Trixie here! And I’m going to start off by telling you how annoyed I am with myself! I really wish I wasn’t so much of a big baby when it comes to dogs and wolves, because there are some movies I want to see, but my fears won’t let me see them.

I recently sat down with Miss Chrissy to watch a movie called Twilight, which is about a girl and a vampire who fall in love. Later on, it seems, there will be more movies about this girl and this vampire, but she will also have a friend who is a werewolf. And that’s where I draw the line! I mean, especially since, when I asked Miss Chrissy, she told me, “Well, the wolves are very big, Trixie. VERY big. And there’s a lot of fighting.” Brrrrr… I don’t want to see that! It would give me nightmares for weeks.

But I do want to see my vampire boy again, the beautiful Edward Cullen.

Oh yes, he IS beautiful! So beautiful that he sparkles in the sunshine. Of course, where they all live in Forks in Washington state, it’s so dreary and gloomy all the time, that he barely every sparkles, so he goes to high school, just like he was any other boy. But he’s not like any other boy. He’s a vampire, a “Cold One,” who is really dead, yet he’s alive, and he drinks blood, but only animal blood, not people blood, so you see, he’s a GOOD vampire.

He has a family, and they’re all vampires too, but some of them are just sort of weird looking. But not Edward. He’s beautiful. He has these eyebrows that are just great, and his skin is really pale, and his lips are really dark and expressive, and sometimes his eyes are gold. And he’s usually pretty quiet and soft-spoken. He doesn’t like to draw attention to himself.

Oh, but that’s not the best part! He’s super strong and super fast, and he can jump so far that it’s almost like flying. In a way, he’s like a superhero, like Thor, or Hulk, only he’s beautiful. Hulk, of course is NOT beautiful, and Thor is, but in a much different way.

Edward lives in this great house with his family of vampires, and he has this room full of music (which I know Tessie would love) but no bed, because he never sleeps. He also drives a great car, really fast. Though he could probably run faster than he drives, but then everyone would look at him, and that would draw attention to himself, and he doesn’t want that.

He doesn’t want to be in love with Bella but he can’t help himself, there’s something about her that he finds so irresistible. Partly it’s her blood, but it’s more than that. He can read everyone else’s minds, but he can’t read Bella’s mind, so she’s a mystery to him.

In this world, there’s no downside to being a vampire. Refer back to my long list of superpowers, and of course you live forever, usually, since it’s almost impossible to be killed, and since you never have to sleep, you could spend all your time reading books and comics, and listening to music. Unless you decide to spend all your time with the girl you love.

Edward is a great protector. When Bella gets into a dangerous situation, he magically appears and gets her out of trouble. How romantic! Sigh…you know, it would have been nice to have a protector like that years ago, when I was in a dangerous situation. Maybe that’s why I like Edward Cullen so much, because I feel like he could protect me, if he loved me.

Or maybe I just like him because he’s so beautiful.

Anyway, I guess I will just have to content myself with watching the Twilight movie again and again, because there’s no way I’m going to watch a movie with werewolves in it! Miss Chrissy tells me the werewolf boy, Jacob, is going to fall in love with Bella also, and he and Edward will fight for her. How romantic! Edward wins, of course, and eventually he and Bella will get married and have a baby. That’s what Miss Chrissy tells me, and I’m glad to hear it, because I sure would be upset to hear that Bella went off with a WOLF!! Especially when she has the beautiful, romantic Edward who is so devoted to her! That would just be a poor choice on her part.

Miss Chrissy says that if I were to watch the rest of the movies I might be able to understand why some people think Bella should choose Jacob the wolf rather than Edward the vampire. Well, in a way then, I’m glad I can’t watch any more of these movies! Because I don’t even want to consider the possibility that someone could fall in love with a wolf! No way!

So…I started off by saying I was annoyed with myself because I’m too afraid to watch any more of these movies. But you know what? I just talked myself out of it, I changed my mind. I don’t wanna know nothin’ ‘bout no stinkin’ wolves!! I’m quite happy, after all, with my beautiful vampire boy, and that’s the way I want it to stay.

Miss Chrissy and The Man have begun watching a new TV show, and we Whimsies are watching along with them, even though there are some moments when Tessie and Trixie will cover their eyes, because it’s too scary for them. We’re all watching Sleepy Hollow, and I must admit, the Headless Horseman is a fright. And I also don’t like some of the supernatural villains. But yet somehow I can’t stop watching.

And why? Well, that can be easily explained by the title of this entry. I have a new boyfriend! I absolutely love, love, love Ichabod Crane! Yes, Ichabod is a terrible name, and gratefully nobody calls him that, they all call him Crane, which is just fine by me. And in a way, he reminds me of a crane because he’s so tall and skinny! In the original story of Sleepy Hollow, which Jennifer read to me when she was in junior high, Ichabod Crane was also sort of goofy. I also remember seeing him in some Disney cartoon or something like that, and he was just…ugly!! But there’s nothing goofy or ugly about this Ichabod Crane!

He’s played by an actor named Tom Mison, who I know nothing about, and I don’t need to know anything about. He’s tall and skinny, as I mentioned, and he has the most lovely British accent. Now, usually Tessie is the one who goes nuts for accents, and while she tells me she loves his voice, she keeps her eyes covered most of the time, so I don’t know that she has really had a good look at Mr. Crane.

Right now, he’s walking around in his late 18th century clothing, which looks so cool, and he has a beard and this long straggly hair that makes him look very disheveled, but that is actually the PERFECT look for him! I mean, he’s traveled through time and is being pursued by demons—who wouldn’t be disheveled?

This Ichabod Crane is a Professor, which might have something to do with why I like him so much. He’s very smart. In the last episode we saw, he was speaking in Middle English! Can you do that?? No! So that was really cool. Even Jennifer’s father, who was a Professor, could not speak in Middle English.

I also like that Crane has this very strange but interesting relationship with Abby, the policewoman (or “LEF-tenant,” as he calls her with his British accent.) It’s like they tried to find the two people who are most unalike and put them together. He’s a tall white Englishman from the 18th century, and she’s a short black woman from the current day. But in this case, opposites attract (as they say)—though not romantically, and that’s just fine by me, because Crane is still so in love with his wife who was a witch, and she’s trying to help him stop the Apocalypse, even though she’s stuck in Purgatory, guarded by the demon Malloch.

A rich storyline, no? I would keep watching this show just for the storyline, but how much better to have a tall, intelligent, soft-spoken Englishman to feast your eyes on at the same time! I hope they don’t clean him up too much, don’t make him shave his beard or cut his ponytail. And I hope he keeps saying things like “As you know, I am insane and therefore impervious to simple commands” and “When did it become acceptable for ladies to wear trousers?”

Sigh…I could just listen to him all day…