family knows about me? Does your cousin know who I am?" Rod assures her no one else knows and James wouldn't recognize her anyway. He says that James will stay in Jalisco and they will deal directly there and bypass her completely.
Right then, without knocking, Elvira interrupts to tell Rod his wife is on the phone. He reprimands her and tells her to knock first from now on. (About time, too!) She apologizes and reminds him of the function that night and leaves. Rod asks Mariana if she will be going to the business function that night. She says yes and that she will meet him there.
Back at Dry Gulch Acres Meliton is stumbling around the place drunk as a skunk at high noon and screaming for Acacia. Eventually he finds her sleeping on top of James' bed in the tool shed. The pervert starts to run his hands all up and down her legs. (Gawd this is giving me the willies.....) She whispers "Mister James" in her sleep and he goes ballistic. He pulls her by the hair. She wakes up in a fright. He kicks and pushes at her. He is screaming all sorts of accusations about James and her sleeping together. Terrified, she denies it all. Eventually she trips and hits her head on the stone steps on the front porch. Meliton, thinking the ungrateful wench has up and died on him, curses her out and races off in his truck in a cowardly rush.
At the same time, in Mexico City, James meets with Rodrigo to discuss the tasting school proposition. James agrees and then confesses all the perverted things that have been taking place at Dry Gulch Acres between Acacia and her uncle, then how she refused to marry him or to leave, and how he planned to take her away with him and marry her after the harvest. Rod is totally impactado with all the down-and-dirty. James then admits he can't live without her. Rod says he understands his friend completely. (No duh.)
Meanwhile, Hilario and Isidro are checking the peanut crop over at the Dry Gulch and commenting how good James' crop will be. They are getting into their truck to leave when they see Acacia lying unconcious on the steps. The guys carefully put her in the truck and take her to the hospital.
That evening at the CRT function, Aaron sees Pamela there. He makes his way over to speak with her. Aparrently Daddy is her date tonight. He tells her to ditch her daddy but she is still upset at the humiliating treatment she got in Miami. Pamela must have expected Minnie Mouse to hug and kiss her and invite her to stay for dinner because since then she has refused to answer his e-mails and his phone calls.
Aaron persuades Pamela to warm up to him by convincing her that he has something really important to tell her about how things will be changing and that this will make it all worthwhile. This peaks Pamela's curiosity. She goes off to whine to her daddy that Aaron has something important to tell her, despite his rotten habits. She demands that since it is her life to live, he should let her. Daddy walks off in disgust.
Rod arrives late and joins Mariana who is chatting up a few of the other attendees. She compliments him over the success the company has had under his direction. He modestly kids around with the group but makes her the butt of his jokes. She gets disgusted and walks off. He finds her and she tells him off. "I am trying to recognize your talents and you mock me in public!" He explains it was only to throw people off the scent so nobody would suspect that he's interested in her. She doesn't buy it and walks away, but on her way out she runs into the head of the CRT, Avellaneda, with Aaron and Pamela. Rod joins them all. There are introductions all 'round, then Mariana leaves. Avellaneda tells Aaron and Rod that Trejo is being sued by his clients for not complying with their contracts.
Rod looks around and suddenly realizes Mariana is already heading out. He excuses himself and takes out after her. She gets into her car and leaves. Rod, a bit behind her, gets his car and follows her. A minute or two later Minnie and Isa drive up and get out of their chauffered SUV. Minnie hurries Isadora. Ice goes in ahead of her friend. Minnie smiles, thinking to herself that before she and Aaron return to Miami she will make certain Rodrigo and Isadora's marriage is a total failure, the idea being jealous fighting = no baby-making. (For once I am hoping the nasty broad pulls it off.) They go in to look for their husbands.
Just as Aaron finally gets Pamela off somewhere by herself where they can talk alone, he looks up to see Minnie and Isa entering the hall looking for him and Rod.
Boring Benificent Beni somehow got the wrong idea from Gavi's letter and fell in love with her after witnessing her strength, her personal growth, and her triumph over so much adversity. It inspired such a love in him for her that he's willing to settle and to hope she grows to love him. However, Gavi has sense enough to save Boring Beni from himself and to spare us from witnessing the snore of a lifetime. (Good girl, Gavil! We knew you had more horse sense than that!)
Later that night back at their apartment, Minnie Mouse, who is tapdancing for sure but still cool as a cuke, insists to Aaron that she really can get pregnant, just not for a few months. Aaron stomps his feet in a classic macho-man tantrum and demands she get pregnant immediately! "You are ruining MY PLANS!" (Aaron, you entertaining rogue, you. Trust me when I say...DON'T PUSH IT with the Minnie Mouse!) "No need to worry about Isadora," she assures him, "since artificial insemination (AI) treatments usually take time and several attempts for fertilzation." Aaron is pacified for the moment in the only way a woman knows will work.
Clarita finally returns and finds Gavi alone at the dinner table. Clarita breathes a sigh of relief when Gavi tells her she turned Boring Beni down. "He left, Ma. I told him that I still have the misfortune to be in love with Rod and so I couldn't accept." Gavi tries to explain to her mother what she has been dealing with since early that morning. "When Rod screamed in my face that he was going to have a child with Isadora, I had the greatest urge to run away and never come back. Then when he came by and started arguing with Benvenuto down below I came down to ask him to leave."
Clarita admits seeing the two of them embracing downstairs through the window. "The poor guy probably got it twisted. I was shocked at what I saw with my own eyes below, and even I got to thinking you and Bambineto....."
"--No! I asked him to do it...." Gavi tells her mother that she felt so badly for Rod after what he'd told her down there. "Those last words had me shuddering, Ma. I was sensing that he was desperate, jealous, sad... thinking that Ben and I were involved somehow......"
Clara imparts a bit of advice that only mothers know how to give and Gavi finally begins to think it over. "Why do you insist on covering the sun with a finger if the two of you still love each other?" Clarita asks.
