Vampires In Cowboy Boots

My goal for 2018 is to read 50 books. Basically, one book a week and so far this year I've read:-

Stephen King - The Stand
Stephen King - The Dead Zone
Stephen King - Firestarter
Stephen King - Cujo
Stephen King - The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
Stephen King - Christine
Stephen King - Pet Semetary
Stephen King & Peter Straub - The Talisman
Richard Bachman - Thinner
Stephen King - The Eyes Of The Dragon
Stephen King - The Dark Tower: The Drawing Of The Three
Stephen King - Misery

currently reading
Stephen King - The Tommyknockers

I've started a Supernatural re-watch this afternoon. Back to season one, to the Pilot episode for the first time in probably a decade. To a time when life was simpler for the Winchesters, a time before angels and demons and nephilim, before wars in heaven, before wars in hell, before men of letters, before alternate universes, before Castiel and Crowley and Lucifer... back to a time when all we had to worry about was salting and burning some evil sons of bitches. And when Jared and Jensen looked almost impossibly young.

I hadn't actually realised how much I missed the monster-of-the-week format.
The Woman In White was such a good choice for a first episode and properly introduced us to what it is that Dean does, that Hunters do. It pulls me right in every time and I love how it tied in what happened to Mary with what happens to Jessica.
Wendigo I must admit I'd forgotten a lot about. I think it did a very good job of cementing Dean's character. I think the fear of the creature was a lot more powerful than the reveal, although I'd love to see what 13 years of improvements to special effects could do with a Wendigo
Dead In The Water makes me fall in love with Dean a little more, the way he interacts with the kid, you can really tell he has a big heart despite playing the tough guy. And we're really starting to see the differences between Sam & Dean
I really do love the ghost stories!

Next up is Phantom Traveler which if memory serves is the first demon they encounter

Also, I'm making Paul watch. He's never actually seen Supernatural so it's time to do something about it. So far so good though, he likes the car and the music, he's intrigued by the concept of hunters/hunting and he hasn't left the room or picked up a video game.

He's getting his revenge tonight though - he's decided I need to watch Star Wars because I've never seen it. I've never seen any of them. I'm not exactly a sci-fi fan, I much prefer my horror.

He also thinks its time to indoctrinate Chloe into the cult. Those might not have been his exact words but it's the intent ;)

As part of my recovery from Post Partum Depression, I've been doing a lot of thinking about who I am, who I want to be and what I want to do with my life. Whilst doing this, I discovered the The 101 Things in 1001 Days Challenge at https://dayzeroproject.com

Day Zero started out with the catchy challenge of completing 101 things in 1001 days. This has been enormously popular with tens of thousands of people getting involved and sharing their lists. We now offer many more types of challenges, but here are the original guidelines for the challenge:

The Challenge:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on your part).

( My 101 Things in 1001 Days List )

My partner Paul and I have been together for 16 years - and we've known each other for 22 years. We've been talking about getting married for at least 10 years and really we've been engaged for 9, we have a house, we have a child. We just never quite seem to get around to the actual getting married

And yes, your sums are right there. I'm 30, I've know him since I was 8, we've been dating since I was 14 and we got engaged when I was 21. Our daughter was 4 in January. We have such a cliche love story at times but I still look at him and get butterflies!

I think maybe next year the actual getting married bit is going to happen. We've had engagement pictures, we've sent out save the date cards and I've started looking at dresses. We've talked to venues for the reception.

I guess it's true what they say about good things come to those who wait, and that it's worth the wait and... as many other similar sayings you can think of. But... I think I''m actually going to get my dream, fairytale, wedding!

It's cloudy and grey here in Birmingham, and I've got a rare Saturday afternoon off. We had a family lunch out, nothing exciting - just down the local pub, but it was nice to have the ability to take our time and enjoy spending time together.

We're now home. Chloe is stretched out on the living room floor playing with her lego. She really loves the Lego Friends sets that she's playing with the Horse Vet trailer. Two of her favourite things. Horses. Everything is about horses right now. And she wants to be a vet when she grows up.

Paul and I are watching The Originals on Netflix and he's giving me a heavenly foot rub. I'm sitting with my feet in his lap and he's laughing at me as I'm sitting here telling you about it. He's being very supportive of my attempts at this new hobby though he has no real interest in it himself.

Poppy the dog is asleep in her basket, but lookng at the clock I imagine dog, man and child will all soon start to demand food. We had a full meal earlier so I'm thinking something like cheese toasties and tomato soup; always a favourite on a chilly, lazy day

I don't actually know if I have anything in particular to say in this post but I thought I'd share a little snapshot of my afternoon

I kind of forgot I had one of these until I was catching up on emails earlier this evening and had a Dreamwidth notification so I'm thinking May

(I'm not even entirely sure where April went. I don't feel like I actually achieved anything during the month. One minute it was March and now it's May.)

is going to be a kind of reboot and see if I can find some kind of rhythm or routine to posting here. I feel that as a trainee blogger of sorts, I should find a more experienced one to teach me the ropes, some kind of Dreamwidth apprenticeship scheme.

Is there anything like that available?
Because that would be really useful. I'm not very good at figuring things like this out. Give me a nice instruction set, a how-to, a dummies guide and I'll be fine. Something where I have to work it out for myself, not even a strting place and I don't know where to start. I'm feeling floundery and that's probably not helping with the issues of not posting and not being here.

Happy Mothering Sunday to all the other mum's out there.

My little girl (and her daddy) made me breakfast in bed - Full English no less! - and a beautiful bouquet of flowers. I also got The Music Of Nashville S1 CD boxset and S1 of The Walking Dead on DVD. I feel very spoiled, very loved and I'm looking forward to curling up and watching that tonight after Chloe's gone to sleep.

Paul then said I could spend the day doing whatever I wanted. And honestly, I'm still sitting here in bed. I sprained my ankle yesterday afternoon at the gym so I'm sitting here with it on a pillow, listening to Sam Palladio singing to me and I've been reading The Vampire Lestat. Kind of perfect, really.

WELCOME

Welcome to Vampires In Cowboy Boots, a personal blog owned by Tabby, hosted by Dreamwidth, and has been open since March 18th, 2017. This is my own little space on the internet where I express myself. If you don't like my blog, you can click the 'X' in the top right corner. Otherwise, enjoy your visit and leave me a lovely comment!


BACKSTORY

I started blogging, today and I am terrified. I haven't got the foggiest idea what I'm doing here. Wordpress was recommened to me and I'm not exactly tech-savvy but I'm figuring it out so far.

So why have I started a blog? Because so few of my friends in real life really have the same interests as me. They prefer Beyonce to Brad Paisley, Coronation St & The Great British Bake Off to Supernatural & The Vampire Diaries. As for going for a run on the beach or a hike in the woods... forget about it!

A colleague of mine suggested I go online to meet people and to talk to about the things I'm passionate about and here I am!


BEHIND THE NAME

Vampires. Country music. Two of my biggest passions and I do like a good pair of cowboy boots so it only seemed natural to me to put the two things together to make my website name. It may sound silly but Vampires In Cowboy Boots really does sum up my main hobbies in just four words.