Monday, Jan. 26th- Friday, Jan. 30th

I must start by saying for my own sanity and to cut down the length of my posts each week I regretfully will only post about my favorite CBS soap opera which is The Young and the Restless. Due to time restraints I cannot write about the other soaps, however I do want to stress that each one has its own exceptional story line that is definitely worth watching.

This week on the Young and the Restless:
Amber, Daniel, Jana, and Kevin all break into the pawn shop to prove that Mrs. Chancellor’s ring was pawned there. Amber leaves her cell phone behind. Oops! The pawn broker later calls the police and the cops now have Amber’s cell phone as evidence and it seems they are taking the break in at the pawn shop very seriously although they don’t have enough evidence to make an arrest as of yet.

The judge denies Mrs. Chancellor’s plea for a blood test to prove she is in fact the rightful Mrs. Chancellor. Kevin and Amber tell Mrs. Chancellor that they have found out who the pawn broker sold her ring to. Michael (who is working as Mrs. Chancellor’s attorney in this matter) calls the man who has the ring and sets up a meeting between him, Mrs. Chancellor, and the man. The plan works and Mrs. Chancellor gets the ring back in hopes of using it as leverage to persuade the judge to agree to allow her to prove she is who she says she is by taking the blood test. Michael also points out that for this to work they have to get the pawn broker to agree to testify that he did in fact buy the ring from Mrs. Chancellor in the first place. Yeah, good luck with getting a seedy looking guy who seems to have been on the bad side of the law a time or two to testify in a court of law.

The chickens are coming home to roost for Phyllis today. Brad sets up a meeting between him, Phyllis, and Nick (Phyllis’ husband). Brad comes clean about how Phyllis has been pushing him to come on to Sharon (Nick’s ex-wife) in the hopes of setting the two up. Phyllis admits that with Sharon now available she feels that Sharon will make a play to get back with Nick. During this meeting Nick punches Brad in the face for insulting Phyllis and Brad takes the punch like a pro, it seems to not even faze him a bit. Later Phyllis and Nick apologize to each other and try to keep the lines of communication in their marriage open (‘til next time that is).

Meanwhile Sharon has sequestered herself at the cabin in Twin Lakes all this week in hopes of putting her life in perspective. Jack comes there to gab about their pending divorce. Jack leaves and later in the week Brad shows up. Hoping to get the girl Brad? Brad confesses his love for Sharon and asks her to forgive him for conspiring with Phyllis. Sharon shoots him down, hell, we all know she wants Nick back.

Everyone wants Gloria’s stock in Jabot even Victor. Victor is willing to pay a pretty penny for it and Gloria ends up selling it to him. Victor sets up a meeting with Billy (Jack’s brother) and makes it clear that he is welcome to work at Newman Enterprises if or when the opportunity ever hits Billy. Funny that Billy didn’t feel the need to tell his brother Jack about this offer from the enemy. With the stock from Jabot Victor strikes a deal with Jill so that she will once again be the controlling stock holder of Jabot however in return for the stock he makes her name Billy as C.E.O of the company.

Roger proposes to Esther and she accepts. Don’t get me started on how gullible Esther is being she hardly even knows the damn man. Not to mention Roger is just playing his part of a hoax to get his hands on Esther’s money.

Eden and Noah (those crazy kids) cook up a scheme to go to the lake with a bunch of kids from school. Michael and Phyllis (Noah asks Phyllis because both his parents, Nick and Sharon are out of town) agree to let them go under the pretense of thinking that they are going to the Bowling Alley for a school fundraiser. Of course the scheme these two knuckle heads come up with back-fires. Apparently, there never was going to be any party at the lake with some of the school kids it was just a rumor and Eden and Noah find themselves at the lake alone with no cell phone reception and a blizzard on the way. Nick and Michael decide to go out looking for the kids while Phyllis and Lauren remain at home in case they call. Meanwhile, at the lake Eden and Noah decide to do a little ice skating and Noah goes out on the ice first; however he goes out to far and falls in. Eden runs off to look for help before Noah freezes to death in the icy lake. Brad who was out at the cabin in the same area (Twin Lakes) leaves and while driving home his car stalls and dies. While looking under the hood he hears Noah calling for help and follows his voice to the lake. Brad slides out on the ice and pulls Noah out of the water to save him. Meanwhile Sharon is still at the cabin with no phone reception and has no idea any of this is going on with her son Noah. While Michael and Nick are out driving around Nick gets a call on his cell phone that the kids have been found and Noah is in the emergency room. When Nick gets to the hospital and sees Noah in the bed he immediately thinks of Casey (flashback to his dead daughter) and how she died in a way all too familiar with this one. Noah eventually wakes up but doesn’t remember Brad helping him out the lake. No one knows at this point that Brad was even at the lake and he was the one who helped Noah out of the water. It appears he may have fallen in helping Noah.

Nikki gets some bad news that her sister Carey has cancer. She tells everyone that she is going away to be with her sister to help her for a while. Must be time for her to take a mini-vacation from the stories.