Anne and Gil's Wedding You Know You Are Obsessed With "Anne of Green Gables" When...

 

  1. You talk more about Anne and Gilbert than you do about real people.
  2. You can't help but search the room whenever you hear someone call out Anne, Gilbert, Marilla, Matthew, etc.
  3. Your favorite drink is raspberry cordial.
  4. You refer to your best friend as your "bosom friend".
  5. You've searched every cookbook you can find as well as the internet searching for the recipe for plum puffs.
  6. When ever you have to spell the word "chrysanthemum", you feel compelled to give "that look" to the person next to you when you say the "e" -- (you know the look I mean! lol)
  7. You've ever asked your best friend for "a lock of her jet black tresses"...to which she of course responded, "But I don't have any black dresses!"
  8. You've traveled to Canada in search of "The Lake of Shining Waters".
  9. When the love of your life proposed, you responded, "I don't want sunbursts, or marble halls, I just want you!"
  10. You have named (or plan to name) your children after characters in the books.
  11. You've managed to work the phrase "I am not your horse, Mr. Blythe" into an ordinary everyday conversation.
  12. You plan on having at least 37 doilies when you get married...because it would be impossible to keep house with only 36 doilies!
  13. When at the supermarket, you can't help but look for "Rollings Reliable Baking Powder".
  14. You smile, roll your eyes and say, "20 pounds of brown sugar!" whenever you see brown sugar.
  15. When someone asks, "Did you hear what I said?" you can't help but answer, "Yes, sir, but I didn't suppose that you really meant it!"
  16. You tell your family that are in "the depths of despair" when you are having a bad day.
  17. You know that being smart is better than being pretty.
  18. You intend on being first in every subject in school..just to be like Anne!
  19. You at least nod when passing a person...out of "elementary good breeding".
  20. You would never be so greedy as to drink 3 tumblers full of anything!
  21. When ever someone asks, "What in the heck are you doing?" you can't help but answer, "Fishing for lake trout!"
  22. You stopped saying "sorry" and started saying "sore-ey"
  23. You always keep a bottle of Ipecac in your medicine cabinet.
  24. You wouldn't want to marry a man who was really wicked, but you'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't!
  25. You know better than to stake your word of honor on cows!
  26. You want to check the Anne forum replies before your regular e-mail.
  27. You have Anne desktop or sounds or your computer.
  28. You suddenly begin to treasure your least favorite, old, worn brown coat just because Anne was garbed in "brown wincey" at the beginning of AoGG...
  29. You rent an apartment that has "scope for the imagination."
  30. The tree outside your window has a name. (bonus points if you talk to it!)
  31. You try for hours on end to style your hair up like a Gibson Girl.
  32. You lavishly decorate chalkboards with daily sayings on them.
  33. You've always wanted to PITCH somebody with a basket full of flowers.
  34. You pretend you're getting innocently drunk while drinking grape juice.
  35. You've made Anne and Gil wallpapers for your website!
  36. You refer to a creek as a “crick”.
  37. You insist that you eat Supper in the evenings.
  38. “Good Grief” and “Great Jehosophat” have snuck into your vocabulary.
  39. You know what a fine kettle of fish is and a situation that it should be applied to.
  40. At some point you have researched why there are red roads on PEI.
  41. When someone says, “Pie” you immediately think of Josie.
  42. You insist your house have a ridgepole.
  43. When you put flowers all over your room and in your hair.
  44. You want to be called Anne-girl even though your name isn't Anne.
  45. You have a burning desire to crack a slate over a guy's head for no reason.
  46. You work yourself into the stories in your daydreams.
  47. You wished you lived in the country for the sole purpose of collecting and smelling the flowers mentioned in Avonlea.
  48. You can sit in your World Civ class and draw a floor plan of all the houses in the Anne movies.
  49. You make up a mirror friend and talk to them every time you see a mirror.
  50. When you see some dark and scary woods, you start to think of the dead child laying her cold hands on your shoulder.
  51. You find yourself alone in a big room and start dancing around saying "You can call me Cordelia."
  52. You say "Isn't t that Matthew Cuthbert driving that buggy!" When you see someone you know driving by.
  53. You name your cows Dolly and your dolls Anne.
  54. Your family has you imitate all the characters of Anne of Green Gables for friend and family functions.
  55. You bring the Anne of Green Soundtrack with you wherever so you can have it as background music.
  56. You imitate Gil when he shakes his head while clapping for Anne at the White Sands Concert.
  57. You know the opening lines of Anne of Green Gables by heart. "There she weaves by night and day a magic web of colors gay. She has heard a whisper say, a curse is on her if she stay...(Then you imitate the baby crying).
  58. You turn on the movie and don't need to watch it because you already know the movie by heart.
  59. You ask everyone you know if they have seen the movies then ask them what they think of Gil. If they give you any bad comments, you scold them for not being a kindred spirit.
  60. Every time you meet someone with the name "Josie" your first instinct is to detest them.
  61. You refuse to buy "Pringles" chips because of how they treated Anne!
  62. You take a tour of Spadina House in Toronto and pretend that you are visiting Aunt Josephine.
  63. You visit Dalvay-by-the-Sea and look around for Morgan Harris (and the only reason you want to see Morgan Harris is to give him a piece of your mind for trying to come between Anne and Gil!).
  64. You despise any one named Anne that doesn’t spell it with an “e” and try to convince them to change it
  65. You tell people named Kathryn that “Kathryn with a K is so much more alluring than Kathryn with a C”
  66. You ask your mom to sew puff sleeves on all of your shirts and dresses.
  67. You can relate to any one of the obsession indicators on this list!