"--But Ma, how can you say this to me after what he just told me about a child?" Clarita asks, "--and if he really just did it to spite you? He's seeing you going out with another man! He had to be in agony, thinking things are when they really aren't." "--Don't scold me anymore, Ma. Better to ask God to rub the ungrateful man out of my heart." Clarita reminds her, "--God doesn't fulfill impulsive wishes. Neither does he stand the hunchbacked upright."
Early the next morning Rod and Icedora go meet with Dr. Tejeiros, who explains how you arrive at conception through AI and all about the tests that they will both have to submit to. (Oh, puh-leeze!! This is soooo painful to listen to, much less to have to imagine. But, I guess some enquiring minds want to know.......)
Ice, of course, is just beaming. (Gawd!) The monkey-faced slut just grins from ear to ear and asks if Rod can get those tests done that same day. Rod is feeling uncomfortably humbled by this scenario but is valiently trying to hide it as best he can behind a mask of cool composure. "I am fertile. I...had a child...that didn't actually... get born... a couple of years ago. (This whole scene really has the Hubby squirming, poor baby.)
Tajeiros assures them both that if testing proves positive, Rod will not have to do it again. (Promise?) Rod, so obviously thinking along with the rest of us how degrading this all is for him, goes to submit his sample of little mini-me's for the doctor. (Slap me, somebody, please! Wake us all up from this nightmare!)
Back at the office Mariana/Gavi arrives and begins asking for Rod. Elvira says he's at the doctor's office. Mariana is impactada and asks if he's ill. Elvira, who never fails to please, looks up and bluntly tells her to go ask him herself.
Meanwhile at their apartment, Minerva listens from behind her bedroom door as Oily Oñate and Aaron discuss the Trejo situation. "So, tell me. Did either Rodrigo or Mariana ask any questions about the shipment?" "--No, they trust me completely." Then Oily explains to Aaron how Mariana and Rod have signed all the documents without ever realizing what they were doing, mainly because they were continually arguing with each other.
Aaron smiles to himself and tells Oily that putting Rod together with Mariana has worked out even better than he thought for his plans. "You know, Patricio is skittish about this." "--Sir, you do your job and let me do mine. I know what I'm doing." Oily leaves.
Once Oily is gone Minnie asks to know what's going on with Trejo. She has the right, she says, unless Aaron is planning on dumping her. (Wouldn't that be a treat?) So I guess for the meantime he isn't 'cause he tells Minnie Mouse that he made certain business agreements in his cousin's and Mariana's name so he would not be liable. Aaron's name purposely would not be listed on the documents. Unfortunately it will be Rod and Mariana who will be liable, though.
"This should prove to you that Mariana means absolutely nothing to me." Minnie smiles triumphantly. Mariana is one thing, but she wonders why he would put his cousin, Rod, at risk. Aaron rudely reminds her pointing to her forehead, "Gra-Ba-Te-La!" (engrave it) that now the family is split and it is every man for himself, literally. Pleased at this, she tells Aaron that she plans to be his full ally in this little intrigue. They hug and kiss. (Gag me.)
A bit later Gavi is in her office calling again to see if Rod has arrived yet, but he still has not. She begins to worry that he really might be sick.
Rod reappears from the lab, looking shaken, and Ice asks him if he is regretting all of this. (Gawd, I know I am.) He frowns a bit but answers "No." (You're such a bad liar, Rod.)
Trejo arrives for a meeting with Bruno, Aaron and Rod. Mariana greets him and tells him she sympathizes with his regrettable situation and hopes it can be resolved soon. He seems to be in better spirits and is hoping that Aaron will find a way to resolve things. However, once Aaron arrives he coldly tells Trejo not to expect miracles and the men go into the board room for their meeting.
Just then Rod arrives and Gavi asks him five different ways from Sunday if he is sick since Elvira told her he went to see the doctor. Rod is feeling so low that he hardly recognizes or believes in her newfound concern. He tells her that there is nothing wrong and walks off to the business meeting in a daze, contemplating the depths to which he's been forced to sink and to wallow in his despair. Gavi is confused by his change in attitude. (Enough already with playing Lady Ahab, Gaviota. Our Mexican Moby Dick is drowning in a freshwater sea of hopeless resignation. He needs rescuing!)
Bruno and Rod go to get some documents regarding surplus agave crops. Meanwhile Aaron accuses Trejo of carelessness and dragging Montalvo Corporation down with him by asking them to delay their shipments to their clients just to save his sorry rear. Trejo tries to explain he's facing bankruptcy since the CRT took away his distiller's license. He cannot wait out the investigation. Bruno and Rod enter the meeting room just then. They want to see what they can do for Trejo because they have some extra agave they can utilize to help him out till the sanction is lifted.
Trejo is desperate because the banks won't loan him any more money while the sanctions are in place, so he earnestly hands them over the only thing of value left, his client list with all their standing orders. In exchange for a percentage of the net profits he begs them to take it. Both Rod and Bruno are shocked and embarrassed because this would be like robbing him of his clients. Aaron screams at Trejo that it would be illegal. Bruno says this would be practically an impossibility for them.
Aaron is merciless. "The time for doing favors is over! This in not a House of Charity." He calls Trejo a naive old jackass who is paying for his foolishness. "You're jinxed...... Go and take your fall to ruin honorably at least." He stomps out of the room and the meeting is over.
Bruno and Rod are mortified by this painful scene. Bruno apologizes to Trejo and says there is nothing more they can do. Trejo says he has learned his lesson. He won't beg and will at least leave with his dignity in tact, unlike Bruno. He pities Bruno, now a puppet of Aaron's, who has lost his ability to act on his own, hiding instead behind that of his son's. Trejo leaves then in a huff.
Bruno turns to Rod and wonders if his nephew thinks that is true. "Perhaps Aaron could have had something to do with Trejo's problem?" (What could ever make him think that, now? Hmmm?) Rod tries to smooth things over and tells his uncle no, Aaron is simply an aggressively ruthless businessman.
