The Story of “The Board”

May 8, 2010 by Rochelle

As may know, I have a very guilty pleasure that I occasionally talk about on the blog….Days of Our Lives. I’ve been watching since I was 15 years old, and since 2006 I’ve been a fan of the characters EJ and Sami (EJami) in particular. In 2008, when it got super exciting between my favorite couple, I found a fan board called “Forbidden Love.” I joined up and started chatting with these fabulous ladies. I had never been part of an online community, and so I was surprised to find that I was forming true friendships in the process. These women are great. They are hilarious and fun and sometimes moody. They aren’t saints, but they aren’t sinners either. You see, it takes a special kind of person to be a true EJami. EJami is a controversial couple due to a past indiscretion on EJ’s part and a few very bad deeds on Sami’s part too. While we believe the general audience agrees that EJ and Sami are amazing together, there is this vicious little group of people that go to great lengths to bash them, harass the fans, and quite frankly harass the actors.

Anyway, chatting with my EJami friends is a daily occurrence, even when EJ and Sami are on the outs (which happens way more than we like). I’ve grown to love quite a few of these friends, and the emotional support they can provide on the turn of a dime to one of their friends in need is incredible. It’s the most good natured set of folks I’ve ever come across.

Over the past couple of years, the board has raised thousands of dollars for various charities, and in the past year has created it’s own charitable organization that is putting on a fan event with our favorite actors in Los Angeles. I’ve been drawn to this event for a long time. Not because I want to party with my favorite actors (although that does sound fun), but because I want to meet all of these wonderful friends in person. Unfortunately I was unable to afford it, so I had to decline the opportunity….until, like a strange sign, I just received an influx of cash. It’s a long story, but just very recently I got myself into a situation that provided me this possibility. So now this money is going to the Cancer Research Institute by me having a very good time in Los Angeles June 3-6.

I’ll be flying in Thursday and checking in, and then on Friday we’re going on a studio tour and then out to lunch. That night there’s a dance party with a few of the actors, which should be fun. James (the actor who plays EJ), along with Molly and Casey (Melanie and Chad on the show) will be there. Supposedly, Molly and Casey will judge some sort of dance off. They are really funny, you’ll see in this video they made below.

Alison Sweeney at spin class. Taken from her Facebook page. If you like her, you should become a fan. Click on the picture.

Then on Saturday things get really fun! I won a twitter contest that @Ali_Sweeney (Sami on Days, and host of the Biggest Loser) is doing in celebration of the events that weekend. She thought it would be fun to take 35 girls to a special spinning class at 8:30 in the morning! Yeah, I won this. Holy crap! So I’m in super training mode to get ready for that, because I’d like to be able to walk later that day. I’ll talk more about that in another post.

That afternoon is the main charity event sponsored by For Love Charitable Events, which is with Ali and James, and another actress. There will be a Q&A and then a meet and greet. Right after that, I’m then going on this crazy stretch hummer limo ride, also put on by For Love Chariatable Events, that will drive us around LA for an hour and will stop at a different hotel where another charity event, this time by Days Charity Events, is having a cocktail party with a whole slew of actors from the show.

So. Much. Fun.

So I’m pretty stoked! I’ve never done anything like this before, and more than anything I am so excited to meet these online friends. I can’t wait!

Finally, I must give a shout out to one of my favorite EJami friends — Jen. She’s also a blog friend and a Project 365 friend. Amazing mother, photographer, scrapbooker, and well — snarky goddess. She does this fun thing for us every now and again where she transcribes the show for us because in most of Canada they see DOOL one day ahead of the US. We call it the “Play-By-Play”, and the hits to the board’s server triples when she does it, because we’re all refreshing the page, waiting for her next hilarious summary of what she’s just seen. Her commentary is classic! HUGS Jen, wish you could come out to LA too!

Related materials!

Get to know EJami.

One of my favorite videos, only 5 minutes long shows the basis for why we love them. In brief – Sami has always been the bad girl with issues, and she’s struck out in romance repeatedly. Mostly, because the first two guys in this video (Lucas and Austin) don’t accept her for who she is. EJ came along and totally gets her, because he’s cut from the same cloth. I really recommend you watch it, you’ll get what a good chunk of my life is all about!

This video begins with Sami trying to marry Lucas, which doesn’t work out because he found out about her schemes. Then she connects with Austin and tries to marry him too. That doesn’t work out either for essentially the same reason. Finally, she has EJ because he’s the one that accepts her.