Click, click, PAUSE

At home, I no longer have cable television. I am keeping up with the few shows I already enjoyed from last season through web sites like Hulu and Channel 131. However, tonight I am not at home. Tonight I am dog-sitting and I have access to Direct TV, and I was flipping through the channels when I stumbled across the new SyFy (science fiction) channel and saw this:

Oh my. Hello, Richard.

This show — Legend of the Seeker — is based off of Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series… a fantasy book series that finished off after eleven tomes. My high school boyfriend got me hooked, but Mr. Goodkind couldn’t write fast enough to keep up with my voracious fantasy appetite. Once the ex and I split, I started devouring books by female authors after discovering that they tended to focus on a smaller cast of characters overall, and I could immerse myself in the story as if I was living it instead of simply watching the story unfold.

Hearing the names spoken out loud — Richard. Kahlan. — I was immediately transported back in time, bundling up against the frigid 60 degrees that the ex kept his thermostat set at. Lying on my stomach on the bed, reading, with his cat lying on my back, purring. There was one major difference between reading the story of Wizard’s First Rule and watching it unfold…

Hello, Richard’s abs. I don’t think we’ve met…