I’m enchanted… with Downton Abbey
I’m enchanted. Or addicted.
(however you you want to look at it)
To Downton Abbey!
Or, “Down Town Abbey” as I thought it was called, while I successfully ignored anything about it day, after day, after day… Oh, I heard the talk on facebook. Caught the knowing whispers. I felt the excitement in the cyber-air as others talked about getting their latest fix. I thought; “When I have time, I’ll look into it”.
I only tried it once.
It’s just like they said though…
I couldn’t stop.
I was hooked.
I needed my British drama. And I needed it bad.
One episode at 11 pm was all I was going to allow… just to see if I liked it.
But I needed just a taste more.
And then a big bite.
… next thing you know it’s 4:44 am and I had completed watching Series One. Up to Episode #6. I had binged. Uh-Oh.
I took every bit of self-control I had to stop myself from watching episode #7, and the final show for season one, before stopping for the night. The only thing that saved me is that Jim would get up, and catch me still up, and my new secret addiction would be blown!
Why that mattered. I have no idea?
I’m positively enchanted though!
And now I know you can easily
watch Downton Abbey online, I’m going to be watching it
ALL the time!!
Turns out, I’m about as bad at having a Netflix series in my face as I am when I have a book. I can’t seem to put either down until I’m done.
(or it’s nearly 5 am – whichever comes first)
So. Are you a little DA junky too,
or is their something else you’re addicted to?
Another juicy show… Trashy novels…
Do tell!
I found out after this post here, several of my readers are ninjas! I mentally tucked that info away in case I ever need your services. {winks}
Well… I should run.
I don’t have any new “house” stuff to post today, but I have lots in the works to share over the next several weeks. Including some giveaways that I know you will love! It’s been busy here at the hollow. There are new items, waiting for their new homes. Paint out.
… and ideas spinning in my head.
Have a wonderful and blessed day!
Appearance in full on any site other then Fox Hollow Cottage is theft!
Kim@todayismysome-day says
Oh, and for entertainment we have nicknames for most of the “hated” characters… makes it all the more fun to watch! Like “Sideburns”, can you guess who she is? Cannot stand her!!!
Kim@todayismysome-day says
Fellow Downton fan/addict here too! Cannot wait for each week’s episode! Love every minute! Glad you finally caved 🙂
paperjunk-lc says
Color me hooked!
Jeanette@Creating A Life says
Same thing happened to us. “Let’s just watch one episode and see if we like it….” The rest is history 🙂
We just started watching Lark Rise to Candleford last night (another British series) because a week is a long time to wait between Downton Abbey episodes now!
Enjoy your weekend-
Jeanette
camp and cottage living says
Yes, I’m hooked!
I did start watching it at it’s beginning. Wait until this season ends and you have to wait a whole year for the next one! It’s murder.
Good Time Charlie says
I could have written this post myself. I was the same way, thinking I would look into it when I had time. One day, I was looking for something to watch while I was working inside. I found Season 1 on Netflix. Yeah, I didn’t stop for two days. Mark got home from work, and I had to tell everyone to be quiet because I just had to finish an epispode!!! I planned my life around when I could watch it with no one here. I even got all my ironing caught up. I HATE ironing, but I was all too happy to have an excuse to be watching that show. Then I had to go in search of season II. Hulu was giving me a free month, and I could watch DA for free!!! I watched Season two even faster. Now I record it Sunday night, wait for no one to be around on Monday and I DO NOTHING but watch, like my life depends on it. If I have to get up to use the facilities, I pause it. I cannot miss a word, a scene, a second. There is just too much to take in. I am SUPER annoyed at the writers right now. I went through far more kleenex than I care to admit after the last episode. I cried like a close friend had died. And she had! WHY, WHY??????????? I am still very bitter with Lord Grantham. He deserves to sleep in the dressing room for a while. Snobbery did kill people off! Thanks for providing a forum for me to sound off about my pretend life that lives in my TV but is as real to me as if I knew this family personally and had been hanging out in the servants quarters. (which is where I would be, because after all, I am a worker bee, not the gentry);)
Mary Ann says
I’ve been watching since the beginning. I just finished the latest episode tonight. So sad…
Lynn Fern says
Hmmm I guess I should check this show out. I’ve heard all about it, but gosh I am afraid to get sucked in 🙂 And, yeah I have addiction to watching some of the Housewives shows….Ohhh did I just say that. Yup guilty. I think it’s because it is beyond me that people live, act and behave in such ways.