Submitted by Monique aka ANA

1.You purposely focus on the background action in a scene because John & Evangeline are there, and no matter how "blurry" the images, you can clearly see that 'JoVan magic' continuing on....John's birthday episode had some great blurry JoVan action going on (as M& M were talking & eating cake)....

2.You religiously watch your John and Evangeline only edit tape(s)every night before you go to bed....Happy dreams guaranteed 100%!!

3.You have full blown discussions about John & Evangeline with relatives who have NO idea what you are going through or talking about because they watch CBS soaps...and you feel much better after said rants & raves too...

4.You purchase the 'mags'...desperate for any story, picture or blurb about REG and/or ME; After said purchase you frantically flip through the pages, cutting out the stories ,pictures , or blurbs about REG and/or ME; Then you proudly place them in the Super Soap Weekend Photo Album you proudly cherish....

5.You can with ease insert "John and Evangeline factoids" into conversations you are having...conversations I might add that have nothing to do with John or Evangeline. (i.e. You're on the phone conversing with a friend who tells you about these "BAD"--as in good-- stiletto, strappy sandals she notices Tracee Ellis Ross wearing as she talks on Dennis Miller's CNBC show. You see them too because you are watching the same show; you agree with her analysis. But get "the JoVan urge" and you can't hold it in so you smoothly add," Yeah, but you should have seen the bad a** stilettos that Evangeline wore when she and John went out on NYE.") ....

6.You write your own JoVan fan fiction story because you just can't get enough of the edit tapes and the hundreds of other fan fiction that is already out there....

7.You set TWO vcr's to record OLTL because you fear if you only use one, it might malfunction and you'll have missed magical John and Evangeline scenes for that day...and as we all know EVERY John & Evangeline scene is truly precious and 'must-see' TV.....

8.You refuse to record over the original tapes which have the entire episodes from the special JoVan weeks because you have this unnatural & totally irrational fear the your edit tape will break & you'll need the footage in order to Re-record a new edit tape. So, to date you have as many as 10 full tapes of OLTL episodes stacked on the shelf...to be used "just in case of the untimely death of your original edit tape(s)." (NOTE: Last week you 'bit the bullet' and actually decided that since you have theses scenes on 2 different edit tapes that it was OK to re-use the tape that had "strings" and "football date" footage on it...).....

9.You record Evangeline singing, "All is fair in love" onto a cassette tape...twice...back to back... so you can have a little "JoVan love on the go" religiously played during the morning ride to work, or anytime your heart desires...There's nothing like Renee singing that song to inspire you while you're on the road....

10.You are having 'serious issues with yourself'(ridiculous internal conflict that is) regarding scheduling a time to have satellite TV( which will have Soapnet...YES!) installed at your house because you will also have to call & have the cable turned off. And since it's been years since you VCR recorded on a non -cable TV you are afraid you will definitely mess up the timer setting & channel selection. Thus you'll miss important JoVan interactions. So, you are left to ponder on this slight dilemma for way too long now; because there is a fine line in regards to coordinating these two things in order not to miss any John and Evangeline scenes......

Submitted by Farah aka Puddles6

1-Forget flowers, hearts and candy... you think that a piece of string is the most romantic thing in the world.

2-Create a scale to measure the amount of "THUDS", "SWOONS", "SIGHS" and "AWW's" per episode.

3-Buy a dress beforehand, when we get the wedding and throw rice at the television.

4-Having their lines memorized, people think you have developed the Tourette's Syndrome, reciting one of their infamous lines out of the blue.

5-Plan to celebrate June 28th as a mandatory holiday.

6-Smirk every time you get on an elevator.

7-Give anyone, regardless of relation, friend or peer a death glare when they dare interrupt a JoVan moment.

8-You have Best Buy and Circuit City on speed dial, to make sure they didn't run out of blank tapes or DVD's.

9-Know people who can be called at two in the morning for a recap of what happened that day.

10-For whatever cosmic reason or heat generated from a JoVan scene, your vcr doesn't tape, you have a back up. In the case, that the second one doesn't record either, you have a back up for that back up, along with a friend taping and TiVo.