De la Vega, the smarmy new neighbor across the hall, takes another business call in Rod and Ice's apartment. He asks her if he can impose and receive another call there because he still hasn't gotten his phone put in nor replaced his cellular. She says fine. The maid is there so feel free. He watches her with his tongue hanging out as she goes out the door.
Dani visits Rod at the office before leaving to go back to New York. She gets to play therapist. Lying on his couch, Rod tells her how at first finding out that Mariana was really Gavi was a blessing, but now he's consumed with jealousy. "Well, what did she tell you? Where is the great love you swore to each other?" "--She says she was deceived because I married Isadora. Well, that's a hopeless situation now. Look, Isadora wants a child and as soon as she is ready she's going to go through with the insemination--" "--No! No! No! That is stupidity!" Dani warns him.
"--Well, I have to...to stop chasing Gaviota. It is the only basis for the child--" "--No! Are you sure she really is dating another man?" "--Of course! Clearly! An Italian. I hate thinking she's got a lover, but.....--"
"--But are you sure of this? Did she tell you this?" "--I've seen them! You tell me. What would you think? He comes by work to pick you up. He sends you flowers. He writes you little messages with romantic words. He takes you back to your apartment. Even gets on with the doorkeeper. And trails after you."
Dani counters,"That doesn't mean she's having a romantic relationship with him!" Rod is emphatic."--What are you saying? Every time she goes out with him she dresses up, looking beautiful; she hugs him and kisses him. Each time he comes to her house its as if it's his own!" Rod becomes enraged at this thought. "She's going to bed with him! Who knows how many others! You should see her at the cocktail parties. All the men gather around her and flirt with her. She answers back to them, smiles for them! Her diary is filled with men's names! She is not Gaviota anymore. She has changed into...'Mariana Franco, a woman of the world.'" He gets so worked up he tries to convince himself and Dani that Gavi never really loved him and probably never did get pregnant at all, just lied about it to get back at him. Dani rolls her eyes at this.
Meantime, after two long years, Gavi curiously begins singing at her computer as she types. "Ay! Gaviota!..." A picture appears on her screen as she remembers the two of them kissing so passionately the night they made love. She smiles at the thought. "Oh, if you only knew. If you only knew how much I love you, Rodrigo."
Rod despondently continues his story. "She even gave me back the watch I gave her and told me she didn't love me anymore. I have to latch onto something to keep from falling further into the abyss." "--But a child is not the way to free yourself from an inconvenient love. You made a big mistake getting married," Dani replies. "Put yourself in her shoes." The woman felt deceived and betrayed. After all he did marry someone else and that had to be difficult to swallow. "It is a way for her to defend against the love she is feeling for you."
There are tears in his eyes. "If I told her I am going to get a divorce and marry her...." (Making progress here.....) Dani counters, "Love is an event. It isn't good reasoning." She explains that he needs to talk to her face to face and ask her again if she's really involved with the other guy or not. "If she asks me not to ask about her personal life?"
"--You got off to a bad start and both of you are suffering because of it. Don't make another mistake. It would put an end to her love forever. Think about it." She leaves him. He is shattered and in tears. Rod has finally, most definitely hit bottom. The only way is up from here. The only question is: will it be in a dead man's float or by swimming up alive......
Over latés Minnie tells Isa that she believes Rod is in love with Mariana Franco, though Ice doesn't want to believe it. "Mariana isn't my rival. The real danger for me is Gaviota!" However, Icedora must have figured Minnie was on to something because a bit later Minnie gets to listen in while she calls Rod to see "...what time you're going to get home, my love... Oh. Is there a CRT function this evening? ... Are you going with Mariana?" He says yes there is and yes she will be there, and reluctantly he tells her where it will be. Ice hangs up and Minnie says she knows exactly where the place is.
Gavi takes a call from Beni as Rod comes by her door to ask her to come to his office about something. He is certain who it is. He hears her reluctantly say something about having a prior committment. She notices how disheveled he looks as he tucks back in his shirt. He purposely interrupts her call two or three times and then leaves.
James comes by Grammy P's to speak to Sofia that morning. He apologizes for his bad behavior and leading her on when she was visiting at the ranch earlier. He says he tried to explain in his letter, but she spits back that she tore it up without reading it. He tells her he truly loves Acacia and so he has decided to stay in Jalisco, with her. Sofia kicks him out and tells him never to come back again. He leaves. She screams in frustration and a large plate of cosmic justice is now served.
Rod tells Mariana that he's already decided who will be heading up the new school of tasting experts: his best friend, James. This scares her because he might know who she is. "You know this puts me at risk!! Who else in your family knows about me? Does your cousin know who I am?" Rod assures her no one else knows and James wouldn't recognize her anyway. He says that James will stay in Jalisco and they will deal directly there and bypass her completely.
Right then, without knocking, Elvira interrupts to tell Rod his wife is on the phone. He reprimands her and tells her to knock first from now on. (About time, too!) She apologizes and reminds him of the function that night and leaves. Rod asks Mariana if she will be going to the business function that night. She says yes and that she will meet him there.
Back at Dry Gulch Acres Meliton is stumbling around the place drunk as a skunk at high noon and screaming for Acacia. Eventually he finds her sleeping on top of James' bed in the tool shed. The pervert starts to run his hands all up and down her legs. (Gawd this is giving me the willies.....) She whispers "Mister James" in her sleep and he goes ballistic. He pulls her by the hair. She wakes up in a fright. He kicks and pushes at her. He is screaming all sorts of accusations about James and her sleeping together. Terrified, she denies it all. Eventually she trips and hits her head on the stone steps on the front porch. Meliton, thinking the ungrateful wench has up and died on him, curses her out and races off in his truck in a cowardly rush.
At the same time, in Mexico City, James meets with Rodrigo to discuss the tasting school proposition. James agrees and then confesses all the perverted things that have been taking place at Dry Gulch Acres between Acacia and her uncle, then how she refused to marry him or to leave, and how he planned to take her away with him and marry her after the harvest. Rod is totally impactado with all the down-and-dirty. James then admits he can't live without her. Rod says he understands his friend completely. (No duh.)
