Anderson Adventures: Love Affair

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Love Affair

Have you ever been in love with someone so utterly wonderful and so dreamy that you feel like they just don't exist? Maybe your romance involves someone fictitious?

Hmm...when I was a young lass I used to have (literally) 100+ pictures of Leonardo DiCaprio plastered all over my wall...right by my pillow. I would stare at them through the perfect barred window that my daybed provided. Puppy love. The years before those walls were covered with JTT, Devin Sawa, and...oh....what's his name....Brad Renfro. Who are these people these days? Yuck. That's all I have to say.

Now, I have a confession to make. No, my walls aren't soon to be decorated with the mediocre photography skills of Teen Beat magazine. My walls will forever contain pictures of my perfect family whom I love more than ever. My confession? I think I might be slightly in love with Sherlock Holmes.

Could this sound more nerdy? Maybe. I find myself completely and utterly lost in his logic and wit. Reading these stories has proven to be more beneficial in my fictitious "romance" than it has been for my vocabulary or smarts. I don't link each clue to the next like he does....I just wait for him to tell me how it is solved and then I swoon at his intelligence.

Sigh.

Sherlock, I love you.

3 comments:

Lindsey said...: YAY for a good good book! I love getting lost in an excellent story :); January 18, 2012 at 9:30 AM
Nicole said...: hahaha...... haven't read the book, but I may or may not have a celebrity crush on Robert Downey Jr and Hugh Jackman. I love Downey's wit...... any movie he's in and I know i'll like it. :) hahaha..... oh, great times.; January 18, 2012 at 2:57 PM
Kateka said...: Hahahaha, my favorite thing ever is a crush on a fictional character. :)preari; January 18, 2012 at 6:11 PM

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