Nat was my first contact with the RA fandom. At the RichardArmitage Fan Blog, she got me hooked pretty good! I couldn't resist her humour and musings on what the heck was going on with this crazy obsession we shared. She must be most famous for drawing and later making videos about Stick-Figure Richard!
I miss you guys too! While there are still quite a few newer blogs around, (I could never keep up with them all!), there is only one of the original RA blogs still around that pulled me into the whole blog world. Well, maybe one more too, but I am speaking of course of Servetus of Me and Richard Armitage. When I speak of Servetus in my personal world - usually to my husband - I refer to her as "my professor friend". Not that we are actually real-life friends -- sadly, I have never met her. But she has been kind enough to donate books to the libraries that I have worked in. As well, I follow her on Facebook in my real-life persona, so I feel like I know her.
Even with the fake nose I am hotter than ever! |
The proof was that when I started with my interest in this actor, if you Googled his name, you got a picture of a very unattractive, balding American politician. Now, the internet is studded with the very attractive face of this extremely talented and drop-dead gorgeous British actor.
When I first saw Richard in the wonderful mini series North and South, I couldn't believe that he wasn't as famous as so many other good looking British actors. Why has no one else (who hadn't seen North and South) even heard of him? It was an outrage! Part of my purpose in blogging, besides connecting with other like-minded bloggers, was to give him the attention he deserved.
Now, I doubt very much that my little blog (with its quite small list of subscribers) really had anything to do him gaining fame. But it made me feel better to write about him, and post pictures of him and poke fun at myself for my crazy obsession.
Hello, fan gurlz! Welcome aboard! |
Yes, well I can't say I have been doing anything really exciting since my last blog post. I am still a Library technician in a school library, but sadly, I had to move up from elementary to secondary to keep the same working hours. It has been a steep learning curve and I was grateful for all the skills I acquired while blogging. I miss those little people and I miss reading picture books to them. I have been reading much more Young Adult books lately to try and connect with the older crowd.
Yup! It's Guy of Gisborne! |
But the best news I have to report is that one of my life goals has finally been accomplished - and it only took a world-wide pandemic and some pointed use of guilt to achieve. I need to preface this story with the fact that my poor husband, who recently retired, injured himself while preparing to paint our kitchen. He tore his Achilles tendon and was unable to get around without crutches or me to drive him places. We had a quiet birthday for him unfortunately, as the accident happened the day before his birthday at the end of February. When my birthday rolled around we were about a week into the quarantine and he was feeling badly that he hadn't been able to buy me a present and spoil me like he usually does. I really didn't mind, I had been feeling bad about not having a nice party for him last month, and besides -- I had another plan.
It's about time you looked this way, buddy! |
So that is it for now folks! Thank you again to Nat and all who are participating in this reunion and thanks to all who visit here now and forever, until this blog disappears into the netherland or wherever blogs go to die...