Meanwhile, Hilario and Isidro are checking the peanut crop over at the Dry Gulch and commenting how good James' crop will be. They are getting into their truck to leave when they see Acacia lying unconcious on the steps. The guys carefully put her in the truck and take her to the hospital.
That evening at the CRT function, Aaron sees Pamela there. He makes his way over to speak with her. Aparrently Daddy is her date tonight. He tells her to ditch her daddy but she is still upset at the humiliating treatment she got in Miami. Pamela must have expected Minnie Mouse to hug and kiss her and invite her to stay for dinner because since then she has refused to answer his e-mails and his phone calls.
Aaron persuades Pamela to warm up to him by convincing her that he has something really important to tell her about how things will be changing and that this will make it all worthwhile. This peaks Pamela's curiosity. She goes off to whine to her daddy that Aaron has something important to tell her, despite his rotten habits. She demands that since it is her life to live, he should let her. Daddy walks off in disgust.
Rod arrives late and joins Mariana who is chatting up a few of the other attendees. She compliments him over the success the company has had under his direction. He modestly kids around with the group but makes her the butt of his jokes. She gets disgusted and walks off. He finds her and she tells him off. "I am trying to recognize your talents and you mock me in public!" He explains it was only to throw people off the scent so nobody would suspect that he's interested in her. She doesn't buy it and walks away, but on her way out she runs into the head of the CRT, Avellaneda, with Aaron and Pamela. Rod joins them all. There are introductions all 'round, then Mariana leaves. Avellaneda tells Aaron and Rod that Trejo is being sued by his clients for not complying with their contracts.
Rod looks around and suddenly realizes Mariana is already heading out. He excuses himself and takes out after her. She gets into her car and leaves. Rod, a bit behind her, gets his car and follows her. A minute or two later Minnie and Isa drive up and get out of their chauffered SUV. Minnie hurries Isadora. Ice goes in ahead of her friend. Minnie smiles, thinking to herself that before she and Aaron return to Miami she will make certain Rodrigo and Isadora's marriage is a total failure, the idea being jealous fighting = no baby-making. (For once I am hoping the nasty broad pulls it off.) They go in to look for their husbands.
Just as Aaron finally gets Pamela off somewhere by herself where they can talk alone, he looks up to see Minnie and Isa entering the hall looking for him and Rod.
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Thank you for the recap...you are much more civilized than I am...Oh Rod...truly you would have suffered the doctors appointment under my writing...
Which of course leads me to my next question...WTF was up with that? I worked with a very good friend that went thru the same thing (well they were having no luck the good old fashion way)...and when he came to work after his appointment...he didn't look...well how to put his...prison raped? Geez Rod was running around all half undressed...the tie all messed up the shirt hanging out? Just what kind of test were involved?
Sorry if that is offensive...but seriously could they have broadcast the humilation of Rod any more flamboyantly?
Which of course leads me to my next question...WTF was up with that? I worked with a very good friend that went thru the same thing (well they were having no luck the good old fashion way)...and when he came to work after his appointment...he didn't look...well how to put his...prison raped? Geez Rod was running around all half undressed...the tie all messed up the shirt hanging out? Just what kind of test were involved?
Sorry if that is offensive...but seriously could they have broadcast the humilation of Rod any more flamboyantly?
Dearest beckster: I soooo wanted to put in something about wondering if Rod remembered to bring his Walkman and the earbuds for his big day.....but, hey, that would have been co-opting your material. =/;?) Besides, you're the queen of comedy around here!!
Oh my, that fertility office visit was excruciating and positively surreal. I laughed my bootie off throughout. Come on Jardinera, your description of the visit was hilarious...monkey-faced-slut plus your editorial comments...I was rolling.
Mexican Moby Dick...honey, you're killing me here. Gawd, could you have given him a better name considering what he just went through?
It looks like Minnie and Isa are being set up to be best frenemies. Can't wait, this could be fun!
One last thing, I would love to get a hold of Gavi's screensaver, one that would conveniently show highlight of my amorous past, complete with the perfect lighting and camera angles of course. Hmmm...then again maybe not.
Thanks Jardinera, great recap!
Mexican Moby Dick...honey, you're killing me here. Gawd, could you have given him a better name considering what he just went through?
It looks like Minnie and Isa are being set up to be best frenemies. Can't wait, this could be fun!
One last thing, I would love to get a hold of Gavi's screensaver, one that would conveniently show highlight of my amorous past, complete with the perfect lighting and camera angles of course. Hmmm...then again maybe not.
Thanks Jardinera, great recap!
Permalink posted by 
: Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 9:45:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 9:45:00 PM EDT
As soon as I read "monkey face slut"..I was having a Isa ipod moment..with those bangs she does have kind of a monkey face...good call...
now then I think the whole enemies thing may have gotten a jump when Isa got jumped once and rumpled twice...Oh if Minnie only knew...Minnie is kinda scary, she could go totally BSC in a flash.
now then I think the whole enemies thing may have gotten a jump when Isa got jumped once and rumpled twice...Oh if Minnie only knew...Minnie is kinda scary, she could go totally BSC in a flash.
Dear friends ~~~ Thank you all for your sympathy and kind words. On the Highlander forum that I've frequented for about 12 years , we call them ''good vibrations.'' It has been a long, rough week. I still feel very tired, but I have been trying to stop in here when I can to check the recaps since I have not been able to watch ''Destilando'' and ''Duelo.'' I have appreciated your good humor , and it has been so nice to escape here for a little while and forget my really real world for a bit. Thanks ~~~ Susanlynn, a little battered and bruised right now but ready to look for her pompoms very soon as life moves forward>>>>
Permalink posted by : Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 11:10:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 11:10:00 PM EDT
Thanks, guys. //beckster and Sylvia, I fear that Melinama would not appreciate a flashy post on the site specifically dedicated to the topic at hand, so I respectfully direct one and all to the 2 links below. I warn you that the first two paragraphs of the second link are NOT to be read while in the process of self-intoxication. =/¿;? )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whale#Anatomy_and_morphology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whale#Anatomy_and_morphology
Great recap! I do find myself wondering why Isa's face looks so horrible. (It took a while for me to notice her face with all that godawful polyester hair flying around distracting me.)