Do you have any more Anne obsession indicators?? Please email them to me by clicking on the flower basket below.

Thank you to all the kindred spirits from the Anne3 forum who have contributed to this growing list! Thanks also to Carol, Kristen, Renee, Rachel, Katie, Kate, Lisa, Laura and Annie for their great ideas!

You know you're obsessed

with Gilbert Blythe when...
  1. You scan the pages of the books for his name.
  2. You begin to look for physical and psychological characteristics of Gilbert in your boyfriend or dates.
  3. You know the exact amount of time it takes to fast forward between each scene he's in, and you do so repeatedly just to see his heart warming smile!!
  4. You discuss in detail his different hairstyles.
  5. You’ve participated in the widely read TOOSH postings on the Anne3 forum.
  6. You stare at Gil in the background during the entire scene when Anne is first speaking with Mr. Phillips.
  7. You think wearing suspenders is suddenly very sexy
  8. You know all of Gilbert’s lines and say them before he can
  9. You forgive him for wearing that white suit.
  10. You thrill when Gil helps Anne up off the ground at the Spurgeon farm
  11. You start haunting local footbridges in hopes of meeting your dream man
  12. You get the "romance giggles" at the thought of him
  13. You re-read the proposals and want to slug Anne when she refuses.
  14. You refer to your boyfriend as "My Gil" or, if unattached, you tell people that you are looking for your Gil. 
  15. You make your boyfriend recite the lines, "It'll be three years before I finish medical school. Even then there won't be any diamond sunbursts or marble halls," to which you reply, "I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you."
  16. You've written a fan letter to Jonathan Crombie.
  17. You start crying at the site of Gil's face when Anne refuses to marry him (both times!) when you are watching Anne of Avonlea
  18. You want to jump on the train with Gil after he talks with Anne at the footbridge and gives her the note on the success of her play
  19. ????? I'm just starting this list...I'm sure with your help we can come up with a mile long list of indicators of "Gil Obsession". I'm sure my "Gil Obsessed" kindred spirits can offer a few to this list!! Please email them to me by clicking on the flower basket above. Thanks!
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Created: April 26, 2000
Last Updated: June 22, 2007