I like the earbuds comment. Tee hee.
Do not understand how Rod can be such a moron about divorcing Isa. Plot device I guess.
I like the earbuds comment. Tee hee.
Do not understand how Rod can be such a moron about divorcing Isa. Plot device I guess.
Did the "gyno" doc not say there would be testing on TWB before this ridiculous insemination would take place? If there's a god in the writing of this novela,let her be pregnant with Aaron,Hilario or anyone else that may come along here,instead of Rodrigo..
I love the character of Rodrigo,but sometimes he comes across as "stupid and soooo impulsive."..Hasn't he learned anything from marrying (the slut, when he didn't even know her)Isadora to get back at Gavi..?Now,he's at it again with this asenine insemination to get back at Mariana/Gavi. Please, writers give him some common sense..This guy is running Montalvos for gods sake..
I love the character of Rodrigo,but sometimes he comes across as "stupid and soooo impulsive."..Hasn't he learned anything from marrying (the slut, when he didn't even know her)Isadora to get back at Gavi..?Now,he's at it again with this asenine insemination to get back at Mariana/Gavi. Please, writers give him some common sense..This guy is running Montalvos for gods sake..
Well to be fair to Rod (and yeah that is hard...but he is a bit slow), he thinks TWB...is as in love with him as he is with Gavi..and I have no doubt that TWB is as in love with Rod as I would be with a awesome sportscar...I would want to drive it..but that said I'd still be driving something else til I got the sportscar...
He thinks he is the end all be all for Isa, I mean seriously who else would stay with some guy who won't touch them and acts all repulsed? Rod of course thinks TWB would nevah evah turn to someone else..and that is all part of his endearing "Gawd what an idiot quality"...As part of his psychosis.. even his reality isn't real.
He thinks he is the end all be all for Isa, I mean seriously who else would stay with some guy who won't touch them and acts all repulsed? Rod of course thinks TWB would nevah evah turn to someone else..and that is all part of his endearing "Gawd what an idiot quality"...As part of his psychosis.. even his reality isn't real.
beckster:
Love the sportscar analogy. You do have a point about him seeing Isa's situation through his own eyes. If he is obsessively in love with one person and is totally faithful to that one person, then Isa he must figure is handling things necessarily the same way. No wonder he would never suspect her taking test drives in station wagon's and stately sedans until she gets that sportscar still sittin' pretty in the showroom window.
Love the sportscar analogy. You do have a point about him seeing Isa's situation through his own eyes. If he is obsessively in love with one person and is totally faithful to that one person, then Isa he must figure is handling things necessarily the same way. No wonder he would never suspect her taking test drives in station wagon's and stately sedans until she gets that sportscar still sittin' pretty in the showroom window.
exportred: Yes, the doc did say she'd have to be tested also. I assumed they're both waiting from her phonecall for "their" results.
How long has it been since her last roll in somebody else's hayloft? She hasn't been on the pill if she's waiting for the all-clear to baste her turkey, 'cause you have to wait a couple three months to get the stuff safely out of your system, so has she been taking any precautions? I would think it has been only a few weeks since she and Hilario-us went through the horizontal hop. SO you may be on to something and she will no doubt have to lie about the baby daddy.........
How long has it been since her last roll in somebody else's hayloft? She hasn't been on the pill if she's waiting for the all-clear to baste her turkey, 'cause you have to wait a couple three months to get the stuff safely out of your system, so has she been taking any precautions? I would think it has been only a few weeks since she and Hilario-us went through the horizontal hop. SO you may be on to something and she will no doubt have to lie about the baby daddy.........
Thanks Jadinara for an excellent recap. I found myself laughing hysterically at some of your descriptions while frowning at others. Sometimes I think the recappers get sidetracked into too much name calling and attacking physical attributes instead of sticking to addressing the plot itself. But then I remind myself that it's done in good humor. I am certainly going to sign this one Anon after this next comment. I think Isa is very attractive. Not as gorgeous as Gavi, but not as ugly as a monkey. Lighten up for heavens sake. One thing I am going to disagree with though. You said that Rod was in a daze contemplating the depths he's been forced to sink. In AI, a man obtains the seman sample by masturbation. Masturbation is a very healthy process believe it or not. Nothing happens to a womans body if she is not sexually active. But a man can get a conditon called epididimytis if he doesn't have an outlet for the seman. The medically reccomended solution is masturbation. Many men masturbate even when they are sexually active. So, obtaining a seman sample via masturbation is not stooping to an all time low.
Permalink posted by : Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 2:25:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 2:25:00 PM EDT
Dear Anon 02:25:00 PM EDT: We are glad you have joined us, whomever you are!
As for the ad-hominem of "monkey faced slut" I so callously resorted to I will gladly explain, though I should not need to make excuses for my stream of consciousness writings and rantings.
First of all the character is most definitely a slut, per entry #2A of the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:
slut
One entry found for slut.
Main Entry: slut
Pronunciation: 'sl&t
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English slutte
1 chiefly British : a slovenly woman
2 a : a promiscuous woman; especially : PROSTITUTE b : a saucy girl : MINX
Second of all, it ocurred to me that the shot of her in that episodio with the bangs made the actress and thus the character, considering she's wearing a wig/costume for hair, look monkey-faced. The actress herself is normally a very attractive woman. We do not --and are not-- allowed to make any derogatory remarks regarding the actors themselves or their personal lives on this site as part of the website and sponsor's rules. I refer you to this past link:
http://caraycaray.blogspot.com/2007/05/about-my-comment-policies-on-this-blog.html
Secondly, I am sorry you feel you have to remain anonymous to express your true feelings regarding one supposed recommended treatment protocol for acute non-bacterial epididymo-orchitis/orchalgia otherwise known in the vernacular as "Blue B@lls."
I refer to your comment: "The medically reccomended solution is masturbation. Many men masturbate even when they are sexually active. So, obtaining a seman sample via masturbation is not stooping to an all time low."
I do not know if you are a doctor, a nurse, a nurse practitioner, a physician's assistant, a certified medical assistant, or a pharmaceutical representative or a Masters and Johnson masturbation activist of some sort. All are legitimate to one extent or another except maybe for run-of the-mill masturbation activists, though I steer clear of controversial activism which is not what this website nor this forum is about.
If you are affiliated with medicine and traditional medical therapies in any form or fashion you will appreciate what I have to say next. Give me the refereed documentation from any medically recognized journal article that sites that "The medically recommended solution is masturbation" for this condition and I will cede you this point. A quick search on a few medical websites gave me these:
non-bacterial epididymo-orchitis or orchalgia
http://www.urosoc.org.au/consumer_health/index.jsp?a=1126155928
http://www.flinturology.com/epididymitis.shtml
Nowhere did anything I scanned suggest your method as a medically accepted protocol. (They suggest warm sitz baths and such.) Of course we all know what the home remedy for a good old-fashioned case of acute non-bacterial epididymo-orchitis/orchalgia a.k.a. "Blue B@lls" is, medically accepted or not. ? ; 0)
Obtaining semen samples for artificial insemination by husbands in many instances may be a serious 21st century means of impregnating their wives as part of a centuries-old, socially acceptable, loving relationship called marriage when all else has failed.
However, this is not the case in this story. It is a sham marriage and a ploy by a conniving character to maintain control over another character's free will. The characters are not serious and the situation is not serious, therefore, the guy is putting himself through an unnecessary sexual physical activity that is generally considered less than macho/masculine when not done for legitimate scientific necessity, whether masturbation activists like it or not.
Go ahead and give me/us your impression of why he's walking around in that dazed, half-conscious and thick-headed state of depression during that scene and when he enters the office. That is what the forum is here for.
As for the ad-hominem of "monkey faced slut" I so callously resorted to I will gladly explain, though I should not need to make excuses for my stream of consciousness writings and rantings.
First of all the character is most definitely a slut, per entry #2A of the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:
slut
One entry found for slut.
Main Entry: slut
Pronunciation: 'sl&t
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English slutte
1 chiefly British : a slovenly woman
2 a : a promiscuous woman; especially : PROSTITUTE b : a saucy girl : MINX
Second of all, it ocurred to me that the shot of her in that episodio with the bangs made the actress and thus the character, considering she's wearing a wig/costume for hair, look monkey-faced. The actress herself is normally a very attractive woman. We do not --and are not-- allowed to make any derogatory remarks regarding the actors themselves or their personal lives on this site as part of the website and sponsor's rules. I refer you to this past link:
http://caraycaray.blogspot.com/2007/05/about-my-comment-policies-on-this-blog.html
Secondly, I am sorry you feel you have to remain anonymous to express your true feelings regarding one supposed recommended treatment protocol for acute non-bacterial epididymo-orchitis/orchalgia otherwise known in the vernacular as "Blue B@lls."
I refer to your comment: "The medically reccomended solution is masturbation. Many men masturbate even when they are sexually active. So, obtaining a seman sample via masturbation is not stooping to an all time low."
I do not know if you are a doctor, a nurse, a nurse practitioner, a physician's assistant, a certified medical assistant, or a pharmaceutical representative or a Masters and Johnson masturbation activist of some sort. All are legitimate to one extent or another except maybe for run-of the-mill masturbation activists, though I steer clear of controversial activism which is not what this website nor this forum is about.
If you are affiliated with medicine and traditional medical therapies in any form or fashion you will appreciate what I have to say next. Give me the refereed documentation from any medically recognized journal article that sites that "The medically recommended solution is masturbation" for this condition and I will cede you this point. A quick search on a few medical websites gave me these:
non-bacterial epididymo-orchitis or orchalgia
http://www.urosoc.org.au/consumer_health/index.jsp?a=1126155928
http://www.flinturology.com/epididymitis.shtml
Nowhere did anything I scanned suggest your method as a medically accepted protocol. (They suggest warm sitz baths and such.) Of course we all know what the home remedy for a good old-fashioned case of acute non-bacterial epididymo-orchitis/orchalgia a.k.a. "Blue B@lls" is, medically accepted or not. ? ; 0)
Obtaining semen samples for artificial insemination by husbands in many instances may be a serious 21st century means of impregnating their wives as part of a centuries-old, socially acceptable, loving relationship called marriage when all else has failed.
However, this is not the case in this story. It is a sham marriage and a ploy by a conniving character to maintain control over another character's free will. The characters are not serious and the situation is not serious, therefore, the guy is putting himself through an unnecessary sexual physical activity that is generally considered less than macho/masculine when not done for legitimate scientific necessity, whether masturbation activists like it or not.
Go ahead and give me/us your impression of why he's walking around in that dazed, half-conscious and thick-headed state of depression during that scene and when he enters the office. That is what the forum is here for.
Jardinera, thank you for your comments and for reminding me that the comments refer to the characters as they are portrayed in the story and not to the real person. In the novela, Isa's behavior leaves a lot to be desired. Incidently, when I chose to remain anonymous it was because I thought I was the only one who thought she was attractive. I didn't think that would go over too well with all the names she has earned. Notice I said "earned". As far as the masturbation, a friend told me that that advise is given all the time in the military where men are seperated from their wives and significant others for long periods of time. Now that I think of it, I don't know if it's true or not. By the way, those two things that I mentioned did not take away my enjoyment of the recap. You guys put much time and effort into writing recaps. So, the rest of us should not sit on the side lines and dictate what should be included or omitted.
Permalink posted by : Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 5:45:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 5:45:00 PM EDT
Wow, never in my wildest dreams did I think we would offend masturbation activists or semEn specialists. Anyone who saw this episode clearly saw poor Rod squirming in demoralized discomfort at the thought of having to do his business while Isa sat there like a grinning fool.
These are pretend people, made up to be extreme versions of a characterization. We recappers don't wish to just stick to the plot. How boring. No thank you. One of our mission statements is "To learn Spanish and to mock." When we mock the characters that is all we're doing, mocking an extreme version of a "type."
Now for all you monkey activists out there, I'm sure Jardinera did NOT wish to offend monkeys, so please do not take us to task for comparing the odious Isa to monkeys, many of which are adorable and most of which are more intelligent than our beloved telenovela characters.
I think Beckster once summed it up by saying "We're not translating the bard here."
These are pretend people, made up to be extreme versions of a characterization. We recappers don't wish to just stick to the plot. How boring. No thank you. One of our mission statements is "To learn Spanish and to mock." When we mock the characters that is all we're doing, mocking an extreme version of a "type."
Now for all you monkey activists out there, I'm sure Jardinera did NOT wish to offend monkeys, so please do not take us to task for comparing the odious Isa to monkeys, many of which are adorable and most of which are more intelligent than our beloved telenovela characters.
I think Beckster once summed it up by saying "We're not translating the bard here."
Permalink posted by : Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 6:04:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 6:04:00 PM EDT
Anon: No problemo. Join us often and have a good time of it.
Far be it from me to criticize military medical methods on Memorial Day Weekend. My son is 4th generation ex-Navy and was in Bahrain 2 times taking care of $60,000 spy planes for our brave pilots. God knows, with enlisted women now-a-days- practically sharing bunking quarters, etc., with the men, acute non-bacterial epididymo-orchitis/orchalgia a.k.a. "Blue B@lls" is probably as common as sand flies.
Far be it from me to criticize military medical methods on Memorial Day Weekend. My son is 4th generation ex-Navy and was in Bahrain 2 times taking care of $60,000 spy planes for our brave pilots. God knows, with enlisted women now-a-days- practically sharing bunking quarters, etc., with the men, acute non-bacterial epididymo-orchitis/orchalgia a.k.a. "Blue B@lls" is probably as common as sand flies.
Jardinera & Sylvia...
snap & double snap...
Okay I'm twelve, but the trip to the doctor can not be done on TV without gettin a snicker outta me..I'm shallow okay...I realize in real life people go thru this..but hey I don't know them, well I do know that one guy and yeh we had an open snicker, him included..
Next I guess we should be careful about the Sofia comments as I am sure somewhere someone thinks it is good family dynamics for a sister to prod a brother about boinking his wife..everyday I thank the Virgencita..this is not my family..
As for the epididimytis....I'm afraid Rod's problem is far worse he has Gavitis, a well known psychological/physical disease...trips to the little room with a cup, will not help this.
***disclaimer***
I am not a medical professional..but I can lie well enough (plus google), well enough to fool some people
snap & double snap...
Okay I'm twelve, but the trip to the doctor can not be done on TV without gettin a snicker outta me..I'm shallow okay...I realize in real life people go thru this..but hey I don't know them, well I do know that one guy and yeh we had an open snicker, him included..
Next I guess we should be careful about the Sofia comments as I am sure somewhere someone thinks it is good family dynamics for a sister to prod a brother about boinking his wife..everyday I thank the Virgencita..this is not my family..
As for the epididimytis....I'm afraid Rod's problem is far worse he has Gavitis, a well known psychological/physical disease...trips to the little room with a cup, will not help this.
***disclaimer***
I am not a medical professional..but I can lie well enough (plus google), well enough to fool some people
Thanks for the recap and subsequent comments Jardinera.
Did we come to a solution on why Rod did look like he was a victim from "Oz" after his AI exam? I agree with Beckster it was really humiliating but why? Was it some sort of bad PSA? Let me know what you all come up with as I'm at a loss at the portrayal. (Unless we link it to his futile desparate fight to remove his love of Gavi. But we know from the scene, he was just violated and humiliated.)
I am waiting with baited breathe when Minnie discovers TWB is not her friend. Minnie is already crazy (as Beckster says, she's got BSC). Just imagining Minnie viciously attacking TWB is too funny. And then add a staircase... Though it might be months from now, I really hope the writers don't disappoint me.
Karen
Did we come to a solution on why Rod did look like he was a victim from "Oz" after his AI exam? I agree with Beckster it was really humiliating but why? Was it some sort of bad PSA? Let me know what you all come up with as I'm at a loss at the portrayal. (Unless we link it to his futile desparate fight to remove his love of Gavi. But we know from the scene, he was just violated and humiliated.)
I am waiting with baited breathe when Minnie discovers TWB is not her friend. Minnie is already crazy (as Beckster says, she's got BSC). Just imagining Minnie viciously attacking TWB is too funny. And then add a staircase... Though it might be months from now, I really hope the writers don't disappoint me.
Karen
Permalink posted by : Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 9:35:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 9:35:00 PM EDT
Susanlynn hang in there. If you can't find your poms poms, you can borrow mine.
Karen
Karen
Permalink posted by : Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 9:37:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 9:37:00 PM EDT
Thanks for the funny recap! Also, wow! For the info about how to get the "sample of little mini-me's"!!!
I was cracking up! Keep up the good work. I love all these recaps!
Exportred, Rod being impuslive is right on!
And Beckster's saying Rod's problem is "Gavitis" is too funny!
I was cracking up! Keep up the good work. I love all these recaps!
Exportred, Rod being impuslive is right on!
And Beckster's saying Rod's problem is "Gavitis" is too funny!
Permalink posted by : Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 9:47:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 9:47:00 PM EDT
wow I miss a couple of days and so much happens-- in the novela and otherwise
nice job on the recap, Jardinera
and how you handled the questions
i enjoyed both!
nice job on the recap, Jardinera
and how you handled the questions
i enjoyed both!
Permalink posted by : Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 11:57:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 11:57:00 PM EDT
Thanks for the awesome recpap! Loved the Mexican Moby Dick... and that scene with Rod at the doc... oh my...
Karen: I do think 1/2 of the episodio was truly a PSA. I debated whether to note it or not because Uni didn't give out any organizational name or phone number this time. Since they spared us, I spared them......
Yes the actress who plays Isadora has a pretty face. But her "hair" is unflattering and gives her a monkey-face. Although to be fair, monkeys are usually pretty good at emoting, so that's where the resemblance ends.
I don't think it's hard to imagine why Rod was miserable and humiliated by the whole process. He's doing something he shouldn't be doing, and he's doing it out of spite. I'm not referring to masturbation, I'm referring to giving his wife (who he can't stand) a baby just to spite Gavi and to win the Montalvo fortune. He's not doing it to treat blue balls.
He's using his wife, and she is using him, and they are hoping to profit in the form of lots of money plus causing grief for Gavi. He should be feeling like a little bit of a whore himself, now.
Having to summon his underpants navy while the rest of the world waits impatiently outside the door sounds pretty depressing to me, considering that it's exactly the opposite of what he really wants, and it's the opposite of what he would have ended up with if he hadn't been such an idiot about his precious Gaviota that he supposedly loves so much. Because honestly, I haven't seen any "love" from him in a while. Obsession, but not love.
I don't think it's hard to imagine why Rod was miserable and humiliated by the whole process. He's doing something he shouldn't be doing, and he's doing it out of spite. I'm not referring to masturbation, I'm referring to giving his wife (who he can't stand) a baby just to spite Gavi and to win the Montalvo fortune. He's not doing it to treat blue balls.
He's using his wife, and she is using him, and they are hoping to profit in the form of lots of money plus causing grief for Gavi. He should be feeling like a little bit of a whore himself, now.
Having to summon his underpants navy while the rest of the world waits impatiently outside the door sounds pretty depressing to me, considering that it's exactly the opposite of what he really wants, and it's the opposite of what he would have ended up with if he hadn't been such an idiot about his precious Gaviota that he supposedly loves so much. Because honestly, I haven't seen any "love" from him in a while. Obsession, but not love.
The monkeyface comment put me in mind of ''Planet of the Apes'' and the female monkey who fell in love with Charlton Heston. [The actress was Kim Hunter , I think.] That's who I think of when I see Isa...same platinum bangs...remember ???? Isa has a lot of better living through chemistry going on ...her beauty is of the muy plastico variety. I missed the episode at the doctor's office. It sounds like Rod had a bad time there. Why exactly did he decide to agree to the AI anyway ??? Oh, I know...because this is a telenovela and if people did not make lots of really bad decisions, the show would be over in a matter of hours , si y no ?
Permalink posted by : Monday, May 28, 2007 at 10:40:00 PM EDT
: Monday, May 28, 2007 at 10:40:00 PM EDT
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For Spite like always, to get even with her for ignoring his advances and then because he got jealous of Beni, brawn-over-brains Rod spur of the moment and did his duty. Now all the mini-me's are sitting in the freezer there waiting for his authorization that now he refuses to give.
For Spite like always, to get even with her for ignoring his advances and then because he got jealous of Beni, brawn-over-brains Rod spur of the moment and did his duty. Now all the mini-me's are sitting in the freezer there waiting for his authorization that now he refuses to give.
underpants navy = the fleet, armada that sails the se....men (hidden by one's underpants). Or as Jardinera says, a navy of mini-me's.
Permalink posted by : Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 12:12:00 AM EDT
: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 12:12:00 AM EDT
thanks for the wonderful recap jardinera! i love reading your recaps, because your writing is very transparent and to the point.
i have to agree with anonimous that i don't think isa is ugly, though i do see why you called her a monkey face (she kind of looks like a pretty monkey ;)). i thought that was hillarious! but i don't think you think she's ugly by having said that... i think some of us here mostly have a problem with her hair. anonimous, i think if you saw some pictures of isadora in other novela's you'd agree ;)
i hope that this forum allows us to catch up on episodes, knowing that we are speaking about ficticious characters, and that we can say our opinion about them without having to take things personal. i'm sure not all of us find gavi breathtakingly pretty either (i don't), but that doesn't mean that we need get offended by someone who does.
in anononimous' defense, i don't think he/she meant to contradict jardinera hence the comment "But then I remind myself that it's done in good humor.".
i believe anon just wanted to give an opinion that was perhaps not in sync with jardinera's opinion. neither jardinera nor anon need to explain themselves; they both have valid reasons to believe what they wrote.
in regards to AI and all the stuff written about that, i think what we need to focus on is the novela ;) not sure what anonimous was trying to say, but i believe rod is sad because he's not sure about having a baby with this woman (not because of the procedure he had to go through).
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i have to agree with anonimous that i don't think isa is ugly, though i do see why you called her a monkey face (she kind of looks like a pretty monkey ;)). i thought that was hillarious! but i don't think you think she's ugly by having said that... i think some of us here mostly have a problem with her hair. anonimous, i think if you saw some pictures of isadora in other novela's you'd agree ;)
i hope that this forum allows us to catch up on episodes, knowing that we are speaking about ficticious characters, and that we can say our opinion about them without having to take things personal. i'm sure not all of us find gavi breathtakingly pretty either (i don't), but that doesn't mean that we need get offended by someone who does.
in anononimous' defense, i don't think he/she meant to contradict jardinera hence the comment "But then I remind myself that it's done in good humor.".
i believe anon just wanted to give an opinion that was perhaps not in sync with jardinera's opinion. neither jardinera nor anon need to explain themselves; they both have valid reasons to believe what they wrote.
in regards to AI and all the stuff written about that, i think what we need to focus on is the novela ;) not sure what anonimous was trying to say, but i believe rod is sad because he's not sure about having a baby with this woman (not because of the procedure he had to go through).
Permalink posted by : Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 7:28:00 PM EDT
: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 7:28:00 PM EDT
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